Mark Halperin Returns to MSNBC After One Month D-Word Suspension
If you noticed something different on Wednesday's "Morning Joe," it was shamed MSNBC contributor Mark Halperin back from roughly a one month suspension after he called the President a D-word back on June 30.
Not everyone was happy about this judging from Alex Pareene's piece at the Obama-loving Salon:
Oh, happy day! Mark Halperin was back on "Morning Joe" this morning, and MSNBC's master political analyst didn't lose a step during his month-long forced vacation. During a discussion of the economy and the national debt, Halperin masterfully said a bunch of inane, contradictory nonsense. [...]
Maybe it's unfair to say Mark Halperin is wrong about everything, because it's impossible to be wrong when you're saying absolutely nothing. [...]
Welcome back to TV, Mark! I kind of prefer you calling people "dicks" to you actually "analyzing politics."
Nice manners, Alex.
As for MSNBC, we now know the penalty at this so-called news outlet for calling this President a D-word is a month's suspension.
By contrast, as we've seen the past few weeks, calling Tea Party members addicts, secessionists who want to politically kill Obama, or thugs and muggers who want to assault Obama won't get you in any trouble with this division of NBC.
Interesting double standard, dontcha think?
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Oh, that D word...
Submitted by inquiringmind on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:01am.
I thought maybe he had called Obama a democrat when we all know he a socialist.
Dictator - a D word
Submitted by Red Jeep on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:27am.
Hugo Chavez 2
More fun with the letter D
Submitted by Ed Gregory on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:34am.
I think "douchebag" also applies. So does "dickhead."
Oh, that D word...
Submitted by russedav on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 12:32pm.
Try fascist-commie pervert whore and you'll be closer. A genuine socialist (the few there are) would run away fast.
One has to ask
Submitted by Rhymes With Right on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:06am.
Would he have gotten this suspension for calling the Tea Party "dicks" during the debt ceiling debate?
Would he have gotten the suspension for calling the President a "hostage taker" or a "terrorist" for threatening to cut off Social Security recipients during the debt ceiling debate -- especially after the president rejected the July 23 bi-partisan compromise agreed to by the leaders of the House and Senate?
Correction Noel, they were
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:14am.
Correction Noel: they were not called thugs and muggers who wanted to assault Obama, they were accused of actually doing it!
...one guy with a knife and the other trying to avoid being cut. It was a thug attacking a victim. It was a mugging." -Chris Matthews
MSNBC's Law of Civility: Violent Imagery is OK if you are accusing conservatives of carrying out the act.
the D work
Submitted by conant on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:13am.
More to the point a National Socialist
HEADLINE SHOULD READ
Submitted by totsotvaitn on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:23am.
"Milktoast Mark Halperin Returns to MSNBC". I don't watch the Morning Joe show starring DUMB (Joe) and DUMBER (Mika) anymore so I didn't notice that Halperin was off the air for a month.
MSNBC cable channel is so NOT WORTH watching anymore.
Who is Mark Halperin
Submitted by johnsonl on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:51am.
and why do we care? Are we still in middle school?
Sigh, here we go again...
Submitted by Chris Norman on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 1:37am.
Is there some kind of rule of which I'm unaware stating that under every post there has to be at least one comment that begins, "Who is _______ and why should we care?
Mark Halperin, personally, is not the issue. This site is about liberal media bias and the accompanying double standards. Mark Halperin's penalty for his "indiscretion" versus the non-penalties for others on MSNBC using far more vitriolic language against conservatives perfectly illustrate MSNBC's double standards. If you still don't care, then this site is obviously not the place for you.
Revision of actual posting...........
Submitted by Tomorama on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:50am.
The "Saloon" piece actually could have been written like this:
Oh, happy day! Obama was back on "the campaign trail" last night, and he didn't lose a step during his month-long forced vacation. During a discussion of the economy and the national debt, Obama as usual with his "binkyprompter" filled up, masterfully said a bunch of inane, contradictory nonsense and blamed everyone and everything for his own administrations short comings.
suspending
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 12:39pm.
Seems messnbc suspends people on a weekly basis. Maybe if they suspended all of them at the same time, we could all get some relief from their false and bias reporting, and that would be a good thing.
He hasn't returned . . . . . .
Submitted by Clemenza on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 1:10pm.
It looks more like he's moved in. I think he has been there the three last days.
I can tell by watching &
Submitted by Barack Must Go on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 3:46pm.
I can tell by watching & listening to him....he's still thinking it.....good for him.
Mark says what he sees, then
Submitted by amyshulk on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 4:24pm.
Mark says what he sees, then Mika hits him with "but, but, but" and he approaches the same thing from her baseline. It's the closest he comes to cheerleading for Pres. "I Won" and he gets mocked for doing his job?
I don't always agree with Mark, but I always enjoyed him on the panel, because I knew reality would be discussed, if only for a few minutes.
Ronald Reagan
Shovel ready
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 5:50pm.
I watched for a few minutes this morning. Just long enough to hear JS say that the President was shocked when he learned that there wasn't any shovel ready jobs provided by the stimulus bill. Could not take anymore of this meadow muffin.
Mr. Halperin is a genius.
Submitted by Unsilent_Minority on Thu, 08/04/2011 - 10:10pm.
Barack Obama actually has a lot in common with my d*ck: neither was vetted in any way by the mainstream media, both just like to hang out, both have a past dotted with shady characters, and neither are qualified in any way to be President. Genius.