{"id":119,"date":"2008-09-05T18:18:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T18:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/intentchopra\/2008\/09\/the-oprah-factor-by-mallika-ch.html"},"modified":"2008-09-05T18:18:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T18:18:47","slug":"the-oprah-factor-by-mallika-ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/intentchopra\/2008\/09\/the-oprah-factor-by-mallika-ch.html","title":{"rendered":"The Oprah Factor (by Mallika Chopra)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should Oprah have Sarah Palin on her show?<br \/>\nOprah Winfrey this year did something she has never done before. She used her celebrity status to promote Obama as a presidential candidate. Oprah&#8217;s support undoubtedly brought him incredible exposure.<br \/>\nTodays controversy surrounds whether or not Oprah should have Sarah Palin on her syndicated show. She&#8217;s had Obama on it, hasn&#8217;t she?<br \/>\nObviously, Oprah doesn&#8217;t support McCain\/Palin. But as the person with the strongest reach to women in America, is it her responsibility to her audience to give Palin the platform?<br \/>\nIs Obama on The O&#8217;Reilly Factor a parallel example?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/beta.intent.com\/mallikachopra\/profile\"> Subscribe to Mallika Chopra&#8217;s blogs at Intent.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should Oprah have Sarah Palin on her show? Oprah Winfrey this year did something she has never done before. She used her celebrity status to promote Obama as a presidential candidate. Oprah&#8217;s support undoubtedly brought him incredible exposure. Todays controversy surrounds whether or not Oprah should have Sarah Palin on her syndicated show. She&#8217;s had&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Oprah Factor (by Mallika Chopra) - Deepak Chopra and Intent<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/intentchopra\/2008\/09\/the-oprah-factor-by-mallika-ch.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Oprah Factor (by Mallika Chopra) - Deepak Chopra and Intent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Should Oprah have Sarah Palin on her show? 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