Geez. I already knew many in the press were in bed with politicians, so I didn't really need to hear this:
NEW YORK (AP) - entertainmentminute 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.
On "Oprah," no less, to sell her stupid tell-all book. Call me old-fashioned, but I think affairs should be kept secret, and whatever happened to the idea of being discreet and circumspect and private? Oh, wait, this is a TV star. Maybe Baba can interview herself. "So, what kind of tree did you think you were while having the affair?"
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We can only hope that someday soon this old gas bag will take her rightful place among the silent and retired. What possible good can come from exposing the affair? Does it help prove her liberal bonafides that she was sleeping with an african american man (married at that)? Will it help to sell her tell all book? Probably, but how much more money does she need?
Do us all a favor and just STFU.
Tim, it keeps her in the public eye, ... what most of us mere mortals forget is that's what these self-absorbed, image-crazy people want (and this usually includes politicians) - to still be seen or in the minds of millions. I, on the other hand, would settle for rich as opposed to famous any day,