# Morality Of Enjoying 'Baba Wawa'.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morality-of-enjoying-baba-wawa/641705>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 21, 2012, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morality-of-enjoying-baba-wawa/641705 "2012-11-21T09:17:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morality-of-enjoying-baba-wawa/641705/21 "2012-11-22T02:53:27Z")

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> [@singular1](#):
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> I have an unfortunate compulsion to watch The View at lunch every day, and I have learned that Baba Wawa is a conceited, materialistic, rude, entitled hypocrite who looks down her nose at the “little people” she must endure on a daily basis. Watching her descent into dementia is fascinating, as no one is bold enough to pry her claws off the stage. I applaud any gentle ribbing that has caused her the slightest discomfort as payback for the way she routinely treats her cohosts and guests.

Why is this reminding me of the 2 female gossip columnists of Classical Hollywood who hated each other [and one IIRC had some sort of blackmail like hold on Hearst?]

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**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morality-of-enjoying-baba-wawa/641705/22 "2012-11-22T04:01:08Z")

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Not that I’m defending Baba…uh, Barbara Walters (Baba Wawa is SO much easier to type!) but the whole thing with the ceramic cup? She’s right.

I’m not anywhere near that calibre and wasn’t as a journalist, and I needed a ceramic cup. Otherwise I would (a) knock the damn thing over, and (b) burn my mouth because I couldn’t tell by holding the cup how hot the liquid was.

If that makes you a princess, well, I’m a princess.

Gilda’s Baba Wawa thing was great. Comically, Gilda could do no wrong. If BW hadn’t been a big big star, it wouldn’t have been funny, or even recognizable.

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**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morality-of-enjoying-baba-wawa/641705/23 "2012-11-22T06:40:34Z")

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Not to be too much of a troll, but using the term\* ‘morality’ \*in the context of poking fun at someone in broadcasting who literally talks like Elmer Fudd? No. Just, no. 😃

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morality-of-enjoying-baba-wawa/641705/24 "2012-11-22T14:24:51Z")

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Dried up old man here. Still waiting for someone to ruin my pathetic life.

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morality-of-enjoying-baba-wawa/641705/25 "2012-11-22T16:11:51Z")

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I have a snippet of childhood memory of what must have been the first time the BW character appeared. She had a title under her as “Bab_w_a Wawa.”

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