There were some threads bemoaning Oprah declining to have Palin on her show

[opihimoimoi]

They should be glad Oprah is declining....cause if Palin ever come on board...she has to answer questions...and it won't be nice questions either.

Her MRS SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON crap won't fly....Palin would be exposed as a fraud.

[madeline_con]

1. All the more reason Oprah should have her on. n/t

[Boz]

4. Just the opposite, If Oprah asked them the repugs would just go see

She supports Obama and was just attacking poor Sarah. Oh and shes black.

[vaberella]

2. Oprah said and continously said that her show would not be a platform for politics.

When she speaks about politics it's away from the show. These idiots don't get the separation between private life and professional life.

[avaistheone1]

3. I am not advocating for Palin to be on Oprah's show.

However, when Oprah did have Obama on her show she told him he should run for the presidency.
So she did give Obama her show as a platform.

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. Transcript? Link?

I know a lot of Hillary fans are still pissed at Oprah because she endorsed Obama, and they seem to be the ones screaming loudest about her having Palin on the show. She said no, so you should let it go.

[avaistheone1]

8. How the hell would I have a transcript or a link.

It was on about a year ago. Both Obama and Michelle were on the show with Oprah - when Oprah said Obama should run for president.

Also, Oprah had her friend Maria Shriver's husband, Schwarzenegger, on the show when he made his first run for governor, but she did not have any of the other candidates on the show.

So either Oprah doesn't remember doing these things, or she no longer is the straight talk express herself.

[Tarheel_Dem]

20. Doesn't change the fact that Oprah doesn't have to have every nutjob

in the country on "HER" tv show. And yes there were tons of DU'ers who were pissed at Oprah because they felt she stabbed women in the back, by not endorsing Hillary. Oprah's a favorite whipping boy for every special interest group out there, and DU's no different. Oh, by the way, excuse me for asking you a question, I usually only interact with people who actually support this board, and the Democratic party.

[rexy]

21. I thought Oprah decided to stop using her show as a platform for politics

after receiving a lot of crap for having Obama on. I'm pretty sure she didn't forget. She made a decision from that point forward to no longer have any political candidates on her show.

[avaistheone1]

16. I can't believe I found this.

Oprah has one more question for Senator Obama. "If you ever would decide to run within the next five years…would you announce on this show?" she asks.

"I don't think I could say no to you," Senator Obama says. "Oprah, you're my girl."

http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/world/peopleandpolitics/oprahshow1_ss_20061018/14




And no, I was not a Hillary fan.

[NYC_SKP]

18. Cool find! That was waaay back in October 18, 2006! (link)

Snip:

If you picked it up with a pair of tweezers and plopped it down in a sterile laboratory environment, the conversation which took place between Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama on Oct. 18, 2006, probably wouldn’t look so good under a microscope.

Here were two people with impeccably manicured public images bemoaning the calculated spin of politics. Two professionally driven people paying homage to life outside of work. If you tested the exchange for traces of organic life, the results would probably come back negative.

But thanks to the fertile emotional agar of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the interview was well received. In the end, the proven convention-hall orator walked away with some much-needed small-room credibility. At one point, Ms. Winfrey asked the senator from Illinois about his presidential ambitions. “So if you were ever to run … would you announce on this show?”

“I don’t think I could say no to you,” replied Mr. Obama. And a few seconds later: “Oprah, you’re my girl.”

Ms. Winfrey did not get to break the big news—but she is definitely Obama’s girl, supporting the Illinois senator’s presidential bid in her typically big, multiplatform way. And now, the the “My Girl” interchange is campaign-famous.

In what the Internet universe refers to as “meatspace,” there’s the big Sept. 8 fund-raiser for Mr. Obama—to be held at her $64 million estate in Montecito, Calif. (Tara II, it’s called.)...

http://www.observer.com/2007/oprah-cranks-obama-machine

[avaistheone1]

19. And little more than 3 month later on February 10, 2007 Obama publicly announced his candidacy for

the presidency.

[snake in the grass]

30. Leave the artificial Hillary anti-Hillary indignation at home!

It is shit and has nothing to do with this. The divide runs through those who don't want Palin to have a platform and those who think Oprah should let her on in order to expose her for the dumb fuck she is. How anyone can construe that those screaming must be Hillary supporters defies any rationality. It seems you are the one who still has a problem with her.

-a Kucinich supporter

[Tarheel_Dem]

31. Why is your profile hidden? I suspect you're a newly resurrected sockpuppet.

And I suspect that your chosen handle is very appropriate for you on this forum.

[snake in the grass]

32. I wasn't aware that it is hidden.

Could you tell me how to set that straight?

Thank you.

[Tarheel_Dem]

33. Click "Options" at the top, then "Edit Your Profile", and answer "NO"

for hidden profile.

[vaberella]

10. They have a close relationship and that was BEFORE he was running.

She had been to Larry King and said he should run. He was not going to get involved and she was just impressed by him. However, he was NOT running. She is currently on the ticket and running. This is the difference and why Oprah has never turned her show into a political platform. That was just a suggestion that I don't think she even thought he would take up since he had said before he would not or he thinks he wouldn't. Even after that interview he said the same.

[NoQuarter]

14. the point is...

He wasn't running when he was on the show.

When he became a Presidential hopeful/candidate, her show was off limits.

If Sarah had been of interest to anyone before she materialized out of nowhere, she too, could have been on Oprah.

[oasis]

24. Oprah gave a boost to Arnold Swartzeneggers' Cal campaign when he appeared on

her show during the chicken shit Repug's first run for Governor.

Oprah's full of it.:puke:

[opihimoimoi]

27. Het Dere Braddah....how you stay???

Hellos to Donnie....

[firedupdem]

6. Oprah didn't decline anything! Someone asked her if she would

invite Palin and she said NO. Palin doesn't want to go on Oprah! Why don't they give it up! It's her show! She's not a dummy in love with Palin just because she's a woman!

[NYC_SKP]

7. Oprah declined EVERYONE. No to Obama, Biden, McCain & Palin...its a smear.

Please reply with this information whenever the distraction/lie comes up.

Ms. Winfrey issued a statement Friday night saying that while Ms. Palin would be a “fantastic” interview, she had pledged after endorsing Senator Barack Obama last year that she would not use her TV show to promote political candidates. Honoring that pledge, she declined to interview Senator Hillary Clinton during the primaries while she battled Mr. Obama for the Democratic nomination.

Ms. Winfrey said she would be happy to interview Ms. Palin, but only after the November election. Her statement came in response to an account on the Drudge Report that her staff was sharply divided over the merits of Oprah’s interviewing Ms. Palin.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/oprah-says-no-to-palin-and-gets-an-earful/?apage=3

Good gosh....

[avaistheone1]

9. But she did have Obama on her show last year along with Michelle.

At that time before a national audience Oprah said Obama should run for president. Quite an endorsement.

No kidding.

[vaberella]

11. She had already said it on Larry King before that. And it was BEFORE he officially ran.

Again, he even professed he may not be running after that interview. So the Presidential platform wasn't established.

[democracy1st]

12. Ok Obama has the Oprah show Palin has Fox

:sarcasm:

[NYC_SKP]

13. This is true. But that's all pre-Palin and definitely pre-McCain, so...

all the outrage now is just nonsense. Unless she turned down McCain.

Now her position is "no" to everyone, which sort of makes it tough for Palin to pretend she's a "victim".

[avaistheone1]

15. True. Thanks for your honesty.

I am not a part of the outrage. Just trying to clarify the argument given I was watching Oprah's show when she made her endorsement.

[NYC_SKP]

17. Hey, no problem...

Never thought you were.....I don't know where the story came from but I try to figure out even the little mystery lies that capture the attention of plenty of folks.

:thumbsup:

[mwooldri]

22. There's a so-called easy solution for this...

... Oprah could ring up Larry King, ask him to have the night off... and then interview Sarah Palin on his show as a guest host.

Therefore, Oprah has interviewed Sarah. Oprah also has kept her show clear of politics by guest hosting on someone elses' show who is involved with politics.

But then IMO Oprah should stick to her guns... her show isn't about politics...

Mark.

[Triana]

23. It's Oprah's show. She can have whoever she damn well pleases on it..

...people can have a hizzy-fit and complain but it's HER show. She is not a "news" person and doesn't have to be 'balanced' in her guests - NOT that the freakin lame$tream media makes any effort at that either - they don't.

But what I mean is - it's HER show. She has NO obligations to put on guests to please the GOP or their representative whiners. She should ship them a truckload of Huggies for toddlers, tell them to pull 'em on and DEAL with it.

[Raine]

25. WHY should Oprah have Palin on, she hasn't had Biden on

Palin and Biden are running opposite each other it's not Obama vs. Palin.

[opihimoimoi]

26. OMG.....:o)

[San_Antonio_Guy]

28. Too Many Questions from press

It's definitely true, Palin has too many things to say to the press, and people doubt if she could handle it. Oprah was giving her a favor though.

[Rectangle]

29. How about getting Palin on "The View"???? n/t

[Clio the Leo]

34. Nothing worse than an uppity Republican.....

.... tryin' to tell Oprah what to do.

Oprah tells US what to do! dont get it twisted!

[opihimoimoi]

35. Its their OBSSESSION to Dominate...they Gatta be in Control or they are pissed

[IDsweetpea]

36. Oprah.is between a rock and a hard place

Oprah was quoted as saying she is in a no win situation. If she asks the hard questions they will call her a racist and if she doesn't they will deride he for being soft because she is a woman. So she opted to not have heron the show.

[opihimoimoi]

37. She has a long standing policy of not doing anymore Pols on her show.