Why Did Bernie Goldberg Tell Newsweek Magazine that His “Conservative Friends” Will Summon a “Firing Squad” if Liberals Say Something with Which We Disagree?
    By MassNews Staff
       Does Bernie Goldberg really believe his “conservative friends” will summon a “firing squad” if they hear liberals write or say anything with which they disagree?
       Bernie implied that in a foolish statement he made when talking with Newsweek magazine about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Bernie said that the whole Monica affair was “sordid and tawdry” but he didn’t believe that Clinton should have been impeached.
       Surprise!!!
       We agree with Bernie that that is a debatable issue. We’d be happy to engage in a good debate about whether Clinton should have been impeached. And we could argue either side. So why does Bernie talk about conservatives calling for a “firing squad”? What responsible conservative has ever said anything like that?
       The answer, of course, is no one ever has.
       We must, however, assume that liberals (like Bernie) are talking about people like us at MassNews when they make such outrageous statements.
       Bernie automatically made the above response (without having to think) after being questioned by Newsweek about people “who are not screwing up America.” The only name that Bernie mentioned in answer to the question was an excellent liberal lawyer from Boston who was featured in the first issue of MassNews, June 1999, page 2. The lawyer was Harvey Silverglate.
       That’s just another example of Bernie using MassNews as the resource for writing his new book, “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America.” He cites our material in many places. But if he is going to use our material to help write his book, it doesn’t seem fair for him to inaccurately portray us as “fringe.”
       (We wrote about Atty. Silverglate in our first issue because he had just finished a book, “The Shadow University”, in which he called for the end of P.C. Speech Codes in colleges and universities. The Newsweek story appeared exclusively on their website on July 30, 2005)