That Oprah can make the following statement without breaking out in laughter is a tribute to her “seriousness”
Asked whether the thought of Palin’s running for office scares her, Oprah said:
“It does not scare me because I believe in the intelligence of the American public.”
She says this about an American public that, by and large, watches her and takes her to be a serious person, and to a media that can ask her that as a serious question, and hear the answer without cracking up