BILL O'REILLY: Talking points on Tuesday put forth that editors at The New York Times should not be assigning feminists or known anti-Trump reporters to cover the presidential candidate. After hearing that memo where Bernie Goldberg was even mentioned Mr. Goldberg had some thoughts and here is he in New York City tonight. What say you?

BERNIE GOLDBERG: Well, look it's a safe bet that everybody at The New York Times is a feminist and that includes the men as well as women, right?

O'REILLY: No, I don't think so. There's got to be people that are not --

GOLDBERG: Maybe there's one woman one place or another. It's a safe bet that feminism is one of the guiding principles there. But you raised an interesting question. And that is can a feminist cover somebody who, among other things, puts on pageants

O'REILLY: Right --

GOLDBERG: Where beautiful women stroll around the stage half naked in high heels? Fair question. The answer, I think is, if that reporter, if it's known in the newsroom or worse if it's known publicly thinks that beauty pageants are a crime against humanity and people who are involved with them should be sentenced to do death in the electric chair, of course not.

O'REILLY: But isn't that the feminist doctrine? Do you know any feminists who like beauty contests?

GOLDBERG: You can have an opinion even on something like that and this is the bigger issue to me and not be disqualified from covering the story.

O'REILLY: I disagree. If you're a Quaker, ok? You can't cover a war because you believe that anyone participating in a war is wrong. If you are a Quaker. So there are no Quaker war correspondents because they can't, they are so revolted by war in general, that's their doctrine.

GOLDBERG: I'd have to know if that particular woman thought that --

O'REILLY: But, you'd never know that. That woman is a good reporter by the way.

GOLDBERG: Here's how I would do it, here's how I would do it personally. First of all, if it was known that she thought it was a crime against humanity, she is out. That's easy. If I'm the editor.

O'REILLY: Yeah --

GOLDBERG: I say, look, I understand that on the upper west side of Manhattan, beauty pageants are seen as the stuff of neanderthals. I understand that. But there's a whole country between Manhattan and Malibu where a lot of people don't think that way. I need to know from you and think before you answer this, if you can be fair about Donald Trump --

O'REILLY: And you would ask the reporter then. What do you think they are going to say?

GOLDBERG: I will tell you this if they say they can and they hand me copy that isn't there is going to be big problems. But I think the bigger issue, the bigger issue --

O'REILLY: Let me again challenge because we want to be always fair here. This Megan Twohey and put her picture up there is a good reporter, her resume. The other guy, believe me, the other guy is a light weight. He's a tweeter. He tweeted out about Trump, you know, not egregious things as I said but little snarky stuff. But the other one, Megan, is a good reporter. So we call her up. We call her up. And remember, she is on MSNBC, she is on CNN, all of this stuff. We call her up. We had one question. Are you a feminist? That's all. Hung up. Hung up.

GOLDBERG: But you know the Fox effect here.

O'REILLY: No, no, no. No you can't answer one question about a legitimate point that we're trying to make that you can't be a feminist and cover Donald Trump?

Previously:

Bill O'Reilly: Feminists Should Not Be Allowed To Report On Trump “Because Trump Is The Antithesis Of” Feminism

If We Follow Bill O'Reilly's Logic, Only Trump Sycophants Can Cover Trump

Bill O'Reilly: “There's Got To Be Some Downside To Having A Woman President”

Bill O'Reilly Defends Trump's Sexist Attacks On Clinton: “He Would Have Said That About Anybody”