By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts
Friday, May 2, 2008; Page C03
So the press is in bed with politicians! Barbara Walters has revealed
that she had an affair with then-Sen. Ed Brooke in the 1970s.
Promoting her memoir, "Audition," the legendary television journalist
dished about her long-running relationship with the Massachusetts
Republican to Oprah Winfrey, according to a transcript of next week's
broadcast leaked to the Associated Press yesterday.
The two were both rising stars: The Boston-born Walters, then in her
40s and separated from her second husband, was making history as
"Today" co-host and then anchor of ABC News; the D.C.-born Brooke, a
decade older and estranged from first wife Remigia, had in 1966 become
the first African American popularly elected to the Senate.
Want more details? We obtained an early copy of the book. They met at
an N.Y.C. restaurant in '73 when she was in a busy dating phase. "Ed
Brooke was simply the most attractive, sexiest, funniest, charming,
and impossible man." How so? He used to joke that "I was the oldest
woman he had ever been attracted to." (She writes she was tempted to
respond, "Oh yeah? Well, you are the blackest man I have ever been
with.")
"I was excited, fascinated, intrigued and infatuated," Walters writes.
She badly wanted to marry him, and her ultimatum prodded him to seek a
divorce, she says. But friends warned the fraught ethical and racial
issues could ruin both their careers; they broke up before he lost his
1978 reelection bid. She went on to almost marry Alan Greenspan, but
that's another story. Also: Got serious with John Warner in the '90s,
but "I could never imagine myself as the wife of a senator living in
Washington." (What changed, Babs?)
Brooke, 88 and now remarried, did not respond to calls to his Florida
home for comment.
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Barbara Walters reveals past affair with US senator
By FRAZIER MOORE – 14 hours ago
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."
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."
Let's see if I understand this:
Thirty years ago two people met, associated with each other, and were
attracted to each other.
Now, when the facts are made public, the only thing you rightwing
pieces of shit can think about is ". . . Black cock."
Sort of explains how your feeble minds work.
haha I love how wrong you got it. First, I'm not only liberal, but
what would be considered by the far-right as far-left. Second, both
were married at the time. Both separated, yes, but still married. And
back then it very well could have brought down both their careers.
You'd think Babs would at least have had the decency to wait 'til the
old goat was dead before digging up dust on this long buried secret.
>
> - Show quoted text -
Who the fuck cares now, Taylor? You're digging.
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Way to go, Ms. Wawa.
Interesting to note that Jerry Rivers had an affair with the wife of another
"moderate" GOP Senator.
Nice folks!
** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
As if it's something that only they did...yawn. It's simply no one's
business.
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We must change the way we live,
or the climate will do it for us.
Taylor is always digging.
That is so low class.
> > You'd think Babs would at least have had the decency to wait 'til the
> > old goat was dead before digging up dust on this long buried secret.
>
> As if it's something that only they did...yawn. It's simply no one's
> business.
True but, she should of had the class to leave it at that!
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"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
Exactly. This is the grand old dame's last hurrah. She knows she's
creeping towards the end of her life, so she's getting it all out in
her own words before it's too late. She can't wait for ALL the people
she's wronged over the years to die off, so since she's closer than
they are, they're collateral damage. I'm sure we'll have to wait for
her to die before we hear from her only-child daughter about what a
distance mother she was.
And, Mason, yeah, that was low class, but she's a prissy old hen
(think of that Looney Toons character).
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You got to give any man credit that was with Walters. Just listening
to that winning strange voice deserves credit.
Her timing is terrible with this story. Now I am seeing Barbara
Walters in my mind as she looks now with this dude....b.b.
No black man exists who wouldn't fuck ANY white woman, even 400-
pounders! We see 'em every day, walkin' (her waddlin") the malls.
It's "status" for blackies. Just so it's white!
As for Walters, even in her so-called prime her face and lisp were a
turn-off and she was never worth a tenth of the money "they" paid
her. But then we don't how much of her salary was based on
masticatory merit, do we? Some say she talkths that way becauth of the
rethsults of wremoval of a malignant tumor under her tongue ... too
many, eh ... eh ... y'know ... ?
How many years has it been since you had black cock, old hag?
Then she should have kept it to herself.
She made it everyone's business.
Barbara Walter's ABC (All Black Cock) Special!
That's what everyone is talking about! Bawbwa and Black cock? Low class.
And she's crying about not being taken seriously, when every year she
has a list of the most influencial people and none are scientists,
inventors just Hollywood performers and singers. I can see why the
old guard thought she fluffy! She might be the genesis of the problem
where American news is all about Hollywood and nothing else.
She can be amusing, and she's pretty smart, but most of her interviews
are nothing more than blatant pandering and puffery. When was the last
time you got any real insight from one of her interview subjects?
And yet -- like Larry King (I almost called him "the late Larry King')
-- she remains inexplicably popular.
Not true. I turned your mom down on a number of occasions.
Thirty years ago two people met, associated with each other, and were
attracted to each other.
Now, when the facts are made public, the only thing you rightwing
pieces of shit can think about is ". . . Black cock."
Sort of explains how your feeble minds work.
Hahaha. Right wing? Taylor is quite liberal. Your prejudice must make you
feel like a fool now.
> [edit]
You are indeed a crude, stupid little man. I mean, day after day, you
reveal yourself to be this classless idiot, but the title of this one
takes the cake.
Here.
http://www.ironeyefortress.com/invisibility_ray.jpg
You've really got nothing to offer. Really, you don't.
And you certainly don't sound liberal to me.
Bye now.
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I don't think "everyone" is sufficiently racist to think Ed Bradley is low
class simply because he's black.
Sorry, I had the wrong guy. It's Sen. Ed Brooke. Message is otherwise the
same.
> On May 2, 5:35 am, "Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names"
> <PopUlist...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Let's see if I understand this:
>>
>> Thirty years ago two people met, associated with each other, and were
>> attracted to each other.
>>
>> Now, when the facts are made public, the only thing you rightwing
>> pieces of shit can think about is ". . . Black cock."
>>
>> Sort of explains how your feeble minds work.- Hide quoted text -
>
> haha I love how wrong you got it. First, I'm not only liberal, but
> what would be considered by the far-right as far-left.
The "black cock" remark is still offensive, no matter how you define
yourself. Perhaps it's even more offensive coming from someone who
considers himself a liberal.
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> As if it's something that only they did...yawn. It's simply no one's
> business.
(said while avidly reading a gossip group)... HA!HA!
you are trash and your disingenuousness fools no one.
who cares about your politics?
you are a mess.
come on now - it's really up to you.
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Do you have an IQ above that of a house plant? Barbara was the one
that told us this. By the way you in in a gossip newsgroup.
Insults. The sure sign of a weak argument.
Barbara was the one
> that told us this. By the way you in in a gossip newsgroup.
Take a look at the header. The gossip NG is not the only one listed, and
surprise surprise, not the one I'm posting from.
D'uh.
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We must change the way we live,
or the climate will do it for us.
Yeah. We got it. You're a racist moron and a douchebag. Too thick witted
to be ashamed.
You KNOW Barabra still has all the pull, so not even Whoopi Goldberg
could have a long leash on joking about it on that horrible, horrible
daytime talk show of theirs.
Also, perhaps the show's never won a Daytime Emmy because the show's
simply not good.
Geez, read the headers before you start flaming, wouldja?
:>On 03 May 2008, "Mason Barge" <mason...@comcast.net> posted some
:>news:ua2dne0IP8v9GYHV...@comcast.com:
:>
:>>
:>> "Dano" <janea...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
:>
:>Don't worry about it. The same dickwad wanders around the football froups
:>begging for ass-spankings. It's about as dumb as they come.
Nobody gives a fuck where he's posting from.
Followup-To: ? Douchbag.
From: Matt Davis <mda...@kybradio.net>
Newsgroups:
rec.arts.tv,alt.culture.us.1970s,alt.politics,alt.showbiz.gossip,alt.gossip.celebrities
Followup-To: poster
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 19:38:52 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <Xns9A936C5...@earthspank.net>
Damn you're fucking stupid. You just got had by a football group troll.
There ain't much lower than that.
maybe babs kept this secret because everyone would react this
way....i'm trying to figure why does anyone care about her and who
she's dated....shes not that appealing!
You stole that from Geraldo. It was freaking ignorant when he said it too.
Once she went black, she liked the herpes, gonorrhea and genital warts so
much she went back for more.
I imagine she has better things to do than listen to some wannabe making
crude witless comments about her sex life.
What would you rather be doing? Having sex with a black person, or writing
drivel on the Usenet that 14 people read and 11 dislike?
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Then why are you reading and the writing a comment about this? Very
Smart!
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I'm one of the 11.
That's true. I think more than 14 people have read this and I doubt
that very few actually dislike it.
I use to love being made love to by a Black man. Hot White/Black gay
sex is much more enjoyable doing than talking about on Usenet. :-)
> Now, when the facts are made public, the only thing you rightwing
> pieces of shit can think about is ". . . Black cock."
Taylor is a homosexual; of course he'd see this from a phallocentric
perspective.
> Sort of explains how your feeble [rightwing] minds work.
Sort of shows like liberals like you espouse the gay lifestyle, yet in
truth are just as disgusted by it than the rightards. So two faced...
Oh, I just love how clinical you make sweetie darling! :-D It really
gets my feathers in a ruffle!
Hey, that's what I'm here for.
It's kind of weird how this Hillary VS Obama thing is making all the
liberals on Usenet point fingers at each other and call each other
"right-wing". It's like reverse McCarthyism...
>"Marko" <Gan...@hotmail.net> wrote in news:481d2da1$0$11148$822641b3
>@news.adtechcomputers.com:
>
>> Once she went Black, she saw no reason to go back.
>
>Got cliches?
Well,
I was surprised to hear that news for sure. I have not liked, or
respected Barbara for many years.
I watched her interview the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan one
night, and she completely lost her cool.
She began yelling and screaming at him about how he hated Jews and he
said this and said that. Never in my life have I seen her lose control
of an interview like that.
Minister Farrakhan was his usual imperturbable self. He smiled and
never raised his voice as he explained what she thought he had said.
Then about fifteen minutes before the interview ended a special report
came on that President Nixon had died and they switched to report
that.
If any of you all can find a video of her interview with Minister
Farrakhan, please post it to you tube and let me know when you did it.
Barbara stinks!!
I can't find the transcript or video of Barbara interviewing Minister
Farrakhan. Maybe one of youn's can.
Farrakhan's Jewish biographer defends his approach
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/3994/edition_id/72/format/html/displaystory.html
Interview with former Black panther leader Eldrige Cleaver talks about
Barbara Walters, and about eradicating Caucasians forever!
http://www.reason.com/news/show/29321.html
Nightline interviews the great Knowledge!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqj1nN_a7oI
Mike Wallace looks silly trying to interview Minister Farrakhan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf7MifF8-lE&feature=related
Sam Donaldson made to look silly trying to interview Minister
Farrakhan 4parts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ7vWuWJWwA
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Farrakhan+interviews&page=1
Everything you ever wanted to know about politics,racism, White Supremacy, and religion,
but were afraid to ask!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RACE_RACISM_AND_RELIGION_2008/
But you did after she took a black cock, huh? All of you white and black
racists need to go kill each other.
> I watched her interview the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan one
> night, and she completely lost her cool.
>
> She began yelling and screaming at him about how he hated Jews and he
> said this and said that. Never in my life have I seen her lose control
> of an interview like that.
Probablly because Farrakhan is a psychotic imbecile.
She gave you back change for a $20?
That BITCH!