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Saw the whole thing about 45 minutes ago. My observations:

I tried very hard to spot an anti-Palin bias, but didn’t really detect any. Oprah seemed to play it very straight. Except for early on (as noted) Oprah did not interrupt SP and let her give full, complete answers. I also didn’t note any particular “gotcha” moments.

Hard to watch this without coming away without the opinion that McCain’s staff was quite the collection of arrogant douchebags. And Oprah seemed to be astonished by some of the crap they pulled with SP. Insulting and sexist treatment.

A person with an open mind, who watches from start to finish CANNOT continue to think Palin is stupid, not ready for prime time, etc.

One of the cutest moments comes at about th 40 minute mark, footage from Alaska, getting the family ready for Halloween. There is a shot of little Trig sitting on the carpet with his costume on...and at that point, you can hear Oprah’s studio audience “aaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwww.”

Oprah needed this interview for her ratings, and our Sarah needed it to re-introduce herself to the American people. Both things were accomplished, and both women get an “A” from me.

I agree with you 100%. Unlike most people on this board, I watch Oprah all the time because she does address some good subjects. I could not tell that she treated Sarah any differently than many other guests. She always asks probing questions and tries to ask the ones that she thinks the audience would want to know the answer to.

Levi has been publicly trashing Sarah, so she had to ask about him. I did not think the Levi discussion was disrespectful or inappropriate to have in front of Sarah's daughters since I am sure that Willow and Piper have heard about it already. It gave Sarah a chance to show how gracious and understanding she is toward someone who has been speaking ill of her in public.

I think that Oprah liked Sarah in spite of herself!

I saw it about an hour ago. I’d tivo’d it. I was impressed, very impressed with Sarah, but I don’t think Oprah was bad.

She was not particularly oozing with warmth and seemed determined to ask hard questions, but I thought she was fair and let Sarah answer.

She went a little too far with the Levi thing and a little too far with the ‘quitter’ thing but Sarah handled it well. I thought she spent a lot of time on the Katie Couric interview but apparently Sarah spent time on it in the book, so that was fair.

On the whole, she didn’t have the gotcha attitude that the Perky One did. Oprah did have a good line when she said, ‘you’re pretty perky yourself.’

I enjoyed the exchange.