The sad last days of Barbara Walters

[quote] It is rumored that her dementia is so advanced that she didn’t recognize Whoopi Goldberg.

Rofl! I can just see it now.

"Ahhhh!! Ahhhh!! This damn black woman is trying to rob me! Help! Police! Get away from me!!! Hellllpppp!!!!!"

Dementia is an awful thing. But so are her supposed "interviewing skills". How the fuck did she ever have a career to begin with? I have NEVER liked her.

So when Walters passes, is it just going to be lovely tributes about what a wonderful journalist she was and how she broke the glass ceiling for all female anchors but leave out that she was evil Roy Cohn's bestie and beard for years?

She can't say she didn't know how corrupt and evil he was because she's Barbara Walters Journalist.

Larry King should interview her

I wonder what kind of tree she is.

Why is she no longer on the view?

Lol R4.

Nobody in that room would know who they are or where they were. Rofl.

She thinks she lives in 1966 and she mistook Whoopi for her maid.

Joy said recently how her last season (before her return) was really hard because Barbara was acting so strange. Surprised she said that on air.

[quote] Why is she no longer on the view?

The rest of the cast didn't want her on, because Barbara would make them all look stupid.

She had a good run. How, we’ll never know.

I have my accountant on speed dial.

R5 here she is

Couldn't The View just replace Barbara with Cheri Oteri?

I wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

How old is this woman?!? She was middle-aged when I was a child, and I'm fifty-four years old!

The video at R14 was her last day on The View.

And she already seemed out of it.

She has the same birthday as Catherine Zeta-Jones so I guess she is 33.

Barbara got.

Oprah gets.

The rest swim in their wake.

I hear that she makes doo doos in her diapers.

She thought Whoopi was Winnie Mandella. She kept asking Whoopi, "Your husband was in jail and then you divorced him? Some might find that cruel. Did he meet a better lover in jail?"

She thought Whoopi was Winnie Mandella. She kept asking Whoopi, "Your husband was in jail and then you divorced him? Some might find that cruel. Did he meet a better lover in jail?"

Ellen should be able to snap her out of it.

[quote] Ellen should be able to snap her out of it.

Somehow, I think that Ellen would SLAP her out of it. Or kick. Or maybe even punch.

She eats the lens!

Sad that there hasn’t been a single Baba Wawa reference in this thread. Although interestingly Barbara, who was decades older than Gilda Radner, outlived her by even more decades!

I do have a horrible morbid feeling that Barbara will not see 2021 sadly.

[quote]Why is she no longer on the view?

r6 Because she's on tour with Hello Dolly, Rose.

“R26, thank you for joining us for another episode of 20/20. Goodnight!”

Was she also "sheltered" from Hugh Downs' death?

Somewhere Elisabeth sleeps snug as a bug in a rug.

R25 Cheri Oteri’s is much better and funnier, honestly.

R26/r28 it will be kind of funny if she dies in 2020, admittedly. The obits write themselves.

She didn’t seem out of it at all in that last clip though (whether she really was is another story).

Remember when she got outclassed and outsmarted by Star Jones?

Bitch makes doo doos in her diapers. Fuck her!

r32 Barbara got the best of Star though the next day with her speech about how they were hoping Star would leave with dignity. Star chose another way.

Whoever wrote that line for her deserved an Emmy. Such a great bitch slap.

I disagree r34 I thought Barbara looked petty as hell and fell right into the trap Star laid for her.

^ What made Star’s surprise exit even funnier was that the episode the day right before had the cast of “The Devil Wears Prada” and Hot Topics was all about horrible female bosses. Star got in plenty of digs at Barbara that day!

R2: She fucked her way to the top. As you said, her interviewing skills sucked and she wasn’t beautiful either.

R37 speaking of looks who did all her face lifts? Was it Dan Baker?

It all comes down to Babs shitting her pants these days. Buh bye.

R34, Barbara just made herself look and sound like a sour old cunt. The other two, just sitting there silently with the camera off them, just came across as weak.

She just pretends not to recognize Whoppie. Who wouldn't?

"I don't know her"

If Babs takes her permanent dirt nap this year then both she and Hugh Downs will have died in 2020.

Go to the light, Babs.

Malignant cunt had my career.

Any recent pics? I know it's morbid, but I'm curious.

R9, Joy is a bitch.

saw her desperately trying to out both Ricky Martin and Marcia Cross.

Too many 'r's' in both those names to ever take her seriously

Things went downhill for Babs when her beloved dog Cha-Cha died.

Cha Cha died? Where can I send condolences?

Someone remind me why we hate her

Because, R51, that’s DLers default position.

I've always hated her hair.

Apparently when Whoopi said to her “Barbara it’s Whoops, we were on the view together..” she replied “you’re on television, they have black people on television now?” And then Whoopi said “hell yeah, you put me on” and she replied “heeeeeelp!”.

I love you, Chunk!!!!

—R13

I liked Wenny / Wenny better than 60 Minutes.

Barbara was never a skilled journalist, although she thought she was.

She was paid one million dollars to jump from NBC to co-host the Evening News on ABC with Harry Reasoner.....he was not pleased and eventually left.

She was pushed off the evening news to interviews and special events within a year or so......never a heavy weight or even a light weight newsperson.

Her success is puzzling. Self-important, pushy woman with no skills - just luck. It can happen when network executives think they know what the public wants. They are usually wrong.

Doo doo diapers Babs.

R57, it was the right timing.

Lee Phillip in Chicago. SHE was a interviewer!

"There's no excuse any more for a badly dressed woman!"

How is Hidegarde not a DL icon?

[quote]She was paid one million dollars to jump from NBC to co-host the Evening News on ABC with Harry Reasoner.....he was not pleased and eventually left.

Harry Reasoner was a conservative asshole who resented that any woman was going to be his equal. He would have been pissed regardless of how much money she was making. He was a sexist pig who couldn't even hide his contempt for Walters on the air.

There's a lot to say about Walters that isn't pleasant, but she worked her ass off at a time when women were persona non grata in the news industry. Prior to her starting today, the female correspondent did fluff pieces on cutesy, inoffensive topics. Walters helped change that image. You have to give credit where credit is due.

[QUOTE]Prior to her starting today, the female correspondent did fluff pieces on cutesy, inoffensive topics. Walters helped change that image. You have to give credit where credit is due.

Agreed

Agree R61.

She wasn't an astoundingly fantastic journalist, but she did excel at a certain kind of conversation that got people (especially when she spoke to world figures, etc.) to open up, and that has some value. And she carved out some space where there had been none before.

R50, From 2018 . . .

Radar Online reported that Walters' hearing is impaired and she suffers from heart disease. She has been showing signs of dementia for months, but her reps deny it. The last person who saw her is convinced that she does have Alzheimer’s. A sign is that she doesn't recognize much these days. Sometimes she doesn't recognize her own name. She does recognize a few old photos of her late dog, Cha Cha, and the televised voice of Joy Behar, co-host of "The View," the ABC morning talk show that Walters created with Bill Geddie in 1997.

Janie Sell is (the Incomparable) Hildegarde's niece, r60.

I'd imagine there are worse things in life than not recognizing Whoopi Goldberg.

Here's Star's departure announcement and Barbara's next-day response.

Barbara reveals that the plan was for Star to fabricate a lie and ABC to support whatever story she came up with, but then Star jumped the gun and said her contract was not renewed. They wanted Star to lie as a cover for her being let go so they could achieve a graceful transition.

Basically, Barbara tells viewers "We all agreed to lie to you about Star but then she decided to screw things up by being truthful." I think it was a tacky reply and I'm surprised it made it to air. Star's announcement was more graceful than Barbara's bitching about not being allowed to pull one over on the viewers.

There were other female correspondents that weren't doing just fluff pieces, r61. They don't seem to get much mention these days.

Star's cunty response to Barbara's autobiography (in which she called Star "dangerously obese") is a clapback for the ages ...

"It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair, and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character."

She was a tart. And no Bess Meyerson.

She reminds me of Oprah. Not particularly beautiful, talented, or smart but they both got to the top.

Perhaps Harry Reasoner didn't like Babs sitting next to him not because she was a woman but because he didn't respect her.

I think that's weasonable.

Babs was a star fucker; she loved being around celebrities and you can either be their pal or you can be someone who is professionally friendly with them but you do your professional job and ask the tough questions.

One instance in which I think she was in the right was her trying to calmly explain to Elizabeth Hasselbeck (sp?) that there are other views to have on pro choice and Lizzie had a meltdown, very unprofessional.

[quote] but leave out that she was evil Roy Cohn's bestie and beard for years?

If you read her autobiography she writes about it

Am I right in thinking that the wife of Paul McCartney is related in someway to Barbara Walters?

[quote]It is rumored that her dementia is so advanced that she didn’t recognize Whoopi Goldberg.

Well, clearly old Babs has some smarts left!

[quote] Dementia is an awful thing. But so are her supposed "interviewing skills". How the fuck did she ever have a career to begin with? I have NEVER liked her.

Go iimpale yourself on a twee.

Star Jones is a bitch.

Barbara Walters is a cunt.

Class dismissed!

The last few seasons she was on The View, it was obvious that something was up. She wasn't as sharp as she usually was and could occasionally come across more like you're weird drunk aunt than a respected journalist. She'd go from being wacky to stern and schoolmarm-y. The worst was when someone would bring up the circles she liked to socialize in and she's always try to bring herself down to earth and pretend like she wasn't all uppity and entitled.

"...Astroglide."

Oops, I meant "...Astwoglide."

Who exactly is sad?

The day Star quit what was the rest of the show like? Did she go thru with the interviews of whoever the guests were?

[quote]R67 Barbara tells viewers "We all agreed to lie to you about Star but then she decided to screw things up by being truthful." I think it was a tacky reply and I'm surprised it made it to air. Star's announcement was more graceful than Barbara's bitching about not being allowed to pull one over on the viewers.

Well, I imagine Plan A was to help further Miss Jones’ career by giving her more negotiating power when she landed her new job. It’s the old “You Either Resign, or You’re Fired.” A professional courtesy.

But in Babwa’s immortal words, Star made another choice.

Paul McCartney's wife is Barbara's cousin.

Barbara lied when Joy left too. I remember Joy announcing it and Barbara saying she was trying to talk her out of it. They said Joy left on her own decision but she later admitted she was fired. (They made it seem like Hassleback and Lisa Ling left on their own too.)

A few months ago Bill Geddie came onto the show and Joy joked how he dumped her on the street like an old sofa.

I really haven’t been following the View I guess because I never realized Joy had ever been off. Did she return once Barbara left?

R66 I think Babs wanted to be the last original host standing

so Joy had to be sent packing before her eventual retirement.

This stunt also showed her true character.

What is so evil about her. She was Roy Cohn's beard??? What??? This is the first I've ever even heard him linked to a woman.

^^ Cindy Adams reported their engagement, so you know if must've been true.

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When Calvin Klein married that pretty young girl and pretended to be straight, Barbara did a cunty great interview with him where she outed him with huge wink winks.

(It was Calvins second marriage by the way and he had a kid with the first wife so no doubt he was capable of depositing sperm in vag.)

Cheers r84 .

I felt sure I'd remembered that there was some connection.

[quote] I do have a horrible morbid feeling that Barbara will not see 2021 sadly.

What's sad about it if she has advanced dementia?

[quote]Dementia is an awful thing. But so are her supposed "interviewing skills". How the fuck did she ever have a career to begin with? I have NEVER liked her.

Was she a better interviewer in her younger days, Eldergays? She's really tough on Trump here.

Ya....dementia is no joke. Hope she isn't ruined by it and still has some joy...

R95 certainly wasn't a pushover there. Who knows if she liked Trump personally. Some of the society dames knew he was an untrustworthy clown but also kind of liked him anyway.

R95 she could be very good when she wanted to be (and no doubt in the circles she was in had his number.) it was really with entertainers that she was known for doing “soft” interviews (especially as the decades went on and her “specials “ got more and more tired.)

Is she still alive?

BaBa go bye bye. Zero fucks given an no crocodile tears shed. What? Too soon?

There was a rumor that Joy was fired because Barbara was furious that in a interview Joy disclosed that Babs caught the chicken pox from Frank Langella. I do remember Babs acting like her bout with chickenpox was some kind of delicate personal matter, strange.

IIRC BaWa's father, Lou Walters, was in a heap of legal and tax troubles and Roy Cohn managed to pull strings to get him out of it somehow.

BaWa never forgot the help provided and remained a friend and beard to the end. She defended him always.

^^ with some people, it’s all about the $

Wasn't she known to sleep with a lot of powerful men if she thought it would advance her career? There have been rumors about her sucking off Henry Kissinger for years.

About a year ago she got lost walking 2 blocks from her hair salon to her apartment building. Her minder stepped outside to take a phone call and Babs slipped by her and then got lost. Ooops.

r104, I saw her and Henry Kissinger together at the Four Seasons Restaurant, sometime around 2010, so it wouldn't shock me. She was tiny with a giant head, like a lot of TV people.

I didn't read her autobiography but I know people lost a lot of respect for her after it--probably along with "The View."

I've still got all my marbles, bitch!

R59, in that Lee Phillips clip, Edith Head said “if it isn’t pretty, don’t show it.” It’s a perfect DL quote. Has anyone heard of “Hildegarde”? The show was pure camp; it was hilarious.

R106, it was also rumored that she slept with

A) The Shah of Iran B) Gorbachev C) Ted Kennedy

One of her husbands was in the mafia.

From R64: "She does recognize a few old photos of her late dog, Cha Cha, and the televised voice of Joy Behar, co-host of 'The View', the ABC morning talk show that Walters created with Bill Geddie in 1997."

Dementia is indeed not a laughing matter, but I feel even worse for Wawa if she only remembers the appearance of a dead dog and only recognizes Joy's squawking-chicken-feet-on-a-chalkboard voice. Bless her if that's accurate. Maybe she thinks Cha Cha and Joy are one and the same?!?

In her book, she told about her affair with U.S. Senator Edward Brooke. The Senator from Massachusetts was married, African American. She didn't warn him that she was going to disclose the affair.

My takeaway: Listening to Joy Behar's voice causes dementia.

They’d rather look at apple pie recipes, than fashion...

Hilarious! Edith Head was blunt and the timing was priceless. Lee Phillips discussed pie recipes beforehand.

Hildegarde is outraged by poorly dressed women. There is simply no excuse for it!

Hildegarde’s “elegant friend”, advised her on proper fashion.

All her jewelry and artwork will be cleaned out by the help! Look for some good deals on Ebay.

Will they sell her doo doo filled diapers on ebay?

She was way to full of herself. Sorry she has dementia. That disease is hardest on the caregivers..

They should roll her out one last time on The View for her to say her final goodbyes.

It will be ironic if she dies in 20/20

R65 You're an idiot! Janie Sell is doing Dietrich and not Hildegarde, who was a big dyke. Did you know that?

r119 Tell me about it.

I remember watching it when they were unveiling their 20th anniversary mug. They had a cake made to look like the mug, They unveil the mug and Barbara goes 'Is that the cake?"

OMG, wouldn’t it be fitting if she went out in style in 2020. They could play a continuous loop of her 2020 voice over at the memorial service.

Doesn't Barbara have a daughter to care for her? I hope another Mommy Dearest book isn't being written at this time, that would be sad.

R124, Barbra has scores of moronic offspring.

r125 Only her gay son, Jason.

I wonder if her whole career was based on blackmail and favors. Her father owned one of the best nightclubs in NY at the time, so she must have seen some shit and parlayed that into a career. Ditto the loyalty to Roy Cohn. Very moblike behavior, which would explain her inexplicable success.

Plus she fucked or blew practically everyone. I mean, that’s a given.

Never understood exactly why she was famous, I just remember seeing her on 2020 when I was a kid.

According to her wikipedia page, part of her legacy is being remembered for her speech impediment?? WTF. Apparently, she had rhotacism. Which I had to look up:

In medical contexts, rhotacism (/ˈroʊtəsɪzəm/) is the inability to pronounce or difficulty in pronouncing r sounds.[1] Speech pathologists call the condition de-rhotacism, or de-rhotacization, because the sounds lose their rhotic quality rather than becoming rhotic.

Then I had to look up rhotic:

In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including ⟨R⟩, ⟨r⟩ in the Latin script and ⟨Р⟩, ⟨p⟩ in the Cyrillic script.[citation needed] They are transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet by upper- or lower-case variants of Roman ⟨R⟩, ⟨r⟩:[1] r, ɾ, ɹ, ɻ, ʀ, ʁ, ɽ, and ɺ.

This class of sounds is difficult to characterise phonetically; from a phonetic standpoint, there is no single articulatory correlate (manner or place) common to rhotic consonants.[2] Rhotics have instead been found to carry out similar phonological functions or to have certain similar phonological features across different languages.[3] Although some have been found to share certain acoustic peculiarities, such as a lowered third formant,[citation needed] further study has revealed that this does not hold true across different languages.

Thank you, Dr. Welby.

How did she feel about SNL mocking her?

Baba Wawa. True cunt.

"So when Walters passes..."

Can't we say DIES? What prevents you from using words like die, dies and dead?

Daddy Lou Walters was the mob connected owner of the Latin Casino night club, R127. It was on its last legs when Barbara started moving up at the Today Show, no real advantages there. Lou Walters wouldn't give up and started a new one in Florida. When it failed, Barbara bailed him out.

I used to have fondness for Barbara Walters way back because she was ballsy and played her cards right. I was happy when she left Today for that $1 million/year ABC job. I had fun with her silly specials later. I'm happy she started The View. However, the woman is OLD. She used to state her birth date as 1931, then t was 1929, it's probably really 1926. I will give her a pass because of her age, up to a point. Happy that she finally got off the air, it should have happened five years earlier.

"Doesn't Barbara have a daughter to care for her?"

R124, dummy, rich people are not cared for by relatives. They HIRE private nurses and the top of the line home health care workers.

r132 I thought he owned the Latin Quarter, which was like 21 in its heyday.

r127

I have a feeling that Goldberg fucking stinks.

Between Goldberg's smell and Barbara's dirty pampers their last meeting must have been hell for anyone else in the room.

You are correct, R134, it was the Latin Quarter, not the Latin Casino. It was a night club and included a restaurant. Floor shows with a Latin theme, and headliner performers like Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney. More like the Copa than 21, which I don't think had a show. According to my ancient hair cutter of 20 years ago, it was expensive too. Lou Walters was out by 1960.

My favorite story is the producers making Jenny McCarthy take the blame for an unflushed tampon in the toilet. Apparently Barbara would not let the show go on until she found out who did it. They begged Jenny to take the blame and Barbra made her go in and flush it.

The View is back from vacation on Sept 8th and Barbara is the special surprise guest, this should be interesting.

The two newest bitches will be in charge of wiping away Barbara's drool during the interview.

Dementia isn't funny.

Sherri Shepherd is another surprise guest who is planning to slap the shit out of Barbara on tv and call her a nasty racist bitch. Wigs will fly on Tuesday.

"They begged Jenny to take the blame and Barbra made her go in and flush it."

R138, that would have been kind of funny if you had spelled the name Barbara correctly, you stupid Streisand disciple.

The name for normal people is spelled BARBARA.

r143 BAAAAAAAHHHBRAHHHHHH

The season premier will feature BaBa WaWa’s caregivers changing her diaper the proper way. I just hope Babs doesn’t swing at them live on tv.

Wait is she really going to be back on The View or is that a joke?

R146 Yes Rose, Barbara is going to WAP with Whoopie!

R146 isn’t that the name of Whoopi’s brand new podcast - WAP with Whoopi, and all thing gushy.

I read the season premiere guests will be Barbara Walters and Helen Reddy.

They’re gonna wheels Babs out in her wheel chair and fresh diaper.

Who is the troll obsessed with incontinence? Someday you will be old and helpless too.

Leave my aunt Barbara alone. She has been good to me and to her gay hairdresser Mr. Monte.

Is Helen Reddy in a similar state?

I'll ask again.....who be sad about it?

Recent pics/video or it isn't happening

R152, Mr. Monte???

Still waiting!

This is the kind of tree she’ll be when she’s dead.

Final resting place...

[quote] Basically, Barbara tells viewers "We all agreed to lie to you about Star but then she decided to screw things up by being truthful." I think it was a tacky reply and I'm surprised it made it to air. Star's announcement was more graceful than Barbara's bitching about not being allowed to pull one over on the viewers.

Honey, who the hell do you think asked them to lie in the first place. Hint: the name is spelled S-T-A-R.

And speaking of someone telling a lie: your little fantasy you're spinning here that Star's ridiculous exit was somehow "graceful" on her part is quite the story.

[italic]Please.[/italic] I was there, i saw what happened. Don't tell me it's raining when you're pissing on my leg.

In fairness, I often feign dementia to avoid recognizing Whoopi Goldberg.

Whoopi got the cock back in the day.

[quote] Whoopi got the cock back in the day.

And then she detransitioned.

Babs......sad last days.

Babsy making doo doo in her diaper. The poor dear. Bless her heart.

Will adopted daughter Jackie give Barbara a sendoff like Melissa gave Joan?

A handful of friends and I have a bet on who dies first: Bob Barker or Babs Walters. I have Bob for the win.

Dementia is a terrible illness. Cut Barbara a bit of slack.

My dad has it. He's 92. I care for him. Each day gets a little worse. A little more forgetful. A little more challenging.

Clearing poo and pee isn't a problem. The physical stuff of dressing him, breakfasting him and taking care of him is fine.

What gets me, is when he thinks my mum is still alive. She died 20 years ago, but he'll suddenly say "It was nice to see Hazel at the weekend". Gawd knows what happens in his mind. I just agree and go about my chores. To correct him and explain she's no longer here is just too distressing for him. It's hard, but rewarding looking after him. After all, he look after me for so very long.

No slack for Babs. She was always a cunt to everyone. Karma Babs. Karma. Keep shitting your pants you old bitch.

Interestingly enough, being a cunt is an early symptom of Alzheimers.

Wow R170 - then Barb's had it for a LONG time.

Roy Cohn is getting tired of waiting for her.

Babs had black cock. Jealous bitches???

"Dementia is a terrible illness. Cut Barbara a bit of slack."

How do we know she actually has dementia? She could simply be wheelchair bound without hair and make-up watching TV all day, being cared for by hired home healthcare aides 24/7. Not wanting to be seen in public, only a couple of close friends visit. Her daughter doesn't have to do a thing.

We do know that she shits her diapers.

Nonsense, R175. She can't go without a suppository which is supervised by an aide every morning at 9:30.

Bye bye, Babs! Bye bye, Babs! Bye bye, Babs! Bye bye, Babs! Bye bye!

Rosie is praying for her..........to DIe.

She will be 92 in September.

It seems hard to believe that somebody with so many accomplishments and such a public profile, is now in seclusion living out her last days

Ask not for whom the Bell tolls, and all that…

R173, She had ONE black cock, and Senator Edward Brooke was a very light skinned black man.

It's not as if Babs crawled into bed with Idi Amin.

Babsy tasted sweet black nectar.

Well, it's still not bad for a constipated self-hating Jewish girl, R180.

AIDS Dementia. And we only did it once, to consummate our relationship.