Barbara Talks About Rosie with Suspenders Man
Barbara Walters has been promoting her book on just about every TV show there is these past couple weeks. This week she was on Larry King. Here is a portion of the transcript when she talks about Rosie:
King: ... So we'll move to another area, Rosie O'Donnell.
Walters: Oh, I love Rosie. And Rosie and I e-mail each other all the time.
King: What happened there, though?
Walters: Well, what happened with Rosie at the end, Rosie decided not to come back. It was her decision not to come back. I was sorry. I thought that Rosie -- I mean, she -- she had some feuds. She had the Donald Trump feud, which I got in the middle of. Didn't want to be but was. She had her own very strong opinions.
But Rosie and the network could not come to agreement. She only had a one-year contract. And she decided not to come back.
King: Were you ticked over what Donald said about you?
Walters: Well, I didn't know how I got in the middle of it. You know, and suddenly there I was. Donald had been my friend. I went to Donald and Melania's wedding. So suddenly I was in the middle of this mess. I mean, when Rosie started to pick on Donald, I was off on a friend's boat. So suddenly, I'm in the middle of --
King: Have you heard from Rosie since the book?
Walters: All the time. I just e-mailed Rosie yesterday because she's in the revival of "No, No, Nanette." And Rosie sent me flowers. And Rosie, if you're listening, there was no one home. Thank you, darling, but they're dead by now. ...
King: One more thing on Rosie. She talked about you the other day on "The Today Show," your old TV stomping ground where you were the co-host. Let's take a look.
(Begin video clip)
Rosie O'Donnell: She's a forerunner, a legend. She really did pave the way. You have to realize, when she was the weather girl here on "The Today Show," women weren't allowed to dream of speaking to foreign dignitaries and world leaders. This woman defied the odds. She did it when women were told they couldn't. And you know, that's pretty amazing.
Unidentified: So you're friends today, you and Barbara?
O'Donnell: Yes. We e-mail. You know, I forced her to sort of be more emotional than she's comfortable with. When the whole thing happened with Trump and then we -- you know, I was upset that she didn't, like, call me and defend me. And so I told her. And I told her in crying hysterics -- you know, Barbara, you never -- and she was like, what are you doing?
(End video clip)
King: Everything true, but you weren't the weather girl.
Walters: I was never a weather girl. I was a writer on "The Today Show" before I started. They put me on for 13 weeks, and I stayed for 13 years. And I write about those years. They were wonderful. Most of it was wonderfully happy. Some of it was not.
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maybe ro got BW confused with Diane Sawyer...she was a weather girl at one time
BW rambles
sheesh
why so much on this damn book of hers?
and I find it rude and most unkind to say "No one home,flowers dead by now"
ROsie BW so NOT worth your time hon!
and SO NOT the "Motherly type"
Cat
I think BW is a mean person who only looks out for herself...
hi,
ya know i agree. Barbara W. pretends to be so lovely, but she seems to me to back slap people.
The comment, the flowers are dead.
She has said she and her daughter has some "terrible times", i agree, she is not the nurtueing motherly type.
She seem disconnected, keeps people at bay.
I don't know. Just hate that she continues to give Rosie back handed admiration. ( very heartless )
I'm so glad to read these comments! I thought I was the only person who thought these things of BW! I cringe at times when I watch her...you can actually SEE the phoniness come out. I took a peek at her book, rolled my eyes and put it down.
BW is so aloof, so closed emotionally. It's probably why she succeeded in a time when other women didn't. So often women were (and often still are) dismissed as being emotional or hysterical. Passion about an issue with a woman is often seen as irrational anger. Then too, reporters are supposed to be unemotional and detached.
So here we have BW, neatly fitting all the criteria necessary to become what she is.
Social and economic status is clearly everything to her. It's the golden ticket she's needed to be a able to access the kinds of people that she's necessary to get to where she is. She can't afford...emotionally or professionally.. to stand up for a friend and risk alienating that social class.
On the whole she's been a career success! As a person, not so much.
When her collusion to lie about Star's impending departure was made public, I knew then that BW was never someone to be trusted. I don't care what her reasons for doing so were, it was till a lie and I don't trust liars. Especially not those in the media who are supposed to bring unbiased truth.
I'm so glad to read these comments! I thought I was the only person who thought these things of BW! I cringe at times when I watch her...you can actually SEE the phoniness come out. I took a peek at her book, rolled my eyes and put it down.
Anon: you took the words right out of my mouth! In fact, I wonder if I commented on this already and I'm the one who wrote it! :)
Seeing the behind the scenes of the view made me not like her even more. How fake that show is. I think they did more harm than good showing all that. Everything is so scripted. How can it be really someone's "VIEW" if they are told what to say? hmmm.. Glad Rosie left. It is not at all her!
Seeing the behind the scenes of the view made me not like her even more. How fake that show is. I think they did more harm than good showing all that. Everything is so scripted. How can it be really someone's "VIEW" if they are told what to say? hmmm.. Glad Rosie left. It is not at all her!
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