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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 838534" data-attributes="member: 12952">&quot;Msnbc has its liberal hosts and guests, but they are not like the fox news circus barters.&quot;One of their guest, Mike Barnacle, has repeatedly been caught just making up facts for his stories; &quot;Attorney Alan Dershowitz had accused Barnicle of falsely attributing a racist quote to him. Neither Barnicle nor the Boston Globe retracted the column, but in a confidential legal settlement reached after his complaint, the Globe agreed to pay Dershowitz $75,000, according to a lawyer who has been briefed on the matter. During the Charles Stuart murder case, &quot;Barnicle wrote one article no other reporter could confirm. Under a banner headline, he reported that the Prudential Insurance Co. had issued a check for $480,000 to Stuart, in payment of a life insurance policy for his wife, Carol DeMaiti Stuart. The day the article ran, the company denied it. No similar check has been found.&quot;Boston Magazine examined one of Barnicle&#039;s articles and could find no evidence that two characters in it ever existed.&nbsp;Chicago columnist Mike Royko accused Barnicle of plagiarizing several columns. Barnicle writes a column titled &quot;I was just thinking&quot; He intersperses these quotes with his other observations. The column&#039;s title give the impression that the article contains Barnicle&#039;s own thoughts and words.&nbsp; There are 38 jokes in the column, and ten of them (more than a quarter of the article) came from his &quot;friend&#039;s&quot; list. Barnicle provides no attribution for these quotes, not even mentioning they weren&#039;t his.&nbsp; Several of the jokes use the first person singular (&quot;I hate it when...&quot; &quot;But I think...&quot; &quot;I don&#039;t get it...&quot; and so on) giving further impression that these are Barnicle&#039;s ideas. <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/friend-bloggers/2403752/posts" target="_blank">[SIZE=+1]MSNBC&#039;s Mike Barnacle asks Michael Steele &quot;What are You People For&quot;; Steele: &quot;You People?&quot;[/SIZE]</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 838534, member: 12952"] [SIZE=3]"Msnbc has its liberal hosts and guests, but they are not like the fox news circus barters." One of their guest, Mike Barnacle, has repeatedly been caught just making up facts for his stories; [/SIZE]"Attorney Alan Dershowitz had accused Barnicle of falsely attributing a racist quote to him. Neither Barnicle nor the Boston Globe retracted the column, but in a confidential legal settlement reached after his complaint, the Globe agreed to pay Dershowitz $75,000, according to a lawyer who has been briefed on the matter. During the Charles Stuart murder case, "Barnicle wrote one article no other reporter could confirm. Under a banner headline, he reported that the Prudential Insurance Co. had issued a check for $480,000 to Stuart, in payment of a life insurance policy for his wife, Carol DeMaiti Stuart. The day the article ran, the company denied it. No similar check has been found. "Boston Magazine examined one of Barnicle's articles and could find no evidence that two characters in it ever existed. Chicago columnist Mike Royko accused Barnicle of plagiarizing several columns. Barnicle writes a column titled "I was just thinking" He intersperses these quotes with his other observations. The column's title give the impression that the article contains Barnicle's own thoughts and words. There are 38 jokes in the column, and ten of them (more than a quarter of the article) came from his "friend's" list. Barnicle provides no attribution for these quotes, not even mentioning they weren't his. Several of the jokes use the first person singular ("I hate it when..." "But I think..." "I don't get it..." and so on) giving further impression that these are Barnicle's ideas. [B][URL="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/friend-bloggers/2403752/posts"][SIZE=+1][COLOR=black][B]MSNBC's Mike Barnacle asks Michael Steele "What are You People For"; Steele: "You People?"[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][/B] [/QUOTE]

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