Sarah Palin Helped Oprah: Better Ratings Than With Obama!
November 18, 2009 / 2:28 pm • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierWow. That’s gotta be galling for Oprah to know that coddling Obama cost her so much. Meanwhile, a visit by Sarah Palin nets her the best ratings in years:
Monday’s episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” drew a 8.7 household rating and 13 share — the best since Oprah had the entire Osmond family on the show in 2007.
That means Palin also topped Oprah’s heavily viewed interviews with Whitney Houston at the start of the season.
Sarah Palin causes a press tsunami. Even Andrew Sullivan can’t absorb it all, poor dear. Fans wait breathlessly in lines for Sarah.
Maureen Dowd is predictably churlish. She’s defensive about her elite, insider status [humor, Sarah, make fun of these empty pumps, they can't take humor]:
“We felt our very normalcy, our status as ordinary Americans,” she writes, “could be a much-needed fresh breeze blowing into Washington, D.C.”
It is also real hard to be a real, ordinary, hard-working American if you are part of “what used to be called ‘mainstream’ national media,” as Sarah scornfully writes. “The time has come to acknowledge that it is counterfeit objectivity the liberal media try to sell consumers,” she says. “A period in the great American experiment has passed.”
I was beginning to panic. I pored over the book to see if there was anything that I shared in common with this apotheosis of traditional American values.
Let me answer that for you: No. You have nothing in common with Sarah. Now that that’s solved…
Sarah Palin causes serious heartburn.
2 Responses to “Sarah Palin Helped Oprah: Better Ratings Than With Obama!”
November 18 2009 / 8:05 pm
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Er, wouldn’t you say that Maureen Dowd causes serious heartburn? So they do have something in common.
November 18 2009 / 8:48 pm
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Ive always felt Dowd’s hatred of Palin is based on very simple factors.
Dowd is almost 58, has never been married, no kids(nevre will), and actually wrote a whole book about how she can’t get a man because they’re all intimidated by her success and wit and career. How it’s hard for a woman to have a relationship these days because men don’t want powerful, successful women, they just want young nymphettes they can sleep with.
Well, Palin refutes all of that. Palin is beautiful, has a loving relationship with a cute husband who she’s been married to for over 20 years, known for close to 30, and has 5 kids with. Certainly one that appears to have been quite healthy in the bedroom over the years.
She’s been Mayor, Oil and Gas Chair, Governor, VP nominee, Best Selling Author, very successful by any standard, and he’s still there. Not only that, but from every indication very supportive of career and willing to even sublimate his own and go out of his way to help her out. No sense of intimdation, fear, resentment or any of the other things Dowd complains about.
Dowd sees that Palin has everything she’s probably always dreamed of and she realizes she’ll never have it.
Pure, petty jealousy if you ask me.