FOX and Friends attacking Oprah for declining Palin interview until after the election

[ccharles000]

http://www.newshounds.us/2008/09/08/fox_and_friends_attacking_oprah_for_declining_palin_interview_until_after_the_election.php

FOX and Friends did multiple segments this morning 9/8/08 taunting and criticizing Oprah Winfrey for her decision to not have Sarah Palin (or any candidates) as guests on her talk show until after the election November 4. The Friends said it would be a huge ratings-getter, and Oprah, who personally is supporting ("in the tank" for) Obama, must be very afraid of boosting Palin's popularity if she let American women get a look at her.

This is not the first time FOX has used its platform to intimidate another network or host or program into doing the bidding that would (they think) benefit the right-wing agenda. They understand the power of the media, especially television and its images, and want Palin to be given friendly, laudatory exposure. So why isn't FOX and Friends hosting her? I'm absolutely positively certain it would boost their ratings - and they care about their ratings above all - and they could portray her as a combination Mother Theresa, Gloria Steinem, Demeter and Baba Yaga, Margaret Thatcher, Ivana Trump, Aunt Bea, Danielle Boone SuperWoman. To her face, for a change.

FOX is also blurring the lines of journalism more than ever in their complaints about "bad press" treatment of Palin in the mainstream media using "US" Magazine's covers and the Oprah episode as examples of "media bias," a tactic the McCain camp is employing to intimidate the media into groveling for an interview (supply and demand for ratings!) and expectations of easy ("fair") treatment of their candidate.

(Earlier in the program the Friends did a segment on "backlash" against US Magazine, and Steve Doocy said he "read somewhere" that 20,000 people called up and complained and said they were cancelling their subscriptions. Was it NewsBusters or MichelleMalkin, Steve? The mighty right-wing echo chamber in action, folks.)

Here's Cal Thomas and "pundit mom" Joanne Bamberger discussing Oprah's decision. While I think Bamberger surprised them and did an admirable job representing the opposing viewpoint from Thomas and Friends, note how the debate was weighted from the start (and note Thomas' sexist comments about Mrs. Palin "energizing" McCain):

[Marsala]

1. Attack Oprah. Yeah, *that* will sure get you votes. n/t

:eyes:

[Hutzpa]

2. Who gives a shit what Faux thinks

wish you people can stop posting all these BS here, go find something to
do, like register people to vote.

Dang!!!

[and-justice-for-all]

3. Leave it Faux to distract folks from things that are important...nt

Oprah is not interested in having a fascist reich-wing theocratic loony on her show.

[DeepBlueC]

4. Fuck Faux

[gravity]

5. blah blah blah

:nopity:

[FrenchieCat]

6. They are trying to sow division between a Black woman and Palin......

Hoping White women will rally to Palin's side.

It is an hopelessly transparent baiting trick used by those into the old style of politics.

It won't work...but they are trying.

[Epiphany4z]

7. lol like she really wants to talk

more fake outrage from the right ...Ophra should give in then ask her some hard freaking questions...Palin wants all fluff interviews.

[stolivodka]

8. Palin wants to pick her interviwers, but interviewers can't pick their guests?

It's called "The Oprah Winfrey Show", not "The Interviews With People Fox and Friends Likes Show".

Also, FOX accusing anyone of bias is hilarious to the extreme.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Fuk Fox and their resident assclown, Juicy Doocy

What an array of idiots.

[RoyGBiv]

10. I think she can handle it ...

I hope they keep it up. It'll just piss her off, and a pissed off Oprah is a force to be reckoned with.

[kwolf68]

11. Would

Palin have even accepted an interview? I thought she didnt want intervirew.

[melody]

12. This is the show that actually pays for the services of Steve Doofus

I wouldn't put too much stock in anything they say.

[blue_onyx]

13. Why do they care?

It's an entertainment, talk show. You know, the type of show "celebrities" go on, lol.

[theothersnippywshrub]

14. Someone tell them the South lost the Civil War. Oprah is free

to choose who she wants on her show. The Neo-Confederates hate this.

[Wednesdays]

15. Wait a second. If FOX & Friends is so worried about Failin getting air time

...then, um, why don't Fox and Friends put her on their show? :dunce: "So why isn't FOX and Friends hosting her?"

(No...wait. That would make too much sense.)

[MichiganVote]

16. Seems somebody has a bee in their bonnet cuz' ABC got the first interview. Awwww.....

[Monk06]

17. Why should Oprah give one minute of air time to a racist upstart from Nowhereville AK.

[Chloroplast]

18. Fuck these women and the horse they rode in on.

It's Oprah's show, she owns the studio and she has the RIGHT to 'yea' or 'nay' to any potential guest on her show. These same women would be falling over themselves in adulation if O was giving out cars or other goodies. I'm sure these women didn't have a conniption when The View only wanted to have Michelle Obama on as a guest and not a co-host. Pfft. :eyes:

[my3boyz]

19. Oprah did not have Kerry/Bush on in 2004 either. I heard she

was pissed that after she had Bush on her show his ratings went up. She ended up helping Bush instead of Gore when he was on her show.

[shaniqua6392]

20. She should have someone who is no longer in the race on her show.

Hillary Clinton. Clinton could help Obama with the white women voters to counter the Palin grab on these voters. She should stick by her pledge not to have any of the candidates running, other than Obama, on her show.