After a heated segment on the calls by conservative groups to have Ellen Degeneres removed from a JC Penney ad campaign, Bill O’Reilly invited regular Bernie Goldberg on to talk about the fight between Planned Parenthood and the Susan G. Komen Foundation, to showcase “the other side of intolerance.” But Goldberg had a few words to say about Degeneres, too– namely, that “there is a strain of bigotry running through conservative America” that he was just “sick of.”

Bill O’Reilly and Bernie Goldberg aren’t usually the ones first in line to heap praise upon their competitors over at CNN, but last night they had nothing but good words for Wolf Blitzer‘s performance as moderator of CNN’s latest Republican debate, particularly in shutting down Newt Gingrich. Unlike John King, who Goldberg suggested was trying to “start a food fight” with his question on Gingrich’s marriages, both host and guest agreed that Blitzer was attacked for asking a legitimate question, and that the audience at home was on his side.

On tonight’s O’Reilly Factor, Bernie Goldberg took a stab at analyzing the new presidential race landscape since the game-changing Newt Gingrich win on Saturday, and what it means for Gingrich’s media-attack-focused campaigning. Goldberg noted that there was a consensus among voters that the media was talking sides, but that well could easily be depleted– but even if it were, Mitt Romney had an uphill battle to generate similar enthusiasm for himself.

Since ABC News followed up Thursday night’s explosive CNN debate with an interview of Newt Gingrich‘s second wife, Marianne, the ethics of having brought the claim that Gingrich was interested in an open marriage into public debate has been in contention, and last night on The O’Reilly Factor, Bernie Goldberg fell squarely in the camp against putting the interview out there. Bill O’Reilly agreed: “reasonable people may disagree,” Goldberg noted, but neither felt comfortable with the information.

Bernard Goldberg‘s semi-weekly segment on The O’Reilly Factor today focused on the New York Times calling Mitt Romney one of the “whitest” candidates to ever run. Bill O’Reilly began the segment with a joking tease that Goldberg was, in fact, the whitest guy he knew– one that Goldberg took as a challenge, and disputed by brandishing a photo of himself with rapper Ice Cube. “See, here I am with Ice T,” he said, unfortunately. Happy Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!

Jodi Cantor‘s new book The Obamas has stirred some controversy over its claims that the First Lady proved somewhat problematic in terms of her image. On The O’Reilly Factor tonight, Bernie Goldberg admitted that the story of Robert Gibbs losing his patience with the First Lady’s extravagant clothing was “doesn’t shock me,” but upon debating further her image as a “Marie Antoinette” type, Bill O’Reilly came to her defense.

Last week, as America anticipated the Iowa caucuses, some analyses of the state highlighted its demographics as being potentially problematic as far as an accurate representation of the nation’s feelings go. On Fox News today, an anchor rehashed a similar concern about New Hampshire, and while the critique may sound similar, there is a narrow difference between the two takes that merits fleshing out.

With the Iowa caucus less than 24 hours away, there is still some hesitation in the media that the caucus, not being an actual election and being somewhere in the Midwest, isn’t entirely representative of the nation. On tonight’s O’Reilly Factor, media critic Bernard Goldberg took on precisely this claim from Andrea Mitchell, suggesting that it was only acceptable in the mainstream media to say Iowa wasn’t representative of the nation because it was white. “We’re not going to hear that South Carolina… is too black,” he argued.

Last week, MSNBC reported on a story about how Mitt Romney had been using the phrase “Keep America American,” a staple of the Ku Klux Klan. As it turns out, the story was not exactly true, and Chris Matthews issued a public apology on the network’s behalf sometime thereafter. On tonight’s Factor, Bill O’Reilly and Bernie Goldberg discussed the story, with Goldberg suggesting this was a product of the management’s attitude towards news, not just the producers who ran the story.

Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow has gone meta. It’s no longer annoying for Tebow to praise Jesus after interviews, or take a knee after a touchdown as a tribute to God. It’s now become tedious to have to listen to commentators and analysts talk about how other people are annoyed over Tebow’s antics. Megyn Kelly brought in Fox News analyst Bernie Goldberg on Wednesday to talk about the phenomenon, and, while Goldberg made some solid points about the reaction, he managed to steer the interview a little bit off the rails at one point.

CNN contributor David Frum caught Bill O’Reilly‘s eye yesterday on Reliable Sources, when he went after Fox News for being a bad influence and agent of misinformation in the 2012 election. O’Reilly didn’t understand Frum’s “beef” with the network, but Bernie Goldberg had an answer: Frum was merely “an intellectual who is frustrated because he doesn’t have the clout that you have.”

Bernie Goldberg‘s weekly media critique with Bill O’Reilly centered on the controversy surrounding the intro music The Roots used for Rep. Michele Bachmann on Jimmy Fallon‘s show last week (a ditty called “Lyin’ Ass Bitch“) but took a personal turn down Memory Lane as O’Reilly compared what Fallon’s house band did to other political comedians, namely Jon Stewart, who he argued was above it. Goldberg, speaking out of personal experience, disagreed: “Atewart had a black church choir telling me to go you-know-what myself, and this went on for twelve minutes.”

You may recall that, last week, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly took on HLN’s Joy Behar for having enabled her guest, actress Ellen Barkin, to have shared false information about terrible things O’Reilly had supposedly said about her on his show.

Last night, O’Reilly invited Fox News contributor Bernie Goldberg to discuss who, exactly, should be held responsible when guests lie on television.

On Monday night’s edition of The Factor, host Bill O’Reilly spoke with guest Bernie Goldberg tackled President Obama’s reaction when asked about GOP hopefuls’ supportive take on waterboarding, a practice that Obama banned in January of 2009. “Let me just say this,” Obama had responded. “They’re wrong.” Was CNN’s Dan Lothian, the reporter who had [...]

New Republican frontrunner Newt Gingrich owes much of his newfound popularity to the fact that he repeatedly challenged moderators at debates, rather than turning on other candidates. On The O’Reilly Factor tonight, show regular Bernie Goldberg defied common conservative wisdom by questioning Gingrich’s latest foray into telling the media how to do their job, asking host Bill O’Reilly to clarify what CBS’ Scott Pelley did wrong in asking whether Gingrich would kill American-born terrorists overseas.

It has been quite an eventful afternoon for Herman Cain. After a week-long barrage of coverage relating to at least three women accusing him of sexual harassment, today he was confronted with legal celebrity Gloria Allred‘s latest client (who has no intention of taking legal action) Sharon Bialek, who accused him of “reach[ing] for my genitals” in a car. But if you missed the press conference today, you wouldn’t have found out about it from Bill O’Reilly, despite he and critic Bernie Goldberg dedicating a segment to the media’s inadequate coverage of Herman Cain.

As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to refuse to budge from lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, tonight on the O’Reilly Factor resident media critic Bernie Goldberg took a look at how the media has treated the movement. Ultimately, he gives guest host Monica Crowley a grim prognosis for the media’s chances at being fair towards the movement in the same way they were (or were not) to the Tea Party: arguing that “the storyline is set in stone,” he concludes “there is no hope for them.”

With the 2012 elections fast approaching and the economy in a state of flailing paralysis, Bill O’Reilly took a look tonight at how the media is responding to the Obama Administration’s first tenure. With some in the media arguing that the President has little control over the economy, Bernie Goldberg told the Factor host this came off as yet another example of bias, and one which warned the next wave of pro-Obama fervor in the media would be significantly less feverish.

After challenging Dr. Marc Lamont Hill at the top of the show to help him explore the potential racial elements of Occupy Wall Street, Bill O’Reilly returned to the potential bigotry of the movement with Bernie Goldberg, discussing the various anti-Semitic signs that had been seen at Occupy protests across the country. Were these as representative of the protests as racist signs seen at Tea Party events?

The news that nonagenarian Andy Rooney would be leaving his post at 60 Minutes resulted in much warmth and nostalgia from a loyal audience, but if he was expecting it from Bill O’Reilly and Bernaie Goldberg, he was left wanting. Goldberg and O’Reilly, who had both worked at CBS, traded stories of Rooney being mean to them both, with Goldberg concluding he was cowardly and “not a stand-up guy.” Ouch.

Distrust in the media, according to the latest numbers, appears to be at record highs. On tonight’s O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly aired the results of a Gallup poll showing almost half of Americans think the media is “too liberal,” and that Fox News was overwhelmingly the television news source of choice. Why are Americans sensing this bias, according to poll results? Guest Bernie Goldberg argued it was because, in the post-Obama era, the media didn’t show bias, it showed activism.

Fox News media analyst Bernie Goldberg appeared on The O’Reilly Factor last night and predictably ridiculed AttackWatch, the website recently launched by the Obama campaign designed to “get the facts, fight the smears.” While host Bill O’Reilly was somewhat dismissive of the campaign marketing effort, he didn’t exactly share Goldberg’s level of outrage and mockery, correctly observing that the hotly debated website was a basic marketing effort.

The post-hurricane debate over how the mainstream media treated the threat raged on last night, as the many factors in play led to various theories on whether Irene was sufficiently covered. On last night’s O’Reilly Factor, Bernie Goldberg argued that one of the main reasons the media cared so much about Hurricane Irene was “because it was heading for the center of the universe,” and that a larger hurricane heading for a different region wouldn’t have gotten the attention– though giving the caveat that “hurricanes are dangerous things and they’re no fun to go through.”

New York Times editor Bill Keller‘s column on religion didn’t go unnoticed by “culture warrior” Bill O’Reilly on his program today, but after a segment decrying its arrogance, O’Reilly came face to face with a guest that “totally agreed” with Keller that religious ignorance should come into play in politics. Somewhat shockingly, it was media critic Bernie Goldberg, who used Keller’s logic to justify the outrage against Pastor Jeremiah Wright.

Today was Bill O’Reilly‘s return to manning the fort at the Factor, and he came back to some unfinished business between his substitute host Laura Ingraham and Rep. Charlie Rangel, who dismissed her (and then apologized) as “just a pretty girl.” Discussing the issue with Bernie Goldberg, however, O’Reilly found him somewhat sympathetic to Rep. Rangel, arguing that Ingraham was “lucky” that’s the most he said, given that she was constantly interrupting.