Yes, as Jonn says, the real crime isn’t that Halperin said the d-word, it’s that Obama is being criticized for taking on economic terrorists. But also too, Halperin is a crazy motherfucker from around the way, and his professional success is a sign of our languor or barbarism. He’s always had a thing for making genitally-tinged comments about Obama (h/t commenter hilts):
HALPERIN [discussing John Edwards’ potential endorsement of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama]: “I can tell you, he’s really skeptical of her ability to be the kind of president he wants. But, he kinda thinks Obama is…he thinks Obama is kind of a pussy…”
Halperin later apologized for this.
The relish with which Halperin called Obama a “dick” after he already got in trouble for calling him a “pussy”…whatevs, he’ll probably be in rehab or on a new high-paying Fox gig faster than you can say “blueberry pie”. Okay, maybe not that fast. But pretty fast.
arguingwithsignposts
So i suppose this is the summer of the penis in washington?
geg6
This is why I almost never partake in any of the MSM news any more, after a lifetime of being a news junkie.
I can’t even read the fucking NYT ferchrissakes, after the whole Judith Miller fiasco.
Thankfully, Al Gore invented the Internet. Otherwise, I’d be as blissfully ignorant as Caribou Barbie and Crazy Eyes Bachmann.
arguingwithsignposts
Fywp. Comment in moderation. So i suppose this is the summer of the pen1s in wasington? Very appropriate.
FormerSwingVoter
I love the fact that what caused his outburst was the President explicitly stating the Republican Party’s priorities. If you say that someone favors tax breaks for corporate jets over educating children, the bad person is you for pointing it out, and not the person who in fact favors tax breaks for corporate jets over educating children.
Marty
That’s why us regular folks can’t get a paying job on TV. We don’t know enough about political journalism and the federal budget and the ways of Washington to call someone a dick.
JPL
Can you be a pussy and a dick at the same time? Enquiring minds want to know.
Halperin is not a journalist because that actually takes some work, he bloviates and gets paid for it. He’s worse than Rush because Rush doesn’t pretend he is something other than an ass. BTW..Halperin does suffer from small dick syndrome.
JPL
uh oh..I’m in moderation.. I’ll try to rephrase
Can you be a pus..sy and a dick at the same time? Enquiring minds want to know.
Halperin is not a journalist because that actually takes some work, he bloviates and gets paid for it. He’s worse than Rush because Rush doesn’t pretend he is something other than an ass. BTW..Halperin does suffer from small dick syndrome.
Han's Solo
So Obama is a dick and a pussy? OMG, he’s a hermaphrodite!
cleek
yes, it’s such a shame that the pallin-around-with-terrorists, soshulist, Kenyan, ashamed-of-America, arrogant, anti-business, president made some pointed comments about the GOP’s policies. he should’ve just demanded a 2nd amendment remedy, or maybe called for secession. but no, he had to describe their policies.
what a phallus.
TooManyJens
I occasionally wonder what this country would be like if most of the people in politics and the news media weren’t completely fucked up about sex.
Martin
I’m going to have to invoke Rule 34 and assume without looking that the answer is ‘yes’.
Frapalinger
What is perhaps most sad about all this garbage is that neither Obama’s actual words and Halperin and Morning Douche’s usual nonsense (plus a naughty word) are only after thoughts on the major networks today as the lead story is Casey Anthony. We’re all doomed.
cleek
i am proud to say i know absolutely nothing about this Casey Anthony person.
there’s a lot to be gained from ignoring the MSM.
General Stuck
In other news, bank robbery is at an all time high, and this increase is not due to any single bank robber.
Mike Kay (The Base)
Jamie Lee Curtis, says yes.
Jim C.
At least once he’s on Wingnut Welfare and in a Fox gig everyone will be clear that he’s a rightwinger.
cleek
@14
is that robberies by banks or of banks?
cause, well…
JPL
OT…Guess what the new most liberal, progressive evah..has just
Cuomo Will Seek to Lift Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing
So that was the deal he made.. I hope New Yorker don’t drink the water.
Frapalinger
@cleek
I am proud of you.
Cris (without an H)
“Tulip” is much better than “mongoloid.”
scav
@General
Well, this one would presumably be single in the legal sense. Woman accused of robbing bank in nun habit. Oh, no wait, it gets weird, the guy wore a habit too. Still, as it seems to be clear up religious doctrine day, what is the exact legal status of being married to God, is there ever alimony if things don’t work out? — and if there are more than 3 nuns, is He a bigamist?
Han's Solo
Yeah, WTF is this all about? It’s all over the news, but I have no clue why anyone cares. What are the “facts”? Is she supposed to have killed her kids? Why is it important other than she is a pretty young white girl?
Our media sucks.
kdaug
Said it last post, I’ll say it again:
Bread and circuses, as Rome burns.
Follow the pattern – “Shark Attack Summer”, Gary Condit, Shandra Levy, Natalie Halloway, Casey Anthony, Octomom, Boy in the Balloon… ad nauseum.
“Hey, look at this hand over here! Don’t pay attention to what the other hand is doing!”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
So John Edwards was a source for the guy who wrote a book that trashed Elizabeth Edwards? Could John Edwards be an even bigger dick than we already knew?
cleek
suspended!
Frapalinger
@ Han’s Solo
I have no idea what in god’s name this Casey Anthony business is. The woman is accused on killing her child. Seems like a good story for the 11 o’clock news if you ask me. But, as usual, its a useful way for the media to get ratings, as this country is just so damn voyeuristic, and to ignore the important things (hydrofracking spills and water contamination, obscene inequality, an active campaign to destroy all working and middle class entitlements) that their corporate sponsors would rather not tell us about.
Martin
NBA lockout now too? What will the peasants do with all of our heroes going Galt on us?
Mike Kay (The Base)
And that was the last straw. Trashing her in Halperin’s book. This is why Elizabeth decided to help the prosecution.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
a couple of weeks ago, there was a fist fight among people standing in line for spectators’ tickets to the Casey Anthony trial.
just in case the idea of spectators at a trial involving the possible murder of a pre-schooler isn’t disgusting enough, there are tickets, and there was a line for tickets, and people were beating each other up in the line to get those tickets to watch a woman be tried for the murder of her own pre-school age daughter
Ben Cisco
I know this is redundant for any post of yours, but post title WIN.
JPL
Mike Kay ..do you have a link?
Mike Kay (The Base)
@JPL:
I’m shocked! I’m shocked!
To paraphrase Mencken, you’ll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the “netroots”.
arguingwithsignposts
hans solo answered his own question. attractive young white woman syndrome.
stuckinred
scav
They done it to support their habit!
Mattminus
@JPL #6
“Can you be a pussy and a dick at the same time?”
Sure, that’d make you a fuck.
Mike Kay (The Base)
@JPL:
You’re kiddin! NOT St. Cuomo!! You mean the guy who killed the “millionaire’s tax”, and balanced the budget on the backs of the poor and working class by cutting Medicaid and attacking unions really isnt’ a saint!? The guy Eric Alterman calls “the bull-dog of the rich” just stabbed the environment in the back?!
I’m shocked! I’m shocked!
I’m shocked! I’m shocked!
you’ll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the “netroots”.
Mike Kay (The Base)
JPL, a link to what?
Mike Kay (The Base)
@JPL:
“Cuomo Will Seek to Lift Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing”
the guy who killed the “millionaire’s tax”, and balanced the budget on the backs of the poor and working class by cutting Medicaid and attacking unions really isnt’ a saint!? The guy Eric Alterman calls “the bull-dog of the rich” just stabbed the environment in the back?!
I’m shocked! I’m shocked!
you’ll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the “netroots”.
Frapalinger
@kdaug
Couldn’t agree with you more. And there’s no mention of a general strike in the UK, police brutality against protesters in Greece, protests in Spain, protests in Egypt, protests in America or any resistance to Austerity or neoliberal economic policies here or overseas.
geg6
Frapalinger @26:
Nancy Grace (who, thank FSM, I never have actually seen in action) has apparently been relentless and breathlessly following every single development on this case for several years now. I only know that because I had no idea who Casey Anthony was and couldn’t believe it was making national news when not even the trial and conviction of Richard Poplawski made the national news. Co-workers had to explain it to me. All I know about Nancy Grace is the devastating imitations done of her on SNL and the late lamented Boston Legal. I think, based on what I now know of her, that Nancy Grace is really a secret serial killer.
Mike Kay (The Base)
You’re kiddin! NOT St. Cuomo!! You mean the guy who killed the “millionaire’s tax”, and balanced the budget on the backs of the poor and working class by cutting Medicaid and attacking unions really isnt’ a saint!? The guy Eric Alterman calls “the bull-dog of the rich” just stabbed the environment in the back?!
I’m shocked! I’m shocked!
To paraphrase Mencken, you’ll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the “netroots”.
Sentient Puddle
Man, you guys really had to go with a topic today that gets everyone tripped up over the moderation filter, didn’t you?
JPL
Mike Kay (The Base) I didn’t know Edwards trashed his wife. I knew he was slimy but never thought he was responsible for trashing his wife.
edit i just missed that..
Frapalinger
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
Our country, founded on genocide and slavery, is dying.
Cris (without an H)
And that’s why John arranged to give her terminal cancer, to shut her up.
Frapalinger
geg6 @ 40
LOL! Yeah, she’s been on about this crap since 2008. I’m raising my children in a house without televisions.
Wee Bey
Cock. Dick. Balls.
Citizen_X
OTOH, if we’re going to have this degrading a spectacle, isn’t it a turn for the better when the gawkers start pounding on each other?
Next improvement: cops mace entire crowd.
slag
Isn’t it always the season of the dick in Washington?
Linda Featheringill
Cleek #9
Love it! Can I use it?
General Stuck
We should all be relieved Halperin didn’t say Obama’s a “package” instead of ‘dick’. It would have been a Weiner moment for sure, lasting a week or more.
jl
One person’s economic terrorist is another person’s economic freedom fighter!
Onward, my fellow billionaires, to the retreat, whence we can watch our flunkies man the barricades!
Timothy Trollenschlongen (formerly Tim, Interrupted)
MIke Kay:
Do you have a link regarding the allegation that Edwards assisted the Elizabeth trashing in the book?
Thanks!