Oprah underscores Left’s approach to opposition

Oprah announced this week that she would love to have Sarah Palin on the show, but not before the election. That just wouldn’t be right, of course, to have someone with an opposing viewpoint on a show that reaches such a broad audience of American women. What it demonstrates to me is this:

• As usual, the Left likes free speech and free exchange of ideas, so long as those ideas are the same as theirs
• This is still more proof that the Left is terrified of what Sarah Palin can do to the chances of Obama losing his already patheticly small lead
• The Left is not at all genuine in their support of women, only women that uphold the Left’s opinions and platform

One would think that if Barry Obama is so terrific and that he can really live up to the messianical hype, that Oprah would welcome a chance to show that Sarah Palin might be a nice gal, but not fit for the White House. On the contrary, Oprah runs away from the possibility that her audience might be able to form their own opinion and what’s worse, that it might not be HER opinion that they embrace. Oprah is quoted as saying,

“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.”

Obviously her show isn’t a platform for anything but her opinion. I have to admit, I have never liked Oprah. I’ve never seen the fascination, but she does tend to draw a lot of women in and she, much like B.O., has a knack for giving her audience what they want- lots of cool sounding tripe and free stuff.