Barbara Walters

Claytoonz thoughts on Baba WaWa … “Walters blurred the lines between news and entertainment and between journalists and celebrities.” … and more!!

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The New York Times writes that Barbara Walters broke barriers for women as a co-host of the “Today” show, a network evening news anchor, and a creator of “The View,” all while gaining her own kind of celebrity. Also while covering this iconic journalist who broke barriers, the Grey Lady, (not Walters, the Times) put an apostrophe in “Walter’s.” Ugh.

I have mixed views on Barbara Walters. She was iconic and a trailblazer she was a great interviewer and got access to people other journalists couldn’t reach, like Fidel Castro and the Shah of Iran. She would ask tough questions like the time she asked Robin Givens if her husband Mike Tyson ever hit her. She asked this question was Givens was sitting right next to Tyson….and then Givens filed for divorce days after the interview.

But she also would ask dumb questions, like after Katherine Hepburn said she felt…

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Walking. A morning walk on a dreary day…

New year …. new way!! … “THIS, is the message for me for 2023.
Happy New Year everyone.”

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Here we are. Last day of 2022. I crawl out of bed, both knees are throbbing, why?   Doris Lessing: “But you just do not believe that you’re going to be old. People don’t realize how quickly they’re going to be old, either. Time goes very fast.” Truth Doris, truth.

970 consecutive (almost) days on this daybreak walk to Cove Island Park. Like in a row. And it’s a dreary morning. Dreariness lines up with the morning news. Bombing strikes on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. More civilians dead. More civilians without power. It’s winter. It’s cold.

I walk.

I’m having to work to lift the camera off the shoulder. Blah…spoiled after a run of “money” sunrises this week.

I walk to the tip of the point, and stop to look out over the water. I stare at the bench, think about sitting down…

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On an Evening Like Tonight …. “🎉 ‘On to 2023’ 🎉 …. “!!

Tate v Thunberg

Tate v Greta!! …. My money is on G!!! … “Andrew Tate is a self-proclaimed misogynist. His entire brand is built on his character, which is being a right-wing sexist asshole.
He’s a former kickboxing champion who went on to greater fame when his fighting career ended.”

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Conservative men who flaunt their toxic masculinity love to troll liberals on the internet. But it’s never a good idea for a 36-year-old man to troll a teenage girl. It’s bullying, creepy, sexist, and just wrong. And they especially shouldn’t do it if the teenage girl is smarter than they are…which of course, most of them are.

Andrew Tate is a self-proclaimed misogynist. His entire brand is built on his character, which is being a right-wing sexist asshole.

He’s a former kickboxing champion who went on to greater fame when his fighting career ended. He was on the British reality TV show Big Brother until he was removed in 2016 after a video surfaced that appeared to show him physically assaulting a woman.

British-American Tate has been quoted saying he’s “absolutely a misogynist” and “I’m a realist and when you’re a realist, you’re sexist. There’s no way you can be…

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Friday Fun Fact, #4 …. “☃️ ‘Last Weekend of 2022’ ☃️ …. “!!

Something to Think About …. “🤔 ‘The Mentality that I need for the Coming Year — Easier Said Than Done’ 🤔 …. “!!

~~December 30, 2022~~

IT IS WHAT IT IS

This has been one of my life’s mantra — it’s the name of my blog!!

At least I try to make it so … yet it’s quite easier said than done!!

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#SomethingToThinkAbout #DevelopedMentality #ItIsWhatItIs #ManyThingsStopBotheringYou #MyLifesMAntra #EasierSaidThanDone #NotAnEasyTask

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Friday Fun Fact, #3 …. “🐸 ‘New Years Eve? Yes … And?’ 🐸 …. “!!

TGIF: I slowed & succumbed…

Plain awesome … “To admire is to slow and to slow is to succumb.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate (Grand Central Publishing, December 6, 2022).

Live & Learn

The sun crests, a molten slice of fire that gets bigger and rounder by the second. There is extraordinary beauty occurring; all she has to do is turn her head to see it, but she doesn’t. To admire is to slow and to slow is to succumb.

― Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate (Grand Central Publishing, December 6, 2022)

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Notes:

• Photo: DK @ Daybreak this morning. 37° F. 7:30 am. December 30, 2022. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. More amazing sunrise views from this morning, here and here.

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Friday Fun Fact, #2 …. “💫 ‘Baby Yoda (Grogu) Pics and Quotes’ 💫 …. “!!

Friday Fun Fact, #1 …. “ 🛒 ‘Most Expensive Vehicle’ 🛒 …. “!!