Who is CBS Reporter Bernard Goldberg?
New Blockbuster Book by CBS Veteran
Relies on MassNews Scoops and Analysis
By MassNews Staff
August 5, 2005
       This is Part II of a three part analysis of Bernard Goldberg's Book "100 People who are Screwing Up America". Part I can be found HERE.      

Who Is Bernard Goldberg?
       Even Bernie can’t answer that question as he struggles with his new identity as a former New York City liberal.
       At the same time, we at MassNews are also struggling with our new identity as a new, younger generation to manage this newspaper.
        Only one thing appears certain. We at MassNews will continue our efforts to make it easier for “good” liberals like Bernie to seek out new answers, while not “throwing out the baby with the bath water”.
       There can be no doubt that Bernie has been heavily influenced by MassNews. If you look only at his choices of Pinch Sulzberger and Margaret Marshall as two of the ten most dangerous people in America, he would not have been able to do that unless we had made that possible for him. That is a huge statement from him as he exposes those two icons of liberalism in 2005.
       When you are also aware of the rest of the people Bernie has in his top ten “most dangerous”, you will suddenly realize they are all liberals who have been exposed by our founder, Atty. Ed Pawlick, over the last seven or more years. They include the ACLU, Jesse Jackson, People for the American Way, and Ted Kennedy, who are “untouchable” apostles of hate and anger. But they are no longer untouchable. They are just “people” who can be praised or criticized like everyone else.

Who Is Bernie?
       Even Bernie is uncertain whether he is a “liberal,” a “former liberal” or a “conservative”. But whatever he finally decides, we welcome him. We hope that we can continue to stimulate his thinking in the years to come.
Meanwhile, we should tell everyone that although the Pawlicks will be leaving MassNews, they will not be “retiring”. Ed will become a full-time writer who plans to have a novel about the America he has personally witnessed and been a part of for the last ¾ century, including the depression, WWII, Korea and much more. Sally will return to her love as a mother/grandmother with 7 children (including both hers and Ed’s) and 14 grandchildren. Ed will continue selling “Libel” across the country for a few more months.
       Ed has also asked us to report that he still bristles when called a hater by Pinch Sulzberger and others. He had homosexual friends at Williams College and excellent homosexual employees at Lawyers Weekly. In addition, his four children all have the Jewish blood of their beloved grandfather, Herman Greenburg, in their veins. (Herm attended Temple throughout his life.)
       Also, Atty. Pawlick has three “black” grandchildren because he always taught his children that the color of a person’s skin was immaterial in life. As a result, one of his daughters fell in love with a wonderful black man (even though he was a Yale man). Pawlick challenges anyone to show a more tolerant face than his. However, he does differentiate between his homosexual friends and his family. He believes that his homosexual friends are making a foolish mistake that is damaging their lives and those of many around them.
       However, he also realizes that we all make serious mistakes constantly in our lives. That includes Pinch Sulzberger, who had a terrible childhood and is doing irreparable damage. But if Sulzberger truly stops, there will no longer be any hard feelings against him.
        Pawlick bristled in 1999 when the Boston Globe responded to his initial attempt to begin an “Intelligent Discussion” about what is taught to teenagers about homosexuality. Its answer was a prominent headline about hate: “Gays Say Sherborn Lawyer Sent ‘Hate Mail.’” In other words, there was to be no discussion at all. Pawlick had been an elected member of a 10,000 pupil, autonomous school board in Pennsylvania Dutch country and the Chairman of its Teachers Committee. Therefore, he felt qualified to discuss those issues. But that was not to be allowed in Massachusetts. As a result, Pawlick visited Jeff Epperly, editor of Boston’s homosexual newspaper, Bay Windows. None of his male employees would go with him. So Sally did. They had an hour-long visit with Epperly and satisfied him that Pawlick bore no grudge toward anyone but did not want teenagers being encouraged to be sexually active in any manner.
        Epperly accepted what was said and that newspaper became the only newspaper that Pawlick trusted. Whenever their reporter called Pawlick, he would return the call immediately, knowing what was reported would be accurate and truthful, without spin. They did not agree on the issues, but they did respect the ability of each other.
        On the way home from Bay Windows, the Pawlicks stopped at the Unitarian Church in Sherborn to talk with the woman minister, but she was frightened to even be seen with them. She was full of hate and suspicion and had no desire to learn more even though Atty. Pawlick had been a member for nine years of the Unitarian Church in Weston, which had a minister who still believed in God.
        (The Unitarians have been featured as the “leading religious voice” for homosexual marriage by A.P. But the truth is that very few Unitarians believe in a God anymore. They are a debating and political society. They themselves report they have only 9.5% Christians, 46.1% Humanists who by definition do not believe in God, 19.0% Earth/Nature centered, 13.0 Theist, 6.2% Mystic, 3.6% Buddhist, 1.3% Jewish, 0.4% Hindu, 0.1 Moslem and 13.3% other. The numbers total more than 100% because some people gave more than one choice. The above survey was taken in 1997 and can be found on the Unitarian website, www.uua.org under the “Needs and Aspirations Survey.”) Fifty-percent of the plaintiffs in the homosexual "marriage lawsuit are Unitarians, including Hillary Goodridge.
        A week or so later in 1999 when the minister held a meeting at her beautiful, historic “church,” the Pawlicks attended and found about ten of her members and townspeople, along with 85 homosexual activists from around the state. All the major TV stations came but they weren’t allowed inside the church and were forced by the minister to show the scene from outside. Their television viewers were told that all of those inside the building were local people who were upset by the Pawlicks. Then each TV truck would quickly zoom off to their next assignment.
       One high school boy from Sherborn, was encouraged by the crowd of homosexual activists to “out” himself at the meeting. Afterwards, while Sally and Atty. Pawlick were talking with Fred Kuhn, the erudite editor of the other homosexual newspaper in Boston, “innewsweekly,” the boy came up to them, sobbing and saying, “I don’t want to be different. I don’t want to be different.” If the Pawlicks hadn’t hated seeing a youngster acquire that terrible habit before this tragic encounter, they certainly did afterwards. The Sherborn schools were encouraging the boy to practice that habit and they were proud of that fact. We could write more but it’s all in our archives if anyone is interested.

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