The February 5 edition of Newsweek magazine’s "CW" section asserts that Virginia Democratic Senator Jim Webb "gives Dems testosterone." This sentiment was echoed on Tuesday’s edition of "Imus in the Morning" by Boston Herald columnist, Mike Barnicle. Barnicle described Webb as being "so terrific for this country and for the United States Senate because at any given time, he’s liable to reach across the aisle or reach across the desk in front of him and choke the person that he’s dealing with." Mr. Barnicle further portrayed Senator Webb as the savior of the Democratic Party, telling Don Imus Webb is the antidote to 25 years of liberals in the Democratic Party taking the party too far to the left.
The media has been infatuated with Senator Webb since he gave his rebuttal to President Bush’s State of the Union Address (click here and here for examples), yet few outlets have laid such lavish praise on the Freshman Democrat as Barnicle did today.
Barnicle also voiced displeasure at liberals in the Democratic Party giving the perception that the party is about gay marriage and abortion choice. He insisted, "the Democratic Party is War and Peace," and lamented that the party isn’t talking about giving more in the way of liberal government entitlements such as providing people with health care or providing people with college educations.
It is a shame that Mr. Imus did not follow up with a question about the cost of these additional entitlements he supports and how to pay for them. The government is struggling to pay its current entitlement obligations under Social Security and Medicare, and adding more government programs will only exacerbate the problem. How Senator Webb will solve these problems, Barnicle doesn’t say.
Transcript of the exchange that occurred at 8:37 follows:
Don Imus: "How did you like Jim Webb?"
Mike Barnicle: "Jim Webb -- Jim Webb is going -- he is such an original, and he is going to be so terrific for this country and for the United States Senate, because at any given time, he is liable to reach across the aisle, or reach across the desk in front of him and choke the person that he’s dealing with. He is reality brought to the United States Senate. He is a guy grounded in reality. His entire family has served this country for decades. His son, Jimmy, is with a Marine Recon unit right now as we speak in Iraq, and the idea -- not only Jim Webb, but Chuck Hagel from Nebraska, the idea that Dick Cheney that this paranoid, arrogant, and now thankfully frightened Vice President of the United States would hold what they say up to cheap partisanship, says so much about Cheney, says so much about these two guys and what they’ve done to this country and the war that they’ve inflicted on this country. Give me Jim Webb any day of the week over Dick Cheney."
Don Imus: "Even Frank Rich has fallen in love with the guy. Did you read Frank on Sunday?"
Mike Barnicle: "I did. I did. I did. That was a great piece that Frank Rich wrote on Sunday, and he’s correct. I mean–"
Don Imus: "I just, I read Anna Quindlen–"
Mike Barnicle: "Do you know what Webb is, Don? Webb is the antidote to 25 years of liberals in the Democratic party taking the party of my parents and my party when I was growing up before I became an independent newspaper columnist <laughs> taking the Democratic party so far left that people who need it don't recognize it, and have come to despise it. Most Democrats over the past 10, 15 years on a national stage, you stand up and you put a gun to their head and you say what are the top two or three issues that concern you as an activist, as a partisan, as an elected official in the Democratic Party? They say, oh, gay marriage, choice, stuff like that, but it's not, but that's not the Democratic party. The Democratic Party is war and peace. The Democratic Party is how to provide people with health care, how to provide people with college educations, how to help people, and not how to piss people off."
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Jim Webb gives testosterone f
January 30, 2007 - 17:42 ET by HumanEventsJim Webb gives testosterone for the Dems eh? Must be Bill Clinton's replacement. And much of Webb's testosterone must come from his writings on incest. Sicko.
So Mike Barnicle, the Democrat Party is how to provide people with health care (who doesn't have health care by the way?) and college educations? In other words the Democrat Party is Big Government and confiscation of money from American citizens.
i live in the west and have n
January 30, 2007 - 17:49 ET by buddyci live in the west and have no idea who "barnicle" is. is barnicle employed by the dnc? if he is a newspaper man, how on earth could he me making those comments. that imus, frank rich and barnicle like webb is suppose to mean something?
i read a great letter to webb from one of his classmates. was classic. i guess olle north beat the crap out of webb at the academy and webb has never forgotten it. is that why webb became a pornographer?
i call webb the warrior pornographer. he fits in perfectly well with the liberals. he is "nuanced" about pedophelia. how much did it cost soros to buy him and elect him?
Barnicle is a leftist nutcase
January 30, 2007 - 18:02 ET by bigtimerBarnicle is a leftist nutcase who was fired from the Boston Globe if memory serves me right for plagiarism...
Guess who hired him to guest on his shows in the morning because he felt sorry for him now and then, if memory serves me correctly...which I remember pretty well....
Imus.
Barnicle is everywhere now on msnbc...a regular resident know it all, hosts Matthews show now and then....
Barnicle is just that now..a barnicle.
Lives up to his name!
You got it BT. So, we have a
January 30, 2007 - 18:56 ET by VT Con ManYou got it BT. So, we have a perv politician being built up as some kind of a savior by some Massachusetts dufus who can't keep a job. Sounds like the perfect lefty combo to me. Can you imagine how incredibly irrelevant these idiots would be without the constant preening of the MSM?
And, Imus is sure slipping into senility. He goes farther left every day. Just a sniveling coward hiding behind his money and his cancer camp, where he lives in huge luxury, thanks in part to the donations of people who want to stamp out the vicious disease. What a guy.
So, is Barnicle (whose name r
January 30, 2007 - 17:43 ET by Dave RSo, is Barnicle (whose name reminds me of something crusty one scrapes from a boat hull) making a tacit admission here that the DimLibs are lacking in a certain hormone, as most of us here have long suspected?
Barnicle says....'The Democra
January 30, 2007 - 17:53 ET by bigtimerBarnicle says....'The Democratic Party is war and peace. The Democratic Party is how to provide people with health care, how to provide people with college educations, how to help people, and not how to piss people off."
Oh really! You could of fooled me!
The lovefest these two had this morning was enough to get me steaming even before I got out of bed and had my coffee!
Imus has turned into a shell of a man led by his nuthouse wife Deidra who pretends to be an expert on environmental issues, who is hand in hand with the likes of Theresa Heinz and John 'Pariah' Kerry, she values the social climbing she has done, and Don had better toe the line...which he does gladly, talk about you know what whipped....he is going to have these two critters on his show next week selling some enviro' book they supposedly wote.
Barnicle is a plagiarist, he is in the same realm of all leftist cut and run people, he mentioned that Webb's son is serving, well, I have news he is not the only Senator or Congressman whose sons are serving, there are two that I can think of off-hand at the moment, Kit Bond and Joe Wilson who have a 'R' after their names...I am sick anad tired or these chicken-shite no-good wave the white flag quivering I hate my Country first...traitors.
No-Good B*stards all!
They are the enemy!
Bt, it isn't good to keep thi
January 30, 2007 - 21:59 ET by MikeBBt, it isn't good to keep things bottled up inside like that. Why don't you tell us how you feel? :->
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Which is it liberal dummies? Men or women?
January 30, 2007 - 18:06 ET by Guy Arthur ThomasWell, well, well here we go again, the liberal flapjack dance. First we need women because testosterone gets us in trouble and the nuturing ways of a woman is our only salvation that will keep us in fresh nanny diapers and no trouble on the playground. "We need women to save the world", proclaim the Pelosi and Hillary (did you hear the one about Pelosini and Hitlery? heh), the current ruling Gynosaurs.
But here comes Bubba Barnicle preaching the virtues of testosterone to help us along the way...wait Bubba, haven't you been listening? It is testosterone that has given us all the current problems alleged by the Democrats. Wait, let me guess...oh yeah, it's okay for Democrats to benefit from testosterosis...just not Republicans.
Must you libs be so obvious in your double standards? Sheeeesh!
If you claim to be a conservative, please don't disgrace yourself and conservatism by thinking and arguing like a liberal. Go Rudy!
I remember when the msm and t
January 30, 2007 - 18:25 ET by Jerry MackI remember when the msm and the Dim hacks were just as thrilled about Edwards 2 Americas speech. They could not wait for his next great moment. Still waiting................
Barnicle
January 30, 2007 - 18:43 ET by PeterDWho has more testosterone, Senator Webb or Senator Clinton?
I love the consistency of the Left. Webb is praised for his testosterone. But Reagan and Bush were cowboys, and cowboys are no good.
Perhaps Webb is loaded up down there with testosterone, but as the old saying goes, "its not the size of the wand, its the magic you make with it."
I love the consistency of the
January 30, 2007 - 18:45 ET by balboaI love the consistency of the Left. Webb is praised for his testosterone. But Reagan and Bush were cowboys, and cowboys are no good.
That's easily explained. Republicans rely too much on their testosterone, in much the same way that pro wrestlers do. :-)
"Republicans rely too mu
January 30, 2007 - 18:51 ET by Eric Turner"Republicans rely too much on their testosterone"
Absolutely and the men on the left rely too much on their estrogen!
Ah yes, balbozo the super-lib apologist
January 30, 2007 - 18:56 ET by Guy Arthur ThomasWell balbozo, of course it is "easily explained" in your mind and we can always count on you to show up for your nightly super-lib apologylooza. Any other immediate excuses for the double standards by your super-lib heroes??
If you claim to be a conservative, please don't disgrace yourself and conservatism by thinking and arguing like a liberal. Go Rudy!
You?
January 30, 2007 - 19:54 ET by balboaYou?
When did reaching across th
January 30, 2007 - 18:50 ET by zhombreWhen did reaching across the desk and choking the person you're dealing with become a virtue? WTF? If I did that at work, I'd be jailed for assault. So that's a good thing? Barnicle is an a**hole, first class. Would he praise a Republican for that propensity? "What I like about Senator Knuckledragger from Idaho is that any given moment, he's liable to reach across the aisle with a derringer in his fist and shoot the person he's dealing with." What utter crap. And having Frank Rich in love with you has got to be the freaking kiss of death. What I find amusing about these clowns is how guys with a crying testosterone deficit react to guys with an excess.
Well, you give me a Dick Ch
January 30, 2007 - 19:00 ET by BigBWell, you give me a Dick Cheney in his prime, and I think he'd parbly stomp a mudhole in James Webb's ass....Just on attitude alone. I read Webb's 'Fields of Fire' many years ago, and thought it was a very good book.....saddens me to find he has become a political whore.
As far as 'Gives Dems Testosterone'......give me a break.....Even if that was true, they have about as much use for it as my neutered cat....
Now, this might sting just a little bit.....
Oh great, we can look forward
January 30, 2007 - 19:16 ET by Clear thinkerOh great, we can look forward to Dems walking around with stiffies now. And yes, this includes Hillary.
Well I HAD a great post...
January 30, 2007 - 19:34 ET by Six String SpiffWell I HAD a great post... It was quite lengthy. Something up with this server again because I pressed submit and it did nothing.. except eat my text.. This still isnt fixed..?
Sure, I watch the MSM... Through a pair of crosshairs.
Sure spaceman. The dog at
January 30, 2007 - 19:48 ET by Jack BauerSure spaceman. The dog ate my brilliant post too.
The Vista virus is at it alre
January 30, 2007 - 19:53 ET by mandrakeThe Vista virus is at it already!
ROFLMAO mandrake!Good one aft
January 30, 2007 - 20:00 ET by bigtimerROFLMAO mandrake!
Good one after last night!
You made my night!
So far...lol!
Jim Webb -- Jim Webb is g
January 30, 2007 - 19:43 ET by Jack BauerJim Webb -- Jim Webb is going -- he is such an original, and he is going to be so terrific for this country and for the United States Senate, because at any given time, he is liable to reach across the aisle, or reach across the desk in front of him and choke the person that he’s dealing with.
That's the problem with Democrats. They want to Mirandize murdering Islamo-terrorists.
But they wet dream about murdering their political opponents and fellow citizens. Tough guys.
Webb/3 Wives
January 30, 2007 - 20:21 ET by PawpawNIs that why Webb has had 3 wives?
Gaaaar, Barnicle Mike!
January 30, 2007 - 21:00 ET by Roger the ShrubberGaaaar, Barnicle Mike!
Mike Barnicle wasn't fired for plagarism. It was worse.
January 30, 2007 - 21:47 ET by acaiguanaMike Barnicle wasn't fired for plagarism. It was worse.
He made up a story from whole cloth. He simply sat down at his computer and wrote a story that had no basis in fact, no sources that existed and no purpose other than to tug heartstrings in the most Liberal fashion.
He is a liar, a cheat, a fraud and a completely discredited individual with no integrity and no morals or ethics. He has no credibility among the intelligent and should never be asked to comment on anything ever again...
ever.
ACA
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Are They Serious?
January 31, 2007 - 11:13 ET by emjem24The only thing that Webb is is a big old hypocrite. The guy changes wives as quickly as he changes parties. He doesn't even know which party he belongs to. He was a Democrat, then a Republican, then a Democrat and this time he's only a Democrat because of the Iraq War. The guy is a selfish, self-promoting blowhard who only brings up his and his family's military service when it suits him. He seflishly uses his son Jimmy in a way that would sicken any military member and their spouse. The only reason he won the election for senator in Virginia was because of his anti-Iraq War stance and Allen's mistake in not taking this guy seriously enough. No, no problem with those blown 17 UN resolutions, huh Webb? He's a big, hypocritical phony and they all know it, they're just not willing to say it. When you're rude and willing to attack a sitting a president, that really says something about your character, doesn't it, Webb?
The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer. Air Force Motto
emjem says: When your brain's stuck on liberalism it self-destructs.
Webb's victory = macaca
January 31, 2007 - 11:55 ET by skeptic1Webb's victory = macaca