Looks like Bill, MIchelle Malkin and their minions basically "blackmailed" her into putting Bill on.
http://newsbusters.org/node/8396Bill O’Reilly and Michelle Malkin Take on Oprah Winfrey
Posted by Noel Sheppard on October 17, 2006 - 14:29.
As reported by NewsBusters last Friday, famed television talk show host Oprah Winfrey recently had the New York Times’ Frank Rich on her program to hawk his new Bush-bashing book. On Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor,” the host and one of his guests, conservative writer and blogger Michelle Malkin, took Oprah to task for the amount of time Rich was given to spew his vitriol, and for the fact that Oprah rarely has conservatives on to push their books (hat tip to Hot Air). O’Reilly began (video link and full transcript to follow):
Her daytime talk program is a launch pad for books, movies, TV shows, and records. Most who appear on Ms. Winfrey's show benefit from the experience greatly. But an analysis of the programs shows that liberal guests far outnumber conservatives and traditionalists in the arena. We can only find four traditional guests in the past four years. Four. President Bush, Rudy Giuliani, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mel Gibson.
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But here we have a woman who's the most powerful woman in the country. And I think that we should know if she is running a program in an ideological way, because here's the importance of it.
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MICHELLE MALKIN, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: I don't think there's any question that she's been sort of a soft, reflexive liberal. And I think that what's happened is as she's become more and more successful -- and as you say, Bill, there's no question that she is a shrewd businesswoman and a very successful capitalist, that she's lost touch with those roots that you talked about. And she is your typical limousine liberal in the broadcast industry.......And I think that, as you say, she can -- she can invite anyone she wants to, but I think she risks alienating a large portion of the daytime audience. There are millions of stay-at-home moms who watch her show who don't agree that Frank Rich is the greatest thing since sliced bread.