Please, Make It Stop: The Sequel

"She's a really hip and materialistic Mother Teresa," says Kathryn Lofton, a professor at Reed College in Portland, Ore., who has written two papers analyzing the religious aspects of Winfrey. "Oprah has emerged as a symbolic figurehead of spirituality."

While un-hip and impoverished Mother Teresa was helping the ill and disenfranchised, Oprah was paraphrasing the comments of her guest experts, and claiming their (sometimes) profound advice as her own.

Cool or not, I'll take Mother Teresa's spiritual guidance over Winfrey's soundbites any day.