Barbara Walters Apologizes for Trying to Help Ex-Assad Aide Land a Job
- Posted on June 6, 2012 at 11:48am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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ABC's Barbara Walters has said she regrets offering to help a former aide of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad land a job in the United States after the aide helped coordinate Walters' exclusive interview with Assad in December. (Image source: ABC)
Barbara Walters has apologized for trying to help a former aide to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad land a job in TV news in the United States.
Emails published in the the Telegraph show Walters tried to get Sheherazad Jaafari an internship on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” as well as a leg-up in the admissions process at Columbia University. Jaafari, the daughter of Syrian ambassador to the United States, had been a press aide to Assad and helped coordinate Walters’ interview with the Syrian president in December.
In a statement, the longtime ABC News correspondent acknowledged trying to help Jaafari after she came to the U.S. looking for a job. Jaafari did not end up at CNN or Columbia.
“I did offer to mention her to contacts at another media organization and in academia, though she didn’t get a job or into school,” Walters said. “In retrospect, I realize that this created a conflict and I regret that.”
According to the Telegraph, Jaafari was “part of a young circle of aides who advised Mr Assad to speak to the Western media as evidence of atrocities mounted….Jaafari wrote a list of talking points advising that the ‘American psyche can be easily manipulated’ if he were to make a limited expression of regret.”
In one email, Walters described Jaafari as “brilliant, beautiful, speaks five languages“ and asked a Columbia journalism professor whether there was ”anything you can do to help” speed her application through.
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Comments (33)
SFfam
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 5:42amSo we know about her doing this now…how many other times do you think she has done things like this? I’m guessing MANY!
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:13amDamascus Walters, selling us out to the Syrians. Thanks Bawbwa. You, madam, are a patriot.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on June 7, 2012 at 1:25amI just sent a note to ABC on their website. On the form, the subject I chose was “I need more information”.
I asked how they planned to handle her career in the future, and then detailed the issues. Everyone should do that. And to each and every commenter who’s reply is “why bother, they won’t listen anyway”, I hope you get hit by a bus.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 9:33pmWhy apologize for being a Democrat/Socialist/Femin-nazi? It’s just who you are!
Report Post »ambrosia
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 6:33pmHey Babs, ya ole’ Seahag-
if this person was such a beautiful & brilliant babe
seems to me, you should have hired her for the View.
After all YOU are creator & producer-
YOU have the power to employ…whomever you choose !
Just imagine, Ba-Ba Bow-Wow it would have been a FIRST on your crapfest show-
the first time…ANY beautiful & brilliant female sat your fang-scarred table.
Why pawn her off to another network, if she was so amazing ?
Walters is a lying witch.
She tra-la-la’s off to interview Assad,
who is as brutal, as his father and Saddam Hussein & the Iranian regime.
She sits there like Rona Barrett, smiling thru her vampire fangs
and doesn’t ask him ONE serious question or followup,
allowing him to get away with murder…of thousands.
She should have stayed there to wipe his frenzied brow-
Assad & Walters are BOTH full of their own sense of importance.
Yeah, she wants to help find one of Assad’s assistants work in the USA
Report Post »but she does not care to hire this incredible person, herself ?
SeaHags smell funny……that said, Walters wreaks !
Ralphbp
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 6:08pmMs. Walters has long been an apologist for anything anti-American. This is not an apology for trying to get this guy a job, it is an apology for getting caught. This person, in her arrogance, believes that she is above anything so petty as the US Constitution.
Report Post »I refer you to her interview a few years ago when she had to get someplace in Washington, DC for a meeting and was held up because President Bush’s motorcade. She complained to the police that she was much more important than the President and that they should open a space for her to get through. “Who does he think he is, King?
Arrogant and insufferable. Typical feminist.
garbagecanlogic
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:44pmBob Wah does know what work is – how could she help someone find a job!
Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
AvengerK
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 5:57pmIt doesn’t get more arrogant and stupid than Barbara Walters.
Report Post »Imagine if say…an editor of the New York Times was given access to Adolf Hitler by one is his aides..and then that aide asked the editor of the New York Times to get him a job at the Los Angeles Times? And they gave each other “hugs” in their letters (the way Barbara put “hugs Barbara” in her emails to Jaafari) and the aide said that the editor was “like a father” to him?
Apology not accepted Barbara.
BlessedONE333
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:27pmTHAT is what she apologized for? how about apologizing for supporting a pagan socialist marxist bastard? no ‘sorry America’ for that one?
idiot – but this just shows that liberals lack morality and loyalty
Report Post »edie1945
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:19pmShe should fire herself. What a goof ball.
Report Post »edie1945
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:18pmShe should “fire” herself. What an old goof ball.
Report Post »hogtrashhd
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:30pmshe regrets getting found out..these libs are soooo stupid to think the American people are stupid. the only stupid Americans i know of are the libs.. and they are on the edge or over the edge of insanity. they need a lot of thorazine and a rubber room..
Report Post »dawgGoodie
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:20pmDon’t throw your pearls before swine, Ms Walters.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 4:36pmUmm, Dawg- Baba Wawa has never had a pearl to throw at swine, let alone understand that expression. Nothing but a tramp pushing women’s lib and emasculation of the American male.
Report Post »inferno
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:49pmIf anyone knows the American public can be manipulated, it’s the networks. They do it on a daily basis. Why not ? They all have zombie audiences, who could not find their way out of a round room, with open doors every four feet.
Report Post »Truthbeliever2
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:47pmWhen is this old bag of **** going to keel over and DIE! Tomarrow wouldn’t be soon enough for my taste…
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:44pmBaba Waawaa – current ASSad aid.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:04pmHey Baba Wawa, Sheherazad would like to cut your head off. Wake up.
Report Post »ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 1:30pmI do not think B. Walters has very good judgement on most things. She is a liberal and it shows.
Report Post »h20sue
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:54pmBarbara Walters is as much of a low-life as Hillary Clinton! Seems they believe we should give all our money and jobs to foreigners. This is why we‘re in the debt we’re in. Hillary is always trying to give money to every foreign country. Hello Hillary, you‘re spending China’s money and raising our debt! Now ole Bab‘s wants to give a man who doesn’t belong in America, a JOB! Is she living on another planet? Does she know how many folks are living on the street with children in the USA? Does she understand how many folks are without JOBS? She’s definitely a astute liberal and its time someone takes her down a couple notches. She needs to wake up. I had to stop watching The View because they are just too left and worse then David Letterman. He’s a real piece of work. I think Sarah Jessica Parker, Alec Baldwin, Stephen Spielberg, Barbra Streisend, Bill M., Clooney, U2, etc, should move out of the US and open an island named “J.A.Lefties” They could also use this as a new bar name. They have absolutely no care or concern for middle class Americans. Why don’t they just line us up and shoot us.Obama and Biden are no different so they can move with them! Alec Baldwin said he was moving out of the country if Bush won, but he never left. Why? Good ridden’s Alec, and take your leftie liberals with you! All of them!
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:39pmWalters is just like the liberal Dan The Nather- lie than tell the truth. Two of a Kind
Report Post »lexington_green
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:30pmhillary gives jobs to muslim brotherhood members, why can’t babs get in on the fun? so wise. so enlightened. NOT.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:28pmIt was a Tweet(Treat) to read this story about Baba Wawa’s friends. I know Fwank know exactly what i said.
Report Post »jackact
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:10pmMore appropriately how about an official apology from Hillary Clinton who stated only 12 months ago that Assad was, “a true visionary and leader of his people”.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:38pmClinton .. is another Marxist communist .. she has TRIED to hide it for decades .. behind Bill.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:03pmyou would think with all that money Assad would buy himself a chin. Barbara you have once again shown your true colors if this doesn‘t spell it out for even liberals I don’t know what would. Commie in bed with the terrorists.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:08pmShe never met a commie she wouldn’t have s e x with.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 12:59pmcatb you gave me a much needed laugh
Report Post »marssnw
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 11:59amWalters is a nazi. She is a clueless old bag.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 11:57amShe always reminded me of Madame, the hand puppet…just not as smart.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 3:43pmWasn’t Waylon Flowers in a beauty pageant once?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 11:51amMore likely — sorry you got caught.
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