Goldberg: The Liberal Media Mock Rubio Because They’re Scared of Him

Bernard Goldberg seemed a little more cocky than usual last night, during his weekly appearance on the Factor. Instead of whining overmuch about why the evil liberal media are more interested in Marco Rubio’s little drinking malfunction than they are in the Benghazi cover-up, he supplied Bill O’Reilly with some flattering theories: it's because they are compensating for Roger Ailes’s enormous influence, and because they’re scared of Rubio.

O’Reilly started the segment by playing the “testy” exchange between John McCain and David Gregory of Meet the Press, on the subject of the Benghazi cover-up. Why, asked Goldberg, was the media not probing for answers on Benghazi? Why are they “complicit?” with Obama and not holding him accountable? Well, it had to do with two people, Goldberg propounded: Barack Obama and Roger Ailes. (Ailes!?!?! Read on and you shall know all.) Obama, because “the media has never been so in love with a president before… because he’s young, he’s cool, he’s black and he’s liberal. If he were conservative they’d crucify him.” And Ailes? “Fox has become so popular and so influential,” Goldberg replied, “that I think the other media, you know, the networks, the New York Times and other places like that, are compensating for Fox’s influence. So they’re no longer simply biased. Now they’ve moved beyond bias into activism.” (Really? If Fox is so influential why aren’t the other networks trying to grab its viewers by out-right-winging it? And that ever so somewhat contradicts your last remark about the media loving Obama because he’s liberal. And speaking of activism... oh never mind. Back to the blog.)

Next on the agenda was what O’Reilly called “the pipeline” (i.e. from the news to the pundits to Saturday Night Live) to “diminish” Marco Rubio for that post-SOTU lunge for the water glass. Yes, said Goldberg, the media that showed so little interest in Benghazi is all over “Water-gate.” They’re trying to “buffoonerize” (O’Reilly’s word) Rubio because they fear him, he went on, and they only go after those they fear, those who are a threat. After Rubio appeared on the cover of “establishment” Time magazine, “that’s when he became a threat, that’s when he was in their crosshairs.”

So: first he lunges for the water, then he'll lunge for the White House. Are you afraid yet, gentle reader, like those liberal media types?

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Aria Prescott commented 2013-02-20 20:01:08 -0500 · Flag

I’m still half convinced he’s that guy from J$ that claims to also be that Morty Shatz account that’s cyberstalking certain hounds on FB. That’s the only claim he’s ever made that I believe.

And this does include a few other claims he made that he should count himself lucky he was proven full of shit on.

Ellen commented 2013-02-20 18:13:55 -0500 · Flag

Kevin, I think he’s U Mad or some Dollarite soulmate.

Bob Roberts commented 2013-02-20 17:38:44 -0500 · Flag

You’re right Patrick T. Same thing I was going to say. It seems that according to Faux, anytime a conservative or Republican is criticized or poked fun at, its because the left is scared or afraid of them. We all heard over and over and over again how frightened we were of Princess SparklePony. Yes we were afraid, not of her “popularity” but of the chance she might have been one 72-year-old cancer survivors’ heartbeat away from the Presidency. And yes, they do define why the left is so scared of these people. Because they relate to real ’Mericans. Because they have a great story. Because they are so likeable to “many” ’Mericans. Because they make such common sense. And so on and so on…………….

patrick tolle commented 2013-02-20 16:19:37 -0500 · Flag

I’m wondering how many times they’re going to trot out and try this scared of routine? I’ve lost track of the number of people “liberals” were supposed to be scared of.It’s included just about everyone in the wingnut pantheon so far including Princess honey caribou boo,Pizza train Cainand, the Hucksterbee. I suppose they can’t think of anything more significant and I notice they seldom say exactly why anybody is supposed to be scared.

Kevin Koster commented 2013-02-20 16:17:13 -0500 · Flag

I think Hart Bochner could have gotten away with the cottonmouth moment with a tad more aplomb. But yes, that crazed look in the eyes is about the same.

Aria Prescott commented 2013-02-20 16:07:11 -0500 · Flag

Exactly, Kevin- You remember that scene in the first Die Hard where that scumbag negotiator got busted lying to the villain’s face?

Trade out a water bottle for a cup of Coca-Cola.

Kevin Koster commented 2013-02-20 14:20:39 -0500 · Flag

Doors, I think you’re right.

doors17 commented 2013-02-20 13:47:45 -0500 · Flag

Kevin, I’m guessing it’s Umad.

Kevin Koster commented 2013-02-20 13:32:36 -0500 · Flag

The thing about Rubio’s water incident that made it memorable wasn’t that he needed the water – it was the look of panic while he reached for it. That’s what SNL was lampooning. He clearly had been told to keep his eyes on the camera and the teleprompter and not to look away. When he suddenly went into cottonmouth, the look on his face spoke volumes…

Kevin Koster commented 2013-02-20 13:29:46 -0500 · Flag

Ellen, who was keepcominback before? His comments don’t make sense.

Rob Willhelm commented 2013-02-20 13:28:25 -0500 · Flag

Speaking of sitting on stories as another mindless Fox echo attempts self constructed thought:
During Bush’s term…..12 attacks on American embassies…..52 Americans dead…..any bets where our trolls head was during this time?

doors17 commented 2013-02-20 13:25:17 -0500 · Flag

I agree that this Watergate doesn’t rank up there with the classic spelling of potato, and it would have been funnier if he spilled it on his pants giving the look of someone who just wet their pants, but no matter how many times MSNBC replayed it, or how Fox finds ways to down play it or curse the left for reporting it, the fact remains that while politicians don’t mind when they anger the opposing side, to have the other side laugh at them can be devastating, especially when Fox and the right are making the effort to put Rubio on a pedestal and sell him as hope for their future.

This won’t doom Rubio, but no one remembers a thing he said in his speech and he’ll be remembered by the majority who don’t follow politics closely as “that guy, who took the drink”.

Ellen commented 2013-02-20 13:02:46 -0500 · Flag

keepcomin back wrote:

Of course you don’t really have an answer for any of this other than “Well, what about when FOX did this” or “FOX showed this”. You guys spend all your time mad at FOX for doing the exact same thing that all the other News Orgs do (that you ironically see as “reporting the news”).

And yet you can’t seem to stay away or stop talking about us – even though you’ve been repeatedly banned.

Thx4 Fish commented 2013-02-20 10:56:33 -0500 · Flag

Rubio did something awkward on national TV and today’s media loves to air that kind of stuff. If Fox was above this kind of tabloidy nonsense, I would allow them the complaint—but Fox loves the tabloidy stories, if they can make one of their political foes seem foolish—they happily do so. So Fox, if you believe the media should be above this kind of thing, then SHOW it-and not just once—all the time.

Visitor 55 commented 2013-02-20 10:19:02 -0500 · Flag

@ Margarita, I finally got the time to read your entire post. goldfart is grasping at everything isn’t he. Talking straight out of his fat ass. Like the so called librul media loves President Obama? Since when? And FoxGOPTV is popular and influential? Really? In the real world, FoxGOPTV is a laughing stock and their ratings in key demographic areas are dropping like a lead balloon.

And in reality, the “librul” media has not ignored Benghazi. Every single outlet has reported on it. Analyzed it. Beat it to death. The only difference between the “librul” media and FoxGOPTV is that they realize that all the questions have been answered. They’ve discovered that there is no “cover up”. But the stupids at FoxGOPTV want there to be a “cover up” so badly that they’re willing to fabricate one. They lie constantly that the “librul” media is ignoring the story. But they’re safe in their lies because they know that their stupid sheep believe them. Case in point – the troll who seems to enjoy getting his ass kicked is furiously repeating the FoxGOPTV lie.

If goldfart wasn’t such a GOPig ass kisser, he’d be asking why none of these GOPigs were the least bit concerned about all the attacks on U.S. Embassys, and all the Americans killed during dumbya’s reign. If goldfart wasn’t such a GOPig ass kisser, he’d admit that the only reason GOPigs are pretending to be concerned about Benghazi is to attack and undermine President Obama. But that’ll never happen because goldfart enjoys being a GOPig ass kisser.

keepcomin back commented 2013-02-20 08:56:19 -0500 · Flag

Again, 155 times in one day. Explain to me why they would do that? Its biased reporting. They refuse to cover anything of significance like the Benghazi attacks (and no, Benghazi wasn’t covered before the election was over. It was ignored until the election was decided. It is a FACT that the media-sans FOX-has devoted much more time to the story AFTER the election than before when it should have been covered). They purposely sat on a story where Americans were killed but its very important to cover such earth-shattering stories like Rubio drinking water or whether or not Romney was a bully in school 50 years ago (though Obama attending the church of a racist was considered off-limits and unimportant). Of course you don’t really have an answer for any of this other than “Well, what about when FOX did this” or “FOX showed this”. You guys spend all your time mad at FOX for doing the exact same thing that all the other News Orgs do (that you ironically see as “reporting the news”).

Visitor 55 commented 2013-02-20 08:36:41 -0500 · Flag

YAWN! This “the e-vile librulz mock our GOPig because they fear him/her” whine is such an overused lie that the GOPigs bring out every time they’re defending another one of their idiots. But that doesn’t stop the GOPigs from using it. For some reason it makes them feel better about themselves. Probably because that lie is better than facing the ugly truth that most GOPigs deserve nothing but mocking.

Nobody I know fears Rubio. He’s a proven liar, just like Etch-a-Sketch Rmoney and, well, the majority of GOPigs. That’s nothing to fear. What I’m concerned with are the idiots who are stupid enough to believe GOPig’s lies and vote for them.

Kate commented 2013-02-20 06:25:06 -0500 · Flag

The liberal media is as concerned about Rubio as they were about Palin. Rubio will likely join Goldberg at Fox after a failed run in ’16, the place where all GOP has-beens go prior to achieving total irrelevance.

Aria Prescott commented 2013-02-20 02:08:54 -0500 · Flag

Is MSNBC showing that sip “155 times in one day” anything like them not airing one segment about the White Paper- despite that an NBC reporter broke it? Or how O’Reilly and Hannity tried to claim Keith Olbermann would never condemn Obama on Olbermann’s 4th night of condemning Obama policies he didn’t agree with? Or how they tried to claim Obama let Bill Maher attack Bristol Palin while CNN and MSNBC were airing Obama telling Maher he crossed the line?

Yeah, come back when you have something better.

sandman1 commented 2013-02-19 23:45:01 -0500 · Flag

Your job is safe Goldberg, you can take your tongue out of Ailes backside now. Other than the 5 months of 24/7 coverage of Benghazi-gate, with an investigation done on the State Dept. actions before, during and after, and Congress bringing in the Sec. of State…..we still don’t know what happened?? What doesn’t McCain know about Benghazi?!

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