britethorn on Jun 30, 2011
Today on Joe Scarborough's cable news morning program "Morning Joe," MSNBC senior political analyst Mark Halperin, co-author of the book "Game Change" which is the basis for the soon to be released major motion picture about the 2008 presidential campaign, called Halperin President Obama a "dick" on national television. He did not realize that the famous seven second delay was not functioning at Joe Scarborough had told him it was. Halperin, who also works as an editor for Time magazine, was discussing Obama's conduct in a press conference yesterday. During this discussion, he said that he "thought the President was a kind of a dick yesterday." Scarborough reacted, as you would expect, with uncomfortable laughter.
A couple of hours later, MSNBC suspended Halperin indefinitely:
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.
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