Happy Birthday to the legendary Mike Barnicle! “I’m grateful to be here,” says Mike on the set of Morning Joe, as co-host Mika Brzezinski brought out a birthday cake and everyone sang “Happy Birthday.” “We love you,” she said. Added co-host Joe Scarborough: “We’re grateful every day that you’re here.” Only on MSNBC.
In his latest column for The Daily Beast, MSNBC senior columnist Mike Barnicle asks readers to take a look at the attributes they would want to see in the next president — before they cast their vote. “I don’t want anyone rushing into the polling booth without thinking about the choice,” writes Barnicle. He provides a list of characteristics to contemplate in selecting our next president: competence, courage, an ability to listen and take advice, humility, honesty, patience, and empathy. “Donald J. Trump is without empathy. He proves it over and over each and every day. He has no understanding, no grasp of something that binds almost all of us together: a sense of what it’s like to suffer a loss.” Read the whole column here.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/06/take-this-quiz-before-you-vote.html
Trump and the Twittersphere “I am surprised that in an age where 99 percent of the people in this country think the media tilts left and think the media is biased that more editors and publishers don’t tell reporters ‘stay off Twitter.’ All you do with Twitter is get yourself confused and raise these questions,” said Morning Joe senior contributor Mike Barnicle during a discussion about the social media posts of journalists who are supposed to be objectively covering the presidential race. Watch more of the conversation here.
“It’s not going to work… Donald Trump is locked in at between 42 and 45% of the vote, they’re going nowhere. Change is the biggest winner this year…. I want change but I’m looking at Donald Trump who is, over the past three or four days…having a slow-motion nervous breakdown in public,” said Morning Joe senior contributor Mike Barnicle in response to the ongoing conversation about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s defense of his brilliant use of the “unfair tax system” to avoid paying federal income tax. Hear more on the topic here.
