Here is the video of Sarah Palin on Oprah Winfrey’s show. The Oprah interview was conducted on November 16th 2009 as part of the Sarah Palin book tour. Tell us what you think in the comments as the liberal talk show host struggles to recover lost ratings due to her partisan involvement in the presidential election of 2008.
Going Rogue: An American Life debuts in stores over the weekend and is already the number one best seller on the New York Times list. That means it has been bought unseen via backorders on online sites like amazon.com. Sensing a chance to redeem herself to fans, Oprah finally interviewed Palin for her TV show.
Oprah begins self-indulgingly by talking about the snub and trying to get Sarah Palin to agree that she was not snubbed by her refusal to interview Palin in 2008. Oprah’s skin is too thin to let bygones be bygones so she spins. Or could it be that given the sorry state of affairs in our nation, she finally believes that she backed the wrong girl?
Read more reactions to the Oprah interview from conservative sites here and here and here.
And this from The Anchoress:
I have suspected that Palin does know who she is, but she’s been rattled, and it shows. And so, she is talking about media mistreatment; her charges are not untrue, but tonguing the wounds will not help her with the people she needs to win over. They will see it merely as an unattractive, vindictive quality, rather ala Obama. Who wants more of that?
You can get a typically shallow reaction from the left here.
The Sarah Palin Oprah video is below. Leave your thoughts in the comments.
November 17th, 2009 at 2:23 am
uh oh, i smell a 200 comment thread, maybe 300
November 17th, 2009 at 3:34 am
I dont even like Oprah,but if you think that she is concerned about her ratings or recovering “lost” fans,then you havent been paying attention. That woman was in the process of ending that show previous to 2008,to embark on her two network endeavor “OWN” and “oxygen” network. CBS is currently doing everything in their power to try and get her to stay and continue her show. I agree that she is self promoting,self indulgent and only presents one sided commentary most times.I am sorry for you “Sarah Palin is whats best for America” followers,but as a bonified registered independent conservative. “Politics in America doesnt need anymore SOAP OPERA antics”
November 17th, 2009 at 7:25 am
Wow, what a hard-hitting, challenging, investigative round of questioning. She really forced Palin to address some uncomfortable topics.
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I don’t expect much from Oprah, so whatever.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:35 am
There is something called a ‘tell’, which is a physical change a person involuntarily does when they are telling an untruth. I studied them for awhile to try to figure out what my own were when playing poker for matchsticks.
The most common political tell of modern times was a President who bit his lower lip every time he lied. I don’t recall his name, we should see if his interns remember it.
Anyway, watching excerpts of the Oprah interview yesterday, I noticed that sometimes Sarah’s voice goes up about half an octave. As the tour continues, that might be something to look for, to see if she does this when she is saying something that isn’t true.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:19 am
I have Palin fatigue…Sarah, VAIN & SIMPLE…
Sarah Palin/Fabio 2012!
November 17th, 2009 at 11:13 am
I think an interesting question is why Sarah polls so poorly among women. I don’t think that it’s because she’s pro-life; there are plenty of pro-life women of both parties who don’t seem to arouse the animosity of women voters.
I also don’t think it’s because she’s attractive. There are a number of women politicians who are at least in the range of attractiveness as Sarah, to name two, Marsha Blackburn and Mary Bono (be still my heart).
So my guess is that it’s because of her coquettishness. In other words, she sorta flirts with guys. The winking thing, the high heels, the different way she speaks to male interviewers than female, I think women don’t respond positively to it.
I know I’ve watched women students flirting with guys to get them to help with assignments, other women tend to not react well to that maneuver.
November 17th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Yeah I think you might be right about that Arriba. I’ve noticed a reaction along those lines when my girlfriend talks about Palin.
Of course my mother loves her, so who knows.
November 17th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
My mom, who is a Hillary Clinton fan, was a big Palin supporter and has basically left the Democrat party over how she was treated. So, I don’t know what that means, but for a party that panders to the feminist movement they sure treated her pretty poorly.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Both major parties treat their bases poorly, because the two-party system isolates them from true competition for a certain segment of voters. Democrats can win elections on the gay vote without doing a single thing for gay rights; same for the feminists. Republicans? Same thing. Don’t think for a minute that when/if they regain some executive power they’ll be paying tribute to the small government tea party movement that helped them out so much. They’ll ignore it, because increasing spending or government power won’t push those people to vote democrat.
That, to me, is the biggest problem with the two-party dominance. There is a huge segment of the American population who feel deeply dissatisfied with the party they “support”, but their only other option is even worse. This is a classic case of a lack of market competition.
November 17th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
“Wow, what a hard-hitting, challenging, investigative round of questioning. She really forced Palin to address some uncomfortable topics.
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I don’t expect much from Oprah, so whatever”
so you are saying it was like a typical obama interview with the press
November 17th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
“So my guess is that it’s because of her coquettishness. In other words, she sorta flirts with guys. The winking thing, the high heels, the different way she speaks to male interviewers than female, I think women don’t respond positively to it.”
bingo!!!!! and don’t i know it.
November 17th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
lisab, so you’ve walked a mile in her versaces?
November 17th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Liked it, loved it…..think she should be president.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
test 2
November 17th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
to quote (sort of) patrick swayze in road house, ‘palin don’t hurt.’
November 17th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
So far - no crash /both in the sense of wreck and in the sense of love / - just OK
November 17th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
So my guess is that it’s because of her coquettish.-ariba
i have heard that word but is mot really part of my vocabulary - coquettish.
so it means-flirty ?
i would say sarah is a bit flirty
i think JEALOUSY is why women don’t like her. she is better lookin than most women and she achieved a position of power without the benefit of an ivy league education. plus todd is a hunk. so when women compare themselves to sarh, they fall short, hence the jealousy leading to anger
November 17th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I like her. I doubt she’ll ever get the respect a woman of her calibre deserves.
The supposed dirt on her is more lowbrow bullsht than anything else and really nothing when you look at or compare it the background of capitol hill scandals weve seen in the last 40 years or so. She hasnt stole anything, been caught in any lies, worn any blue dresses in the right office, or said anything half as stupid as what most of us have heard from supposedly more intelligent counter parts with decades on the hill.
All in all shes really quite spectacular compared to those men around her who’ve gone to all the Ivy league colleges and the women who’ve had to play her role at home.
Liberals hate her for the simple reason that she holds so many of the attirbutes liberal women espouse to have and be. Shes successful in a mans world, can play with the big boys hunting the moose and preping it in the wild, environmentalist (without the socialism attached) drop dead gorgeous, independent and in charge of her own life, yet shes a conservative.
Shes the ideal picture of a classic feminist but promotes conservative ideals and they cant freeking stand it because they dont have one woman on their stage that can project that image as well as she does.
Most of these feminist liberal women have entrenched themselves so far into the ideology they forgot they were women.
November 17th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Marsha Blackburn Voted FOR:
Omnibus Appropriations, Special Education, Global AIDS Initiative, Job Training, Unemployment Benefits, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations, Agriculture Appropriations, U.S.-Singapore Trade, U.S.-Chile Trade, Supplemental Spending for Iraq & Afghanistan, Prescription Drug Benefit, Child Nutrition Programs, Surface Transportation, Job Training and Worker Services, Agriculture Appropriations, Foreign Aid, Vocational/Technical Training, Supplemental Appropriations, UN “Reforms.” Patriot Act Reauthorization, CAFTA, Katrina Hurricane-relief Appropriations, Head Start Funding, Line-item Rescission, Oman Trade Agreement, Military Tribunals, Electronic Surveillance, Head Start Funding, COPS Funding, Funding the REAL ID Act (National ID), Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, Thought Crimes “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, Peru Free Trade Agreement, Economic Stimulus, Farm Bill (Veto Override), Warrantless Searches, Employee Verification Program, Body Imaging Screening.
Marsha Blackburn Voted AGAINST:
Ban on UN Contributions, eliminate Millennium Challenge Account, WTO Withdrawal, UN Dues Decrease, Defunding the NAIS, Iran Military Operations defunding Iraq Troop Withdrawal, congress authorization of Iran Military Operations.
Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
See her unconstitutional votes at :
http://tinyurl.com/qhayna
Mickey
November 17th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
i get a thrill going up my leg when i see her
November 17th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Rhayader:
What do you think of Jesse the Body Ventura.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
I’m sorry I meant to put a ? at the end of that and I failed.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Also what is you opinion of Bob Barr.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
And I almost forgot my main man Wayne Allan Root. Yes I forgot the ? for Barr I know.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Ventura should join the Republicans, because he has pretty conservative views. Yet he has to go against being one of those 9/11 inside jobs guys. I mean it’s hard to take someone seriously when there talking about the worst day in American history like that. So I’d advise him to go against that claim and join the Republicans. In a senate bid to kill Al Franken.