Monday, July 17, 2006 3:54 p.m. EDT
Bernie Goldberg Slams Ann Coulter
Longtime CBS News reporter Bernard Goldberg had a lot to say about Ann Coulter – some of it negative – during a radio interview promoting his book.
Goldberg’s “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America [and Al Franken is No. 37]” was published last year, and an updated version – upping the list to “110 People” – recently came out in paperback. The book takes to task Michael Moore, Ted Kennedy, David Duke, Michael Jackson, Jimmy Carter and an array of others on the American scene.
Goldberg now says he made a “mistake” in not including Coulter as one of the people “screwing up America.”
In a radio interview with David Goodman on 88.9 WERS-FM in Boston, Goldberg – now a correspondent with HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” – accused the conservative pundit of “crossing the line” by calling the so-called Jersey widows, who lost their husbands on 9/11, “the happiest widows in the world, or words to that effect.”