The mainstream media may not like former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin nbut they can’t deny she’s good for business as evidenced by the big jump in ratings for her appearance on Oprah.

From LiveFeed

Oprah Winfrey’s interview with former vp candidate Sarah Palin scored the talk show host her highest rating in two years.

Monday’s episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” drew a 8.7 household rating and 13 share — the best since Winfrey had the entire Osmond family on the show in 2007.

That means Palin also topped Winfrey’s heavily viewed interviews with Whitney Houston at the start of the season.

Palin is making the rounds to promote her new book, “Going Rogue,” which came out Tuesday.

Winfrey began the interview by asking Palin if she felt snubbed at not getting an invitation to appear on the show last year. Winfrey said she didn’t have any candidates on her Chicago-based show during the campaign because of her support for President Barack Obama.

Palin said she didn’t feel snubbed and told Winfrey, “No offense to you, but it wasn’t the center of my universe.”

Palin said in another interview broadcast Tuesday that a 2012 presidential bid is “not on my radar,” but wouldn’t rule out playing some role in the next presidential election.

“My ambition, if you will, my desire is to help our country in whatever role that may be, and I cannot predict what that will be, what doors will be open in the year 2012,” she told Barbara Walters.

When asked whether she’d play a major role, the former Republican vice presidential candidate replied that “if people will have me, I will.”

Palin’s popularity continues to exasperate the media and despite their best efforts to demean her as  Newsweek did with their cover story this week she has not only survived but thrived.

The media is unlikely to stop the attacks but Palin has proved she is more than up to the task of dealing with the liberal bias of the press.

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