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.

Washington Examiner columnist got a fair deal of pushback for asking Rep. Michele Bachmann whether, as President, she would be submissive to her husband, as per an answer to questions she had given in the past. And Fox News media analyst Bernie Goldberg would typically be one to partake in challenging the media for inappropriate questioning, but this time, he was on York’s side, calling Rep. Bachmann a “hack” for “weaseling out” of the question and claiming “submission” was synonymous with “respect.”

The rhetoric against the Tea Party movement has escalated in extremism during the debt ceiling debate, partially because many on the left and in the center considered the Tea Party members of Congress the only thing standing between America maintaining its credit rating and defaulting on the debt. On tonight’s O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly and Bernie Goldberg differed on the level of outrage about that, but both took the time to chuckle about their aversion to labeling “real terrorists” but quickness to drop the word on domestic opponents.

Though it’s detractors say otherwise, The O’Reilly Factor is not typically a place in which a politician escapes a full segment without receiving at least a jab or two, but tonight, Sen. Marco Rubio achieved just that. In analyzing his performance in a debate with CBS’ Bob Schieffer, both Bill O’Reilly and guest Bernie Goldberg were very impressed with how he “destroyed” Schieffer– so much so they both mused he was practically a shoo-in for the 2012 Republican ticket.

Bernie Goldberg is not entirely sure the ceasefire between the White House and Fox News is permanent. On tonight’s O’Reilly Factor, Goldberg discussed the newly released emails regarding the White House/Fox wars of last year, and while the relationship between Fox and the Obama administration has certainly improved since then, Goldberg wasn’t quite ready to trust yet. “It suits their purpose down the road to start up the war again,” he hinted, adding that the White House was playing with fire: “when you go to war with an entire channel, you got to war with their viewers.”

The universal media revulsion with the verdict in the Casey Anthony trial continued throughout tonight’s O’Reilly Factor, as a livid Bernie Goldberg told Bill O’Reilly he was “so disgusted with this thing I can hardly speak straight tonight.” But unlike most in the media, Goldberg wasn’t just upset at the jury or Casey Anthony herself, but at his colleague, Geraldo Rivera, who he predicted would not “be so open-minded” if the victim in this case were “a Hispanic immigrant.”

Bernie Goldberg—who I have much respect for—wrote a FoxNews.com blog post titled, “Is Jon Stewart Racist?” The piece discussed Jon’s impression of Herman Cain, an African-American seeking the Republican nomination for president. Bernie wrote that Jon, “…put on a ‘black voice’ and proceeded to mock Mr. Cain in a way that would never be tolerated if a conservative had done it.”

Pass the popcorn and David Hasselhoff popsicles! Fox News is gently fanning the flames of the smoldering Jon Stewart / Herman Cain “rivalry” by asking, in a FoxNews.com blog post written by Bernie Goldberg, “Is Jon Stewart racist?”

Journalist and Fox News commentator Bernie Goldberg spoke with Bill O’Reilly Monday evening about Norah O’Donnell‘s appointment as the White House correspondent for CBS News. The conversation focused specifically, of course, on how O’Donnell’s liberalism would play into her new position, with O’Reilly opining that O’Donnell frequently engages in snarky “digs” at the right.

The Sarah Palin email dump ended up being something like the 21st Century Al Capone’s vault, with nothing but emails showing that the former Alaska governor did her job, interacted with friends and family, and occasionally made statements. On The O’Reilly Factor tonight, Bernie Goldberg called the release of the emails a “persecution” on par with “that lowlife Levi Johnston.”

Sarah Palin may have not convinced everyone that she is a master of American history with her peculiar rendition of the Paul Revere story last week, though that hasn’t stopped her fans from doing some creative editing on Wikipedia. On tonight’s O’Reilly, Bernie Goldberg defended her from liberal skewering on the matter, but admitted, “Sarah Palin mangled Paul Revere.”

Good news media. Bill O’Reilly and Bernard Goldberg both agree that you’re doing a pretty fair job covering Osama bin Laden‘s death, with the exception of some “over-the-top” stuff on The View. Yet O’Reilly suggested it would have been fascinating to see what the media’s reaction would be if President Bush took the same action.

The State Department’s favorite whistleblower organization, Wikileaks, has taken yet another holiday to launch a document dump, this time on the secrets of America’s military base on Guantanamo Bay. Like every Wikileak, this one has many in the media, including Bill O’Reilly, calling for the government to press charges on Julian Assange and company, but the group appears to have found an unlikely ally: Bernie Goldberg.