Old Barbara Walters Had Sex Affair With Old Black Republican Senator, In The 1970s
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Forty years ago, twice-divorced teevee gal Barbara Walters was happily getting it on with a Republican senator from Massachusetts. Not only was Edward Brooke the first straight Republican politician, but he was also the first black man elected to the U.S. Senate. You know, that is racial transcendence.
“Baba Wawa” reveals all the horny ’70s details on Oprah Winfrey’s show next week, and we’ll all be watching. But because we won’t, here’s what supposedly happened. MORE »
Forty years ago, twice-divorced teevee gal Barbara Walters was happily getting it on with a Republican senator from Massachusetts. Not only was Edward Brooke the first straight Republican politician, but he was also the first black man elected to the U.S. Senate. You know, that is racial transcendence.
“Baba Wawa” reveals all the horny ’70s details on Oprah Winfrey’s show next week, and we’ll all be watching. But because we won’t, here’s what supposedly happened. MORE »
A representative of “The Distilled Spirits Council of the Untied States” (can we please score an invite to one of your council meetings?), guessing (quite correctly) that he’d found a loyal ally in Wonkette, just sent us a press release responding to (or correcting, sort of?) a 20/20 piece that hasn’t actually aired yet. Because we believe very strongly in the mission of the good people at the Distilled Spirits Council, we’d like to point you to their