It looks like my favorite morning show folks screwed up. I think Mika and Joe need to be sent to the corner also because they laughed. I heard it and laughed too but I out of reach of MSNBC.
According to Huffingtonpost.com :
WASHINGTON — The White House says an off-color remark about President Barack Obama by MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin was inappropriate.
Halperin said during an appearance Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he thought Obama “was a dick yesterday.” The Time magazine editor at large was talking about Obama’s performance at a White House news conference on Wednesday.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the comment was an inappropriate thing to say about any president. Carney also said he had expressed that sentiment to network executives.
Halperin quickly apologized on the air Thursday. MSNBC suspended him indefinitely hours later.
MSNBC also said Halperin’s comment was completely inappropriate and unacceptable. The network apologized to Obama.
It was inappropriate on the air. I think Halperin was set up though. I hope he isn’t suspended for more than a week. The difference between Faux News and MSNBC is that Faux walks up to the line on a continual basis but they don’t ever really cross it. They taunt it. MSNBC charges the position and crosses the line. Not often but often enough for someone to always be in time out, it seems. Halperin apologized after the commercial break. Apparently it wasn’t enough.
Jon Stewart is going to have a lot of material for tonight’s show.
2 am Post Post: And he did indeed use this incident as one of his skits.
Funny!
He did wrong but I laughed like hell when I heard it. What was really funny was the look on everyone’s face when he did it and then Mika got the giggles.
MSNBC’s ratings must be tanking. Or it’s just a slow news week. The whole thing sounded stagey to me.
@Emma, it was rather amazing.
Morning Joe is certainly not at the top of the rankings. I think one of the long running network morning shows is.
Morning Joe is the most diverse and bi partisan. That is why I like it. You get a good cross section of opinions.
I would think you might begin to worry a bit when you find out that the editor-at-large and chief political analyst of Time Magazine thinks you are acting like a d*** and is willing to say so. It’s not exactly like it was Andrew Breitbart or Rush Limbaugh who cast that stone.
That guy got sent to time out by msnbc though. At least there are some standards. That’s a start.
What did Obama apparently act like a D*** over? I never did get to that part.
I don’t think he meant it to portray what he thought of the President. I think he just used a ‘shortcut’ word for describing the President’s presence during the Press Conference.
He could’ve said, non-Presidential. Amateurish. Partisan. Campaignish.
Instead he used a word that quickly summarized it all but in a fairly negative way.
I don’t the guy should lose his job. I think his apology was heartfelt. I think he realized that he made a mistake when he did it. I think Joe egged him on. I think cable news aims to have moments like this.
I think what you really should focus on is more of what Wolverine said which is.. If a guy this much in the tank for the Obama is willing to tell people ‘off the record’ (wink wink) that he thinks the POTUS doesn’t have it all together it makes you think…what does the center of this country think?
When they view the same press conference are they buying into the President’s partisan message or into Halperin’s skepticism.
I would argue that this guy is not ‘in the tank’ for Obama unless I don’t understand the expression.
The Morning Joe Show is very ‘across the board’ as far as people with a variety of political dispositions. Don’t assume because it is MSNBC that it is a pro Obama show. It is not.
I will agree that Joe egged him on. I thought he was very much the hypocrite on that one.
I think his post at Time and his book speak for themselves with regard to his being ‘in the tank’ for Obama.
I made no mention of MSNBC. I think MSNBC is pretty fair and balanced. MSNBC.COM is partisan and in the tank for the progressives.
An opinion show like Joe is as partisan as he and his producers wish it to be. It’s not news.
Do you think Halperin’s point speaks to the sour mood of the President with the electorate? Why else would someone who is fairly safely put in the ‘fan boy’ category say something so harsh about the President?