The Dumbing Down of Barbara
Remember when Barbara Walters was a serious journalist? The first female network evening news coanchor. Interviews with heads of state - Sadat and Begin, Margaret Thatcher, Hugo Chavez. What's happened to Barbara? Even beyond The View, the silly questions and comments, she's taken a turn for the worse lately.
Barbara really crossed over to the dark side with this latest update from Paris in the glamor slammer. It seems she has appointed herself Hilton family spokesperson - and found a clever way around that restriction on interviews from jail. Walters has twice relayed her personal phone conversations with Hilton's mother and Paris herself. Watching Barbara read her recollection off a piece of paper complete with dramatic pauses and an expression I can't quite interpret, was just flat out dumb. Man, so many proper social buttons pressed in one short phone call: God, the troops, cancer research, sick kids. Baby steps, Paris. First, get a job.
I think Barbara should have asked Paris how she feels about taking a space in the acute mental illness ward because of humiliation, a little claustrophobia and some dry skin. I want to hear about the mystery medication that she failed to disclose at intake...could it be perhaps ALCOHOL? I think everyone is jail is probably a little depressed, so that one doesn't even count.
Ahh! I've entered the Paris vortex again. Back to Barbara's new interpretation of journalism. Thinking folks everywhere, I beg you, hold the line! Resist the spin. And visit the recall Sheriff Baca website while you're at it.
Barbara really crossed over to the dark side with this latest update from Paris in the glamor slammer. It seems she has appointed herself Hilton family spokesperson - and found a clever way around that restriction on interviews from jail. Walters has twice relayed her personal phone conversations with Hilton's mother and Paris herself. Watching Barbara read her recollection off a piece of paper complete with dramatic pauses and an expression I can't quite interpret, was just flat out dumb. Man, so many proper social buttons pressed in one short phone call: God, the troops, cancer research, sick kids. Baby steps, Paris. First, get a job.
I think Barbara should have asked Paris how she feels about taking a space in the acute mental illness ward because of humiliation, a little claustrophobia and some dry skin. I want to hear about the mystery medication that she failed to disclose at intake...could it be perhaps ALCOHOL? I think everyone is jail is probably a little depressed, so that one doesn't even count.
Ahh! I've entered the Paris vortex again. Back to Barbara's new interpretation of journalism. Thinking folks everywhere, I beg you, hold the line! Resist the spin. And visit the recall Sheriff Baca website while you're at it.
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