





It’s no secret Oprah Winfrey loves Barack Obama. She’s had him on her show twice since 2005 (before he announced he was running for president) and has publicly endorsed him as her Presidential candidate of choice. Which is obviously why she won’t feature Sarah Palin on her show until after the election.
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.
But during the primaries we noticed that, while Hillary Clinton often led in the polls with women of color, Oprah stuck by her man. So is she just blindly loyal to African Americans? Obviously a lot of people are blinded by Barack Obama, so it’s easy to understand why she would be. But is there more at play here than his charms? What do you guys think?

Guanabee is totally voting for Mccain: Obviously a lot of people are blinded by Barack Obama, so it’s easy to understand why she would be.
Posted by Guerrero | September 05, 2008
Oprah’s show is not a news show— it is a show about HER, her preferences, the guests she wants to have on, if she likes beef or not, and what she wants to give away to members of her studio audience on any given episode. The fact is, there is no reason to believe that she is “blindly loyal to African Americans,” especially when she said nothing about the issue of race (or gender) whatsoever. The only reason you can even pose this question is because SHE is Black. Would this same question even be considered appropriate to ask if another, obviously Democratic, NON-Black talk show host decided not to have Sarah Palin on his/her show because she was a candidate that was not remotely interesting to them politically?
Posted by Amanda | September 05, 2008
it’s probably just because black people don’t like hockey. Right Guanabee?! Haha, black people!
Seriously, maybe it’s the VP candidate’s stated ambivalence towards civil rights, or her characterization of community organizing as a dalliance.
Posted by no_guey! | September 05, 2008
Or maybe it’s Oprah sticking to her beliefs the whole time, whether it’s faith in a candidate or a decision to not turn her show into a political show this election season.
Posted by soledadenmasa | September 05, 2008
Is Guanabee thinking about voting for McCain?…hmmmm interesting.
On Topic: I wouldn’t necessarily think that Oprah is just “sticking with her own” but I do think that if she is endorsing Barack and really is pushing for him as the next president that’s all good. She is within her right to decide who gets time on her show. So if she doesn’t want to have that blood sucking, leech puppet from Alaska on until after the election then thats just dandy.
Posted by Fredo | September 05, 2008
I watch Oprah. I’ve even been to a taping in Chicago. And that show is called Oprah for a reason… it’s all hers and everyone there plays by her rules. If she does/does not want someone on the show, nobody can tell her otherwise.
Besides, Oprah did TWO shows on illegal puppy kennels and the abuse in puppy mills. So a pitt bull with lipstick has already been on the show.
Posted by Latin_Princess | September 05, 2008
Obviously, she is politically biased and that’s that! Now everyone can easily judge her by her persons of choice and political stripe.
Why? Welllll….if you choose not to interview the single most discussed, and , perhaps, important woman in this nation, you are either very slanted or planted 6 feet under in the horizontal position….
Posted by newage44 | September 05, 2008
IT’S TIME FOR AMERICA TO DENY OPRAH ACCESS TO OUR TELEVISION SETS
Oprah gives advice on relationships, but has a boy friend who is a
door mat … gives advice on marriage, but has never been married …
gives advice on child rearing, but has no children … gives advice on
Obama, but was a member of Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American racist
church for several years. Now, her white women’s audience, which made
Oprah rich, wants to know more about Sarah Palin, but Oprah says NO.
No Oprah, No Wright, no Farrakahn, no Ayers, no Rezko,
no mean Michelle, NOBAMA
Posted by Gina | September 06, 2008
@ Gina: Oprah is also a philanthropist and gets many people to read that wouldn’t otherwise. And her “white women’s audience” can look up information about Sarah Palin on their own time. They don’t need Oprah for that.
Posted by chana la chile | September 06, 2008
@Chana La Chile: Wow nice statement - “do it on their own time??” Remember it was her “white Audience” who made her what she is today… Opral is very prejudice in this race - her show has always been about focussing on women moving up and accomplishing new horizons - she owes it to her audience to have Palin on her show… however, I am sure many of her “white audience” is growing as tired of Opral as I am!!
Posted by Connie | September 06, 2008
This is the first time Oprah has openly endorsed and campaigned with/for a candidate, so of course she wouldn’t want to have Sarah Palin on her show. The interview would go something like this:
“So you don’t believe in teaching sex education in school? Now lets meet your daughter who didn’t know dick until it was in her….”
It is obvious that McCain is using her to play off people’s blind ignorance. This race is still being made about choosing between a white woman and a black man. Lets stop letting aesthetics determine the candidate we choose.
Posted by xica_xicana | September 07, 2008
Oprah dan do whatever in the hell she wants to do and I don’t blame her. And guess what? I don’t even like her that much. That Sarah Palin has probably done everything in the book to come for Iowa and become and Mayor and a Governor for some Alaskans. What in the hell were they thinking? If McCain dies, Palin and that iceberg wife of his will be running this country. I still don’t know why he picked her. I understand white men like skinny, short, petite women. UMMM…
Posted by csb | September 08, 2008
Oprah is being “swiftboated”, with a classic Rovian tactic, stir up the unwashed, ill informed masses to distract them from the real issue. Which is why McCain’s people won’t let Palin be interviewed by any real journalist that will ask hard questions about her political beliefs and policies. And no, I do not include Charlie “softball” Gibson among these.
Oprah is an entertainer not a journalist. The show is called Oprah not Every Conversative White Woman’s Wet Dream . And for the very same women who were cooing at every new age movement or belief Oprah sold to them but now demonizing her because she will not have “their candidate” on her show is just too rich.
I thought McCain was the Republican Party Presidential Candidate but to hear these women rant you would think it was Palin.
They want to boycott her show and her advertisers because Oprah as shown her “true colors, Black”, WHATEVER.
Well guess what ladies, it is about 20 years and a billion and a half dollars too late.
Posted by allheavnes | September 09, 2008
Question: If Oprah had backed Hillary Clinton and now refused to have Biden on her show, would that mean she was blindly loyal to women? If she had backed Ron Paul and now refused to have McCain on her show, would that mean she was blindly loyal to Texans?
2nd Question: Why would Oprah change her vote to Clinton just because women of color are voting for her? Is that how you vote?
1.) A black person supporting Obama is not necessarily an example of race solidarity. At the beginning of his run, most of the people in my family wouldn’t vote for him; they were breaking for the Clintons. He had to win the vote of Black voters, just like any candidate has to win or keep any vote. Don’t you remember all that “Is Obama Black enough” stupidness?
2.) Oprah said she wouldn’t have any candidates on her show, and since they’ve announced, she hasn’t. Sarah Palin’s ‘accomplishment’ can be celebrated on Oprah as well on Nov. 7 as on Sep. 7th.
3.) This whole tizzy was invented by some nut on the web - Palin didn’t ask to be on the show, and Oprah didn’t turn her down. All Oprah did was explain that the rumors (about disagreements among her staff) were untrue and that she’d love to have Palin on after the election.
Posted by tonisjadine | September 09, 2008
So when white people support and vote for whites that’s not sticking to their own? And what about you? When and if you support and vote for Latinos are you sticking to your own?
Or is it just that only you think that white people are always fair and do the right thing?
Posted by Free | September 09, 2008
Oprah doesn’t owe anybody white or black anything. She has worked hard to build her business, white females didn’t give her anything. She worked for it. She used her freedom of speech to say she supports Obama. Why would she go against her own beliefs to have a woman on who believes the world was created 6,000 ago and that a woman should be forced to have a baby even if she was raped? Oprah is the embodiment of feminism, nearly everything Palin stands for would sicken her as a feminist. If I was Oprah, I wouldn’t even have Palin on after the election.
Oprah - you don’t owe anyone (as if she goes cap in hand round the audience at the end of each show!), you worked hard for what you got.
Ask your critics if they would have someone who politcs they totally disagree wth in their home or if you support someone who happens to be the same colour as you (even though they’re half-white, that makes you a racist? - must mean that all white women who support Palin are racists too if Oprah is racist for supporting Obama right?)
Posted by nat | September 09, 2008
I’m glad Oprah is not interviewing any of the candidates, she has way too much power on white women already. And, its her show…she can do what ever she wants, not because she’s black or a women, but because she’s Oprah.
Posted by iLatina | September 09, 2008
I agree she shouldn’t have invite sarah palin on the show .Simply because a bunch of white women want her to. She is oprah she does what she wants. And stop complaining about there are enough white people that are invited on her show as it is.
Posted by rica | September 11, 2008
The only reason Oprah’s doing this becuse she knows in some way she will trash obama and\or say something negative about him which by the way are plenty things she could say
Posted by Republican | October 11, 2008