Oprah Winfrey would like everyone to know she never wrote Sarah Palin off as a guest on her show.

"I said I would be happy to talk to Sarah Palin when the election was over," Winfrey told Extra. "I went and tried to talk to Sarah Palin and instead she talked to [Fox News’s] Greta Van Susteren. She talked to [NBC’s] Matt Lauer. She talked to [CNN’s] Larry King, but she didn’t talk to me. But maybe she’ll talk to me now that she has a book deal."

It’s true that the Alaska governor has been all over television since John McCain lost the presidential election to Barack Obama. Winfrey caused a bit of a ruckus about the blogosphere in September when she said she wouldn’t have the then-GOP-vice-presidential candidate on her show until after the election.

The talk-show queen announced her stanch support for Obama early on in the White House race. Apparently, having Palin on before the November 4 election would have been considered a slight to Obama in Winfrey’s mind.

"Oprah’s website is getting tons of requests to put her on, but Oprah and a couple of her top people are adamantly against it because of Obama,” an insider told The Drudge Report in September.

Oprah then said in a statement: "At the beginning of this presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates."

So we wonder: What will it take to get Palin on the show? We’re thinking that would be one awkward interview …

Perhaps the hockey mom would be willing to make an appearance to tout her forthcoming book, which we’ve heard could be worth about $7 million.