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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

Posted on 07/20/2005 11:10:29 AM PDT by 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."

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 100people; bernardgoldberg; berniegoldberg; booktour; clintonistas; cnbc; donnydeutsch; donnydumber; donnydupe; rudedems
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To: ken5050
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 :)

101 posted on 07/20/2005 1:33:56 PM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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To: Darkwolf377

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


102 posted on 07/20/2005 1:34:32 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland ("Consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies")
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To: Steven W.
OMG! I cant stand Cramer! His voice drives my crazy he sounds a lot like that comedian Bobcat Goldthwait (sp?).
103 posted on 07/20/2005 1:38:17 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland ("Consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies")
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To: ken5050
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..

104 posted on 07/20/2005 1:40:55 PM PDT by Drammach (Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
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To: ken5050

"I mean..the guy replaced McEnroe."

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


105 posted on 07/20/2005 1:42:28 PM PDT by poobear (Imagine a world of liberal silence.)
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To: rwa265

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


106 posted on 07/20/2005 1:44:40 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (fiat voluntas Tua)
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To: Fudd Fan
What mature man still goes by "Donny"? I mean, really.

Donny Rumsfeld?

107 posted on 07/20/2005 1:47:19 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Cableguy

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.


108 posted on 07/20/2005 1:53:45 PM PDT by JarheadFromFlorida
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To: cubram
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.

109 posted on 07/20/2005 2:03:21 PM PDT by syriacus (To WHICH entity does LIBELLER JOE WILSON pledge is allegiance?)
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To: syriacus

Can't argue with effective marketing.


110 posted on 07/20/2005 2:21:05 PM PDT by cubram
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To: cubram
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.

111 posted on 07/20/2005 2:38:03 PM PDT by syriacus (To WHICH entity does LIBELLER JOE WILSON pledge is allegiance?)
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To: Steven W.

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.


112 posted on 07/20/2005 3:43:45 PM PDT by WOSG (Liberalism is wrong, it's just the Liberals don't know it yet.)
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To: ken5050; Howlin; Mo1; Miss Marple

Wow.....did you see this?


113 posted on 07/20/2005 4:19:35 PM PDT by Dog (Everytime a liberal whines, an angel gets its wings.)
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To: ken5050

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


114 posted on 07/20/2005 5:06:15 PM PDT by abb (Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
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To: RoseofTexas

He wrote this book years ago.


115 posted on 07/20/2005 5:09:04 PM PDT by Zhangliqun (Hating Bush does not count as a strategy for defeating Islamic terrorism.)
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To: Mikey_1962
Lol I was wondering who the hell Donny Deutch was!
116 posted on 07/20/2005 5:18:53 PM PDT by Nov3 ("This is the best election night in history." --DNC chair Terry McAuliffe Nov. 2,2004 8p.m.)
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To: Cableguy

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.”

More here...

117 posted on 07/20/2005 5:31:14 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Non-Sequitur

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.


118 posted on 07/20/2005 5:37:27 PM PDT by eric_da_grate
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To: kcvl

[[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!


120 posted on 07/20/2005 5:59:47 PM PDT by JarheadFromFlorida
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