“It doesn't happen that way.”

— Bernard Goldberg

Response to a student asking if he ever met a conservative who became a liberal.
Goldberg Predicts Collapse of Liberal Media http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/11/132345.shtml Newsmax.com. Phil Brennan (April 11, 2003)

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