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Barbara Walters Doesn't Check Facts, Attacks Glenn Beck Anyway
Newsbusters ^ | 06/02/09 | Mike Sargent

Posted on 06/03/2009 2:05:06 PM PDT by Big_Monkey

In a video post dated June 2, 2009, Breitbart TV reporter Scott Baker reveals that – shocker – Whoopi Goldberg was lying about Glenn Beck’s lying. What’s more, Barbara Walters didn’t check her facts before the Baxter-esque duo ambushed Beck on his May 20 appearance on ABC’s “The View.”

The video – embedded at right – is quite long, but I’ve broken down below the information offered in it.

First up in Baker’s video is a recap of what was known before his investigation. Beck rode the Amtrak Acela from Connecticut to Washington D.C., and along the way, encountered Walters and Goldberg. The facts surrounding this encounter were hotly disputed in Beck’s appearance on “The View.” As it turns out, Beck’s version of the facts were incredibly accurate. For example, the main premise of the Viewettes’ accusations was that Walters called Beck over to their seats to speak with him – which Beck never claimed in the first place

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abc; amtrak; bababawawa; beck; dontyouknowwhoiam; hissyfit; theshrew; walters
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Newsbusters does yeoman's work fighting the good fight. Without them, the MSM would get away with much more than they already do.

The View, and ALL their hosts are absolute jokes.

1 posted on 06/03/2009 2:05:07 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: Big_Monkey

Walters is a mummified corpse.

She doesn’t have the decency to lie down and be still.


2 posted on 06/03/2009 2:11:22 PM PDT by Yankee
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Only IDIOTS watch “The View”.

Babababa is also impressed with Paris Hilton too.

Does that give you a clue on where Babs is coming from?


3 posted on 06/03/2009 2:14:18 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Yankee

Well she laid down, but not still, with other men when it suited her.


4 posted on 06/03/2009 2:14:30 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: Yankee

That yenta is still alive? You’re kidding , right?


5 posted on 06/03/2009 2:16:24 PM PDT by Batman11 (Chicago, Land of Lincoln who freed the slaves and Land of Obama who enslaved the free.)
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The police escort and reserved seats, for example; were those things actually done for the Viewettes’ ease of transportation?

"Don't you know who I am?!!!"

6 posted on 06/03/2009 2:18:38 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Justice is blind. Sonia Sotomayor is not even qualified to sit on an IMPARTIAL jury.)
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To: nmh
"Only IDIOTS watch “The View”.

That's true, but a lot of idiots also vote. And, idiots are much more impressionable than critically thinking people. The View is an in-kind contribution to the DNC, and it's an incredibly effective one with a critical voting bloc - stay at home mothers.

7 posted on 06/03/2009 2:19:04 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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Oh, and the icing on the cake: ABC refuses to communicate with journalists any more on the matter.

And I refuse to support ABC-Disney products until Disney divests itself of the repugnant ABC network or seriously cleans house. Then again, modern Disney needs a housecleaning as well. Walt would be spinning in his grave.

8 posted on 06/03/2009 2:20:36 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Justice is blind. Sonia Sotomayor is not even qualified to sit on an IMPARTIAL jury.)
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That's true, but a lot of idiots also vote. And, idiots are much more impressionable than critically thinking people. The View is an in-kind contribution to the DNC, and it's an incredibly effective one with a critical voting bloc - stay at home mothers.

Exactly. These people don't watch "Washington Week in Review" or "Meet the Depressed."

They get their 'news' from shows like "The View" or "The Daily Show." The Rats were smart and realized this.

9 posted on 06/03/2009 2:21:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (USM is Gator Bait! (Congrats to U-Dub!))
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To: Yankee

You’d think she would be good at that.


10 posted on 06/03/2009 2:23:03 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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Walters is a mummified corpse. She doesn’t have the decency to lie down and be still.

Amen.

Highly ironic for a one-time bimbette who won her first jobs on the network casting couch.

11 posted on 06/03/2009 2:35:53 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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“As it turns out, Beck’s version of the facts were incredibly accurate”

That’s an odd phrase, “incredibly accurate”. Almost an oxymoron, I’d say.

Also, if Walters was there, she’d hardly have to “check her facts”. She’d just have to check her memory. But I know that’s complicated for old people.


12 posted on 06/03/2009 2:37:01 PM PDT by Tublecane
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The fact that these shrieking hags are still on the air may give you a little insight as to how we wound up with a socialist in the White House.


13 posted on 06/03/2009 2:37:58 PM PDT by taillightchaser (!)
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“the repugnant ABC network”

I kinda like “Lost”.


14 posted on 06/03/2009 2:39:59 PM PDT by Tublecane
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"Also, if Walters was there, she’d hardly have to “check her facts”. She’d just have to check her memory. But I know that’s complicated for old people.

I think the point he's making is that Barbara claimed during the program that she nor Whoopie, nor anyone at ABC asked for, or received special treatment. The author then goes on to quote a spokesman for ABC that states that they indeed did ask for and receive special treatment. At the risk of sounding like a mind-reader, I'm assuming that's what the author was addressing.

As for the "incredibly accurate" phrase, you're right. Accurate is a precise description. While it's possible to be less than accurate, it's impossible to be more accurate. Much like being pregnant, you either are or you aren't. There's no gradations of pregnant and there's no gradations of accurate, IMHO.

15 posted on 06/03/2009 2:45:33 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: a fool in paradise
the repugnant ABC network

Watch "The Goode Family" tonight at 9:00 Eastern. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

16 posted on 06/03/2009 2:47:52 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Travis McGee
Highly ironic for a one-time bimbette who won her first jobs on the network casting couch.

I think her "sell by" date expired sometime between when she was first ridden bareback by J.E.B. Stuarts cavalry and the repeal of prohibition.

The only way anyone would hit that now is with the back of a shovel.

17 posted on 06/03/2009 2:58:13 PM PDT by Yankee
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To: Big_Monkey

Emboldenment


18 posted on 06/03/2009 3:00:51 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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Typical leftist tactic: 1. Lie 2. Deny the Lie 3. Attack thr accuser 4. Once the lie is exposed claim that the lie doesn’t matter anymore


19 posted on 06/03/2009 3:29:54 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule
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Barbara Walters ) did a story on gender roles in Kabul several years before the Afghan conflict.
She noted that women customarily walked about ten paces behind their husbands.
She returned to Kabul recently and observed that the men now walked several paces behind their wives.
Ms Walters approached one of the Afghani women and said. “This is marvellous. Can you tell the free world just what
enabled women to achieve this reversal of roles?

“land mines” said the woman.


20 posted on 06/03/2009 4:06:31 PM PDT by Daffynition ("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
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