Barbara Walters Sticks By Rep. Weiner On MSNBC: ‘It’s Not Exactly A Tragedy For The Nation’
There may be only one person in the media that vocally supports Rep. Anthony Weiner, but given her profile, he lucked out. After calling his photos “flattering” on The View this morning, Barbara Walters visited Lawrence O’Donnell to reiterate her point, which O’Donnell also called “my position exactly.” This time, Walters called the pictures “disgusting” and the event a “tragedy,” but she refused to make a connection between his personal failures and his job.
“What he did was unfathomable,” Walters emphasized, noting that he had made an “enormous mistake… and we don’t even know why.” But she based her support of his career on data: “56% of his constituents want him to stay,” she noted, which would mean him leaving his position would be depriving the public of a Congressman they voted for and support. “The personal stuff is between him and his wife,” she insisted.
O’Donnell wondered what the difference was between Rep. Weiner’s problems and many other politicians caught in the middle of sex scandals. He asked: “is it the pictures?” Walters did believe that this had an impact, citing “the whole business of tweeting and talking with people you don’t even know, and you don’t really know what their age is,” had an effect on how people reacted to it. That said, she concluded that the scandal is a “personal tragedy,” but “not exactly a tragedy for the nation.”
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