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MSNBC suspends Mark Halperin for Obama comments
MSNBC Morning Joe Blog ^
| June 30, 2011
| MSNBC Morning Joe Blog
Posted on 06/30/2011 8:07:01 AM PDT by John W
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 Mark 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at mojoe.msnbc.msn.com ...
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:07:04 AM PDT
by
John W
To: John W
Suspended for telling the truth.
To: John W
Their afraid that might lose Mika’s direct link to the White House through her earpiece.
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:08:42 AM PDT
by
Sybeck1
(It's in the cards ------- Romney/Bachmann 2012 sadly will be it)
To: The Bronze Titan
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:08:49 AM PDT
by
ExpatGator
(I hate Illinois Nazis!)
To: John W
He'd have gotten a raise for saying something similar about Palin or some other actual conservative.
5
posted on
06/30/2011 8:08:53 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
To: John W
What did Mr. Mark say?
Is he not a supporter of Mr. Obama’s?
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:09:11 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
(Mr. Obama can't count.)
To: ExpatGator
said obama acted like a ‘dick’ yesterday at the presser
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:09:32 AM PDT
by
rokkitapps
( Hearings on healthcare waivers NOW! (If you agree make this your tagline))
To: John W; All
"MSNBC suspends Mark Halperin for Obama comments"
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:09:39 AM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: John W
Given the (obvious) outcome, he should’ve said “The President is a lying sack of s**t.”
To: ExpatGator
He said that the president acted like an appendage at the presser yesterday...
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:09:59 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(JMO but I reserve the right to be wrong...)
To: John W
Not such a bad punishment for what MSNBC and the Left see as blasphemy.
11
posted on
06/30/2011 8:09:59 AM PDT
by
glennaro
To: John W
I don’t get the problem..He should get a medal actually telling the truth.
12
posted on
06/30/2011 8:10:03 AM PDT
by
eak3
To: John W
I missed it, what did he say?
Did he trip up and actually tell the truth about Barry?
13
posted on
06/30/2011 8:10:26 AM PDT
by
wrench
To: John W
Wow. That took, what, less than four hours?
}:-)4
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:10:26 AM PDT
by
Moose4
("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
To: John W
Is this satire? The media sucks, I listened to the “press’ laughing as Obama mocked the GOP Congress. They are the reporters who should be suspended.
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:10:30 AM PDT
by
Williams
(Honey Badger Don't Care)
To: John W
but NBC has no agenda. Right.
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:11:05 AM PDT
by
ilgipper
( political rhetoric is no substitute for competence (Thomas Sowell))
To: wrench
He got caught on an open mic calling Obama a “d**k”. Vulgar, but then again, isn’t truth supposed to be an absolute defense?
}:-)4
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:11:22 AM PDT
by
Moose4
("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
To: John W
It just makes one wonder what kinds of remarks others might be saying when they are ‘off mic’ or ‘off camera’ regarding The O.
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:11:24 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: RexBeach
MSNBC senior political analyst Mark Halperin was suspended on Thursday by the cable network after he called President Obama “a dick” on a popular morning show and then quickly apologized.
“I thought he was a dick yesterday,” Halperin, who also is an editor-at large for Time, said on Morning Joe, referring to the President’s conduct during his press conference.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/58098.html#ixzz1QltYtPjL
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:11:27 AM PDT
by
free me
(Sarah Palin 2012 - GAME ON!!)
To: John W
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posted on
06/30/2011 8:11:44 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(From her lips to the voters' ears: Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "We own the economy" June 15, 2011)
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