Mark Halperin is a dick

[ashling]

His suspension for that comment didn't last too long. But that's not what bothers me.

He is on Alex Wagner's show continually trying to shut down oposition to Romney re Romney's remark that he doesn't care about the poor, but is concerned with the middle class. He keeps saying that Romney didn't mean it.

To say that Romney has no conception of what it means to be poor is an overstatement. It's not that he has no conception of what it means to be poor ...

Romney has no conception of what it means to be anything but Romney.

Anyway, the point is: Halperin is worthless.

[DefenseLawyer]

1. A joke you have to explain is never funny

A comment that sounds terrible is terrible, no matter how lucid your explanation of what you "really" meant. A perfect example is "I voted for it before I voted against it". Ask John Kerry how that all worked out.

[karynnj]

8. Agreed,

But this is actually worse. Kerry's was unfortunate shorthand that sounded and was terrible out of context. However, the underlying reason - that he wanted a version that did not add the cost to the debt sounds pretty sane right now.

Romney's just shows that he cares only for the people he knows he needs to win - even though if he did, he would be President of everyone.

[DefenseLawyer]

10. Very true

I'm not suggesting that the two statements are similar at all. Kerry's statement was "sane" and the explanation made perfect sense, but even in a case like that, a statement that sounds terrible is terrible in American politics.

[karynnj]

13. I completely agree with you on that

My point is that Romney's comment, in addition to being a terrible soundbite, actually says something negative about him - something that has not been successfully spun away - even though he, unlike Kerry, has significant media support.

If Kerry had that support, the comment still would have been bad and the Republicans would have used it (and been right to do so), but the media would have given more coverage to the explanation and would have spoken of the fact that Kerry was really NOT someone with values that changed with the wind.

[CherokeeDem]

2. Mark Halperin is a dick...

And has been for a long time...

If Romney didn't mean what he said...he shouldn't have said it...

[surfdog]

3. Just like Newt

"Anybody that quotes what I just said is reporting a falsehood"

[Cali_Democrat]

4. Mark Halperin is the quintessential "journalist" that fights for the 1%

Romney probably gives him a nice thrill up his leg.

[orwell]

5. Water is wet...

...night is dark.

[provis99]

6. Halperin is not a dick. A dick serves a purpose.

Halperin is a useless tool.

[ashling]

11. "Useless tool" is an oxymoron

a tool is, by definition, useful. period.

while I agree that Mark Halperin is a moron, I have no reason to believe that he is an oxymoron. Rush Limbaugh on the other hand is an oxymoron.

Now, where were we ....oh yeah, Mark Halperin is useless. period.

[provis99]

14. not so: here is a useless tool:

[ashling]

15. You could throw it at the TV

next time Mark Halperin said something useless ...

[karynnj]

7. Don't forget that he was one of two authors who said that Matt Drudge was

our Edwards R Murrow - this in a chapter where he speaks of Drudge and the Republicans twisting a standard hair cut that Kerry got for $75 in DC while running for President into a negative story of a $1000 hair cur, styling, dyeing, and highlighting complete with made up quotes by fictitious hair stylists. It was all immediately corrected by the campaign and hair salon, but Halpern and Harris gushed on about how it depicted Kerry, war hero and athlete, as not manly.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. Penises everywhere are no demanding an apology. nt