Comments on: About the Firestorm I Touched Off …

By: Caroline

Caroline — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:24:27 +0000

Palin is not qualified and Obama is…..come on were not idiots. He was elected for one reason and one only, he is half black. Tell me his qualifications …..if you can, what had he ever done before being elected president. After being elected all we have heard are lies and more lies, before that it was present, present, present.

Sarah palin connects with the people and this scares both republicans and democrats. If Palin was a liberal man she would be idolized.

Bernie you have lost my respect.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:14:09 +0000

As a matter of fact, it’s all I, I, I with BG. Hey! His initials are just the opposite of the new ‘great one’!! Why does BG like Bill O so much? They’re both narcissists, and so; why they give obama the benefit of the doubt-crap-hooey; you aren’t fooling anyone, you two! Moderation by design- in order to appear credible ain’t working. Tricky, but slimy move BG!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:09:55 +0000

You are SO correct!! Bernie used to be okay, until these new ’stars’ took the limelight away from him. He is SO jealous of Glenn Beck that it’s hilarious. He hates his success, and so, slams him as a whacko conspiracy-theory proponent. Sad. Glenn is a wizard Bernie, and a super-star. Deal, loser. Can’t fricken stand ya anymore.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:03:18 +0000

I’ll bet you 5k that Glenn won’t be next, you ignoramus! You started the name-calling, so don’t even go there. I was just reading comments here after the article- for entertainment. I noticed that the only troll was John. Nothing to do with his life. I’m so sorry for you. A frothy-mouthed liberal is the very worst kind of whack-job. Liberalism certainly is a terrible brain disorder.

By: speedball

speedball — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:18:34 +0000

Paul, you truly are an idiot

By: Craig Moore

Craig Moore — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:49:53 +0000

CBS 60 Minutes Sunday January 10, 2010 – Anderson Cooper segment on the new book “GAME CHANGE” written by Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin and NY Magazine’s John Heilemann:

The headline for this book is Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) and Reid’s racial defamatory remarks about Obama made during the campaign. Reid admits he made a racial slur that Obama was a “light-skinned A/American with “no Negro dialect” basically stating Obama was a “good N….”.

All the black leaders including Al Not-so-sharp-ton all forgave him and said to Harry, “That’s OK, just get health-care thru Congress.” The hypocrisy of the left!! No Republican or any sane American would ever make such a crude despicable comment and would be laid to waste by the Sharpton machine if they made such a comment as this! At least they would lose their job or censured of the Senate!!

Last night on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper’s segment did not mention this part of the book at all. Guess what part of the book Anderson zeroed in on? Sarah Palin and her differences with the Republican campaign during the election along with Hilary initially turning down Obama for Sec/State. 2 non-issues. But a racial slur made by the highest ranking democrat in the Senate against the future President and all of black Americans went un-reported by 60 Minutes and Anderson Cooper!

Our great biased media hard at work! This one was so obvious it would make a great discussion with you and Bill O’Reilly!

A Fan from Phoenix.

By: Heather O'Connor

Heather O'Connor — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:29:37 +0000

Not one who normally comments ( actually never before) to anyone, but I do admire your commentary. There are many commentators who try to be even and fair minded while making strong analysis ( Dennis Miller comes to mind), but somehow it seems they try so hard to be fair, they overdramatize a point that differs from the conventional view(from the right)so vehemently to prove their objectiveness. Unfortunately, it comes across pretentious even if they are sincere.

You seem to really hit the nail all the time. Your strength is making the alternative point of view reasonable enough for you to understand why one believes in it. Yes, there are times when you won’t give anyone a break for behaving or commenting in a way that is contemptible, but this is the exception that is credible if one recognizes your history. I agree with you about gay marriage but I believe you are the only one who understands and respects how someone might be against it ( as long as it was religious and not pure bigotry). Beautifully perfectly put. But that is the example.

Don’t stop fighting the good fight! Btw, I am in the adult business ( Chicago – 3 adult clubs )but am as conservative as you can get. Pro-life included. Obviously, I wouldn’t be welcomed in any Republican or conservative gathering or be taken seriously despite having success in a market that isnt as easy as one would think. However, I am proof that conservatives can appeal to a vast group (even one as distasteful as mine).

By: notleft

notleft — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:54:48 +0000

after oboma ruins everthing the right will have to fix everything again!!

By: AlsoInSF

AlsoInSF — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:01:51 +0000

I am totally with you! I have lived in this city for 15 years, coming to the last month as the job market and rent market are completely incompatible. I have read all of Bernard’s books precisely because the liberal nuts here have driven me to do so. They make me so crazy. I came here thinking I was a strong liberal myself, escaping from the stupid Republican midwest, only to find myself being discriminated against constantly for being from middle America and I found it almost impossible to get a job. If it were not for my lawyer brother supporting me as I went to school and bounced through a few jobs, I would have had to move away much sooner.
My first boss here was gay and she hated me for being from Nebraska so she fired me without cause and locked me out of that company for 10+ years (I’m still locked out). It was when she did that I first started looking into conservative viewpoints that were independent of religion. My parents are conservative, but I had never heard any conservative opinions or politics voiced from anyone that were not completely based in Biblical beliefs, my parents were fundamentalist Christians who taught me to believe in a 6-day creation theory, if you’re wondering why I couldn’t seriously consider the idea of being a Republican. I was still young and I thought all Republicans were nuts because they couldn’t separate religion from politics it seemed.
Anyway, I worked for many people, black, white, gay, AND straight, who had problems with me being from Nebraska and they kept giving me shit about it and forced the lowest rung jobs on me while less educated Californians with less experience climbed above me quickly (and this was back when I supported democrats very strongly, I supported gay marriage, and I even supported reparations for slavery (I am white so this would have me paying, not receiving). I was pro-choice but only on behalf of everyone else since I never planned to get pregnant but I figured if I ever accidentally did I’d likely NOT abort, even if the child had problems. I’m just not the type of person who could do something like that in good conscience. I am a woman, but I don’t hate Palin for her views on abortion. I was surprised she wouldn’t allow it even in cases of rape (that’s a little extreme for me, even now) but I still see it as a 9-month sentence for a mother to hold out before she could give the kid up for adoption, and I don’t believe anyone is a genetically programmed bad seed so again it really seems like too much fuss was kicked up over that controversy as well. It’s really not such a big deal for a woman to endure a 9-month term if she just wants to give the kid up, and if I was still religious and believed what I was raised to believe, I would be strongly against abortion in ALL cases because I was taught that our souls are already there at conception; God has a plan for every soul, and therefore destroying a soul is destroying God’s plan for someone’s life. I don’t believe that anymore, but I was completely against abortion when I was young and I believed that. I can see how anyone who considers themselves religious, if they honestly believe in God, then of course they would have issues with abortion being legal.
I don’t particularly support Palin on all of her political views or goals either, but Bernard; good for you for standing up for her! So many people have jumped on the trash Palin train and I’ve heard a lot of stupid things out the mouths of liberals (I hear stupid things from them on a daily basis). Palin has yet to stick her foot in her mouth as often as our own state’s representatives. Despite their fancy Ivy League educations, I’ve heard a lot of dumb liberal politicians say a lot of dumb things, and especially propose a lot of dumb ideas that everyone follows like a herd of sheep just because of their fancy educations.
I worked during my college years like a lot of middle class Americans in order to pay for my education, which was also nothing fancy (what can an 18-year-old afford for themselves?) It also took me longer to graduate and I could only go to a school that would not saddle me with a lifetime of debt. My brilliant brother went to law school on some scholarships and then he let me move in so I would only have to pay for school and not rent. I’ve worked for so many spoiled rich-kid Ivy League grads who went to expensive college prep pre-schools that their parents paid for (I kid not). Many of them were legacies who went to the same Ivy League as their parents did. Then they marched straight into management positions at the top of Fortune 500s and they never worked an entry level job in their life. What do they know how to do? They know how to proudly discriminate against working-class Americans from the midwest like me, and that’s all they know how to do, but it’s all they need to know because they do it so well, and it clearly works for them.

By: Rex J. Ellis

Rex J. Ellis — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:07:43 +0000

Beware of ignoring similarities!

By: Wayniebob

Wayniebob — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:39:45 +0000

Is hating somebody like Sarah a Catholic thing? I believe in Jesus and I’m not Catholic. I don’t hate Obama, Reid, Dodd, Shumer, Kerry, Pelosi, Frank (I could add a few more like my representatives (Mikulski, Cardin and Ruppersberger)). They all might be real nice people (like I think Sarah is). I just don’t agree with their political agenda. I don’t think Jesus believes in karma, either.

By: stmichrick

stmichrick — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:25:23 +0000

Dianne
Your statement about Sarah Palin being an ‘empty suit’ displays your own willful ignorance, or just plain malice towards people with whom you disagree. I can think of a couple of areas where Gov Palin is head and shoulders intellectually above Pres Obama. Energy and Good Government for starters. To say nothing of common sense about America’s role in the world would probably be something too foreign to you to mention.

By: JrsCol

JrsCol — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:06:14 +0000

A lightening rod draws energy from the surrounding country

Obama is gounded in liberalism

Palin is grounded in conservatism

Ones dimming the other is getting brighter

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:34:13 +0000

Here is Goldberg’s argument for his comment about why many liberals despise Palin:

(A) Premise: Women who are religious and pro-life are more likely to give birth to a Down Syndrome baby than are women who are not religious and who are pro-choice; the latter group is more likey to have an abortion in that case. (B) THEREFORE, many (pro-choice) liberals “detest” Sarah Palin for her decision to give birth to a Down Syndrome baby.

That is exactly how Goldberg explained his liberals-detest-Palin theory. A perfectly reasonable, if mundane, premise leads somehow to an entirely unrelated, unfounded, attack-in-the-form-of-an-assumption for a conclusion. With that profoundly creative piece of logical distortion, it’s no wonder he has found such a cozy home on “O’Reilley.”

By: Fubu

Fubu — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:24:21 +0000

Isn’t sad that a buffoon with an average intelligence has to point out the obvious?!! what is it say about the self appointed pseudo-experts-commentators-pundits? not armed with facts but faith, not intelligence but beliefs!! we have propagandists-for-profit
(Goldberg-Coulter-Limbaugh-malkin-Rove-Cheney-Fox,et al etc, etc)
the Reich had Joseph Goebbels!! . . . . but don’t point it out they may call you Plato!!!

By: Bounced Around

Bounced Around — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:21:34 +0000

I want to sincerely apologize for Sarah Palin’s and my own unforgiveable “choice”
to “bounce around” to several colleges and take more than four years to get our
degrees. Those like gOtsoh and the others who have found this an irrevocable failure
probably got their own educational “commitment” by getting checks from home on
a regular basis. Those of us who had no benefit of a living parent, or a financially secure home, or maybe (in her case) a school teacher father and three siblings, found it
necessary to take breaks in school to earn tuition and living expenses. This often
led to changing schools when the finances and work situation demanded it. I guess
this is why the liberal “elites” can look down on us – for being financially shaky kids.
I can’t help but wonder how much commitment and dedication gOtsoh and his
“ilk” would show if they had been forced to take this route to get THEIR educations.

The Obama “dirty Chicago” pols arranged to have their lunatic fringe file daily law
suits on Palin which had no validity and were tossed out of court. However her
legal costs for defense against this s— ran up to half a million $’s Maybe you, gOtsoh
would write a book too, if you had mouths to feed. Doubt if they’s sell though.

I’m in San Francisco. The insane politics in this city are ALL carpet bagged. No
more than one or two politicians have lived here long since they imported themselves
from the East Coast. Same goes for Seattle, I know personally. Nancy Pelosi is a carpet bagger from Baltimore, where her father was a mayor, and she was well steeped in
Tamany Hall style politics.

So tired of liberal hypocrites!

By: Driefromseattle

Driefromseattle — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:16:49 +0000

Wow! Sorry I’m posting almost a month late on this piece. I must say reading the vitriol coming from the leftist posters here, I think you have hit a nail on the head. These posts o show that no amount of explaining ones position to a liberal will salve their wounded feelings. I believe Liberals are fully grown, unloved, somehow disenfranchised children who have major nervous breakdowns if someone has an opinion other than theirs. The liberals that I know cannot handle the unvarnished truth even if it is logically argued. They certainly can’t handle absolutes when it comes to ethics or morals. Sarah Palin speaks unvarnished truth and is woman who has a strict moral code by which she lives. She is not perfect. Her family is not perfect. Some of her political points of view may not be as finely honed as some of the more “professional” politicians might be. BUT then who IS perfect, and isn’t that why Presidents have advisors? Her appeal is that she speaks from who she is, from her heart if you will. I don’t get that from the vast majority of our politicians. It’s risky in politics to say what you really think. In a few sectors, you lose votes. For me, it has always been difficult to vote because I am never quite sure of who or what I’m getting. I think with Sarah Palin I know who I would be getting.

By: RJ

RJ — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:39:57 +0000

Scott…. The Republican party has been hijacked by dimwits? Reid, Pelosi, Franken, et al. I think ‘dim’ is too much an illuminatingly, descriptive word, to be placed in front of ‘wit’, to adequately describe and define, these unlit bulbs of the Democrat party.

By: Driefromseattle

Driefromseattle — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:31:30 +0000

Wow…sage sayings from a buffoon. Jon Stewart. Who died made him Plato?

By: Fubu

Fubu — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:20:01 +0000

“The Special Olympics is to winners what Fox is to experts (’Bernard Goldberg’), If you show up, you are one!!!”

Jon Stewart!!!!

By: confused

confused — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:45:45 +0000

I don’t hate the Bible. If I don’t believe in God, but am happy that others do, does that mean I hate it? I don’t hate hard work — that just seems like a baseless insult. Personal responsibility? Is that in reference to welfare? I don’t know any liberals hate any of the things you’ve mentioned and I’ve met a lot of them. I agree everyone makes mistakes — and shouldn’t be condemned for it. I don’t blast Sarah Palin, she just puzzles me. I know I don’t have all the facts, so I would never make sweeping statements about her.

I also try to stay open to all viewpoints. I mostly agree with liberal ideas, but appreciate thoughtful conservative thinking as well. Maybe we can move the discussion to at least a 3rd grade level?

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:36:35 +0000

The definition of “politician” is “egotistical attention grabber.” And that is the problem. But I digress. I think Bernie’s absolutely right about the liberals’ hatred of Sarah Palin. They hate all of us who believe in the Bible, hard work, and personal responsibility. So she’s made some mistakes in her life. Who hasn’t? “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” Fess up to your own shortcomings before you start blasting someone else for his or hers.

God, why is everyone suddenly acting like first graders on a playground?

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:12:54 +0000

Mr. Goldberg,

How dare you cast doubt on the sincere love someone you call a liberal can have for a child with mental challenges, and then try to turn around and “explain” your words…like it was misinterpreted. You sir are an a**hole, and if you think you know what the American people think you are sorely mistaken. Just like most others who make more money than they’re worth, any connection you ever had with a working class American experience has been diluted by the years you have spent in front of a camera in an endless vanity exercise.

By: The Closet Conservative

The Closet Conservative — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:55:31 +0000

I think Ann Coulter made the point that you know who the real conservative is by how much the liberals despise him (her). I would go one step further. People unprompted by the lamestream media (Bernie’s phrase) will get an impression of her that she’s a nice intelligent lady who loves her family. It then becomes their mission to do whatever’s necessary to convince people to hate her. They fear this lady and that’s one more reason for us to embrace her.

By: Irish

Irish — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:30:15 +0000

Give me a break. This is just as stupid as Palin’s “Real America” rhetoric. I’ve lived all over the country, and I can tell you that everywhere I’ve lived (including Seattle on the “left coast”) the vast majority of people I’ve met love their families, want what’s best for their kids, work hard at their jobs and grill hot dogs and watch fireworks on the 4th of July (yes, even in Chicago, where “brain dead” liberals live). Your kind of glorification of what you call “middle America” is exactly backwards…it is in cities such a Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, etc (in others words, outside of “real America” that most of the country’s culture, intellectual capital, and wealth is created.

By: nevadagem

nevadagem — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:55:50 +0000

A couple of things. Tell O’Riley that Tiger has two kids not one. You are right people should be more interested with what is going on with Iran, Health Care, the global warming scam than some guy that plays golf.

By: Minerva

Minerva — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:28:09 +0000

This is for Dianne, the one who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ- “You have some ‘envy’ hanging off the side of your mouth, you may want to wipe it off…” Just saying…

“What HAS she read, or thought or done for that matter?”
“I hate Sarah Palin, yes hate, because she is an empty suit.”

She has a whole lot of history that’s easy enough to check out, try Google…
“Love one another as I have loved you.” In the words of Jesus, you know the one you claim to follow, yet spew such jealous, hatred, for a woman who ran as the Republican VP nominee… Better run out and get yourself some concealer, your insecurities are shining right through!! And you majored in, let me guess, psychiatry, right?!

By: Redball6

Redball6 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:09:21 +0000

Hey Bern! this here posting business is just going great!, you old dog, you knew this would happen if you mentioned Pailn. Now put “Rather”, Palin, Oprah and Obama in one story and you can light up the entire political spectrum for at least a week! wowsers! you ole dog you!

By: Redball6

Redball6 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:00:37 +0000

Geez Dianne, take a “Prozac” So Bernie:” But I still believe many elite liberals hate Sarah Palin for a whole bunch of reasons that have little to do with how she would vote on this issue or that” yup but Bern old buddy the real reason is they (liberals) know if she really really wants to play on the stage, she can! we will see, but she can play and the other GOP boys and gals know that.
Oh Dems, well go figure, say does Pelosi’s Limo have a “Kamikaze Meat Ball” yet! check “6″ Dems!

By: Bill S

Bill S — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:22:30 +0000

You were right to say ass a mother ,although mother a ass would be more accurate in your case

You are also latently jealous of Sarah Palin because you are not self sufficient beautiful and millions would not read your book or even care that you exist