Politico
Sarah Palin and Oprah Winfrey will soon be fellow cable-television stars. Palin is launching “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” on TLC, and Winfrey is turning Discovery Health into OWN: the Oprah Winfrey Network.
But the pair share something beyond extending their brands to Discovery channels.
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Both are masters of “infotainment,” where the footing can be tricky. And each has sought to blend partisan politics and celebrity in a mirror image of the other.
Winfrey took her talk show superstardom onto the 2008 presidential campaign trail when she stumped for then-Sen. Barack Obama. Palin, in the obverse, is taking her campaign magnetism and flair for partisan politics to the small screen More…