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Goldberg, whose work had previously been limited to right-wing rags like the National Review, replaced veteran journalist Robert Scheer (whose firing caused a 300-person protest and the cancellation of Barbara Streisand’s subscription) in 2005. Since then he’s been given air time on NPR as a regular commentator and face time on The New Republic‘s video debate blog, What’s Your Problem, which is sort of like a webcam Meet the Press.
Back in 1997, he was working for his mother, former Nixon mole Lucianne Goldberg, as vice-president of her literary agency. About that time she brought home the Lewinsky tapes, which led to the impeachment of the president and a series of TV show bookings for her son. Goldberg, Salon wrote in 1998, subsequently “quit his job to devote himself full-time to his Lewinsky-related activities.” Which led to a gig at the National Review, and then his position as a mainstream pundit.
