Oprah Winfrey is set to tell her loving audience this morning that her enormously popular talk show, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” will air its last episode in 2011.
According to a released issued by Harpo, Inc. yesterday, Winfrey would tell her loyal fans of her decision to end the talk show, which has been television’s top rated talk show for over 20 years.
The diverse, female-oriented show started out as a local Chicago talk show but eventually developed into a worldwide phenomenon that is broadcasted in 145 countries. In the United States alone an estimated 42 million viewers tune in to watch Winfrey’s show.
The show will conclude in its 25th year on air. Some speculate that Winfrey is planning on airing her show on The Oprah Winfrey Network, although a Harpo spokesperson declined to comment – I guess we’ll have to watch and listen.
Watch Sarah Palin’s recent interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
While she hasn’t granted any interviews to the press since her resignation as Alaska’s governor, Sarah Palin is using social networking sites Facebook and Twitter to stay relevant in national discourse.
Palin has almost 900,000 friends on Facebook and approximately 140,000 friends on Twitter. The only politician to have more friends on both social networks is President Barack Obama. The former vice president nominee has managed to interject her opinion on several national issues such as healthcare, energy policy and tort reform.
In August, she flipped liberals’ wigs when she posted two threads on her Facebook profile insinuating that legislation penned by Democrats in the House proposed the creation of “death-panels,” which would decide end of life care.
According to former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, “Facebook is perfectly suited for someone as polarizing as Sarah Palin. It’s the ideal way for her to keep in touch, to rev up her base and go around the mainstream media.”
Looks like Sarah’s building viral grassroots supporters much like President Obama did during his campaign run – 2012 is going to be quite interesting.
In the October issue of Vanity Fair, Bristol Palin’s baby’s daddy, Levi Johnston, alleges that her mother and former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin once conspired to keep her daughters pregnancy a secret and to adopt the baby once he was born.
“Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret — nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and (husband) Todd would adopt him. … I think Sarah wanted to make Bristol look good, and she didn’t want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.”
Johnston also claims Palin mentioned doing a television show or writing a book to “triple the money,” two weeks after retuning to Alaska after the presidential election.
A Sarah Palin autographed Xbox was recently posted on EBay for a whopping $1 million accompanied by a stiff shipping price of $75. The former Vice Presidential nominee reportedly signed the video game console at the Wasilla Governor’s Picnic on July 24 two days before her resignation from her post as Alaska’s governor.
Many political experts believe Palin’s resignation was the start of her 2012 Presidential bid. We’re pretty sure the autographed Xbox was designed by her PR team to make the conservative Palin appear cool and youthful to young mainstream American voters much as President Obama did social networking push last year – not a bad ploy at all.
