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Thanks to my fully functioning prefrontal cortex, I don’t pay much attention to daytime television. But this whole “Sarah Palin on Oprah Winfrey” thing has been all over the news, so I feel like I should address the fact that Monday’s interview gave Oprah her highest ratings in two years.

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

Congratulations, former vice presidential candidate: you’re almost as big of a draw as that time Oprah got some singing Mormons together.

That means Palin also topped Oprah’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.

I’m not going to look up the link, but a few days ago I linked to a story that said people in the audience got the impression that Palin’s biggest desire was to land a talk show gig. Personally, I think she’d be perfect for a Fox News show with Elizabeth Hasselbeck. They could call it “Check Out These Crazy Bitches.”