This is just too damn funny. Political analyst Mark Halperin – normally a good liberal – just got suspended by MSNBC for calling President Obama “a dick” on today’s Morning Joe show.
“I thought he was a dick yesterday,” Halperin said in reference to the President’s conduct during his press conference.
One might say that Halperin was suspended for telling the truth, a commodity in very short supply at MSNBC.
Of course, Halperin later fell on his sword after he was suspended and issued a statement saying, “I completely agree with everything in MSNBC’s statement about my remark. I believe that the step they are taking in response is totally appropriate. Again, I want to offer a heartfelt and profound apology to the President, to my MSNBC colleagues, and to the viewers. My remark was unacceptable, and I deeply regret it.”
So the way we now understand liberal philosophy, you can serve in the United States House of Representatives if you send a photo of your dick to a young woman, but you can’t call someone a dick.
Welcome to ObamaNation 2011.
Source: Politico
This post was last modified on June 30, 2011
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Just try it on Fox with a Republican president and see what happens. It must be understood that the owners of NBC and its affiliates are still conservative corporate types who for now see money in it. Which is why Cenk Ugur left. They didn't like his hard hitting interviews with Republicans and Democrats. That's not the American Corporate way these days.
Hopefully after 2012 THEDICK will follow THE WEINER.
Flashback: MSNBC Hosts Called Bush a Murderous Fascist, Never Faced Suspensions
Here you go, Will. http://www.mrctv.org/video/41099. Slip this to Oblovia.
Give here this while your at it: "If you believe in the seamless mutuality of government and big business, come out and say it! There is a dictionary definition, one word that describes that toxic blend. You're a fascist! Get them to print you a T-shirt with fascist on it!...You, sir, have no place in a government of the people, by the people, for the people. The lot of you are the symbolic descendants of the despotic middle managers of some banana republic to whom 'freedom' is an ironic brand name, a word you reach for when you want to get away with its opposite."
This seems to have stuffed a sock in the bloviator. Not a peep!
Flashback: MSNBC Hosts Called Bush a Murderous Fascist, Never Faced Suspensions
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Really? On the air? Got a link to that transcript or video?
Olivia, copy and paste the post and google it, there are at least three...
If you want a good laugh (except Oblivia) here's a photo of Biden consoling Obama about this http://yfrog.com/h8f2dhoqj
Now that's good. If I could give you two thumbs up . I would. Keep the good post coming.
I think that photo was doctored a bit. Obama's ears are really much larger than that.
Its about time some one at msnbc told the truth and because Halprein did, he is suspended until he begs for forgiveness from lord barry.
What ever happened to the 1st Amendment? The one amendment that all liberals hold near and dear to them. It appears that it only applies when it follows the template set forth by them.
Its about time some one at msnbc told the truth and because Halprein did, he is suspended until he begs for forgiveness from lord barry.
What ever happened to the 1st Amendment?
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It's alive and well. But it doesn't guarantee that there won't be negative consequences to shooting off your mouth, particularly if you're doing so on company time, or at company expense.
Did you really not realize that??? :D
I would have said a lot worse the Mark Halperin did, but then again I'm me and I'm kinda like a bull in a china shop, so to speak, and sometimes say things I feel before I engage my brain! Seeing just how much of a dick Break Insane Yo'mama really is, I wouldn't have apologized, I'd be looking for another job, any other job!
But Hisham, you would never have had a job with MSNBC to begin with. You speak far too much truth to ever be considered as an on-air personality.
Go ahead RHG, just frikkin step on the last vestige of a sliver of a hope I may have had getting a job as a well paid TV teleprompter reader!
Tell the truth. Get suspended.
Typical MSNBC.
CNN was all over this Dick thing today. Dicks and Wieners, is that all they think about?
"Dicks and Wieners, is that all they think about?"
I used to be young once, too.
sigh
It is all they think about.
Except for Maddow.
LOL. Well unless it is fake...
On MSNBC, every other word is "teabagger."
How could "dick" possibly be worse?
I guess it just depends who the pornographic slur is aimed at.
I'm thinking teabagger is the slur and dick is the reality?
Plus, every 3rd ad that runs on MSNBC is a GE spot. Even when they owned it(they still have a minority stake)so they really not selling much ad time either.
how does calling someone, in this case the President (Obama), "a dick", differ from calling the President (Bush) Hitler?
You're saying it of Dear Leader, for starters. It also differs in that it is true: Sock Puppet is a dick, but Bush is not Hitler. Furthermore --
oops, gotta go. who the hell can that be knocking on my door at this hour?