“Barbara Walters” on The Daily Caller

The Commander in Chief is a beach bum. (more)

The story of fraudster Bernie Madoff will soon be hitting the big screen with Robert De Niro, America’s favorite villain type-cast, playing the ruinous financial villain who ran the largest Ponzi scheme in American history. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — With Oprah Winfrey gone, daytime television is ready for a new monarch. (more)

“The View” host Barbara Walters has not kept it a secret that she has soon-to-be former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s side in his current controversy with some ill-advised photos he has sent out over the Internet.  However, she has moved on to wondering how he and his wife Huma Abedin will survive without Weiner’s congressional salary. (more)

What could go wrong when you have longtime television journalist and ABC’s “The View” co-host Barbara Walters out making excuses for you in the midst of your sex scandal? (more)

As scandalous revelations about Rep. Anthony Weiner continue to surface, the Democratic New York congressman continues to have defenders. (more)

Fox’s Bill O’Reilly says his upcoming pre-Super Bowl interview with President Barack Obama is going to make history, reports The Huffington Post. (more)

It’s the pop culture controversy of the day – is MTV’s “Skins” too racy for young American audiences? (more)

In Ron Reagan Jr.’s new book, “My Father at 100,” he says his father, President Ronald Reagan, exhibited signs of mental lapse during the end of his first term in office. And although Ron Reagan has since backtracked from some of those claims, there is still the question – did President Ronald Reagan show signs of mental deterioration while in office? (more)

Longtime TV personality Barbara Walters, not exactly a conservative voice, doesn’t think it is appropriate to put the blame on former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for the shooting in Tucson, Ariz. on Saturday, as some have been quick to do. (more)

If the goal of Larry King’s last talk show on CNN was to go out with a representative sample of what the program has really been all about for the past twenty-five years, then it was truly a smashing success. Unfortunately for the viewers (thankfully I was probably one of the few under the age of 60 who was stupid enough to subject myself to it), that meant one full hour of vapid, insipid, awkward, embarrassing, cringe-worthy, decrepit, self-congratulatory, uninspired, talentless, fawning narcissism. (more)

What’s wrong with incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner’s emotional transparency ? Nothing according to CNN’s Anderson Cooper. (more)

Last night on Barbara’s Walters’ annually insipid “10 Most Fascinating People” special, America was shown such a textbook example of media bias, hypocrisy and incompetence that it bordered on parody. Unfortunately, almost no one knows the full magnitude of what I am referring to because numerous important truths have been conveniently omitted from the narrative surrounding the story. (more)

What newspapers do you read? It was the question that arguably did Sarah Palin the most harm during the 2008 election. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey says she’s not a lesbian, not even a little bit. (more)

Women’s groups are cheering Oprah Winfrey’s announcement that the word “bitch” will not be tolerated on her new network, but say that there remains a great deal more work to be done in the fight against sexism. (more)

A buddy in Memphis e-mailed me the following, which has been described (presumably by men) as the “joke of the year”: (more)

CHICAGO — After promising for a year and a half to take the witness stand, Rod Blagojevich is likely to testify in his own defense at his federal corruption trial this week in a long-awaited duel of wits and wills with federal prosecutors. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Walters said she will have surgery to replace a faulty heart valve later this week and take the summer off from “The View” to recuperate. (more)