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With the news that Oprah Winfrey may take her daily talk show away from broadcast affiliates and to her own OWN cable network, that got us wondering: should Glenn Beck, now the #2 show on cable despite airing in he afternoons, be Oprah's syndicated replacement? Beck is well-rounded. Between his #1 best-selling books and comedy shows he's a three-dimensional talent that could easily adapt to daytimes. He could also use his radio audience to promote to local affiliates. Just yesterday, the New York Times reported novelists are considering Beck to be the "New Oprah," when it comes to endorsing political...

Daytime Diva Giving Up Syndicated Talk Show & Moving To Her Cable Network In 2011 (exerpt) The industry has been betting that the daytime diva would extend The Oprah Winfrey Show for at least another year or two because of the huge cash license fees which stations have long paid her. But people around Oprah are telling me that won't happen. They say that Discovery Communications chief David Zaslav has demanded that Oprah "move it or lose it" -- move her talk show to OWN, or risk losing the Oprah Winfrey Network altogether. I've learned that in coming days Winfrey...

I heard today that Sarah Palin has been invited to appear on Oprah Winfrey’s show. After picking my jaw up from the ground, I ran back over my archives. During the campaign, Oprah had Obama on enough time for her to qualify as one of his campaign operatives. Sarah Palin didn’t even get a consideration much less an invitation. Perhaps it is because her forthcoming book, “Going Rogue” is a bestseller even before it hits the bookstores. This link tells the story. People cannot get it yet and it has blown every single Democrat book that could even be considered...

Oprah Winfrey, on a campaign to climb back from last season's ratings slump, will attempt to kiss and make up with conservative viewers on Nov. 16 when she has Sarah Palin on her syndicated talk show . You may have noticed that the appearance by the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate is happening smack dab in the middle of the November ratings derby. It's also the day before Palin's new book, "Going Rogue: An American Life," is scheduled to hit bookstores. Oprah's production company, Harpo, claims it will be Palin's first interview about the book. We'll see...

Gov. Palin is going to appear on “Oprah” in an effort to tout the already-best-selling Going Rogue on Nov. 16. This, needless to say, has caused some consternation throughout the free world, although it’s provided much satisfaction to know that only Gov. Palin would have to take a slight step downward in order to appear on Oprah’s couch. As I’m not an Opraholic, before anything, I think we should get at sampling of the Oprahsphere regarding this announcement: “Oprah you have hit a new low. Allowing Palin airtime on the most popular daytime show the day before her book is...

Having been shunned by the daytime talk queen before last year's elections, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has decided to finally go on "Oprah" in November. As announced moments ago at Oprah.com: In a world exclusive, Oprah Winfrey will interview former Alaska governor Sarah Palin for an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show to air Monday, November 16, 2009. Winfrey and Palin will meet for the very first time on the episode, which will mark Palin’s first interview to discuss her upcoming book, Going Rogue: An American Life and her first-ever appearance on the Oprah show. Unfortunately, judging by some...

Are you interested in watching Oprah Winfrey's interview of Sarah Palin? Yes No AND Of the two women, which one do you have a more favorable opinion?

Sarah Palin and Oprah Winfrey are meeting. Or. I should say, Sarah's doing "Oprah." Just announced. The details: "In a world exclusive, Oprah Winfrey will interview former Alaska governor Sarah Palin for an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to air Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Winfrey and Palin will meet for the very first time on the episode, which will mark Palin's first interview to discuss her upcoming book, "Going Rogue: An American Life" and her first-ever appearance on the "Oprah" show. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin burst onto the national political scene as running mate for Sen. John McCain...

CHICAGO — In a world exclusive, Oprah Winfrey will interview former Alaska governor Sarah Palin for an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show to air Monday, November 16, 2009. Winfrey and Palin will meet for the very first time on the episode, which will mark Palin’s first interview to discuss her upcoming book, Going Rogue: An American Life and her first-ever appearance on the Oprah show

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Sarah Palin will sit down with Oprah Winfrey the day before her new memoir hits bookstores, Harpo announced Tuesday. The former Alaska governor will make the appearance on Oprah on November 16 to talk about her highly anticipated tell-all, "Going Rogue: An American Life." Palin has never before appeared on the popular daytime talk show. Last December, Winfrey said she had invited her on the show to discuss the election, but suggested at the time that Palin had instead chose other interviewers

Chat show queen Oprah Winfrey is being sued for more than £200,000 over allegations of sex romp on her private jet. A former flight attendant claims she was sacked after falsely being accused of having sex with a pilot while the billionaire star dozed nearby. Corinne Gehrls, 39, insists the story of her sleeping with the pilot during a fuelling stopover in the US was false. Oprah Winfrey, one of the most powerful women in U.S. television, is being sued for falsely accusing an employee of having sex while on board her private jet She claims another flight attendant -...

Here is video of Oprah Winfrey giving public reaction to Chicago's defeat in their attempt to get the 2016 Olympic Games. Winfrey was part of the team that went to Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago, along with First Lady Michelle Obama and President Obama. Obama was eliminated first - a shock to everyone. Winfrey said she was shocked, and was glad she was not in Copenhagen when the result was announced, because she would not have been able to hide her disappointment. . . . (VIDEO)

Der Fuhrer reacts to Hussein's epic olympic failure HERE. PS. Pardon the vanity post, but this is too good not to share.

October 02 A PR Nightmare for the Obamas [Victor Davis Hanson] One can understand an American president’s lobbying for an American city to obtain the Olympics, but the blitz by the Obamas proved a PR nightmare. Let us count the ways: 1) Obama’s brand is trans-nationalism and an “America is not exceptional” multiculturalism. According to his worldview, it makes sense that a South American country — especially a powerful, ascendant country such as Brazil — should at last have its turn at hosting the Olympics. It did not seem consistent that a politician who had reached out to the Castros,...

Watch live coverage from Copenhagen starting at 1:45 a.m. Friday as Chicago and the other bid cities present. Chicago will be the first to present to the International Olympic Committee on Friday. Watch that live on-air on Channel 7 and online on ABC7Chicago.com, starting at approximately 1:45 a.m. ABC7Chicago.com will also carry presentations of the other three bid cities, Tokyo, Rio and Madrid. Online coverage will also include live video of the gatherings in Chicago and other cities around the world. Starting at 4:30 a.m., watch Channel 7 for an expanded ABC7 News This Morning.

Analysis: Chicago's Loss Is A Blow To Obama, Too By JENNIFER LOVEN and JULIE PACE, Associated Press Writers Oct 2 WASHINGTON – OK, so it wasn't health care, climate change or war. Still, President Barack Obama's high-profile failure to win the Olympics for Chicago could feed negative narratives already nipping at his heels — that he's a better talker than closer, more celebrity than statesman. And this could hamper his efforts on the weightier issues. Despite Obama's fabled charm and powers of persuasion, his in-person plea for Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Games fell flat. It was a hugely...

CHICAGO — Talk about short parties. As word arrived that Chicago had been eliminated from consideration for the 2016 Olympics in a first round of voting, stunned silence fell over thousands of residents who had gathered in a plaza in the heart of this city’s Loop, for what nearly everyone here seemed certain was to be a victory party. Some people gasped, others gave frowns of astonishment, and then, still carrying their CHICAGO 2016 signs and wearing the orange Olympics T-shirts they had just been handed, people began to leave. “It’s unbelievable,” said Janie Carter, 55, staring up at a...

The cheery O's couldn't git-er-done. The 2 Obamas and Oprah Express Oh-bama'd out. I guess the risk of corruption by baby dick daley's 47 underlings now under arrest or in jail, combined with daley (sp?) clubbings and beatdowns was more than the 3 O's could overcome. The world opted for a safer city. Round 1 KO'd! Hey Michelle, we all appreciate the hardship you suffered for we little people back home. I was wondering what the Queen served you at lunch. It was worth the 97 million dollars for Air Force One and all the rest of planes for press...

We can all draw the obvious lessons from President Obama's failure to sway the International Olympic Committee to hold the 2016 Olympics in Chicago. Many people thought he wouldn't make his highly visible trip to Copenhagen unless he had reason to know his pitch was going to be successful. Evidently not, as Chicago was the first city eliminated. The IOC's announcement was greeted with "shock and disbelief," according to the Associated Press. Jesse Jackson, for one, was dismayed: Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson, who has long been based in Chicago, said he was surprised by the city's loss. "I'm...

With the stunning news that Olympic officials had swiftly rejected Chicago as host the 2016 Olympics, despite a personal, last-minute appeal from President Obama, the White House was left Friday with the immediate and difficult challenge of explaining what happened. Did the president falter by making remarks that were emotional and personal, rather than giving specifics about his adopted home town? Is the defeat a sign that Obama's global popularity has begun to wane? White House advisers -- many of them Chicago natives, with a personal stake in the bid -- rushed into the back recesses of the West Wing...

The City of Chicago was eliminated in the first round of voting, before any host city was selected. An expert called it the "biggest shock in IOC history." Supporters gathered in Chicago were equally shocked. Many left the rally in tears.

Here is a video report on the arrival of First Lady Michelle Obama in Copenhagen, Denmark to lobby for Chicago to be chosen as the site for the 2016 Olympic Games. Oprah Winfrey is also in Copenhagen to help with the lobbying effort. President Obama will arrive there Thursday to make a pitch for Chicago to receive the games. Rio de Janeiro is Chicago's biggest competition, trying to become the first city in South America to host an Olympic Games. Madrid and Tokyo are also in the running. The decision will be announced on Friday. . . . (VIDEO)

The White House defended President Obama’s trip to Denmark this week to promote Chicago’s bid for the Olympic Games, saying health care reform is in good enough shape for him to miss a couple of days. “I think he believes he can do this and get back in time,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. “He felt strongly and personally that he should go and make the case of the United States, and that’s what he’s going to do.” Obama will lead a delegation that includes first lady Michelle Obama, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Oprah...

Updated 7:30 AM CDT, Mon, Sep 28, 2009 President Obama will travel to Copenhagen to make a pitch for Chicago’s Olympic bid, White House officials have confirmed to NBC News. Obama will leave for Denmark Thursday night, hours after his wife Michelle departs for the vote. The president made the final decision Saturday night after returning from the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. The announcement ends months of speculation of whether the president would lend his considerable fame to the pitch. The president has dropped hints all month long that he may attend the event. Last week he sent an advance...

Hon. James David Manning explains how Oprah Winfrey is more powerful than Obama.

After a year in which she angered Republicans and Hillary Clinton fans by backing Barack Obama, and infuriated Christian ones by promoting a New Age religion book, Winfrey has been punished by declining ratings which fell to a record low. The average audience for The Oprah Winfrey Show fell under seven million last season – a seven per cent slip on the previous year and its fourth straight year of decline. Broadcasting experts also believe that the multi-millionaire Winfrey's relentlessly upbeat, anything-is-possible philosophy may be jarring with viewers struggling to cope with a recession. Falling audiences are almost a fact...

If Oprah Winfrey can’t do it no one can — her endorsements turn to immediate success, her words of wisdom captivate millions, and her support helped elect America’s first African-American President, Barack Obama. But now it seems Oprah’s throwing in the political towel.

The talk show queen told “The Insider” this week that the girl kidnapped 18 years ago is one of the rare interviews that she cares about landing. “I want that interview,” Oprah told Samantha Harris. “Obviously, like everybody else in this business, I have ‘my people’ working on that. Now, this is the truth…I really don’t care about getting interviews first and all that stuff….Really, truly, I don’t play that game. I feel like if somebody wants to talk to me, they will talk to me. If they don’t want to talk to me and they want to talk to...

Here is TMZ video of Rev. Jeremiah Wright at an airport yesterday where he was asked about the "Health Care Bill." He responded: I think the Right Wing is upset because poor people are about to be helped." He also slammed Oprah Winfey saying she is "just an entertainer" who is "not socially conscious," and is therefore not really making an impact. I wonder what Rev. Wright would have said about Van Jones, if asked? (Watch Video)

Apparently science has discovered the one force in nature that can silence Michael Moore: The Oprah Winfrey Show. With the premiere of his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, looming on September 16 at the Toronto Film Festival, normally you’d expect to find Moore filling up every inch of media, shocking the bourgeoisie with his trademark Angry Guy Banging on the Palace Walls shtick, providing Matt Drudge with a new outrageous quote every news cycle. But Moore has been strangely silent in this run-up and the LA Times‘ Patrick Goldstein has learned that he plans to keep a lid on...

Chicago has long known how far Oprah Winfrey's star power reaches. Now the popular talk-show host has won city approval to shut down a significant stretch of the Magnificent Mile next week for the kickoff of her 24th season. Plans call for Michigan Avenue to be closed to vehicular traffic from Wacker Drive to Ohio Street for more than two days -- from 12:01 a.m. Monday to 5 a.m. Wednesday. The hourlong show will be taped at 5 p.m. Tuesday at a temporary stage to be built near the Michigan Avenue Bridge. The taping is free and open to the...

HOUSTON — Four Hurricane Katrina evacuees are charged with wrongfully obtaining federal rental assistance after buying new homes financed by Oprah Winfrey's "Oprah's Angel Network." The U.S. attorney's office in Houston says Darlene McGruder Poole, 30, of Houston, and her sister, Lashona McGruder Victor, 37, of La Place, La., are charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. Kiesha Murphy, 34, of Houston, and Angela Payne, aka Angela McKinnies, 38, of Houston, are charged separately with making false statements to FEMA and theft of government property. Murphy declined to comment when reached by telephone Wednesday. Calls to Poole and...

Three Hurricane Katrina evacuees who bought houses here with the help of Oprah Winfrey appeared in court today on charges they cheated the Federal Emergency Management Agency by lying to continue to obtain rental assistance for storm victims after they moved into the furnished homes.

Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is being sued for a whopping $1 trillion by author Damon Lloyd Goffe for plagiarism, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton has claimed on his website. Goffe is suing Winfrey and her production company, Harpo, for allegedly stealing material from his work, 'A Tome of Poetry' and publishing it under her name with the title 'Pieces of My Soul', according to Hilton. In the legal documents filed in court, Goffe claims that the talk show host admitted to the thievery last year. The New York based author has claimed that since Oprah sold over 650 million editions...

LOS ANGELES: Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is being sued for a whopping $1 trillion by author Damon Lloyd Goffe for plagiarism, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton has claimed on his website. Goffe is suing Winfrey and her production company, Harpo, for allegedly stealing material from his work, 'A Tome of Poetry' and publishing it under her name with the title 'Pieces of My Soul', according to Hilton. In the legal documents filed in court, Goffe claims that the talk show host admitted to the thievery last year. The New York based author has claimed that since Oprah sold over 650...

Mr. President, history and reality teach us that as racists go, we are, frankly, rank amateurs. And I am sick and tired of Ivy League elites like you and Professor Gates pretending otherwise. What? You think I'm crazy? Look at it this way. If we were worth a damn as racist whites, would we fall all over ourselves everyday to voluntarily watch, cheer for, emulate, take advice from and enrich folks named Tiger and Oprah? Those are, after all, the two people that white racist America has anointed as the top cultural icons in our society. Ever heard about "the...

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Oprah Winfrey's endorsements have been golden for many book publishers and product makers. But some picks have tarnished the talk show host's reputation a bit. "The Oprah Winfrey Show" garnered lots of publicity -- and some enthusiastic new fans -- when it gave away new cars to all 276 members of its studio audience one day in September 2004. The marketing stunt cost General Motors $7 million and generated a lot of buzz for Winfrey and her show. But it did not translate into sales for the car in question, the 2005 Pontiac G6. Trade magazine Automotive News reported that...

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MEMO to Oprah Winfrey: Your slip is showing. TV's reigning queen is losing viewers at a rate that hasn't been seen since "The Oprah Winfrey Show" was launched 23 years ago. Winfrey's ratings for the July 4th week, released yesterday, were her lowest since 1983 -- the latest in an alarming slide that's been going on for the last five years. The ratings for "Oprah" since 2004 are down by nearly a third, 32 percent, records show. So, is TV's biggest star losing her legendary mojo? "There's the fatigue factor," says industry analyst Marc Berman of Mediaweek. "Oprah's been on...

Media Bias: Oprah Winfrey won't invite Sarah Palin on her show because she doesn't want to use it to promote any candidate. Yet she was willing to use the celebrity garnered from her show to promote Barack Obama.This is the classic distinction without a difference. Oprah is one of those one-name celebrities. Her very mention of a book's title can make it a best-seller. When Oprah speaks, people listen. People listened earlier this year when she bypassed Sen. Hillary Clinton to publicly embrace the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, who had been on her show twice — in January 2005...

While sitting in the Advanced Placement institute a week ago, the instructor posed a question to the history educators in the room. “Not counting presidents or their wives,” he began, “who would you consider the five greatest, most influential Americans in history?” My mind began to cycle through the most important figures to grace the stage. My first choice was John Marshall. As the first significant Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he established the principle of judicial review, greatly expanding the power of the Court and making the Constitution, according to Jefferson, “a mere thing of wax in the...

The New Jacobin Elite | Print | Written by William F. Jasper    Wednesday, 24 June 2009 06:00 The Socialist Party of Great Britain is celebrating the reissuing of Peter Taaffe’s book, The Masses Arise: The Great French Revolution 1789 -1815. “Its republication by Socialist Publications, in time for the 220th anniversary of this great event in July 2009, is extremely timely,� says the party’s website. A different page on the party’s site promoting the same book instructs readers: “An understanding of the French Revolution remains crucial for all revolutionaries. Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky studied it intensely to gain an...

In the caveat emptor category... Lead in ginkgo pills. Arsenic in herbals. Bugs in a baby's colic and teething syrup. Toxic metals and parasites are part of nature, and all of these have been found in "natural" products and dietary supplements in recent years. "There's at least 10 times more hoodia sold in this country than made in the world, so people are not getting hoodia," said Dr. Mehmet Oz, a heart surgeon and frequent Oprah Winfrey guest who occasionally has touted the stuff. (Source: Breitbart)Multinationals ravage third-world biospheres at the behest of Oprah watchers. A snake oil salesman appeared...

The media empire built by Oprah Winfrey, America’s most popular talk-show host, has suffered a steady decline across the ratings.Audience figures for her flagship chat show have fallen by nearly 7 per cent this year, according to Nielson Media Research, its third consecutive year of decline. The yearly average viewership is down to 7.3 million from 7.8 million in 2007, and a peak of nearly 9 million in 2005. The circulation of O, The Oprah Magazine, has fallen by more than 10 percent in the last three years and the publication is now seeking a new editor in chief after...

"It completely blew me away that Oprah would go to her for advice on this topic," says Cynthia Pearson, the executive director of the nonprofit National Women's Health Network and an authority on hormone therapy. "I have to say, it diminished my respect." ---- On Oprah: [It's the] doctors who need to get their facts straight. "The problem is that our medical schools do not teach this," she said in a February interview with NEWSWEEK. ---- Oprah makes her audience feel virtuous for gaping at the misfortunes of others. ---- Instead, all too often Oprah winds up putting herself and...

In January, Oprah Winfrey invited Suzanne Somers on her show to share her unusual secrets to staying young. Each morning, the 62-year-old actress and self-help author rubs a potent estrogen cream into the skin on her arm. She smears progesterone on her other arm two weeks a month. And once a day, she uses a syringe to inject estrogen directly into her vagina.

SOME of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education. The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change. Described as the Good Club by one insider it included David Rockefeller Jr, the patriarch of America’s wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah...