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May 09, 2008

Barbara Walters at 78 -- At the Top of her Game!?

The New Yorker:

"Barack Obama walked onto the set of 'The View' a few weeks ago and sat down. It took a moment for the fluttering to die down. When it did, Barbara Walters turned to him and said, 'We were just saying before you came out—maybe we shouldn’t say this, but we thought you were very sexy-looking.' Walters then turned her gaze to the cheering audience, as Obama grinned and pretended to fan himself with his hands. There was more fluttering.

"Then Walters picked up a sheaf of notes on her lap and got down to business. 'O.K., so here we go. . . . You’ve condemned the racist comments made by Reverend Wright, but you haven’t disowned him. But when Don Imus made racist remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team you said you thought he should lose his job. You said, and I’m quoting'—here she read from the notes—' ‘There’s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group.’ What’s the difference?' Obama gave a careful and practiced answer. And now we were smack in the middle of a standard-issue news interview."

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