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Barnicle on Bloggers: 'Many of Them Crazy, With Access to Computers'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/06/2008 7:25:21 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Be with you in a sec. Gotta finish this bag of Cheetos. Man, what a mess down here in Mom's basement. Let's see, where were we? Barnicle. Right. Bloggers. Doesn't think much of us. On this evening's Hardball, decrying the decline of bi-partisanship, Barnicle put much of the blame on the blogosphere.

Subbing for Chris Matthews, Barnicle had as his guest historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The jumping off point was a clip of Obama saying he could imagine naming McCain as his head of Homeland Security. Barnicle wondered whether that was feasible in what he sees as a hyper-partisan age, and pointed the finger largely at bloggers. Kearns Goodwin suggested that despite the difficulties, she could imagine either of the candidates reaching out to his opponent. That prompted Barnicle to let loose on bloggers, casting them as largely a bunch of loons with too much time on their hands.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bipartisanship; blogging; kearnsgoodwin; mikebarnicle; newmedia; nutroots; plagiarists
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1 posted on 08/06/2008 7:25:22 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Barnicle dumps on bloggers ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 08/06/2008 7:25:55 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

As opposed to crazies with access to cable tv shows....


3 posted on 08/06/2008 7:28:37 PM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Bloggers=loons. Good thing they didn’t name names!
Cheers for watching the MSNBC=loons!


4 posted on 08/06/2008 7:29:00 PM PDT by mojo114
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Barnicle's close relative the Barnacle.

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5 posted on 08/06/2008 7:29:16 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And many tv personalities are crazy and access to international, multi-media broadcasting technology. Your colleague Keith Olbermann leaps to mind.


6 posted on 08/06/2008 7:29:21 PM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

she’s the plagiarist.


7 posted on 08/06/2008 7:30:41 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Admittedly, some of them are crazy. But who died and elected Barnicle Pope? The newspaper business. And we all know what they are worth. Barnicle liked the world a lot when it was one way communication, his feeble mind to our eyes every morning. That's over, he's pissed and doesn't like the opinions of others, many of whom are not crazy, know a lot more than he does, and know how to write far better than he ever has.
8 posted on 08/06/2008 7:32:28 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: ken21

They’re both plagiarists.


9 posted on 08/06/2008 7:33:03 PM PDT by Dahoser (America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Mike Barnicle is an elitist snob piece of detritus with access to a TV show. And he’s dumber than dirt.


10 posted on 08/06/2008 7:33:42 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Of course he doesn’t like it. It is when conservatives are confident and not looking for bi-partisanship that they win because they have better ideas when they put their minds to it. Liberalism can not survive harsh scrutiny eventually you realize that pro-choice isn’t about women making choices it is about killing unborn babies with the goal of liberalizing the sexual morals of women so they are less likely to commit and form traditional two parent families. It isn’t about unity or choice it is about selfishness and satisfying an ugly political agenda.

The same goes for energy issues. When you spend time scrutinizing the environmental activist literature you find not simple good intentioned people looking to save the planet but instead deeply deranged individuals who have at their core a misanthropic goal. Progress for them is not simply less pollution but ultimately less humanity.

We could go on and on issue after issue. The left may think the right is crazy but the right is crazy only in its anger at seeing the rational world being raped by liberals.


11 posted on 08/06/2008 7:37:27 PM PDT by Maelstorm (Obama's energy plan= More taxes and keep your tires fully inflated.)
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To: Dahoser
They’re both plagiarists.

You beat me! Only MSNBC would feature a plagiarist interviewing a plagiarist!

12 posted on 08/06/2008 7:37:36 PM PDT by JennysCool (A man who served his country well vs. a walking Che poster. Is it really that tough a choice?)
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To: Always Right
As opposed to crazies with access to cable tv shows....

And newspapers where they make columns up out of the whole cloth...

13 posted on 08/06/2008 7:38:54 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hey, Mike.

We might be crazy, but at least we ain’t plagiarists.


14 posted on 08/06/2008 7:38:58 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; All
"decrying the decline of bi-partisanship, Barnicle put much of the blame on the blogosphere"

TOO FUNNY, Mr. Barnacle -- in the days when Ted Kennedy and pals savaged Robert Bork and then Clarence Thomas in a grotesque display of character assassination that totally trashed all US Senate traditions of bi-partisanship and collegiality, the WorldWideWeb did not exist and so no one had ever heard of of 'blog' (Web Log).

That was the point (1987-91) at which I, at least, realized that the virulent deranged hateful partisanship of the political left had so infected the Demagogic Party that comity and "bi-partisanship" were no longer intelligent goals or possibilities.

Of course, the Demagogues had been rather awful for a long long time before 1987, but that was when I woke up and said "you can't reason with such vicious hateful dishonest Demagogues!"

The fact that you, Mr. Barnacle, have not realized the extent to which vicious dishonest Demagogues of the left have shaped the last 20-40 years reflects poorly upon you.

btw, Mr. Barnacle, plagiarism is not so good for journalism or for history. Don't you and Doris Kearns Goodwin still have some 'splainin' to do?

15 posted on 08/06/2008 7:38:58 PM PDT by Enchante (If oil was botox then Nancy Pelosi would have us drilling everywhere!!! (hat tip, STARWISE))
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
"Barnicle liked the world a lot when it was one way communication, his feeble mind to our eyes every morning. That's over, he's pissed and doesn't like the opinions of others, many of whom are not crazy, know a lot more than he does, and know how to write far better than he ever has."

I think you've captured the "essence" of the problem completely. The "ignorant bloggers" are fact-checking them, and they darned well don't like it. They live in fear of being "Rathered".

16 posted on 08/06/2008 7:40:05 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I’m surprised that anybody would put the serial plagiarist Doris Kearns Goodwin on their show to criticize others.

That’s kind of like hosting the aged Charles Manson to say that kids today are no darn good.


17 posted on 08/06/2008 7:40:10 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: JennysCool; abb; Grampa Dave; Liz
You beat me! Only MSNBC would feature a plagiarist interviewing a plagiarist!

Each quoted the other without attribution.

18 posted on 08/06/2008 7:40:59 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Well, yes, Mike, this is true. What’s your point?


19 posted on 08/06/2008 7:41:36 PM PDT by RichInOC (...Phi Kappa Sigma, Beta Rho '87..."Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Great photo, two plagiarists side-by-side...... how often do we see that?

btw, Mr. Barnacle, anyone who can waste time watching YOUR show most certainly has “too much time on their hands”

[no offense, Mark!!]


20 posted on 08/06/2008 7:42:20 PM PDT by Enchante (If oil was botox then Nancy Pelosi would have us drilling everywhere!!! (hat tip, STARWISE))
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