Bernard Goldberg Quotes

• There are lots of reasons fewer people are watching network news, and one of them, I'm more convinced than ever, is that our viewers simply don't trust us. And for good reason. The old argument that the networks and other `media elites' have a liberal bias is so blatantly true that it's hardly worth discussing anymore. No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Dark, Media, People

  "CFIF General Counsel Talks With Veteran CBS Reporter Bernard Goldberg About Media Bias". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org.

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• We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.

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  Nwo, Doe, Agendas

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• I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.

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  Years, White, News

  "O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Respond to Jon Stewart's Criticism of Fox News". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2010.

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• I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Media, People, Guy

  Interview with Jed Babbin, humanevents.com. February 2, 2009.

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• The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

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  Mean, Responsibility, Language

  "Goldberg: The media is slobbering over Hillary Clinton". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 25, 2013.

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• I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

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  Glasses, People, House

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• No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Dark, News, Strategy

  "CFIF General Counsel Talks With Veteran CBS Reporter Bernard Goldberg About Media Bias". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. August 12, 2004.

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• Journalists love to show their compassion.

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  Compassion, Shows, Journalist

  "Media Unfair to Michael J. Fox And Rush Limbaugh?". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. October 27, 2006.

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• I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Children, Father, Kennedy Family

  "Bernie Goldberg Explains Why We Should Be Thanking Rich Americans". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2010.

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• Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Culture, Radio, Talk Radio

  Bernard Goldberg (2009). “Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time, nobody buys it anymore.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Bernie Goldberg on Far Left Calling Tea Party 'Terrorists'". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 1, 2011.

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• As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.

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  Jesus, Issues, Two

  "Bernie Goldberg Explains Why We Should Be Thanking Rich Americans". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2010.

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• I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Thinking, Media, Different

  "Bernie Goldberg on Possibility of Hillary Clinton Challenging Obama in 2012". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. July 12, 2010.

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• There are some programs on FOX that are not only fair and balanced, they're commentary shows. They don't have to be. But they brag about how fair and balanced they are. They don't cover rallies and tea parties. They cheer lead for rallies and tea parties. And as a journalist, I am totally against that.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Cheer, Party, Tea

  "Bill O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Debate Fox News and Conservative Bias". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.newsbusters.org. September 30, 2009.

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• I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Gratitude, Negative Words, Class

  "Bernie Goldberg Explains Why We Should Be Thanking Rich Americans". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2010.

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• The big 3 networks don't like the fact that there's a Rush Limbaugh out there, they don't like the fact that there's a Fox News, they don't like the fact that there's a Matt Drudge. They liked it when it was nice, when it was just the three of them. Well, it ain't that way anymore.

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  Nice, Three, News

  "Citizen-Soldier Handbook: 101 Ways Every American Can Fight Terrorism". Book by Michael Mandaville, 2009.

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• We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And those unsung American heroes are the rich.

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  Beautiful, Hero, Honor

  "Bernie Goldberg Explains Why We Should Be Thanking Rich Americans". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2010.

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• I know real people, whose names I could tell you, people I know who have said "I’ve stopped buying the New York Times." Why? Because their editorial position has filtered, has leached into the news pages.

  Bernard Goldberg

  New York, Real, Names

  "EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Bernie Goldberg". Interview with Jed Babbin, humanevents.com. February 2, 2009.

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• I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don't think that. But I will tell you what, an awful lot of liberal elites think that.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Country, Thinking, People

  "O'Reilly and Bernie Goldberg Respond to Jon Stewart's Criticism of Fox News". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2010.

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• Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.

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  Fun, House, Matter

  "Bernie Goldberg on New York Times Editor Insulting the Eucharist and Media Hype of Hurricane Irene". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2011.

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• A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Thinking, People, Political

  "Bernie Goldberg on Obama's Strengths and Weaknesses in 2012 Election". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2011.

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• You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Running, Years, News

  "Goldberg: More deception from NBC News". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. February 25, 2013.

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• Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Fancy, Bills, Reincarnation

  "Far Left Brands O'Reilly's Obama Interview Racist". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. February 14, 2011.

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• There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.

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  New York, Narcissism, Kind

  "Bernie Goldberg on New York Times Editor Insulting the Eucharist and Media Hype of Hurricane Irene". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Evidence, Circumstantial Evidence

  "Casey Anthony, the Media and the 'United States of Entertainment'". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. July 5, 2011.

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