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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's a pity age finally caught up to Barbara Walters and she quit doing TV
Because I'd love to see that hack have to eat crow after spending years selling Donald Trump as a "Manhattan sophisticate" and the "head of a wonderful family" and bragging about her longtime friendship and decades of cocktail party invites from him.
She was a steadfast defender of him on The View during birtherpaloiza, constantly assuring the audience that she knew personally just how amazing of a person was, and, though the controversy was in danger of making him "look prejudiced," there was no way someone as phenomenal as him could be, she insisted.
From the 80s on, she could never get enough of the guy from her clique and interviewed him endlessly, making a local NYC tycoon, with no real play in national business, into a household name.
One of her last pieces before disappeared was a spring 2016 puff spot/free ad on 20/20 featuring Melanoma, Grand Duchess Ivanka and Uday and Qusay, which she introduced by citing her personal experience of how "classy" the entire reality TV brood was.
So, as his presidency implodes with a 34 percent approval rate in 6 months, constant series of embarrassments, the special prosecutor moves in and impeachment looms when Dems regains the House, I'd love to see her try to do mental acrobatics to explain away her lifeling infatuation with this no-talent assclown and his endless lies and incompetence. Would she, like former Trump party clique members Joe and Mika, have finally had a breaking point?
Normalizing Trump is a huge part of her legacy and she should have been asked to own it.
dalton99a
(81,656 posts)jrthin
(4,840 posts)Her last interview she fawned all over Assad, telling us how wonderful he and his wife and family were. She neglected to mentioned that he was murdering his citizens.
DURHAM D
(32,617 posts)Partied with J. Edgar Hoover.
C Moon
(12,225 posts)hlthe2b
(102,468 posts)Queen of Mean: Leona Helmsley.
All in the name of access, I suppose.
It all irks me no end, but I do still credit Walters as a groundbreaker for women in national televised news.
classykaren
(769 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)When the Bush crime syndicate was blaming Clinton for 9-11, she helped spread that garbage
leftstreet
(36,117 posts)Just retired, then
meh
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Walters is the one who had flings with married GOP senators.
leftstreet
(36,117 posts)My bad
lunasun
(21,646 posts)After her affair with a married senator who divorced his wife to be with her, she dumped him because it wouldn't be a good career move for her him being married and black, allegedly
After that affair came tumbling down, she moved on to Alan Greenspa,n, John Warner before he was a senator and again after his divorce from Liz Taylor, and Alan Ace Greenberg. In 1986, she was married for a third time to producer Merv Adelson. That marriage only last six years.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)She likely wanted to persue Trump, but didnt have the Playmate physique of his purchased wives, so he probably wasnt interested.
Submariner
(12,512 posts)To me she was the Joan Rivers of interviewers. She clearly enjoyed hurting and embarrassing her subjects, a nasty character assassin, but as you say a total kiss up to the Trump clan.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Some still open slots!
Upside
Happy not to see her specials with the new POTUS or his family gushing all over them and reminding the public Hey I know them They are my friends or telling the public more about Bannon's brilliance
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)Where the lists actually included folks like the Kardashians (multiple times), Pippa Middleton, Honey Boo Boo, Trump and Paris Hilton, proving all it took to fascinate Waters was a ball of string and some random, shiny things on the floor.
Sure she broke the glass ceiling, but her journalism descendents are Nancy Grace, Greta and Elizabeth from "Survivor," rather than any serious female reporter.
chaplain_M
(48 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)She gushed over Palin to her face a few times on lengthy spots and was a frequent defender at other times . The questions were always softball and if the subject had a hint of controversy, it was carefully couched so Palin would come out smelling like a rose.
I lost all respect for Walters as a "journalist" after that and never watched her again. I was so disgusted and disheartened that the media never exposed the crap she pulled in Alaska.
dalton99a
(81,656 posts)C Moon
(12,225 posts)Golden Raisin
(4,614 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,423 posts)both parents of Russian descent. Who would have guessed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Walters
LakeArenal
(28,863 posts)They are totally irrelevant to what's going on today. Why bring them up? Just to insult them? Goad them into some comment?
That's so odd. She's even retired. She's not going on any shows to gab about or normalize trump. Regis loved dump, too. Should we start a hate thread on him.
Clintons liked dump. They socialized with him. Back then dump spewed democratic support. Should we start a hate thread on them?
Chelsea Clinton says she and Ivanka are friends. Shall we start a hate thread on her?
I don't get it.