Barbara Walters - Too Far?

I've been saying it for years. Barbara Walters has lost it. She has an increasingly harder time keeping up with conversations and she constantly forgets information and stumbles during interviews with A-listers. I think it has gotten embarrassing and at times, sad.

I watch "The View." And last week when Babs was being interviewed by the other women on her book, she said that initially she wanted the book to be more about her years growing up. Specifically, her relationship with her sister and parents - and how her childhood shaped her into the woman she would become. However, when the publishers caught wind of that they told her she HAD to discuss celebs. Well, I think she went too far.

I have a feeling the book Babs WANTED to write would have had a lot more integrity than the one she did write. But this one is so much more juicy!


THE backlash has begun against Barbara Walters for admitting in her autobiography, "Audition," to an adulterous affair 30 years ago with Edward Brooke, the then-married Massachusetts senator, while she was simultaneously seeing Alan "Ace" Greenberg, who became chairman of Bear Stearns.

"Barbara Walters is a shameless media whore," says Marc Dice, spokesman for conservative media watchdog group The Resistance. "Barbara has now sunk to the very level of other attention-starved celebrities such as Paris Hilton or even Steve-O from 'Jackass.' "

Walters' spokeswoman, Cindi Berger, told Page Six: "This conservative watchdog seems to have lived a sheltered life in his doghouse."

In "Audition," Walters also reveals she broke up with Brooke only after Pete Peterson, the Blackstone Group founder who was Richard Nixon's commerce secretary, told her that her bosses at NBC wouldn't look kindly on her affair. But by the time she told Brooke it was over, he'd already asked his wife of 30 years for a divorce.

Meanwhile, Christie Brinkley - who divorced Peter Cook when she caught him cheating - told "The Insider" last night: "I was a little surprised by [Walters'] affair with the married man. Barbara is a pretty smart cookie, how did that happen? I didn't think intelligent women did that."

"Audition" also reveals that after breaking up with Brooke, Walters continued seeing Greenberg while also dating Alan Greenspan, the future Federal Reserve chairman.

Her Latina housekeeper couldn't keep the two Alans straight. "When they gave me the message, I could only ask, which one talked louder?" Walters wrote. "Alan Greenberg . . . talked in a normal tone of voice. Alan Greenspan was very soft-spoken. He almost whispered. And that's how I would know whether it was Greenspan or Greenberg."

(Source: Page Six)