You bet’cha! Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Sarah Palin sent ratings through the roof.
Monday’s Oprah, which featured an interview with the former Alaska governor and GOP VP candidate, snagged a 7.2 rating. In fact, the chat yielded O her best ratings in two years.
The Live Feed’s James Hibberd notes that the Nov. 16 episode drew an 8.7 household rating and 13 share, the highest since Oprah hosted the Osmonds in 2007. Palin, seen here with The Queen of Talk and daughters Willow and Piper, is promoting her memoir titled Going Rogue. The Oprah visit came on the heels of a rumor that the media mogul snubbed Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Lordy….President Obama’s in trouble again. The Commander-In-Chief greeted Japan’s emperor with a deep bow when the two meet in Tokyo over the weekend, sparking debate that Obama was disgracing Americans by groveling to a foreign leader. The President introduced himself to Emperor Akihito, whose father ruled when Japan bombed a US naval base at Pearl Harbour in 1941, with a handshake and nearly 90-degree bow, setting the stage for a hot debate and furious criticism from politicos on the Interwebs.
Experts in Japanese etiquette disagree. Read the rest of this entry »
On Monday, November 16, Oprah will debut her interview with Sarah Palin as the former Alaska governor prepares to release her eagerly-awaited memoir, Going Rogue. What does Sarah have to say about former almost son-in-law Levi Johnston and her less-than-impressive interview with Katie Couric?
“The campaign said, ‘Right on. Good. You’re showing your independence. This is what America needs to see and it was a good interview.’ And of course I’m thinking, ‘If you thought that was a good interview, I don’t know what a bad interview is because I knew it was a bad interview.’”
Actor Sean Penn has flown all the way to Cuba to interview controversial communist leader Fidel Castro for an article to be featured in Vanity Fair Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor has learned. The Oscar winner has been regulalry criticized for his support of the anti-U.S. revolutionary, his president brother Raul, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
In fact, the media has even accused Penn discrediting his good work in the gay community by lending his support to such polarizing politicians. Now, the Mystic River actor is rumored to have jetted to the Caribbean to discuss how US President Barack Obama’s administration has affected Cuba for an upcoming piece for VF.
You betcha! Former Alaska governor and one-time GOP vice-presidential cadidate Sarah Palin will appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show Nov. 16, Harpo Studios announced Turesday.
O and the moose-shootin’ mama of five will meet for the very first time as the Republican darling tries to hawk her upcoming memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, which hits stores the following day. The book is already No. 4 on Amazon’s Best-Seller’s List.
Who’s watching?
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HarperCollins unveiled the cover image for former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s eagerly-anticipated autobiography on Thursday.
Going Rogue: An American Life, already top-seller online weeks before publication. The cover features an outdoor shot of Palin wearing a red fleece top against a backdrop of powder-blue Alaska sky.
Palin’s memoir goes on sale Nov. 17.
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin revealed the title of her eagerly anticipated memoir on Tuesday: Going Rogue: An American Life. HarperCollins, the publishing house behind the tell-all, are moving Rogue’s release up nearly five months — from Spring 2010 to Nov. 17 — after Sarah completed her life story just four months after inking a book deal. The new release date puts the one-time GOP Vice-Presidential candidate on the forefront of the holiday book-buying season.
“Governor Palin has been unbelievably conscientious and hands-on at every stage, investing herself deeply and passionately in this project,” says Jonathan Burnham of HarperCollins. “It’s her words, her life, and it’s all there in full and fascinating detail.”
Going Rogue — Palin’s first book — is 400 pages long and will receive an initial printing of 1.5 million copies.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ripped a student reporter for making a “sexist remark” at an open forum with young people in Kinshasa during her tour of Africa on Monday.
Clinton became enraged when a university student took the microphone and asked former President Cliton’s opinion about the involvement of China and the World Bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to AFP.
“What does Mr. Clinton think about it?” the young man asked.
“You want to know what my husband thinks? My husband is not the secretary of state, I am. You ask my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I’m not going to be channelling my husband,” the Secretary of State — who has made women’s rights a top priority on the Africa trip — snapped.
Reports out of the Congo now suggest the translator who fielded the student’s question to Clinton may have got things mixed up — too bad the mistake wasn’t caught early enough to save this guy’s skin.
For those who care: Three days after shocking the political world by resigning her position as Governor of Alaska — effective July 26 — former GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin is explaining her decision to step down.
“One term was enough,” Palin said on The TODAY Show Tuesday.
Once she entered the national spotlight as John McCain’s running mate in the 2009 presidential race, Palin says her administration was never the same.
“The choice I had to make was, how am I going to react to the circumstances, to the changed conditions? Am I just going to keep plugging away, keep my head down and not going to affect any more change, because every time we try to do something we get hit with an ethics-violation charge or a lawsuit, because that’s the political game that’s being played right now, even though we’ve won every one of them that’s been thrown our way.”
Soon-to-be former Governor Sarah Palin has taken to her Twitter page to lash out at critics who have accused her of abandoning her responsibilities to the State of Alaska. Read the rest of this entry »
