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When liberals insist that the reason Obama is faring so badly in the polls is because most of us are racists, does it never occur to them that they’re like the boy who cried “Wolf!”? Let us say that, unlike Michael Bloomberg, Henry Waxman and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, you’re not a career politician, but merely a run-of-the-mill Democrat. Wouldn’t it ever occur to you to wonder why it is that if we’re all racists, how it is that Obama won the election three years ago? And how is it that a guy who’s much blacker than Obama, Herman Cain, is doing...

On "The O'Reilly Factor" on Monday night, Williams said, "I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous." And this is a fireable offense? ... Here's a bulletin, NPR: Lots and lots and lots of Americans feel the same way as Juan Williams. And...

Media Bias: Veteran reporter, author and commentator Bernard Goldberg reports that when CBS News did its fake National Guard story on George W. Bush avoiding service in Vietnam, it knew it was a lie.It's a liberal urban legend that Bush used the influence of his father and his father's friends to land a cushy position in the Texas National Guard to avoid service in Vietnam. The Democrats would run John Kerry as a hero in the war, and CBS News was all too eager to help with Mary Mapes producing a "60 Minutes II" segment in September 2004 charging exactly...

In 2007, Rather filed his $70 million lawsuit against his old company saying he wasn’t allowed to defend his story because the top management of CBS’ parent company, Viacom, wanted to appease the Bush Administration and protect its business interests. Until now, the controversy over the Rather/Mapes story has centered almost entirely on one issue: the legitimacy of the documents – a very important issue, indeed. But it turns out that there was another very important issue, one that goes to the very heart of what the story was about – and one that has gone virtually unnoticed. This is...

Here is video of Bernie Goldberg on tonight's The O'Reilly Factor, listing the five top far-left smear merchants in the mainstream media. Goldberg gave O'Reilly the following list: 5. Janeane Garofalo - representing Hollywood 4. Bill Moyers 3. Markos Moulitsas - Daily Kos 2. New York Times 1. MSNBC Goldberg gives MSNBC the top spot, not because of their influence, but because they are a division of a major network and peddle was he called "defamation" of conservatives. . . . . (Watch Video of Goldberg Giving His List)

A NY Times best-selling author says the mainstream media has finally crossed the line and is now threatening America's democracy by moving from the role of just cheerleaders to active participants in the political arena. Bernard Goldberg's latest book is called 'A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media.' Goldberg says biased coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign shredded and irrevocably ended any trust in the mainstream media by most of the American public. "This time they crossed a very bright line -- and it moved from media...

The news is no longer news. It’s propaganda. It’s cheerleading for the new administration. It’s bull-roar. It’s false, fraudulent and biased. I’m talking about the major purveyors of news, the so-called mainstream media. I’m talking about The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, ABC, CBS, MSNC, NBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek and all the rest. The mainstream media has descended to the level of Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister and Pravda, best known as the propaganda organ of the Communist Party. But this development in the mainstream media has critically important implications not only for...

As part of my research for this book, I interviewed Rush Limbaugh to get his take on how the media covered—or more accurately, how they cheered on—Barack Obama. Rush is a commentator and entertainer, and he’s also as astute as anyone I know on politics and the media. I started by asking him if the media were even more biased, or biased in a different way, during the presidential election of 2008. Limbaugh: It was worse than ever before because of the historical significance the media placed on Obama’s election. Most of the elders in the Drive Bys [Rush’s term...

Bernard Goldberg is back with "A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media." The Regnery Publishing book, which goes on sale Monday, indicts mainstream print and electronic journalists not for having liberal biases, which are a given, but for becoming open and unapologetic activists for Obama. Goldberg says that "Chris Matthews is the most egregious example of media slobbering. ... Chris Matthews is an embarrassment of the first order." Goldberg also says: "But I'll tell you something else -- and this is the single most embarrassing sentence I...

In April of 2007, former CBS News reporter and six-time Emmy Award winner Bernard Goldberg's book, entitled "Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve," was released. The book became an instant bestseller, and although its title was conjured up over a year ago, its premise is becoming increasingly apparent in this year's presidential election. On the Democratic side, in the wake of one of the longest and most vicious primary battles in recent electoral history, Goldberg's argument has seemingly been substantiated. The contest between Hillary...

Appearing by phone on Friday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg recalled for fill-in host Laura Ingraham how Tim Russert recognized there should be more to newsroom diversity than just diversity by gender and skin tone, that “you need ideological diversity.” Goldberg, who was forced out of CBS News after he pointed out their liberal bias, lamented: I wish his colleagues understood that part of Tim Russert, too. That he knew that we needed all kinds of people in journalism because if we didn't have it we were going to get one-sided journalism. Goldberg read...

The Grand Inquisitor Confronts...Mr. Rogers? August 15, 2006 The Wall Street Journal Bernard Goldberg An old line that used to make the rounds at CBS News held that the last thing the CEO of a major corporation wanted to hear was "Mike Wallace on line one." Anyone who has ever seen my former colleague in action gets the joke immediately. But I'm guessing that Ayatollah Khomeini didn't watch "60 Minutes" very often back when he was leading the Iranian Revolution and holding Americans hostage. I'm also guessing he didn't know Mike Wallace from Kate Smith. Big mistake. The ayatollah was...

Dinesh D’Souza, one of my heroes, is usually credited with popularizing the term, “political correctness”. He explains in his book, “Letters To A Young Conservative”, that “political correctness is about pretending, about publicly insisting that something is true, when we know privately that it isn’t, about shutting down people who won’t conform to the prevailing orthodoxy”. I have to stretch this formal definition to cover two of my three examples below, but in all three areas liberals certainly like to shut people up who disagree with them. The politically correct positions on manmade global warming is that it is happening...

I picked up this book by Bernard Goldberg, at the library, having read “Bias” and “Arrogance”. Found Bernie’s web site, which has some sound files and a good message board. Link in header.

Attacks on free speech are not the exclusive province of the ACLU. Using some provisions of the absurd McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Bill (which increased rather than decreased the money devoted to political campaigns), efforts are underway that might well put an end to Rush Limbaugh’s radio program and to weblogs, including mine, that discuss political issues. These attacks on free speech are not limited to stifling conservative viewpoints; Al Franken’s radio show and the DailyKos website (left-wing advocates) face the same dangers. Already, this year, we have had to fight off an attempt by Senator Harken to interfere with the...

At the end of the book, my friend Bernie invites readers to come up with their own nominees. He now reports that the names that have come up most frequently are Sen. Dick Durbin, the idiot who compared our soldiers at Guantanamo to Nazis and other vermin; and the five justices of the Supreme Court who cast the deciding votes in the eminent domain case. I can't argue against those six candidates making it into Goldberg's sequel. But I had already e-mailed him my own choice. That would be Lorne Michaels. He's the fellow who created "Saturday Night Live" for...

Just finished watching Goldberg giving a talk in a bookstore. Very funny anecdotes. A great speaker. He handled a couple of planted hecklers in the audience like a master, and conducted a very rational appeal for decency and civility in American life. If you get a chance, I highly recommend the program.(Now I gotta buy the book!)

So how does it feel to be included in Bernard Goldberg's latest clip job, ''100 People Who Are Screwing Up America"? ''I'm shocked," says MIT biologist Nancy Hopkins, the woman who blew the whistle on Harvard president Lawrence Summers's musings about women's inability to succeed in the ''hard" sciences. Hopkins has three other quotable reactions: (1) ''It's a book?" (2) ''Why is Larry Summers not on the list?" and (3) ''Who is Bernard Goldberg?" Goldberg is a former CBS correspondent turned literary genius who has managed to summon three best-selling books from the bile of his ruined career. The people...

Talk about appearing blindfolded before a kangaroo court. Then again, CBS newsman-turned-author Bernard Goldberg might not have recalled before appearing last night on CNBC's "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch" that the host was a lead member of the Clinton/Gore communications team in 1992. "I've been doing this a long, long time, and I have never, ever, ever, never -- I could say never and ever 10 more times -- experienced what I just went through," Mr. Goldberg told Inside the Beltway late yesterday after he taped the show, which is to air tonight, from Miami. "Deutsch disagreed with everything,...

Bernard Goldberg has been on a spirited crusade against the left for three books now —the number one New York Times bestseller Bias, the bestselling Arrogance, and his latest book, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America. Goldberg, an Emmy-winning journalist, is a former correspondent on the CBS program 48 Hours. Galley Girl spoke by phone to him in Miami. GG: You used to be a liberal. What happened? BG: What happened? Liberals happened. I want to make a distinction between your run-of-the-mill liberals and the cultural elite liberals, who really speak for liberalism in America today. Most liberals obviously...

The number one New York Times bestselling author of Bias---Bernard Goldberg---delivers another bombshell -- this time aimed at ...100 People Who Are Screwing Up America No preaching. No pontificating. Just some uncommon sense about the things that have made this country great -- and the culprits who are screwing it up. Bernard Goldberg takes dead aim at the America Bashers (the cultural elites who look down their snobby noses at "ordinary" Americans) ... the Hollywood Blowhards (incredibly ditzy celebrities who think they're smart just because they're famous) ... the TV Schlockmeisters (including the one whose show has been compared to...

Paris Hilton's parents; the Rev. Al Sharpton; the guy who gave us "Fear Factor;" and Rep. Jim McDermott. At first glance, they don't have a lot in common. But they are linked for eternity in a new book, "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken Is # 37)." McDermott, as it happens, is No. 38. The Democratic congressman from Seattle apparently doesn't pose as big a threat to democracy as comedian-and-leftist radio talkster Franken. But McDermott presents more of a problem than, say, feminist Gloria Steinem, at No. 42, or Enron's disgraced chief executive, Kenneth Lay, who...

Bernard Goldberg, the former CBS reporter who blew the lid off institutional media bias with his book Bias, will name the top 100 American screw-ups in his upcoming publication, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken Is #37). A press release sent to bloggers (such as Bill at INDC Journal, who also blogged about it this morning) has us guessing at the other denizens on Goldberg's list. Amazon has the following description posted: Bernard Goldberg takes dead aim at the America Bashers (the cultural elites who look down their snobby noses at "ordinary" Americans) ... the Hollywood...

Check out the actual investigatory panel report -- it credits Free Republic (accurately) for first questioning the authenticity of thye documents. The actual investigatory report can be seen

Do you remember when the culture wars were supposed to be over, and the liberal media was said to be a myth? I do. By denying our divisions, liberals implicitly declare themselves the winners of our culture battles. And deep sixing conservatism is a nice way to pretend that the media isn't biased. How can the media be liberally biased if the country as a whole has accepted liberal wisdom, and conservatives are just a fading relic of history? The election put paid to all that. Surprise! Conservatives exist. As a marker of just how far we’ve come in this...

Dan Rather, who has announced his "retirement" next March from the anchor desk he has held for 24 years, is a dinosaur. After the last old news anchor leaves (Peter Jennings will be the final one sitting), Mr. Rather, Tom Brokaw and Mr. Jennings will be fossils. There will not be their like again. It doesn't matter who replaces Mr. Rather. Everyone at that level of broadcast journalism has been ideologically vetted. No conservative is allowed to ascend to the top of major news organizations. If you disagree, try naming one.

Goldberg is on MSNBC. NOW

The author of Bias, and former CBS insider will guest on Scarborough Country tonight. Joe has had the most comprehensive coverage of the CBS forgery crime that I've seen. He usually devotes his entire show to it. Tonight should be interesting.

C-BS should remove Dan Rather and insert Bernard Goldberg into the anchor chair. That would be a bold move and acknowledgement of their intention to break away from the group think liberal BIAS that has encrusted the network for years. They don't have the guts to do it...

Tonight, on the AL RANTEL SHOW, he had Bernard Goldberg - author of BIAS and former CBS News producer - as a guest to talk about RATHERGATE. Here are some highlights from a man who knows about the culture over at CBS News: Rathergate. Is Rather biased or duped? The documents. Suspicious. The documents appear to be phoney. However, prime time mags, like 60 MINUTES, have a point of view, which is based on reporting. The POV on this piece is that Bush is a liar and slacker. Problem though. Being invested, being exclusive. All figures into it. Worst part,...

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So I’m sitting in a very nice conference room in the very nice Time & Life Building, high above bustling West Fiftieth Street in Manhattan, for my first meeting on this book. There are about ten big shots from Warner Books sitting around a very nice long table waiting to hear what I have in mind, which basically is to use my earlier book Bias as a jumping-off point to examine the powerful behind-the-scenes forces that have turned too many American newsrooms into bastions of political correctness; to examine those forces and see why they generate bias in the news...

Liberal media bias, part IRyan Zempel (archive) December 11, 2003 | Print | Send Few people have done more to highlight the issue of liberal media bias than Bernard Goldberg, author of the bestselling "Bias."  Goldberg has now authored the recently released "Arrogance:  Rescuing America from the Media Elite" in which he offers solutions to the problem of media bias.I interviewed Goldberg recently and will be publishing the interview in three parts during the next several days. Part ITownhall:  Do you think the increasing availability of alternative news sources -- such as cable, talk radio, internet -- has had any...

Former CBS-TV correspondent Bernard Goldberg rocked the journalism world in 2001 with his best-selling book "Bias." It was an indictment of what Goldberg believes to be an unintended but pervasive liberal prejudice in America's television and print newsrooms. Now, Goldberg is back with a more in-depth look at why this perceived bias exists. In his new book, "Arrogance: Rescuing America From The Media Elite," there is plenty of fresh red meat for those who believe that too many people in the media hold a baseline view of things that runs too far to the left. That point is well taken,...

Bernard Goldberg, author of the best selling expose of the media's leftward tilt "Bias," and his new shocker "Arrogance" was right on when he noted that the media regularly labeled Republicans as conservatives but seldom described Democrats as liberals say two scholars who studied the records of the New York Times and the Washington Post. Writing in today's Wall Street Journal , David Brady, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of political science at Stanford, and Jonathan Ma, a senior in economics at Stanford revealed the results of their study of New York Times and Washington Post...

Arrogance Rescuing America from the Media Elite By Bernard Goldberg Warner Books HC, 310 pg. US$26.95/C$39.95 ISBN: 0-4465-3191-XState of the media addressBy Steven Martinovichweb posted November 10, 2003Following the publication of Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News in 2001, his peers in journalism dubbed Bernard Goldberg nothing less than a traitor. The mainstream media, he argued, is far from objective in its reporting on the major issues of the day and in fact tilts towards the liberal worldview. It was a pronouncement, though hardly original, that angered many in the media world and led to...

Goldberg Interview Transcript Interview was conducted 2003-10-30 13:05-14:01 by RatherBiased.com's Matthew W. Sheffield. This is a rush transcript. To facilitate reading, please consult the table at right. RATHERBIASED.COM: You had a lot of success with your last book; did you expect that Bias would sell as well as it did? Quick Reference Liberal Authors' 'Delusional' Arguments for Conservative Dominance A Definition of BiasDeliberate Slanting?Press Bias in Favor of More Campaign RegulationsComparing Coverage of Clinton and Bush 43Why Andy Rooney is a WussComments on His Former Boss, Andrew HeywardOn Dan Rather's Low RatingsGoldberg's Favorite Journalists How Editing Can Distort the...

Bernard Goldberg Speaks Out2003-11-03 05:20:55 ET Former CBS Star Gives RatherBiased.com Hour-Long Interview.Author and former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg is currently out promoting his new book Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elites. RatherBiased.com's Matthew W. Sheffield caught up with him for a candid and sometimes blunt session, in which Goldberg gave his views on everything from journalism magazines and the book business to his former colleagues at CBS and reporters of whom he approves. Listen to Goldberg's remarks on:  Why he decided to write another book about the subject of liberal bias in the news media.  How journalism magazines...

After smacking the media around in his first book for being insufferably liberal, Bernard Goldberg is back with another hardback scolding. The title: "Arrogance." It's a safe bet that many of his ex-colleagues will find that a perfect description of the former CBS correspondent they view as a traitor. "There's no question the media elites salivate more when they're going after Republicans and conservatives," he writes, and they would probably admit it "after a few drinks."

Bernie Goldberg is back to spanking the liberal media, and guess what? His network targets still won't let him inside the door. Even after his first book, Bias, proved to be extremely popular, the networks have barred Goldberg and his new book, Arrogance, despite his predictions that he'd draw huge audiences. "I didn't think anything trumped ratings," he says, "but something does--ideology." His latest book, due out next month, is more than liberal baiting, though there's enough Dan Rather bashing to satisfy any dittohead starved by the absence of Rush Limbaugh during his drug dry-out. Goldberg offers a thoughtful 12-step...

Back in March of this year, way before Rush Limbaugh and ESPN, Esquire ran an interview with a liberal journalist – an interview that, outside the Internet, made only a few ripples. In the exchange with Esquire, Eric Alterman, who writes a column for the Nation, a far-left political magazine, charmingly told the interviewer, “I hate to say it, but I wish the guy [Rush Limbaugh] would have gone deaf.” Call me crazy, but when Alterman says, “I hate to say it,” I have the funny feeling that he really means “I love to say it.” Anyway, it’s not just...

The review reads: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bias exposes the culture of narrow-minded elitism in the media--and reveals what must be done to change it.In December of 2001, Emmy Award-winning journalist Bernard Goldberg charged the mainstream media with slanting the news and created a firestorm with his controversial bestseller Bias. Now Goldberg goes beyond identifying the media's partiality and explains how the slanting of the news is all but inevitable in the current climate--and why the media's stars continue to deny the industry's condition. In this fascinating report, Goldberg lays out his rallying cry, unafraid to...

<p>WASHINGTON -- In a sales surge that surprised politicians and booksellers alike, five liberal books will be among The New York Times's top 15 hard-cover nonfiction bestsellers on today's list, mounting what some sales specialists see as a left-wing assault on the conservatives' decade-long hold on popular culture.</p>

<p>Can we please stop this senseless book war about political bias in the news media?</p> <p>Both sides -- conservatives and liberals -- are absolutely right. The national news media are unfair and unbalanced. It just depends on where you look, who's doing the looking and what your definition of bias is.</p>

"CBS Evening News" didn’t want to use blacks in a story about how the economy is hurting working people, a watchdog media Web site has reported. A shocking e-mail memo proves "Bias" author and former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg was right when he charged that blacks are not welcome as story subjects at CBS. According to an e-mail memo from a left-wing think tank, the network wanted its help finding suitable subjects for interviews on the "CBS Evening News" series called "Making Ends Meet," which the network described as "month-long look at the unemployment crisis in America." The text...

Today's Best CLICK HERE Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the News by Bernard Goldberg In nearly thirty years at CBS News, Bernard Goldberg earned a reputation as one of the preeminent reporters in the television news business. When he looked at his own industry, however, he saw that the media far too often ignored their primary mission: to provide objective reporting. Again and again he saw that the news slanted to the left. … Read more Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists Criminals & Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores by Michelle Malkin "The 19 hijackers...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Veteran CBS correspondent and best-selling author Bernard Goldberg predicts that the liberal media establishment will collapse much like the Berlin Wall. Speaking at special NewsMax NewsMaker Forum on Thursday, Goldberg said that millions of Americans are voting with their feet and getting their news from alternative media including Fox News Channel, talk radio and Web sites such as NewsMax.com. Goldberg explained that liberal media bias, despite an almost total blackout in Big Media about his book "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News," had created a tremendous market for it and...

What Liberal Media?A Challenge: Let's Debate Bias and Slander    It’s time for Bernard Goldberg and Ann Coulter to defend their books, Bias and Slander, which supposedly prove an old saw -- that liberals dominate the news media.    After the books were published, the press lavished attention on both authors -- much of it uncritical, if not fawning. Ironically, such a reception should have provided primary evidence against their allegation (if a random survey of TV pundits or Washington Post editorials wasn’t proof enough).    Now comes Eric Alterman’s new book, What Liberal Media? It shreds the ‘liberal media’ myth, and with it Bias...

Do you believe Al Gore's charge that some media outlets are getting orders from the Republican Party?

Is America's left-wing media elite about to suffer the fate of the Communist Party of the old Soviet Union? I ask this question because my weekend reading (Dimitri Volkogonov's history of the Soviet leadership, "Anatomy of An Empire," and Mark Mathis' tome on the U.S. media, "Feeding the Media Beast") raised some interesting parallels between the Soviet leadership and the current structure of the U.S. news media. The similarities between Volkogonov's description of the behavior of the Soviet party leaders and recent revelations by Mathis and others about the thought processes, biases, behaviors and prejudices of American reporters are...