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Syrian rights groups are demanding Columbia University rescind its admission of dictator Bashar al-Assad’s media adviser, who landed a spot at the school after Barbara Walters muscled in. “We are outraged with what is happening at Columbia University,” Sarab al-Jijakli, a spokesman for the National Alliance for Syria, said of Sheherazad “Sherry” Jaafari’s admission there. “Columbia and Barbara Walters must ensure that they right the wrong and not accept someone from the inner circle of the al-Assad regime into their university.” Jaafari, 22, who spent the past year advising Assad on how to lie about civilian massacres, has remained holed...

LOS ANGELES, CA, December 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Barbara Walters likes to receive Christmas greetings from high-profile celebrities and leaders, but apparently not if they refer to the Bible. On Thursday's episode of ABC's The View, Walters expressed dismay that President and Mrs. Bush would send out greetings containing Scripture. During the segment, Walters showed the other gals some of the "highfalutin Christmas cards," and explained the White House card:

ABC and Barbara Walters ought to be investigated for false advertising. The promos that plugged that Hillary Clinton memoir-selling interview promised, again and again for two weeks, to deliver "the interview we've all been waiting for, and the book that tells all. Sunday, June 8. Nothing's off-limits." Since when have "we all" been waiting for this? "The book that tells all"? Hillary never tells all. "Nothing's off-limits"? ABC should be glad they didn't offer this interview by pay-per-view, because everyone would be entitled to a refund. Barbara Walters left almost everything of importance off-limits -- on purpose. In the first...

A note from Barbara Walters... I am getting ready, drafting question after question, for a special program on June 8 with Sen. Hillary Clinton. I am excited that she chose me to do the very first interview in connection with her new book, Living History. For the first time you will learn Mrs. Clinton's personal story, from the perspective that only she can offer — from her private life to her public life, from a Happy Days existence in a Chicago suburb to her whirlwind ups and downs at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. You've heard much about Hillary Clinton, but precious...