Mark Halperin
Obama Donor Gayle King Acclaims Romney 'Binder' Remark: 'It's Going to
October 18th, 2012 2:56 PM
Gayle King's support of President Obama - both vocal and financial - emerged on air on Thursday's CBS This Morning, as the newscast covered Mitt Romney's much-ballyhooed "whole binders full of women" answer at Tuesday night's debate. King blustered, "I think it's going to be the joke that keeps on giving. I really do." [audio available here; video below the jump]
Correspondent Seth Doane…
Time: Candy Crowley's 'Moderator Role Under Scrutiny – Before the De
October 15th, 2012 12:50 AM
With less than 48 hours to go before Tuesday's presidential debate, the moderator's role is being questioned because of things Candy Crowley has said on CNN.
Time's Mark Halperin reported late Sunday:
Flashback: Media Amazed by Obama's 'Deft' Libya Policy
September 12th, 2012 12:47 PM
The media's full-throttle attack on Mitt Romney's condemnation of Barack Obama's weak handling of the Libyan crisis isn't surprising given they invested so much time praising the President's Libyan policy in 2011. During the Arab Spring of 2011, Time's Mark Halperin called the administration’s policy toward Libya "deft" and CBS’s Norah O'Donnell declared Obama's "victories" in the Middle East…
Time's Mark Halperin Defends Obama's 'You Didn't Build That
August 31st, 2012 8:30 AM
Appearing toward the end of Thursday night's MSNBC live coverage of the Republican National Convention, Time magazine's Mark Halperin defended President Barack Obama's infamous "You didn't build that" gaffe, as he portrayed President Obama as attempting to defend himself from false accusations by the GOP.
After host Chris Matthews asserted a bit past 12:35 a.m. that Obama had not really…
MSNBC's Halperin: 'Media Is Very Susceptible to Doing What the Obama C
August 19th, 2012 8:07 AM
On Saturday's Today show on NBC, after co-host Lester Holt asked if the issue of Mitt Romney's tax returns has "jumped the shark" yet, MSNBC political analyst Mark Halperin asserted that "the press still likes this story a lot," and that "The media is very susceptible to doing what the Obama campaign wants, which is to focus on this."
Time's Mark Halperin: Ryan Protesters In Iowa Were Democrats 'On Duty
August 13th, 2012 7:48 PM
Presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan was heckled Monday by protesters at a campaign event in Iowa.
Time senior political analyst Mark Halperin told MSNBC's Chris Matthews these were Democrats "on duty" (video follows with transcript and commentary, photo courtesy Des Moines Register):
Halperin: Press Corps Biggies Are Pro-Obama, But Like Paul Ryan
August 13th, 2012 7:14 AM
An interesting—encouraging?—comment and admission from Mark Halperin on today's Morning Joe. The MSNBC political analyst said that "almost every national political reporter knows Paul Ryan, likes Paul Ryan, more than they do Mitt Romney. And that gives Romney a little bit of an edge that he was missing, which is pro-Obama in the press corps."
Halperin's comment came immediately after Joe…
Media Rush to Attack Gun Rights in Wake of Aurora Shooting
July 27th, 2012 9:00 AM
Within hours of the horrible massacre at the Aurora, Colorado movie theater, liberal reporters hijacked the tragedy to advance their anti-gun rights agenda. As they did in the wake of school shootings like Columbine (Back in 2000 the MRC documented, stories advocating gun control outnumbered those in favor of gun rights by a 10 to 1 ratio), the media were quick to heap blame on the NRA and…
Time's Halperin Admits: 'Most Major News Organizations' Want Stricter
July 23rd, 2012 4:54 PM
Appearing on Monday's Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC, Time magazine editor-at-large Mark Halperin confessed a broad media consensus to curtail gun rights: "If you walk the halls of most major news organizations or of the OEOB at the White House or West Wing, I think you'd find overwhelming sentiment that there should be stricter gun control laws in the United States." [Listen to the audio or…
NBC: Obama 'Defying Gravity' By Painting Romney as 'Dangerous
July 9th, 2012 5:07 PM
On Saturday's NBC Today, co-host Lester Holt pondered why President Obama's poll numbers were not lower given the poor economy: "...you look at the polls, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows the President still maintaining a three-point lead. Is he defying gravity here, and if so, why?"
Holt directed the question to Time's Mark Halperin, who proclaimed: "Well, he is....People…
Time's Halperin Shills: 'We Shouldn't Be the Only' Country Without Gov
July 2nd, 2012 6:17 PM
Time magazine editor Mark Halperin on Monday dropped any pretense of objectivity, openly shilling for ObamaCare. The Game Change co-author appeared on Hardball and lamented that opposing government-run health care is a political winner for Republicans: "...I think we shouldn't be the only industrialized democracy that doesn't have universal health care." [See video below. MP3 audio here.]…
Open Thread: 'Republicans Now Believe Romney Can Win, and Democrats Be
June 8th, 2012 11:04 AM
Time's Mark Halperin published a piece yesterday with a rather shocking opening sentence.
"With five months until Election Day, Barack Obama faces a grim new reality: Republicans now believe Mitt Romney can win, and Democrats believe Obama can lose."