Bernard Goldberg Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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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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There's a kind of journalistic narcissism that New York-based journalists are guilty of.
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The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.
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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.
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Circumstantial evidence is evidence.
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Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.
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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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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.
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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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Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.
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You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.
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A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.
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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.
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I don't believe all rich people are selfless philanthropists.
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Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.
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I admire Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly a lot because I think they're standup guys.
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Journalists love to show their compassion.
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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.
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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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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.
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I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time, nobody buys it anymore.
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Except for talk radio, liberals pretty much control the culture.
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Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.
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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.
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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.
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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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Try to imagine an America without rich people. Rich people contribute a lot to this country.
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