C'mon Barb! I guess it's supposed to be part of the game for people to let you ask the most embarrassing conceivable questions (so you can gain ratings, notoriety, and/or whatever), although I'm not sure if Monica Lewinsky understood all that ahead of time. How in hell, though, do you sit in judgment of Monica (as you surely sought to do during your post-mortem aired in conjunction with the interview) knowing full well that you had already slept with a married senator for 8 years? Yes, you managed to gain her trust - so did Linda Tripp! Have you considered apologizing publicly to Monica, and giving her back the $5 million she would otherwise have received for her first TV interview? It's only right...

Okay so the senator's still alive.

But Babara Walter's is still a total skank for talking about the affair. Almost sounds like she's proud of it.

i hate walters!!!! end of story

Star had it right, Barbara Walters showed her true self when she wrote the book. She screwed Star around. Barbara and M. Carey sure are two sluts.

Luezzzzz:
Its their not there, you should use spell check.

To you JENNIFER! Maybe a Black man would never want to sleep with your White trashy a**!

Big ups to Barbara. I am a native Jamaican that could have saved Mr. Nixon Presidency, all Mr. Nixon had to do was name Senator Edward Brooks as VP, this would have stopped the impeachment proceedings in it's tract.

The thought of having a Black President would have scared Americans but Barbara was not scared. I have a new found respect for Barbara and I am a loyal watcher of the VIEW... Love you BARBARA.

Is there any end to what this woman will do for money? What is she trying to prove by bringing up personal stuff of 40 years ago. I'm sure
her daughter is proud!!!

It's interesting to me how whenever a female has an affair, she is a slut, a ho and everythig else. When a man strays on his woman, what does everyone call HIM? What is the male equivalent to the word "slut"? I feel badly for Se. Brooke's wife, but I guess the affair showed her who she married. No one can be forced into an affair. Sen. Brooke wanted the affair or it wouldn't have happened. Not for one minute! And, being the first black Senator with looks that could pass for white, it got him through some doors that prior to had been closed to blacks in America. I am disappointed in BW for revealing her affair in her book, especially if the Senator was blindsided by her revelation. I am pleased that Sen. Brooke has the class to not help her drag this through the media by responding or defending the whole thing. Lastly, for all you Elizabeth fans out there, there's a difference between intelligence, sophistication and a big mouth. But for SURVIVOR and being married to an athlete, who would she be? Another priviledged socceer mom. I don't watch the VIEW often, but I happened to catch it when Sen. Obama was on recently. Elizabeth tried her "ballsy" tactics on him regarding Rev Wright. But, she forgot she wasn't talking to Rosie, sounding like a yapping dog. Sen. Obama totally outclassed her and put her in her place with dignity and eloquence -- two things she does not have.

This just proves she's just as moral-free as I thought she was and why I don't watch that harpy yapping show The View...and Oprah, well...let's look at her judgment. She was duped by an author who plagiarized, she hired a woman at her school in Africa who was abusing children, she wanted an upscale store like Hermes to open after hours for her entourage just because she's OPRAH then claimed racism when they didn't because they were setting up for a picture shoot inside, and she attended Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church where he teaches James Cone theology of Black Liberation Theology. Dr. Mr Cone says, "...While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism. " Quote. If these are the female role models for our young women...God help us all...

What in the blue blazes ever possessed her to bring all this out NOW? What a loser...............

As a teenage I had a white boyfriend throughout my high school years during the 70s. It was very taboo. However, it was the best relationship I ever had even though I was too young to realize it. He was my best friend and lover. So even though my relationship was well publicized I think BW kept her secret for so long because she wanted to be a successful reporter and in order to do that, she could not reveal her affair with the senator. I know who cares, right? However, Senator Brooks is African American he's very light skinned. Anyway, color doesnt matter anymore and as a country we should be over that by now.

Ba Ba Wa Wa! When it is the ratings season for the May Sweeps, professionals such as the "Grand Dame" pull out all the bells and whistles. It is a sad day in history that 30 years later and countless interviews and books she wrote that she decided to reveal her affair with an elder statesman who could have passed for white back in Jim Crow era. Countless celebrities dead or alive are scratching their heads or rolling in their graves because this maverick never once stood up and announced to the world interracial dating is great look at me.

Edward Brooks's family has to deal with this, especially his wife. She should have kept this to herself and between the sheets. Do we have to wait another few more years for her to write another best-seller about if she slept with a famous world leader from the Middle East? Now, that would be interesting if she slept with the late President Anwar Sadat. Everyone who are aware of Senator Brooks knows he is a man of class and much more--private.

Barbara should have kept it real all the time like Pamela Harriman. "Sleep your way to the top and never look back." But, one must admire these mavericks they fought and slept their way to the top. Why not?

Of course he was a Republican. There are those good ol' family values for ya. Well at least his wife divorced him.

I think it's kind of sad that this story has become more about the fact that it was an interracial relationship than about the fact that he was, at the time, a U.S. Senator and he was married. Now, I don't particularly care about THAT either, since all the parties involved are consenting adults and as long as it doesn't affect the way he represents his constituency, I don't really think it's any of my business who he might be sleeping with. That's his wife's problem (or not). But the least important factor in this whole thing, IMO, is race. I'm surprised there are still people who care about that.