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

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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 th

goldberg and we welcome her back. >> i think you are going to be too shy to tell people but this will be andrea's film debut. >> right. >> because i have come on the show and talked about the oscars and she said what are you going to work on and i said the godberg i loved watching it in new orleans. and i thought new orleans, a new york show i have to have her in it to point out how universal she was. >> what is interesting, you said you are doing a documentary on gertrude and i had heard of her but for those who had not. who was she. >> she wrote, produced and starred in her own tv and radio show for over 30 years. it was the most popular show next to amos and andy. and she had a media empire. that's why we call her the oprah of her day. >> she owned a show. had a clothing line, comic strip. but the great thing is it is universal. why the second tag line is you don't have to be -- >> i tell you in the documentary when watching it as a child you didn't think of ethnicity or religion or whatever but family and family is a universal subject and that's what the molly goldberg character a

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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. >> reporter: goldberg who is nine 90 years old, offered him a chance to read the book before it was published but he refused. >> he didn't want to, in any way, exercise any influence in connection with it. he wanted us to tell it the way he saw it. >> reporter: macnamara did not talk about the war for 20 years and then in a book broke his silence, all but taking the blame for the war that killed 58,000 troop. >> as the exsecretary of defense i owe it to our people to not speak in ways to aid the enemy. >> reporter: he served on the boards of numerous companies and organizations but never escaped vietnam. >> the west of his life i think he was full of guilt and rehearse morse. >> reporter: in the early years the transformed the military making it larger and more efficient but what people remember is vietnam. >>> when michael jackson died plenty of people saw a chance to cash in. like these sellers on ebay trying to unload free tickets to miss memorable for -- memorial for thousands. >>> and want your kids to stay away from smoking, getting them out of the house maybe the solution. >>

lee goldberg from our new york station wabc is in for sam champion this morning.good morning. >> all right, kate, we begin with pictures from summit hill, ohio, over the weekend. an ef-1 tornado touched down 100 miles east of cincinnati. winds estimated at around 107 miles per hour. it it started out near a grocery store on state route 772. mobile homes damage and widespread crops damaged. now we focus on the heat across the south. excessive heat warnings in tulsa, oklahoma, dallas, little rock and big-time heat over the southwest, as well. for the 14th time this summer it's dallas over 100 degrees and how about phoenix at 113 and even warming up as we go through the week much the flip side, northeast, new york, not over 85 the entire summer. little warmer as the week goes on. >> thi >> this weather brought to you by quilted northern. >> does a popular supplement used to slow memory decline work? new alzheimer's studies jut out. a "gma" medical alert. (announcer) the maker of quilted northern® asks, "is three more than two?" that's silly. three is definitely more

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

that was ellen goldberg reports. that does it for "news4 at 5." up now, micel vick reinstated to the nfl. wendy joins jim vance next for "news4 at 6." >>> the police have released the 911 tapes from the arrest of a harvard professor trying to get into his own house. >> new information about the drunk driving arrest of alexandria's police chief. >>> and a tree came crashing down a

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

[applause] we've been talking with michelle goldberg about her new book means of reproduction, sex, power and the future of the world. thanks again for joining. >> meshaal goldberg is a senior writer for salon.com and a member of the advisory board of the campaign to defend the constitution. she has written for the san francisco guardian, rolling stone and newsday. she's the author of kingdom coming. for more information on the author, visit michellegoldberg.org. >>> the children's author emma walton hamilton. what is the key to writing a children's book? >> ghosh, i would say respecting children as readers and not talking down to them. if anything it is basically about trusting their judgment and intelligence and hopefully speaking to what interests them and what they are passionate about. >> what our children interested in? >> just about everything adults are interested in for the most part. the world around them, growing up, learning new things, music, art, sports, you name it. all the same things we are interested in. >> how many children's books have you written? >> i have written ju

here's jonah goldberg. he is a syndicated columnist and author of "liberal fascism." joan na, i want to start with you first. does it sound eerily similar at all, you know, to what we did in world war ii? >> i think you have it basically right. the issue here is the same one as we had back then. it's the arrogance of economic planners. they think if they just get enough data and turn all the diodes the right way and get all the right memos an forms, they will be smarter than markets and know how to allocate resources better than markets do. the problem is what is that fairy tale, the little old lady who swallowed a fly? every time, it just creates another problem and you get the snowball effect. with the cash for clunkers thing, we are now telling people that, first of all, maybe some of these people don't need is a new car. they really need a new refrigerator but they got such a good deal, that the government knows better, that they need a new karaer this than an refrigerator, so we're incentivizing people to do this. at the same time, all we're doing is robbing dema

our guest today is michelle goldberg. >> thanks for having me. >> michelle is a journalist and authorher most recent book is the means of reproduction, sex, power and future of the world. the future of the world. this particular book won the john anthony lukas award. michelle is also a senior correspondent with the american prospect and michelle is also noted expert in reproductive issues and reproductive rights and michelle, i would like to ask if you don't mind to give a short pressing of the book, a backlog on the book. >> certainly. thank you for coming to hear me tonight. i wrote a book that came out in 2006 about religious fundamentalism in american politics and when i would talk about the book people immediately understood what i meant even if they didn't know the details everybody knew that religious fundamentalism in american politics was a phenomenon you could kind of summarize whereas this book is about the global battle over reproductive rights and one of the things i found while talking about it and in fact one of the reasons i wrote in the first place is nobody else side

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good jonah goldberg if you want stuff on the right, commentary is interesting. john paul courts commentary. >> host: the review? >> guest: "national review" of course, the weekly standard. there is all kinds of very smart and better thoughtful conservative then use. postcode it is interesting that once upon a time there was none of that or very little of it so even though the left is in the ascendant publicly there are a number of web sites and magazines around fox news being a good it simple and a very successful one but formerly it was only "the new york times" and "chicago tribune" and the late seattle post-intelligencer, "los angeles times," and we now know that the newspapers are in big trouble and something is when to happen so we need an alternative of some kind. we don't know what yet, nobody knows which way the cat will jump and the same is true with book publishing. something has happened in book publishing. there are few outstanding usually media driven people like mark levin and so on will get on the radio shows and so on but is there a conservative

i think jonah goldberg's stuff, if one is looking to read intelligence stuff on the right. i think commentary is also interesting. john parts's novel. >> host: the review? >> guest: the "national review," the weekly standard. there's all kind of smart and better, thoughtful conservative than u.s. >> host: it is interesting once upon a time there was none of that or very little of it so even though the left is politically there are a number of websites and magazines that formerly went around, fox news being an example and very successful that formerly it was only the new york times and "chicago tribune" and lead seattle post-intelligencer this and "the washington washington w that -- nobody knows which way the cat will jump and the same is true in book publishing. something has happened in book publishing. there are few outstanding usually media driven people like mark levin and so on that get on because the radio shows and the book sells. but is there a conservative publisher -- >> guest: well, there is regnery power house published out of washington, d.c. and they've produ

ambassador goldberg concluded his meetings in beijing today with representatives of the ministry of foreign affairs and other ministries involving the implementation of u.n. security council 1874. in beijing over the weekend, and he will have meetings with malaysian officials monday, july 6. as we look to the fourth of july, our national holiday, i am reconnaissance of the fact that my counterparts -- my colleagues and fellow citizens are now in harm's way in afghanistan and the helmont region. my thoughts and prayers go out to them and their families. i want to give you a little bit of some information about the involvement of the state department there. we're well positioned for the immediate assistance effort that will follow clearing operations were launched by the marines on the last 24 hours. the state and the u.s. agency for international development currently has two offices directly linked with the marines and the operation there. they have been there for over two years. we understand that their highly regarded by their marine colleagues and are some of the most experienced civilia

ambassador goldberg concluded his meetings in beijing today with representatives of the ministry of foreignfairs and other ministries involved in the inclination of the u.n. security council 1874 hail to park beijing over this weekend for kuala lumpur. gyythere will be meetings with officials on monday, july 6. as we look to the fourth of july, our national holiday, i'm very cognizant of the fact that my counterparts -- not my counterparts. my colleagues, my fellow citizens are now in harm's way in afghanistan in the helmand region. my thoughts and prayers go out to them and their families. i want to give you a bit of an overview -- some information about the involvement of the state department in helmand. we are well-positioned for thevt will follow clearing operations that were launched by the marines in the last 24 hours. the u.s. agency for international development and the state currently have two officers that are directly linked to the marines in helmand. they have been in helmand for over two years. we understand that they are highly regarded for that -- by their other marine collea

goldberg, i have been a detractor of years. i voted for barack obama. i consider it the biggest mistake i have ever made in my entire life. i went from someone who defended my party to someone who is extremely angry at my party. i will never vote for them again. i live in michigan. i have looked around my state. all this talk about building windfarms, instead of contacting local domestic firms to create these, they have contacted with companies in spain. when the governor of pennsylvania was going to build a wind farm he went directly to madrid. china has the resources to develop all of these technologies because they are of very wealthy country now. they will continue to burn coal. they are purchasing up huge stores of oil and other products to protect their own economy. we are bleeding our economy drive. the democratic party is saying that we will have to subsidize china, india, and other countries not to pollute when they will definitely continue pleading. i believe my party is so corrupted that they are seeking to destroy our economy. that means des

. >> we like whoopi goldberg, a great lady, but i understand yesterday she questioned the moon landingchair. >> can't be, no. >> you want to check into that. >> yeah, we will have to cover that. >> give us a call in and let us know, willie, whether that's true or not. >> yes, that would be great, because we could get clarification. >> willie is trying to deal with a sick -- >> i have 47 kids, okay, and so cry me a river. barnicle has more than me. >> yeah, 620 kids. as a result, i have chosen not to reproduce. >> that's a good thing. that's the best news i have heard all day. it's time now for a look at today's top stories. this morning new lines are being drawn to form the nation's new health care system. and earlier on nbc's "today," matt lauer asked senator demint about the president's plan. >> if we were able to stop the president on this it will be his waterloo. are you rallying conservatives to the cause of breaking the president? >> we need to put the breaks on the president because he has been on a spending spree since he took office. and the president voted against every propo

conspiracy theorists got a boost yesterday when my old pal and buddy whoopi goldberg, we both grew up on the streets together she entertained the idea that the moon landing never happened. here it is. >> there are a couple of questions that i do have from time to time. who shot the footage? you see the two astronauts, but you never see the thing. you are not seeing -- >> there is no doubt that men landed on the moon. >> i'm just saying there are -- you know, i love great conspiracy theories, and these are better than a lot of them because they say why is the flag rip ring? there is no air. glenn: i swear to you, i can't -- these are great conspiracy theories? really? that's a good one? you got to be kidding me? who took the footage? i call it mr. moon tripod. one small step for man. one giant leap for conspiracy nuts! 40 years after the first moon landing and we're dealing with this! so, we contacted a smithsonian space flight historian. he explained some of the pictures, the flag does appear to be moving. look at that. quote, because the astronaut placed it there, and inertia inertia

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

what kind of goldberg contraption will this be? what's going to be the price tag? mcconnell has a good point. you have huge deficits piling up already and here comes this health care thing and if it is not carefully thought through, it's going to add to deficits and create problems. he's got to get in and get his hands dirty. he can't say, well, you guys work it out and then so he can separate himself from it. he's got to dig into this thing. he's made this the centerpiece. i didn't ask him to. i don't think the american people did, by polls they didn't say it's most important. >> republicans see a political opening however. i want most of the infighting, the important infighting is among the democrats. if he resolve the differences he can have a bill by the math. two shacharts, look over your rt shoulder, on left a chart released back in 1993 describing the hillary and bill clinton health care plan. republicans used that as an effective weapon to say this is what you get a government-run health care plan that will confuse you to no end. on the rights a chart put o

the rube goldberg type deal. and i think this is going to fail for the same reason. sean: you really believe -- democrats, there is some sign, that some democrats are balking. they went home after their vote on cap and tax and they got an earful. do you think that there's going to be the political will, will democrats, reed -- reid, pelosi -- >> we'll see what they're going to do with this. but this chart to me, if anyone has children or remembers their own childhood, this is shoots and ladders and there ain't no ladder up and only shooting down to have no choices at all. if anyone has a veteran in their family and know what veterans health scare like, this is what our lives are going to be like. sean: one of their big talking points is this will put everybody at ease and take away your fears. why do you think there's so much confidence that people have confidence that the government can solve their problems? >> who was it that said i find -- if i knew someone was coming over to my house to help me i would run fast in the other direction? that's the way we ought to f

whoopi goldberg stars in our season premiere. joe don baker you may remember from walking tall will break your heart in season -- in episode 2. shirley jones, also a legend, you know the mother of the partridge family. people forget she is an oscar winner. she actually flashes me on television. >> now you are talking. [ laughter ] >> but what that really -- what that really means to me is the write something good, and these actors -- of this caliber showing up gives them something to really chew on. a great season to look forward to. i hope you guys tune in. >> i tell you what, available on dvd. don't kid yourself, you may want to go out and purchase it and give it to someone. i up the we are sited, hollywood henderson. hollywood was on the show. he had written a book. i said hollywood, i need a copy of that to give to my sister- in-law. and that is why edith is clean because of that man right there. you can never tell. benjamin, we have got to run. satellite time, you pass the audition, you do this season three, you are back on.

now weigh in on health care reform is igor volsky health care researcher and blogger and robert goldberg the centerer to medicine in the public interest advance. good morning, gentlemen. how are you? >> i'm healthy, thanks. >> good morning. >> healthy is good. the congressional budget office, nonpartisan, says the health care overhaul relief would increase costs, talking about hundreds of billions of dollars. what do you say about that? >> well, the cbo did say health care reform will increasel from outlays which is true. we need to make an investment in reform in order to kind of fix the projected costs down the road. it's important to remember that the costs of an action far outweigh the costs of reform. >> more than $239 billion added to the federal deficit? >> well, the cbo came out with a letter yesterday, they said the house belly deficit neutral over ten years. i think controlling health care cost is very important and president obama, as you played in the clip, pledged to not only control the spending on health care, to ensure that the bill is budget neutral, but also to make sur

on complexity, the republicans have a chart which makes it look like an absurd rube goldberg device.ondly when you hear as i said earlier chris dodd speak about prevention as a way of reducing cost prevention. it's a wonderful idea. study after study have shown it doesn't reduce costs. otherwise you're going to have to do as the house did which is have a surtax on the rich who already are paying -- the top 1 paying almost half of all income taxes. to do it in a recession, it's crazy. i think there are issues on which the republicans can prevail. bret: the president said we neat to buck people up. this is a president with a big democratic majority. he said a couple of these statements over the past couple of days that seem to indicate the white house has some real concerns. >> the president has been kind of clanging the bell of urgency and saying you have to get this done by the august recess. he has had individual members of congress like max baucus into the white house to tell them the same thing. what he isn't doing is telling them what hard political choices he wants them to make.

wanted to kill," he wrote, "was every democrat in the senate and house, the 100 people in bernard goldbergsook." full disclosure: i'm one of the hundred. "but," adkisson lamented, "but," adkisson lamented, "these people were inaccesible to me. i couldn't get to the generals and high ranking officers of the marxist movement so i went after the foot soldiers, the chicken ( no audio ) liberals that vote in these traitorous people." and that's how adkisson decided on his victims-- he would go after the foot soldiers, the congregation in the church he described as "a den of un- american vipers." he had a patriotic imperative for anyone who read or heard his manifesto: "do something for your country before you go. go kill liberals." do i think any conservative commentator wished for what happened in knoxville last year, or to doctor george tiller in wichita two months ago? not for a minute. the killer who pulled the trigger is the guilty party. but do i wish the vendors of venom, and their sponsors, would think harder about how angry words become accomplices of foul deeds? yes, i do. most certain

it seems to me if we believe in the free market, then all this goldberg nonsense is superfluous.hat will prevent the free market from producing money than any other good. money is a good. what's the problem here? >> warren? [applause] >> there is no problem with market-provided money and most of the money that any of us use is privately produced in the private sector. what the government has a monopoly on and what a monopoly is needed for or at least highly helpful is the unit of account. all of the private monies your visa credit card and debit card and mobile phone payments which are very popular in kenya and other african countries, all kinds of ways of paying things, not just the old-fashioned check, which is also privately produced by banks -- all have their value denominated in a monopoly account, the u.s. dollar. you mentioned too big to fail and a list of 500 banks, that's a fiction. there is no list of banks that are too big to fail and it's certainly nothing like 500. but i think giving the fed -- i very much agree with john's points, giving the fed added powers to deal