Did the Hillary Clinton campaign organize an attack against Oprah for endorsing Obama?

America's favourite television presenter is paying a painful price for her intervention in the US presidential campaign last month. Oprah Winfrey has been dubbed a “traitor” by some of her female fans for supporting Barack Obama instead of Hillary Clinton.

Winfrey’s website, Oprah.com, has been flooded with a barrage of abuse since the queen of daytime chat shows joined Obama on a tour of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina in mid-December.
It started with a message on her website entitled “Oprah is a traitor” and rapidly expanded to include several discussions that attracted hundreds of comments.

In the original post, a reader called austaz68 said she “cannot believe that women all over this country are not up in arms over Oprah’s backing of Obama. For the first time in history we actually have a shot at putting a woman in the White House and Oprah backs the black MAN. She’s choosing her race over her gender.”

I don't know about you but I find this a little suspicious.

I know that woman may be excited to have the opportunity to put a female in the White House, but do they really think that it is the obligation of all women to do so? Is this simply racism? That seems pretty ugly to consider that there are voters who simply feel they have to choose between gender or race to make the most important political decision of their lives.

Or could this be more of the nastiest political maneuvering that we have ever seen?

So hostile has the response been that some suspect dirty tricks. “All the rude and hateful messages on here can’t be from Oprah fans,” another visitor noted. “Someone’s campaign (wonder who?) is sabotaging the message boards.”