Markos:I think it's wonderful that Halperin betrayed his full feelings about Obama on the air. It's tiresome seeing people pretend that he's some sort of neutral political arbitrer, when he's engaged in a long-running jihad against the truth.
Halperin, a real dick, was hired as MSNBC's "senior political analyst" at the behest of another dick, the network's real president Joe Scarborough. MORE...
Alex Pareene (Salon's War Room-Nov. 24, 2010):The Drudge-loving political analyst who gets everything wrong--- thought we were all done talking aboutformer Bob Dole speechwriterformer ABC News political director Mark Halperin, whose star had seemed to stop rising toward the end of the Bush years -- but then he attached himself, leechlike, to reporter John Heilemann, to co-write "Game Change," a lengthy catalog of the 2008 presidential campaign's moments of least import.Halperin used to write this thing called the Note, which was an e-mail newsletter that various Washingtonians whom Halperin referred to as "The Gang of 500" used to read to find out what they themselves thought about the news of the day. It was written as privileged wisdom from Beltway insiders -- cryptic references, obscure jokes, endless name-dropping, constant inexplicable plugs for the Palm restaurant -- when it was in fact just "whatever a professional political operative recently told Mark Halperin, along with links to political stories in the major papers." MORE...
How come Halperin never used that word before, like when he was a speechwriter for Gerald Ford? He certainly must have worked with a few there. Or while he covered the glorious reign of George W. Bush you would assume he ran into a few during that time. But, alas, Obama is the "dick" even though the common view is that Obama is a nice guy who can't counter-punch the opposition, though he did manage to land a few on Hillary.
