Barnicle to WaPo, Newsweek Reporters: 'Regular People' Like Us Want Change

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Looking to sample the political opinions of regular Americans? What better cross-section than the denizens of MSM newsrooms! That seems to be Mike Barnicle's attitude, at least. The former Boston Globe columnist-turned-MSNBC contributor is guest-hosting for Chris Matthews on this afternoon's "Hardball."

Chatting with guests Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post and Holly Bailey of Newsweek, talk turned to the topic of Americans' desire for political change. At one point Barnicle made this observation:

MIKE BARNICLE: The force for change that's out there, if you talk to regular people, people like me, people like you, the idea that they want a change is a very powerful force.

View video here.

Yes, good old regular people like the Washington-based MSM. Those folks 89% of whom famously voted for Bill Clinton in 1996. Why bother with expensive polls? Just run a focus group in say, the MSNBC newsroom. You know, those "regular people" who booed President Bush's 2003 State of the Union.


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Yes, regular people wish the

Yes, regular people wish the refuse of the 1960's who have vexed our lives since then would simply retire back to the vegetarian commune and leave the rest of us alone....

BD, I couldn't agree

BD,

I couldn't agree more! If Barnicle thinks he is "regular" people, what does that make me? What an idiot!

Barnicle

Barnicle wouldn't know a "regular" person if they. . .

Oh, nevermind.

Barnicle, I'm sure, didn't respect the opinion of "regular" people when they were voting for Bush.

"I want change" good

"I want change"

good one...brilliant...

Hey Mark, I want change...can you help me out buddy?

Is it too obvious to call

Is it too obvious to call him Barnicle Bilge?

Or maybe not obvious enough?

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Hey Barnicle, with your face all twisted up like that ... you don't look regular.

It was a joke.

You did notice him chuckle when he said regular people like me and you.Or maybe in his mind he thinks Elites are regular people.It just amazes me how these Elitist think.I guess they believe real folks will swallow their hogwash.

As Bernie Goldberg described

As Bernie Goldberg described in his first book, "Bias", part of the reason the MSM people think theirs is the "normal" view, is because of the culture they live in. They can spend years working and socializing, and never encounter an opinion different from their own. They don't have a clue what "regular people" out in what they call "flyover country" think.

Yes, MB.  They accuse our

Yes, MB.  They accuse our President of being intellectually incurious.  Yet these intellectual elites, graduates of our universities (madrassas), rarely venture outside their closed circle of comfort.

 If a bunch of defeatist

 If a bunch of defeatist leftists are Mike Barnicles idea of regular people, then I'm happy to say I'm extremely irregular.

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

Barnicle, all the Ex-Lax in the world would not make you...

Well, Mike, all I can say is that 99.999999999999% of "regular" people don't have last names that sound like something one would pay Mexicans (legal or otherwise) to scrape from the hulls of their boats.

Barnicle, all the Ex-Lax in the world would not make you "regular."

Google Mike Barnicle and

Google Mike Barnicle and plagiarism. Most regular folks don't steal other folks' work and pass it off as their own.

Barnicle...pull that fork

Barnicle...pull that fork out of yourself....get a clue...

YOU Are Over-DONE...

Have been for a very long time...

Silly little leftist empty-headed twit. 

Over-done is right, bt. As

Over-done is right, bt. As the kids say, he is SO over!

This is just another attempt by the liberal MSM to make him relevant again. All a liberal has to do is lie low for a while, and  then the MSM will rehabilitate his reputation.

Does anyone remember that Bob Beckel was involved in a scandal? Probably not. But if the scandal involves a conservative, it is brought up regularly.

LOL, a great illustration

LOL, a great illustration of what is wrong with people of the press like Barnicle.

In thier arrogance they actually think they are regular people and everyone thinks like they do.  And if they find people who dont, then they "should" think like they do.

Why is this guy even given air time anymore, his credibility is shot IMHO.

 

}}---> Barnacle boy

"Regular people"?  Now how does somebody so full of excrement claim to be "regular"

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What, you mean he has.....

What, you mean he has been to rehab. Ha, no way. The regular people he is talking about are "the "help" in the news room and his circle of freinds of which at least 70% are liberal and the remainder do not have the constitutional right to freedom of speech since they are conservative.

}}---> Remember Forever

They also belong to any number of Broadcasters Unions with sworn obeisance to the same creed as the AFL-CIO.  It's silly to believe the MSM will do anything other than follow the avowed Socialist Party line.

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I love that picture, Mark.

I love that picture, Mark. It's like Mr. Potato Head with roid rage.

}}---> I must disagree, Warner

And my apologies to a much admired Republican, but THIS is Mr. Potato Head.

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