On Sep 6, 2:19=A0am, "Irish Mike" wrote:
> "Taylor" wrote in message
>
> news:e8827a46-23cc-4834-b603-ccde84f2ed4f@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> On Sep 5, 6:30 pm, squidman wrote:
>
> > Oprah Winfrey, a major supporter of Democratic Presidential candidate
> > Barack Obama has refused to interview Sarah Palin:
>
> >http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=3D5736716&page=3D1
>
> > For the real deal on Sarah
> > Palin:http://www.squidoo.com/vicepresidentsarahpalin
>
> You're being purposely misleading. She said she wouldn't use her
> *show* as a platform for candidates. Barack Obama was on BEFORE he
> announced his Presidency. He hasn't been on since. So try again. :-)
>
> Obama has been on Oprah's show twice and both times she used her show as =
a
> platform for a candidate. =A0Big surprise - it was Obama. =A0Not to menti=
on that
> she took every photo op available at the Democrat convention to get her a=
nd
> Obama pictured together. And made no secret of the fact that her and her
> producer are big Obama contributors. =A0But she is smart enough to realiz=
e
> that refusing to have Sarah Palin on her show makes her look like a racis=
t
> bitch. =A0So she said she would have Palin on the show - but only after t=
he
> election. =A0But the good news is that 37,000,000+ Americans tuned in to =
watch
> Palin's speech at the RNC. =A0And Obama's press corps (NBC,MSNBC, CNN, Ch=
ris
> Mathews, and The New York Times) wasn't able to spin it.
>
> Irish Mike
The individual freedom of a business owner is something I would have
thought you would have supported. Oprah owns the creative elements
(and most other elements) of the show and is allowed to book whoever
she wants to book. I'm not sure why this is an issue.
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