Posted on 06/30/2011 8:07:01 AM PDT by John W
Statement from MSNBC: 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.
Statement from Mark Halperin: 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.
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what would have happened if he had done this a few years ago after a W presser? Received an award?
“Suspended for telling the truth.”
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Yup, and that's a no no on MSNBC.
Will the Weiner jokes never end?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
ROFLMAO
He should have said something vulgar about Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman instead. That would get him a raise instead of a suspension.
The Eight Commandments of the Left:
I Thou shalt create an illusion of invulnerability shared by most members to foster excessive optimism and encourage extreme risks taking
II Thou shall not allow any member to question the group’s inherent morality, instead members shall be encouraged to ignore the ethical or moral consequences of their decisions
III Thou shalt promote collective efforts to rationalize in order to discount warnings, or other information that might lead members to reconsider their assumptions before they recommit themselves to their assumptions
IV Thou shalt reinforce stereotyped views of enemy leaders as too evil to warrant genuine attempts to negotiate, or as too weak and stupid to counter whatever risky attempts are made to defeat their purpose
V Thou shalt self-censor any deviation from the apparent group consensus, inclining each member to minimize the importance of their doubts and counterarguments
VI Thou shalt create and maintain a shared illusion of unanimity concerning judgement conforming to the majority view
VII Thou shalt apply direct pressure on any member who expresses strong arguments against any of the group’s stereotypes, illusions, or commitments, making clear that this type of dissent is contrary to what is expected of all loyal members
VIII Thou shalt appoint mindguards to protect the group from adverse information that might shatter their shared complacency about the effectiveness and morality of their decisions
Eddie01
suspended for daring to insult the messiah. had he said the same thing about any conservative you care to name, he’d get a Pulitzer.
When I was younger, “dick” was simply slang for “detective”. My father-in-law’s pop actually quit the NYPD to become a dick in the 1930’s. The pay was better.
Heck I call him worse every day!
Team Obama watches Morning Joe and texts Mika her talking points all show long. If you watch, you can see Mika constantly looking down at her BalckBerry to get talking points if the show starts to break bad towards Barry.
After I saw Halperin make that comment, I knew he would be out before the day was through. Barry has a thin skin, and if some FOX news commentator would have said this, they would have immediatley played the race card and demanded the person be fired.
Since this happened on the Obama love channel, they had to settle for a suspension and hope the rest of the sycophants on PMS_NBC got the message, “Dissent will not be tolerated, and NOBODY can diss ‘The One’ and get away with it.
He spoke truth to the wrong power. If only it had been a Republican president, he’d get by with one of those weasely, ‘I’m sorry that some hyper-sensitive person got offended’ maneuvers.
“The media sucks, I listened to the “press’ laughing as Obama mocked the GOP Congress. They are the reporters who should be suspended.”
As I wrote yesterday, the media are our mortal enemies. We should never forget this!
“So suppose Sarah Palin becomes President. Will similar standards apply?”
What are you smoking!
Except when the subject is Sarah Palin.
I should think that only Mooch-elle and that Obambi’s boyfriend that is squirreled away in the Virgin Islands would know if the asscrack is a dick.
I think the whole thing’s a riot. And I’m sure there’ll be thousands of apologies from those idiots on the show to Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann for their numerous slanders over the years . . . (crickets)
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The hypocrisy at MSLSD is so thick you can cut it with a knife.
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