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Barbara WaWa Had Affair With Senator
Per her tell-all book, Barbara Walters had an affair with Sen Ed Brooke.
by Tom Miller
According to the Washington Post (WaPo to those inside the beltway), Barbara Walters is going to provide steamy details of an affair she had with politician Ed Brooke in the 1970’s. Who’s Ed Brooke, you ask? Well he was a Massachusetts Senator. Not like Teddy Kennedy. Brooke was a Republican. And black. In fact, Mr. Brooke was the first black man popularly elected to the Senate.
Holy Moses, indeed. Brooke was winding things down with his wife and Barbara Walters was on the road to a second divorce when the 2 hooked up. Walters’ memory of the affair was that she wanted to marry him but friends on both sides cautioned that ethnic tensions could scuttle both careers.
Brooke later lost his 1976 race, errrrr election and went on to work for the GOP in a more behind-the-scenes capacity. Always a mold-breaker, the former Senator went on to beat breast cancer and raise awareness of the disease in men. Let us get this straight, there was a black guy from Massachusetts? And he was a Republic Senator (in Massachusetts) who had breast cancer? And he had an affair with Barbara Walters? And he won the Presidential Medal Of Freedom? What a badass, how is Will Smith not all over this?
Unbeknownst to us, Babs has also been linked to Alan Greenspan and possibly John Warner. It sort of makes former The View co-panelist Star Jones relationships with Al Reynolds and (probably not but possibly) Dwyane Wade look pretty pedestrian. We might have to pick up her memoirs, Audition, when it hits stands. Let this be a reminder to be very careful having affairs with journalists, they’re a crafty bunch and hindsight is 20/20. Ugh.
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1 Tisha // May 31, 2008 at 4:12 am
Barbara Walter’s life was influenced greatly by her older sister and she’s written a beautiful memoir about her life. I read another memoir of a life influence by a sibling that I recommend highly - I actually liked it even more. The memoir is “”My Stroke of Insight”" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Dr Taylor became a Harvard brain scientist to find the cause and cure for schizophrenia because her older brother was a sufferer. Then, crazy as life can be, Dr. Taylor had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke - where language and thinking occur - but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.
What I took away from Dr. Taylor’s book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don’t have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. “”I want what she’s having”", and thanks to this wonderful book, I can!
2 Monica P in Atlanta // May 7, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Love your style of writing Tom!!! And the story is fabulous! I came upon this site bc I was in search of the Ed Brooke and Babs story and you gave the cliff notes very thorough version with a twist! I concur - Will Smith needs to get on this! Thanks for the good read!