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Barbara & Diane: Just Rosie
See, while you and the rest of your 21st century compatriots may not think it's big news that Rosie O'Donnell is gay, 'cause you: (1) don't care; (2) already knew; (3) all of the above--Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer do think it's big news.
Now the two ABC News mavens are in damage-control mode after it appeared they'd tangled over who would land the interview in which O'Donnell finally comes out publicly.
ABC announced last week that Sawyer got the coveted one-on-one (what the New York Post is fond of calling the "Gay Rosie Interview")--but it was Walters who became the first network newsie to refer to Rosie as gay last week on her ABC morning talk show, The View.
Since the comment came on the same day (February 14) Sawyer was actually taping her Primetime Thursday Q&A with O'Donnell, media watchdogs smelled a catfight.
Sunday's New York Daily News was the first to press with whispers that "Walters made an end run around Sawyer" by making the Gay Rosie Comment. Other papers followed suit with similar mentions.
In an apparent move to quell rumors of a kitty-litter dustup (because, you know, this whole episode has been deeply troubling to America), Walters and Sawyer both went on the record in an interview Tuesday with the Associated Press. Their message: "This is a little misunderstanding."
Actually, that was more Walters' message than Sawyer's. Walters, known as the leading lady of the "big get" interview, tells AP that she regrets people think she was trying to undermine Sawyer's scoop.
"This is not the evil axis," Walters tells the wire service.
No confirmation on that point yet from the State Department.
For the record, Walters says she made the Gay Rosie Comment only after she spoke to Rosie herself and asked if she could mention on air that Rosie was concerned about a Florida law that bars gays from adopting children.
And for the record, Sawyer says she accepts Walters' motives behind the Gay Rosie Comment.
"Barbara and I talked about that, and I am now completely relaxed about it," Sawyer tells AP, indicating, of course, by the use of the word "now" that she once was not completely relaxed about it.
At the end of the day, though, it's Sawyer who got this "big get." Her Gay Rosie Interview is scheduled to air on the March 14 edition of Primetime Thursday.
In it, Rosie will talk about Florida's adoption laws. ABC says a second Gay Rosie Interview segment will be broadcast in April, this one about Rosie's autobiography, Find Me, in which the outgoing TV talk host reveals she's, yes, Gay Rosie.
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