MSNBC suspends Halperin for Obama remark

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MSNBC suspends Halperin for Obama remark

NEW YORK (AP) — An off-color remark about President Barack Obama on Morning Joe has led to the suspension of politician analyst Mark Halperin.

"I thought he was a dick yesterday," Halperin said Thursday during a discussion about Obama's news conference on Wednesday.

Halperin prefaced his remark by asking, "Are we on the seven-second delay?" It was a reference to a brief delay in a TV show transmission that allows a producer to silence an offending remark. MSNBC said the show was on a delay, but a producer pushed a wrong button and the remark went over the air.

MSNBC said Halperin, who is an editor at Time magazine and an NBC News contributor, is suspended indefinitely. Both the network and Halperin apologized to the president, and Halperin said in a statement he believed the network's actions against him were appropriate.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2011-06-30-mark-halperin-msnbc-president-obama_n.htm

best not talk about obama that way on obamanbc...

i don't this guy meant to say it on the air
 
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A political journalist who said president Barack Obama was being "kind of a dick" live on air has been suspended by US cable news channel MSNBC.


Mark Halperin, a political analyst and editor-at-large for Time magazine, made the remark on MSNBC's Morning Joe programme on Thursday during a discussion about an Obama press conference the previous day.


Halperin asked the show's presenters jokingly: "Are we on the seven-second delay today? ... I want to characterise how I thought the president behaved."


The presenters appeared to encourage him to speak his mind and after apparent confusion between the studio and the show's production team in the gallery about whether a delay button was being used, Halperin said: "I thought he was kind of a dick yesterday."


This prompted a shocked reaction from the Morning Joe co-presenter Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman: "Oh my God ... delay that! Delay that! What are you doing? I can't believe you – I was joking!"




http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jun/30/barack-obama-dick-insult
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This guy is supposed to be an experienced journalist, yet he walks in and behaves this recklessly? What a fucking dumbass!! I'm sure Time will be glad to get rid of him as well.

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Threedee said:
This guy is supposed to be an experienced journalist, yet he walks in and behaves this recklessly? What a fucking dumbass!! I'm sure Time will be glad to get rid of him as well.

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i wonder if he said the same about a pub prez if he would be fired...it was a mistake, but to essentially be fired...seems a bit much to me
 
It would have to be a past Republican president. Doing this to any sitting president is too damaging to any legitimate news source to keep him on, without at least the appearance of serious disciplinary action.
 
Threedee said:
It would have to be a past Republican president. Doing this to any sitting president is too damaging to any legitimate news source to keep him on, without at least the appearance of serious disciplinary action.
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i can see a week like dolbermen...but indefinitely....perhaps, seems a bit much, but i can see your point
 
Yurt said:
i wonder if he said the same about a pub prez if he would be fired...it was a mistake, but to essentially be fired...seems a bit much to me
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You don't have to wonder. Halperin would never say anything like that about a Republican president.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
what did he think Obama was being a dick about?......
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perhaps the way he had to remind people he was the president or perhaps the way he compared congress to his young daughters doing homework. my guess the latter, i mean really, why inject your daughters into politics like that? it was a dick comment. and he hammered away at it.
 
Yurt said:
i wonder if he said the same about a pub prez if he would be fired...it was a mistake, but to essentially be fired...seems a bit much to me
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Yes, it does seem a bit much, especially for a liberal bastion like MSNBC. It's nice to know you caught that, because a lot of people won't. You see, this is a nice liberal stew simmering on the back burner for now, they just take the lid off and stir it now and then. It's called the Fairness Doctrine, and it's stuff like this they will use as ammo when the time is right, in order to make it a reality. Here's how it will play.... Oh, things have just gotten so vitriolic and hateful in America when we discuss politics on the airwaves... we must act to prevent some terrible tragedy from happening. We've tried to 'police our own' by suspending them and firing them, but it's out of our control... we need the government to regulate this.

That's coming Yurt, they are simply waiting for a tragedy they can clearly tie to broadcast journalism, to make the final push. And people like you will remember the anchors who have been suspended and see where they have made their case, and go along with their censorship. That's what they are hoping for anyway, Yurt... that you are too clueless to catch on.
 
Superfreak said:
Yeah, let me guess, suddenly Halperin became a conservative? Isn't this the same one that had his lips pressed to Kerry's ass in 2004 or am I thinking of every other journalist out there?
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No, Halperin is still part of the "liberal media." Perhaps this incident might tell you something about that "liberal media," though.
 
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