Mike Barnicle on Imus in the Morning today...

(Oh the subtle joys of unemployment, I can watch Imus' MSNBC simulcast over breakfast)
The columnist was in a funk today...could hardly rouse himself to blather on about how "likable" the president is despite his inept and corrupt policies.
Barnicle also talked about about the situation in North Korea predicting "not much" would happen over there. Given Mike's record with prognostication we can no doubt expect the entire region to go up in flaming irradiated chunks by the end of next week.
Barnicle then went on to take the inevitable Imus bait and started mocking Ned Lamont's senatorial candidacy down in Connecticut. He made some boilerplate remarks about the "liberal coastal enviroment" in New England in the fashion of Andrew Sullivan.
Imus and Mike then gave some props to Lieberman for sticking to his pro-war principles despite the war's manifest unpopularity...these were to say the least strangely muted props for two such unabashed toadies and suck ups.
Ah but you see, Imus in his own confused fashion and Mike Barnicle are both more or less against the war. So lauding Lieberman for his stubborn belief system is about all either of them can do.
Of course, back in the spring of 2003, Imus had a completely different view of the war, he was heaping praise on President Bush for his costumed flight deck appearance on the U.S.S. Lincoln in terms thick with displaced homoerotic sentiment.
As for Mike I don't recall seeing him on the anti-war picket lines back then or right now.
In fact I'm not sure Mike understands the war outside of a very limited telenovela context in which "ordinary people" are victimized by a strange unfathomable called "policy".
It is all very deliberately ignorant manipulative and shallow....in short typical Barnicle.
Ah but lets face it, with all his scandals and strange sentimental fetishes, Mike has degenerated into a sort of sentimental bloviator...his opinions can be discounted without worry or woe.
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But all in all it was a remarkably dispirited performance from Mike Barnicle usually a reliably truculent self hating liberal. Oh he tried to gin up some of his patented sleeveless tee shirt populist outrage noting that we are focused on gas prices and gay marriage and not on "kids dyin' in Iraq" but there was no energy behind his rap whatsoever.

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7-06-06, 8:31am EST
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