Mainstream scream: MSNBC's Barnicle slaps 'seriously wrong' GOP
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features MSNBC Morning Joe regular Mike Barnicle saying that there is "something seriously wrong" with the GOP if non-establishment Republicans running for president like Donald Trump are the favorites.
On Bloomberg TV's With All Due Respect last week, he 'dissed the frontrunners while talking GOP candidate baggage with host John Heilemann.
John Heilemann: I got Carson at 18. I got Cruz it 8, I got Walker it 8, Bush at 6. The key thing is: Trump, Carson, Fiorina and Cruz. Four anti-establishment candidates. All of them total over 50 percent of that vote in Iowa. That is a huge story. The top four establishment candidates: Walker, Rubio, Bush, Kasich, they're about 20 – somewhere in the mid-20s. Again, yearning for something new, something different. Not standard politics, not establishment.
Mike Barnicle: Could you give me those names and those numbers again? Add them up. What are they?
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Heilemann: Which ones?
Barnicle: The four names and what they add up to.
Heilemann: The four anti-establishment ones?
Barnicle: Yeah.
Heilemann: Trump, Carson, Cruz, Fiorina -- add up to about 53 percent.
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Barnicle: 53 percent.
Heilemann: 54. Something like that.
Barnicle: So that means that if I lived in Iowa, I would want to know where each of those members of that 53 percent were. I would want to live as far away from them as possible. Because there is something seriously wrong with the Republican Party if those people combined have a majority of the voters.
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: "Barnicle perfectly encapsulates the disdain of the press corps toward Republican primary and caucus voters. He just has the honesty to admit it -- no, boast of it."
Rating: Three out of five screams.
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