Mike Barnicle
Any TV producer who puts Mike Barnicle on to talk about Bulger should be fired, immediately
By adamg - 6/23/11 - 2:49 pmFor those who don't remember (raises hand), Salon recounts one of Barnicle's more infamous columns, after a guy won a $14 million lottery jackpot and then claimed Bulger was actually part owner of the ticket (purchased at the South Boston liquor store Bulger took over by threatening to kill its owner's child):
Hey, good things happen to good people, right? Of course, there is an army of malcontents who refuse to believe that the result of a mere game of chance is on the level when the cash cow moos at the doorstep of a man - Bulger - who, according to illegal eavesdropping by FBI agents and their cheap equipment (And I will show you how lousy their stuff is), runs a vastly overrated criminal enterprise in the area. ...
So, lay off Jimmy Bulger. For the first time in his life, he got lucky, legitimately, and won the lottery. Knowing him, he probably already has handed out money to St. Augustine's, figuring that when he goes - and the odds on that are better than winning Mass Millions - there will be some people left behind who will say, "Not a bad guy."
Slurp, slurp.
Mike Barnicle is a zombie
By adamg - 10/2/10 - 6:34 pmThat's one explanation for why nothing can kill the plagiarist. Or, in the case of why Ken Burns chose him to explain the 2004 Red Sox in his recent docu-update, maybe one needs to apply that old journalistic adage: "Follow the money." As Joan Walsh writes:
Mike Barnicle is a moron
By adamg - 5/30/09 - 1:07 pmBut I repeat myself. In any case, listen to Barnicle whining about soccer.
Via Garrett Quinn, who fumes:
... Mike if you're going to do a commentary about a soccer game you should at least bother to find out what league you're talking about. Instead you give us the same old tired Jim Rome bullshit about how it's boring and for kids. Give me a break. You probably just stole one of his commentaries. Isn't that how you made a living at the Globe, anyway? ...
"Journalist" Mike Barnicle "You people suck whatever..."
By Anonymous - 2/12/09 - 10:57 amThis morning on MSNBC Morning Joe in a segment about a CNBC documentary, Mike Barnicle poses a question about the role of Congress in the financial crisis. But he can't do it without fabricating quotations of members of Congress with words more likely to be heard at a Red Sox Yankees game:
"You people suck whatever......"
are the words he invented and put into the mouths of Congressmen and Congresswomen who questioned bank executives yesterday.
Two things:
Mike Barnicle insults "self-important" bloggers
By Anonymous - 1/21/09 - 7:29 amI'm not sure but is Barnicle saying that he and other media personalities should have the exclusive right to be bloviating blowhards?
The drawback to watching MSNBC yesterday
By adamg - 11/5/08 - 10:53 amSure, they didn't have Princess Leia begging Obi-Wan Kenobi for help like CNN, but they did have Mike Barnicle. Elias winces:
The abiding drawback to working the polls on election day is watching Mike Barnicle run his meat hole by the hour on MSNBC.
After a mere sixty minutes he runs out of sensible things to say and is reduced to decrying the "the 24-7 cable news culture", y'know the one that otherwise keeps the wolf far from Mike's door. ...
The Mike Barnicle Challenge
By adamg - 6/17/08 - 3:07 pmBrian writes:
Over the next few months, it might be fun to keep a tally of how many times Civic Disgrace Mike Barnicle talks up his friendship with the late Tim Russert. ...
The Barnicle column generator
By adamg - 4/22/08 - 10:00 amWhat is it with white male Globe metro columnists and vapid Opening Day columns?
By adamg - 4/8/08 - 8:33 amBack when he was a metro columnist, Brian McGrory would always write about Opening Day. Yesterday, his replacement in the Globe's White Guy slot, Kevin Cullen, expressed his disgust at being mistaken for a Yankee fan and a geezer (bonus points for slipping in a reference to a 1979 British labor dispute). Today, the grande dame of Boyo Columnists, Mike Barnicle Himself, weighs in (granted, at the Herald), with a Column for the Ages that complains how future generations will look back and wonder why developers ruined Fenway by building condos around it, instead of leaving it surrounded by Howard Johnsons and Burger Kings, those bastihds.
The Barnicle crisis needs resolution
By adamg - 4/4/08 - 3:22 pmWBUR should either finally hire him so people can start donating to WGBH instead or they should announce they're not hiring him so people can stop getting heartburn.
Speaking of 'GBH, Emily Rooney kvetches about the lack of substance on local newscasts these days and fantasizes about marching into some local newsroom and shaking things up. Apparently, Rooney doesn't remember the days when WGBH had its own local newscast. Instead of complaining how vapid the commercial newscasts are, why not restart it? Isn't public television supposed to provide intelligent alternatives to commercial TV? Or has it all come down to Peter, Paul and Mary concerts during Pledge Week?
