Obama "kind of a dick"

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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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Dude is a fucking moron. How do you go on a show like that, with all of those credentials and experience in the field, and pull this off? This would be considered idiotic for a freshman journalist at Time who is interning or filling in for someone on MSNBC. For someone who is a senior editor at Time, it is completely braindead, and obviously unprofessional.
 
Threedee said:
Dude is a fucking moron. How do you go on a show like that, with all of those credentials and experience in the field, and pull this off? This would be considered idiotic for a freshman journalist at Time who is interning or filling in for someone on MSNBC. For someone who is a senior editor at Time, it is completely braindead, and obviously unprofessional.
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yeah... def a rookie mistake...

'um, is this mike on? It is? How about the delay, is it on? It is? cool... then Obama was a dick yesterday. What's that? The delay was on but didn't work? Well FUCK ME....'
 
You should always assume the mike is on and the delay is off. Even if you KNOW for a fact these conditions are in effect, you still need to keep yourself in good practice. Besides, assuming that he didn't go over the air with his remark, wouldn't he still be in trouble because the incident would obviously have been reported on? Someone in the studio would have provided a quote, and the entire audience would know he had just badmouthed the president. I want to know which particular liquor he uses to steady his nerves before a news show, so that I can acquire it for the 4th of July!!
 
Threedee said:
You should always assume the mike is on and the delay is off. Even if you KNOW for a fact these conditions are in effect, you still need to keep yourself in good practice. Besides, assuming that he didn't go over the air with his remark, wouldn't he still be in trouble because the incident would obviously have been reported on? Someone in the studio would have provided a quote, and the entire audience would know he had just badmouthed the president. I want to know which particular liquor he uses to steady his nerves before a news show, so that I can acquire it for the 4th of July!!
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i agree, never say anything that you would not want printed on tomorrow's newspaper front page above the fold
 
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