Saturday, September 6, 2008

Conan O'Brien and Sarah Palin

In his monologue on Friday night, Conan O'Brien mentioned Sarah Palin's visit to Wisconsin.

He also talked of presidential politics, MSNBC's anti-Republican bias, and hurricanes.

O'BRIEN: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is out on the campaign trail. Today she attended a rally in Wisconsin. That's right. She was thrilled to visit Wisconsin because she's never been to the Deep South. Yeah, positively... It's exotic. She's excited.

O'BRIEN: Oprah Winfrey's in the middle of a big scandal because she is refusing to have Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on her show. She won't let her on. The friction started because Palin said if she's elected she'll be the most powerful woman in the country; and Oprah said, 'The hell you will.'

O'BRIEN: During John McCain's speech last night an anti-Republican heckler began yelling at him. Yeah, officials removed the man and immediately gave him a job at MSNBC. Yeah, Keith Olbermann, yeah... I'll get a call.

O'BRIEN: John Edwards made an interesting announcement. He announced that in order not to be a distraction, he's cancelling all public appearances until the election is over. However, Edwards said he will continue to make all of his private appearances.

O'BRIEN: Here's a weird story: The Department of Homeland Security just announced that they are teaming up with the website MySpace to spread breaking news about hurricanes. Yeah, according to the MySpace report Hurricane Gustav looked cute yesterday, but Hanna's been acting like a total skank. 'Beeyatch' was the word they used. Yeah, true.

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Here's a clip from O'Brien's Thursday monologue.

I suspect O'Brien is correct when he says his crude joke targeting Sarah Palin's daughter will follow him around for a while.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Very funny! I bet she will alienate some women fans of hers. They will be even more open to checking out Palin. Oprah doesn't want Palin on her show because she is afraid Palin might sway some of her viewers away from Obama. Oprah is afraid of hurting Obama's chances, she knows he has a tough fight with Palin on the ticket.

Too be fair though, she had Obama on before he was running, when his books came out. To have Palin on now that she's running would mean Oprah would really have to have Obama on now too. But then she probably would be accused of breaking some campaign finance laws or something.
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Mary said...

Hello, USpace.

It's been a while.

Oprah had the presidential candidates on her show in 2000, both Bush and Gore.

The candidates appear on talk shows all the time.

Oprah's statement on the Palin matter is absurd: "At the beginning of the 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."

It should read: "When I decided to throw my weight behind Obama, I decided that I would not give his opponents a forum that might serve to benefit them."