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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."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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

Oh my gosh!

Thank you for posting that skit!

So funny! Gilda was adorable!!!

I love seeing people show up in movies, too, but I mostly watch the really old ones.


81 posted on 12/30/2022 7:55:37 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (God is good, He loves us, and He is always with us.)
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To: DesertRhino

It’s what she did when she got there.

Do you ever have anything decent to say?


82 posted on 12/30/2022 7:57:06 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: alternatives?

watch Norma MacDonald on the View in 2000:
‘I hope the Democrats don’t steal the election’

These ##### on the view were nasty libs since it’s inception. Watch how they treat Norm. Horrible people. May God have mercy on her soul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3PP_SWHUQQ


83 posted on 12/30/2022 8:01:24 PM PST by imabadboy99
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To: imabadboy99

I miss Norm so much, we really needed him now.


84 posted on 12/30/2022 8:02:44 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: shadowlands1960

“with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on his plans to end his country’s fighting with Lebanon.”

Didn’t know Egypt was at war with Lebanon.

I thought it was Israel. Who knew?


85 posted on 12/30/2022 8:03:07 PM PST by RedMonqey
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To: x

Dead wood?


86 posted on 12/30/2022 8:05:26 PM PST by RedMonqey
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To: RedMonqey

They would have had to crawl across Israel to do that. He probably was supporting one of the factions there though.


87 posted on 12/30/2022 8:05:58 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Your post reminds me of something I learned a while ago. “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” -Thumper’s mom


88 posted on 12/30/2022 8:06:40 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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This is the woman who purposefully attempted to embarrass Bing Crosby for a nonsensical question about if Crosby’s son was a homo, even after Crosby had given bisexual satyr David Bowie the prime slot in Crosby’s ‘77 Christmas Special.

Oooh I’ll bet them flames are hot, Barabas lol…

89 posted on 12/30/2022 8:09:12 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: shadowlands1960

Probably but the article mention Lebanon, not a certain faction, of which there were many .


90 posted on 12/30/2022 8:09:51 PM PST by RedMonqey
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To: Williams

“And the republican senator from Massachusetts”

It was Senator Brooks, the first black senator not from the deep South. And he was married at the time.

A double plus good in the Liberals scorebook.


91 posted on 12/30/2022 8:14:07 PM PST by RedMonqey
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To: shadowlands1960

Punk fashion designer who died yesterday Vivienne Westwood, 94; feminist newswoman Baba Wawa who died today, 93; both waiting for Pope Benedict, 95. That’ll be some Class of ‘22.


92 posted on 12/30/2022 8:14:42 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)
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Good widdance.

93 posted on 12/30/2022 8:14:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: shadowlands1960

Love her or hate her, she had some huge “gets”.


94 posted on 12/30/2022 8:15:24 PM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: Albion Wilde

Looks like Benedict is going to get the full ‘pope’ treatment... Vatican state funeral.


95 posted on 12/30/2022 8:16:40 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: EvilCapitalist

She was the softball pitching champion of interviewing.


96 posted on 12/30/2022 8:17:12 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: dfwgator; caww
Yes just as liberal. Remember the interview with Newt Gingriches’ 90 year old mom?

Chung whispering to Mrs.Gingrich, “You can tell me what you think about Hillary. It’ll be a secret between us.”

Mrs. Gingrich, “She’s a bitch!”

Chung: “Breaking news!”

97 posted on 12/30/2022 8:18:02 PM PST by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: broken_clock

LOL, I had forgotten about that one.


98 posted on 12/30/2022 8:18:27 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TigerClaws

*meh


99 posted on 12/30/2022 8:24:28 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: Vermont Lt

I’d have showed up in person and told that boss you and me need to step outside


100 posted on 12/30/2022 8:24:42 PM PST by vmpolesov
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