We in the press like to say we’re honest brokers of information, and it’s just not true. The press does have an agenda.
BERNARD GOLDBERGI said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don’t think that. But I will tell you what, an awful lot of liberal elites think that.
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Journalists love to show their compassion.
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You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don’t remember.
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I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don’t think that. But I will tell you what, an awful lot of liberal elites think that.
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I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term ‘white trash,’ by which they meant poor southerners who didn’t go to Harvard. I’m not sure why that makes them trash.
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I don’t believe all rich people are selfless philanthropists.
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Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.
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I didn’t say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.
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I don’t think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.
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Don’t pretend to be a journalist if you’re not a journalist.
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I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.
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Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.
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I’ve never seen class warfare as nasty as it is today, as a result of tax debate.
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No, we don’t sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we’re going to slant the news. We don’t have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.
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The big 3 networks don’t like the fact that there’s a Rush Limbaugh out there, they don’t like the fact that there’s a Fox News, they don’t like the fact that there’s a Matt Drudge. They liked it when it was nice, when it was just the three of them. Well, it ain’t that way anymore.
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A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That’s a lot of money, but it is not rich.
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