Yawn. Sarah Palin Was On Oprah

Well, that was a snooze fest. After weeks of anticipation about what Sarah Palin might reveal on Oprah Winfrey, or what Oprah might take Palin to account for — death panels come to mind — the answer in the end was: very little. What we got instead was a warm, chummy hour of Palin answering questions having mostly to do with with how Palin was treated as a woman; how she copes as a mother; and how she feels about Levi Johnston (she’s sounded very tolerant…Levi has an open invitation to Thanksgiving) and “perky” Katie Couric (annoyed) .

What we did not get was any questions about death panels, Tina Fey, her current relationship with John McCain, or her views Obama’s policy decisions, or how she feels about her current role in the GOP (which is extremely powerful). Granted, this was not Meet the Press, but considering Palin almost single-handedly derailed the health care bill this summer with false death panel assertions, it’s reasonable to assume Oprah might address her penchant for public exaggeration of policy decisions. No. Instead we basically got what felt like a long infomercial for Palin’s memoir Going Rogue. As Rachel Sklar noted at the end of our live blog: “Things more interesting and compelling than this Oprah interview: Finding things that rhyme with Oprah. Shmoprah. Gloprah. Froprah. Thxleweoproprah.”

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