Mark Halperin on Obama: I thought he was a dick yesterday

That falls on the producer no doubt, but a media-savvy guy like Halpern should know better. Why couldnt' he just say the President was a jerk? Not as bad, some hand-wringing maybe, but you don't call the president a dick on national television.

 

I would imagine that being surrounded by cameras and crew and studio lights and being covered in makeup would make that pretty difficult to forget. But I've never been on TV, so I don't really know.

 

I don't think that is clear at all. If he would have said this about Bush he would have been celebrated...probably given an 8 p.m. daily show.

 

Maybe Halperin should have just thrown a shoe at Obama.

 

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Still bad judgment, but I think there is a difference between calling someone a dick vs saying he sounded like a dick.

Interesting discussion on MJ this morning on the complaints they are getting from The White House pertaining to their guest list. Feeling of White House is that MJ has been presenting an unbalanced, unfair story.

Being a pretty regular watcher, it seems to me that many of the guests have been liberal and have chosen not to use the Obama talking points.

 

"Morning Joe" represents MSNBC's bending over backwards so far to prove "it's not really a liberal network" it ends up shoving its own head up its own collective ass.

However, I am sure the big boys up in the Comcast corporate tower just love dimwit Scarborough's snippy Hannitee-wannabee schtick.

 

MJ shows that MSNBC can offer one show with some intellectual honesty.

 

"Morning Joe" would be the equivalent if Faux Fascist Noise gave a morning show to Anthony Wiener and Janeane Garofalo "to prove it's not conservative."

Oh, and gave them approval rights over all guests appearing on any show on the network.

 

I do not believe for one second that Joe Scarborough has sole rights to approve any and all guests that appear on MSNBC. Sorry, just not realistic.

 

Yeah, 'cuz Mika is a real right winger.