Originally published at: Pioneering news anchor Barbara Walters dead at 93 | Boing Boing
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Well, 2022 is cleaning house up to the last day. I remember her being a main fixture on 60 Minutes, but mostly for Gilda Radner parodying her.
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Any pioneering work she accomplished as a woman in journalism was overshadowed by her palling around with some of the worst people in modern history – Kissinger , the Assads, and Roy Cohn* (for whom she was a long time beard).
friendly yet persistent interviewing technique brought her fame
While she never reached the bootlicking lows of Larry “Softball” King, by the mid-80s her Oscar night celebrity interviews were so inane that as a teenager I asked myself “why am I wasting my time with this?”
[* the only reason she turned on von Clownstick was that he instantly betrayed his dark mentor when it became clear the latter had AIDS.]
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Here she is exposing Trump as a terrible businessman, terrible father, notorious philanderer and Hitler-admiring asshole back in 1990.
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See my comment above. It was a good takedown, but before he distanced himself from Roy Cohn all three were buddy-buddy.
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I remain ambivalent. Old paedo excuser, dead. Did some good things. Also, shitty things. Death collects.
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And yet, Kissenger still Lives On.
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