Sarah Palin, Oprah Winfrey: Good for biz: The Swamp
The Swamp
Chicago Tribune
Posted October 20, 2009 3:00 PM
The Swamp

by Mark Silva

Guess who gets the first TV interview of Sarah Palin on the eve of the publication of her memoirs, Going Rogue.

Oprah Winfrey.

The same Oprah who campaigned for President Barack Obama.

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Our colleague Maureen Ryan at The Watcher reports: "[F]ollowing her decision to step down as governor of her home state of Alaska, and on the eve of the release of her first book, Palin will speak first to Oprah in a world exclusive interview," a statement from Oprah's production company said today.

The show airs Nov. 16, the book is out the next day.

It's a mutually satisfying arrangement: Palin's book has a press-run of 1.5 million. The Oprah Winfrey Show has an audience of 7.4 million.

Our friend and colleague Hal Boedeker at the Orlando Sentinel notes that, "In the first three weeks of the new season, Winfrey's ratings are up 15 percent from the same time last year. She is averaging 7.4 million viewers.

"That's how the book business works, folks.''

At her Facebook page, Palin's following is pushing one million.

And Amazon.com has been abuzz with advance orders for Palin's memoirs. Can a movie be far behind?

It sounds like there could be a quick second printing in the works for the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president who resigned as governor of Alaska over the summer and turned out a 400-page-plus memoir months ahead of schedule, with the help of a hired California writer who has some evangelical writing to her credit.

Palin is down, but not out, lately in the polls too, the Gallup Poll has reported -- measuring her pre-publication approval ratings as the lowest since her standing coming out of the Republican National Convention last summer.

Oprah, whose questions may take a different tack than Katie Couric's took, may not move the Gallup track, but she knows how to sell a book.

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Beauty and the beast


Now Oprah, be sure you are nice to Sarah and don't ask her any of those trick liberal questions like, "What newspapers do you read?".


This is soooo hilarious, brain dead Palin is getting rich off of Wingnut welfare. The Wingnutters give her hundreds of thousands of dollars just so she'll show up at their klan gatherings and talk about "moose huntin'"and "real 'Mericans".



Going into the other lions den. Good for her. This won't be Katie Couric's three hours of spliced tape.


Sarah Palin and the RNC are finally hitting back at the Demoncrat party for all of their lies.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_IAN081P8I
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Oprah shouldn't worry about asking her what newspapers she reads. She doesn't. Read that is. Anything. Ever. Never learned. But she sure can wink


Sarah Palin and the RNC are finally hitting back at the Demoncrat party for all of their lies.

Posted by: Sean | October 20, 2009 3:44 PM

Silly Sean, we all know that Politicians lie thats nothing new But tell me, how many men and woman and children died because of President Obama's lies compaired to Bush's lies? Here let me help you with this: Obama 0, Bush 1 million!


I wonder if Palin will be able to see Russia from Oprah's couch?


This is pointless. Oprah can’t interview worth a damn and she’s too “nice”. There will be a lot of chatter about her new “book”, her family and possibly some moose recipes, but nothing of interest or substance. Now, if Caribou Barbie wants a real interview with a chance to show what she’s really made of, she should go on Jon Stewart. Or, how about Rachel Maddow? That would be worth watching! I wonder if poor Glenn is all butt-hurt that she didn’t pick him.


Why Sarah Why? You know you will not be treated honestly, fairly or right. Why would you go on a show with one of the Obambot? Why


It seems the left is still scared of Palin!


Aha...now we know the reason for the early release.

Regarding the Facebook followers "pushing one million," I wouldn't read 'popularity' into that. It's voyeurism and curiosity. People want to know what she's doing.

"...California writer who has some evangelical writing to her credit."
Oh, that's very gentle. "Some"? That's the writer's exclusive genre, and personal mission. She has no OTHER writing.


The left was never scared of Palin..We hope she runs in 2012 matter of fact..If so we will definately be assured of another Democratic win..Hopefully Oprah will conduct an indepth interview and not just fluff..


It seems the left is still scared of Palin!

Posted by: Crooks_In_DC | October 20, 2009 4:45 PM


Based on...?


Republicans don't mind electing an idiot - as a matter of fact, they spend millions every election cycle getting idiots elected - as long as she's willing to keep her 'tarded baby 'cause Jebus says to.


Sarah Palin: The Rogue Meteor of Republican Politics!


See her. Hear her whine. As she sears an arc of hot confusion across the clueless suburbs of Alaska. Then feel. As she pumps a pulse of rhetorical fire across the prairie skies and into the living rooms of all the Faux News Viewing Homes of America!


See it now. Hear it now. Know it later.


A Rupert Murdoch Production



Sarah's HOT and is ALWAYS "Must See TV."

And really, she's a better performer than Obama. (And I voted for Obama.)

Let's face it, Obama reads from the prompter extremely well; and so does Palin.

Nothing wrong with using the technology that is given to you. JFK did it; Nixon, not so well.

Let us admit it: we live in the 21st Century. The rules have changed. You don't have to impress a select few insiders with your "book smarts." You have to be telegenic and be able to read a teleprompter.

It helps to be articulate; but so far it hasn't sunk anyone.

Remember: the economic crisis propelled Obama. Palin didn't sink McCain.


Curious. I'd always thought memoirs were written toward the end of one's life to set down what a person did good or bad over that lifetime. She is not the only middle-aged person to do so, I just don't know that anyone at her age has enough life experience to write about it. It would be much more interesting to me if she were 90 and had more of a life to compare and contrast.

I'm sure her people sat down with Oprah's people and hammered out what questions would be asked and how they would be asked. At least I would hope so after what she went through during last year's campaign. If not, she gets what she asked for and can't complain.


It seems the left is still scared of Palin!

Posted by: Crooks_In_DC | October 20, 2009 4:45 PM
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Clown in DC,
You Wingnutters are confusing fear with laughter again.


Imagine for a minute if Sarah P. was President during the 1963 missle crisis. The instant some Pentagon cowboy like Thomas Power or Curtis Lemay said let's bomb, bomb, Cuba, Sarah would have pulled out the pom-poms and said "go Curtis go", and those of us who survived the ensuing nuclear holocaust would be living in a Mad Max world.
This isn't a reality show, a beauty contest, or Dancing With the Stars. Sarah is an under-educated women of inferior intellect who couldn't even hack the job as governor of the country's least populated state. If she's the best the Grand Old Carpers can come up with, then Obama has no worries.


Since Obama's buddies who write for The Swamp are saying its ok to talk about media bias, I'll do the job they doesn't wish to do, and note that Oprah is part of the partisan Leftist media. She's publicly endorsed Obama, contributed $15,000 to the Democratic National Committee, and maxed out her contributions to Obama.

Now why do you think the DNC Swamp didn't mention that fact?


read the third graf of the posting


Doesn't Obama have two memoirs? One by the age-- late 20's, I think.


To 'lochnessmonster' who wrote:
"Curious. I'd always thought memoirs were written toward the end of one's life to set down what a person did good or bad over that lifetime."
Palin is ONLY 3 yrs younger than Obama. And didn't he write a memoir?

I can't understand why Palin would stoop to being on Oprah's show! I would have loved to see her on the View!!


Since Obama's buddies who write for The Swamp are saying its ok to talk about media bias, I'll do the job they doesn't wish to do, and note that Oprah is part of the partisan Leftist media
Posted by: Bruce | October 20, 2009 7:00 PM
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RNC Brucie,
When you spend all of your waking hours soaking up all of the right wing lunatic fringe propaganda that Faux and Druggy Rush vomits out 24/7 like you do, I'm not surprised that every other media outlet in the world seems like "the evil librul media" to you.



You know, we love disagreement -- the forum thrives on it, don't you think? -- particularly when it's agreeable. But when someone who logs in here virtually daily wants to suggest that somehow the Swamp is suppressing the fact that Oprah Winfrey is a head-over-heels do-whatever-it-takes supporter of President Barack Obama, the Swamp can only suggest that it's time for someone to get a little fresh air. The Swamp will be happy to sign a hall pass for a week or two, or whatever time it takes, for any regular who has missed the following posts, not to mention the third paragraph of the one above, to get out and clear his head.

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/10/oprah_obamas_goldmining_in_den.html
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/04/obama_video_opens_chicago_olym.html
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/01/oprah_denzel_yoyo_and_a_window.html
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/12/oprahs_washington_inaugural_sh.html
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/oprah_barack_obama_mlk_fdr_lin.html
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/10/oprah_to_appear_for_obama_but.html
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/oprah_stevie_wonder_maria_shri.html
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/oprah_stevie_wonder_maria_shri.html


Palin is, and will always be, an idiot. Anybody with a different perception is probably white, a hypocritical self-serving "Christian," heterosexual, and a dumbass.


Palin wont benefit from this interview. Palin wont run in 2012 either. The liberals have won this battle, but I am not sure about the war. My prediction is the mod comments of support will be suppressed. My comments will probably never show up either and will know this source to be a fraud when the hundreds of commenters already sent here and commented never show up on this site. Election time showed this practice to be rampant, and I will be pleasantly surprised if it does not happen here.


Republicans, you have lost the IQ race. And you have won the Darwin Award, as too dumb to compete. Your Party is experiencing extinction.


I would like to especially thank Pageant Queen Sarah, Crazy Glenn Beck and Druggy Limbaugh. Michael Steele, you hardly rate a mention, but thanks to every bitter, Cheney-revering dead-ender, teabagger, and dittohead, who now claims exclusive use of the Conservative brand. Nobody likes you and your paranoid rantings, and that is good for America. You are miserable failures.


Oh..., and Saint Ronny is weeping.



Hmm I like Sarah, but hate to add to Oprah's ratings. Maybe I'll wait and watch it on youtube.


Why Sarah Why? You know you will not be treated honestly, fairly or right. Why would you go on a show with one of the Obambot? Why

Posted by: John | October 20, 2009 4:31 PM

Why? Because she's a sell out Johnny. We all knew that way before she had someone else write this book, before she quit her term as Govonor and before she ruined all the chances for Mccain to lose by himself.


It seems the left is still scared of Palin!

Posted by: Crooks_In_DC | October 20, 2009 4:45 PM


Based on...?

Posted by: Palin's a quitter | October 20, 2009 5:19 PM

On how the Left and the MSM acts.


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Well leftists, if Palin didn't scare you to death about guns, freedomw, and your precious abortions, you wouldn't even bother to comment. But, Palin brings out the rabid dog in the leftist, foaming at the mouth, incoherent, totally irrational fanatics come out of the woodwork against Palin. It's a hoot!

Grown women act like 12 year old little girls, jealous of the "new girl in class". I have seen it first hand in chat groups. It is really too funny. You jealous women really need to check yourselves. You want to promote women, but when an attractive woman come to fore you totally freak out. Shallow, jealous, little people.


Palin is, and will always be, an idiot. Anybody with a different perception is probably white, a hypocritical self-serving "Christian," heterosexual, and a dumbass.

Posted by: Jeff | October 20, 2009 8:34 PM

When you're scared do you always name call or is that just the way the Left works now days. Palin seems to bring the racism in the Left a lot.


Please read what I wrote: She is not the only middle-aged person to do so, I just don't know that anyone at her age has enough life experience to write about it.


I was not just saying it about Palin.


I want a quiter!!!!! When the going get tough.....quit!


Palin will also be speaking in Milwaukee next month, perhaps on the same trip. A local right-wing talk show host will emcee. (I guess Joe the Plumber wasn't available.)


It amuses me when the Palinites accuse us of being “afraid” of her, or jealous of her. To the one that accused women (I can only assume you were referring to Democratic or Liberal women) of being jealous...your comment is exactly the type of response I would expect from a Palin worshipper. It’s the same type of response that I would hear, years ago, in the hallways of my high school. “You don’t like her ‘cause yer JEALOUS!”. Uhhhhhh...sure. There are beautiful, intelligent women in this world that balance career and family far beyond my abilities, that if I were younger, I would envy and look up to. Sarah Palin isn’t one of them. She is definitely not someone I would envy, and without envy, there is no jealousy. Sarah is a disgrace to women. Well, only a disgrace to women that follow her, the rest of us just find her (and her followers) hilarious. Face it. Your tea has gotten cold and the only thing you think you have to keep it “hot” is a half-wit, narcissistic, cheerleader that has zero parenting skills. But, please, encourage her to run in 2012. Besides the guarantee that the Republicans would lose, again, I haven’t been to a circus in years.


Republicans don't mind electing an idiot - as a matter of fact, they spend millions every election cycle getting idiots elected - as long as she's willing to keep her 'tarded baby 'cause Jebus says to.

Posted by: Kevin | October 20, 2009 5:23 PM ......................................And libs like you don't mind electing a liar, a fake, and a FOREIGNER. Your shameless comment about her baby only show you as an idiotic, insensitive jerk.


I'll be curious to see what Sarah Palin has to say. I don't have a high opinion of her, but I don't hate her. I don't even know her.

So she thinks differently than I do. Who's to say that I'm right? Who's to say that any of us are correct in our ideology.


How interesting that Sarah Palin would venture outside of "real America" to appear in Oprah's Harpo Studios in Chicago! Anything to sell a book. Perhaps Oprah should take the opportunity to introduce Palin to Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright and Tony Resko. Let's see how easy it is for Palin to be accused of "pal around" with a terrorist, a radical black preacher, and a real Chicago thug. Some call Palin ambitious, but in essence she's nothing more than an opportunistic media whore.


I think I'd like to watch this episode.



It really amazes me how so many people who dislike Mrs. Palin say the same old line about how dumb & stupid she is! It's a slap in the face to the citizens of Alaska who voted for her to govern their state.
It really makes me laugh how you can judge her the way you do. I have never been a member on a city counsel, or the mayor of a city, not the governor of any large state, or worked with the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission like she has. I guess only dumb people do these things... Tell me have you accomplished more than her? People act like she was running to be the president last fall, instead of the run for vice pres... It's amazing how threatened people are of her. Not to mention I believe Mr. Obama did in fact have some ties with so-called radicals during his past life, didn't he until his run for president? The way our media can misinform and distort news, it's hard to believe everything you hear. When thinking of what newspapers, media do I get my information from, well there are many sources that I myself, rely on... I don't blame Mrs. Palin for not answering such a dumb & biased question!



It really amazes me how so many people who dislike Mrs. Palin say the same old line about how dumb & stupid she is! It's a slap in the face to the citizens of Alaska who voted for her to govern their state.
It really makes me laugh how you can judge her the way you do. I have never been a member on a city counsel, or the mayor of a city, not the governor of any large state, or worked with the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission like she has. I guess only dumb people do these things... Tell me have you accomplished more than her? People act like she was running to be the president last fall, instead of the run for vice pres... It's amazing how threatened people are of her. Not to mention I believe Mr. Obama did in fact have some ties with so-called radicals during his past life, didn't he until his run for president? The way our media can misinform and distort news, it's hard to believe everything you hear. When thinking of what newspapers, media do I get my information from, well there are many sources that I myself, rely on... I don't blame Mrs. Palin for not answering such a dumb & biased question!


I like Sarah. I don't think McCain really wanted to win the Presidency. I think he pulled her down rather than the other way around. I don't think Obama likes the job now that he has it. When you think about it, it's kind of his first real job. He didn't really work or accomplish much when he was Senator, he was busy running for President. And now that he is president, he hasn't accomplished much, either. He is really kind of a disappointment.


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