NationStates Jolt Archive


Barbara Walters went black, evidently came back.

Zilam
01-05-2008, 23:03
NEW YORK (AP) -- After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters is disclosing a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as "exciting" and "brilliant."
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Barbara Walters says in her new book that she had an affair with Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke.

Appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" scheduled to air Tuesday, Walters shares details of her relationship with Brooke that lasted several years in the 1970s, according to a transcript of the show provided to The Associated Press.

A moderate Republican from Massachusetts who took office in 1967, Brooke was the first African-American to be popularly elected to the Senate. Both he and Walters knew that public knowledge of their affair could have ruined his career as well as hers, Walters says.

At the time, the twice-divorced Walters was a rising star in TV news and co-host of NBC's "Today" show, but would soon jump to ABC News, where she has enjoyed unrivaled success. Her affair with Brooke, which never before came to light, had ended before he lost his bid for a third term in 1978.

Brooke later divorced, and has since remarried. Calls to a listing for Brooke in Miami by The Associated Press were not immediately returned Thursday.

Walters is the guest of Oprah Winfrey to discuss her new memoir, "Audition," which covers her long career in television, as well as her off-camera life. On "Oprah," Walters recounts a phone call from a friend who urged her to stop seeing Brooke.

"He said, 'This is going to come out. This is going to ruin your career,' " then reminded her that Brooke was up for re-election a year later. " 'This is going to ruin him. You've got to break this off.' "

Winfrey asks Walters if she was in love.

"I was certainly -- I don't know -- I was certainly infatuated."

"Infatuated."

"I was certainly involved," Walters says. "He was exciting. He was brilliant. It was exciting times in Washington."

Also during the program, Walters chokes up while describing the struggles of her older sister Jackie, who was mentally retarded. Walters confesses that, as a child, she sometimes felt embarrassed by Jackie.

"She stuttered terribly. People made fun of her. People made fun of me," Walters says. "I didn't bring friends home. I felt terribly guilty because she was very loving and I didn't always feel that way."

Jackie Walters died in 1985 of ovarian cancer.

"When I think of her, because she was beautiful and loving and all of that, it makes me cry."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/05/01/tv.walters.affair.ap/index.html

That whore.

Okay just kidding..

But I brought this up for a reason. Do you find that mixed couples are generally more accepted these days? I find that in the bigger city areas, people don't give a darn, but in some rural areas, its pretty racist still. Not surprising, ya?

Also, anyone been in an interracial relationship? Was it hard on both of you, for race reasons? Just wondering. :)
Fassitude
01-05-2008, 23:05
Barbara who?

/Meh, some local celebrity, apparently.
Zilam
01-05-2008, 23:06
Barbara who?

/Meh, some local celebrity, apparently.

Local? She is well known all over the US, and I'd imagine in some other Western nations.
Fassitude
01-05-2008, 23:08
Local? She is well known all over the US,

That would make her local, yes.

and I'd imagine in some other Western nations.

Imagine away, it'll still be your imagination.
Zilam
01-05-2008, 23:09
That would make her local, yes.



Imagine away, it'll still be your imagination.

Well if you have nothing to add to the topic, please be on your way.
Tmutarakhan
01-05-2008, 23:16
She's probably as well known as Der Spiegel
Ashmoria
01-05-2008, 23:20
it might have been controversial at the time because of race but even now dating a married senator is bad for both careers.
HaMedinat Yisrael
01-05-2008, 23:26
Don't worry, this is just her prelude to revealing she had an affair with Roger Clemens. It appears everyone else did.
HaMedinat Yisrael
01-05-2008, 23:27
That would make her local, yes.



Imagine away, it'll still be your imagination.
Do you have to go ahead and troll in every thread? Do a fucking google search if you don't know who someone is.
Knights of Liberty
01-05-2008, 23:28
Do you have to go ahead and troll in every thread?



You get used to it after a while.
Gauthier
01-05-2008, 23:41
Well if you have nothing to add to the topic, please be on your way.

It's Fass. He's like the Gay Fred Phelps of NSG, dropping in unannounced (and often unwanted) to make a sanctiomonious commentary for self-gratification and attention-whoring.
Ashmoria
01-05-2008, 23:49
or you could all just ignore his comments and then what he wrote wouldnt matter.
Gravlen
01-05-2008, 23:52
Well I would have to say that the name Barbra Walters should be known internationally. Just like Iilkka Kanerva. I mean, you would have to live under a rock to not know one or both of them in this age of globalisation...


or you could all just ignore his comments and then what he wrote wouldnt matter.

Are you kidding? Is that even possible? :eek:
Tmutarakhan
02-05-2008, 00:00
or you could all just ignore his comments and then what he wrote wouldnt matter.
Great idea! Let's all make posts that never mention the name "Fass"!
Ashmoria
02-05-2008, 00:02
Great idea! Let's all make posts that never mention the name "Fass"!

deal. ill never type FASS again unless its in a thread that he's not being "fassish" in.
Tmutarakhan
02-05-2008, 00:03
deal. ill never type FASS again unless its in a thread that he's not being "fassish" in.
Great! I won't type "FASS" either!
Ashmoria
02-05-2008, 00:07
Great! I won't type "FASS" either!

excellent. we can call it the "no FASS pact".
Marrakech II
02-05-2008, 05:10
It's Fass. He's like the Gay Fred Phelps of NSG, dropping in unannounced (and often unwanted) to make a sanctiomonious commentary for self-gratification and attention-whoring.

I think Fass should sig this.
Marrakech II
02-05-2008, 05:11
excellent. we can call it the "no FASS pact".

I know it is a bit of a different name but the name Fass reminds me of the Indian kid from "That 70's show".


As to the OP yes I am in a interracial marriage. Things are fine in regards to other people for the most part. If they are not then it is their personal problem not mine.
Gauthier
02-05-2008, 06:00
I know it is a bit of a different name but the name Fass reminds me of the Indian kid from "That 70's show".

Fes. Acronym for Foreign Exchange Student. And oddly enough, his actual ethnicity was never specified, rather assumed by various characters up to and including Red.

:D
Ryadn
02-05-2008, 07:10
It's Fass. He's like the Gay Fred Phelps of NSG, dropping in unannounced (and often unwanted) to make a sanctiomonious commentary for self-gratification and attention-whoring.

I'd sig that if it wasn't trollish (as a sig, I mean). Purely for the joyous irony of a gay Phelps!

deal. ill never type FASS again unless its in a thread that he's not being "fassish" in.

Is that Swedish for fascist? ;)
Arroza
02-05-2008, 07:36
According to Paul Mooney, Walters also slept with Richard Pryor.
CthulhuFhtagn
02-05-2008, 08:04
Who the hell is Barbara Walters?
Geniasis
02-05-2008, 08:54
Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American journalist, writer, and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), an evening news magazine (20/20), and on The ABC Evening News as the first female evening news anchor. Walters, also referred to as Barbara WaWa was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's Today, where she worked with Hugh Downs and later hosts Frank McGee and Jim Hartz. Walters later spent 25 years as co-host of ABC's newsmagazine 20/20. She was the first woman to co-anchor the network evening news, working with Harry Reasoner on The ABC Evening News.
Tmutarakhan
02-05-2008, 15:41
Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American journalist, writer, and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), an evening news magazine (20/20), and on The ABC Evening News as the first female evening news anchor. Walters, also referred to as Barbara WaWa was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's Today, where she worked with Hugh Downs and later hosts Frank McGee and Jim Hartz. Walters later spent 25 years as co-host of ABC's newsmagazine 20/20. She was the first woman to co-anchor the network evening news, working with Harry Reasoner on The ABC Evening News. Barbara Walters has never slept with Fass.
Fixed
Hotwife
02-05-2008, 15:50
I haven't seen a difference, rural or urban or suburban.

It's more accepted in the US these days (has been for some time now).
Kryozerkia
02-05-2008, 15:51
Barbara who?

/Meh, some local celebrity, apparently.

Don't worry, most of us have only heard the name. That's it. Only people who can't get enough of meaningless tripe will watch her.