What's the big idea? (Bernie Goldberg of Bias fame attacked on air on CNBC by Donny Deutsch)

Wash Times Inside Beltway ^ | 7/20/05 | John McCaslin

[Cableguy]

Talk about appearing blindfolded before a kangaroo court. Then again, CBS newsman-turned-author Bernard Goldberg might not have recalled before appearing last night on CNBC's "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch" that the host was a lead member of the Clinton/Gore communications team in 1992. "I've been doing this a long, long time, and I have never, ever, ever, never -- I could say never and ever 10 more times -- experienced what I just went through," Mr. Goldberg told Inside the Beltway late yesterday after he taped the show, which is to air tonight, from Miami. "Deutsch disagreed with everything, and that is just fine," said Mr. Goldberg, the best-selling author of "Bias" who has written the new book "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken is No. 37)." "But then, unbeknownst to me, they brought on a panel of five, plus Donny, all of whom took the other side. And it's not like they just respectfully disagreed; there was name-calling, ganging up; it was unbelievable. And not one of them even read the book. They admitted it. "It was more than an ambush," he said. "It was the most cynical, dishonest thing I have ever been lassoed into. They misled me." Immediately after the taping, Mr. Goldberg said, he told the show's producer, Marilyn Cutler, that Mr. Deutsch had been "dishonest." "I told her that she should be ashamed," he said. "A short time later, she called back, crying like a baby. She said, 'I am resigning.' And I told her, 'You should resign.' It was one big setup. And they used her to get me into it. They wanted to kick my [expletive] on national television -- six people, all basically calling me an idiot."

[LS]

Worse, Bernie didn't sell any books because no one watches that crap show.

I don't care what people say about me, just buy my damn book :)

[alice_in_bubbaland]

I know! I still have to get Bernie & Mark Levin's books! So many books, so little time! Ugh!

[alice_in_bubbaland]

OMG! I cant stand Cramer! His voice drives my crazy he sounds a lot like that comedian Bobcat Goldthwait (sp?).

[Drammach]

I mean..the guy replaced McEnroe..

McEnroe!! Yes, that is the name I was searching my brain for..
I KNEW it was some has-been tennis player, but I couldn't think of his name.!!

Used to watch Dennis Miller, but haven't watched CNBC since they cancelled him..

[poobear]

"I mean..the guy replaced McEnroe."

LOL! That's a tough spot. Bernie shouldn't be worried.

[Fudd Fan]

What mature man still goes by "Donny"? I mean, really.

[Non-Sequitur]

What mature man still goes by "Donny"? I mean, really.

Donny Rumsfeld?

[JarheadFromFlorida]

Donnie Douchbag is a frigging joke. Whenever I'm channel surfing and come across him, my wife and I laugh at the little sissyboy that was handed an advertizing empire by his rich daddy. This shitbird would be working in Mickey D's if it wasn't for his daddy's money.

[syriacus]

Sounds like a ploy to get the Right all lathered up (and ready to buy his book).

Strange... how Donny Deutsch affects me

I just ordered the book.

[cubram]

Can't argue with effective marketing.

[syriacus]

Can't argue with effective marketing

I have to agree.

Donny sure seems like the kind of guy who does quite nicely at marketing.

He could sell dross by convincing people it is gold....except when he lets his angry side blind him.

I first noticed his irrational side when he was on a panel discussing the results of the last presidential election.

[WOSG]

A run down of the shows:
Cramer is like a stockbroker on crack. Crazy!

"The Big Idea" is big fluff ... now I have a reason to never ever watch it. "The Big Liberal .. with a Small Brain"

And the bizarre show on MSNBC, Olbermann's show, is ranting and raving about Rove last night. What a Klutz. Tat an Hardball are shows that grate like nails on a chalkboard, but you sometimes want to watch just to see the train wreck that unfolds on TV ... like the time Chrissy M. interviewed Zell Miller.

I get confused as to why shows like Greta and O'Reilly have the top ratings, then I watch the alternatives ... uggg.

[Dog]

Wow.....did you see this?

[abb]

O'Reilly's rescheduled the Goldberg segment to Monday nite "in order to do more research."

[Zhangliqun]

He wrote this book years ago.

[Nov3]

Lol I was wondering who the hell Donny Deutch was!

[kcvl]

Is He For Real?

Donny Deutsch, last of the Madison Avenue wild men, has got a $200 million bank account, an ad agency that has gone from success to success, loyal friends, a new wife, and, he says, “the best body of any CEO in advertising.” so what else can he possibly want? Try a CNBC talk show. And After that, He wants to be mayor.

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Donny Deutsch is one of advertising’s last big personalities—“the Elvis of advertising,” says one admirer—and he’s also one of its most successful. Now he’s about to break out. He’s got a book deal with HarperCollins. He’s done a pilot for a new talk show with CNBC. He’s thinking about producing movies. He even toys with political ambitions. Would New York City like a mayor named Donny? “I’m ready to play on a bigger field,” he says. Which raises the question: Is the field ready for a man-child named Donny?

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"In my industry they already hate me," says Deutsch. "I don't care what people think. Why is the world divided into successful business people and people who have fun?"

Donny hired young, driven people, who worked 90-, 100-hour weeks. “Jews, chicks, and fags” was how Donny sometimes described the mix. “A big, dysfunctional, ethnic family.”

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“My first impression of Donny,” says one devoted client, “was You arrogant bastard.” Though most agencies don’t like to ruffle clients, Donny sometimes seemed bent on picking fights. “He’s incredibly blunt about what he thinks is right,” says an executive at Novartis, another client. Donny could be belligerent, often on the client’s behalf. “Fuck Ben and Jerry’s, fuck Dairy Queen,” he’d tell Baskin-Robbins. “Let’s take on the fucking world.”

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[eric_da_grate]

No, he can't. He'd better get used to it because the insiders have his number. What he did to Rather and CBS is 'treason' and they want their pound of flesh. This is a hard lesson that Mr. Golberg is learning about the news business and he's learning that lesson rather late in life. I appreciate his awakening, but he'd better expect to get roughed up in this transition he's going through. I wish him well.

[JarheadFromFlorida]

[[Donny Deutsch, last of the Madison Avenue wild men, has got a $200 million bank account, an ad agency that has gone from success to success, loyal friends, a new wife, and, he says, “the best body of any CEO in advertising.” so what else can he possibly want? Try a CNBC talk show. And After that, He wants to be mayor.]]

Get friggin real now. He didn't start this agency from scratch. His rich daddy GAVE it to him. This arrogant little liberal turd acts like he created another Microft or something. What a joke!