Barbara Walters Recalls Riding In The Bus With Her Emotionally Retarded Surrogate Daughter, Rosie

A torrent of emotion flooded Harpo studios today: Raw! Real! Emotion! as Barbara Walters laid herself open for all to see on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah, having gotten the distinct whiff of platelet-deficient blood, went directly in for the kill, insisting the 78-year-old sexual diarist divulge all the backstabbing goings-on at The View during the tumultuous period beginning with Star Jones's expulsion via medieval catapult, through to Rosie O'Donnell's Infamous Reign of Bipolar Terror. Walters goes on to paint a fascinating psychological portrait of the latter, who, robbed at a young age of her own mother, was cursed to a never-ending, Jungian search for her replacement. Anything could have set this emotional house of cards tumbling; in this case, it ended up being Donald Trump's "fat ugly face" material and Elisabeth Hasselbeck's unflappable patriotism that eventually snuffed the illusion that, all these years later, Rosie had found home. [Oprah.com]

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5:10 PM on Tue May 6 2008
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livingblinditem at 05:23 PM on 05/06/08
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This takes me back to...

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icallthebigonebitey at 05:33 PM on 05/06/08
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@livingblinditem:

That is genius.

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I think it was Camille Paglia who once said of Rosie: "She's a viper masquerading as a sunny populist."

But so is Grandma Barbara.
hughman at 05:34 PM on 05/06/08
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i can't believe i just went to oprah's website. i have officially become a housewife.
Mr-Busy at 06:20 PM on 05/06/08
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...Barbara commented that Star was so morbidly obese that she could barely walk onto the stage and would breathe very hard... REALLY? We NEVER noticed. I only wish Barbara would have admitted that the girls of the View shared a large bottle of champagne when they heard that Star was divorcing her gay husband. By the tone of her voice - nice and sarcastic - it sounded like Oprah did.
Desk_hack at 07:08 PM on 05/06/08
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This is what several decades in this business yields: the ability to serve dime-store psychology with a side of bitchiness. Way to go, Baba Wawa. How proud you must be.