Post by noc on May 14, 2008 17:25:46 GMT -5
Don't think I"m going to read this one. Page six is gossip, but I was personally really turned off by her announcement of an affair with a married man - especially since the family is still living. I didn't care about his race, and I don't need to know that she had affairs. The only reason to release his name was to sell books - period.
May 14, 2008 -- 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."
May 14, 2008 -- 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."