You can’t say she wasn’t well intentioned. Oprah Winfrey opened a school (excuse me, a “leadership academy) in South Africa for the poorest smart kids the land had to offer. She was going to give these girls every advantage in the world in the hopes that they would become great leaders, or something. I don’t know, I didn’t read the press release. Maybe she was training to send them to the moon. Either way, the end story here is that it all when awry when an overzealous dorm matron tried to turn the educational experience into an episode of “Girls Gone Wild: South African Leadership Academy Edition.”
Oprah called the experience the worst of her life. When something so noble ends up so awful, how can you possibly turn it around in the eyes of the unforgiving public? Easy, one quick dose of The Spin-Cycle.
How to turn it around? There are three different, distinct possibilities. Each more likely to work than the next and all good enough to make Oprah’s frown turn a complete 360-degree spin.
Orsen Welles Drunk 
