Today\’s quote comes to us from Bernard Goldberg, former multiple-emmy winning reporter for CBS News, who, I suspect, effectively ended his career there by having views which collided with his newsroom\’s liberal/left orthodoxy.
Here is what Mr. Goldberg said to Bill O\’Reilly on yesterday\’s “O\’Reilly Factor”, regarding media\’s chronic blaming of conservatives and, more generally, the right, for every mass murder which occurs in this country.
“There are people in the media, some people in the media, who will use an opportunity of innocent people being killed in a church as an opportunity to bash conservative media and it has a long, detestable history.
“After Oklahoma City bombing, liberals in the media blamed Rush Limbaugh and talk radio. It was their fault.
“After the massacre in Arizona, the New York Times, without a shred of evidence, said that this insane lunatic who did the killings, was influenced by right wing rhetoric. Then you had, on Salon (salon.com), a prominent on-line liberal magazine, they said our Fox News and the right wing encouraging violence. And then, the guest you had on right before (South Carolina Democratic State Representative Todd Rutherford), he made those same ridiculous, ridiculous, slanderous comments on CNN. There are people in the media, Bill, who can\’t help themselves. They will not let an opportunity, a crisis, they will not let a crisis go to waste. Even when the crisis involves 9 innocent people being killed in a church.”
Bernard Goldberg wins today\’s Quote Of The Day honors for, in my opinion, stating a truism that it is necessary – make that imperative – for people to realize. Media venues, so many of which are in lock-step with their Democrat and leftward masters (often one and the same), reflexively parrot this charge whenever a shooting takes place.
There seems to be no need whatsoever for these media people to find out whether facts bear their assumptions out; they think of them as “everybody knows” situations. And the “everybody” who knows, comprises their professional and social circles – which, in the news business, tends to be very provincial/one-dimensional in nature.
I am reminded of the late film critic Pauline Kael, who, when talking about voters electing Richard Nixon to the presidency, said “I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don\’t know. They\’re outside my ken”.
Ms. Kael said that in 1972. And I have no doubt she was right about the degree of her insularity…as I have no doubt that it is every bit as true of many media people today, if not moreso.
