The President-elect’s super-fan Oprah Winfrey is reportedly house hunting in Washington DC for a home mansion so she can be closer to her new BFFs, the Obama family. According to Page  Six she’s inquired about a nine-bedroom, $50 million dollar Georgetown pied-a-terre, though the media queen hasn’t actually seen it in person.

Maybe I am missing something here in when it comes to stratospheric finances, but on Oprah’s favorite things give-away show, which aired November 26, there was some significant downsizing with a statement explaining:

They’re some of Oprah’s favorite things, but this time there’s a twist … they cost next to nothing!

Um…so instead of giving her audience nice prezzies like in the past–you know camcorders or fridges with HD-TVs in the front–Oprah is gonna spend heaps and heaps on a fancy house, in the hope she’ll have access to the president?

And didn’t she just close down her O at Home magazine, putting a few folks out of work? Maybe they’ll find work on her new cable network…

Maybe I am naive or Pollyannish, but it strikes me that even with Oprah’s annual income of $275 million maybe there’s a better way for her to spend for her hard-earned cash–and a better message she can be sending to her adoring fans…