Remember when Mike Barnicle was forced to admit that his wife was an executive at Bank Of America?

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/05/mike-barnicle-full-of-com_n_164265.html

MSNBC Contributor Forced To Disclose Wife's Bank Of America Job (VIDEO) (UPDATED)
First Posted: 02- 5-09 10:44 AM | Updated: 03- 8-09 05:12 AM

"Morning Joe" contributor Mike Barnicle (who some people I know really like, for some reason, I mean balding white cranks are the most interchangeable goddamn people in punditry, but I digress) is full of fuss and mewl today. Why is that? I mean, why, more than usual, is that? Well, it seems that some mean old emails from despicable consumers of MSNBC's "news" have requested that he maybe should preempt his litany of complaints over the Obama administration's plan to cap the executive salaries of bailout recipients at the paupery sum of $500,000, with the disclosure that his wife is the chief marketing officer and Northeast president of Bank of America, which received TARP funds. snip

See, first of all, Mike Barnicle almost certainly did not talk to "everyone" about what they did with mortgages or big screen televisions. Indeed, I'd wager he didn't seek out the story of "anyone." But, more to the point, who is this "we" that Barnicle thinks should look in the mirror? When Barnicle looks in the mirror, he sees a man married to a woman who's received the benefits of TARP monies!

[RKP5637]

1. K&R!!! Interesting!!! n/t

[Democrats_win]

2. Smug pundits until we see they are at the front of the line on government dole.

[asjr]

3. Someone please inform me if I am wrong but I

think he was in some trouble when he worked for a Mass newspaper several years ago and was forced to quit. I can't remember if it was plaigerism or just made up a story out of whole cloth. My mind is slippier now than in past years and maybe I dreamed it. It surprised me when he first came on the pundit scene because of that.

[canoeist52]

4. Stealing George Carlin's work, among other things...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Barnicle

"In 1998, Barnicle resigned from the Boston Globe amid allegations of fabrication and plagiarism, respectively, in two of his columns. The first column, from October 8, 1995, recounted the story of two sets of parents with cancer-stricken children. When one of the boys, a black child, died, the parents of the other boy, a white child who had begun to recover, sent the dead child's parents a check for $10,000. When the Globe could not locate the people in the story, who had not been publicly identified, Barnicle insisted nonetheless that the story was true. He said he did not obtain the story from the parents but from a nurse, whom he declined to identify. Walter V. Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor then in charge of the Globe's "Spotlight" investigative team, was unable to match a recorded death with the date of death claimed for the child.<2>

The second column, more than 80 lines of humorous observations dated August 2, 1998, contained observations from the 1997 book Brain Droppings by George Carlin.<3> After Barnicle said he had never read the book, the editor of the Globe issued a temporary suspension. However, after WCVB-TV subsequently aired a video clip of Barnicle recommending the book to viewers, the editor called for his resignation; this was rescinded under fire from readers and the suspension period doubled instead.<2>

Barnicle has also been criticized for his tone in columns about Boston area mobster Whitey Bulger and for his friendship with Whitey's brother Billy Bulger.<4>"

[asjr]

5. Thanks! I can still remember some things. I

had forgotten the name of the newspaper. I suppose he managed to bleach some of those leopard spots. Stands to reason he would be on Morning Joke.

[SoCalDem]

7. Plagiarist par excellence

fired and then reincarnated as El Pundit-o Supremo.. John Fund beat up his girlfriend, got her daughter pregnant and still works in the business, and is often on tv as a pundit-of-note.

[SoCalDem]

6. He always said "my wife works at Bank of America"

as if she's the "new accounts person or a teller".. I don't ever recall anyone saying she was an executive..

[UTUSN]

8. K&R #11 for the whole infested pundritry of recycled criminals

The list goes on, what, is it a qualification to be a violator of legal or ethical or grossness standards to get paid to be on t.v.: Barnicle, Toesucker MORRIS, Gordon LIDDY, LIMBOsevic, O'LOOFAH, BUCHANAN, ad infinitum...