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Vick the rare one to cancel on Oprah
Good for you Mike...your a fukkin KING
Oprah Winfrey will have to try and tackle football star Michael Vick another day. TMZ.com is reporting that the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback has pulled out of his interview with the TV mogul set for later this month. Vick explains, quote, “After careful consideration, I will need to postpone the taping of the Oprah Winfrey interview scheduled for February 22nd.” Vick goes on to say that he “admires” and “respects” Oprah and hopes he can sit down with her sometime in the future.
Michael Vick’s Oprah interview would have been his first major interview since being released from prison in 2009. He had been convicted of running a dog-fighting ring, and began serving time in 2007.
Karen Travers, the White House reporter for ABC News, asked the question on Twitter this evening:
Has anyone ever cancelled on Oprah?
It’s a pretty good question and aside from smart-alecky answers like, “Steadman,” no one we repeated the question to came up with anything. Jonathan Franzen, the author of The Corrections and Freedom had an offer to appear on Oprah’s show rescinded for some general snobbishness, but he never turned her down.
Michael Vick, however, is bold enough to cancel on Oprah.
Slated to tape an interview that would appear next Thursday, Vick called out and then sent out a release:
“After careful consideration, I will need to postpone the taping of the Oprah Winfrey interview. I admire and respect Oprah and hope to be able to participate in an interview in the future.”
Chances are there won’t be a second invitation. No, not because Vick gave Oprah the brush, but because the queen of daytime TV is set to end her show this year. So if Vick ever really wanted to be on Oprah’s show, chances are it’s never going to happen.
That is if Vick ever wanted to do it in the first place.
OK, we know what you’re thinking… for a guy looking for more endorsements or a chance to wash his tarnished image, why would cancel on Oprah? Even guys like Franzen benefitted from being mentioned on Oprah and if there is anyone who could make it so a pariah leaves the show squeaky clean, it’s Oprah.
But, according to reports, Oprah is a well-known animal lover and after nearly two years at Leavenworth serving hard time, does Vick need to be grilled on daytime TV? Even if Vick wins over Oprah, how much can he gain from the good publicity? After all, most folks have already made up their minds about Vick and no prison time or time spent on Oprah’s couch is going to change that.
Besides, after the punishment he took during the football season working behind the Eagles’ offensive line, does Vick really need to be bashed by a talk-show host?
Then again, a trip on a radio show with host Richard Hunter during the week ahead of the Super Bowl in Dallas didn’t go very well, according to reports. Hunter apparently confronted Vick with pictures of the dog he adapted from the QB’s kennel and has been pushing the Oprah show to allow “voices of the victims” to be heard on the show.
“True to form, when Michael Vick feels the heat, he scrambles out of the pocket,” Hunter told USA Today.
No matter what he does Vick cannot change the opinion of most folks. But if he really wants to talk it out on TV, maybe he ought to wait until the summer when Beavis and Butt-head make their comeback. That could be the only mainstream show where he can find a sympathetic audience.
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Originally Posted by jjgold
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