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Barbara Walters Senatorial Sex Scandal!!

When selecting a mate, Barbara Walters did not limit herself to utterly reprehensible closet cases. She also liked Senators! Walters revealed on Oprah today that she carried on a torrid affair with Edward Brooke, the first black man elected to the Senate after Reconstruction (no one ever remembers Hiram Rhodes Revels!), "for several years in the 1970's." It was never revealed publicly because Brooke was in the process of divorce and a re-election campaign (he lost the latter). Brooke is still alive. Fun fact: he had breast cancer! Well, maybe that's not very fun. Still. We certainly are learning a lot about the love lives of our elder ladies of journalism, aren't we? It was just last month that Liz Smith revealed that she's slept with 20 people (divided more or less evenly among ladies and gentlemen) in her 2,000 years on Earth. She didn't reveal if any of them were Senators, though. [AP]

4:45 PM on Thu May 1 2008
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TedSez at 04:53 PM on 05/01/08
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"...after Reconstruction..."

What, Lincoln was too tall for her?
Bell County at 04:54 PM on 05/01/08
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She was on the rebound from Fidel Castro.
dweeb at 04:57 PM on 05/01/08
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She also dated Senator John Warner for years.
Richard at 04:57 PM on 05/01/08
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I like to picture Smith roaring in an empty lobby, while a banner reading "When Liz Smith Ruled the Earth" flutters down in front of her.
donmiguel at 05:02 PM on 05/01/08
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For a woman of her generation to admit miscegenating back in the day -- I mean, those people thought Guess Who's Coming to Dinner was "edgy." I'm sure some folks her age are scandalized by that little factoid...
tribalpottery at 05:03 PM on 05/01/08
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Like Henry Kissinger, power is an aphrodisiac for Babs. I'm surprised she didn't go for Ted Kennedy.
notalent at 05:03 PM on 05/01/08
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Is this what we should expect when Maria Bartiromo writes her memoirs in 20 years?
In Other News... at 05:20 PM on 05/01/08
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@Richard: Better an Attenborough than an outer borough.
DonPardoCalrissian at 05:23 PM on 05/01/08
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And a REPUBLICAN!!!!
Richard at 05:26 PM on 05/01/08
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@In Other News...: Except Brooklyn!
the supergoddess at 05:30 PM on 05/01/08
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hold up... liz smith has only slept with twenty people??? ummm, she was around for the 70s - did she just not have any fun at all? or did she black the entire decade out and isn't counting it?
valarmorghulis at 05:37 PM on 05/01/08
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@the supergoddess: no, most of them just left before she passed out and she's being very literal.
Mr-Busy at 06:22 PM on 05/01/08
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As long as she swears on a stack of bibles that she didn't put out for an elderly Lester Maddox, life goes on.
Koreanish at 06:24 PM on 05/01/08
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Barbara is trying to take the heat off of Obama, right?

As long as there's no sex tape. HAHAHAHA....Oh God.
famousauthor at 06:50 PM on 05/01/08
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Barbara showed better taste in Republicans by picking Edward Brooke rather than Strom Thurmond.
squeakel at 07:04 PM on 05/01/08
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Yuck, Barbs. Did she express any remorse for the pain she caused his wife? He definitely wasn't going through a divorce for several years. Girl on girl crime. Again.
squeakel at 07:09 PM on 05/01/08
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I just read that only 9% of women report having 15 or more partners. Some ladies could be lying, though.

The average number in a lifetime is supposedly 11 for women. The lifetime number would have to come from women who have actually lived a lifetime, though. Women Liz's age.
Hamud Ibn Hamud at 02:39 AM on 05/02/08
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@tribalpottery:

Good Lord, the woman dated Roy Cohn when they were in college together and remained loyal to the strange little moral midget until the day he died.