Comments on: Is Oprah “Sticking To Her Own” By Refusing To Interview Sarah Palin On Her Show?

By: Republican

Republican — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:35:25 +0000

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

By: rica

rica — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:09:05 +0000

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.

By: iLatina

iLatina — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:07:39 +0000

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.

By: nat

nat — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:58:47 +0000

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?)

By: Free

Free — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:42:03 +0000

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?

By: tonisjadine

tonisjadine — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:29:41 +0000

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?

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.

By: allheavnes

allheavnes — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:05:18 +0000

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.

By: csb

csb — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:09:24 +0000

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…

By: xica_xicana

xica_xicana — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:51:16 +0000

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.

By: Connie

Connie — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:11:24 +0000

@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!!

By: chana la chile

chana la chile — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:48:59 +0000

@ 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.

By: Gina

Gina — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:31:59 +0000

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

By: newage44

newage44 — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:58:59 +0000

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….

By: Latin_Princess

Latin_Princess — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:47:18 +0000

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.

By: Fredo

Fredo — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:43:21 +0000

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.