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TWO PEAS IN A POD

Imus Replacement A Fellow White Liberal Racist







Proving the mainstream media's corporate suits remain clueless, "Imus In The Morning" syndicator Westwood One has named a fellow white liberal racist to replace the I-Man when his radio suspension begins next Monday.

Almost as bad is the fact that serial MSNBC establishment suck- up Mike Barnicle is also a plagiarist and just plain lousy talk host.

Barnicle, who turns 63 this year, has long attached himself to Boston's elitists, representing the worst of that city's notoriously- incestuous and provincial media culture.

Now winding down his radio career (he was recently reduced to just a single daily hour on the air), he remains ratings- challenged.


Today, the Boston Herald's Jesse Noyes and Jessica Heslam blew the lid off of Barnicle's own racist rants of the past, including this:

The Herald has learned that Westwood One, which syndicates Imus’ radio program, sent a memo to its affiliates telling them WTKK host Mike Barnicle will fill in for Imus when his suspension begins Monday.

Barnicle, a friend and frequent guest on Imus’ show, has been embroiled in his own controversy. In 2004, Barnicle was forced to apologize on his own radio show for using the word “mandingo” to refer to former WCVB host Janet Langhart, who is black, and her husband, former secretary of defense William S. Cohen, who is white.

Mandingos are people who live in West Africa and “Mandingo” is the name of a 1975 movie about a black slave who has an affair with a white woman.

MSNBC, which simulcasts Imus’ show, announced last night it would drop the program.

In addition, Barnicle is no stranger to extreme leftist hate speech, as evidenced by our reporting back in January (transcript by NewsBusters):

Imus: "I was – I tried to imagine how various members of the current administration would behave were they subjected to the gallows as Saddam Hussein was. Um, and I can see Rumsfeld –"

Barnicle: “He wouldn't take it. No blindfold for Rumsfeld.”

Imus: "That's what I was thinking, you know. ‘F-you.' You know, you go to the gallows with the noose you want, not the noose you– or the noose you have, not the noose you want–"

Barnicle: "That's exactly right."

Imus: "Or What- ever. But Cheney–"

Barnicle: "Just as that trap door opens, he'd drop an f- bomb to all of them."

Imus: "How about Cheney?"

Barnicle: “I don't think Cheney would make it up the steps.”

Imus: "Now this is a guy who would, this is a guy – he'd wet his pants and he'd whine and start crying."

Barnicle: "Well He would order as a last meal 400 pounds of bacon."

Why there wasn't a Secret Service investigation as a result of that conversation, your Radio Equalizer will never know. Nonetheless, hiring Barnicle as a substitute for Imus proves the network has learned absolutely nothing from this week's mega- flap.


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