Going Rogue: Sarah Palin Is Booked to Appear on Oprah — Update: Leftist Palin-Hating Copycat Book Set to Launch Same Day as ‘Going Rogue’
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on October 21, 2009
Stumbled upon this interesting announcement from WaPo…
Washington Post: Oprah to plug Palin book and maybe placate conservatives:
Oprah Winfrey, on a campaign to climb back from last season’s ratings slump, will attempt to kiss and make up with conservative viewers on Nov. 16 when she has Sarah Palin on her syndicated talk show.
You may have noticed that the appearance by the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate is happening smack dab in the middle of the November ratings derby.
It’s also the day before Palin’s new book, “Going Rogue: An American Life” is scheduled to hit bookstores.
Oprah’s Winfrey’s production company, Harpo Productions, claims it will be Palin’s first interview about the book. We’ll see about that.
More importantly, Harpo also claims it will be the first time Oprah Winfrey will have met and Palin will have met, and Harpo should know.
It’s not just another show booking for Oprah Winfrey. She’s going whole hog this season to try to recover from the ratings tumble she took last season when her audience slid to under 7 million viewers. And, during one awful week in July, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” suffered its smallest ratings since its debut way back in 1985.
Industry navel gazers speculated Oprah had turned off some of her conservative viewers — or, more accurately, they had turned her off — when she not only endorsed then presidential candidate Barack Obama but even campaigned for him. (Palin, of course, was the running mate of Obama’s rival, Sen. John McCain.)
It was the first time Oprah had stripped off her apolitical veneer and publicly endorsed a political candidate. At the time, Oprah told CNN’s Larry King she did it because “what [Obama] stands for” was “worth me going out on a limb for.”
And her ratings took a tumble, though hers was not the only syndicated show to lose audience last season and she still managed to wind up at the top of the syndication heap at season’s end.
Even so, Oprah has largely abandoned her whole aspirational programming mantra this season and gone in for the more purely commercial.
From The Powers That Be: Sarah Palin to Appear on the Winfrey Show: ‘I Can See Oprah From My House’:
Betting time. At what point in the show will Oprah refer to Palin as “girlfriend”? Put me down for three minutes in.
A couple of Twitterers wrote that they think Palin’s making a mistake by giving Oprah the ratings explosion — but judging from comments on Oprah’s message board, some Oprahbots aren’t pleased that Winfrey is having Palin on her show, which makes the entire appearance worthwhile if you ask me.
UPDATE:
Word to the wise: A lookalike book bashing Palin will be released at the same time by Palin-hating liberals, hoping to make a few fast bucks. The left-wing cover is designed to look much like the Palin cover. Carefully read the book’s cover when making your purchase to be sure you have the correct one, and say a prayer for these small-minded, irrational, hate-filled people:
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Left wing nutjob Sarah Palin haters to release hit piece on day of book release Going Rouge: Sarah Palin An American Nightmare
From Gateway Pundit: Palin-haters Set to Release Hit-Piece “Going Rouge” On Same Day as Sarah’s Book Launch:
A new low for the rabid left…
They just can’t hate this Christian conservative woman enough.
Leftist hate wages on: 'Going Rouge' on the left is the Palin-bashing copycat book; 'Sarah Palin Going Rogue' on right is the authentic autobiography
More on Palin’s book…
Thanks to Liberals Attacking Sarah Palin’s Not-Yet-Released Bio “Going Rogue,” It’s Now Number 1 at Barnes & Noble… Thanks, Liberals!
Palin Power… “Going Rogue” Breaks Records for Non-fiction Pre-Release Books Sales (video)
Additional reading on Palin:
Flopping Aces: Reagan Would Be Proud
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Olbermann to Ziegler: You Have a Crush on Sarah Palin — Ziegler to Olbermann: $100,000 to Debate Palin-related Issues (video) and John Ziegler Booted from CPAC over Sarah Palin and “Pay for Play” Interview with ACU Chair… Let’s Do Coffee (video) and Reagan and Palin: Two Demonized Peas in a Pod (video)
Sister Toldjah: The Nation magazine to launch copycat Palin book on Nov. 17 and Mark your calendars: Palin set to appear on Oprah Nov. 16
John Ziegler, Big Hollywood: Sarah Palin: One Year Later and The Truth About Sarah Palin’s Resignation
Gateway Pundit: Sarah Palin Bashes McCain Staffers– Blames Campaign For Couric Debacle and Sarah Palin Slams Biden After His Ridiculous Attack Today
VotingFemale Speaks!: Sarah Palin: Socialist Perfect Storm; Bogus Baucus Bill and Obama Breaks His Promises to America… Again and Again and Barack Obama – Unelectable in 2012; His Waterloo was Sarah Palin speaking out against ObamaCare; TeamSarah On Deck! and Sarah Palin will Replace Obama as President in 2012; TeamSarah is On Deck and Sarah Palin Unleashed; Socialist Party and Media scared and desperate
HillBuzz: If you aren’t paying attention to what Sarah Palin is up to on Facebook, then you’re a damn fool
Sarah Palin Truth Squad: Cover Photo for Sarah Palin Memoir Was Last-Minute Choice
Conservatives4Palin: Governor Palin’s Lawyer Puts Radio Rumor to Rest and Frivolous Ethics Complaints: The Score Card, the Price Tag, and the Future of Ankle-biting and Those Who Stand Silent and The Fate of Alaska’s Joan of Arc
Jeremy D. Boreing, Big Hollywood: The Day After: My First Impression of Sarah Palin
RedState: The Campaign To Bankrupt The Palin Family
Moe Lane: So, about that Palin libel suit…
Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Leadership: If Barack Obama is Spock, Sarah Palin is Kirk
Atlas Shrugs: CNN Tells, Sells More Lies About Palin — it’s Time to Expose the truth about Obama
Hot Air Green Room: No Fish Guts, No Glory: Brave ABC Reporter Covers Palin Doing Icky Stuff and Sarah Palin Needs to Help Conservative Bloggers So We Can Make Stuff Up, Too and There’s No One Else Like Sarah Palin and Ace’s “special comment” on Palinistas and It Might Not Be the Best Idea for David Letterman to Joke About Underage Girls Being Raped
GoodTimePolitics: If Sarah Palin’s dim and Obama is brilliant, how did he lose the argument to her?
Hot Air: Video: Ziegler gets his mike cut off by MS-NBC and Audio: John Ziegler grills Politico reporter for calling Palin a “circus act” and Letterman: When I joked about Palin’s daughter having sex, I meant Bristol, not Willow and Letterman Top Ten: Palin has a “slutty flight attendant look”; Audio: “Pathetic,” says Palin
BUUUUURRRRNING HOT: Blatant Anti-Palin Bias in the Liberal Media: A Collection (166 Cases)
PajamasMedia: I am afraid I no longer believe…That we have an inquisitive American media as we once knew it
Reaganite Republican Resistance: Palin Rocks on Fox
I Hate The Media!: MSNBC’s whorish Contessa Brewer can’t understand why Sarah Palin took offense to being called slutty
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I will be the first to comment.
IMO Sarah should NOT appear on O’s show.
Sarah doesn’t need the big O.
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