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Mike Barnicle has greeted Newt Gingrich's announcement of his presidential candidacy with a sneer, calling the former Speaker of the House "a delusional loser." The former Kennedy-clan retainer and Boston Globe columnist seasoned his attack with some snobbery, disparaging Gingrich's educational background. Barnicle spewed his bile on today's Morning Joe. View video here.

Here is video from “Morning Joe” today, where Mike Barnicle said Nevada voters would be “embarrassed” to have GOP Candidate Sharron Angle represent them in the U.S. Senate. Barnicle said Angle “sounds like a mental patient.” Chris Matthews chimed in and raised the specter of “Dallas” – meaning the Kennedy Assasination – in pointing out Angle’s support of Gun Rights, seeking to twist her words into her advocating an armed revolt against the government. This is actually a good sign. It shows just how threatened Democrats Barnicle and Matthews feel about Harry Reid losing the Nevada Senate seat. The more...

In a sense, Scott Brown has already won; not simply for his party, Republican, but for any candidate across the landscape who looks toward a volatile November with the message, "It's our turn." Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1954366,00.html?xid=rss-topstories#ixzz0cx6ZKFuh

Has Mike Barnicle called Sarah Palin stupid? Seems that way. In a Huffington Post column that Mika Brzezinski read on today's Morning Joe, Barnicle, referring to Palin, wrote of the: preposterous pronouncements of a woman whose candidacy is an insult to intelligence. Let's deconstruct. The normal formulation is an "insult to our intelligence," used to describe an assertion that is obviously unbelievable. For example, you might say Barack Obama insulted our intelligence when he claimed against all evidence during this week's debate that his only tie to ACORN is his past representation of the group in a lawsuit. But when...

Q. What's weaker than playing the "taken out of context" card? A. Digging yourself deeper with the supposedly exculpatory explanation. Mike Barnicle managed the Daily Double today with his mishandling of the flap over the way he described Hillary back in January. Barnicle was on Morning Joe, and discussion turned to a New York Times article, Media Charged With Sexism in Clinton Coverage, that mentioned his remarks. View video here.

While sources say there’s a “99 percent” chance WTKK will replace disgraced blowhard Don Imus with local talent, industry insiders say his firing over on-air racial remarks won’t be the end of shock jock radio. “It’ll cast a shadow on this form of radio for a while, but the competition is fierce out there,” said former radio host and Boston College professor Michael Keith. “Are things going to change significantly, the tone and tenor of these programs?” Keith asked. “They’ve been around for 20 years and they’re successful and they bring in the listeners and the ratings.” Kevin Barenblat, a...

Imus, Barnicle Fantasize About Republicans on Gallows: Cheney Would 'Wet His Pants'Posted by Mark Finkelstein on January 3, 2007 - 10:05.Big h/t to reader PJG.Does it get any more foul than this? During the 8 AM ET hour of Don Imus's show this morning he and Mike Barnicle fantasized about how various Republicans would react to being hung on the gallows.Note: this item was prepared from the closed-caption transcript. It will be reviewed and corrected as appropriate in the course of the morning.Imus: "I tried to imagine how members of the various current administration members would behave were they subjected...

MATTHEWS: Do you find her physically attractive, Tucker? CARLSON: I‘m not going to answer that, because the answer, I don‘t want to hurt anybody‘s feelings. That‘s not the point. MATTHEWS: Positively. COSBY: Don‘t ask me that question. MATTHEWS: Mike, do you want to weigh in here as an older fellow. Do you find her to be a physically attractive woman? BARNICLE: I‘m too old to be doing that. I had enough fights in my life. MATTHEWS: OK, Rita, do you find her to be a physically attractive woman? COSBY: I‘ll throw it back to you, Chris, do you find her...

Good news: This is not about the book, Bill Clinton's biography, that weighs in heavier than a refrigerator at 950 pages. Instead, it's about why the guy engenders so much hate. It's easy for people to take a temporary dislike of some politicians. Too many of them make whole careers out of trimming the truth. Some do anything to get their face on TV. The industry of electioneering has become a marriage of ego and hypocrisy. The good people in it often grow weary and pack it in. But no politician in my lifetime has ever generated the loathing that...

Mike Barnicle, the hard-hitting veteran journalist whose lively commentary has engaged and informed New Englanders for almost 30 years, is returning to the Boston newspaper scene as a columnist for the Boston Herald, Publisher Patrick J. Purcell announced today. Purcell said that Barnicle, who has been a columnist for the New York Daily News for the past five years, serves as a commentator on national and local news programs and hosts his own radio talk show, will join the Boston Herald as a featured columnist every Tuesday and Thursday, beginning tomorrow. ``It's not every day that you have an opportunity...