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Barbara Walters, trailblazing TV icon, dies at 93
ABC News ^ | December 30th, 2022 | Luchina Fisher and Bill Hutchinson

Posted on 12/30/2022 6:52:16 PM PST by shadowlands1960

Barbara Walters, the trailblazing television news broadcaster and longtime ABC News anchor and correspondent who shattered the glass ceiling and became a dominant force in an industry once dominated by men, has died. She was 93.

Walters joined ABC News in 1976, becoming the first female anchor on an evening news program. Three years later, she became a co-host of "20/20," and in 1997, she launched "The View." In a career that spanned five decades, Walters won 12 Emmy awards, 11 of those while at ABC News.

She made her final appearance as a co-host of "The View" in 2014, but remained an executive producer of the show and continued to do some interviews and specials for ABC News.

"I do not want to appear on another program or climb another mountain," she said at the time. "I want instead to sit on a sunny field and admire the very gifted women -- and OK, some men too -- who will be taking my place."

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2020; babawawa; barbarawalters; barbarawaltersobit; buhbye; deadagain; rip; theview; wellbye
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To: dfwgator

Maury was NOT the father!


61 posted on 12/30/2022 7:30:50 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: dfwgator; pax_et_bonum
Last year I was re-watching the movie "The Last Detail" with Jack Nicholson, and they have a scene where they pass a building in which had a bunch of people doing chanting (A very early Seventies thing) and when they went inside, one of the chanting people caught my eye, and I thought "That's...thats...that's Gilda Radner!

I love watching movies and seeing someone just pop up. I was watching the movie "No Time For Sergeants", and they were flying in a B-25. I saw the co-pilot, and thought "That's...thats...that's Corporal Klinger from M.A.S.H.! (Jaimie Farr)

I loved Gilda Radner. Her whole thing with "Judy Miller" on SNL just makes me grin thinking of it...this sketch...just brilliant!

The Best of Gilda Radner SNL

62 posted on 12/30/2022 7:32:42 PM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

What a crowd of miscreants... and all winning that award the same year... bizarre..


63 posted on 12/30/2022 7:32:55 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: Fai Mao

Looking forward to it with great anticipation.


64 posted on 12/30/2022 7:33:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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To: shadowlands1960
One of her first TV appearances, in 1965 with Ed McMahon in a Citgo commercial when they changed their name from Cities Service. That brand new 65 Impala convertible was like the one my uncle bought.
65 posted on 12/30/2022 7:33:28 PM PST by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire CBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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To: shadowlands1960

My old BF looked and sounded like Hugh Downs, and my name is Barbara. We had a lot of fun with that.

Hail and farewell, BaBa. You had a good (if stupid) run.


66 posted on 12/30/2022 7:34:04 PM PST by Veto! (FJB sucks rocks)
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To: caww
That may get you married, but will it keep you married? Walters was married four times.

-PJ

67 posted on 12/30/2022 7:34:24 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: rlmorel

Probably my all-time favorite Gilda routine....

Let’s Talk Dirty To The Animals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9C_MGUhlVU

Only Gilda could get away with this.


68 posted on 12/30/2022 7:36:02 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EvilCapitalist

I never understood the appeal for her.


69 posted on 12/30/2022 7:37:33 PM PST by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: Impala64ssa

I wonder how much they got paid for that little gig?


70 posted on 12/30/2022 7:38:27 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

limousine liberal.


71 posted on 12/30/2022 7:38:53 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Fauci, Soros, Gates, Sr. Still trying to kill us all. And Baba was their mouthpiece. So to speak.


72 posted on 12/30/2022 7:39:49 PM PST by Veto! (FJB sucks rocks)
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To: shadowlands1960
Roast. In. Hell.

Surprise surprise I can the fact that Hell is real in your eyes.

73 posted on 12/30/2022 7:40:15 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: SamAdams76
her and Larry King and omprah I throw into the same pot.....they were given their slots and propelled up because they played the game....

anybody could replace them....anybody....infact, most would do better....

but they were the "in" crowd and could never be dethroned.....

74 posted on 12/30/2022 7:41:11 PM PST by cherry
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Wow, what a photo!


75 posted on 12/30/2022 7:41:23 PM PST by caver
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To: newzjunkey

now John Stossel....there’s a reporter/interviewer....


76 posted on 12/30/2022 7:42:23 PM PST by cherry
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To: Organic Panic
Did she leave the world a better place?

No.

Her leaving it made it a better place.

77 posted on 12/30/2022 7:44:26 PM PST by null and void (It’s not far-right to prevent mass starvation. It’s far-left to cause mass starvation.)
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To: shadowlands1960

Was she a reporter or a narrator? What big story did she break? Did she just interview people and help those on the left get their message across, and put barriers in place to hinder those on the right getting their message across? She was on TV a lot during a time when there were limited choices. In today’s celebrity worship culture, I guess that is important.


78 posted on 12/30/2022 7:46:55 PM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: alternatives?

She did news coverage but her main job was as you say, an interviewer. She got the ‘big fish.’ I think it was in many ways a status thing... powerful men and women were more likely to accept an interview with her because it connoted that they were ‘somebody.’


79 posted on 12/30/2022 7:52:19 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: Fai Mao
Holy Cow! What a racket will be wailed when The PIAPS croaks over!!!!!!

I have a brand new never worn

shirt reserved for that very occasion, unless Pelosi predeceases her....

80 posted on 12/30/2022 7:53:39 PM PST by null and void (It’s not far-right to prevent mass starvation. It’s far-left to cause mass starvation.)
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