Before social media, Barbara Walters said ‘Tell Me Everything.’ And many did

She was really a chilly cunt and elitist SNOB and a half.

Fuck her, quite honestly.

Another one of life's frauds.

She was Roy Cohn's beard and her father had some sort of relationship with the mob (he owned nightclubs, which meant the mob probably owned him). There were far better journalists who were women like Pauline Frederick, Nancy Dickerson, and Marlene Sanders--all of them deserved to have an anchor desk more than Today girl, Baba Wawa.

And THAT! Thank you R2--

What kind of tree was Katharine Hepburn, anyway?

A great Big Dyke tree!

She was Republicunt through and through. Probably supported Trump before she died.

what r2 said. Ms. Waters is at least partially responsible for the decline of American journalism.

[QUOTE]She explained her lifelong devotion to Cohn as gratitude for his help in her adoption of her daughter, Jacqueline.[121] In her autobiography, Walters says she also felt grateful to Cohn because of legal assistance he had provided to her father.

Cohn inspired devotion because he had piles and piles of dirt on everybody who was somebody. I wonder from where/whom Cohn stole the baby.

When Connie "High Q, Low IQ" Chung was selling her book, she never talked about anyone else other than Walters and teh dim bulbs who interviewed them, never asked about other women who had paved the way. Dickerson and Sanders had long careers doing documentaries, deciding they'd had enough of the glass ceiling.

Cohn was as enmeshed with the mob as her father.

all that hoing and lying paid off, you should see the shit she had auctioned off after her death, no greasy headboards on offer.

[QUOTE]produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Documentaries and ABC News Studios

Produced by a self-admitted Trump voter and her network which has capitulated to Trump (twice now?). Expect a whitewash and love fest.

She’s no Frost/Nixon.

Will her techniques for giving blow jobs to powerful men be shared.

youre not a journalist, you're a busted down streetwalker who reads from a teleprompter. badly.

Not much to look at, not a great figure. Not a great intellect. But somehow managed to grift a career together..how did this happen

I just found her auction.. The bitch liked JEWELS and pretty fine art.

Did we ever talk about how ugly this bitch was?

She looked like a lump.

[Quote] She created one of daytime TV’s longest-running hits with “The View,” which evolved into a major forum for the country’s political discourse.

And which has since become an absolute embarrassment

Those celebrity interviews were actually started by Rona Barrett. They were shown on daytime TV and they edited so the celebrities seemed like they were discussing the same subject. Here is an early Cher interview.

The adoption sounds slightly shady and possibly extra-legal

[QUOTE] “We had dinner one night with a couple we rarely saw,” Walters said in a 2014 interview with Oprah Winfrey. “The woman said that she had a little girl ... and they wanted to adopt a boy ... They didn’t want the girl. And we said, 'We’ll take the girl!’ ”

[QUOTE]Walters kept the adoption a secret, however. She told NBC in 2002 that the decision was “in part because I really didn’t want the biological mother to know that Jackie had been adopted by us.”

Very odd. I'm sure Roy Cohn could have handled the adoption.

Dinah Shore also was a great interviewer.

and surprising no one the adopted daughter is all fucked up but filthy rich

[quote]he owned nightclubs

Rosie was mad at Walters for not adequately supporting her during the Trump fight and said something like "no wonder your kid hates you".

R4 - Kate's tree was an oak - strong and pretty.

She was horrible. Unwatchable. Her success one of the great American mysteries. Unctuous beyond compare. Many better female interviewers and reporters before her. The View a crime against humanity.

R4, she said "oak."

She was no Lee Phillip

She’s downright abusive in interviews with Doris Day, Dolly Parton and Angela Lansbury.

Was Babwa a Wepubwican?

When I see clips like this, I can see why she made it. She had her best chemistry with Hugh Downs. Her interviews for 20/20 were SO much better than her celebrity interviews.

People get on her back, but Harry Reasoner and lot of the male anchors back then were ultra conservative sexist pigs who treated their female coworkers like absolute shit. Many of them would most likely be MAGA in todays environment.

I get the criticisms of her, but Harry Reasoner was still such an unprofessional asshole to her.

R30, add Brooke Shields to that list.

R14 her oral skills were merely average at best.

she's no Virginia Graham

Didn’t care for her. There’s enough in her behavior - Dolly Interview, relationship with Cohn, to indicate she was a rotten person.

If Harry Reasoner hated her guts I could totally understand it.

She was a total bitch for what she did to Ricky Martin, and I haven't liked her since. She can rot.

Love how BW reads the words off a card with her Sarah Lawrence diction to make it clear she wants the world to think she doesn't talk like that in real life.

Also love how Mariah seriously shades her, after BW essentially calls her a bitch to her face. She makes it clear BW didn't know Minaj AND doesn't know the difference between singing and rap. BOOM!

If there was anyone who was quick to check a bitch if she gets out of line, it would be Barbara Walters, especially with other journalists or anyone she had to share the tv screen with at ABC.