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ABC News reports: Barbara Walters, the trailblazing television news broadcaster and longtime ABC News anchor and correspondent who shattered the glass ceiling and became a dominant force in an industry once dominated by men, died Friday. She was 93. Walters joined ABC News in 1976, becoming the first female anchor on an evening news program. Three years later, she became …

Via ABC News: Hillary Clinton, who has been on a whirlwind schedule since stepping down as Secretary of State, surprised Barbara Walters on the final day of her 50 year career today and gave her advice – take a vacation. “You’re in no position to tell me!” Walters laughed. Clinton, who showed up on Walters’ last day on The View, …

But only for one show. For now. Sweeps tend to bring together the strangest bedfellows in pursuit of ratings. On February 7, The View will welcome back former co-host Rosie O’Donnell six years after her nuclear exit from the show amidst a reported feud with View co-host/executive producer Barbara Walters. Now the two will reunite in Walters’ final season on …

Last night on Barbara Walter’s “Ten Most Interesting People” special, NJ Gov. Chris Christie said that he doesn’t think he’s too overweight to be president. When Ms. Walters said some people say he is too overweight to be president, Mr. Christie, a Republican who is often mentioned as a potentially formidable candidate in 2016, responded: “That’s ridiculous. I don’t know …

Walters won’t say on the air what that demand was, but word began leaking out from ABC insiders this morning on Twitter via the Miami Herald.The Herald says Zimmerman made no demands on Fox News, probably because Sean Hannity had already publicly contributed to his defense fund. Below Walters talks about her wasted trip to Florida.

During a View discussion on the Giffords shooting, Barbara Walters said that she feels sorry for Sarah Palin, who she feels is being unfairly singled-out in the wake of the Arizona shooting. All four members of the panel had strongly denounced Palin’s crosshairs map when it was first published.

Cooper puts the ladies of The View on his “Ridiculist” for mocking John Boehner’s habit of crying during public speeches.

“This guy, I’m sorry, he’s gonna be Speaker of the House, and he’s not gonna invite me to his Christmas party, but this guy has an emotional problem that every time he talks about anything that’s not ‘raise taxes’ he cries. If this were a woman, if you saw Nancy Pelosi, who’s been villified, and I’m not taking sides, if …

Oprah Winfrey is sick and tired of all those lesbian rumors about her and gal pal Gayle King. And she’s let Barbara Walters know that in no uncertain terms: “I’m not a lesbian. I’m not even kind of a lesbian. And the reason why it irritates me is because it means that somebody must think I’m lying. That’s number one. …

Barbara Walters returned to the cast of The View yesterday after a long hiatus due to heart surgery. As a surprise at the end of the show, Mario Cantone sang a version of Hello Dolly to her with the backing of four chorus boys and an orchestra.

On today’s episode of The View, host Barbara Walters announced that she will be taking a hiatus from the show to undergo heart valve replacement surgery. “Later this week, I’m going to have surgery to replace one faulty heart valve,” Walters said, opening the show with news, which she had only revealed to her cohosts that morning. “You kept it …

Barbara Walters gets a few punches in too. Good stuff. Too bad it’s about something as silly as seating on Amtrak instead of Beck’s outrageous statements against gays and immigrants.