Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007...9:34 pm
More “Wisdom” From the Aptly Named Mike Barnicle
I suppose I should appreciate Mike Barnicle’s writting, but he sucks as a political commentator. His recent turn as a sub on Hardball was untouched by any knowledge of American political life and the inept questions almost ventured into territory previously explored by The Chris Farley Show.
His political commentary gives us such “gems” as this, posted on MSNBC’s Hardblogger site during the State of the Union address:
Math has never been my strong suit. And I have difficulty balancing my check book. But you don’t have to be Stephen Hawking to figure out that A. Nancy Pelosi’s outfit cost more than the average American paid for their first home and B. there is a pretty high degree of difficulty involved in balancing the federal budget yet the leader of the free world just told us, “We can do so without raising taxes.” And half the people in the hall – Bush’s half -stood and cheered.
Point taken on balancing the budget, but why the swipe at Pelosi’s dress? Apparently, producers at MSNBC thought that the dress comment was insightful enough for their “crawler” and ran it several times without the accompanying comment about balancing the budget.
I’m not one to seek out sexism all the time, but this sounds dangerously like the porcine breed that was known back in the 70’s as the “MCP” is rearing it’s ugly head here. I suppose that Barnicle would have us believe that Dick Cheney, sitting next to Pelosi in his own expensive suit, bought his clothes with one of those vouchers they give homeless folks over at the Jackson Center.
Jackass.
1 Comment
January 25th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Barnicle’s a douchebag that got fired from a rag (Boston Herald) for doing what is perhaps one of the two most unforgiveable deeds a “journalist” can do: he made up stories and got found out about it.
Besides that, he is so boring. A total snoozefest. Methinks Matthews likes him because of the Irish La Raza thingy, lol. Btw, the “other” deed that is unforgiveable is plagarism. See: Biden, Joe (D-MBNA)