Barbara Walters On Star Jones' Verbal Barbs: "Poor Woman"

Barbara Walters took to the airwaves Monday night to respond to recent comments by booted "View" co-host Star Jones. Walters said that she didn't really want to rehash the Star Jones imbroglio, but that Jones is certainly going through a tough time. She said she wished Jones well.

The former View host was quoted recently by the tabloid US Weekly as saying this of the legendary broadcaster:

It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character.

Watch Walters' response to Jones' verbal onslaught:

Comments

[TRYKER]

02:02 AM on 05/15/2008

As several posters have written, Star did have the right words and sentiment in her statement.­..succinct and to the point.
Its probably too much hormone replacemen­t therapy that had sexy Barbara stooping to out her secret married lover...an­d sex sells.
So much of her attention on her show seems to be centered around anything sexy...and it feels creepy when old women have sex on the top of their minds....r­eally don't want to know about it much, thanks anyway.
The reasons for the goofy title just aren't believable­...Auditio­n ? come on.

[Meah]

10:13 PM on 05/13/2008

Sometimes people are around so long you get sick of them. I think the View is a really pathetic show. The only decent mind on there is Whoopy Goldberg's­. The others? Drivel. Unfunny. Rigid. Uninterest­ing. Fahgettabo­udit!

[PuffAndStuff]

01:44 AM on 05/14/2008

I think Joy is funny and I more often than not agree with her 'view' on whatever their topic at hand is.

[loha]

10:12 PM on 05/13/2008

Star was righ on with her comment.

[HatingTheGame]

05:02 PM on 05/13/2008

Ba Ba Wa Wa should thank Star. Her comments are keeping this stupid story and the book that goes along with it in the news.

And we're sucking up like a Hoover in heat!

America! Gotta love it.

[monty]

03:28 PM on 05/13/2008

So a book about one's life should be scrubbed of all things any reader may find offensive?­?

Then that would be Fiction and totally boring to boot. Then some of you would be complainin­g the book wasn't accurate or true!

People are stupid.

[JoyIsGwenNYC]

03:13 PM on 05/13/2008

I think I just made myself 15% dumber by reading this article.

[aaawyeah]

04:06 PM on 05/13/2008

lol! ditto. i don't understand what the hell this is about? nor do i want to actually. five minutes of my life, i'll never get back.

[SSDiva]

02:01 PM on 05/13/2008

Can't stand either one of them! However, Star Jones disgraced herself when she lied about her weight loss, then whored out her own wedding!

[ChicagoKid]

02:01 PM on 05/13/2008

BW will finally talk about the time she got freaky with a goat in her sequel to this book.

[Wanjiru]

01:47 PM on 05/13/2008

...Barbara Walters graceful??­?.....LMAO­...

...listen, I'm no fan of Star Jones either, but Barbara Walters is a lying, conniving and condescend­ing adulterer.­..

....sheesh­!...

.

[LaFilleEnRose]

01:37 PM on 05/13/2008

Star Jones may be the object of tabloid and late night jokes but she's the one who makes sense here. I wondered why Ms. Walters thought she needed to let all this out. I mean, are we, the American people, therapists­. Do celebs have to tell us everything about themselves­? TMI and a bit cruel in the doing. Thanks Star for saying what needed saying. You'll be vilified for it but the worm turns eventually­.

[Cherubim]

01:21 PM on 05/13/2008

Amazing, some people can still use the English language correctly.
This quote by Star Jones is so concise and so true:

"It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliatin­g an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character.­"

[LaFilleEnRose]

10:55 AM on 05/14/2008

You know I was looking for that word "concise" myself when I posted (above). I so agree with our assessment of it. Thanks for covering that element of Star's remarks.

[JMEB]

12:26 PM on 05/13/2008

Big deal.

I think BW handled it gracefully­.

I do believe that SJ is a miserable person, and she's just lashing out. She should get some therapy.

[klandish]

12:33 PM on 05/13/2008

Barbara is beyond therapy.

[klandish]

01:26 PM on 05/13/2008

I am absolutely not! I'm totally in favor of the state of Israel. But not the illegal occupation of lands not theirs. Using your catch all phrase to end discussion­s or disagreeme­nts with Israel's current policy's is a convention­al tactic considered viable. Walters is an Amerian neocon and zionist. Look into her back ground. I'm not Jewish but have many leftist friends who are and we agree on the overall internatio­nal problems regarding Israel's occupation­. Oddly never realized my username, which is a deviation of my full name could have that unintended result. My profile should end that argument.

[klandish]

12:11 PM on 05/13/2008

I despise that neocon zionist Barbara Walters. Why doesn't she tell the truth about that and put that subject for discussion on The View. She has the teflon affect of good will and seeming diplomacy that covers her true agenda which most of her audience is unaware of. Most people are aware of however the fact she is one of the richest woman on t.v.. So why write a kiss and tell book at this stage of her career? Does the exploitati­on and money grubbing ever end?

[JMEB]

12:25 PM on 05/13/2008

"neocon zionist"?
You are an anti-Semit­e.
I think the first syllable of your username says it all.

[MNmommy]

12:52 PM on 05/13/2008

I don't know, maybe maybe not.

She passed notes to Reagan during the Iran/Contr­a arms era.

She was really nasty about Carter on The Tim Russert Show.

I don't pretend to know, but after her Russert interview, for the first time I really felt like I knew her political affiliatio­n when before I just thought of her as center (a moderate either way) it seemed pretty clear from that interview that she is in fact Republican­, and maybe not so moderate.

[klandish]

02:51 PM on 05/13/2008

Just for the record JMEB I read your profile and agreed with 95% of your blogs.

[Flick08]

12:00 PM on 05/13/2008

Things were different then....

We just didn't know then...

Back then I just didn't know...

Barbara has repeated these same 3 lines over and over on every interview. It's her default for all of her shortcomin­gs. What? They didn't have morals or the Golden Rule back then?

[klandish]

12:30 PM on 05/13/2008

What was she in her late 40's? Oh, she knew! It may have been the 70's but she grew up in the 40's and 50's. Just another soft interview from Larry King. We need an interviewe­r that can quietly lay into her with the techniques she employes.

[JoshuaF]

11:58 AM on 05/13/2008

It's a tough thing to make Star Jones seem sympatheti­c, but kudos Babwa Wawa, you've done it!