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UTUSN

(70,649 posts)
Wed Jun 6, 2012, 11:51 AM Jun 2012

Bahbwah WAH-WAH's claim to being a journalist is revealed: Humiliation



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[font size=5]Barbara Walters tried to get Assad aide CNN job, spot at Columbia University [/font]

By CHUCK BENNETT


Just weeks after TV doyenne Barbara Walters landed an exclusive interview with brutal Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, she tried to get his comely young press aide a job at CNN and a spot at Columbia University, newly released e-mails show.

A humbled Walters apologized yesterday after a Syrian opposition group exposed the cozy — and questionable — e-mails she exchanged with Sheherazad Jaafari, the glamorous, 22-year-old former Assad adviser, who helped arrange the big “get” with the Middle East strongman last December. ....

Sheherazad Jaafari had assured Assad, whom she called “the Dude,” that the “American psyche can be easily manipulated,” the e-mails show,

But Assad felt humiliated by Walters’ questions about the violence and had Jaafari sacked, sources told The Post. ....

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Bahbwah WAH-WAH's claim to being a journalist is revealed: Humiliation (Original Post) UTUSN Jun 2012 OP
Beauty on the outside, pure evil on the inside... Blue_Tires Jun 2012 #1
Luke Russert can attest to that..n/t monmouth Jun 2012 #2

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
1. Beauty on the outside, pure evil on the inside...
Wed Jun 6, 2012, 12:07 PM
Jun 2012

Whatever the final price she got for her soul, I hope it was worth it...

Although this is a PR embarrassment, not much can be done to Walters, unless it is proven that this was "negotiated" before the interview...Nepotism is a way of life in these big networks...

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