Why was Barbara Walters so mean to Rossy Ross Matthews?

Because she's a cunt.

R1 who?

Why does Miss Matthews have a career anyway?

The hair shake that Elizabeth does in the opening credits is pretty damn pathetic

Shockingly, Elizabeth seems the nicest to him. I forgot what a condescending cunt Barbara was. I don't miss her.

It's like nobody had a positive experience with her on that show.

They were all rude to him. When he asks at 3:20 if the mug with the beverage was for him and if he can keep it, they tell him no, he can buy one. He looked hurt.

I'm so glad Drew Barrymore gives him the respect he deserves.

Because she’s a bitch and he’s fucking annoying. I made it through just a few minutes of that.

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Walters is just annoyed because Ross talks over her, steps on her introduction several times....he doesn't know how to be a co-host and follow the leader. There is an art to this. We all have opinions of Whoopi from her long career but as moderator of the view, she is moderator first. She takes it VERY seriously. Her job is to keep everyone in line and make sure there's no talking over each other.

I think she showed herculean restraint. I would have kicked him in the cuntbone as soon as he opened his mouth.

He made his $ (such as it is) by being a clown

She was mean to him in the dressing room before the show even started.

Ross is an obnoxious screaming queen. Today surpassed by Billy Porter. Prime examples of why people don't like gays.

R14 stfu. People don't like gays because they are gay nit because of clownish antics of buffoonish homos. Take your self loathing and fuck yourself.

r3 they wanted a gay fashion accessory and he was one the main gays of his era... but everyone got bitchier with him when he lost the weight.

same thing happened with Sarah LaRue... when she was a 'character' actresss aka fat. people were nicer to her when she lost the weight they got bitchy.

weird scene.. usually it's the other way around - someone loses weight, gets surgery, whatever, like Reba (and Ricci, and so many others) and the nose job (like all their personality and talent was contained in the nose bits they tossed away, and were just left with a cunt)

of course, Ross played up too much to being one of the "nice" gays - wholesome, gay for middle america, just glad to be the butt of your jokes gays that made him excessively punchable.

r15 wrong. everyone knows an obnoxious queen like that and even lgbt think about bashing them.

He is repulsive - a fat anal wart.

She was a huge cunt.

Wrong R15

I don't dislike straight people because they're straight - I only dislike the over-the-top straight bros who seem to have something to prove.

R17 it still has nothing to do with why people hate gays. Moron.

R19 so? People that hate gays do so because they are gay . That's it. People who think otherwise are delusional self loathing dumbfucks like yourself.

R21 You need help

Obnoxious queens do not engender special attention from me. Judy sayin’

r21 you're the homophobe, dear, if you assume that it's gay to be an obnoxious queen.

R22 why? Because I don't blame the bigotry toward gay people on the Ross Matthews and Billy Porters if the world?

Barbara patronised Dolly Parton. Why would she be nice to Ross?

R24 wtf are you talking about?

OMGodddd, like, OMG, like, OMG, like

Even though I hate Barbara Walters (not because she's straight, but because she's a mean fucking cunt), I also hate this guy (not because he's gay, because he sounds like a teenaged clown).

OMG, LIKE, OMG, OMG - Seriously, Ross, take it down 10 notches.

Barbara wasn’t that bad when the show began. Such a cunt before it. I would have walked off the set.

Epitome of screaming Yasss Kween Gay. I can't stand his flaming ass. This is why they hate us.

I like Ross, I think he's funny and it takes a lot of guts for him to just be him. He's kind of this generation's Richard Simmons. Like Richard Simmons he's making a lot of money just being him. Good for him, I just hope he doesn't propose to Barbra Streisand

R30 dumb fucking cunt.

R30 actually Uncle Tom they hate you because you're a faggot.

I smell lots of triggered effeminates in this thread

I enjoy seeing Ross on Drew Barrymore's talk show panel these days. Barbara Walters was difficult to work with; people give her a pass because she is a trailblazer, but she was still a huge pain in the ass.

The only thing that changed with Miss Walters (nee Warmwater) over time was her loss of that filter that hid her actual thoughts and opinions from the world at large, deflecting it by a downturned-eye quarter-smirk and a nasty gotcha comment.

At the last she just snarly-dissed everyone and had to be removed like a blind viper at the tips of a long forceps.

I miss Barbara Walters looking down her nose at everyone on the View like all of them are just useless underlings. She wasn't wrong.

The only thing that changed Miss Walters is her current state of dementia.

Ross Matthews is annoying and NOT funny, Barbara was right to treat him like a used piece of tissue.

To have Barbara treat him like a used piece of tissue would be an honor to a famewhore like Ross. Now years later, he might be indignant about it.

Wecause I'm a wunt.

Ross and a lot of other celebrities have complained that Walters acted like she didn't know them, but I think it was the early stages of her dementia and she really didn't remember who they were

r37 ditto but the view was a shitshow from the start

like any holier than thou group that brings women together and expects them not to be histronic for daytime television.

it would be like expecting a group of dudes not to engage in a hateful spit in your mouth circlejerk every time they get together for media.

^ Guys have Joe Rogan and Howard Stern which is their version of The View

I love the story of her caregiver (hired by Jackie) who would dress Babs up to look like a clown. One of her few visitors was shocked, and confronted the woman, who said Babs loved looking that way.

The audience likes his assertiveness and honesty. He breathes life into these dreary frau shows.

[quote] I love the story of her caregiver (hired by Jackie) who would dress Babs up to look like a clown. One of her few visitors was shocked, and confronted the woman, who said Babs loved looking that way.

… what?!!!

I love Ross. He's hilarious. But always a bit over the top. So I don't blame Baba Wawa for being aggressive. She's a cunt. I can't stand her.

She wasn't mean to him. She just didn't want him talking over everyone, becasue we cant hear anyone if they are talking over each other. He acknowledges what he is doing in the clip. She liked him and thought he was funny.

The View of a Kunt

The show’s producers had to assume most viewers listened to the show with monaural sound. (Stereo TV sound was not not a big thing in Bab’s heyday,) Unlike the case with stereo, overlapping conversations in mono quickly become incomprehensible. Not good for a talk show.

One of the moderator’s jobs is to [italic] moderate [/italic] the discussion to try to eliminate crosstalk.

Doesn’t mean she can’t still be a cunt.

smoke & mirrors & fog can’t hide a genuine Kunt

[quote]Shockingly, Elizabeth seems the nicest to him.

I remember thinking that at the time. Yes, surprising, but maybe not as much as we should expect.

I only watched about 10 minutes of Drew's talk show when it first debuted. It was awful. She was a giggling, lisping mess. Did they bring Matthews in because they realized she couldn't carry the show on her own?

R53 because he was eating her snatch after each show for 45 minutes nonstop. He was trying to ingratiate himself with the Aryan host so that someday he would have his own talk show. And he knew the owners were conservative.

He's annoying!

Drew’s show will be done after this season. It was originally picked up with a two-year commitment, so don’t believe that nonsense about it having been renewed for a second season. The ratings suck.

He's no Paul Lynde

I loved Ross Matthews on the Tonight Show--fresh and hilarious. Sadly he hasn't really been able to parlay that into a continuing career

He hasn't been able to parlay it into anything steady because he's not that good.

^ Best selling author, talk show co-host, judge on Ru Paul's Drag Race... Yeah, a real loser there

[quote] usually it's the other way around - someone loses weight, gets surgery, whatever, like Reba (and Ricci, and so many others)

When has Reba ever been fat, outside of being pregnant?

R61 = Ross Matthews' publicist, Irene (formerly Roger).

r61 = Someone who likes to call out you jealous bitches

R64 = weird sexual fetishist who gets off on defending stale fat comedians

R64 Good lord grow up

R66 = camps on the message board because she has nothing better to do 😢

Babsy is shitting her diapers these days and trying to punch out her caregivers. Sad last days.

His schtick was cute when he was new on the scene on Leno. But now it’s pretty played. And to those who are saying “this is why they hate us”…he looks like frau catnip in that clip to me.

He's one note and that seemingly helium-induced voice!

Drew has access and personal relationships with alist show business folks but that talk show of hers is unwatchable with or without the cohost. The talk show format is constraining for a free spirit like Drew.

r65 = Sexualizing every commenter is a bit queer, don't you think?

r66, "Good lord grow up "

Wow, totally blew me out of the water with that one... *snicker*

Ross Mathews has scratched out a pretty decent life for himself without compromising his basic effeminate self. He took the hand he was dealt and succeeded despite the odds against him and all you guys can do is give him grief for not being more butch like I'm sure you shop bottoms are

" Ross Mathews is a television personality who has a net worth of $2 million." How much are you pulling down at Macy's?

Ross is an annoying fag.

^ So are you

I enjoyed Ross on the gameshow 25 Words or Less in it's old superior format. He played well off Meredith and the other celebs. I think his niche is in stuff like that.

UK here. I have no idea who he is, but he’s a lady and a half.

Ross is a trans waiting to happen, but alas, they were born 20 years early when trans wasn't in vogue.

Barbara could be a little curt sometimes.

[quote] Why was Barbara Walters so mean

It is in her nature.

Have you heard about the story of The Scorpion and The Tortoise?

^ No, The Scorpion and The Frog

A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't resist the urge. It's in my nature.

She was against a guy host at the table.