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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 Halperin’s 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?


61 posted on 06/30/2011 9:47:38 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Mad Dawgg

Let’s don’t get all wee-wee’ed up over this.


62 posted on 06/30/2011 9:48:03 AM PDT by don-o (Please say a prayer for FReeper Just Lori.)
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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.


63 posted on 06/30/2011 9:48:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When the going gets tough, the tough check themselves into "rehab".)
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To: McGruff

ROTFLMAO!


64 posted on 06/30/2011 9:48:58 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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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.

65 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)
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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:


66 posted on 06/30/2011 9:51:50 AM PDT by aruanan
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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???


67 posted on 06/30/2011 9:52:23 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: don-o
"Let’s don’t get all wee-wee’ed up over this."


68 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...)
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To: aruanan

69 posted on 06/30/2011 9:56:51 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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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...


70 posted on 06/30/2011 9:57:35 AM PDT by Norseman (Term Limits: 8 years is enough!)
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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.


71 posted on 06/30/2011 10:03:08 AM PDT by xp38
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To: SeekAndFind

Calling a D*ck a D*ck can get you fired.


72 posted on 06/30/2011 10:09:20 AM PDT by Hacklehead (The Tree of Liberty is very thirsty.)
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To: hattend

Contrived.


73 posted on 06/30/2011 10:18:47 AM PDT by des
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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.


74 posted on 06/30/2011 10:31:50 AM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: SeekAndFind
But Halperin got it all wrong!

Obama is an Arrogant Dick!

75 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.)
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To: noinfringers2

Young people today would think Mussolini is a wine cooler. Oh jeez...I am getting old.


76 posted on 06/30/2011 10:56:41 AM PDT by Matt Hatter
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To: noinfringers2

For those who may not be of that generation...I created this!

77 posted on 06/30/2011 11:14:02 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: SeekAndFind

Put someone more Obama-friendly in there. Have to keep up the standards of the MSM. /sarc


78 posted on 06/30/2011 11:32:08 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good thing he didn’t call him a Teabagger

TT


79 posted on 06/30/2011 1:17:36 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Radical islam is real islam. Moderate islam is the trojan horse.)
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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
80 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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