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 29, 2016

Mike Barnicle on President Ronald Reagan’s comments from 1984

Continuing the conversation about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s supposed ignorance over former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke’s endorsement over the weekend, Mike Barnicle reminds the MSNBC Morning Joe panel of another Republican presidential candidate’s comments on the KKK, President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Reagan said: “Those of us in public life can only resent the use of our names by those who seek political recognition for the repugnant doctrines of hate they espouse. The politics of racial hatred and religious bigotry practiced by the Klan and others have no place in this country, and are destructive of the values for which America has always stood.” Listen to the comments of Trump and the Morning Joe panel.

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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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