Barbara Walters said KO was extreme.

[mmonk]

What a sh*t know nothing show (The View).

[47of74]

1. This is the same person who whined about how hard people were being...

...on poor, defenseless Sarah.

[HughBeaumont]

2. Right, so fighting for life issues regarding the working class is now "extreeeeeme!"

And hiring a champion of job offshoring to oversee your economic council (whose objective is supposedly to get Americans working again) is perfectly OK.

It's Morning in America. Again.

[Chimichurri]

10. Well, she is part of the elite so advocating for the middle class to her is extreme and

doesn't serve her best interests.

[wilt the stilt]

3. and invites O'Reilly

and he is given a prominent role to act like he is a good guy.

[Uben]

4. WTF? He IS extreme!

Extremely good at what he does!

[bdamomma]

19. just food for thought, Keith gave Ed, Rachel and Lawrence

a platform, so for those who want to stop watching, why do that when Keith worked so hard to advocate for them to be televised.

[Kalyke]

25. Because you should dance with the one that brung ya... that's why. eom

[Major Hogwash]

28. That's what my mom always told me.

Which just goes to show ya, it's always something. ~ RoseAnn RoseAnnAdanna

[H2O Man]

5. Interesting.

I think Keith has the potential to become extreme. I hope he reaches that full potential. All of the great leaders in history have been accused of being extremists; many more good leaders have, too.

[hobbit709]

6. So what qualifies Baba Wah-Wah as an expert on extreme?

[ThomCat]

11. She has made a career by being a complacent mouthpiece.

She has never, ever been anything even slightly edgy. And she specialized in always making the right people very comfortable. That would be the executives. That's how she made her career.

So of course she would think that KO is extreme.

And, of course, by bashing KO she is making executives even more comfortable with her because it reinforces her standing as not one of those people on the left.

She had to make it perfectly clear to them that she isn't like him, just to make sure that her job is safe.

[mfcorey1]

7. E-mail Walters at this website

http://www.chacha.com/question/what-is-barbara-wal...

[Stevenmarc]

8. Says the Queen of Softball

[soleft]

22. Please don't besmerge softball

Besides, I am the Queen of Softball.

[Johonny]

9. but what kind of tree would he be?

[bullwinkle428]

12. "Extreme advocacy" on the part of the working/middle class

of America sends poor Baba Wawa directly to the fainting couch!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. She should have him on the show and ask him what kind of tree he'd like to be

Walters was widely lampooned in 1981 (and often since) for having posed the question, during an interview with actress Katharine Hepburn: "If you were a tree, what kind would you be?" But as she has often pointed out (and the video clips confirm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_X2Xd1iOmM) Hepburn initiated the discussion by saying that she would like to be a tree, and Walters merely followed up with the question, "What kind of a tree?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Walters

[EC]

14. And she has given validity to too many clowns

like Starr Jones and Hesselbeck.

[stuntcat]

15. I was sorry for her lately

I grew up respecting her actually.

[hlthe2b]

16. Let's look at the group she befriends/ defends....

Sarah Palin (defends, yup)
Henry (the murderous) Kissenger (defends, yup; dated, yup)
The late horrendous Leona Helmsley (defends, yup, befriends, yup)
Bill O'Reilly (defends, yup)

and those are just the ones I can easily recall...

[MadHound]

17. Bahbah WahWah thinks anything more contentious than Wild Kingdom is extreme

I'm surprised that she manages to hang on after having been thoroughly discredited as a hard news reporter.

[RKP5637]

18. Not much respect for her anymore, a fading dinosaur. n/t

[dionysus]

20. well, he is... if you compare him to the View...

;)

[ensho]

21. Barbara should retire to her kitchen and never leave it again

she is past caring about

[A wise Man]

23. Truth is never an extreme...

if Keith is extreme...then rush, bachman, palin fox and its crew are liberals

[Javaman]

24. fluffer says what?

baba wawa wouldn't know exteme if it hit her in the face.

[Major Hogwash]

26. She picked Sarah P Leathers as 1 of her 10 most fascinating people 3 years in a row!!

I'm not kidding.

Barbara has never picked ANYONE ELSE to even be on that list twice!!
But Sarah, hell not just twice, but 3 freakin' times!

[Cleita]

27. I would be outraged, but instead I am very sad.

Keith practiced old fashioned fact checked journalism. As a matter-of-fact his personal politics would have been considered moderate thirty years ago. When that is considered extreme, we are in trouble. Thirty years ago Barbara Walters wasn't considered a credible journalist but a tabloid hack. This is why Gilda Radner used to make fun of her in her Babawawa segment on SNL.

[City Lights]

29. How's The View from the cheap seats, Barbara?

:eyes:

Views are like assholes, Babs; everyone has 'em. Didja evah wonder why yours are worth so much? Is it because your head bobbles when you babble?

[Ikonoklast]

30. Life-long professional suck-up to the wealthy elite says what?

And I should care what that vapid twit says...why?

[moondust]

31. I'm sure she meant to say "honest and unapologetic"

but was off her meds or something.

:rofl: