Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Maybe Barbara Walters Needs to Follow Larry King and Regis Philbin Out to Pasture

This morning on The View, during a discussion about Ron Reagan revealing in his new book that his father perhaps displayed some early Alzheimer's symptoms during his presidency, Barbara Walters had the nerve to say that she had seen far more of Ronald Reagan during those years than any of his children(!) and could therefore state unequivocally that the president showed no indications of any illness at all during his term in office. A tad presumptuous?

Last month on the show, Walters bet Joy Behar that Katharine Hepburn had originated the quote "Old age is for sissies." (Behar had just stated that the quote came from Bette Davis.) A few minutes later a producer spoke into Walters's earpiece and Walters burst out: "It was Bette Davis who first said that. You owe me!" Behar was deferential when she pointed out that Davis had been her pick, but it was still a crazy moment.

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