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Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 11:14 AM Jun 2017

It'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.
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It's a pity age finally caught up to Barbara Walters and she quit doing TV (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel Jun 2017 OP
Yep, they go way back dalton99a Jun 2017 #1
This woman is a piece of work, and not in a good way. jrthin Jun 2017 #4
Indeed. She was Roy's beard for decades. DURHAM D Jun 2017 #5
Hmmmm....his hair isn't blonde. C Moon Jun 2017 #19
She cultivated the rich & famous.. dated Kissinger (uggh) and was besties with hlthe2b Jun 2017 #2
Do not forget about sleeping with Castro. classykaren Jun 2017 #18
Repuke hack joeybee12 Jun 2017 #3
I thought Mrs. Greenspan died leftstreet Jun 2017 #6
He's married to Andrea Mitchell Adenoid_Hynkel Jun 2017 #8
Oh that's right! Keep the Celebrity Industrial Complex straight leftstreet Jun 2017 #9
She did have an affair with Greenspam but never was Mrs lunasun Jun 2017 #12
Yeesh Adenoid_Hynkel Jun 2017 #14
Walters was a trash interviewer Submariner Jun 2017 #7
The header made me say what??But yes her buddy .. But .maybe she will get an ambassadorship lunasun Jun 2017 #10
Remember her inspid "Most Fascinating People" bits? Adenoid_Hynkel Jun 2017 #11
Don't forget her fawning over the Reagans eom chaplain_M Jun 2017 #13
And Palin ! Kittycow Jun 2017 #16
Yep, she really tried to normalize those grifters dalton99a Jun 2017 #22
Reading all of the above, it's starting to sound more like she was a paid GOP "journalist." C Moon Jun 2017 #20
Wasn't she also long-time, good buds with Roger Ailes? Golden Raisin Jun 2017 #15
Daughter of a New York impresario bucolic_frolic Jun 2017 #17
I don't know why people like Sarandon or Palin and now Walters come up. LakeArenal Jun 2017 #21
DU loves a good hate thread. nt cwydro Jun 2017 #23

jrthin

(4,836 posts)
4. This woman is a piece of work, and not in a good way.
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 11:23 AM
Jun 2017

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.

hlthe2b

(102,276 posts)
2. She cultivated the rich & famous.. dated Kissinger (uggh) and was besties with
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 11:21 AM
Jun 2017

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.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
12. She did have an affair with Greenspam but never was Mrs
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 11:38 AM
Jun 2017

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)
14. Yeesh
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 11:41 AM
Jun 2017

She likely wanted to persue Trump, but didnt have the Playmate physique of his purchased wives, so he probably wasnt interested.

Submariner

(12,504 posts)
7. Walters was a trash interviewer
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 11:25 AM
Jun 2017

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)
10. The header made me say what??But yes her buddy .. But .maybe she will get an ambassadorship
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 11:28 AM
Jun 2017

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)
11. Remember her inspid "Most Fascinating People" bits?
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 11:35 AM
Jun 2017

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.

Kittycow

(2,396 posts)
16. And Palin !
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 12:34 PM
Jun 2017

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.

LakeArenal

(28,817 posts)
21. I don't know why people like Sarandon or Palin and now Walters come up.
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 02:19 PM
Jun 2017

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.


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