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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (266055)	9/5/2008 11:57:18 AM
From: gamesmistress	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793604

I wouldn't be surprised to hear over the next year that Oprah's viewership is down. It already is. Obama numbers up, Oprah ratings down Email Print Link Still No. 1 in the daytime, Oprah Winfrey still has a solid edge over Dr. Phil. Posted May 27, 2008 8:50 AM The Swamp swamppolitics.com by Andrew Malcolm As previewed in The Top of the Ticket last month, new ratings of daytime television programs show that Oprah Winfrey's daily talk show for women has dropped in ratings since her highly publicized political rallying for Illinois Sen. Barack Obama last fall. Perhaps coincidentally, the longtime, daytime talk-show diva has not been seen on the Democratic presidential campaign trail in recent months. oprah and obamas Before the primaries and caucuses, she was credited with helping to draw impressive crowds and thousands of new volunteers to Obama rallies in Iowa, which he won, in New Hampshire, which he lost, and in South Carolina, which he won. An October Gallup Poll before the rallies but after her public endorsement of Obama found that her favorable ratings had fallen from 74 to 66 percent while her unfavorable ratings jumped from 17 to 26 percent. When this was noted in an April Ticket item, hundreds of female commenters, many clearly supporting the Democratic candidacy of Sen. Hillary Clinton, left angry comments about Winfrey's.failure to support the first serious White House candidacy of a female. They also seemed angered over her public advocacy of new-age spiritualism, including among her book club choices. Now come new TV ratings showing that her daytime audience, which is still the largest and was nearly 9 million at its height in 2004-05, has fallen for the third straight year, to 7.8 million a year ago and now to 7.3 million. Her monthly publication, "O, The Oprah Magazine," has also lost 10 percent of its circulation in the last three years, according to a New York Times story. And a new editor is being sought. Officials of billionaire Winfrey's company, Harpo Productions, profess no concern over the dip in numbers. They say daytime audiences have generally declined and her audience is still about one-third larger than the No. 2 daytime program, Dr. Phil. Many Ticket commenters also said they had switched their viewing habits to The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Figures also show that Winfrey has lost about 25 percent of her female audience between ages 25 and 54 in the last 36 months. Harpo sources point to last winter's opening success of Oprah's ABC reality philanthropy show, "Oprah's Big Give," which drew more viewers than all shows but "American Idol." However, the "Give" audience fell by almost 33 percent in its next seven weeks. And Winfrey decided to discontinue production of the program. Next up: Winfrey's own cable channel called, of course, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, a joint endeavor with the Discovery Channel. Andrew Malcolm writes for Top of the Ticket, the LA Times political blog. Newsday photo: Michelle Obama, left, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (266055)	9/5/2008 12:19:23 PM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793604

Oprah Refuses to have Palin on: Oprah to Palin: I Can Pencil You In Later Posted Sep 5th 2008 11:41AM by TMZ Staff tmz.com Oprah has issued a statement to TMZ -- she won't put Sarah Palin on her show until after the election. Here's the statement: "The item in today's Drudge Report is categorically untrue. There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. At the beginning of this Presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates. I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over." For the record, Barack Obama has been on "Oprah" twice -- in January, 2005 and again in October, 2006 -- before he announced his run for Prez.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (266055)	9/5/2008 12:50:19 PM
From: Shoot1st	5 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793604

i won't watch that nappy headed ho anymore. TH

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (266055)	9/5/2008 12:50:26 PM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793604

ABOUT THOSE "COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS" September 04, 2008 soundpolitics.com Lots of outrage on the left that Republicans would take shots last night at Barack Obama's community organizer past. Marc Ambinder has more: The four mocking mentions last night of Barack Obama's service as a "community organizer" have ignited a metapshereic debate about whether the term has racial connotations. The McCain campaign says no: they insist that no one knows what a community organizer is, and whatever they think it is, it doesn't compare to being a mayor. Bingo. Talking with a Republican buddy on the East Coast who also has experience with politics in a major metropolitan area, today this topic came up. We pretty much agreed on a fair description: community organizers are those just-graduated from college youngsters who get paid about $25,000 a year to rabble rouse in the cities in between campaign jobs for the left. That's a bit of a sarcastic oversimplification - though only slightly - but, it speaks to the fact "community organizers" are quite simply urban activists...and usually highly political ones at that. And yes, most people don't know what they are - thus the lack of resonance and opportunity for mockery as Rudy Giuliani did so well last night. More importantly, how many people in the 'burbs, exurbs, small towns, and rural America identify with, or think much of, urban political activists once they might figure out what "community organizer" means? Hint: not many. Just another example of where the urban base of the Democratic party isn't in touch with much of the rest of the country. Posted by Eric Earling at September 04, 2008 09:59 PM