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2018-03-22 Home Front: Politix
MSNBC host claims Obama admin was ‘virtually scandal-free’
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Posted by Fred 2018-03-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ]  Top

#1 Because if YOU did not cover it, it is not a scandal. Am I right?
Posted by newc 2018-03-22 01:15||   2018-03-22 01:15|| Front Page Top

#2 We don't do "cruel and unusual" in the US (officially, anyway) Ideally plagiarists like Barnicle would have their fingers cut off and tongue excised so they couldn't steal other people's words anymore. Of course, some of the new access methods on computers would make eye-gouging necessary too. The price of progress...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-03-22 01:23||   2018-03-22 01:23|| Front Page Top

#3 And, actually, I can't even endorse my own "ideal." It's too muzzlike for me.
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-03-22 01:24||   2018-03-22 01:24|| Front Page Top

#4 I would still always be up for kicking Ben Domonech in the nuts...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-03-22 01:39||   2018-03-22 01:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Scandals...? What was that Lewis Carroll, reference again?
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
Posted by magpie 2018-03-22 03:01||   2018-03-22 03:01|| Front Page Top

#6 ...Mr. Barnicle doesn't remember scandals in the Obama Administration?

That's cute. Ask him if he remembers this:

"Boston Globe controversy

In 1998, Barnicle resigned from The Boston Globe amid a controversy over two columns, written three years apart. The first column of more than 80 lines of humorous observations had a few lines that bore similarity to jokes in the 1997 book Brain Droppings by George Carlin.[7] In a subsequent Globe review of all of Barnicle's many years of work, a second column was called into question. The October 8, 1995 column recounted the story of two sets of parents with cancer-stricken children. When one of the children died, the parents of the other 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 who had not been publicly identified because they had died as well, 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. Mrs. Patricia Shairs later contacted the Globe to indicate that the story Barnicle wrote was about her family, although she said some of the facts were incorrect."

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-03-22 04:51||   2018-03-22 04:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Google the "technique of the big lie", Mike.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-22 05:14||   2018-03-22 05:14|| Front Page Top

#8 "Blue Pills" are yummy!
Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-03-22 08:25||   2018-03-22 08:25|| Front Page Top

#9 While we're piling on the grandfather of Fake News, he also wrote a column back in 1991 claiming Whitey Bulger 'kept the drugs out of Southie'. Of course Bulger was the guy bringing them in.
Posted by Raj 2018-03-22 08:48||   2018-03-22 08:48|| Front Page Top

#10 MSLSD at it again still?
Posted by JohnQC 2018-03-22 08:59||   2018-03-22 08:59|| Front Page Top

#11 
Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-03-22 11:12||   2018-03-22 11:12|| Front Page Top

#12 This is an actual WAPO headline today:

"Typos, spelling mistakes are common in Trump's White House"

I guess the follow-up will be "Trump splits infinitives, drops Oxford comma."

Posted by Matt 2018-03-22 11:20||   2018-03-22 11:20|| Front Page Top

#13 This argument is going to be hard to make after the indictments that follow the release of the OIG's report.
Posted by Sneasing Big Foot6518 2018-03-22 11:36||   2018-03-22 11:36|| Front Page Top

#14 Mike Barnicle should join with Peter "Tailwind" Arnett and Dan "Fake but Accurate" Rather to teach Journalism & Ethics 101 at an Ivy League school.
Posted by magpie 2018-03-22 11:46||   2018-03-22 11:46|| Front Page Top

#15  This argument is going to be hard to make after the indictments that follow the release of the OIG's report.
The most it will ever get on the MSM is a 20 second mention in passing or maybe a column inch on an overflow page.
Posted by 3dc 2018-03-22 12:51||   2018-03-22 12:51|| Front Page Top

#16 It all depends on what you mean by "scandal"
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-03-22 15:31||   2018-03-22 15:31|| Front Page Top

#17 The guy misread his propoganda sheet, the truth is the Obama Administration was virtual scandal-free. There were no virtual scandals, just the real kind.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-03-22 16:21||   2018-03-22 16:21|| Front Page Top

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