An Affair to Remember: Barbara Walters & Sen. Ed Brooke

So the press is in bed with politicians! Barbara Walters has revealed that she had an affair with then-Sen. Ed Brooke in the 1970s.

Promoting her memoir, "Audition," the legendary television journalist dished about her long-running relationship with the Massachusetts Republican to Oprah Winfrey, according to a transcript of next week's broadcast leaked to the Associated Press yesterday.

The two were both rising stars: The Boston-born Walters, then in her 40s and separated from her second husband, was making history as "Today" co-host and then anchor of ABC News; the D.C.-born Brooke, a decade older and estranged from first wife Remigia, had in 1966 become the first African American popularly elected to the Senate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050104045.html


the press is in bed with the right wing

As I recall, Brooke wanted to run as a Democrat, but the Massachusetts Democratic Party was not interested in him. That's why he joined the Republican party.

I also recall that Brooke met his first wife (who was Italian)during World War II when he was in Italy. I remember people saying that Italians voted for him because his wife was such a good campaigner in Italian areas.

Edward Brooke


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Brooke

Edward William Brooke III (born October 26, 1919) is an American politician and was the first African American to be elected by popular vote to the United States Senate when he was elected as a Republican from Massachusetts in 1966, defeating his Democratic opponent, Endicott Peabody, 58%–42%. He was also the first African American elected since Reconstruction, and would remain the only person of African heritage sent to the Senate until Democrat Carol Moseley Braun in 1993.

U.S. Senator

He was a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party and often had conflicts with President Richard Nixon
, particularly in 1970, when Brooke helped lead the movement to stop the Senate confirmation of the President's nominee to the Supreme Court, Harrold Carswell. Brooke was re-elected in 1972, defeating Democrat John J. Droney 62%-34%. However, he lost much of his popularity during his second term after a contentious and widely-publicized divorce. He lost a bid for a third term in the Senate elections of 1978 in the general election to Paul Tsongas. He remains, as of 2008, the last Republican senator from Massachusetts.

If Senator Brooke was a right winger, I am a retired kamikaze pilot.

Please check your facts before you throw mud,

However, he didn't always support them, either.

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He was a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party and often had conflicts with President Richard Nixon, particularly in 1970, when Brooke helped lead the movement to stop the Senate confirmation of the President's nominee to the Supreme Court, Harrold Carswell.

You're the one calling him a right winger. You've asserted that as fact and have done nothing to back it up.

I am 56 years old and was a news junkie when I was 15 at the time Brooke was first elected to the Senate. I remember Ed Brooke. He was a moderate on most issues, including Vietnam and civil rights, the two defining issues of the time.

republicans are the right wing party, he may had been a moderate like Collin Powers but that does not excuse him from been a member of the right wing party. When Ralph Nader got support from some republicans many liberals jump on it calling him a sellout, it's just a matter or to be or not to be.

It really doesn't work here.

There were such things as "liberal Republicans" in those days. Jacob Javits, New York's Republican US senator, authored the amendment that stopped funding for the Vietnam War. He was also was instrumental in the passage of the War Powers Act, for which real right wingers like Bush and Cheney have little use. The leader of the liberal Republicans was New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whom more conservative Republicans regarded as a tax and spend liberal.

The last of this kind of Republican would be Senators Jeffords and Chaffee, both of whom are now independents, following in the footsteps of former Senator and Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker. Remaining in the GOP are Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. This is the wing of the Republican party to which Ed Brooke belonged.

I don't think there is any glory in her celebrating that cover-up. . .it just underscores how we cannot trust the people hired to work in the press. They have no ethical compass at all.

We have a news reporter here in MA married to a state repub senator

and what about Alan Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell?

And isn't Mary Matalin married to James Carville, a politician of sorts?

according too the article

"She went on to almost marry Alan Greenspan, but that's another story."

But the press is just IN BED with whatever "wing." I suspect Judith MILLER and her "sources" (string-pullers).


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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-salinas10apr10,0,5165836.story

Mirthala Salinas speaks: 'I regret hurting people'

The former television reporter who had an affair with Mayor Villaraigosa talks to Los Angeles magazine. She apologizes for her actions and says she had no idea the experience would have such consequences

By David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
April 10, 2008

.... "I regret hurting people," said Salinas, who now is a co-host of the Los Angeles talk radio show "Hoy Por Hoy" on W Radio XETRA 690-AM. "But I think that we should learn from every experience. That's what makes us better human beings." ....


In other remarks to the magazine, Salinas said her friendship with Villaraigosa became a romance in April 2007, three months after the death of her mother.

Salinas said her friends encouraged her to take a chance with the mayor.

"I felt special," Salinas told the magazine. "OK, putting the whole world aside, the media scrutiny, the people hurt, I felt special. It was a beautiful feeling."

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