bill: bernie goldberg is coming up after you. we're going to present evidence that 70% of the network news coverage has been positive toward obama health care. but the folks still aren't buying it. here is a very egotistical question. i apologize to the audience in advance. how much influence does this program have now with the historically high numbers that we have? >> a vast amount, particularly among the elderly. first of all, your show, as you probably told the audience, now has passed katie couric's show in listeners. you're up over five million. >> five and a half million. >> you used to be under one million. and you have a huge influence, particularly with people who are just turning 65 or over 65. they have become convinced rightly that this is the end of medicare as we know it. and the polling shows that they are against this plan by 16 points. bill: wow. >> when the fox news poll asked them do you think your personal health care will get better or worse, it was 9% better and 66% worse. bill: dick morris, everybody. buy

bill: bernie goldberg is coming up after you. we're going to present evidence that 70% of the network news coverage has been positive toward obama health care. but the folks still aren't buying it. here is a very egotistical question. i apologize to the audience in advance. how much influence does this program have now with the historically high numbers that we have? >> a vast amount, particularly among the elderly. first of all, your show, as you probably told the audience, now has passed katie couric's show in listeners. you're up over five million. >> five and a half million. >> you used to be under one million. and you have a huge influence, particularly with people who are just turning 65 or over 65. they have become convinced rightly that this is the end of medicare as we know it. and the polling shows that they are against this plan by 16 points. bill: wow. >> when the fox news poll asked them do you think your personal health care will get better or worse, it was 9% better and 66% worse. bill: dick morris, everybody. buy

joining from us atlanta is bernie goldberg. "newsweek" has jumped the shark with this one, bernie. >> i'm surprised you don't know what "newsweek" is. you think it's a news magazine. "newsweek" is not a news magazine nor is "time" magazine a news magazine. they are journals of opinion. liberals journals of opinion at that why would they identify this person as a left wing activist? because their audience, their readers don't care that this person is a left wing activist. i mean, they are in a fight, literally, bill, for survival. and in that fight, they are aiming at a niche audience of liberals with money, enough money to buy the magazine. bill: but that's not what john meacham, the editor of "newsweek," puts the journal up to be. he says that it is a fair arbitrator of the week's events and that he has correspondents going out and covering stories. now, this guy doesn't work for "newsweek." this perlstein. doesn't very a web site that he wants conservatives to explode. >> no. he hates fox. he joined a movement to, i forget the

joining from us atlanta is bernie goldberg. newsweek" has jumped the shark with this one, bernie. >> i'm surprised you don't know what "newsweek" is. you think it's a news magazine. "newsweek" is not a news magazine nor is "time" magazine a news magazine. they are journals of opinion. liberals journals of opinion at that why would they identify this person as a left wing activist? because their audience, their readers don't care that this person is a left wing activist. i mean, they are in a fight, literally, bill, for survival. and in that fight, they are aiming at a niche audience of liberals with money, enough money to buy the magazine. bill: but that's not what john meacham, the editor of "newsweek," puts the journal up to be. he says that it is a fair arbitrator of the week's events and that he has correspondents going out and covering stories. now, this guy doesn't work for "newsweek." this perlstein. doesn't very a web site that he wants conservatives to explode. >> no. he hates fox. he joined a movement to, i forget the

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next on the rundown bernie goldberg will analyze the coverage of both michael jackson and sarah bill: impact segment tonight fox news analyst bernie goldberg has been closely watching how the media is covering michael jackson and sarah palin. joins us now from north carolina. so you just heard marc lamont hill and me. take this wherever you want to take it, bernie, go. >> well, you mentioned congressman king. let's start with that. congressman king isn't a racist because if he were, we would have heard a lot more racist things coming out of his mouth over all the years he has been in public service. we haven't. so he is not a racist. but some people think he is. you have to wonder why? i don't want to get too haifa loot tent about this, bill, i think this all started when we emerged from caves. we were tribal from the beginning. we always looked out for our group over anybody else's group. that's why when somebody took a shot at sinatra, italian americans would bristle. what makes this thing with michael jackson so sad, at least to me so sad, is that it's not enough for the elites to

let's bring in fox news analyst bernie goldberg. worked with bernie cronkite for 12 years saw the transition to dan rather. am i making any mistakes here, bernie? >> there is a very sharp analysis, bill. i wouldn't say that if i didn't believe it. let me start out briefly with how it was, very briefly and then pick up on your talking points. just this morning i spoke to one of walter's senior producers on the old evening news. he said "i spoke to walter every day the newscast was on the air. i spoke to him four or five times a day about that night's newscast of." he said, "i didn't even know if he was a democrat or a republican." obviously he was a democrat based on the liberal and far left things that he said after he left cbs news. but the point is somebody with such passionate liberal views, you would think, if he had a tendency to bias, would sprinkle them all through his newscast but he didn't. now, that was then. i think a lot of journalists now come from a generation that believes that the role of the journalist is to comfort

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bernie goldberg is going to look at it tomorrow. it's just awferl. it just implies that she is an idiot and it's "newsweek's" disgrace is what it is and we will deal with it tomorrow. there is no doubt that she was -- and her family, too, they were mocked and diminished and demeaned constantly. ok. now, i have experienced that in the last 13 years on this program as you both know. and my way to deal with it is i strike back. ok? and just as "newsweek" will get it tomorrow and they will, that's what i do. i get -- i say this sun fair. these attacks are cheap and dishonest and i'm going to go get them. now, sarah palin did some of that, some of that. are you both saying that she should do more of getting her critics? gretchen: she can't win no matter what she does o'reilly. gretchen: she is now getting golden globe out ton the road and in the public eye. she still could run again. she still could get mocked and demeaned that's not going to stop. how would you handle tnches first inticket from a fighter is to fight back. i think she handled that correct

you know, it is on someone else's back and they don't mind -- wi-fi and bernie goldberg used to say all these people in favor of affirmative action at the broadcast networks because he worked s cbs, one day they should quit, all of them, the head of the news division, head of network on the condition they would be replaced by a minority. and let it be them who suffers for once. >> host: it will never happen, we know that. speaking of suffering for your beliefs there is an incident that happened to you and i think you should tell us about it because it is no longer something that is just on paper or theoretical. this is an actual event and you had to pay for it. >> guest: i talked about this in the look at some length and it was a painful experience. i was giving a speech after the publication of the vast right-wing conspiracy book i was giving a speech basically recounting my own journey to the right and among the episodes i recounted in the speech which i had done many times before was something that happened to my son. in tenth grade he was taking a class and his very progressive teac

in spite of this love affair as bernie goldberg would say this slobbering, there, a great book, in spitee beginning to say hey, these policies aren't working, and i think the poll numbers reflected as a matter where he goes on the globe, even the europeans are beginning to sort of cool to the rockstar status. you don't see angela merkel, you see sarkozy warming up to the idea that -- up to the idea of a skimmer government going. i think they are saying man, throttle back spending and cut taxes in european countries while we are talking about raising taxes and giving government more involved. it's amazing. >> clayton: we don't talk about africa alive. certainly we have the g-8 summit recently. a lot of critics and you know what? the g-8 is missing something in our modern times. we need more people, more players at the table. africa is a big part of this. the president said in his trip there he hoped africa would be an effective partner in the future of the world and global economy. it has become an important part of the global economy. you think it's time for africa to take more of a cent