The Right Scoop- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NK5INRFELITZ3TS337HINC3VMM Adam
“All right, all right, I apologize. I’m really really sorry. I apologize unreservedly. I do. I offer a complete and utter retraction. The imputation was totally without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment, and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret any distress that my comments may have caused you or your family, and I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future.”
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Great movie!
- Anonymous
Calling Obama a “dick” by a member of the MSM is long overdue. MSNBC should apologize for not exposing Obama before the election.
- Anonymous
Nice digg.
- Anonymous
Nice digg.
- Anonymous
Maybe he is looking for a job at FOX ?
- Anonymous
I think Beck was talking yesterday about the personal and ethical decay in journalists who have come to the job with a sense of self righteous ideological purpose instead of to objectively inform the public.
- Anonymous
Right On!
- Anonymous
Right On!
- Persephone
Donkeys occasionally slip up and tell the truth.
He’s right…but not about the ‘yesterday’ part.
Obama is a dick every day of the week and never takes a day off. - Anonymous
Numbers 22:21 Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab.
Numbers 22:23 When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat her to get her back on the road.
Numbers 22:28 Then the LORD opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?”
What have WE done to take this beating from all of the donkeys in DC?
We need to beat them at least three times. Do we deserve this poop poor performance? Dopey, Nopey, No. Some of them will see the light…some of them will go towards the light, but most of them will be sitting behind the lights of whatever vehicle ferry’s them home
- Anonymous
What have we done? I think it is that we have been cowards too long, afraid to defend what we know is right for fear of being seen as unenlightened, simplistic, intolerant or bigoted. We have failed to defend the very thing which gave us the freedom, ability and obligation to so.
- Anonymous
Dear sDee:
We have elected weiners instead of leaders. Wafflers instead of strict constructionists. Sometimes I think electing a bunch of wascally wabbits would have been preferable.
We have been productive citizens, that’s what we’ve been doing. We’ve been raising and educating our children despite the downward spiral of our culture. We’ve been giving half of our earnings to various governments.
Many of us have been cowering in corners, and refusing to make waves. Lately we’ve been making more and more waves, we just need some conservative spined dudes and dudettes to surf those durn swells! Hang Ten!
That’d be really swell.
Sincerely, but with one of these
Rshill7 - Anonymous
Right On!
- Anonymous
I would add lazy and self-absorbed to that.
- Anonymous
LOL, I was thinking of the same story!
- Anonymous
And if this was said about Bachmann or Palin, I’m sure they would have all giggled and cracked a joke about it. But when their precious gets called out, they trip overthemselves trying to seem relevent. Morning Joe is a piece of work!
- Anonymous
And if this was said about Bachmann or Palin, I’m sure they would have all giggled and cracked a joke about it. But when their precious gets called out, they trip overthemselves trying to seem relevent. Morning Joe is a piece of work!
- Anonymous
I think “dick” is way too subtle for this community organizer, socialist, marxist, hate America president.
- Anonymous
You missed unethical asshole !
- Anonymous
Yes but I was being nice so early in the AM.
- Anonymous
I have always seen everything Obama does which appears destructive, idiotic, and clearly destructive to America and the West, is not calamity, but intentional by calculation and design.
Soros and the other marxists and globalists have been at this a lifetime – they would never left their boy genius screw it up.
But why? What crops of destruction has he been sowing at President? What is Obama’s next play?
Today there is a piece in American Thinker that is a very interesting explanation.
“A reasonable guess is that Obama wants to be UN Secretary General. To do that he needs two things: Radical Muslim support, and the international left, especially European socialists”
I think is worth a read if just for the points in his analysis.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/_is_obama_making_his_next_career_move.html - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWMGNBZZ57UAFJCGVUOX5WRHJY ldjc
Very interesting. I will read the article you suggest. Thanks.
- Persephone
It makes sense, given all the clues.
Since nothing would surprise me at this point…Obama could nominate himself for UN Secretary General, while he is still in control of the US Military.
‘Oh that can’t happen’…some might say.
The list is growing each day of things that we used to say ‘can’t happen’.Dems in Congress are already using the ‘Fast & Furious’ gunrunning debacle as a new excuse to call for more gun control.
If Obama was both President and UN Secretary General…he could force the widespread gun control that Soros believes is essential to their dreams of a One World Government.If Obama can agitate the country into civil unrest, then he could ‘explain’ how being head of the UN would be for the ‘good of the country’.
Judge Napolitano was the only one I saw talking yesterday about how the Fed is going to be loaning money to bail out Greece.(!)
I have had a sick feeling about that ever since.
It is in keeping with what that article said about Obama currying favor with the International Left. - Anonymous
sounds like defunding UN should be a top priority of any new administration. No telling what the ‘nudgers’ have embedded in the last sessions legislation to anchor intervention points for future UN intrusion.
I’ll have to rethink Andy Stern’s comments about ‘we forgot to build global governance’.
I was wondering why Obama did the Israel thing. It’s obvious he was tanking any prospect of re-election. This is the plausible jumping point.
- http://thereactionariesspeak.com/ reactionaries
Not that it doesn’t tickle me that he did it, but he even warned them he was gonna do it!
That’s some funny stuff right there, I don’t care who you are.
Go read some of the comments at Politico for some real laughs. - http://thereactionariesspeak.com/ reactionaries
Not that it doesn’t tickle me that he did it, but he even warned them he was gonna do it!
That’s some funny stuff right there, I don’t care who you are.
Go read some of the comments at Politico for some real laughs. - http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Florey/100002543536293 Mike Florey
No need to apologize.
- George Skinner
The libs are cracking. Soon there will be a mutiny by some from Zero
http://blog.getliberty.org/default.asp?Display=3458 - Anonymous
A sign that is end is nigh … just as the Mayans foretold … someone on MSNBC accurately characterized President Obama’s press conference.
- Persephone
The Mayans foretold of “beasts rising up against their masters”.
Yep…that does seem to apply here.
- Anonymous
I don’t get it. Isn’t dick the one that he should be apologizing to?
- Anonymous
I always thought Obama and Weiner were two sides of the same coin.
- http://www.facebook.com/camntx Carol Ann Morris
why does he apologize if this is what he really thinks ~ I am so sick and tired of everyone pussy-footing around because they are afraid they are going to offend someone! I am offended by offended people!!! So what if he called him a name ~ they certainly call conservatives worse (especially if they are women)…
- Anonymous
I agree. It is not a mistake to speak our minds and convictions, and that mistake is how we have put ourselves in such dire straits.
As John Jay recently wrote over at Summer Patriot, Winter Solider:
“so, were i you, i would become proficient in defending my self, and the persons and property of my friends. and, i would become proficient in defending my heritage, my ideals, my religious values, my political values and my way of life.
it is that simple.”
- http://twitter.com/cfallon57 Cheryl Fallon
Because it is disrespectful to call people names. This lack of self control of the “tongue” is just another example of the lack of self control in our society.
- Linky1
Of course it’s disrespectful to call people names. The lack of self-control leads right back to these leftist elitists who have no defense against the truth so they resort to name calling.
Tell that to Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman and the countless other Conservative women who have suffered the slings and arrows from the leftist demigods of the media.
Halperin gets the boot for this so-called gaffe while others like Olbermann, Matthwes, the nattering magpies from the View, Joy-less Behar…the list is endless, get a pass when they use terms like slut, or other descriptive phrases.
.
- Anonymous
Weinergate!
- http://www.facebook.com/jim.snape Jim Snape
RRAAAACCCIIISSSSSTT!!!
- http://www.facebook.com/jim.snape Jim Snape
RRAAAACCCIIISSSSSTT!!!
- Anonymous
LOL!
- http://www.facebook.com/jim.snape Jim Snape
RACIST!!
- http://www.facebook.com/jim.snape Jim Snape
RACIST!!
- Anonymous
Yes, someone at MsNBC said something less than flattering about Obama, but then the ballerina retracted everythimg he said. Are all liberals mouthy and gutless?
- Anonymous
MSLSD just suspended Halperin “indefinitely”
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/mark-halperin-suspended-obama-dick_b73992
- Persephone
As soon as Halperin figures out a way to blame it on Bush and Sarah Palin…he’ll be back.
“Suspended indefinitely” doesn’t mean ‘fired’.
If he had said something like ‘I think Sarah Palin would be a better President than Obama’
…then they would’ve fired him. - Anonymous
He’ll need to have diversity counseling – lol!
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Florey/100002543536293 Mike Florey
Halperin really meant to say Dick Tater.
- Anonymous
Excellent point!
- Anonymous
If he had called anyone who isn’t a progressive/marxist the same, he would have been cheered for it.
- Anonymous
Well, that was stupid and immature. He wanted to make sure he could say it and not get caught. He specifically asked if they were on delay. Downright unprofessional for a journalist to act like that, especially on a morning show.
And there his co-hosts are, egging him on! Unbelievable.
And I totally agree with Scoop: Schultz is off the air for one lousy week for saying much worse about Lara Ingraham.
- Anonymous
If this guy was “suspended”, he could simply say, I was obviously talking about Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann at the same time and got confused with visions of sugarplum O’s dancing through my otherwise empty headpiece. Then he could turn a suspension into a raise and his frown upside down :-I
- Anonymous
hmmm. so yeah, he got fired for not being fast enough on his feet. Silly leftist.
- Anonymous
“So Haplerin basically gets fired for calling Obama a d!ck and Ed Schultz only gets a week suspension for calling Laura Ingraham a slut.”
You nailed it TRS!
- Anonymous
Hire him back and give him a raise!! It’s about time that someone on your network spoke the truth!!
- Anonymous
Hire him back and give him a raise!! It’s about time that someone on your network spoke the truth!!
- http://tinyurl.com/wwsotu Whitewolf2009
Truth was spoken… Typical liberal, only tells the truth when he thinks he’s among “like minded friends” and can cover it up afterwords!
- David Wheeler
He forgot to put ‘sucker’ on the end of that
- Anonymous
haha! Like it.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=576600048 Kerry Michael Soileau
Or perhaps “-less wonder” on the end.
- Anonymous
Fired? He should have gotten a raise!
- Anonymous
It’s about respecting the office of the presidency….nothing else is comparable
- Anonymous
Respecting an office that pits American against American, ruins the private sector, and redistributes wealth makes as much sense as respecting a bully for beating up his classmates.
- Anonymous
It never wins me “likes” around here, but I still believe in respecting the office of the President, even if I don’t like the occupant himself.
Some things, like base name-calling or attacks on family, should be off limits for both sides. Remember: they hate our guys as much/more and we won’t like it for them to call our next Conservative Pres things like that. Fair’s fair.
- Anonymous
I agree. It’s the Office of the Presidency that is important. There has been some pretty awful behavior on the part of the “office holders” – Johnson peeing on a Secret Service agent’s pant leg, the Kennedy brothers sneaking women in, Clinton and his “cigar girl”, Obama and his boorish behavior – (geeze, they’re all Dems!) but the Office still needs to be respected.
I look forward to having someone worthy of the office elected very soon. I think Sarah and Todd will be the best looking First Couple in history. I can’t wait to see what she wears for her Inaugural Ball!
- Anonymous
Halperin returns to MSNBC. Mark Halperin won the victory over himself, he loves Dear Leader.
- http://twitter.com/showb1zz Brian Gass
Truest words that were ever spoken on MSNBC. If only he was allowed to continue and say “I can’t believe we voted for this guy, he is not smarter than most, he certainly cannot speak better than most (unless he is reading his trusty teleprompter), and he has absolutely no more real work experience than a college student.”
- http://www.solitudeholdings.com/blog1/ Dan C
Shouldn’t they suspend just about everyone on air for saying far worse things about Palin? You speak against the messiah Obama and you will be punished I guess.
- Anonymous
Yes!
- Anonymous
Maybe he can get a job at fox.
- Anonymous
The truth hurts sometimes. Shouldn’t have to apologize for telling it like it is.
- Anonymous
Premier Obama rear sniffer had buyer’s remorse. This nasty piece of work has been a champion of the regime since the 2008 campaign, it never occurred to him that he could be wrong at any point of his loyal sniveling of the Personistas, suddenly he has an awakening! As most dishonest reporters in Washington, even when he speaks his mind, he takes it back, with “technical error”, mistake, accident, etc….There was no mistake here, he woke up…..and instantly resorts back to lying, well…it was glitch, the 7 seconds delay did not work, like the Gigolo Kerry who was for it but later was against it….lying is in the DNA of their operating system….they cannot breath without a good doze of dishonesty…..
- poljunkie
WEll, he is….
- poljunkie
WEll, he is….
- Anonymous
In my opinion, all the people at that table were just as guilty. They continued to to talk about the President in that light as if they had agreed with Mark. The conversation did not skip a beat after a few chuckles over Mark’s comment. Someone should have asked Mark to apologize before they continued, but they didn’t feel the need.
I sense a sexual harassment lawsuit against MSNBC and Mark Halperin by the FCC or even the President. Why not? You can’t express yourself in such a way in the work place, and MSNBC is Mark Halperin’s work place.
This kind of behavior needs to stop in the work place. This is just the one time Mark got caught. How many times has he said things like this and NOT got caught.
There are a lot of sexual harassment lawsuits that should be flying around people on television. Television is a work place, plain and simple. Free speech does not apply because they are getting paid while they speak. In the work place, you can’t say anything you want. Everyone knows that.
- Anonymous
Say what you mean, (and he did,) mean what you say ( he does) I don’t see a problem. Why did he apologize?
- Anonymous
Amazing double standard. With all the things they STILL say about George Bush, how many of these scumbags were suspended, much less fired? Say something about their sacred cow, though, and you’re done.
- Anonymous
That comment was disgusting and untruthful! The American people and ‘friends of’ like myself, the world over know that the president was not just a dick yesterday!
- Anonymous
That comment was disgusting and untruthful! The American people and ‘friends of’ like myself, the world over know that the president was not just a dick yesterday!
- Anonymous
That comment was disgusting and untruthful! The American people and ‘friends of’ like myself, the world over know that the president was not just a dick yesterday!
- Anonymous
truth hurts
- Anonymous
I just wish he would have done it on a show people watch
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Brenda-Cibelli/100000687513153 Brenda Cibelli
Halpern—-tells the truth—and gets fired—- whatever happened to free speech!!
- Anonymous
Time Magazine’s Mark Halperin was on the Scarborough Show and thought he was off-air when he critiqued Barack Hussein Obama’s 6/29/2011 speech saying “I thought he was kind of a dick.” When he found out it went out over the air he apologized for his comment. WHY? If that is what he TRULY believed he should be able to tell the World. MSNBC has since suspended Halperin as an analyst.
Mark Halperin offered the following written apology, “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.” I happen to agree with Halperin and I will not apologize for saying so. Barack Hussein Obama is a Community Agitator and a Bully. He is supposed to be the “Leader” of the Free World, but he is NOT a leader. I also believe you give respect to people who “earn” it. ObaME is a polarizing and divisive figure and it showed in his speech on 6/29/2011. This incident shows how the so-called Mainstream Media is the propaganda wing of the Obama Regime. What Halperin said was the TRUTH, but then backed off because he spoke ill of the “Messiah.” Halperin revealed his TRUE feelings when he thought only a select few were listening, however when he learned the Whole World heard it he retracts his statement and apologizes. Gutless! I believe, Say what you mean and mean what you say. No APOLOGIES!
- Anonymous
ROFL. I just had a lib co-worker who lays the blame for lack of bias on the news on FOX. That’s right. It’s FOX’s fault!
Cable news made everything more competitive and flashier, and more editorial, and it’s FOX’s fault. That’s why there’s lack of objectivity now.
Oh my, my, my. As if the NYT hasn’t been in the tank for YEARS now! What’s funny is that she doesn’t deny that TV news is left-leaning and lacks objectivity.
Exit question: in all fairness, was FOX really the first cable news network? Did they change the game like that?
- Linky1
Your liberal co-worker is slipping – they didn’t blame Bush 43 for the gaffe.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PMUQ2WC6JSMODAMOFH4IORH62Q Dredd
****-head” would have been spot on…
- Anonymous
“Halperin was under the impression that it would get bleeped and was told it would get bleeped.”
There’s no honor among thieves.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/May-Jon/100002146373083 May Jon
“douche bag” is a more fitting term.
- Anonymous
And so it begins. The Lib’s have finally seen the light, and it no longer emanates from Obuma.
Hehe….I LLLLLove it!
- Anonymous
What’s the big deal? Obama is a dick.
- CitizenHill
I’ll venture to say that now that Halperin has been fired because he let it slip on the air that he thought O’bama was a “dick” yesterday…that he absolutely thinks that O’bama is a complete dick today, even though he’ll probably not say that openly anywhere near a reporter or a “hot” mike anytime soon.
- Liberty Protected
Freedom of speech — he said “I thought……”
Okay…. atleast he still was allowed to share his view —— atleast for a second or two until he was made to quiet or retract his views
***UPDATE 2: WHY WAS HALPERIN SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY***
From Politico:
Mark Halperin, editor-at-large for Time, called President Obama “a dick” on Thursday on a popular MSNBC morning show and then quickly apologized.
“I thought he was a dick yesterday,” Halperin, who also is a senior political analyst for MSNBC, said on Morning Joe, referring to the President’s conduct during his press conference.
Host Joe Scarborough hoped to prevent the comment from being broadcast, saying, “Delay that. Delay that. What are you doing? I can’t believe… don’t do that. Did we delay that?”
Just minutes later, Halperin quickly apologized to the president and viewers for his choice of words. “Joking aside, this is an absolute apology. I shouldn’t have said it. I apologize to the president and the viewers who heard me say that,” Halperin said.
“We’re going to have a meeting after the show,” Scarborough said.
According to Scarborough, there had been a mishap with the seven-second delay button – a new executive producer apparently didn’t know how it worked. “You are supposed to know how to do the job,” Scarborough said of his producer. “I would tell you what I think of him, but he doesn’t know what button to push.”
When they don’t think they are being heard, that’s when they tell the truth. And in this case it was the truth. And that apology was only because it went out on live TV. He meant what he said.
***
Here’s more context of what was happening when he said it:
***
UPDATE: According to TVNewser Mark Halperin has been suspended indefinitely by MSNBC:
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 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.
That was quick. So Haplerin basically gets fired for calling Obama a d!ck and Ed Schultz only gets a week suspension for calling Laura Ingraham a slut. Makes me wonder how many phone calls from the White House they got.
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UPDATE 2 – Just another point. Why did Halperin get fired when it was the fault of the 7-second-bleeper for letting it go out on the air? Halperin was under the impression that it would get bleeped and was told it would get bleeped. Despite what you think about his comment, he was openly told to go ahead and say what he really thought.
This just goes to show you that it wasn’t that he said it on the air, but that he insulted that Almighty Messiah Obama on the air. That’s why they fired him. Makes me wonder even more how many phone calls MSNBC got from the White House to get rid of him.
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Numbers 22:21 Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab.
Numbers 22:23 When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat her to get her back on the road.
Numbers 22:28 Then the LORD opened the donkey’s mouth, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?”
What have WE done to take this beating from all of the donkeys in DC?
We need to beat them at least three times. Do we deserve this poop poor performance? Dopey, Nopey, No. Some of them will see the light…some of them will go towards the light, but most of them will be sitting behind the lights of whatever vehicle ferry’s them home Dear sDee:
We have elected weiners instead of leaders. Wafflers instead of strict constructionists. Sometimes I think electing a bunch of wascally wabbits would have been preferable.
We have been productive citizens, that’s what we’ve been doing. We’ve been raising and educating our children despite the downward spiral of our culture. We’ve been giving half of our earnings to various governments.
Many of us have been cowering in corners, and refusing to make waves. Lately we’ve been making more and more waves, we just need some conservative spined dudes and dudettes to surf those durn swells! Hang Ten!
That’d be really swell.
Sincerely, but with one of these
Rshill7- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWMGNBZZ57UAFJCGVUOX5WRHJY
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hmmm. so yeah, he got fired for not being fast enough on his feet. Silly leftist.
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