February 22, 2009
Posted: February 22nd, 2009 01:00 PM ET
From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney (CNN) - It has become one of MSNBC host Chris Matthew's most infamous lines of the 2008 presidential election: "I felt this thrill going up my leg," Matthews said the night Obama resoundingly defeated rival Hillary Clinton in the Virginia and Maryland Democratic primaries. And former CBS News Correspondent Bernard Goldberg, who has long alleged liberal bias in the media, highlighted that line as indicative of the media's "slobbering" press coverage of candidate Obama during his campaign for the White House. "That's not commentary, that's a man-crush," Goldberg declared on CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday. Goldberg, the author of the new book “A Slobbering Love Affair,” credits the media coverage of the 2008 presidential election for ultimately resulting in Barack Obama's victory. He specifically faulted coverage of the prolonged Democratic primary campaign, during which two historic candidates contentiously squared off. "I think in elite liberal circles, certainly inside the media, race trumps gender, and that's why they slobbered over Barack Obama, and took Hillary Clinton to the back room and beat her with a rubber hose,” Goldberg said.
Goldberg also faulted political journalists for not digging up controversial sermons of the president's longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, until Obama had already effectively captured his party's nomination. "These tapes were available, you didn't have to be Woodward or Bernstein to dig them up," Goldberg said. "If those tapes had come out six months earlier, certainly a year earlier, I don't think Barack Obama would have been the nominee. "I think Hillary Clinton would have been. And I think she would have been the president today," he continued. "And in that sense, she's the biggest loser in all of this." Filed under: Hillary Clinton President Obama State of the Union
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