I Guess She Forgot About Her Own Sister: “Barbara Walters said on today’s View (October 6th) that Sarah Palin having her baby at the debate ‘bothered her.’

Barbara Walters' autobiography, "Audition," offers deeply personal stories about Walters' family life, her love life, and her close encounters with the world famous ... and infamous. The book comes out May 6. In this photo, Walters (center), is seen with her sister Jackie, her father Lou Walters, her then husband Lee Guber, and her mother Dena Walters, in the late 1960's. (Courtesy Barbara Walters) Growing up, she found her insecurity was made all the worse by her older sister, Jackie, who was mentally disabled. In that less enlightened era, Jackie’s condition had a spillover effect on Barbara, stigmatizing both of them in the eyes of other kids. “It was a lonely, isolated childhood,” Walters said. The complicated feelings that churned long after her sister’s death in 1985 inspired “Audition.” I guess one can put those lonely and isolated feelings aside when they are the person that is stigmatizing a me...