Barbara Walters: I had affair with U.S. senator (additional barf bags required)

CNN ^ | 5/1/2008 | ap

[tobyhill]

I'm sure other names will surface out of Baba Wawa’s book and I'll bet there will be a bunch of RINOs. Journalist like Baba did what she did to get a scoop and idiot Reps did what they did because it was thought to be easy without consequences. It's still going on in the newsrooms.

[Clint N. Suhks]

A tad tawdry hanging around here ain't cha?

Do you stay up and watch TMZ too? ;o)

[SE Mom]

What a shame she just couldn’t keep this to herself (and the likely small circle who already know about it).

When Brooke ran for Senate my family was pretty excited (in their low-key way) to have a Republican they could vote for as Senator.

When I was a kid Barbara Walters was in a class by herself- since she went to the view she’s got no class at all..

[Alter Kaker]

“Jungle Fever”, a preference for a black man as a sex partner, is still around and well-documented.

So? My problem isn't with interracial dating or sex, my problem is with the term "jungle fever," which is the kind of antiquated racist language that wouldn't have been appropriate in polite society in 1865, let alone 2008.

Just take a walk through my downtown and see all the fat white sluts wih drugdealer boyfriends.

Black men = drug dealers
White women who have sex with black men = fat sluts

What century are you living in, exactly?

[stockpirate]

It may be obsolete to you.

[pepperdog]

“The Trumpet of a Strumpet”, you should give her this as a suggested title for her next tell all book.

[tobyhill]

Walter's didn't just let the cat out of the bag on this one, she has inadvertently told us exactly what is very common with some “journalist”. Reps are not all too thrilled about having to give a reporter a scoop but are sometimes forced to because of disclosure of their indiscretions that originally got disclosed as bedside chat.

[savedbygrace]

That’s funny.

As many times as that’s been posted here as a funny line (I’ve done it, too), in this case, it’s particularly funny.

[Alter Kaker]

BaBa WaWa is a liberal.

True. And a lousy journalist as well.

She slept with one black, powerful man -- thereby simultaneously assuaging her guilt and fulfilling her desires.

I'm just not getting how you know her motives. Maybe she simply slept with Brooke because she was attracted to him and had no moral compunction about sleeping with a married man? What does his being black have to do with anything? Brooke was a handsome politician who had affairs with many women.

[Alter Kaker]

It may be obsolete to you.

Ok, fine. I don't use "jungle fever," nor do I use words like "nigger," "darky," etc. Forgive me for that slight.

[SE Mom]

Indeed, pillow talk can be...smothering ;)

[Borges]

[tobyhill]

It’s actually the story in itself that lends the fact that he’s a black man. I’m sure he’s not the only bozo she took the robe off for but she brought him out because he’s black otherwise the AP would have just said he was a Senator.

[stockpirate]

Well yo ujust used the nigger, darky.

I grew up in an area where most of my friends were blacks, with names like Zip, Garbo, Ferguson, Regeland.

And I’ve heard them use such terms endlessly, I may not be PC and use what I refer to as Free Speech without concern of the speech police.

[RandallFlagg]

Twice?!
Jeez! Can’t take you anywhere, Laz.

[george76]

bttt

Maybe Barbara just isn’t a very good person.

Ya think?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

LOLOL!! You are a sick puppy, but you amuse me nonetheless.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Very funny. I’m only here for the historical perspective, if you must know.

[Oratam]

You're gonna need an aaahhhmy to stop him!

Lilly Von Scht--, er ah, I mean Baba Wawa to Hillary regarding Obama.

[Ax]

As we use to say at Cobra Barracks in the Philippines: GABRA (Give a Big Rat’s A$$).