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My question about Barnicle is: What does he know about whom? This guy must have the goods on some powerful people. His plagerism and creative writing at the Globe were not just a few times but was systematic and common. By all that it is holy he should never have been heard from again and simply faded away into shame and oblivion. And yet- almost immediately he is on the radio after Imus (whom he routinely plagerizes from still!) Then he was at the Daily News in NY! Uhh why? Now he is at the Herald? Who does this guy know? Does he know where some bodies are buried? He is a total waste of a writer and a finger in the wind opportunist. He was so very pro war a year ago- name calling against all those who oppossed the war with glee- now he is anti war and name calling all those who support the war. The man makes me want to vomit.

Barnicle peddles this lame "street kid from Lincoln" act that makes the bow-tied bum kissers on Morrisey Blvd. feel like they have an "authentic" Bostonian instead of all the Noo Yawk imports they hire out of Haavaad. He has an easy style that appeals to the intellectually lazy and the credulous, in other words the vast majority any paper's readership.

He got caught out when Readers' Digest wanted to reprint one of his Globe articles. The RD fact checkers asked to see his notes, and he couldn't produce any, so they declined to print it, which caught the attention of Globe editors. It soon became apparent that his story was a fabrication, a fact that the slightest fact checking (use the telephone book!) would have established. He was put on probation, and when he plagiarized Mike Royko, the Globe was so embarrassed that even they had to let him go. He's really just a sappy fabulist, a more sentimental version of O. Henry.