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Mark Halperin suspended over Obama remark on Morning Joe (video)

MSNBC senior political analyst Mark Halperin was suspended on Thursday by the cable network after he called President Obama “a dick” on a popular morning show and then quickly apologized.

“I thought he was a kind of a dick yesterday,” Halperin, who also is an editor at large for Time, said on “Morning Joe,” referring to the president’s conduct during his press conference.


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Flashback: MSNBC Hosts Called Bush Fascist, Murderous and War Criminal, Never Faced Suspensions

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On MSNBC you can call a sitting president a "murderous" "fascist" even muse about putting the President on trial for war crimes, so long as that president is a Republican. But if you dare call a Democratic president a "d–ck," as MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin did this morning it's grounds for indefinite suspension.

While calling any president the D-word is probably not showing the proper respect for the office, it has to be asked where does it rank compared to essentially accusing a president of mass murder and war crimes?


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Not even trying to get original in the Derails.....
Kind of sad, that that is the best you guys have...

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ORIGINAL: SternSkipper

Rush Limbaugh is a Oxycontin dealer who takes pockets full of viagra on vacation to countries where he can have sex with minors. Guess you found yourself a role model there, eh sani?

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ORIGINAL: SternSkipper
Tell ya what, I'll duck out and you can demonstrate how this thread flourishes

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ORIGINAL: ladyneedshelp

Well its about time someone on the left spoke up. So good job mark halperin!!

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Cable news network MSNBC indefinitely suspended senior political analyst Mark Halperin after he called President Obama “kind of a [vulgarism for male organ]” on the network’s “Morning Joe” show.

He did so after he’d been assured by co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that the show had a seven-second delay in effect and that he should “take a chance."


“Are we on the seven-second delay today?” Halperin said when asked for his thoughts on Obama’s Wednesday news conference.

“I want to characterize how I thought the president behaved,” Halperin added.

“Well, we have it. We can use it, right, Alex?” Brzezinski asked a producer off-camera.

“Yeah, sure. Come on. Take a chance. Have faith,” Scarborough told Halperin.

“Go for it. Yeah, let’s see what happens,” Brzezinski added.

“I’m behind you. You fall down, I catch you. Trust me,” Scarborough told Halperin.

“And the precedent has been set on this show, so we’re good,” Brzezinski added.

“I thought he was kind of a [vulgarism] yesterday,” Halperin said.

“Oh, my God! Delay that! Delay that! What are you doing? I can’t believe you. I was joking! Don’t do that. Did we delay that?” a strangely surprised Scarborough said.

“I hit it. I hope it worked,” a man is heard saying off-camera.


Source:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/msnbc-suspends-mark-halperin-over-vulgar-comment-about-obama/2011/06/30/AGK34psH_story.html