Oprah vs. Sarah Palin

22 Comments

1. 

   Anonymous

   September 6, 2008 at 10:04 pm

   The media is unbelieve. You guys will make up controversy just for the sake of ratings. I believe Oprah is doing the right thing by not using her stage as a boxing Arena. Oprah doesn’t want the blood of the Divide States of America on her stage or her business. Just the kind of spin the conservatives would like to use to ruin her good name and success. Go Oprah. Don’t get played, Get Paid!
2. 

   Anonymous

   September 6, 2008 at 10:11 pm

   And about the conservatives, you guys don’t want blacks to have anything. That is why Oprah’s comment was a great spin.

   Hannity has the nerve to say that NCAAP is some type of racist platform. Historically, speaking, no one 400 years or ago, excess me 40 years ago,conservatives never wanted blacks to advance black people in anyway – and in many ways you still don’t.

   Read your polls. You have Americans saying they would never vote for a “black man” and then accuse Obama of playing the race cards.

   This is the Divide States of America. DSA. I wish you guys would get a lesson slavery and just go watch the movie “Roots.” And understand why there has to be the NCAAP and other AP we can get because this country will never be fair to black people and give crdedit to our great contributions to this country. “Blood shed” is the highest price you can pay, and we have been paying for over 400 years. Go figure.
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     Cathy

     June 2, 2009 at 3:36 pm

     Are you kidding me????? Why don't you do your history homework before you blab not knowing what you blab about!!! When the slaves were set free after the war… Many became active politically and all became republicans!!! That is why the KKK first started it was the dems against the repubs not black against white!! It just happened that most blacks at that time were repubs!!! The blacks that came out of slavery had the attitude that if they could work that hard for themselves they could go somewhere and do something great for this country and the white dems fought to keep them down. Now, the dems have you believeing that the government is the answer to all your problems and will provide all of your needs, when in fact the blacks that came out of slavery knew that God is the only provider that they needed not the government!!! You should brush up on your history and know that repubs like me will fight for you and right beside you to the death. Not because of the color of your skin but because the goodness of your heart!!
3. 

   AJ

   September 6, 2008 at 10:15 pm

   Anonymous — what the heck are you talking about? This is about Oprah giving television time to one candidate and not the other. Dude — your argument is messed up.
4. 

   Anonymous

   September 6, 2008 at 10:44 pm

   AJ…She made an executive decision AFTER she decide to support Obama not to use her show as a political platform. It is an “executive” decision. Besides, there are plenty of other arenas for Sarah to have expose on…Go Oprah.
5. 

   Anonymous

   September 6, 2008 at 11:26 pm

   One, on the fragmented, hard to follow piece on how blacks are still paying with “blood shed” for “over 400 years.” While I am sympathetic to systematic racism, that’s not what this is about. This is about using one’s popular show and following to continue to very publicly and recently show unfailing support of a half-black presidential candidate whose father is not even African-American, but African…(but that’s another discussion), and then “deciding” you are not going to use your show, in spite of being encouraged to do otherwise by staff and producers–and your public–to interview another minority figure running for office. A woman. For shame. Oprah is just showing her true colors, no pun intended. Not surprised, just disappointed she couldn’t at least give a little considering the candidate in question is a woman. If there isn’t anything to fear, where’s the harm? It would be a great show and Oprah changes her mind all the time and picks and chooses what she wants to believe about faith and values. Sara Palin would be her match!
6. 

   Anonymous

   September 7, 2008 at 7:42 am

   This is anonymous #2.

   Are you kidding me. Oprah isn’t married, Oprah doesn’t have 5 children, let alone a pregnant teen daughter. She doesn’t go around handing out punishment to her ex-brother in law. Steadman does work anywhere in oil like her husband does. She is not a politician.

   You know Oprah probably wouldn’t mind having her on the show if she was allowed to air the topics she would like – like racism, like helping all people, particularly black people who have been owed so much in this country. If she covered such a topic, you guys would call her prejudice anyways.

   Don’t think the other “media” forums like CNN, Fox, and the others are fair by letting Obama on their shows. The only reason why they do is to spew negative information about him. Oprah uses her show for positives things, and there is nothing positive that you all get from the viewing of Obama.

   And excuse me his father is not African-American… He is an African-American by the fact that he was born to a white woman on American soil. He never even knew his biological father before he died.

   And news flash – African-Americans are African descendants. White America stole blacks from their homeland and they have been here ever since. Do you think that blacks are Africans. Did you watch the olympics. if you notice, almost every country’s people had the same features. America is the only country with blacks (African descendants) on their team. Not because they came to this country. It is because they were stolen away and our identity stolen as well. AA have been shaped by this America – the most brutual terrorists on American soil.
7. 

   Anonymous

   September 7, 2008 at 10:40 am

   This is anonymous #2 again. And a being a minority, it almost a joke to call a woman a minority. Oprah is the true embodiment of a minority. She has all the strikes, she is a black woman. That is what a minority truly is. White woman are not a minority. PLEASE……
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     mary

     January 21, 2009 at 8:19 pm

     white women are a minority, they are females, do you understand?
8. 

   Oadnar

   September 8, 2008 at 12:39 pm

   Just my 2 cents…

   I believe Oprah can do whatever she wants with regard to whom she has on her show…whether people like it or not…or whether it makes her look good or bad.

   That said, I don’t care all that much for Oprah. I find it interesting that, because of her popularity, her show makes that much of a difference in people’s lives. I believe that Oprah is well aware of how much impact her celebrity status, her show, her opinions has on her audience.

   Most of the time I don’t think that her show is very balance when it comes to showing both sides of a given story or issue.

   I think that Oprah knew having BO on her show would push his status up the Political ladder and that there was a good possiblity of BO running for President. If you don’t think that Oprah had an agenda, then you’re naive. She’s a smart woman…smart enough, that after she announced her support of BO, she then said she wouldn’t use her show as a political platform.

   Yeah right…like non of her previous guests had a political agenda (Al Gore, anyone?).
9. 

   hydr0l1c5

   September 11, 2008 at 10:43 am

   Oprah should not have Palin on her show. I Sarah Palin was interviewed by Oprah Palin would be knocking all of Oprah’s question out of the ball park. Home runs as they say. It would be apparent that Sarah Palin has far, far more executive experience then Barack and this would cost him votes among thinking women. This would expose Oprah for the wicked woman we know she is.
   Besides, this is a good lesson to all that women really don’t want other women to succeed through the “Glass Ceiling”. If they did, Oprah would be right there beside Sarah Palin supporting her and all thinking women will vote Republican.
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     Uma

     February 10, 2009 at 7:09 am

     You are 100% right about this. Let go back during the campaign season if you remember anythings?
     This is Oprah problems. She's jelousy about a women, she had fogotted that she's a woman also.
     She never measure twices before she cut. Between white paper and green paper is very a big issue to her. To me after I watched her show, and apprea what she did is for her profits only.
     Thank you Uma Louisville, KY
10. 

    ng2000

    September 20, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    Valuable resource of oprah news summaries: http://www.ng2000.com/fw.php?tp=oprah
11. 

    Ann Walsh

    October 31, 2008 at 8:05 am

    You apparently were not around during the late 50s, 60s, and 70s, to witness the fight of the white woman to gain some equality in the workplace and the courts. It has been as struggle for me, as a white woman in her 60s. I find that it continues, but has smoothed over as a male-dominated world (both white and black, both christian and non-christian) continue in their efforts to subdue women (white and non-white) and put them in their place. It is a continuing struggle and I see the young women of this country failing to understand that they still need to stand their ground and continue to fight for equal rights with a male-dominated world. I have seen improvement over the years, but there is still a long way to go to gain equal rights for women. The defeat of the Equal Rights for Women admendment should have been the sounding of the warning bell. Just remain strong, adamant and firm in your committment to change the way the world perceives women.
12. 

    Pam

    November 4, 2008 at 3:25 am

    While both Oprah and Sarah Palin are powerful women, the similarities end there. Oprah's strength is her wealth, Sarah's strength is her character and experience. Oprah demands attention, Sarah commands it. Oprah's self worth is wrapped up in all that she has obtained. Strip away all the fluff and Oprah becomes non-descript, while Sarah will still be a woman of substance. Oprah's decision to not have Sarah on her show has nothing to do with politics, it has everything to do with fear. Oprah's fear of a woman more powerful than she. How revealing…how sad.
13. 

    Marilyn Murphy

    November 6, 2008 at 11:50 am

    Pam: I salute Oprah Winfrey for choosing not to have Sarah Palin on her show. After all, it is HER show and Oprah was supporting Barack Obama, an intelligent choice. Why should Oprah have given her a platform to promote herself (Palin). Wise decision on Oprah's part. Also, Sarah Palin proved during the campaign to be a self-centered, self-seeking person with her own agenda. Poor thing, doesn't she realize she needs to go back to school and become more knowledgeble into wordly affairs before she can even consider pursuing a high office in this beautiful land of ours.
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      Uma

      February 10, 2009 at 7:14 am

      Marilyn, have you travel around the world yet.? Oprah's green and white are not the same to her. Sarah Palin already had enough education. She does have more expericend than your obama.
      Oprah jejoursy about the other poeople like Sarah Palin because she's more petty than her! than so sad for her.
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      Mark McKillop

      March 5, 2009 at 11:29 pm

      Miss Murphy did you actually read what you wrote?? Amazing how liberals always get it wrong!!
14. 

    Stacey

    November 10, 2008 at 9:37 am

    Pam you have got to be NUTTS and you must be a REPUBLICAN… I must admit I LOL for real when you stated Sarah commands attention..Why of course she does with the stupidity that flows from her mouth – one can't help but wait to hear what she says next. Oprah is and ALWAYS will be a powerful woman and doesn't need to "demand" attention as you put it. People are drawn to Oprah because she "thinks" before she speaks, unlike Sarah Palin. Katie Couric, a white woman, tore Sarah apart so why in the world would Oprah be fearful of having her on her show, she couldn't even handle an interview from a newscaster. Sarah proved she is not fit for the White House and is right back where she belong, in Alaska with her quirky style and moose-hunting family!

    THUMBS UP FOR OBAMA!!!
15. 

    jbh

    November 12, 2008 at 10:02 am

    I believe the remarks which says that Sarah Palin was "self-centered, self-seeking" are ironic. When a person runs for office, let's hope it is for themselves, although every time I heard her speak, she certainly talked about McCain and this country and how she would like to improve it for herself. Matter-of-fact, a selfish person does not CHOOSE to have a baby born with Downs, knowing it will be a tough time ahead, she also doesn't CHOOSE to run for office, knowing women, who for some reason seem to get a kick out of tearing other women down for person and petty things, will pick on her. Even Oprah, although I do not agree with her philosophies, religion (or lack thereof), ideas or politics, has the grace to at least clearly state her adoration of Obama and steer somewhat away from engaging in a cat-fight.

    As far as Palin's appearance on Katie Couric's show, it is clear Couric (and it just occured to me that the woman above for some reason threw race into the discussion which should be non-relevant unless she has a bone to pick about white people), is a news anchor for a liberal leaning news outlet and for that reason, no matter how you paint the picture, was already poised to pounce.

    Too bad Palin didn't have at a minimum the respect of women during this campaign, if not their support, even if they didn't agree with her politics. After all, you can't really tell me that 80-90 percent of the African American in this country voted for Obama strictly because of his IDEAS now, can you? Especially when a good number of those claim, each Sunday, in church, that they are vehemently opposed to many of the issues he supports on the basis of morality. Now who is being disingenuous?
16. 

    Gwen Crowe

    March 13, 2009 at 7:25 pm

    ATT: Megan Kelly. Please send me the Title of the movie you watched earlier this week. The one that touched you so deeply. Thank you!!! Spent 2 hrs in Block Busters and could not find . Also, I do so
    hope that Oprah will have Sarah Palin on her show. Sarah makes me feel good about our future!
    Thank you again, Gwen Crowe
17. 

    Prettyber

    August 21, 2009 at 3:27 am

    All this talk about black and white is so stupid. We are all Americans, you don't hear people saying that
    their are Japanese american or Portuguese american, why do the blacks have to say this, they were born in America and not in Africa so they are americans. If any one is playing the race card it is Obama, We were
    all getting along pretty good till he got in office, his playing the white against the blacks in the town hall meeting, he will destroy our country, that is his agenda, The people of America have to wake up and stop
    him before it's to late. Sorry Oprah I love you very much but I stop watching your show when you didn't
    want to have Palin on your show, not very fair and balanced even if you were for Obama. Oprah voted for
    Obama because he's black and not for what he can do for our country, because he does not know the first thing about running our country