Bernie Goldberg: NYT Are ‘Snobs Of The Worst Kind’ For Attacks On Fox Viewers

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by Frances Martel | 9:13 pm, March 7th, 2011

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It seems that no one at Fox News is particularly amused by New York Times editor Bill Keller‘s comments calling FNC views “the most cynical people on the planet” and mocking the slogan “Fair and Balanced.” After a fiery comment by Liz Trotta last Saturday where she called the Times a “throwaway newspaper,” Bernie Goldberg came up to bat on tonight’s Factor, chiding the paper for “living a bubble” and looking down on “Middle American conservatives.”

Goldberg and host Bill O’Reilly were both equally eager to dig in on the Times, particularly on the attack on Fox’s “Fair and Balanced” label. “I can think of something more cynicial,” Goldberg offered, and the two both fought to deliver the punchline: “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” “They live in a bubble,” Goldberg argued, “and inside the bubble they don’t think they’re guilty of any of the things they accuse everyone else of.” O’Reilly agreed, noting that the Times “ignores stories it doesn’t like [and] promotes stories that it loves,” but didn’t seem particularly upset about it in the way Goldberg was. “We have gotten under Keller’s skin,” he proclaimed, more pleased than annoyed.

While Goldberg agreed on that point, he still conveyed anger at what he saw as outrageous arrogance on the part of the Times. “They are snobs of the worst kind,” he complained, noting that “if they treated black people with the same contempt they treat Middle American conservatives, they would be called racists.” He concluded telling the audience, “they don’t have any respect for your intelligence or your integrity.” Once again, O’Reilly was unfazed, simply basking in his belief that “they know we have more influence than they do.”

It took less than a week for the Fox team to respond to the New York Times. With the ball once again in the latter’s court, it’s hard to imagine this spat is ending anytime soon.

The segment via Fox News below:

Bernie Goldberg, Bill Keller, Bill O'Reilly, fox news, media spats, New York Times, O'Reilly Factor

http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

“But those young Daily Show viewers, yeah, they’re just a bunch of stoners and potheads.”

Hey Bernie, go fvck yourself. – Jon Stewart
http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

And Bernie is right, if they said something like that about black people, it’d be different.

Because black people are a clearly definable group, and Middle American conservatives is just a euphemism for saying “people who ideologically agree with me”.
ohwell

Interesting that none of them bothered to either bring up or stick up for Beck regarding that OTHER NYT article from yesterday. Guess it must be true.
damien

Oh, boy. Here we go.
Religion of Peace

Publius219 said:
“But those young Daily Show viewers, yeah, they’re just a bunch of stoners and potheads.”

Hey Bernie, go fvck yourself. – Jon Stewart

Hey pubie, “go kill yourself!” keith olbermann
Religion of Peace

pubie, how many yrs have you smoked pot?
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

The New York Times is a joke.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

The NYTimes isn’t dissing middle America.
They are just calling the Fox Entertainment Channel what it is–a noise machine for the right wing propaganda of NewsCorp, Ailes & Murdoch.
Personally, I think they are very good at what they do. I just don’t agree with it.
Bernie is a washed-up has been, who the Faux crowd must have run into at a 12 step program and gave another chance.
damien

gordonbloyershow said:
The New York Times is a joke.

And Fox is the punchline.
Lou Sarah

“more people own ferrets than watch Fox. News” – David Brooks
Mr.Papshmer

Publius219 said:
“But those young Daily Show viewers, yeah, they’re just a bunch of stoners and potheads.”

Hey Bernie, go fvck yourself. – Jon Stewart

Wow, yeah, I mean, Fox News has nothing on that comedian, you know, the guy at the comedy network that does comedy and satire? The guy that idiots watch and think that they’re getting news?

Seriously man, you don’t even realize how stupid you come off as, do you? It’s like watching the old Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update”, and walking away ready to debate your neighbor, it’s why people think you’re stupid.
Mr.Papshmer

Lou Sarah said:
“more people own ferrets than watch Fox. News” – David Brooks

Wow, what an awesome quote! That’s the most meaningful, accurate, and unbiased comment I’ve ever heard about Fox News. Hey, thanks a lot, man!
Jackie_Treehorn

Mr.Papshmer said:
Wow, yeah, I mean, Fox News has nothing on that comedian, you know, the guy at the comedy network that does comedy and satire? The guy that idiots watch and think that they’re getting news?

Seriously man, you don’t even realize how stupid you come off as, do you? It’s like watching the old Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update”, and walking away ready to debate your neighbor, it’s why people think you’re stupid.

And yet the comedian’s viewers are more informed about current events in droves over the FAUX News mouth breathers.

Funny how that is huh?
http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

Religion of Peace said:
pubie, how many yrs have you smoked pot?

Less years than you’ve drank, probably.
http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

Mr.Papshmer said:
Wow, yeah, I mean, Fox News has nothing on that comedian, you know, the guy at the comedy network that does comedy and satire? The guy that idiots watch and think that they’re getting news?

Seriously man, you don’t even realize how stupid you come off as, do you? It’s like watching the old Saturday Night Live “Weekend Update”, and walking away ready to debate your neighbor, it’s why people think you’re stupid.

Since I am the one who draws ridiculously unfounded conclusions based on comments on a blog. You’re like that idiot who takes a picture popular from Obama’s election campaign and then puts in the face of the most reviled mass murderer of the 20th century and claim that other people are idiots.
http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

*while claiming other people are idiots
Mr.Papshmer

Jackie_Treehorn said:
And yet the comedian’s viewers are more informed about current events in droves over the FAUX News mouth breathers.

Funny how that is huh?

God, you people are just precious! You’re like the guy at the four was stop who’s directing traffic from the drivers seat with an indignant look on his face, when there’s three other people thinking to themselves, “what a f***ing moron”.

Oh, yeah, but Stewart is the shit though! :)
Mr.Papshmer

Publius219 said:
Since I am the one who draws ridiculously unfounded conclusions based on comments on a blog. You’re like that idiot who takes a picture popular from Obama’s election campaign and then puts in the face of the most reviled mass murderer of the 20th century and claim that other people are idiots.

No, really, man, Stewart’s awesome! I mean, you watch a few episodes of the daily show, and you’re ready to run for office, for Christ’s sake. Just be careful to not blow the cherry out on the carpet when he’s setting you up for a laugh, cuz, like, he’s a comedian, on the comedy channel!
Religion of Peace

Publius219 said:
Less years than you’ve drank, probably.

Thanks for confirming you’re a pot head. Hence, the nerve Bernie struck.
glenn113

Hate to break it to you Bernie but just about every legitimate news organization attacks Fox, and with good reason I may add. And here’s the reason in a nutshell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8ZV8LqGlb8
writer

The others attack Fox because they’re all left wing.
Nacho

Its true, the people that rely on FoxNews as their main source of news are indeed stupid idiot rubes.

Studies have shown that they are the most misinformed voters.
GlennBovineKoldys

Bernie only needs to stop by and took at the “moderated comments” at the Fox gNOpig Propaganda Network, the Fox Hate Nation, and the Baboon’s the Haze.

Yes, Bernie, they are always well thought out and most informed, not to mention loyal to the point of a zombie cult.
ChrisNH

Paul Krugman epitomizes the ‘snobbishness’ of the NYT. Here’s a haughty Leftist elite who incubated his whole life in a petri dish called ‘Academe,’ got a Nobel shoved into his hands by a bunch of other back-slapping Leftist elites, and now he thinks he knows everything about everything. I mean, the whole fallacy of Keynesian Thought just got rammed down his little bearded throat, which is why the idiot does nothing but write the same, angry columns week after week, month after month, year after year.
TfT

Claiming legitimacy for the NYTimes is funny….thanks for the laugh.
Jackie_Treehorn

Mr.Papshmer said:
God, you people are just precious! You’re like the guy at the four was stop who’s directing traffic from the drivers seat with an indignant look on his face, when there’s three other people thinking to themselves, “what a f***ing moron”.

Oh, yeah, but Stewart is the shit though! :)

Oh I apologize…I tend to forget that you right wingers are not grounded in Factualland. I’ll try not to make that mistake again.
Tedderman

“they don’t have any respect for your intellegence or for your integrity” Was that Bernie Goldberg or Goldberg the Wrestler who said that……either way, that’s a hoot! And a study recently showed it’s just not true, especially the intellegence part after watching Fox awhile.
Tedderman

Hey Jackie_ Thanks for wiping the page with the bloody cancerous Papsmear.
http://cbcf.groupsite.com Miss Capri

Sheesh, grow up.
my dogs gone

NYT merely points out “If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it may be a duck.”
Fox is what it is. Why not accept that reality? Fox viewers are not NYT readers, but they can wish.