MSNBC Double Standard: You Can Call the President a Murdering Fascist if He's a Republican but...

Newsbusters ^ | 6-30-11 | Geoffrey Dickens

[radioone]

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?

The following is a collection of quotes from MSNBC employees past (Keith Olbermann) and present (Chris Matthews, Ron Reagan Jr.) who had some particularly distasteful things to say about a then sitting President George W. Bush:

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[radioone]

We've all know this for a LONG time, but it's fun to rub it in.

[Da Coyote]

In the military world we used to describe those who had no cojones or leadership abilities as “limp d**ks”.

Halperin was only half correct.

[McGruff]

MSDNC has inadvertently opened a can of worms here.

[bassmaner]

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?

In years past, wartime presidents did not tolerate dissemination of enemy propaganda. The MS-DNC loons should have been yanked off the air after those tirades.

[GoCards]

I actually wake up every morning and watch Morning Joe, I know I know..But what Halprin said didnt surprise me at all. He has been for awhile pretty anti Bama and pro alternative. He has been a defender of Palin and Bachman and others with Buchanan. This is what I see... A book about the establishment and naming names. He will soon be on Fox. Just sayin.....

[GraceG]

[ I actually wake up every morning and watch Morning Joe, I know I know..But what Halprin said didnt surprise me at all. He has been for awhile pretty anti Bama and pro alternative. He has been a defender of Palin and Bachman and others with Buchanan. This is what I see... A book about the establishment and naming names. He will soon be on Fox. Just sayin..... ]

Maybe this is what Glenn Beck meant by, “they will wish I was on at 5pm at Fox”.

[Rashputin]

Furher Soetoro just has Goebbels purging the propaganda ministry prior to the coming election, that's all. Wait until the mobs of blacks doing home invasions in the suburbs can't be hidden any more. Then you'll be hearing how it's not right to mention the race of the mobs unless it's the mobs defending themselves.

Barry has the propaganda ministry being purged, has his black SA doing trial tuns of flash mob attacks, and has his faithful "Independents" testing out different baits to use when insisting that the real problem is a lack of "nonpartisan statesmanship". That's why master liar and former suckee Clinton was blathering recently, to see if they could make the same old compromise pig fly one more time.

[jonascord]

I'm all for this constant Progressive drumbeat of invective, media double standards and ad hominem attacks. Each one brings us a little closer to retribution time.

"Progressives" are too stupid to conceive of action and reaction, cause and effect, payback. The mathematics of social conflict. Call it what you will.

Society is not a steady state condition. Cultural barriers break. Pendulums swing. The Adults will eventually exhaust their patience. In 1933, how many Germans envisioned Dachau in 1943? One decade.

So, keep it up. Keep believing that there will never be a reckoning...

[Guyin4Os]

They called Nixon “Dick.” They called Cheney “Dick.” They called Reardon “Dick.” But call 0bama “Dick” and you get suspended. Typical left-wing hypocrisy.

[Anna W]

Senate roll call

“Dick’s present”

[Beckwith]

We all know the rules.

Mustn't embarrass Obama.