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Originally Posted by bhkad
Is this what might be called a strawman denial?
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"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."
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Oprah, the point is that you will not have Palin on your show before the election. Not that you won't EVER have her on.  |
This makes me want her ticket to win even more...
That way, if the ticket wins and Palin actually BECOMES the VP, she can say "I'm sorry Oprah...I'm too busy being the vice-president to be on your show...
You wouldn't allow me to tell my story BEFORE the elections when I had the time."...
Point of order...Since Oprah is willing to have a vice-president on AFTER the elections, can she prove she's sincere by showing precedent?...
Did she ever have Cheney on her show after 2000 or 2004?...
Did she ever have Gore on her show after 1992 or 1996?...
She was around back then...Did she ever have Quayle on her show after 1988?...
Or is it "They were men, so they don't count."?...
Just like the
US Weekly magazine, Oprah is using her show as a political statement...
When Michelle Obama was going to speak at the Democratic Convention, the media was all over the fact that Michelle had to "re-iroduce" herself to the public and make the family out to be like the Huxtables from the Cosby Show...
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Two amazingly precocious girls who walked out on the stage today at the sound check rehearsal with them and wanted to play with the gavel. I mean, they have the ringlets, they have the little girl dresses. This family wants to let you know they are Cosby with Norman Rockwell overtones. They want people to look at them and say, “oh, I get you. I understand you. You don’t threaten me. I get this family.” That’s what Michelle Obama’s trying to do.
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what did Oprah do?...
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Okay, so I'm not the only one who noticed that every single mainstream news commentator said, last night, that the Obamas had to show the country that they're like "The Cosby Show's" Huxtable family . . . as if all of America is a heterogeneous group of racists who've never been exposed to an upper class family (which is what the Obamas are versus the middle class Huxtables) before.
But, perhaps, I am the only one who noticed that, yesterday, prior to Michelle Obama's speech, Oprah Winfrey chose to air a re-run of her show featuring the former child actors of "The Cosby Show." If you don't think that was deliberate, I have some land at Harpo studios and several acres inside Oprah's fridge to sell you.
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09-06-2008, 04:21 AM
Re: Oprah Balks at Hosting Palin on Show; Staff Divided
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