[plain talk]

Bernard Goldberg: "Can I say something that touches on a very sensitive issue? The news media, and how we failed to thoroughly cover and communicate the very essences we're talking about possessed by Ronald Reagan

Was he serious or was this a back-handed slap at Reagan as if to say "these people are saying all these great things about Reagan and they must have been on a different planet that me"?

[lainie]

I think he was serious. (And I meant CNN's Bernard Shaw, not B. Goldberg, I misspoke.)