Inspiration for Bernard Goldberg's new #1 best-seller detailing the massive liberal bias in the media, notorious nasty Lefty Eric Engberg is retired from CBS "news". Gee, I wonder why
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As of last week, Eric Engberg, the CBS News correspondent who just weeks ago denounced Bernard Goldberg for committing an "act of treason" in daring to point out the bias in a 1996 Engberg story which trashed the flat tax, has retired from CBS News. A few years ago Engberg called an MRC staffer a "lying little worm" and referred to an MRC newsletter as a "propagandistic rag."
Dan Rather concluded Friday night’s CBS Evening News with a salute to Engberg’s "professionalism" and "great journalism." Rather announced at the end of the January 4 show: "We want to say goodbye to our colleague Eric Engberg. Engberg, whose signature ‘Reality Checks’ have long been a part of this broadcast, exposed hypocrisy and pomposity and covered some of the biggest stories of the past quarter century. Eric Engberg, CBS News correspondent, is retiring tonight. We will miss his professionalism, his humor, his style, his friendship and his great journalism."
Space does not permit an adequate review of Engberg’s career of liberal advocacy and denigrating of conservatives in the guise of news reporting, but here are links to some highlights:
-- For his reaction to Bernard Goldberg’s new book, go to:
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-- That article has links to several earlier Goldberg/Engberg related items, including one about how on C-SPAN Goldberg disclosed that since taking CBS to task for liberal bias, neither Rather or Engberg had spoken to him and that at the time Engberg "said something I can’t repeat on this channel or any other." Go to:
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-- To watch, via RealPlayer, or to read a transcript of Engberg’s 1996 story trashing the flat tax, the story during which Engberg asked "about Forbes’ number one wackiest flat tax promise" and concluded with how "one economist suggested that before we risk putting it in, we ought to try it out someplace, like maybe Albania," go to:
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btw, the book stores still are back-ordered on the Goldberg book Bias: A CBS News Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News. #1 hardcover non-fiction at amazon amazon.com.
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