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MSNBC Has 'Indefinitely' Suspended Mark Halperin For His 'Dick' Remark About Obama
Business Insider ^
| 06/30/2011
| Glynnis MacNicol
Posted on 06/30/2011 8:39:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
That was fast.
This morning on Morning Joe Mark Halperin, under the impression Morning Joe was on a 7 second delay, said he thought President Obama was a 'dick' in his press conference yesterday.
He quickly apologized once it became clear the remark had aired, ad did the entire Morning Joe crew.
Apparently that was not enough.
MSNBC has since suspended Halperin. Their statement:
"Mark Halperins comments this morning were completely inappropriate and unacceptable. We apologize to the President, The White House and all of our viewers. We strive for a high level of discourse and comments like these have no place on our air. Therefore, Mark will be suspended indefinitely from his role as an analyst."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dickgate; markhalperin; msnbc; obama
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To: SeekAndFind
Any bets on how long Red Eye will play Halperin’s astute observation on a continuous loop tonight?
To: Mad Dawgg
Let’s don’t get all wee-wee’ed up over this.
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:48:03 AM PDT
by
don-o
(Please say a prayer for FReeper Just Lori.)
To: jennings2004
Nope! I don’t really see what agreeing with Halperin has to do with watching “PMSNBC, It’s not on my TV” but we do discuss Barry and his Destruction of America agenda quite a bit. We all believe that he qualifies as being a dick.
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:48:11 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(When the going gets tough, the tough check themselves into "rehab".)
To: McGruff
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:48:58 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." Gilbert K. Chesterton)
To: skinkinthegrass
Nobody w/ a wit whit of intelligence can watch that "show" whit
noun
a particle; bit; jot (used especially in negative phrases): not a whit better.
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:50:49 AM PDT
by
lonevoice
(Where the Welfare State is on the march, the Police State is not far behind)
To: JoeProBono
You can see Barry's whaleness in this childhood picture in which he sports a cranium like a Beluga whale (whale picture for comparison:
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:51:50 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: SeekAndFind
Just hours after the assembled “journalist community” was jumping all over Michele Bachmann about her gaffes.
Do we have an awesome God or what???
To: don-o
"Lets dont get all wee-weeed up over this."
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:52:51 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: aruanan
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:56:51 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: MichaelAsher54
>>Dick?<<
My reaction also. Why would they suspend him for referring to the President as a private detective?
Halperin was obviously implying that the President’s intense investigation of the underlying problems created solely by his predecessor had at last yielded fruit and that he was about to unveil “the Answer” to all of our problems...
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posted on
06/30/2011 9:57:35 AM PDT
by
Norseman
(Term Limits: 8 years is enough!)
To: brooklyn dave
I won’t post a pic that would get me banned or at least a stern warning but the obama dildo with the name Head O State was marketed in 2008.
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posted on
06/30/2011 10:03:08 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: SeekAndFind
Calling a D*ck a D*ck can get you fired.
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posted on
06/30/2011 10:09:20 AM PDT
by
Hacklehead
(The Tree of Liberty is very thirsty.)
To: hattend
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posted on
06/30/2011 10:18:47 AM PDT
by
des
To: Matt Hatter
I see you too have noticed the Mussolini habit of presentation by Obama. Too bad that a generation or so separates the public from seeing the comparison.
To: SeekAndFind
But Halperin got it all wrong!
Obama is an Arrogant Dick!
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posted on
06/30/2011 10:50:25 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(you don't need a president-for-life if you've got a bureaucracy-for-life.)
To: noinfringers2
Young people today would think Mussolini is a wine cooler. Oh jeez...I am getting old.
To: noinfringers2
For those who may not be of that generation...I created this!
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posted on
06/30/2011 11:14:02 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." Gilbert K. Chesterton)
To: SeekAndFind
Put someone more Obama-friendly in there. Have to keep up the standards of the MSM. /sarc
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posted on
06/30/2011 11:32:08 AM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: SeekAndFind
Good thing he didn’t call him a Teabagger
TT
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posted on
06/30/2011 1:17:36 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(Radical islam is real islam. Moderate islam is the trojan horse.)
To: secondamendmentkid
Of course if the comment would have been about a conservative, the comment would have been We apologize to anyone that might have been offended.
You're got that right!!!! This wasn't an mealy mouthed non apology apology reserved for offensive statements about conservatives
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posted on
06/30/2011 1:20:44 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
("Conservatives get mad when lied to. Leftists get mad when you tell them the Truth!")
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