Email: Oprah on Futurama [MG]

She is very popular -- women seek (and need) such affirmation! Also almost every women's online dating profile says the last book read was The Da Vinci Code.

Greg Bear wrote a series of science fiction books where a future society venerates The Good Man (who turns out to be Ralph Nader). This is before Ralphie ran for president (twice), of course.