whoever this Barnicle may be, he’s either a communist apologist or else a complete idiot
“useful idiot” often attributed to Lenin (who if he didn’t actually say it, should have) ...known to have been employed by Bogdan Raditsa in 1946 describing his former service for dictator Tito in Yugoslavia)
Barnicle got stuck with a charge of copying the work of another journalist, and actually got fired from the Boston Globe. (Presently owned by NYTs).