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

To those I've seen in other forums who play the "MSNBC is protecting the unberliberal POTUS" card, may I offer Ed Schultz's recent suspension for dropping a nasty perjorative on Laura Ingraham.

 

"was protecting" would be more accurate" It has changed a bit since Comcast showed up

 

She's so damn funny. She's very opinionated and loves to lecture.

But, disagree with her and she gets visibly and often looks like she's about to cry.

 

With her dad directing many of Jimmy's foreign policy shots, no surprise.

Blood runs thick.

She doesn't belong in the deep end. Of course, if she were really, really smart, Joe wouldn't have her there.

 

If Morning Joe is such an important show to the American zeitgeist and punditburo, why doesn't MSNBC or Comcast find some secondary network to air it on the west coast from 6 to 9 am?

No one I know out here ever sees one frame of it.

 

We can also agree that Carter's daughter grown up won't go down as one of the first "lookers." Didn't she go nuts or something? Went off on some weird tangent in her life?

 

Really a stretch to bring Carter's daughter into this thread.

 

I'm sure that's what they're telling you on Faux Fascist Noise.

 

Star, have you even watched Fox News lately? You are a great poster and I enjoy what you have to say, but you are way off base here. Fox has tacked hard to the left in recent months...in fact I would imagine you would enjoy some of its programming now.

 

From CalBuzz:

That’s Mr. Dickhead to you: Of all the national pundit types we’ve encountered over the years, we can’t think of one who’s a bigger dick than TV windbag Mark Halperin.

In a business where smugness, self-importance and arrogance are just table stakes, Halperin is sui generis, a Beltway phony of the highest order, whose imbecility and lack of insight come fully equipped with an uncommon meanness of spirit and overbearing contempt for ordinary people.

So his suspension by MSNBC, for calling President Obama a “dick” during a live broadcast, drew an ironic standing ovation throughout the newsroom and far-flung bureaus of the Calbuzz empire. And we confess we spent far too many hours Thursday searching for the best-in-class schadenfreude commentary from those members of the responsible online community who share our view. We finally settled on Jason Linkins as the hands-down winner:

There’s no doubt that he’s long been permitted to suck steadily from the udder of conventional wisdom and expectorate the backwash all over the media landscape. And there’s never been any consequences meted out for all those times he’s been hysterically bad at his job. It matters to no one in the media that he is a misogynist hypocrite, a Matt Drudge tongue-bather — or that the clearest evidence of his bankruptcy is the fact that ABC’s “The Note” was never better than when Halperin took his obsequious, insidery wink-nudgery elsewhere.

Sic semper tyrannis.

 

Always interested in hearing journalists speak out against freedom of speech.

The guy didn't yell "FIRE" in a crowded theater. He called the President a dick. Last time I checked that wasn't against the law.

Could he have chosen his words more carefully? Absolutely. But he has the right to say what he wants. However, NBC has the right to punish him if it sees fit.

 

Why? If this was Palin, we'd be pissing on Bristol.