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Reliable Sources Panel: Is Palin The Next President Or The Next Oprah?

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On CNN’s Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz brought in a panel of media experts to talk about the frenzy of Palin media coverage this past week: her new book America by Heart, the New York Times Magazine profile of her, her new reality show, and her family’s online dramas. Amongst all the buzz about Palin this week, the panel cut right to the heart of the matter when they said: Sarah Palin has to decide whether she wants to be a pop culture figure, or a political figure.

The panel included Steve Roberts, Margaret Carlson, and Matthew Continetti. Roberts claimed “She’s created her own network — PNN, the Palin News Network — through Twitter and through Facebook….She’s really like Oprah. That’s what she’s become, with her own TV show, her own book…except Oprah’s not running for anything.”

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  • Fox News: Better that we sell Hate than Crack

    Well, she may be “the next Oprah” of Fox News or ,the 700 club, but there is no way she has the wit, charm, and intelligence to carry her own talk show on a major network.

  • Fox News: Better that we sell Hate than Crack

    Politics is a different animal however. If George Bush can elected president–as dimwitted as he was–than certainly Sarah Palin can.

  • stoogedudes

    Hard to say, but you can bet the next article on Mediaite will be about Sarah Palin.

  • TfT

    She commands attention, and the lefties hate her. Who gives a crap what Howie and his pals have to say. As per usual, Howie has a bunch of liberals on to discuss a conservative – a not-so-balanced panel with three liberals and one conservative. Just typical of CNN — you know, that “middle of the road” network who claims they don’t lean one way or the other. Once again, proof positive that CNN lies.

    You go Sarah – you are the talk of the town, and the more the idiots slam you, the stronger you get.

    PDS runs deep and wide on this board; perhaps you could write a criticial article about hehimselftheone more than once in a blue moon….nah, that would be asking too much for a board run by Dan who has such close ties to MSNBC (aka, the propaganda arm of the DNC).

  • BlackWidow

    Fox News: Better that we sell Hate than Crack said:
    Politics is a different animal however. If George Bush can elected president–as dimwitted as he was–than certainly Sarah Palin can.

    You are right. It is sad what the voters can do to us sometimes. Difference though is at least Bush came from a powerful family. Palin NOT SO MUCH

  • BlackWidow

    TfT said:
    She commands attention, and the lefties hate her. Who gives a crap what Howie and his pals have to say. As per usual, Howie has a bunch of liberals on to discuss a conservative – a not-so-balanced panel with three liberals and one conservative. Just typical of CNN — you know, that “middle of the road” network who claims they don’t lean one way or the other. Once again, proof positive that CNN lies. You go Sarah – you are the talk of the town, and the more the idiots slam you, the stronger you get. PDS runs deep and wide on this board; perhaps you could write a criticial article about hehimselftheone more than once in a blue moon….nah, that would be asking too much for a board run by Dan who has such close ties to MSNBC (aka, the propaganda arm of the DNC).

    TfT I can recommend a good therapist for you. Your thinking is a little off.

  • BlackWidow

    stoogedudes said:
    Hard to say, but you can bet the next article on Mediaite will be about Sarah Palin.

    People on all the websites complain about the Palin attention. Personally, I think it is great. The more we see her the more we will get to know her. That is a good thing.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Ozero made it anyone can!

  • SarahP

    TfT said:
    She commands attention, and the lefties hate her. Who gives a crap what Howie and his pals have to say. As per usual, Howie has a bunch of liberals on to discuss a conservative – a not-so-balanced panel with three liberals and one conservative. Just typical of CNN — you know, that “middle of the road” network who claims they don’t lean one way or the other. Once again, proof positive that CNN lies.

    You go Sarah – you are the talk of the town, and the more the idiots slam you, the stronger you get.

    PDS runs deep and wide on this board; perhaps you could write a criticial article about hehimselftheone more than once in a blue moon….nah, that would be asking too much for a board run by Dan who has such close ties to MSNBC (aka, the propaganda arm of the DNC).

    Not sure where you get this. Lefties I know actually love her and hope like hell she runs and gets the GOP nomination.

  • CAconservative

    Did Abraham Lincoln come from a powerful family? Is that what is at issue here, or is it the necessary and admirable ability to use common sense in a way that is most advantageous to putting this country back on a solid foundation? Obviously, Obimbo and his Progressive minions, in two short years have shown us just how harmful they can be when devoid of common sense and a measure of maturity!

  • LeviCoult

    Yes but has anyone seen her birth certificate? ….. Yes but does she blend?…… Yes but does she.. oh fuck it, let’s hope she gets mauled by a bear.. on her show.

  • DonnaK

    There is no way this ignorant woman could become the next President Or Oprah. She doesn’t have enough of a wide following or people that like her to do either. She isn’t for sure compassionate enough to do either. I am so sick of hearing constantly about this broad, I understand that she is ratings gold for the journalist & commentators but it is because as many people hate her as like her, not because she is so popular. they are the ones making her a rich woman, not one of them probably have come close to earning what she has this year. If they stopped talking about her for several weeks, her appeal would dry up and go away, they made her and they can break her. I’m sure other countries are salivating at the thought of her becoming President, what a way to take America down for good!!!!

  • CosmosDan

    LeviCoult said:
    Yes but has anyone seen her birth certificate?

    Yeah, maybe she’s really Canadian or, Da da DA….Russian. She does have that accent.

    I’d like to start a campaign to write all the shows that talk about her and tell them to find something else that’s actually interesting or informative in some way. Who’s in?

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  • sarainitaly

    they kept comparing Palin to Obama during the last election – yet people always seem to forget that she was ASKED to be the VP candidate. He was running for President.

  • skyfet

    You’d have to ask the Republicans if they are willing to nominate her for the Presidential shot. But as per Oprah, nah she’s no Oprah, more than half the country can’t stand her to begin with.

  • writer

    Fox News: Better that we sell Hate than Crack

    What irony! One of the most hateful posters on here accuses Fox of pandering hate.

  • Bad Wolf

    Palin has become a caricature of American feminism.

    Another Homer Simpson, doh!

  • Bad Wolf

    sarainitaly said:
    they kept comparing Palin to Obama during the last election – yet people always seem to forget that she was ASKED to be the VP candidate. He was running for President.

    McCain owed Tina Fey a big favor.

  • Fuzzytoes

    Palin lacks the clas to be the next Oprah.
    She also lacks the intellegence to be the next Oprah.

    She could become the next President as proof of our country’s failure to think rationally.

    Look how many people by the B. S. she puts out.

  • http://Mediaite.com uggugg

    Sarah Palin was new just a short time ago, she is like a puppy that struts and frets about impressing one after another but with no real substance. She has been playing on her own field unopposed because she was there alone. Once Sara Palin steps into the ring with the professionals she will lose her sparks from embarrassment from lack of knowledge in the field she wishes to conquer. Wanting to do something and being qualified to do something are two different things. Go luck Sarah give it a try but try not to cry.

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