Palin Gives Oprah Best Ratings in Two Years
Sarah Palin may seek out the limelight, as some of her critics contend, but unlike most in this town (Hollywood) who see such attention, this much (and usually falsely) maligned Republican woman gets it. AP tasks 11 Reporters to “fact check” her book. The DNC churns out press releases at a rapid clip. He books remains at #1 on numerous bestseller lists, far ahead of the latest tome of a man who gets fawning attention from the MSM (in contrast to the patronizing, negative coverage she receives).
And now that woman is helping an Obama supporter cash in on her popularity, giving Oprah her biggest audience in two years:
Oprah Winfrey’s interview with former vp candidate Sarah Palin scored the talk show host her highest rating in two years.
Monday’s episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” drew a 8.7 household rating and 13 share — the best since Winfrey had the entire Osmond family on the show in 2007.
That means Palin also topped Winfrey’s heavily viewed interviews with Whitney Houston at the start of the season.
Hey, aren’t the Osmonds Mormons? Doesn’t the MSM treat Mormons like they do Palin, maligned them with great glee?
Hmmm. . . . . Seems that sometimes when the media try to strike people down, they only make their adversaries far more popular than they had ever foreseen.
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“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine” ~ Obi Wan Kenobi
Empire media? Sounds about right.
Comment by American Elephant — November 18, 2009 @ 6:55 pm - November 18, 2009
One of my favorite parts about the current “right” is their obsession with ratings. Glenn Beck brags about them, this blog discusses Oprah (!) ratings, the conservative blogs discuss Obama’s poll numbers with breathless glee everytime a poll shows him dropping a few points… For a group that derided Obama’s “celebrity” status, the trappings of celebrity – ratings, booksales, poll numbers – seem awfully important to them.
Just FYI: nowhere in this post was this backed up: “Seems that sometimes when the media try to strike people down, they only make their adversaries far more popular than they had ever foreseen.”
Your sentence says that “they” (being the media) “[made] their adversary far more popular…” So the media is responsible for Palin’s popularity?
Do you think the media, in reporting on the organized and leadership-backed plans to take away gays’ marriage license rights in California “maligned” the Mormons? More than the right-wing Christians who refer to Mormonism as a cult and declared Mitt Romney unacceptable as a GOP nominee?
Right-wing: “When our side attacks someone for their religion, it’s just a fringe. And who knows if it’s not true? When the MSM reports on religious organizations’ political activity, it’s an attack.”
Comment by torrentprime — November 18, 2009 @ 7:34 pm - November 18, 2009
oh, grow up, torrent, you attempt to analyze a quote where it’s clear from anyone who reads it as intended than it was intended to inject a little humor into the closing line, so read it in that context.
but, thank you for commenting, you do inject some humor into this thread as you offer your rabid responses, betraying a real rancor against the right.
you miss the whole purpose of this post to show that Palin has star power. and yes, so does Obama.
and you have some inner need to rail against the right. Sometimes it’s fun to watch.
Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — November 18, 2009 @ 7:40 pm - November 18, 2009
Moral people are more interesting than immoral people.
Comment by Ashpenaz — November 18, 2009 @ 9:52 pm - November 18, 2009
I watched Palin on Oprah. Palin’s interview style is a bit odd to me, perhaps I am not used to a folksy demeanor by a politician.
However you could see the disdain on Oprah’s face throughout the show. She like all Liberal women despises Sarah Palin.
Comment by Discarded by Hope and Change — November 19, 2009 @ 4:02 am - November 19, 2009
Palin’s “folksy demeanor” is who she is. Many people are happy to have her in their living rooms, she wears well. On the other hand, many people see her as competent to run a bake sale, but too unpolished to hang with the glam queens. Oprah has had years and years or experience and exposure to develop her schtick and she reigns over her audience in a Martha Stewart or Barbara Walters kind of way. Who knows, maybe Palin could give Oprah a run for her money if she went into the talk show biz.
I am amused that TP in #2 rambles on about Glenn Beck, polls, book sales, ratings, etc. I would love to watch a liberal Glenn Beck who was both entertaining and laid out good questions backed by sound research. Instead, you get low ratings liberal mouth foamers who just carp and scream in ever reaching non sequiturs. I would love to read a liberal book laying out how Obama’s dithering is right for the times and base the assumptions on compelling research and facts. I would love to read a good economics book that lays out how the economy grows from the bottom up and how redistribution of the wealth from the top to the bottom will cause the economy to soar.
I would rather have folksy demeanor any day over the liberal claptrap and tinfoil platitudes and psychobabble we hear from the MSM and the “Progressive” poohbahs of snark.
Comment by heliotrope — November 19, 2009 @ 10:37 am - November 19, 2009