Comments on: Palin Gives Oprah Best Ratings in Two Years

By: heliotrope

heliotrope — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:37:41 +0000

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.

By: Discarded by Hope and Change

Discarded by Hope and Change — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:02:43 +0000

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.

By: Ashpenaz

Ashpenaz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:52:23 +0000

Moral people are more interesting than immoral people.

By: B. Daniel Blatt

B. Daniel Blatt — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:40:32 +0000

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.

By: torrentprime

torrentprime — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:34:53 +0000

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.”

By: American Elephant

American Elephant — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:55:28 +0000

Seems that sometimes when the media try to strike people down, they only make their adversaries far more popular than they had ever foreseen.

“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine” ~ Obi Wan Kenobi

Empire media? Sounds about right.