Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Barbara Walters Didn’t Retire After All, Snags Interview with Assassin’s Dad

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Barbara Walters retired… from The View… on May 16th. Today is June 9th. She has come out of retirement. If she ever was in it. Walters will interview Peter Rodger, father of Elliot Rodger, who killed all those people in Santa Barbara. The interview will air on “20/20” when ABC doesn’t care how old the correspondents look. They just wanted her off The View, where young people buy stuff from ads. Barbara has not retired, and will not retire. She will interview people until she stops breathing, at which time an Avatar or Hologram will take over. ABC News does not know what they’re dealing with. Cue Jennifers Holliday and Hudson: “Am I telling you I’m not going.” Get it, Ben Sherwood? You know Putin is next.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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