In this week's Page Six Magazine, Maury Povich and Sally Jessy Raphael debate whether Sarah Palin could make it as a talk-show host -- Maury says yay:
If anyone can relate to the burning social issues in our country—those topics that touch the hearts of all Americans—it's Sarah Palin. Out of control pregnant teenagers? Sarah comes to the rescue, drawing on her own experience directing her daughter into motherhood at an early age.
... Sally says nay:
[I]f she couldn't make it as VP in a year when lots of ladies would have loved to vote for a woman—but couldn't tolerate her "world is flat" views—how do you think she would fare in the living rooms of those same women? People may think talk-show hosts are stupid, but they are not.
Maybe she's just being catty -- but then, Maury kind of was too, right? Which is probably proof in itself that Palin'd be great, or at least pull in some numbers.
Everybody's been going apeshit with this rumor, and it makes a bunch of sense -- in prepping for a Presidential run, a television show may be the perfect forum to both frame yourself as a Washington outsider and also reach the most people with your message. That certainly seems to be what Mike Huckabee is doing -- and, if you were, say, placing some early bets on the 2012 Republican nominee for Prez, that Fox News host would seem to be in the lead. Unless, of course, Hannity runs.
-- Jake Kalish is the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights