Posted on 03/18/2021 8:17:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Thursday, MSNBC contributor Mike Barnicle blamed former President Donald Trump for the Atlanta-area massage parlor shootings that left eight dead, six of which were Asian women.
Barnicle acknowledged on “Morning Joe” that Trump’s “didn’t pull the trigger in Atlanta” but said his “language” and “behavior” makes him “responsible” for the attack. He explained Trump’s rhetoric has enhanced racial strife in the country.
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BS - no.
More make-believe.
So rent free in their heads.
They have nothing to write a story about if its not Trump
56 days out.......................
the more the blame him, the faster it becomes impotent.
We’re not going to vote our way out of this folks.
Mike Barnicle probably didn’t come up with this himself. He’s probably just stealing these opinions from an article someone else wrote.
And what about the 99% of shooters who are leftists/socialists (like the one that shot Steve Scalise)...?
First one insane leftist says it, then they all join in the idiocy. Next they’ll be arresting Trump for saying Chinese virus.
Is this just when a white guy does it or are we including all the times black people have assaulted Asians over the last few weeks?
So then Joy Reid is responsible for all of the black violence against whites in this country,
Boston columnist Mike Barnicle resigns amid new plagiarism charges
http://www.cnn.com/US/9808/19/barnicle/index.html
August 19, 1998
BOSTON (CNN) — Just a week after fending off demands that he resign amid charges of plagiarism, Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle quit Wednesday as questions were being raised about two more of his columns.
Globe editor Matthew Storin told the staff that he had asked for and received Barnicle’s resignation, because of questions about whether the writer had fabricated characters in a 1995 column.
Also, in an issue that will hit newsstands Friday, The Boston Phoenix weekly newspaper will report that Barnicle lifted portions of a 1986 column from a 1961 book by journalist A.J. Liebling.
Earlier this month, Storin demanded Barnicle’s resignation after discovering that he used jokes from a book by George Carlin without attribution in an August 2 column. But after an outcry from the public and some other journalists, Storin relented and announced last week that Barnicle would be suspended for two months without pay instead.
The contrite columnist admitted at a news conference that he had been “sloppy” and “lazy” in writing the column with the Carlin jokes but maintained that he was not guilty of plagiarism. He said he hadn’t read the Carlin book, although he had recommended it to viewers during an appearance on a Boston TV station.
Barnicle, 54, is the second Globe columnist to resign in the last two months. In June, Patricia Smith was forced to quit after admitting she had fabricated characters in four of her columns.
At the time, the Globe came under fire from black leaders and others for firing Smith, a black woman, while not taking any action against Barnicle, a white man, even though questions had been raised previously about some of his columns.
Then, when Storin subsequently asked for Barnicle’s resignation after the Carlin column, Barnicle’s defenders cried that he was being sacrificed on the altar of political correctness to appease those angry at the paper for firing Smith.
Last week’s decision to reverse course and allow Barnicle to stay caused sharp divisions among the Globe’s staff. On Wednesday, when Storin told the newsroom that Barnicle had resigned, his announcement drew cheers and laughter.
Reader’s Digest found hospital tale untrue
The column that led to Wednesday’s resignation told the story of two children — one black, one white — who became friends in the hospital. After the black child died, Barnicle wrote that the parents of the white child gave the parents of the black child $10,000.
Globe reporters were told Wednesday that when Reader’s Digest decided to reprint the story, fact-checkers at the magazine concluded it was a fabrication. A former editor there contacted Storin this week to tell him about the incident.
Globe reporters were told that Barnicle claimed he got the story from a nurse on the ward but couldn’t identify her. A check of hospital records showed no indication of a black child dying in the month Barnicle recounted.
One must understand that these outlets are “for profit” organizations and, as Mr White said to Lois Lane, “Good reporters don’t find great stories. Good repoters MAKE them great.”
This is basically an exercise in coming up with an interesting story that will “sell papers”. Nothing more.
It’s why I don’t “do” those networks and haven’t since 1997.
All I needed to see of this story is the title to know it’s not worth reading.
Twisting themselves into pretzels in order to make Trump look bad.
If anyone contributed and increased racial strife in this country it is the Black Lives Matter Marxists, burning, rioting, looting major cities across the US all in the name of black social justice but instead giving blacks a bad name in the process.
Reporting on Trump is what sells papers. The worst thing that could have happened to the MSM, near term, is for Biden to win. It will allow the likes of Carlson and Ingraham to skyrocket just as the election of Clinton did for Limbaugh.
That is the silver lining to our current world.
The whole thing was bs. A sex nut and some of the victims were NOT Asian.
Is TDS terminal?
Likely a text blast this morning.
“Mike Barnicle probably didn’t come up with this himself. He’s probably just stealing these opinions from an article someone else wrote.
Since the Clinton administration it has been clear the messaging of the mass media, the Democrat Party, leftists in academia, and social justice organizations is coordinated and orchestrated. The story of the day is identified, the spin and language to be used is constructed, and the messaging is dispersed broadly to be repeated in unison. Hence reporters at MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, the Washington Post, and other outlets use the same adjectives and tone to express outrage. The imposition of critical race theory in schools this year is resulting from a carefully orchestrated and executed campaign designed to steamroller opposition.
Mike Barnicle is simply a player on the stage. His words are given to him, he plays his role and parrots what he is told to say.
I imagine that even MSNBC’s stupid democrat viewers find that to be a stretch.
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