On O'Reilly Factor, Goldberg compared "liberal media" to Ku Klux Klan

Published: August 17, 2007, 4:22 pm

Tags: bernard goldberg, fox news channel, the o reilly factor, attacks on progressives, media, propaganda noise machine

During the August 16 edition of his Fox News television show, Bill O'Reilly hosted Fox News contributor Bernard Goldberg and Gemma Puglisi, an assistant professor of public communications at American University, to discuss three examples of what Goldberg called "liberal bias" in the media. Goldberg asserted that "news executives ... don't seem to care very much about intellectual diversity of opinion," adding, "[T]hat's why journalists can boo ... cheer ... bash Christians, and they're not afraid of what will happen." He concluded: "[T]his isn't that much different from how the Ku Klux Klan operates. The morons in the Klan felt very comfortable with their bigotry because they knew all the other morons in the Klan shared the same bigotry. Journalists in American newsrooms are very comfortable with their biases. They really don't have a problem. They don't even try ... to hide their biases because they know they are among friends."

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