The headline was a quote from Linda Dogan, a member of the City Council in Spartanburg South Carolina on a conference call today for John Edwards. Also from the conference call as reported by the New York Times:

Ms. Dogan said that as a black woman, Ms. Winfrey’s visit “doesn’t mean anything to me” if she is not going to deal with local issues. “It makes me a little ill,” she said, noting that Ms. Winfrey is extremely wealthy. “Oprah coming here means absolutely nothing to me unless she’s going to do something for South Carolina,” she said.