Posted on 03/19/2007 11:49:55 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
Last Friday, Barbara Walters embarrassed herself conducting a fawning interview with Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's Marxist budding dictator. This is a more serious mortification than Rosie O'Donnell spouting nonsense on ABC's The View, which Walters hosts and partly owns. Not since Herbert Matthews of the New York Times wrote about the Fidel Castro the humanitarian, just as his fortunes were flagging in the late 1950s, have we seen a major American journalist go so gaga over a would-be Latin dictator.
Walters' offering on Hugo Chavez on ABC's 20/20 went far beyond the garden-variety media bias seen so abundantly in print news coverage of Latin America this past week. It looked far more like modern propaganda.
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Is he happy that Rudy Giuliani is invested in the same company as him?.
"Total Disgrace, meet Presidente Hugo Chavez. Mr Presidente, meet the star of America's Useful Idiots, Total Disgrace Barbra Walters."
Yes, ratings are her primary concern. But if she can support communists and other enemies of civilization at the same time, all the better.
It's time for the old broad to be put out to pasture, like Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite, etc.
She's probably trying to find a man for Rosie.
Baba Wawa is the very definition of "Presstitute."
She is a cheap leftist media ho.
I watched this, it was sickening.
Her face looks deformed these days. The concept of graceful retirement needs reviving.
Her face is perfect for radio now.
Barbara Who?
"She's probably trying to find a man for Rosie."
Yugo Chavez is a man?
Yeah, the kind Rosie likes. Nice and smooth down there.
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