Good grief. Barbara Walters is carrying water for the billionaires this morning

[Skidmore]

on The View. She spent some time trying to humanize Bernie Madoff to the point that even Sherry called her on it. Then she's onto some bit she will be doing elsewhere on "billionaires who give back" after noting that one of them is the guy behind the Paul Mitchell hair products. She went on not to tell how he gives back but prefaced the tease with "look what he has" and proceeded with a brief tour of one of his many homes with tile floors from a 16th century Italian home and his antique restored railroad car. Barbara Walters has become the new Robin Leach, namedropping and besotted with ostentatious displays of wealth.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Rich people admire other rich people. They are in the club.

[WI_DEM]

2. Walters gave up any pretense of being a serious journalist long ago

with her it's all about the glitz and glamour of celebrity.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. I will make one comment - this man is in jail because he affected the wealth of the already-rich...

If he had affected the poor or middle class, he'd be out on the street, enjoying his life, like the rest of the mega-rich a-holes who have done harm to the poor and middle class.

Only if the very rich are affected, does anyone land in prison.

[valerief]

6. Right! Because the most important thing in the world is to make rich people richer.

Nothing else matters.

That is not hyperbole. That's a fact.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

8. Exactly! Meanwhile I can't even count how many mega-rich hurt the poor and are running free

So really, why is Madoff even punished? Only because he hurt mega-rich people. End of story. According to the law, he cheated the wrong ones, huh?

[valerief]

13. Yep. Laws are written for and only apply to the benefit of the .01%. nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

20. That's what OWS is about. Thank goodness people are realizing it. nt

[Pacifist Patriot]

16. Nailed it.

[valerief]

4. Birds of a feather. nt

[tk2kewl]

5. that was the tone i got from the front pages of the tabloids in NYC today

Poor Madoffs tried to kill themselves because of the negative press and hate mail but failed.
Meanwhile NY Daily News had absolutely no mention of Oakland or Scott Olsen.

[coalition_unwilling]

21. Some help for the Madoffs:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OPw7pOr5RLo/TpkK02gfroI/AAAAAAAAAHA/pDsP41anlck/s320/Jump%252C+You+Fuckers.jpg

[tk2kewl]

23. I'll play for you as you fall...

:nopity:

[hobbit709]

7. And water is wet.

[dmosh42]

9. Shocking, I say!

[UTUSN]

10. K&R #3 to expose her inveterate shamelessness. Oh, & e-mails don't work for her.

Despite her trademark whining and cloying fakery, she has the toughest dismissiveness of all criticism of her. It's like Shrub's, "Who cares what you think!1"

[Lint Head]

11. Walters has carried more than water.

[tularetom]

12. Of course she is, that's her job

A card carrying member of the 1%, that's Baba Wawa.

[undeterred]

14. I think billionaires are her escorts to social functions.

Or for whatever else she needs. That's how they "give back" to society, by keeping Barbara Walters happy. :shrug:

[MADem]

15. She's quite wealthy herself. She's wired into the political machine.

She was John Warner's regular date to "W" stuff during the Bush years.

[efhmc]

17. Never could stand her. Silly and vapid.

[JuniperLea]

18. If billionaires giving back was enough to solve the problems...

There would be no issue. Bernie Madoff is subhuman. But thanks, Babs, for pointing out how vast the chasm is between the rich and the poor!

Compare...

And contrast...

Compare...

And contrast...


Thanks again, Babs... I get it now.

[opihimoimoi]

19. Baba wawa is too old to noes bettah...she had her career to boost her wealth and

now she has blue blood

[butterfly77]

22. She is thinking about...

the OWS movement and is trying to gain humanize and gain sympathy for her millionaire,billionaire friends..

[durablend]

24. See, I told ya...

Media is going to be working overtime to humanize the Madoffs...if anything to get rid of certain "rogue protests" from their eyesight.

[DJ13]

25. one of them is the guy behind the Paul Mitchell

Heres what his daughter, Alexis Dejoria is doing now.......

[Kennah]

26. I wonder if the episode is titled, "I, Billionaire"

[sarcasmo]

27. The media defending Billionaires, no surprise.

[Yavin4]

28. Bernie Madoff Stole Money from Holocaust Survivors

Cannot get much lower than that.

[Rex]

29. Barbara Walters has never been on our side.

Just another worthless hack.

[supernova]

30. I liked her better in the 70s when she hosted Not For Women Only

It was a mid-day public affairs show panel discussion that relayed real information.

She's been useless since then.

[Octafish]

31. Is she an ''investor''? She's not on the list of clients...

Here's the list:

http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/2/bernie-madoffs-clients-the-official-list

I'm wondering if she got into the pyramid early and got out with much more than she took in as an unnamed member of an LLC or other partnership.

It's easy to come to that conclusion: Being a longtime loyal servant of the monied people, she now is doing her bit to "pay it forward."