Jane Pauley on Barbara Walters, the GOAT 

Couldn't say it better. Everyone imitates a legend whether they mean to or not.

I recall watching her as the whole family ate breakfast together, my mom and dad were very impressed with her. I became a print journalist.

If you like real journalism, how could you like Barbara Walters?

She was actually a terrible human being. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r2vzk1BH_E4.html

Yes, she was a great heroine!

And men too!

AND MEN!

She is still setting it up. You know who it’s gonna be. A very famous father and son duo

Amen!

*Demigod.

As you see the glowing tributes to Barbara Walters, please remember that she once served as a beard for Roy Cohn. That one act pretty much sums up what type of a person she was. Okay, the merits of dating a gay man in the late 1950s is debatable, as I can understand wanting to help a guy fit into society during a time of prejudice against homosexuals, but it brings up the question of her level of integrity, as this was clearly a qui-pro-quo act to help further her career, and also brings up the question of what level of journalism we will receive from this woman, since she was helping Roy Cohn perpetrate a lie. More importantly is the character of the man she chose to help. Roy Cohn was responsible for ruining countless lives as Joe McCarthy’s right-hand man in his hunt for communists, as well as McCarthy’s lesser-known crusade to drive homosexuals out of the federal government. (Ironic when you think of it.) In later years, Cohn became a mafia lawyer, was Donald Trump’s mentor, and was eventually disbarred because he got a dying client to change his will, leaving everything to him. Of course, when Walters was Cohn’s beard, he had only ruined people’s lives with the communist and homosexual witch hunt thing. All the other stuff would come later. Barbara Walters wasn’t a trailblazer. She was an opportunist. If she’s a role model, we are in big trouble. Read the play “Angels in America” to get a good handle on Roy Cohn’s personality.

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But Barbara was able to get Saddam Hussein to talk to her as well as Castro. Then the US politicians from Nixon, Johnson, I believe and Ford. Those with maybe Nancy Dickerson ladies couldn’t do the phones like Barbara could. Internationally, maybe the late Lisa Howard.

I loved Cokie Roberts. Carole Simpson and she were both class acts, so was Gwen Ifill.

Jkie O has nothing to say, She never work.