According to a new Gallup poll,  Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Barely. Clinton's runner-up, Sarah Palin, almost knocked the Secretary of State from the most-admired perch she's assumed 14 times. If you think that's sad, check out the also-rans:

Barbara Walters' Twitter feed is better than ours because, unlike our own worthless personal updates, Walters can honestly answer "What are you doing?" by invoking Paul McCartney, Mayor Bloomberg, and "stamina." The top 10 absurd updates from @BarbaraJWalters:
10. Barbara knocks out the personal and the professional in under 140 characters.

9. I love how Barbara calls [...]

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At first, I was incapable of explaining my love for ABC daytime talk show The View. Aren't all the women on the show vaguely clueless? Then I realized—No. They are all awesomely, mesmerizingly clueless in their own special way, and this is why I love them.
But who is the most clueless of all?

That guy who caused a big ruckus by getting pregnant is ready to cause a smaller ruckus: He's pregnant again! Thomas Beatie, a transsexual man, is again expecting, Barbara Walters announced on The View. Beatie & fam will appear on 20/20 tomorrow, where they will fall victim to Walters' preternatural sense of exposé. According [...]