A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media

By Bernard Goldberg

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Goldberg argues that the left-leaning mainstream media crossed the line during the 2008 presidential election campaign and helped to determine the outcome.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Release date: Jan 26, 2008
• ISBN: 9781596981058

Bernard Goldberg

Bernard Goldberg is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Bias, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, and Arrogance. He has won eight Emmy Awards for his work at CBS News and at HBO, where he now reports for the acclaimed program Real Sports. In 2006 he won the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, the most prestigious of all broadcast journalism awards.

Reviews for A Slobbering Love Affair

[drneutron_1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

There's certainly a strong case that the mainstream media favored Obama in the 2008 US Presidential election. A large number of studies show the imbalance in reporting, and for example, the Washington Post ombudsman wrote "Obama deserved tougher scrutiny than he got" in analyzing their own coverage. Even scarier, people such as Tom Brokaw admitted after the election that we really don't know much about Obama - even after he had been covering the candidate for almost two years. This trend in the mainstream media is a dangerous slippery slope and the American people deserve better. Bernard Goldberg's A Slobbering Love Affair makes these points, but does so in a way that is seemingly designed to offend as many people as possible - or play solely to the right wing. It's unfortunate that he chooses to do so, since there are legitimate discussions we should be having about the relationships between the media and politicians and the media and the public. But that discussion is not to be found here, and the useful information is buried in polemic.

[mrtall_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Bernard Goldberg’s brief but memorable A Slobbering Love Affair recounts the myriad ways in which the USA’s mainstream media lionized – indeed, nearly deified – Barack Obama as he ran for president in 2007-2008: the gushy, embarrassing news stories; the ‘journalists’ swooning on camera; and perhaps most serious, the utter lack of interest in Obama’s background, character and associations, i.e. the media’s refusal to do their jobs and investigate. Goldberg’s tone is sardonic; at times it borders on despairing. How can the great majority of journalists, whose role is so central to the American system, sell their integrity so cheaply? Goldberg suggests it’s a combination of these liberal journalists’ desire to ‘effect change’ and ultimately to feel good about themselves. Recommended.

[starkravingmad_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Tells it like it is though we wish it weren't so. 

[yargles · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The facts about how the mainstream media helped to orchestrate the election of Obama as president of the United States. This book is not only good investigative journalism, it's something we don't often get from media hacks: The Truth.