O! My! Palin on Oprah?
20 10 2009“In a world exclusive, Oprah Winfrey will interview former Alaska
governor Sarah Palin for an episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” to air Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Winfrey and Palin will meet for the very first time on the episode, which will mark Palin’s first interview to discuss her upcoming book, “Going Rogue: An American Life” and her first-ever appearance on the “Oprah” show.
Love it or hate it, I’m sure this will be ratings gold.
If you will recall back in the days preceding the election, Oprah Winfrey said categorically that she would not have Palin on the show. This got a lot of people all in a froth. But, since it’s her show and I dare anyone to tell her otherwise, the decision stood.
But now, on Rogue Eve, the day before Palin’s memoir hits the shelves, there she’ll be, in the coveted seat next to Oprah herself. The two women will meet for the first time during the episode. O, the possibilities. Will Oprah find her inner Katie Couric and ask all sorts of gotcha questions like, “What’s your favorite color?” and “Can you name a foreign country?”
She’s apparently willing to take the risk in order to sell books, because if there’s one thing Oprah Winfrey can do it’s sell books. I think maybe Oprah should ask lots of gotcha questions about information contained in Going Rogue….you know, just to see if Sarah’s actually read it.
October 20th, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Ummmm – Ladies and Gents – I hate to be the one to point it out, but going back and forth from this forum to a couple of others that mention Palin’s appearance on Oprah……… I’m seeing little difference between the calibre of some of the comments from all sides.
Mudflatters have been noted and praised for being nice folks. It’s one thing to voice our opinions in a decent and civil manner, (and I know that Palin can certainly raise our ire), but lets not bring ourselves to the level of disgusting things that we read from those on the other side of the fence.
Many of the comments on Oprah’s page that are in opposition to Palin are downright hateful – just as those on Palin’s page that are in opposition to Obama are downright hateful. We know how hurtful and disappointing it is for us to read comments against Obama. This is a case of two wrongs don’t make a right.
So can we try to stick to the facts about why we feel as we do without making the demeaning and degrading statements and become a mirror image of our opposition? AKM and crew have worked hard to validate themselves and this site and I know that none of us would like to see their efforts diminished.
Thanks – end of rant.
October 20th, 2009 at 10:29 PM
1) To whomever made the original Monty Python reference in these comments: I love you. That just made my day.
2) I absolutely agree that we should not continue to give She Who Shall Not Be Named any weight by pretending that she a) has any insight on government, b) wrote a book herself, or c) has anything useful to say about anything. By booking her on shows like Oprah, it continues to give her credibility (however small and feeble it may be), and it gives her fanatical lemmings something to grasp at.
3) I hope Oprah actually asks some real questions. I can’t imagine her having much respect for Palin, and at the very least, she must take some offense to the racism Palin happily stirred up all along the campaign trail. But I’m guessing this is going to be a pretty soft interview, mainly about the book, life since quitting (except Oprah won’t be allowed to call it quitting, I’m sure!), how the baby and grandbaby are doing, etc. I can’t believe Palin would go on Oprah for a real interview, and sadly, I think this interview will be judged much like the VP debate was: as long as she doesn’t completely fall on her face, people will call it a success, even though it’s a long way from what normal people would call success.
October 20th, 2009 at 10:36 PM
69 teutonic13 and 6 North_of_the_Range Says:
Re: Dream Team:Add Walter Monagham, and the Trooper to that list.
Put Walt Monegan’s mom, Betty, at the top of that list.
http://www.andrewhalcro.com/why_walt_monegan_got_fired?from=120&comments_per_page=30
October 20th, 2009 at 11:11 PM
OK, couldn’t resist the late night limerick temptation here.
There once was a gov from Wasilla
Whose book she was sure was a thrilla
To sell her darn prose
On Oprah she goes
To earn money to finish her villa.
October 20th, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Lots of great comments. Don’t want this to come off as demeaning, preachy, or insulting–there is a lot at stake nationally (health care reform, for one) between now and November 16th, and after. I am confident that despite voicing our thoughts about the upcoming Oprah interview with Palin & about the book Palin “wrote,” we will keep our attention and actions focused on the more important issues facing us as American citizens.
October 20th, 2009 at 11:45 PM
As far as I know, I’ve never watched Oprah except for the odd click-through snippet. And she was terrific in The Color Purple. But it is impossible for a US resident to be completely unaware of Oprah.
One pretty strong opinion I have formed from reading about her is that she is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a hardball interviewer. In this regard, she does not differ from the vast majority of other entertainment-oriented talk-show hosts, past and present.
I will therefore predict that her interview with Ms Quittypants will focus on the book, and perhaps the family, and will be quite civil and innocuous. The only way I can see the interview getting at all edgy is if there is actually offensive, as opposed to misleading, content in the book.
Oprah will get terrific ratings, Palin will get nice exposure, and I will get a lump on my forehead (actually not, since you’d have to pay me quite a lot to watch the show).
October 21st, 2009 at 12:00 AM
@GG2B: While I certainly share your view that we should remain civil in our comments, I’m not sure what provoked your remark. I’ve read all the comments on this thread, and I’d say there were three or four out of a hundred that were somewhat infelicitous; but that compares quite favorably with any other blog I’ve ever seen. (Of course, I have no idea how many comments AKM hurled into the mud).
Annoyance is not the same thing as hatefulness. I am slightly annoyed that Oprah has invited Palin onto her show, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to call her names or suggest bad things should happen to her.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:22 AM
Former Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan’s mother:
http://www.northernvisions.smugmug.com/gallery/6083679_8Emun#381799260_uFmrz-A-LB
Wow, more fundraising.
iminfor10 On the day we reach 1 million Sarah Palin supporters…let us all at once each contribute at least $10 to SaraPac. If we do it all on the same day it should have some impact!
Sarah Palin FaceBook page……. http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin?ref=nf
Interview questions –
Oprah, ask her to define “commonsense conservatism”. Nothin’ “gotcha” there, right? An answer of “In what respect, Oprah?” doesn’t count…
Easy stuff, hmmm…what would she know…oh, I know! Ask her what she thinks of the Red Guard. How about, it’s all about job creation with Wushu and the Shaolin Temple?
How, exactly, does she see that in context of her statement: “Our future is now deeply linked to Asia’s success. Our children’s future.”
Shucks, okay, then. Oprah, just ask her to explain what a “retrograde form of Islam” is, for all of us uneducated folk, and who said that?
“[A Taliban victory] would influence the grand debate among Muslims on the future of Islam. A severely retrograde form of Islam would be seen to have defeated modernity twice: first the Soviet Union, then the United States. There would be profound consequences, especially in the campaign against terrorism.”
Or perhaps ask Sarah from Wasilla how the Afghanis might accomplish this, specifically: “We can win in Afghanistan by helping the Afghans build a stable representative state able to defend itself.”
Sarah Palin, CLSA Investors’ Summit, Hong Kong, September 2009.
“During the election campaign in the U.S. last year, you might have noticed we had some differences over Iraq. John McCain and I believed in the strength of the surge strategy – because of its success, Iraq is no longer the central front in the war on terrorism. Afghanistan is. Afghanistan is where the 9/11 attacks were planned and if we are not successful in Afghanistan, al Qaeda will once again find safe haven there. As a candidate and in office, President Obama called Afghanistan the “necessary war” and pledged to provide the resources needed to prevail. However, prominent voices in the Democratic Party are opposing the additional U.S. ground forces that are clearly needed.
Speaker of the House Pelosi, Defense Subcommittee Chairman Murtha, the Senate Armed Services Committee Chair, and many others, recently expressed doubts about sending additional forces! President Obama will face a decision soon when the U.S. Commander in Afghanistan requests additional forces to implement his new counterinsurgency strategy.
We can win in Afghanistan by helping the Afghans build a stable representative state able to defend itself. And we must do what it takes to prevail.
…the Defense Department received only ½ of 1 % of the nearly trillion dollar Stimulus Package funding — even though many military projects fit the definition of “shovel-ready.” In this Administration’s first defense budget request for 2010, important programs were reduced or cancelled. As the threat of ballistic missiles from countries like North Korea and Iran grow, missile defense was slashed.
Despite the need to move men and material by air into theaters like Afghanistan, the Obama Administration sought to end production of our C-17s, the work horse of our ability to project long range power. Despite the Air Force saying it would increase future risk, the Obama Administration successfully sought to end F-22 production – at a time when both Russia and China are acquiring large numbers of next generation fighter aircraft. It strikes me as odd that Defense Secretary Gates is the only member of the Cabinet to be tasked with tightening his belt.
I am not talking about some U.S.-led “democracy crusade.” We cannot impose our values on other counties. Nor should we seek to. But the ideas of freedom, liberty and respect for human rights are not U.S. ideas, they are much more than that. They are enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and many other international covenants and treaties. They apply to citizens in Shanghai as much as they do to citizens in Johannesburg or Jakarta. And demands for liberty in China are Chinese, not American, demands. Just last year, many brave Chinese signed Charter 08, a Chinese document modeled on the great Czech statesman Vlacav Havel’s Charter 77. Charter 08 would not be unfamiliar to our Founding Fathers and was endorsed by Havel himself. No, we need not convince the Chinese people that they have inalienable rights. They are calling for those rights themselves. But we do have to worry about a China where the government suppresses the liberties its people hold dear.
I see a bright future for America in Asia. One based on the alliances that have gotten us this far, one based on free and open markets, one that integrates democratic India into East Asia’s political life and one in which China decides to be a responsible member of the international community and gives its people the liberty – THE FREEDOM – they so desperately want.
Sadly, however, our largest free trade agreement ever in Asia, with South Korea, sits frozen in the Congress. In contrast, China is behaving wisely in negotiating free trade agreements throughout Asia. We want an Asia open to our goods and services. But if we do not get our free trade act together, we will be shut out by agreements Asians our making among themselves.
When members of America’s greatest generation – the World War II generation – lose their homes and their life savings because their retirement funds were wiped after the financial collapse, people feel a great anger. There is suddenly a growing sentiment to just “throw the bums out” of Washington, D.C. – and by bums they mean the Republicans and the Democrats. Americans are suffering from pay cuts and job losses, and they want to know why their elected leaders are not tightening their belts. It’s not lost on people that Congress voted to exempt themselves from the health care plan they are thrusting on the rest of the nation. There is a growing sense of frustration on Main Street. But even in the midst of crisis and despair, we see signs of hope.
In fact, it’s a sea change in America, I believe. Recently, there have been protests by ordinary Americans who marched on Washington demand their government stop spending away their future. Large numbers of ordinary, middle-class Democrats, Republicans, and Independents from all over the country march on Washington?! You know something’s up!…
The town halls and the Tea Party movement are both part of a growing grassroots consciousness among ordinary Americans who’ve decided that if they want REAL change, they must take the lead and not wait to be led. REAL CHANGE and, you know, you don’t need a title to do it….
When my country again achieves financial stability and economic growth – when we ROAR back to life as we shall do — it will be thanks in large part to the hard work and commonsense of these ordinary Americans who are demanding that government spend less and tax less….. and allow the private sector to grow and prosper.”
October 21st, 2009 at 1:49 AM
Hateful is a better tag for Sarah Palin’s campaign to villify and discourage medical professionals from choosing a career seeking cures for currently incurable disease!
I realize I am supposed to keep my mouth shut and smile, while she says my life has the same value as a tiny dish fertilized, NEVER going to develop cell that is about to be tossed in the trash!
She has been advised that Adult Stem Cells may save thousands, but that EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS will likely save MILLIONS, SOONER!
Sooner is better, while you read this nice people, with families slipped past the point of health needed to benefit from any treatment!
We are Americans! Almost all of us support ESCR! If we don’t speak up, how will we feel when the number who have suffered & died is tallied?
October 21st, 2009 at 2:55 AM
46 Maria Says:
October 20th, 2009 at 4:23 PM
That said, there’s no way I’m watching it. Palin’s voice could give me an aneurysm.
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won’t watch it either
October 21st, 2009 at 4:10 AM
Oprah said a long time ago that the biggest mistake she mad was speaking with a self admitted Klansman in her audience.
Those were the days when Oprah used to go through her audience ala Phil Donahue for input.
She was doing a oldies but goodies program and showed the old footage.
She said she would never do something like that again, because it gave that person “a voice”, that there were folks out there who would and do agree with him and all she accomplished, she realized, was that she gave him voice on national TV.
One of her “ahha moments”.
Oprah had come to the conclusion that you do not give people with outrageous, egregious platforms a voice.
So I guess they’ll be disusing “death panels” on the program.
October 21st, 2009 at 4:36 AM
I was shocked to hear Oprah would help market this book. I won’t be watching, my stomach doesn’t like to get upset.
October 21st, 2009 at 4:57 AM
I’ll be shocked if she even goes through with it.
October 21st, 2009 at 5:05 AM
NPR’s website has a short poll up about the Palin interview on Oprah. It only went up within the past 1/2 hour but so far it’s all negative. They are also asking what questions you would like asked on the show:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/10/sarah_palin_oprah_winfrey.html
Who knows if they’ll make it to Oprah but, y’never know.
October 21st, 2009 at 5:10 AM
Whomever said Oprah might get Palin to cry–has anyone ever seen her cry? I happen to think she is incapable of actual tears.
October 21st, 2009 at 5:37 AM
113 Molly Says:
October 21st, 2009 at 5:10 AM
Whomever said Oprah might get Palin to cry–has anyone ever seen her cry? I happen to think she is incapable of actual tears
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She would cry to sell her book….you betcha!
I’m sure you’ve heard of the old trick of putting thumb tacks inside the toe of your shoes, so politician/actors can tear up at will by stepping on them.
I din’t know that if Palin put tacks in her PANTIES, she would be able to cry at will….she’ll have to do like Glen Beck and smear vicks vapo rub around her eyes…………………lol
October 21st, 2009 at 5:55 AM
I’ve only seen snipets of Oprah, never could handle an entire show. I mentioned Palin being scheduled and followers of Oprah thought I was joking. When I explained, I wasn’t joking, they got upset that Oprah would give Palin a forum, a full hour to fleece the American people with a fluff book that pumps her up.
Even if Oprah asks easy questions, like what do you read… Palin can play the victim and turn it into a big gotcha media event, getting even more coverage.
The only good thing about this, is that she is fleecing the Republicans as she’ll never be a real contender for a serious position of influence. Deep pocketed interests, that she would need to attract, to be taken seriously, do not back quitters.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:09 AM
I’m sure that Palin gave Oprah a list of questions that she’s NOT allowed to ask.
But I’d love to see Scarah’s face when the conversation wanders (like her speeches) and something pops up that she doesn’t want to talk about. This is the reason I’ll be watching. Oprah is a pretty good interviewer, I hope she’s real subtle with that “gotcha” conversation. It’ll be a blast.
I wonder if she’ll be dragging her kids along for human shields?
October 21st, 2009 at 6:38 AM
I’m reading the Washington Post. An Op-Ed claims Sarah is a wonderful sport, helping Oprah who is in a ratings slump. That’s right folks Oprah is now in need of help from a conservative. And Sarah is willing to offer a helping hand.
October 21st, 2009 at 7:07 AM
Molly, I think that there were tears in Sarah’s eyes when McCain’s people took her concession speech out of the teleprompter and replaced it McCain’s speech.
October 21st, 2009 at 7:13 AM
Since someone mentioned Monty Python, does anyone else find it odd that the Republicans have not yet utilized this in their attempts to terrify senior citizens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs
October 21st, 2009 at 7:35 AM
I just hope that Oprah has a back up plan for when SWWNBN back out of the interview and claims to have never agreed to it….
October 21st, 2009 at 7:54 AM
In order for Sarah to appear on Oprah, I believe her handlers will have explicitly said, “No questions about anything, except the book”.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:02 AM
I have Palin fatigue. There, I’ve said it.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:48 AM
KVC post 121…
A book about her memoirs. Even if it isn’t in the book, one would get to ask, why isn’t so & so in the book.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:48 AM
@117 wolf pack. Wow…….Palin is helping Oprah? Unbelievable. I would drop the Oprah show a note with that information. It just goes to show that Sarah brings conflict wherever she goes.
October 21st, 2009 at 9:18 AM
kvc, I don’t Oprah would go for that. QP wants to be open and transparent, then she’ll have to deal with the questions that Oprah asks.
October 21st, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Ha ha Professor Geezer! Me too. I’m even starting to get Oprah fatigue and I haven’t seen her show in years…
October 21st, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Just to add, love Oprah, just don’t get around to watching at that time.
(she’ll wipe the floor with $P, if she is the old Oprah, by the way…)
October 21st, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Did HalfGuv. Winky forget that Oprah backed Obama?
October 21st, 2009 at 4:32 PM
Oprah hasn’t learned the lesson she said she would never repeat…………..
Publication Information: Book Title: American Skinheads: The Criminology and Control of Hate Crime. Contributors: Mark S. Hamm – author. Publisher: Praeger Publishers. Place of Publication: Westport, CT. Publication Year: 1994. Page Number: 55.
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Because Metzger had contributed so much to Oprah’s television ratings, she invited the former Klansman back for a second visit in September of 1989. But this time Metzger said little about the skinheads. Instead, he defended the Ku Klux Klan’s right to broadcast on cable TV. Unlike before, Oprah had nothing to tell the press after this show.
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:04 AM
Oh. My. is right!
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:22 AM
SP will more than likely have her Publisher there to answer the questions that will seem, UNFAIR, for SP to answer. She will have a shield, as always. Her statement would be that she can’t answer a question because it would give away the mystery (misery-my word) of the book. Oprah have to satisfy her extremist listeners (fans). Of course, they will tune in to watch.
I won’t watch the show. I don’t watch or listen to shows that promote violence or hatred. Even if the person (Oprah) doesn’t agree; just having a person on her show that has stirred up hatred against our President; that has precipitated verbal and threats of physical harm, is a show, in my opinion, not worth watching.
However, it’s her show; she can have who she wants. But it’s my TV and I choose to boycott the station and show for a long time. Oprah doesn’t need the money and doesn’t deserve an increase in ratings. SP doesn’t deserve a platform to sprout her lies, deception and hatred.
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:54 PM
I won’t watch it live but I’ll catch up quickly by hanging out around here…it’s much more entertaining when fed by the Mudflats edition of crazy. Besides Oprah loves golden retrievers something I’m addicted to, also too. Anyone who loves dogs like Oprah does (she has cocker spaniels too) has to be okay in my book.