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Sat Nov 21, 2015, 11:58 AM Nov 2015

I can explain Bahbwah WAHWAH



Of all the jerk things in her career of turning the news into a carnival, what crystalized it for me was a few years ago on The View when she first started hosting Bill O'LOOFAH, defending him, giving him more space, gushing over him. I realized they are kindred spirits, the binding being: SELF-PROMOTION. Add TRUMP in there.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/21/barbara-walters-wet-kiss-to-the-donald.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
[font size=5]Barbara Walters' Wet Kiss to the Donald [/font]

.... As her friend Dan Rather, another marvel of workaholic gerontology, told me at the time: “I’m tempted to say that I really can’t imagine Barbara retiring. Her whole life has been a triumph of the will.”

That may or may not have been a deliberate reference to German filmmaker Leni Riefenstal’s propaganda classic about a Nazi rally in Nuremberg; Rather is funny that way.

But judging by Friday’s broadcast network hagiography—and not to make any invidious comparisons to you know who—Walters in her dotage seems more than willing to serve as The Donald’s Riefenstahl. ....

But Dan Rather had a more accurate take, saying that Walters “has the exterior of a debutante but the heart of an assassin.”

“She can brush off slights,” Rather said then, “but if you do damage, real damage, to Barbara, it can be twenty years later, and you may have forgotten what it is, but she will find a way to get back at you. Conversely, if you do something nice for Barbara, she’ll never forget that either, and twenty years later, she’ll come out of nowhere and will do something incredibly good and kind and helpful. Barbara has demonstrated that she believes revenge is a dish best served cold. If I were Donald Trump, I would take out extra life insurance.”

By all appearances, Trump must have purchased a solid gold policy.


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