1. Mediaite
  2. Gossip Cop
  3. Geekosystem
  4. Styleite
  5. SportsGrid
  6. The Mary Sue
  7. The Jane Dough
  8. The Braiser
Advertisement

Bernie Goldberg Assesses Media Relations With Obama Administration: ‘The Magic Is Gone’

video
» 37 comments

O’Reilly Factor resident media critic Bernie Goldberg noticed something strange this weekend: traditionally “liberal” media outlets are beginning to lash out at other liberals. Take, for example, SNL‘s skewering of liberal Gloria Allred, or CBS’ Bob Schieffer going after David Axelrod this Sunday. Are these incidents a sign of a trend?, asks Bill O’Reilly. No, Goldberg declares, it’s not the beginning of a trend, but the end of one: “The slobbering has ended because the magic is gone.”

That “magic,” he explains, is the charm of the Obama administration that constituted the core of his thesis in his latest book, A Slobbering Love Affair. It was the driving force behind the extreme positive coverage the president seemed to consistently receive in the media, for example:

“On Christmas morning, about a month after Barack Obama was elected president, page 1 of the Washington Post, they did a story about Obama’s exercise regimen, and they actually talked about how he had– the sun glistened off of his pectorals and he had a well-toned body because he played basketball. That kind of embarrassing garbage isn’t going to happen anymore because, as I said, the magic is gone and he isn’t as popular as he once was.”

O’Reilly agrees that something has happened to the relationship between the President and the media, but he disagrees that the relationship is definitively broken. “NBC continues to be very active in supporting the president,” he counters, “and their two big franchises are down, but not that down.” On the other hand, CBS, which “has a vested interest” in defending the president, has attacked him. O’Reilly seems to have trouble reconciling the two behaviors. Goldberg finds it predictable, as “it’s not just easier– it’s safer now to go after Barack Obama,” thus networks will go ahead and take some stabs.

Goldberg seemed ultimately optimistic about President Obama’s chances with the media in 2012, concluding that once Republican opposition solidified during a presidential race, the “slobbering” would begin again.

Watch the segment from last night’s Factor below:

Follow us on Twitter.

Sign up for Mediaite's daily newsletter.

Email Twitter Facebook Digg Reddit Stumble Upon Yahoo Buzz LinkedIn Tumblr Delicious
  • TfT

    Well, Jake is getting bolder; in an exchange with Axelrod regarding the uwarranted and disgraceful attacks on the COC, and Axelrod demanding they prove a negative (guilty until proven innocent regarding foreign funds), Jake asks this:

    TAPPER: Isn’t that like the whackjobs that tell the president he needs to show them his full long-form birth certificate so he can put to rest the questions that have been raised?

    So, Jake is calling Obama a whackjob…..a step in the right direction?

  • Moderate

    Think Democrats are not beginning to panic? Republicans have a 10% lead, 51% to 41%, over Democrats in the latest Gallup Generic Ballot poll, it is the largest lead in Gallup’s history of tracking the midterm generic ballot for Congress. The Perfect Storm of Democrat political carnage is taking shape … the more the Obama WH blames others, the more the Democrats do not listen to “We the People”, the more the polling numbers are getting to be of historic proportion. This is what occurs when a government goes completely against the will of the people and the electorate retaliates at the ballot box.

  • The Real Royal King

    Indeed. Goldbloom has gotten the message that FOX “News” talent may slobber only over FOX “News” talent who are seeking the Republican nomination for President in 2012. I have to say I really find Goldschmidt’s sanctimonious “Holier Than Thou” dump truck full of crap particularly stench-filled when we have this phenomenon at FOX “News” along with all of the ethical questions involving Hume, Kampain Karl and Greta O’Van Susteren. O, Pious Man Muck Thine Own Stable.

  • Some_Dude

    It’s just more of the same from Fox, interpreting words and events to fit their narrative.

    Very early into the administration, news stories regarding the president revolved around what could be reported on at the time – which wasn’t much related to executive decisions and political happenings. They also tended to reflect the generally upbeat feeling the nation had coinciding with Bush’s departure. As time passed and things began to happen on The Hill, the reporting changed to fit. Criticism and praise, of which there has been both, was the inevitable conclusion.

    What everyone else sees as typical and commonplace, Fox News instead views through their hyper-partisan lens.

  • Big Eddie
  • ChrisNH

    LIBS and LIB MEDIA hacks have NOTHING. They are running on Empty. Their whining over Fox News has never had any effect and it never will. However, criticism over state-run media is justified and it’s having a positive effect: People aren’t watching network news like they once did; they aren’t reading TIME and Newsweak; they aren’t reading newspapers; Olbermann is screaming in an empty parking lot.

    Complete ideological control over all media is what LIBS want, and they’ve failed. Does it make them mad? You betcha!

  • The Real Royal King

    ChrisNH said:
    LIBS and LIB MEDIA hacks have NOTHING. They are running on Empty. Their whining over Fox News has never had any effect and it never will. However, criticism over state-run media is justified and it’s having a positive effect: People aren’t watching network news like they once did; they aren’t reading TIME and Newsweak; they aren’t reading newspapers; Olbermann is screaming in an empty parking lot. Complete ideological control over all media is what LIBS want, and they’ve failed. Does it make them mad? You betcha!

    Well, it doesn’t appear they’re watching FOX in huge numbers, either, does it?

    I have to admit I always get a chuckle when some nincompoop tells me people aren’t reading newspapers. I travel a great deal, and I am always seeing people in subways, buses, planes, terminals, even walking down the street, reading newspapers. You must not get out all that much.

  • The Real Royal King

    Whilst discussing Goldstein and Bill-o, we would be remiss if we didn’t mention the following Edward R. Murrow Award winners last night:

    Brian Williams, NBC, for Best Newscast.
    NBC for Best Reporting.
    Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Best Writing.

    Congratulations.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    Some_Dude said:
    It’s just more of the same from Fox, interpreting words and events to fit their narrative.

    Very early into the administration, news stories regarding the president revolved around what could be reported on at the time – which wasn’t much related to executive decisions and political happenings. They also tended to reflect the generally upbeat feeling the nation had coinciding with Bush’s departure. As time passed and things began to happen on The Hill, the reporting changed to fit. Criticism and praise, of which there has been both, was the inevitable conclusion.

    What everyone else sees as typical and commonplace, Fox News instead views through their hyper-partisan lens.

    Man, you’re projecting like a mother fucker.

  • The Real Royal King

    Dronetek said:
    Man, you’re projecting like a mother fucker.

    What an articulate and substantive response.

    Do you have any other grunts for our listening audience?

  • Latin2

    The Real Royal King said:
    What an articulate and substantive response.

    Do you have any other grunts for our listening audience?

    Like you haven’t done the same…you are the ROYAL KING of neanderthal responses and rants.

  • Latin2

    The Real Royal King said:
    Whilst discussing Goldstein and Bill-o, we would be remiss if we didn’t mention the following Edward R. Murrow Award winners last night:

    Brian Williams, NBC, for Best Newscast.
    NBC for Best Reporting.
    Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Best Writing.

    Congratulations.

    “Goldbloom” and “Goldstein” that is MIGHTY ANTI-SEMITIC of you.

  • exiledtruther

    No matter how angry the left may get with Obama, they will still bend over backwards (pun intended) to elect every last democrat and smear every republican. They aren’t gonig to be able to repair the damage they’ve done to whatever little credibility they had.

  • The Real Royal King

    exiledtruther said:
    No matter how angry the left may get with Obama, they will still bend over backwards (pun intended) to elect every last democrat and smear every republican. They aren’t gonig to be able to repair the damage they’ve done to whatever little credibility they had.

    Good morning to you, Michelle-in-Utah. You must have slept very well indeed to be able to begin the day with such a large glass of bile and a hearty bowl of bitterness. Enjoy every drop and bite.

  • writer

    I travel a great deal, and I am always seeing people in subways….

    And then they make him go sleep it off somewhere else.

  • justanotherconservative

    The Real Royal King said:
    Whilst discussing Goldstein and Bill-o, we would be remiss if we didn’t mention the following Edward R. Murrow Award winners last night: Brian Williams, NBC, for Best Newscast.NBC for Best Reporting.Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Best Writing. Congratulations.

    so credible. just like you. lol.

  • RichS

    The racist king says he sees plenty of people reading newspapers on subways, buses planes, etc. reading newspapers. This used to be the case. When I took the subway from Flushing to Brooklyn to go to school practically eveyone of the the subway was reading a paper. Same goes for the bus from College Point to Flushing. At every subway entrance in Flushing there were newspaper stands selling the many NYC morning and evening papers. No when I take NJ Transit to Pennsylvania Station almost no one of the Train is reading a newspaper. Same goes for the people in Penn Station. On the NJT I see more lap tops than newspapers. At the news stands in Penn Station newspapers take up a very small percentage of the sales space. On the E train I rarely see a newspaper and when I do its most ofter AM New York, which is given away free.

    This also applies to air terminals and airplanes but I won’t say much about that as I haven’t been on a plane in the last year.

    Newspaper readership is definitely down and I respectfully submit to the racist king that he should stop referring to his psychotic episodes as “traveling a great bit.”

  • justanotherconservative

    The Real Royal King said:
    Indeed. Goldbloom has gotten the message that FOX “News” talent may slobber only over FOX “News” talent who are seeking the Republican nomination for President in 2012. I have to say I really find Goldschmidt’s sanctimonious “Holier Than Thou” dump truck full of crap particularly stench-filled when we have this phenomenon at FOX “News” along with all of the ethical questions involving Hume, Kampain Karl and Greta O’Van Susteren. O, Pious Man Muck Thine Own Stable.

    sheesh…. you need to get a life.

  • qwjhejkqwe

    Good news: this website (======= w w w – ashionshops – u s =======) we has been updated and add products and many things they abandoned their increases are welcome to visit our website. Accept cash or credit card payments, free transport. You can try oh, will make you satisfied.

  • Corvax

    The Real Royal King said:
    Well, it doesn’t appear they’re watching FOX in huge numbers, either, does it?

    I have to admit I always get a chuckle when some nincompoop tells me people aren’t reading newspapers. I travel a great deal, and I am always seeing people in subways, buses, planes, terminals, even walking down the street, reading newspapers. You must not get out all that much.

    You are right, you see newspapers read in travel situations because what else are you going to do. The only time I read a newspaper is if I am flying. I canceled my subscriptions a long time ago. Newspaper business is a dying medium.

  • Corvax

    The Real Royal King said:
    Whilst discussing Goldstein and Bill-o, we would be remiss if we didn’t mention the following Edward R. Murrow Award winners last night:

    Brian Williams, NBC, for Best Newscast.
    NBC for Best Reporting.
    Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Best Writing.

    Congratulations.

    Is this like the Oscars where liberals give their other liberal friends awards? Olbermann winning anything totally disregards the credibility of the awards.

  • writer

    At the Euston St. tube station in London, I saw a guy sleeping under a newspaper. If I’d known it was the King, I’d have said hello.

    Oops, I forgot. The King is the only person on this site who has ever traveled abroad.

  • felixw

    According to this poll, 4 out of 10 voters who once considered themselves Obama supporters are no longer happy with the President.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-12/obama-losing-supporters-in-poll-as-joblessness-prompts-voters-discontent.html

    Perhaps one of the “progressives” here can explain how 40% of Obama supporters have become racists. This seems a huge leap in racism in just a few months. And these people once supported Obama, so they would seem unlikely racists. I am puzzled. Which “progressive” can help me out?

    And don’t try that phony explanation that one can disagree with the President without being a racist. You “progressives” have fought against that “lame excuse” time and time again. We all know that EVERYONE who disagrees with the President makes decisions based on skin color — so what we have here is clearly a massive increase in racism in less than two years. Who wants to explain?

  • Big Eddie

    qwjhejkqwe said:
    Good news: this website (======= w w w – ashionshops – u s =======) we has been updated and add products and many things they abandoned their increases are welcome to visit our website. Accept cash or credit card payments, free transport. You can try oh, will make you satisfied.

    Qwjhejkqwe , or Larry , as he is known on the street , is a no-good chiseler who will rip you off . Good luck .

  • Big Eddie

    meimei007 said:
    Best regards for you all, Looking forward to your visiting. http://www.buyshopping.us/

    This website is just like going to the mall ! Where’s the food court ?

  • Azarkhan

    The Real Royal King said:
    Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Best Writing.

    LOL. If MSNBC had any integrity, they would have fired that asshole years ago.

  • The Real Royal King

    Azarkhan said:
    LOL. If MSNBC had any integrity, they would have fired that asshole years ago.

    I suppose Mr. Olbermann’s peers disagree with you. But take solace. The AAFFA, Arab-American Fast Foods Awards, is going to give an award to Bill-o this year, Most Creative Use of Arab-American Fast Food, for his work with falafels.

  • puck30

    The Real Royal King said:
    I suppose Mr. Olbermann’s peers disagree with you. But take solace. The AAFFA, Arab-American Fast Foods Awards, is going to give an award to Bill-o this year, Most Creative Use of Arab-American Fast Food, for his work with falafels.

    Interesting, with all the supposed O’Reilly sexist comments you would think somebody could come up with something better then 6 year old comments.

  • puck30

    The Real Royal King said:
    Indeed. Goldbloom has gotten the message that FOX “News” talent may slobber only over FOX “News” talent who are seeking the Republican nomination for President in 2012. I have to say I really find Goldschmidt’s sanctimonious “Holier Than Thou” dump truck full of crap particularly stench-filled when we have this phenomenon at FOX “News” along with all of the ethical questions involving Hume, Kampain Karl and Greta O’Van Susteren. O, Pious Man Muck Thine Own Stable.

    Goldstein? Goldbloom? Goldstein? Damn boy! Is it just you or do they all hate Jews down there in Texas?

  • puck30

    Goldschmidt?

  • Nachi

    But then, what would this ugly, nasty little guy know?? Yuk.

  • J Baustian

    The Democratic plan for 2012 will be to destroy any Republican who is viewed as a serious threat to Obama, and use the mainstream media to build up one or more of the weakest challengers — just as they did in 1996 and again in 2008. I predict that it will not work, because in 2012 no one will be paying attention to the MSM, or to the Obama spinners. In fact, if the GOP nominated a cocker spaniel to run against Barack Obama, a plurality of Americans are ready to vote for Poochie.

  • felixw

    J Baustian said:
    The Democratic plan for 2012 will be to destroy any Republican who is viewed as a serious threat to Obama, and use the mainstream media to build up one or more of the weakest challengers — just as they did in 1996 and again in 2008. I predict that it will not work, because in 2012 no one will be paying attention to the MSM, or to the Obama spinners. In fact, if the GOP nominated a cocker spaniel to run against Barack Obama, a plurality of Americans are ready to vote for Poochie.

    You’re right. The Democrats have forgotten how to run on hope and change. Now it’s just smears and jeers. Of course, it’s not working, but I don’t think they can help themselves — they love insults and ridicule so much that they can’t let go of them, even when it destroys their own credibility in the process.

  • puck30

    J Baustian said:
    The Democratic plan for 2012 will be to destroy any Republican who is viewed as a serious threat to Obama, and use the mainstream media to build up one or more of the weakest challengers — just as they did in 1996 and again in 2008. I predict that it will not work, because in 2012 no one will be paying attention to the MSM, or to the Obama spinners. In fact, if the GOP nominated a cocker spaniel to run against Barack Obama, a plurality of Americans are ready to vote for Poochie.

    I don’t know about that, if the Republicans start playing patty cake with the Democrats and The RNC starts to give Mitt Romney a ‘push’ the backlash firestorm could make 2010 look like a campfire. Or what could happen is somebody from the ranks could come out of nowhere. Who was thinking Obama back in 2006?

  • http://none pyrope

    Bernie Goldberg Assesses Media Relations With Obama Administration: ‘The Magic Is Gone’

    This is perhaps wishful thinking on the part of Mr. Goldberg. The overwhelming majority of the media are STILL in the tank for -0bama and his regime….but, they’re not so much the sychophants as they were.

  • DrFunke

    The magic was never there for most so it doesn’t really mean much

    Who could forget Fox News claiming that Obama was to blame for the stock market going down the day after he WON the election

    Idiots

  • CAconservative

    Obimbo’s magic is gone because people have finally figured out that he’s an empty-suit. Two years of this idiot and people are grumbling about having to endure another two years of this incompetent fool.

© 2012 Mediaite, LLC | About Us | Advertise | Newsletter | Jobs | Privacy | User Agreement | Disclaimer | Power Grid FAQ | Contact | Archives | RSS RSS
Dan Abrams, Founder | Power Grid by Sound Strategies | Hosting by Datagram