Yes, according to conservative media group and underground revolutionary army-sounding The Resistance. Barbara "has now sunk to the very level of other attention-starved celebrities such as Paris Hilton or even Steve-O from Jackass," because of a 30-year old affair she admits to in her new book Audition. As you'll remember from the countless media reports and Larry King interviews, she was sleeping with then-Massachusetts senator Edward W. Brooke, who was married at the time, while seeing Alan Greenberg, the future chairman of Bear Stearns.

And then, after breaking up with Brooke, she dated Alan Greenberg and Alan Greenspan (how husband to NBC News' Andrea Mitchell) at the same time. And oh, the hijinks that ensued because of their similar names!

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Why didn't Barbara Walters published her very personal memoir Audition, of which Knopf is printing 625,000 copies, before now? Because that would've involved revealing she has a developmentally disabled older sister, her estrangement from her nightclub impresario father, her on-and-off-again relationship with her daughter, the details of three broken marriages, numerous other romantic relationships (including that one), and the fact that when she left Today, there were no going away parties of the kind Katie Couric saw.

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In Barbara Walters, we see a woman who refuses to imagine what the end of her career might look like. Which is why she felt perfectly comfortable hitting up Oprah, to plug her book Audition: A Memoir, to reveal she carried on an affair with Massachusetts' married republican senator, Edward W. Brooke, in the 1970s, after meeting in a New York restaurant. She wouldn't want to go out on this note, would she?

The affair ended when Washington Post gossip Maxine Cheshire started running items about the twosome; Walters says that's when she ended the relationship, though that's also when Brooke asked his wife for a divorce. But for the good of their careers, they stopped seeing each other.

"Ed Brooke was simply the most attractive, sexiest, funniest, charming, and impossible man," writes Walters. "I was excited, fascinated, intrigued, and infatuated."

Every reporter's attempt to get comment from Brooke, who is now 88, have failed, which, uh, might suggest he has no interest in discussing his decades-old tryst. Kudos to Walters, then, for throwing him under the bus to move copies of the book.