Talk:Mike Papantonio

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In other words, he represents a class action against some corporation for 100 million, settles for 25 million, keeps 12.5 million for himself, and the other 12.5 million gets distributed to the million people in the class, everyone gets a twelve dollar check? Something like that. A real American hero! --Kvuo 06:05, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Without him, the class would nothing. And remember also that the chief good end of the case would be the $100M that the corporation must pay, not necessarily what each party recieves in damages. Neutrality^talk 06:30, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

In a discussion on Scarborough Country June 12 he dismissed Ann Coulter's outrageous behavior relating to the 9/11 widows to being 44, never married and childless. Not exactly a remark one would expect from a liberal.

Cleanup

I've flagged this for cleanup because it does seem to have a more "folksy" tone than is really appropriate for an encyclopedia. Using the nickname "Pap" in quotes, for example, is perfectly appropriate, but using it without them is too informal. Similarly, remarks like "(he) gives it all he's got" are somewhat too chatty (IMO).

I may attack this later on, but don't really have the time right now.

I believe this is my entry, but I'm not sure why I didn't sign it.

Septegram 14:12, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

It's 2022 and this still reads like an advert. Mike seems to have followed the usual tack of attacking mega corps with huge fines so they settle out of court, very much like the fictional James McGill.

What matters more is he's now going down rabbit holes that don't exist, using papers that are speculative at worst and poorly framed science at best, such as the recent rantings about GABA on his piece with Farron Cousins (a Floridian journalist from Ring of Fire) who similarly believes he knows more than trained experts because "he read the court papers".

Some of us read the scientific papers and it's easy to see how things went so badly for Monsanto/Bayer faced with the sort of gamesmanship employed by the lawyers. (Two of the first team of lawyers, I believe the ones that opened up the can of worms, after the IARC had said, "Hey look, a can of worms" have subsequently served time for mail fraud).

I haven't confirmed if Mike was part of that team, and even if he was, there's no suggestion he was involved with any of that, but I wonder if he's really worthwhile of an entry without pointing out that he's ridden a wave. I don't know Wikipedia's neutrality stance on this. There's nothing ethically nor legally wrong with what he's done, but I would question if it takes any real skill. I'm sorry for spitballing here but Wikipedia does seem prone to let this happen. 82.24.18.184 (talk) 18:34, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Plagiarism

Go to the ring of fire site and hit pap's bio.

almost every word was lifted from that page

perhaps that's why the wikibot found the article stylistically unacceptable?

Dunno why the previous comment wasn't autosigned by a bot. Anyways, I haven't checked on the plagarism aspect of this, but the article sort of does read like a press release or a bio.. and certainly could use more references. Centerone (talk) 10:31, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Why haven't you checked on the plagarism?

I did, and I couldn't see more than the one paragraph. ---- 79.223.7.133 (talk) 14:28, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Jesus Camp

Wikedit9, can you explain why you added these links to this page?

*Jesus Camp, Award-winning Documentary on Evangelical Christian right children in the United States  
 + *http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/interviews/jesuscamp.html 

Was Mike Papantonio somehow involved with this movie? Septegram 21:39, 20 September 2006 (UTC) Bold text

Greek Name

Why is his name repeated (incorrectly) in greek letters? ---- 79.223.7.133 (talk) 14:30, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

RIP RT

Not really, RT is still going very nicely indeed, but Papantonio has pulled his show from the network. He waited until the day Putin marched on Ukraine which might be something worthy of note. But I'm not up to the job as I really don't like the chap. 82.24.18.184 (talk) 20:40, 16 September 2022 (UTC)