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Barbara Walters on Journalists: You 'Don't Know Whether We're Republicans or Democrats' By Scott Whitlock Created 04/09/2012 - 5:10pm What world does she live in? According to veteran journalist Barbara Walters on Monday, the American public doesn't know whether "most" reporters are "Republicans or Democrats." The unbelievable claim came during a View segment on the passing of 60 Minutes journalist Mike Wallace. Walters, who once recoiled at the prospect of the "scary" Sarah Palin becoming President, insisted, "But, most of us...you don't know whether we're Republicans or Democrats or exhibitionists." (Exhibitionists?) The comment came after comedienne Whoopi Goldberg insisted, "And...

Obama says own worst trait is 'laziness' By Justin Sink - 12/23/11 12:32 PM ET President Obama said that his worst personality trait was "laziness," the byproduct of a youth on the sun-soaked beaches of Hawaii, in an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters set to air Friday. "Deep down underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me," Obama said, according to an interview excerpt obtained by the National Journal. "It's probably from growing up in Hawaii, and it's sunny outside. Sitting on the beach." The president heads back to Hawaii Friday after having successfully negotiated...

First lady Michelle Obama tells Barbara Walters in a 20/20 special that it is "practical" for her to put her self highest on her priority list. Obama says she found her self slipping "pretty low" on her own priority list because she was "so busy caring for everyone else." Michelle Obama says she spends time with girlfriends and going out in her attempt to put herself higher on her priority list. Transcript below. Barbara Walters, ABC News: "Mrs. Obama, you've recently said something that I thought was very interesting for other women to hear. You said 'you put your own...

Barbara Walters, ABC News: "What is your biggest peeve of each other?" President Obama: "I don't have one." Walters: "Aww." Michelle Obama: "My list is too long."

Related Videos | expand "It's probably from, you know, growing up in Hawaii and it's sunny outside, and sitting on the beach," President Obama also said on an interview with ABC News' Barbara Walters set to air Friday night on "20/20." In the full interview, set to air tonight, President Obama says that "nothing frustrates me more than when people aren't doing their jobs."

TMZ has a story up about Barbara Walters‘ interview with Pres. Obama this afternoon. Barbara just finished interviewing the Prez at the White House. According to the source, during a break in the action, Barbara leaned over to Obama and said, “I need one more interview with you because I’m retiring next year.” Here’s the thing .. Barbara’s mic was open when she said it, and lots of people were listening. Turns out Walters is not retiring — probably not ever — but rather it’s her way of booking an interview, even the Commander in Chief. “Barbara has joked that...

As revelations about a possible scandal plaguing Rep. Anthony Weiner continue surface, the Democratic New York congressman continues to have defenders: On Monday’s broadcast of “The View,” co-host Barbara Walters went to bat for Weiner and proposed that the picture in question was intended for his wife and not for whom it was sent. “First of all, I have my own theory about why he took that picture, if indeed he did take that picture,” Walters said. “This is my theory – this doesn’t mean that it is right. He is married to this beautiful woman, whom I know, who...

The View’s Barbara Walters thinks maybe Anothy Weiner took the crotch sot to send to his wife to show her how much he misses her. And if Sarah Palin go around in her bus and still be taken seriously…

"I would hate now to be a Republican candidate thinking of running," Barbara Walters said on "The View" this morning. "Skip the next election," Joy Behar chimed in. Elisabeth Hasselbeck says she will not join in on the politicization of Osama bin Laden's death.

>My former canon law professor, Dr. Ed Peters—who also has a degree in civil law (yeah, he's pretty smart)—has been taken to task by the brilliant scholars and intellectual lights of "The View". Ken Shepherd of Newsbusters writes: Discussing how Catholic canon law advisor Dr. Edward Peters has declared that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) committed an "objectively sacrilegious" act that "produces grave scandal" by receiving Communion on January 2, almost every panelist on ABC gabfest "The View" today rebuked the scholar for his pronouncement. ..."What would Jesus do?" View moderator Whoopi Goldberg asked, answering her own question by...

"The View" co-host talks about next Speaker of the House John Boehner's tears. Joy Be-w*ore calls Boehner as Weeper of the House.

When ABC's Barbara Walters deems Sarah Palin one of the year's "Most Fascinating People," it's a backhanded compliment. Walters knows Palin has an adoring fan base, and she's definitely not part of it. When the Dec. 2 special began, Walters greeted Palin with "Many people find the thought of you as president a little scary." This is not what Walters asked President Obama in yet another gooey Barack-and-Michelle hour-long ABC interview on Thanksgiving night. Clearly, a large, energized chunk of the American electorate believed -- and continues to believe -- the idea of Obama as president to be horrifying. Instead,...

Syndicated TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey tore into the American people for lacking "reason," "respect," "civility," and "decency" and "only thinking about themselves" for not supporting Barack Obama. Winfrey made her scathing criticism during an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters.A survey released this week showed that a majority of the country believes they are worse off after nearly two years of the Obama presidency.WALTERS: "And today, what would you say to him (Obama)? How do you feel about it all?"WINFREY: "I feel that it is, first of all why would anybody want that job? To get, because no matter...

Two week ago, when John Heilemann wrote a cover story for New York Magazine outlining the perfect storm that could carry Sarah Palin to a Presidential election victory in 2012, I would have told you that Sarah was much more powerful as a king-maker and not a King. And then she went and bragged to Barbara Walters that she can beat Obama in 2012 this. Hah ha. Funny. In an Armageddon kind of way right? We can’t be that stupid, can we? Well… in the immortal slogan of an era long ago: yes we can! So I decided to re-read...

What newspapers do you read? It was the question that arguably did Sarah Palin the most harm during the 2008 election. When the Republican vice presidential candidate could not name for Katie Couric which magazines or papers she regularly read that informed her worldview, it fueled the perception among voters that she was not ready for national office. In an interview with Barbara Walters, Palin set the record straight. "I read anything and everything that I can get my hands on as I have since I was a little girl," Palin told Walters in an interview to air tonight on...

We have some dear friends who are Traditional Catholics. Like many conservative Christians, this means the women dress modestly and in skirts. Their 15-year-old daughter, GG, is attending a boarding school in our region, and since she's so far from home, we're blessed to have her with us this Thanksgiving weekend. But her parents are worried about GG's Christmas break. "What with the whole nude body scanner/groping issue at the airport, I'm fretting about having her fly home," wrote her mother. Let's face it, the (cough) "security" measures being implement by the TSA right now are daunting enough for an...

To those who say that the president squandered his political capital by pushing for health care when he should have focused on the economy, Obama defended his record. "This notion that somehow you can only do one thing at once is simply not true. The fact is, is that we stabilized the financial system...we turned an economy that was contracting to one that was growing. We have added a million jobs over the last year to the economy," Obama told Walters. "I am absolutely confident that when we fully implemented health care, and we started to see those costs go...

Joe Scarborough has a decidedly cynical take on Sarah Palin's public musings about the possibility of a 2012 presidential run. The Morning Joe host asserts that Palin knows she can't win and won't run. According to Scarborough, Palin is in it for the money, and is engaging in open speculation about a run for the mercenary purpose of keeping her brand alive. Joe offered his jaded view on today's Morning Joe after the show aired a clip of Palin telling Barbara Walters that she believed she could defeat Pres. Obama. View video after the jump.

is the View creator barbara walters not going to retire soon? i think she is due to retire now, i feel that whoopie is perfect to take control 100 percent and she needs to stop her longwinded stories i am getting so tired of her shushing others so she can speak

CNN's outgoing 9 PM host Larry King announced his lineup of guests this week, and it is a veritable who's who of people in entertainment, politics and news. Among the guests is ABC's Barbara Walters, who will be appearing Tuesday in what CNN is billing as her "final interview" for "Larry King Live." Tonight, King will welcome former President Jimmy Carter, who has been making the rounds this week. Wednesday, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who will be in New York for the annual UN confab, will sit down with King. Thursday, comedian Jerry Seinfeld will have his "final interview" with...

Talk show host and maven of all things domestic Martha Stewart has spotted an opportunity. According to The Washington Post's Lisa de Moraes, Stewart wants to take on interview icons Larry King and Barbara Walters: "My favorite interviewers are Larry King [and] Barbara Walters, both of whom are kind of retiring," Stewart said in a conference call Wednesday... "Who's going to take their place as the serious, great interviewer? I'm throwing my name in there," Martha told reporters on a call to talk about the return of "The Martha Stewart Show," which premieres Sept. 13 on the Hallmark Channel. Of...

There's no contest. Of all the major religions, the Muslims have the most graphic view of heaven. It's refreshing, in fact. They don't mess around invoking vague spaces of peace and light; they come through with Relais et Châteaux specifics. One imam tells Barbara Walters on her ABC special tonight: "We will be in comfortable homes, reclining on silk couches. We will have people coming - servants, lovely servants, young youths to regale you, Barbara. Residing in gardens beyond which rivers flow." Yes - to cut to the chase - there will be virgins, too. Even for women. (Barbara's "youths.")...

We have a war that is going sour, our Justice Department has become the Department of Social Injustice run by a radical racist who refuses to prosecute Blacks and minorities, the federal government refuses to secure the border and welcomes illegal aliens to gut our states' welfare entitlements and denies local law enforcement the right to prosecute illegal aliens, Obama's administration is riddled with tax cheats and criminals who get an ongoing free pass for felonies that would put the common man in prison, and an energy policy that has our adversaries laughing their asses off, our citizens are lucky...

President Barack Obama on Wednesday reflected on 20 months of crises that have plagued his administration and praised the inspiration he draws from the American people as he taped a rare interview with a daytime television talk show. Obama's appearance on ABC's "The View" -- which is presented by a panel including veteran journalist Barbara Walters and actress Whoopi Goldberg -- will be shown in full on Thursday at 11:00am EST. In excerpts released by the network, Obama tells the panel it is "fun" to be on the show for the first time since he became president. Walters says: "But...

Ted Kennedy's KGB Correspondence By Kevin Mooney on 6.22.10 @ 6:08AM Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's self-serving, secret correspondence with Soviet agents during the height of the Cold War included proposals for collaborative efforts designed to undermine official U.S. policy set by Democratic and Republican administrations, KGB documents show. With the media now reporting on the late senator's just released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file, now is an opportune time for a more expansive investigation into Kennedy's KGB contacts. The agency took a keen interest in a 1961 "fact-finding" trip the Massachusetts Democrat took to Mexico and other parts of...

Twenty-nine years, 93 interviews, one regret. That's Barbara Walters' personal scorecard when it comes to ranking her internationally famous Oscar-night interviews that come to a close Sunday evening in a program featuring Mo'Nique and Sandra Bullock. For nearly three decades, the interviews made up one of the most sought-after, eagerly watched, highest-rated programs on television, but now, Walters has decided to stop doing them. It's not a retirement, because she admits that she's going to continue delving into the private lives of the world's big names, but the showbiz-specific package she puts together at Oscar time each year will be...

Barbara Walters interviews South Carolina’s First Lady Jenny Sanford in conjunction with her memoir “Staying True,” which will be published in February. Sanford discusses how she tried to stay true to herself and her family after husband Governor Mark Sanford disappeared and then revealed his extramarital affair with an Argentinean woman, the heartbreak behind the headlines of their marriage breakup, and being a political spouse. The “Barbara Walters Special” airs on “20/20,” FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

In an interview broadcast on ABC News' This Week, Barbara Walters grilled Senator-elect Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, over his semi-nude photo spread in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1982. Walters told Brown he was becoming known as "that nude magazine guy" and insinuated he was becoming a "joke."Unmentioned by Walters was that she had an adulterous affair with the last Republican senator from Massachusetts, Ed Brooke, in the 1970s, several years before Brown appeared in Cosmo.Walters herself revealed the affair in her 2008 autobiography, Auditions. The New York Daily News reported on her revelation: At the time, the twice-divorced Walters was...

Here is a video preview of Senator-elect Scott Brown's interview with Barbara Walters which will air today on ABC News' "This Week." In the clip, Brown says he will vote as a "Fiscal Conservative," and will vote with the Republicans if they are pursuing fiscally conservative policies. But he told Walters he is an "Independent thinker," and will vote his conscience. . . . (VIDEO)

In addition to a roundtable that includes Roger Ailes and Arianna Huffington, TVNewser has learned substitute host of ABC's "This Week" Barbara Walters will interview Capitol Hill's man of the moment, Massachusetts Sen.-Elect Scott Brown. This will be Brown's first Sunday show appearance and the only one he's doing this weekend.

Here is video of Charles Gibson on The View talking about why he is going to retire...(Video)Gibson said he has had a "terrific career" and this past election was "an election of a lifetime" because "It was an amazing moment to say to the country that we have elected an African-American as the 44th President of the United States." Gibson then said "I carried no water for Obama, it was just an amazing moment for the progress of this country."

Barbara Walters FAILS to pick the REAL LADY and REAL AMERICAN, Sarah Palin.

Barbara Walters will highlight Glenn Beck among her "10 Most Fascinating People of 2009" special next Wednesday when it airs on ABC at 10pmET. He joins the likes of Sarah Palin, Adam Lambert, and Lady Gaga. Beck is definitely a unique television personality. Tomorrow night, he'll make another venture to the big screen, when his "The Christmas Sweater - A Return To Redemption...LIVE!" stage show will be simulcast in HD movie theaters across the country. Apparently, it's the closest most people will be able to get to seeing him live this winter. His "Bold and Fresh" tour with Bill O'Reilly...

Sarah Palin says she’d rate Barack Obama's performance as president a 4 out of 10. She criticized the president for his handling of the economy and for "dithering" on national security questions. "There are a lot of decisions being made that I — and probably the majority of Americans — are not impressed with right now," she said in an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters Tuesday. She said Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was "premature." The former Alaska governor also said that a 2012 presidential bid is "not on my radar," but wouldn't rule out playing some role in the next...

Here is video in two parts of Gov. Sarah Palin being interviewed by Barbara Walters for Good Morning America. Walters asked Palin if she wants to be President. Palin said that is "not on my radar screen right now." She said she has been receiving many offers, but would not say if she has been offered a talk show. She did say she has been offered at reality show, which she turned down. In the video, Palin also rates Barack Obama on a Scale of 1 to 10; Says Obama was not yet deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize; and...

Had a great conversation today with Barbara Walters regarding America’s special needs community. Her compassion for those who some in our society see as “less than perfect” comes from personal experience as she was so close to her sister. Barbara wrote lovingly about her sister in her #1 bestselling memoir titled, Audition. Barbara and I even attempted to interview Trig during this segment, but he was about as patient through the interview as any other one-and-a-half-year-old child! I appreciate Barbara highlighting America’s special needs community. The beautiful heart of our country shines when we embrace these precious ones. Knowing of...

Had a great conversation today with Barbara Walters regarding America’s special needs community. Her compassion for those who some in our society see as “less than perfect” comes from personal experience as she was so close to her sister. Barbara wrote lovingly about her sister in her #1 bestselling memoir titled, Audition. Barbara and I even attempted to interview Trig during this segment, but he was about as patient through the interview as any other one-and-a-half-year-old child! I appreciate Barbara highlighting America’s special needs community. The beautiful heart of our country shines when we embrace these precious ones. Knowing of...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin turns more political in her interview with ABC's Barbara Walters. Their chat starts on Tuesday's "(Video) Good Morning America." Palin's first interview to promote her book, "Going Rogue," aired today on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Palin has blasted President Barack Obama's push for health-care reform by saying the changes would open decisions on the elderly and disabled to "death panels." Obama has blasted that criticism as "a lie, plain and simple." Palin notes that the words "death panels" are not found "in any of those thousands of pages of different variations of the health-care bill."...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin turns more political in her interview with ABC's Barbara Walters. Their chat starts on Tuesday's "Good Morning America." Palin's first interview to promote her book, "Going Rogue," aired today on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Palin has blasted President Barack Obama's push for health-care reform by saying the changes would open decisions on the elderly and disabled to "death panels." Obama has blasted that criticism as "a lie, plain and simple." Palin notes that the words "death panels" are not found "in any of those thousands of pages of different variations of the health-care bill." Yet...

An interview with Oprah Winfrey is already scheduled, and I’m also planning to talk with Bill O’Reilly, Barbara Walters, Sean Hannity, Greta Van Susteren, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Dennis Miller, Tammy Bruce, and others, including local Alaska personalities Bob & Mark and Eddie Burke. (Variety is the spice of life!)

Former Senator Edward Brooke received the Congressional Gold Medal today from President Obama. I looked at the rules for recipients, and one of them is they shall not receive it if they have receive it if they have received another for essentially the same thing. He did. He was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004. NOTES: "Gold Medalist: President Barack Obama will speak today at a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol awarding former Massachusetts Republican Sen. Edward Brooke the Congressional Gold Medal, one of the nation’s highest honors. Brooke, 90 years old, will be in attendance....

Whoopi proceeded to do her usual scowl and slump in the chair act that she reserves for anyone she perceives to be of a different mindset than hers. Most especially anyone not of the democrat persuasion. Whoopi was embarrassing and her sidekick Barbara Walters looked like a wannabe irate and important challenge to Glenn Beck when in reality Barbara Walters looked pitiful.

Is Barbara Walters ready to retire? The 79-year-old television legend will reportedly be done with TV later this year. In fact, she's telling friends already that once her ABC contract expires shortly, she'll be calling it quits. Apparently, Walters is "burned out" and ready to relax. An inside source said, "Barbara's thought long and hard over whether she wants to extend her contract when it expires with ABC this summer. It's left her with many sleepless nights. ABC sees her as one of its marquee female stars and would like to see her continue, but Barbara's decided she's 'done it...

Surprise, surprise. Barbara Walters seems to think that Sarah Palin is stupid. Yes, America held its bated, collective breath last week. Anxious citizens waited on seat-egdes, atop pins & needles, and with fingertips gnawed to bloody stubs for the Great Walters to grace mere plebeians with her list of 2008's "10 Most Fascinating People." Though her show would be more fascinating if it were annually called "10 Most Fascinating Reasons Why I'm Even Able To Utter A Sentence, What With This Cleft Palate and All The Botox," I understand the general public's fascination with Walters' fascinations. She is, after all,...

And here you have the best reason for Sara Palin to keep doing what she is doing. She helped get Saxby Chambliss elected. She was the first to accept the CPAC invitation for next year. She is playing for keeps. If Rush has her back in 2012, the Conservatives will be there too, and she will be tough to beat. Video at link . . .

Check out the clip of Barbara Walters's interview of the Obamas, aired on GMA today, and tell me whether you find something off-putting in the way Walters poses what is, after all, a very banal question. And then there's the President-elect's self-centered answer . . . Adopting a tone of maudlin sincerity: BARBARA WALTERS: You know, I don't have to stress the fact that this is such a hard time for this country. Do you have a Thanksgiving message that you would like to give to the people? "The people"? Wouldn't "Americans" or perhaps "your fellow Americans" be customary? And...

The Barack Obama media tour is making another stop -- and at another high-profile place. A week after the president-elect and first lady-elect Michelle Obama spoke to "60 Minutes," they're sitting down for an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters. It'll air as a one-hour special Wednesday night on ABC. ABC said the interview would touch on the transition, the economy, foreign policy and how the family is dealing with the immense change in their lives.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008: Joy calls Sarah Palin a few names, inclusing "DUMB" and more, MUCH MORE!!! Barbara Walters confronts Elisabeth Hasselbeck and asks her why she keeps defending Palin all of the time. These broads are totally losing it in this clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_GjgZseFRc

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Barbara Walters: Syrian Dictator 'Charming,' 'Intelligent' By Justin McCarthy | July 7, 2008 - 15:31 Surprise! Barbara Walters visits an anti-American dictator and returns with very nice remarks about him. Returning from the week long break on "The View" July 7, Barbara Walters described how she spent America’s birthday, and the celebration of a document denouncing tyranny, with an anti-American tyrant.While most Americans celebrated Independence Day with fireworks and barbeques, Barbara Walters spent the occasion dining with Syrian leader Bashir al-Assad, whom Walters described as "intelligent" and "charming" who wants "very much to have good relations with us." Perhaps...