It’s because she wants to sell books, and Oprah and her audience are money. How many books would Michelle Malkin sell for Palin above conservatives that would be buying it anyways? A couple thousand, maybe? A launch on Oprah guarantees a huge boost in sales and a wider audience for her book. Especially to middle class women…which coincidentally is a demographic Palin wants to swing her way for a possible 2012 run.

Appearing on Oprah also legitimizes and mainstreams Palin to the moderates that the MSM has been furiously trying to poison her to. Palin also needs to dispell the bad interview vibe from the campaign, and if she handles herself well on Oprah it will delegitimize that avenue of attack against her.

Some love for the conservative media would have been nice, but considering her goals she can accomplish a lot more with a media strategy designed to bring in the cash and take her message to the most people.

Posted by Mike_M
2009-11-13 09:50:26

Bingo. I have a buddy who is a huge Palin fan, and we have been discussing this much as of late. I think the Oprah gig is a stroke of genius on her part, as is the Barbara Walters interview, and truthfully, after that she does have a pretty conservative-friendly host of interviews set up (Rush, Hannity, O’Reilly, and Glenn Bleck?). So the argument isn’t really that she’s ignoring the conservative media, but that she’s ignoring the conservative internet media.

RSM, she probably thinks you are related to John McCain. Send another request and put NOT RELATED TO SENATOR McCain in the subject line. She will probably hook you up then.

BTW, you get any more hate mail from Charles Johnson?

I long ago thought that she would have done far better to have first debuted on the Glenn and Helen Show (Instapundit and the Instawife) as a podcast than on Katie Couric.

Granted, lot smaller reach.

But…
1. Actual intelligent interviewers.
2. Even when you disagree with him, Reynolds is mostly fair. Sometimes he freaks a bit at certain socons, but thats unusual.
3. The time to develop your arguements.
4. They would be sympathetic and kindly, a good place to dip your toe in the water.
5. It would have forced the MSM to watch the interview, and other Americans would have as well. It would have been a chance to have a really educational and enlightening discussion rather than an ambush.
6. It would have been a chance to do as Reagan did, and bypass teh MSM, and speak directly to teh American people.
7. It would have been pain and suffering for the MSM, and thus an attack on the MSM, and considering that the MSM are enemies to the death with Palin, any pain they suffer has to be regarded as a good thing.

Easy. Hannity got an advanced copy. He promised to keep mum. Maybe other conservastive outlets did also, and they’re also honoring their word to keep quiet. Maybe the AP didn’t.

Palin is doing a couple book signings in Ohio next week. I might go and do some comment-section journalism since she’s one of five or so politicians I respect enough to devote any time or money too.

Mr. McCain,

No disrespect, but as you seem to note, the decision seems to have been made by Harper Collins. Now, thinking it through, I have to admit that I can’t entirely say I can blame them for not providing the resources to the conservative media that you might want. From the publishing house’s perspective, they want to maintain control of the roll-out. The big danger, from their perspective, is that one of the media outlets will itself “go rogue” and take control of the rollout away from them. In practical terms, they have an established business relationship with AP & Oprah. If these outlets don’t cooperate, they run the risk of undermining that relationship. The conservative press, in contrast, really wouldn’t have much to lose if they went rogue. I mean, are you suggesting that bad relations with Harper Collins would be a disaster for the American Spectator? The Weekly Standard? Human Events?

From her facebook page.

“As you probably have heard, the AP snagged a copy of my memoir, Going Rogue, before its Tuesday release. And as is expected, the AP and a number of subsequent media outlets are erroneously reporting the contents of the book. Keep your powder dry, read the book, and enjoy it! Lots of great stories about my family, Alaska, and the incredible honor it was to run alongside Senator John McCain.

- Sarah Palin“

She’s not dissing the conservative media. She’s just using the most effective, biggest audience media. Rush has an interview with Mrs Palin coming up this Monday, for example. Blogs are just too small and target people who would already be reading her book anyway.

She’ll make a good tv game show host someday.

Honestly, you claim elsewhere on this site that she was chosen to make McCain’s wife jealous, so how could this woman possibly represent a viable political force to anyone but the lunatic fringe?

That buzzing sound is a clue flying over your head.