MSNBC Has 'Indefinitely' Suspended Mark Halperin For His 'Dick' Remark About Obama

Business Insider ^ | 06/30/2011 | Glynnis MacNicol

[SeekAndFind]

That was fast.

This morning on Morning Joe Mark Halperin, under the impression Morning Joe was on a 7 second delay, said he thought President Obama was a 'dick' in his press conference yesterday.

He quickly apologized once it became clear the remark had aired, ad did the entire Morning Joe crew.

Apparently that was not enough.

MSNBC has since suspended Halperin. Their statement:

"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."

[Madame Dufarge]

Any bets on how long Red Eye will play Halperin’s astute observation on a continuous loop tonight?

[don-o]

Let’s don’t get all wee-wee’ed up over this.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Nope! I don’t really see what agreeing with Halperin has to do with watching “PMSNBC, It’s not on my TV” but we do discuss Barry and his Destruction of America agenda quite a bit. We all believe that he qualifies as being a dick.

[rlmorel]

ROTFLMAO!

[lonevoice]

Nobody w/ a wit whit of intelligence can watch that "show"

whit

noun

a particle; bit; jot (used especially in negative phrases): not a whit better.

[aruanan]

You can see Barry's whaleness in this childhood picture in which he sports a cranium like a Beluga whale (whale picture for comparison:

[Buckeye McFrog]

Just hours after the assembled “journalist community” was jumping all over Michele Bachmann about her gaffes.

Do we have an awesome God or what???

[Mad Dawgg]

"Let’s don’t get all wee-wee’ed up over this."

[JoeProBono]

[Norseman]

>>Dick?<<

My reaction also. Why would they suspend him for referring to the President as a private detective?

Halperin was obviously implying that the President’s intense investigation of the underlying problems created solely by his predecessor had at last yielded fruit and that he was about to unveil “the Answer” to all of our problems...

[xp38]

I won’t post a pic that would get me banned or at least a stern warning but the obama dildo with the name Head O State was marketed in 2008.

[Hacklehead]

Calling a D*ck a D*ck can get you fired.

[des]

Contrived.

[noinfringers2]

I see you too have noticed the Mussolini habit of presentation by Obama. Too bad that a generation or so separates the public from seeing the comparison.

[Publius6961]

But Halperin got it all wrong!

Obama is an Arrogant Dick!

[Matt Hatter]

Young people today would think Mussolini is a wine cooler. Oh jeez...I am getting old.

[rlmorel]

For those who may not be of that generation...I created this!

[USMCPOP]

Put someone more Obama-friendly in there. Have to keep up the standards of the MSM. /sarc

[TexasTransplant]

Good thing he didn’t call him a Teabagger

TT

[RedMonqey]

Of course if the comment would have been about a conservative, the comment would have been “We apologize to anyone that might have been offended.”

You're got that right!!!! This wasn't an mealy mouthed ”non apology” apology reserved for offensive statements about conservatives