Barbara Walters died today, aged 93. [Story Here]
Ms. Walters is credited with blazing the trail for women in media. Walters legacy includes many facets, including the modern era launch of the most transparently biased interview technique in opinion journalism. Barbara Walters never let the details of a good story get in the way of her opinion of it.
I just watched the Firing Line episode with Tom Wolf. Topic, Radical Chic. I have a 1st edition my dad gave me when I was in middle school. Hysterical!
Ms Wawa makes an appearance at Lenny’s party.
Radical Chic nails it!
I’ll try to keep it classy, here’s one of my fav interviews:
She calls him a male chauvinist.
He asks her what that is.
She can’t define it.
With that she loses all credibility for anything said before or after.
In the end he says he hates stupid more than anything. This could be directed at her with the stupidity of her interview questions.
In closing he replies to her question of how he would like others to think of him. He said, “almost a male chauvinist pig”. With that comment, he was twisting the knife and giving her a metaphoric open-handed slap in the face. She was just too “stupid” to realize it.
Chess master vs checkers player. All done with a smile.
….’she says teasingly ;)’…………….she is desperately trying to use her ‘status’ as a powerful female tv news personality….. bait him.
Watching this interview today is,………is somehow very different than watching it back in 1987.
I wonder what Barbara would say if she was asked by Sean; “Can you define a woman?”.
I wonder what questions Barbara would ask today if she interviewed…say Sam Brinton or Rachel Levine?????
I wonder what Barbara would say about being replaced by a Karine Jean-Pierre, because Barbara was deemed too much of a privileged Cis- white-female-Karen?????????
Oh, how the world has changed!!!!!!!!
She is privileged but not White. Like most television personalities she is askenazi jewish. When you see “White” people on television speaking in an anti-white way they are almost always jewish. The View is pure anti-white/anti-male garbage.
You are being way too kind about “The View,” IMHAO. It is tag team fascist propaganda by a bunch of old nags who apparently never see that their faces match their ugly souls when they look in the mirror
“Beauty may only be skin deep, but ugly goes to the bone” was written for them.
When you’re not the lead dog (& none of them are), your “view” is always the same.
Barbara was asking for a “whack” from Sean.
Sean Connery, a true “Man’s Man”.
Norm MacDonald on the View, good stuff.
Jeez, they were annoying way back then too.
That lump of matter to Norm’s left was oozing hatred and condescension.
A common reaction of nothings in the presence of truthful brilliance.
That was so good to watch, Ty. I miss Norm’s work.
RIP Norm.
Bye bye Bawah. Lil Ruthie has been patiently waiting for you. You sold your soul to you know who a long time ago
“Barbara Walters never let the details of a good story get in the way of her opinion of it.”
This is a real insight, into the apparent MO of most women:
“_______ never lets the facts get in the way of (her) opinion.”
Proverbs 31 speaks of the rare exceptions, but it likens their rarity to fine gemstones (rubies), so rare that it asks “who can find (one)?”
Thanks for the insight SD.
…she was a top graduate of the inaugural Mockingbird class.
Masterful and seemingly respectful damning with faint praise!
Wish I could be that subtle. 🙂
She was always one of “them”. She probably got the same life extension potions Kissinger, et al got. The most irritating person I never listened to.
She died as a media personality decades ago. She never was a journalist.
Softball lobber.
Propagandist ,no visible talents ??
So wong, Baba Wawa. We wiww fowevvah and evvah wemembah youw contwibutions to the wowld of jouwnawism.
This is what I was trying to avoid but bwaaahahahaha. Love it!
Bye Felicity.
Felecia too.
Can Nancy be next? Please let it happen.
it did..realrawnews.com
The queen of crap. She gave us swamp gas dressed up with stars, politicians, terrorist and asked the same innate questions revealing mostly nothing that mattered then we’d hear of the importance “interview”.
Don’t let the door bump you on the ass on the way out…or hell in her case.
What a miserable bitch, thank God she’s dead
Ms Walters legacy show ‘The View’ is now filled with hate and intolerance – what a shame. We are our legacy.
Sorry, not sorry.
I think the one that really started it all, blatent biased left wing reporting, is Eric Engberg of CBS.
always and forever Gilda Radner as Baba Wawa,,,she caught her essence nicely
With respect to journalism, the feminine version of Walter Cronkite. Negate the wall of facts/reality by going, over, around or under it to arrive at the proper desired politically expedient predetermined conclusion/opinion. Just the forerunners of today’s deep state propaganda apparatus generally described as the MSM.
She created “The View” which continues since she left the show to be the most one-sided, opinionated, untruthful & non-tolerant of any differing opinions that aren’t in lock-step “with them.”
Buh bye!
BW just happened along at the right time for the “Virginia Slims” era of media news.
Highly overrated because of her gender and frankly annoying to listen to…cheered on by the leftists populating the media in the early 80’s.
Her personal life is interesting…
Another feminist who used the casting couch to rising success. Her show “the View” should tell you everything you want to know of her. I grew up when the “older generation” simply referred to her as a woman who slept her way up.
When I was in Florida last winter, there were “Gas Stations called WAWA” all over the State. I see that Head Office was in Pennsylvania.
NOW I know where they got the name from! ROTFLMAO!
My momma taught me never say anything bad about the dead…..so I won’t.
Same here. Semper Fi bro.
Barbara Walters founded the disgusting program The View back in 1997 I believe
I remember the first broadcast of her co-anchor stint with Harry Reasoner. When she said that her goal was to deliver the “best darn news show I possibwee can,” my dad stood up and said “Oooooookay, that’s it for me.” Back then we had to change the channel by getting up and turning a plastic dial.
Sigh. Without editorializing, I will repeat this old saying: “De mortuis nil nisi bonum”.
Adios, Baba Wawa. Liberal spit.