Posted on 12/06/2008 10:48:09 AM PST by lewisglad
Barbara Walters Looks for 'Fascinating' Flaws of Palin, Limbaugh By Colleen Raezler December 6, 2008 - 10:41 ET
ABC’s Barbara Walters showed the 13.2 million viewers who watched her Thursday, Dec. 4 “Ten Most Fascinating People” special that she can swallow pretty much anything but mainstream conservatism.
Walters gave cushy treatment to actors Will Smith, Frank Langella and Scientologist Tom Cruise, Olympian Michael Phelps, comedienne Tina Fey, embarrassingly photographed actress/singer Miley Cyrus, and pregnant "man" Thomas Beatie. She named liberal President-elect Barack Obama 2008’s most fascinating person (see Brent Baker's account), but went head to head against well-known conservative Rush Limbaugh, and ran repeated criticisms of former GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Walters asked Palin’s impersonator, Fey, to mock the Alaska Governor one more time, yet challenged Limbaugh to say something "nice" about Obama. Walters did not interview Palin but did air an embarrassing interview clip and a montage of pundits calling her a "drag" on the Republican presidential ticket.
At the end of her interview with Fey, Walters stated, "I want you to, as Sarah Palin, tell me how pleased you are with this wonderful interview that I did, okay?" Fey complied:
FEY as Palin: I think this interview went real good. I think this went better than a couple of the other ones that I did. (Winks.) (Laughs)
WALTERS: (Laughs.) I love you, Sarah Palin.
FEY as Palin: Thank you. I’m happy to be here.
Fey also told Walters her impersonation wasn’t "mean" because "we stuck to, a lot of times, things that she herself had said." Fey added, "There’s a very strange double standard because it’s a woman portraying another woman. The jokes we used to do about George W. Bush were that he was an idiot. No one ever would stop and say, like, ‘well, that seems kind of mean.’"
Walters failed to ask Fey what she thinks about the news media’s obsession with her unflattering impersonations of Palin.
In contrast to the treatment she gave Fey, Walters’s "heels were on and gloves off" for her interview with Limbaugh.
When Limbaugh claimed he was, "the most unthreatening, tolerant, lovable guy you could ever meet," Walters challenged him to say "something nice about the next president of the United States."
Walters attempted to paint Limbaugh as an elitist simply because he "came from a very good family" and "had money," a charge he quickly rejected. She also challenged him about a line he tossed out during the presidential primary that asked, "Does the country actually want to watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?" Then, as seen in the transcript below, she challenged his explanation of the comment:
WALTERS: I want to quote something you said. "Does the country actually want to watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?" You said this about Hillary Clinton.
RUSH LIMBAUGH: Yes.
WALTERS: You have watched me get older on a daily basis. Right. Sarah Palin, whom you love, is going to get older on a daily basis.
LIMBAUGH: Yes.
WALTERS: Men get older on a daily basis. What's with you, Rush?
LIMBAUGH :(Laughs) you know, the context...
WALTERS: (laughs) I never thought I’d be sitting here doing a number with you.
LIMBAUGH: The context of the statement was how unfair our culture is to aging women versus aging men.
WALTERS: You weren't fighting our battle.
LIMBAUGH: I was.
WALTERS: No.
LIMBAUGH: I meant it as a comment on our culture in a sympathetic way.
WALTERS: Okay. I will let that go.
On his show, Limbaugh found media treatment of another exchange with Walters fascinating.
I said this on another thread. When Rush Limbaugh supports your views and your candidacy wholeheartedly it is a boon. Sarah you’re already half way to becoming totally embraced by the conservative movement. And it’s only a month from the last election. As an ad might say: priceless. That is the nugget that came out of the Barbara Walters’ special that few people are talking about.
The truth is that Babawa Wawa used the front of naming Rush one of the ten most fascinating people just to hook him into doing a “gotcha interview” with her. SHE TRIED TO MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE A FOOL under the guise of damning “praise”.
RUSTY - - never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, trust a LIBERAL. (to take liberties by quoting Winston Churchill loosely).
This is a woman who will stab a former “lover” in the back who is STILL LIVING, whose wife is STILL LIVING, just in order to brag about what a big shot she was for attracting such an “important” man and committing adultery with him, then rubbing his wife and family’s nose in her pile of doo.
Oh, and to boot, the “relationship” also proved (in her mind) that she is “unprejudiced”. Her very actions prove to me that she is the kind of person who says, “Some of my BEST FRIENDS are BLACK.” Babawa Wawa is an adulterous, blatant TRAMP.
From NOT A FAN OF THE “view”.
“Uninformed on VIEW Stuff and Proud of It”,
Twinkie
The grits eatin, hominy eatin, cornbread eatin GIRL RAISED IN THE SOUTH
I thought Rush came out quite well with Barbara as well as declaring his favor for Sarah Palin. Again the latter was the most important thing that came out of the whole program.Rush doesn’t need protection; instead we should all listen to Rush when he tells us and shows us how to protect ourselves from the radical socialist policies of Obama and his merry men and women.
BaBa Wawa is the worlds greatest living authority.
Think about it...Sarah Palin is the first and ONLY person whom Walters has named a “most fascinating person” yet has never interviewed. Palin refused repeated attempts by Walters to interview her, per her spokesman, and Walters had said originally that she wouldn’t be included on the list as a result (having sat down with Barbara for an interview is a, er...”pre-condition”). But she was.
Guess that proves just how fascinated Ms. Walters is with Ms. Palin.
I would NOT watch Bwabwa Waawaa to see Rush or Gov. Palin. In fact, there is NOTHING short of a bullet to the brain that could convince me to watch her. GAG!
And, IIRC, coquettishly implied on television years ago that she thought Fidel Castro was sexy and wouldn’t mind bedding him...may have at some later time - don’t know.
Someone will have to be embarrassed for her, because the poor thing seemingly hasn’t a clue what an embarrassment she is to herself.
Oh, no way I could have survived Clinton’s term without Rush. Ditto, I’m sure with the Obamassiah’s term.
WALTERS: I want to quote something you said. "Does the country actually want to watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?" You said this about Hillary Clinton.Making Rush's point for himRUSH LIMBAUGH: Yes.
WALTERS: You have watched me get older on a daily basis...
You don't get it. Tina Fey is fascinating because... er, she looks like Sarah Palin!
He is “young, handsome, and tanned” - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
Well he may not be the only one she spread for, there are likely many more.
Old Blues Eyes Frank called her one ugly broad.
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