That self-important battleaxe Oprah refuses to have Sarah Palin on her show. She HAS had any number of celebrities, felons, junkies, and liars on, but somehow the Republican VP candidate doesn't make the cut. Come on, Oprah! Aren't you a little bigger than that? Yeah, your man Obama is starting to sweat bullets. . .but you acting like this just plays into the hands of what the Republicans were saying all week. We've at least got to act bi-partisan!
Dear Governor Palin:
Consider yourself lucky to avoid The Oprah Show. We may disagree with you on just about everything, but we'd love to have you here for a chat.
Yours,
The Editors
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Of course she's afraid of Obama's chances. We all have very good reason to be spooked.
ReplyDeleteJohn McCain has hijacked the election, and Obama has nothing in his pocket. Once again, we Democrats are out in the wilderness. Now, we await our leader to bring us back into the Promised Land.
Sorry, Jack, but this is more republican bullshit, blaming the media. Oprah Winfrey said she wasn't having ANY of the candidates on during this election way back at the beginning, and she reiterated that this week. This is just more of that "oh, poor Sarah Palin. It's a conspiracy in the media, trying to make her look bad" McCain campaign whining.
ReplyDeleteOprah's clarification comments, this week:
"The item in today's Drudge Report is categorically untrue. There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. At the beginning of this Presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates. I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over."
Frankly, I'm glad Oprah isn't having her on - regardless of her reason. It made me sick to watch Ellen DeGeneres joke around with Jenna Bush and call her parents at the White House and joke around with George and Laura as if they were really nice people that she endorses instead of the leader of the worst robber baron administration we've ever had, not to mention being practically a war criminal at this point.
I'm all for being bipartisan but I don't think that means that media personalities (who are hardly news anchors - they're talk show hosts) have to help perpetrate the b.s. about these candidates that the Republicans are selling.
Jack, "John McCain has hijacked the election, and Obama has nothing in his pocket. Once again, we Democrats are out in the wilderness." Why so edgy? How has McGramps hijacked the election? Obama and the Dems are in play in more states than at any time in the last 20 years. Are you reading too much Drudge? BTW, do you really believe that her teleprompter went down?
ReplyDeleteThe polls say McCain is 3 to 10 points up today (this will change of course). It may just keep climbing. Yikes!
ReplyDeleteHe has hijacked the change message. Obama is in play...for now. So what does he do now? Play nice? Attack? How does he fight the fact that McCain is starting to draw crowds that begin to approach some Obama gatherings? McCain has stumbled onto something--completely by accident--that makes people forget what a trog he actually is. He has somehow out-mavericked Obama. Is it bogus? Yeah. But he has also put himself in the position where people aren't even thinking about Obama, and he and Palin barely have to even respond to them.
I have a very bad feeling about this, and I think you of all people well know I have been extremely uncomfortable with Obama as a candidate, even while admiring him tremendously. What does he do know? Send Joe out to lecture people about the tribes in Iraq? Say "we're for real change." Will it come to that? arguments about the degree of chang-edness?
I have always been unsure about Obama's staying power. I don't think all is lost, but the next 58 days are going to go by very fast. And I no longer believe the debates will even make a difference if Palin and McCain even barely hold their own.
This bi-partisan tactic seems to be reading very well with the public. If I was McPalin, that is what I'd hammer away at.
I think a lot of this will fade, sure, but I do see some alarming signs. Does Obama need to swerve even closer to the middle? I don't know, but I don't think he;s gonna win this election playing to the "base." I don't know. It's all a little spooky. No I don't take Drudge to heart. Or Keith Olberman. Or the polls. I just have this mad vibe.
OK, I would be lying if I didn't admit to sharing some of your concerns but, Jack, she has been flat out lying about all that McMavericky ebay tradin', earmark rejectin', Bridge to Nowhere not on my watch dope and it's starting to get some attention in the press. If Biden and the surrogates continue slugging like they've done since the GOP convention closed, I think we will see things shift. I mean Obama's campaign called them liars today. That's strong stuff and it should stick because they are liars and Joe called their policies a real "bridge to nowhere" and Rendell said that if he had fired a public official because he wouldn't fire the PA gov's former bro-in-law the good people of the commonwealth would demand his impeachment. Oh, and she thought that Fannie and Freddie were gov institutions. Sheesh, she talks more shit than a radio. I am waiting for someone to ask her if her policies would trade any better than AK's "luxury jet" on Ebay.
ReplyDeleteAnd I am dying to know. Do you believe her prompter really went on the fritz?
I really did believe the TelePrompTer story! Why not? Her speech never really faltered or broke down, so I figured, "hey, it's probably true." I mean, why would they lie about it?
ReplyDeleteDaryle accused me of being a Republican dupe for believing that story! I could go either way with the story. But like so much of this campaign in the last couple weeks--I dare you to figure it out. The web, and blogs are a steaming screaming heap of lies, fabulations, and positioning. I read some "eyewitness" accounts that said the tele. was fine, and others that said they saw it on the fritz.
If it wasn't broken, I suspect they cooked up that story to provide a little cover just in case her speech turned out to be less than boffo. As it turned out, they didn't need the story, and her speech did what they wanted.
So, in short, I have no idea whether it's true or not. Like just about everything everyone is saying.