Legendary journalist Barbara Walters has passed away at 93

Dec 31, 2022 View Original Article
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    -12% Somewhat Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -12% Somewhat Liberal

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Bias Score Analysis

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Sentiments

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"She had a coection to South Florida, attending public school in Miami Beach starting in 1939."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Walters stood aside for a colleague, and was astonished when then-Sen. Clinton, D-N.Y., invited her in anyway."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Among numerous lovers, the three she labeled special men were also Republicans: Alan Greenspan, while chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; John Warner, after he headed the Navy Department; and Edward Brooke, the first African American popularly elected U.S. senator."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Among numerous lovers, the three she labeled special men were also Republicans: Alan Greenspan, while chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; John Warner, after he headed the Navy Department; and Edward Brooke, the first African American popularly elected U.S. senator."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Clinton parried: That will be between us, and that will be the zone of privacy I believe in."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Four years after Walters scored the two-hour Lewinsky coup, knowing that the interview had angered the Clintons, ABC executives told her not to compete for another major get - Hillary Clinton, who was preparing to promote her memoir Living History."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Clinton knew that her husband's philandering would come up but may not have expected so direct a query: What if he does it again?"
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Walters, he added, seemed now and then to get Clinton to spill a bean or three more than she wanted to, or at least to be more intimately revealing than she maybe plaed on being."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Walters, then with ABC's 20/20, asked Lewinsky in March 1999, a month after Clinton was acquitted in the Senate of charges related to lying about his sexual encounter in the Oval Office."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"The biggest get of all, she said, was the first televised interview with former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky, whose affair with President Bill Clinton led to his impeachment."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"She questioned presidents from Richard M. Nixon to Barack Obama, dictators from Fidel Castro to Bashar al-Assad, murderers and crooks, and stars of stage, screen and scandal."
Negative
-42% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% :She had a connection to South Florida, attending public school in Miami Beach starting in 1939.

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