In a commentary on his Web site today Bernard Goldberg unleashed all his vented fury at the Democratic has-been of has-beens Eleanor Clift known even to her few remaining (still alive) PBS fans as the mistress of liberal-left talking points … and for talking & talking & talking about those talking points.
In fact some viewers are rumored to have hanged themselves in despair after being exposed to yet another one of Ms. Clifts many defenses of the Obama White House.
TALK ABOUT OVER THE TOP
However last Sunday on PBSs rating-challenged Sunday news hour The McLaughlin Group" Eleanor Clift crossed the line from her customary mainstream-media White House cheerleading status to a new designation: raving senile fool … embarrassing even her fellow media White House boosters.
When the subject turned to Benghazi Ms. Clift ever the Obama apologist opined Id like to point out that ambassador Stevens was not murdered … he died of smoke inhalation".
As one Bernie Goldberg reader tweeted: Thats like saying JFK died in a car accident!
Regardless as Bernard Goldberg further noted the only reason Ambassador Stevens was in the consulate safe room" is because if he didnt go there he would have been killed in a hail of gunfire by the terrorists who had stormed the consulate.
Memo to Ms. Clift: The fact that the attackers set the whole embassy on fire and that he died of smoke inhalation doesnt mean he wasnt murdered.
Worse when Ms. Clift had the opportunity to set the record straight and apologize a few days later when interviewed by talk-radio host Steve Malzberg she was as stubborn as Senator Harry Reid refusing to apologize for calling Clive Bundy a terrorist.
There was no apology and no retraction of her offensive remarks.
Stated Ms Cliff: I was taking issue with the sort of glib use of the word murdered … I think dying of smoke inhalation in the safe room of a CIA outpost has a slightly different feeling and my point is that it was a very chaotic event."
And when Malzberg asked the most reasonable question under such circumstances whether the victims who died during the September 11 2001 terror attacks were murdered the living walking progressive fossil that is Eleanor Clift insisted: I was just trying to add a little bit of complexity and Im going to stick with what I said."
According to Bernard Goldberg Malzberg then asked one more perfectly reasonable question: If Ambassador Stephens was God forbid your relative would you tell people that he was murdered or not?"
I would say that he died of smoke inhalation NOT murder" Ms. Clift replied.
As Goldberg sarcastically notes: at least she didnt say: What difference does it make?" how the ambassador died.
WE FORGIVE YOU ELEANOR SORT OF:
But Bernard Goldberg is still willing to give this never-ending liberal talking head" some slack.
We just cant blame Eleanor Clift for this Sunday morning outrage insists Goldberg.
Its just a symptom of the left-of-center" view of the world she holds along with most of her media colleagues.
BENGHAZI BENGHAZI GO AWAY COME BACK ANOTHER DAY (HOPEFULLY AFTER THE NEXT ELECTION)
According to Bernard Goldberg liberals in an out of the media just want Benghazi to go away.
Further he says" the so-called mainstream media has pretty much been AWOL on this news story covering it the way President Obama would like it to be covered barely or not at all.
So for an Obama apologist like Eleanor Clift to inadvertently legitimize the current outrage over Benghazi is to also provide a gift the to the enemy: Republicans in the current Congress.
So Ambassador Stevens wasnt killed he just died!
LOONY TUNES?
Oh boy maybe thats what happens when dementia starts to creep in scrambling the brain of a steadfast progressive war horse like Eleanor Clift.
To complete his op-ed" Goldberg turns to the world of sports.
And in this case he notes that the fans usually know when its time for a player to retire. But its not unusual that the player himself is the only one who doesnt know that its time to leave the stage".
And similarly he opines its also time for Eleanor Clift to go".
And as Goldberg advises her liberal media colleagues its time for them to tell her how reprehensible" her comments were.
Surely they know" Goldberg continues. In fact everyone but Eleanor knows."
And in fact some of the most pointed criticism of Ms. Clifts daffy notions of murder have come from other embarrassed liberal media colleagues.
As a marketing specialist might put it Eleanor Clift is debasing the liberal brand.
So what do I personally think about this recent exhibition of bad taste & senility on PBS television?
Well for one thing Im a little puzzled that Bernard Goldberg was so surprised that a living fossil like Eleanor Clift would respond the way she did.
WARNING THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPHS ARE SATIRICAL IN NATURE
After all my unnamed sources tell me that shes been doing the same thing since the civil-war days when she was a cub reporter at the Baltimore Sentinel and she commented on Abraham Lincolns assassination: President Lincoln was not murdered; he died from a bullet that entered his head."
Ms. Clift then continued: Obviously this new Republican fund-raising initiative to blame John Wilkes Booth for this bullet entering the Presidents head is just another Republican smear campaign."
Of course the real question about Ms. Clifts shameless excuse-making on the McLaughlin Report" (on PBS) is: why do they still employ this unsympathetic advertisement for senile senior citizens?
Is it possible that Ms. Cliff and Mr. McLaughlin (another portentous senior) are engaging in senior-to-senior relations?
If theyre of a sexual nature I dont even want to think about it.
But there must be a reason why Ms. Clift is still appearing on this PBS program.
Perhaps shes funneling her Social Security payments to the latest PBS fund-raiser featuring the polka music of Lawrence Welk!
Nuff said.
Murray Soupcoff is editor and co-author of Good Buy Canada: and author of Canada 1984".
He was a founding member (and senior partner) of Ian Sone & Associates Ltd Canadas first independent social-research company specializing in evaluations of federal provincial & municipal government projects in Canada.
He is also the publisher of the FREE Soupcoff Report" investment newsletter whose distribution is partly subsidized by paid subscriptions from former research clients.
You can e-mail Murray Soupcoff at: [email protected]
In a commentary on his Web site today Bernard Goldberg unleashed all his vented fury at the Democratic has-been of has-beens Eleanor Clift known even to her few remaining (still alive) PBS fans as the mistress of liberal-left talking points … and for talking & talking & talking about those talking points.
In fact some viewers are rumored to have hanged themselves in despair after being exposed to yet another one of Ms. Clifts many defenses of the Obama White House.
TALK ABOUT OVER THE TOP
However last Sunday on PBSs rating-challenged Sunday news hour The McLaughlin Group" Eleanor Clift crossed the line from her customary mainstream-media White House cheerleading status to a new designation: raving senile fool … embarrassing even her fellow media White House boosters.
When the subject turned to Benghazi Ms. Clift ever the Obama apologist opined Id like to point out that ambassador Stevens was not murdered … he died of smoke inhalation".
As one Bernie Goldberg reader tweeted: Thats like saying JFK died in a car accident!
Regardless as Bernard Goldberg further noted the only reason Ambassador Stevens was in the consulate safe room" is because if he didnt go there he would have been killed in a hail of gunfire by the terrorists who had stormed the consulate.
Memo to Ms. Clift: The fact that the attackers set the whole embassy on fire and that he died of smoke inhalation doesnt mean he wasnt murdered.
Worse when Ms. Clift had the opportunity to set the record straight and apologize a few days later when interviewed by talk-radio host Steve Malzberg she was as stubborn as Senator Harry Reid refusing to apologize for calling Clive Bundy a terrorist.
There was no apology and no retraction of her offensive remarks.
Stated Ms Cliff: I was taking issue with the sort of glib use of the word murdered … I think dying of smoke inhalation in the safe room of a CIA outpost has a slightly different feeling and my point is that it was a very chaotic event."
And when Malzberg asked the most reasonable question under such circumstances whether the victims who died during the September 11 2001 terror attacks were murdered the living walking progressive fossil that is Eleanor Clift insisted: I was just trying to add a little bit of complexity and Im going to stick with what I said."
According to Bernard Goldberg Malzberg then asked one more perfectly reasonable question: If Ambassador Stephens was God forbid your relative would you tell people that he was murdered or not?"
I would say that he died of smoke inhalation NOT murder" Ms. Clift replied.
As Goldberg sarcastically notes: at least she didnt say: What difference does it make?" how the ambassador died.
WE FORGIVE YOU ELEANOR SORT OF:
But Bernard Goldberg is still willing to give this never-ending liberal talking head" some slack.
We just cant blame Eleanor Clift for this Sunday morning outrage insists Goldberg.
Its just a symptom of the left-of-center" view of the world she holds along with most of her media colleagues.
BENGHAZI BENGHAZI GO AWAY COME BACK ANOTHER DAY (HOPEFULLY AFTER THE NEXT ELECTION)
According to Bernard Goldberg liberals in an out of the media just want Benghazi to go away.
Further he says" the so-called mainstream media has pretty much been AWOL on this news story covering it the way President Obama would like it to be covered barely or not at all.
So for an Obama apologist like Eleanor Clift to inadvertently legitimize the current outrage over Benghazi is to also provide a gift the to the enemy: Republicans in the current Congress.
So Ambassador Stevens wasnt killed he just died!
LOONY TUNES?
Oh boy maybe thats what happens when dementia starts to creep in scrambling the brain of a steadfast progressive war horse like Eleanor Clift.
To complete his op-ed" Goldberg turns to the world of sports.
And in this case he notes that the fans usually know when its time for a player to retire. But its not unusual that the player himself is the only one who doesnt know that its time to leave the stage".
And similarly he opines its also time for Eleanor Clift to go".
And as Goldberg advises her liberal media colleagues its time for them to tell her how reprehensible" her comments were.
Surely they know" Goldberg continues. In fact everyone but Eleanor knows."
And in fact some of the most pointed criticism of Ms. Clifts daffy notions of murder have come from other embarrassed liberal media colleagues.
As a marketing specialist might put it Eleanor Clift is debasing the liberal brand.
So what do I personally think about this recent exhibition of bad taste & senility on PBS television?
Well for one thing Im a little puzzled that Bernard Goldberg was so surprised that a living fossil like Eleanor Clift would respond the way she did.
WARNING THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPHS ARE SATIRICAL IN NATURE
After all my unnamed sources tell me that shes been doing the same thing since the civil-war days when she was a cub reporter at the Baltimore Sentinel and she commented on Abraham Lincolns assassination: President Lincoln was not murdered; he died from a bullet that entered his head."
Ms. Clift then continued: Obviously this new Republican fund-raising initiative to blame John Wilkes Booth for this bullet entering the Presidents head is just another Republican smear campaign."
Of course the real question about Ms. Clifts shameless excuse-making on the McLaughlin Report" (on PBS) is: why do they still employ this unsympathetic advertisement for senile senior citizens?
Is it possible that Ms. Cliff and Mr. McLaughlin (another portentous senior) are engaging in senior-to-senior relations?
If theyre of a sexual nature I dont even want to think about it.
But there must be a reason why Ms. Clift is still appearing on this PBS program.
Perhaps shes funneling her Social Security payments to the latest PBS fund-raiser featuring the polka music of Lawrence Welk!
Nuff said.
Murray Soupcoff is editor and co-author of Good Buy Canada: and author of Canada 1984".
He was a founding member (and senior partner) of Ian Sone & Associates Ltd Canadas first independent social-research company specializing in evaluations of federal provincial & municipal government projects in Canada.
He is also the publisher of the FREE Soupcoff Report" investment newsletter whose distribution is partly subsidized by paid subscriptions from former research clients.
You can e-mail Murray Soupcoff at: [email protected]