Oprah balks at Sarah Palin interview!
Posted by Carlos C. on Friday, September 5th, 2008 at 9:18 am
DILEMMA: OPRAH BALKS AT HOSTING SARAH PALIN
STAFF DIVIDED
Fri Sep 05 2008 08:55:46 ET
Oprah Winfrey may have introduced Democrat Barack Obama to the women of America — but the talkshow queen is not rushing to embrace the first woman on a Republican presidential ticket, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
Oprah’s staff is sharply divided on the merits of booking Sarah Palin, insiders reveal.
“Half of her staff really want Sarah Palin her on, Oprah’s website is getting tons of requests to put her on, but Oprah and a couple of her top people are adamantly against it because of Obama,” a source explains.
One executive close to Winfrey is warning any Palin ban could ignite a dramatic backlash!
It is not clear if Oprah has softened her position after watching Palin’s historic convention speech.
In the past, Oprah has refused to have other high-profile Republicans on her top-rated show. Last year, Winfrey blocked an appearance by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, timed to a promotional tour of his autobiography.
Oprah and executive producer Shari Salata, who has contributed thousands of dollars to Obama’s campaign, refused requests for comment.
Developing…
Half of Oprah’s audience are already pissed off that she’s shoving Barack Obama down their throats. Oprah is another hypocritical liberal. She fights for women’s rights, but when a woman elevates herself through hard work, and who happens to be Republican, all of a sudden her accomplishments are not noteworthy!
This is exactly why I left the Democrat party. The blatant and offensive hypocrisy of the Democratic party and their constituents is nauseating! And the Democrats want to push the Fairness Doctrine?
UPDATE 1: TMZ.com
Oprah has issued a statement to TMZ — she won’t put Sarah Palin on her show until after the election.
Here’s the statement: “The item in today’s Drudge Report is categorically untrue. There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. At the beginning of this Presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates. I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over.”
For the record, Barack Obama has been on “Oprah” twice — in January, 2005 and again in October, 2006 — before he announced his run for Prez.
Oprah is such a freaking liar.
I hope Sarah Palin declines any interview now.
UPDATE 2: From Hot Air
From Drudge Report: One executive close to Winfrey is warning any Palin ban could ignite a dramatic backlash!
From Hot Air: One might assume that, given Winfrey’s demographics. The largest part of her audience is white females over 55 years of age. Almost four times as many women watch as men, although she does get about 1.7 million men a day to view her show.
How will that audience react to a freeze-out of Palin? Many want to see Palin speak to their issues, and might assume that the most successful woman in American entertainment would welcome the opportunity to make that introduction. Instead of making a business decision to do so, though, Winfrey has apparently made a political calculation that Palin will outshine the man she supports for President.
Oprah’s daily delays will keep winning votes for McCain and Palin.
UPDATE 3: Michelle Malkin asks: “How does it feel to lose your place as the most electrifying woman in America, Oprah?”
Awesome!
UPDATE 4: Hat Tip to Gateway Pundit for this picture.
Keep laughing, “O”.
(1 Ratings)Filed Under: = BREAKING NEWS =, Entertainment, News & Politics
Personally, I don’t think it would be a good thing to even go on Oprah’s show.
Her ratings are falling and people are kind of sick of her new age lunacy.
When was she shoving Obama down their throats? What she does as an American citizen has nothing to do with her show. Oprah is an American and has a right to say what she wants. Palin isn’t doing interviews anyway, she’s too busy learning where all the other 49 states are.
Dan, check out this video.
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-us&vid=351c204c-dab6-461d-ae6e-f605eec7d224
That fat, ugly gassbag should just give away new cars to the Stepford wives she caters to in her audience. Sarah Palin is too good for that lousy third rate talk show. The Oprah audience are all annoying assholes with egos as big as Oprah’s enormous pumpkin head.
Hey Dan, are you under the desk getting serviced by Oprah’s huge pumpkin head?
Oprah needs to shut the fuck up and go move to Zimbabwe. Maybe she can hook up with Robert Mugabe!
[...] ScoopThis.Org » Oprah balks at Sarah Palin interview! [...]
Lovely people posting here. Very productive.
Dan said this: “Palin isn’t doing interviews anyway, she’s too busy learning where all the other 49 states are.”
Hey Dan,
I am certain that Governor Palin has a better clue about where the other 49 states are than Obama has about where the 57 states are that he claimed he visited.
IT’S TIME FOR AMERICA TO DENY OPRAH ACCESS TO OUR TELEVISION SETS.
Oprah gives advice on relationships, but has a boy friend who is a
door mat … gives advice on marriage, but has never been married …
gives advice on child rearing, but has no children … gives advice on
Obama, but was a member of Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American racist
church for several years. Now, her white women’s audience, which made
Oprah rich, wants to know more about Sarah Palin, but Oprah says NO.
No Oprah, No Wright, no Farrakahn, no Ayers, no Rezko,
no mean Michelle, NOBAMA
Damn straight Gina!
Oprah needs to go move to Zimbabwe and take Baraq Saddamn Soetoro Osama with her!
FUCK OPRAH WINFREY STRAIGHT UP!
And another thing: Oprah by denying Sarah Palin access and then hiding behind the effrontery of her lie that “when I became involved with a campaign I decided not to make my show a venue for candidates” is BULLSHIT!
She ALREADY made that decision to make her show a venue for candidates when she actively supported Baraq Goddamn Hussein Soetoro Osama!
Welcome to the cloudcuckooland of the hateful racist sexist Afronazi jerk Oprah Winfrey. Her show has been a worthless piece of shit for so many years.
May Oprah lose her entire goddamned audience in three months’ time.
GOD DAMN OPRAH WINFREY!
Oprah is an entertainment show, and Oprah is not a journalist.
This is a smokescreen. If Palin wants to get on national TV, she could call any of the Sunday morning news shows and she would be on in a minute. Obama agreed to go on O’Reilly, Palin should call Olbermann and she would get air time.
Of course, some of the questions might be different from Oprah’s about what designer Palin adores.
Bottom line is that Palin is not ready for hard hitting interviews, and wants the fluff that Oprah can provide, but it would be disingenuous to admit the obvious.
Rider,
I can’t say with any certainty that people are underestimating Palin but I do know that the people that are downplaying her abilities have no evidence to back up with they’re saying.
If she does turn out to be good at debating or “interviewing,” then all these people underestimating her in the media are doing her one of the biggest favors in the world because when/if she does perform beyond such low expectations, it’ll rally people to her side.
I also agree with you that Oprah is not a journalist nor are most of the News Anchors out there. All of them have an agenda and for politicians like Palin, it’s a matter of choosing the one with the right target audience, in this case, women. Oprah’s refusal to interview Palin is a big mistake.