Mike Barnicle

Mike Barnicle is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist, and social and political commentator. He is a regular contributor on MSNBC's popular Morning Joe program, and often comments on television and in print about the news of the day. Mike Barnicle has written more than 4,000 newspaper columns, and continues to write for The Daily Beast, TIME, The Huffington Post, Politico, Esquire, and others.

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Feb 19, 2016

“When I first read the story I thought it was The Onion-‘Pope vs. Trump.'”

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mike Barnicle reacts to Pope Francis’s comments on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to build a wall on the Mexican border. “When I first read the story I thought it was The Onion—’Pope vs. Trump.’ I choose to think that the Pope spoke as a matter of faith and not politics; an un-artfully worded statement in English,” says Mike of the Pope’s suggestion that building walls, and not bridges, is not Christian. Watch the spirited conversation here.

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Mike Barnicle is a veteran print and broadcast journalist recognized for his street-smart, straightforward style honed over nearly four decades in the field. The Massachusetts native has written 4,000-plus columns collectively for The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and the New York Daily News, and continues to champion the struggles and triumphs of the every man by giving voice to the essential stories of today on television, radio, and in print.

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