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Muwah-hah. I like the way he almost instantly gets Barbara confusing something Sarah Palin said with something Tiny Fay had said in an SNL sketch, and persists in it for a fair while.
These people will never admit their coverage is guided by their biases. It ruins the whole reason for passing yourself off as a dispassionate journalist; to manipulate public opinion without them knowing you’re manipulating them.
It’s like a spy going around and telling people they’re spying on that they are a spy.
Anyone see Charley Gibson and George Stephanopoulos “discuss” the Daschle tax situation on Monday’s ABC “News”. Blago’s shilling for himself was more nuanced and less obvious than Chuckie and Georgie’s shilling for Daschle (when I say Daschle I mean Obama).
The best Barbara Walters takeoff is in the movie Death Race 2000. I thought I would throw that out there.
Barbara Walters is still alive?
Who knew or cared?
Yes, I’m sure it’s a real classic!
SNL hasn’t really been funny in eons. I’m surprised it is still on TV. Any time I’ve attempted to watch it the skits were overly long the the writing reminded me of all the SNL rip off shows that appeared in the early 1980s, like ABC’s Fridays. You KNEW you weren’t watching the real SNL. That’s what the current show feels like.
And to think Barbara Walters used to be sort of a legitimate journalist who interviewed important politicians like Martin Van Buren.
It would have been priceless had JZ reminded BW of all the times she pronounced her own name “Bahbwa Wahwah” back in the 70s.
Note for youthful folks: that was how Gilda Radner pronounced her name when portraying Ms. Wahwah on, yes, SNL…
John Ziegler is a drooling wingnut moron.
Your transformation from clueless lefty nut to clueless righty nut is complte.
A key statement was Walters’s statement that Katie Couric didn’t like Palin because she is an “outsider.” She “doesn’t have lunch with people like Palin, doesn;t go to parties with her,” etc. This is in the tradition of the famous quote by the New Yorker’s late film critic Pauline Kael after the 1972 election in which she said she couldn’t understand how Nixon got elected, because no one she knew voted for him.
The point Ziegler should have made is, Barabara, you just said Couric judged Palin by the fact that she isn’t the kind of person Couric lunches and parties with, and yet don’t you find it a bit ironic that it is Palin who is treated as the narrowminded provincial? These people absolutely do not see it.
And Barabara, though she at least admitted that Couric, whom she no doubt sees as a rival anyway, is biased, she absolutely would not admit that her own opinions and judgments of people like Palin are colored by her NY/DC fashion-oriented parochial group. Walters thinks she is a worldly, openmminded deep thinker, not a programmed, knee-jerk, in-crowd groupthink automaton. She, and Tina Fey, Maureen Dowd, Katie Couric and the rest of them reacted viscerally to Palin because she talks “funny,” wears out-of-fashion haircuts and glasses and didn’t go to Barnard or Vassar.
All of the deep psychiatric analysis is correct as long as it is extended to include the basic high school reaction of the unpopular, plain girls like Bahbwa to the cheerleader who is smokin’ hot. When the cheerleader has five kids and is turning 45 next week and still smokin’ hot, one can only imagine the plain girls’ chagrin.
PC14, one of the great comments!
Cali, I think you’ll find that Babs was pretty smokin’ back in her younger days: http://www.vanityfair.com/images/culture/2008/06/cuar02_walters0806.jpg
Of course, in the 60s she was halfway serious – a young, ambitious female journalist trying to claw her way to the top in a male-dominated industry. Eventually she succeeded in becoming a media icon, which gave her clout, which meant people started respecting her opinions, which meant she no longer needed facts to back up her stories, which explains why she’s now fatuous and not a serious journalist.
But hey, she’s in better shape than Dick Clark – who was born the same year she was.