Mark Halperin is that guy nobody likes who writes/jabbers about politics and Washington. In this way, he is alsoeverypundit jabbering about Washington and politics on the cable news, but he is also especially awful. So the world rejoiced a few minutes ago when MSNBC suspended Halperin for calling Barack Obama a "dick." This is what Halperin said, on live television:
<i>In 2009,</i> Let me stop you right there, Daily Caller.
1.3 million minutes of airtime have passed since then, and during all that time, nobody, not a single pundit, called the President of the United States a dick.
In that minute or so, a million-ish broadcast minutes ago, they also weren&#039;t calling the Tea Party movement a dick.
Look, if you expect anyone to believe that anyone could still be butthurt about something &#039;borderline-inappropriate&#039; that happened in 2009, you might want to buy some serious industrial-strength anus aspirin, &#039;cause this is going to hurt:
Seriously, fuck off you hypersensitive little cunts. Shut the fuck up. Only whiny little tittybabies like yourself have the need to come up with some kind of fucking &#039;equivalency&#039; that &#039;somehow&#039; excuses some shitty thing one of &#039;your team&#039; is caught dead-to-rights doing. I say &#039;somehow&#039; because it only holds water with your own smug asshole pundit/parrot club. Seriously. Quit with the false equivalency shit, it&#039;s the most pathetically crap kind of rationalization, ever.
How&#039;s that for borderline-inappropriate? You gonna put it down in your little notebook? YOU GONNA CRY NOW, DAILY CALLER??
The Daily Caller drags all of MSNBC&#039;s outrages into this:
<i>But what about some of the MSNBC indiscretions that have gone unpunished? &ldquo;Hardball&rdquo; host Chris Matthews has made outrageous statements including saying the country should &ldquo;put Exxon signs up over Arlington Cemetery&rdquo; and has also alleged tokenism from the Bush administration by calling former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell &ldquo;showcase appointment[s].&rdquo; And former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has also been a target &ndash; calling her &ldquo;profoundly stupid,&rdquo; &ldquo;a dolt,&rdquo; and an &ldquo;empty head,&rdquo; all having gone unpunished.
One of MSNBC&rsquo;s more mild-mannered hosts, Rachel Maddow hasn&rsquo;t been innocent of her derogatory comments about others. In 2009, the host of &ldquo;The Rachel Maddow Show,&rdquo; along with the now-defunct Air America host Ana Marie Cox went into a long borderline-inappropriate rebuke of the Tea Party movement.
On the other hand, had Mr. Halprin called Mr. Obama un-American, or said that he hates America, white people and white KKKulture, he&#039;d have his own show on Fox News by now.
Apparently MSNBC has some kind of &quot;standards&quot;. I wonder if Fox would ever hold their on-air commentators accountable for ... well ... for anything whatsoever.
reading this 12 hours late, i literally had exactly the same reaction.
i don&#039;t remember and don&#039;t care who he is.
well. a dick for sure.
Off-the-Mark Levin calls people &quot;schmucks&quot; several times a show and nothing happens.
Is that because no one is listening?
I&#039;d like to give you a hand, but you&#039;ve got quite a few already.
JINX!
Jail? I was kind of hoping for something a little more, you know, &quot;traditional,&quot; and/or warmer.
Ah, first mushroom-stamping reference I&#039;ve seen. Well done.
Sorry we may have antagonized all your limbs off. If it is any consolation, most of your family members were mildly irritated instantly.
<i>In 2009,</i> Let me stop you right there, Daily Caller.
1.3 million minutes of airtime have passed since then, and during all that time, nobody, not a single pundit, called the President of the United States a dick.
In that minute or so, a million-ish broadcast minutes ago, they also weren&#039;t calling the Tea Party movement a dick.
Look, if you expect anyone to believe that anyone could still be butthurt about something &#039;borderline-inappropriate&#039; that happened in 2009, you might want to buy some serious industrial-strength anus aspirin, &#039;cause this is going to hurt:
Seriously, fuck off you hypersensitive little cunts. Shut the fuck up. Only whiny little tittybabies like yourself have the need to come up with some kind of fucking &#039;equivalency&#039; that &#039;somehow&#039; excuses some shitty thing one of &#039;your team&#039; is caught dead-to-rights doing. I say &#039;somehow&#039; because it only holds water with your own smug asshole pundit/parrot club. Seriously. Quit with the false equivalency shit, it&#039;s the most pathetically crap kind of rationalization, ever.
How&#039;s that for borderline-inappropriate? You gonna put it down in your little notebook? YOU GONNA CRY NOW, DAILY CALLER??
Skip the drinks and idle conversation. Let&#039;s just go live to Snooki for some snooki.
JINX!
The Daily Caller drags all of MSNBC&#039;s outrages into this:
<i>But what about some of the MSNBC indiscretions that have gone unpunished? &ldquo;Hardball&rdquo; host Chris Matthews has made outrageous statements including saying the country should &ldquo;put Exxon signs up over Arlington Cemetery&rdquo; and has also alleged tokenism from the Bush administration by calling former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell &ldquo;showcase appointment[s].&rdquo; And former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has also been a target &ndash; calling her &ldquo;profoundly stupid,&rdquo; &ldquo;a dolt,&rdquo; and an &ldquo;empty head,&rdquo; all having gone unpunished.
One of MSNBC&rsquo;s more mild-mannered hosts, Rachel Maddow hasn&rsquo;t been innocent of her derogatory comments about others. In 2009, the host of &ldquo;The Rachel Maddow Show,&rdquo; along with the now-defunct Air America host Ana Marie Cox went into a long borderline-inappropriate rebuke of the Tea Party movement.
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I prefer to think of Obama as a lean, musclular, flat-ab...
What were we talking about?
On the other hand, had Mr. Halprin called Mr. Obama un-American, or said that he hates America, white people and white KKKulture, he&#039;d have his own show on Fox News by now.
Apparently MSNBC has some kind of &quot;standards&quot;. I wonder if Fox would ever hold their on-air commentators accountable for ... well ... for anything whatsoever.
Or called him just a penis.
I don&#039;t get it. I called Cheney a Dick about a billion times. No one told me not to use the &quot;D&quot; word.