Mark Halperin just now: "Trump is strong, that's part of his strength"
— TV's Brendan James (@deep_beige) July 9, 2015
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Mark Halperin just now: "Trump is strong, that's part of his strength"
— TV's Brendan James (@deep_beige) July 9, 2015
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David Koch
The Moar You Know
Mark Halperin just now: “Now I have tingles in my dirty man parts”
different-church-lady
First rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.
? Martin
Let’s not discourage him. The more Trump the better.
Aqualad08
Trump strong, Hulk more strong. Hulk beat Trump…
Uncle Cosmo
He’s strong alrighty–that’s why the press corpse tries to stay upwind of him…
Iowa Old Lady
Donald Trump makes me laugh on a daily basis. For that alone, I treasure him.
David Koch
Trump takes national lead:
And here I thought this day couldn’t possibly get any better.
OzarkHillbilly
@Iowa Old Lady: If he makes it to the first 2 debates, I can die a happy man.
Archon
Sports commentators and sports analysts are held to a higher standard of professionalism then political journalists in America.
At the very least sports people have to explain for example why they thought the Cleveland Cavaliers would beat the Warriors. When is the last time someone in politics or the media was called into account for being wrong?
Mike in NC
Trump is like a comic book villain. Think Lex Luthor with a really bad wig.
BGinCHI
I see Halp is dipping into the Yoda playbook now.
Classy.
Tree With Water
In a nutshell- accent on “nut”- permit me to present today’s republican party in the words of a typical rank and file member in good standing (courtesy of Bill Curry at Salon.com):
“..For sheer oddball color, no one beat Senate Majority Leader Harvey Peeler, who summed things up in these lovely words: “To remove the [Confederate] flag… and thinking it would change history would be like removing a tattoo from the corpse of a loved one and thinking it would change a loved one’s obituary.”
p.a.
“Knowledge is good”
Patrick Thompson
@Aqualad08:
Puny Trump.
KG
@Archon: two things… first, sports are obviously more important than politics. second, the careers of Colin Cowherd and Skip Bayless suggest that sports analysts aren’t held to that high of a standard.
ETA: as for your example, those supporting Cleveland just yelled LEBRON JAMES! over and over again, which isn’t much different than a lot of what passes for political analysis.
Shakezula
There are people who work dangerous, backbreaking jobs seven days a week and they still can’t pay for necessities. Meanwhile, this dickhead gets paid an obscene amount of money to let crap like that fall out of the hole underneath his nose.
What a world.
In other GOP news, am I the only one who thinks ScWalker’s campaign logo looks like it was lifted from Tommy Hilfiger?
Baud
@different-church-lady:
I wonder what the other part of his strength is.
BGinCHI
@Baud: “His humility,” added Halperin.
srv
Trump is taking America like the French took Bastille.
He may be our last chance to roll back fevered PC inanity that has overrun this once great nation.
dmsilev
@Aqualad08:
I’d pay to watch that. What superpower does the hair have?
David Koch
@Baud: His hair, of course.
Brachiator
@Mike in NC:
Trump is Jesse Eisenberg in “Superman v Batman?”
BGinCHI
@srv: I agree. The Personal Computer has been a disaster.
jl
@Shakezula:
“…this dickhead gets paid an obscene amount of money to let crap like that fall out of the hole underneath his nose.”
As different-church-lady helpfully pointed out above, you really cannot argue with his reasoning, can you?
Benw
There’s really no Peak (or more accurately Nadir) Halperin: those that live by clickbait can always sink lower and more outrageous. Those throughs aren’t going to click themselves!
Tree With Water
Great Minds Think Alike 2015. Bill Curry at Salon.com proposes, and I endorse: “If you fear the erosion of the right to privacy or the rule of law, you might think it time to remove J. Edgar Hoover’s name from the FBI headquarters in Washington”. I’ve thought that a splendid idea for quite a while. It’s nice to see in print.
Major Major Major Major
I don’t have enough faces or palms to properly regret having read that.
Hungry Joe
Trump just doesn’t go away. SPY magazine was calling him a “short-fingered vulgarian” in 1990; who could have imagined he’d still be trumpeting horseshit and bloviating around the land a quarter of a century later?
He can’t get the nomination … can he? I honestly don’t know anymore. The only scenario I can come up with that doesn’t seem surreal is Jeb! as the nominee. And I think he’s the only one who has any kind of a chance. My call right now (though it changes with each spin of the Earth) is Jeb!/Walker.
dedc79
Let’s play this out. Trump shoots at Halperin with a handgun:
1) If he misses, Halperin praises Trump for sparing his life.
2) If he hits hit him, Halperin spends final, dying breaths praising Trump for his marksmanship and decisiveness.
Waldo
@OzarkHillbilly: Trump in the GOP debates would raise the proceedings to the level of a WCW steel cage match.
feebog
Plus, he has very plump lips.
Renie
Is Trump still getting death threats from Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman? I find it hysterical that Trump’s big mouth started it.
Baud
@dedc79: Only one way to find out.
Omnes Omnibus
That Halperin quote rivals Seal’s It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over in analytical depth.
different-church-lady
@Baud: Strength is the other part of his strength.
BGinCHI
@dedc79: I hope it’s 2.
Schlemazel
@p.a.:
No,
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
Trump may have more “strength” than any other GOP candidte & that is saying something in a field filled with really “strong” characters.
Baud
@Renie:
“Hello. My name is Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. You insulted my country. Prepare to die.”
DougJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
Isn’t that a Lenny Krativz song?
BGinCHI
@Hungry Joe: Another WI VP who comes in second place at being second place? Didn’t the WI men’s basketball team come in second?
And Omnes Omnibus came in second in that Mr. America pageant.
Seeing a trend here.
Linnaeus
There’s strong and then there’s Trump Strong.
SatanicPanic
@Renie: While Trump’s words were offensive to milions of Mexicans and right-thinking people around the world… maybe El Chapo, an actual Mexican criminal, ought to sit this one out?
Roger Moore
@Archon:
That’s a pretty low bar, but the political journalists still manage to wriggle under it. At least people are willing to complain about sports commentators being a bunch of homers, while political commentators mostly pretend to be impartial and get prickly when people point out their biases.
Omnes Omnibus
@DougJ: Damn it. You are correct. I think I will blame autocorrect.
GregB
Every time Mark Halperin takes a shit, his head caves in.
Hat-tip Al Ducharme.
Baud
@SatanicPanic: Yeah, I joke, but I hope El Chapo has other things on his bucket list.
KG
@Waldo: like War Games? or like a late Hogan/Flair match where they’d cut so many times that they could bleed if they just thought hard enough? I’m not saying I’d be opposed to either scenario, I’m just looking for a comparison point.
dexwood
@Linnaeus:
If I start seeing that on bumper stickers I’ll know who to blame.
Hungry Joe
Trump, remember, is militaristic. In Arizona he told us he was the most militaristic person in the room — a room with a lot people in it, some of whom were surely pretty militaristic. Which makes Trump very militaristic indeed. So if I were El Chapo I would be fretting about having offended someone so militaristic. Because, you know — militaristic. Or something. How did we get here? This is not my beautiful house …
Patrick
…which must be good news for John McCain…
jl
@Omnes Omnibus:
‘ That Halperin quote rivals Seal’s It Ain’t Over ’til It’s Over in analytical depth. ”
That Halprin quote is deja vu all over again.
hilts
Doug,
I beg to differ.
This is peak Halperin
http://gawker.com/356128/asshole-says-loser-calls-barack-obama-a-pussy
Halperin is the gift that keeps on giving.
Omnes Omnibus
@BGinCHI: That was our secret, damn it! Last time I confide in you.
BGinCHI
@Omnes Omnibus: Don’t hide your light under a bushel precious snowflake cheesehead.
ETA: typed with extra love
different-church-lady
@jl: Strength is ninety percent strength, and the other half is strength.
zmulls
I have no idea how this GOP process is going to play out. I wouldn’t assume that Jeb! goes the distance.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a race with this many marquee candidates (Governors and ex-Governors who at least used to be spoken of seriously for the job).
And we have to remember who is going to be doing to voting during the primaries — the same people who showed up in an off-year election to re-elect Walker, LePage, Rick Scott and more.
I can easily write off Fiorina and Carson, but there is going to be a very entertaining winnowing season.
Botsplainer
@Renie:
I just want El Chapo to hold off on his righteous vengeance for the disrespect until AFTER Trump wins the nomination and loses the general. Only then will the broken, lifeless and bloody body of The Donald bring me glee beyond imagining, primarily as a lesson to the other billionaire blowhards.
Roger Moore
@dmsilev:
It must have incredible toughness; it has to hang around with Trump all the time without turning into a puddle of goo.
Tenar Darell
Where did journamalism go so terribly wrong, that it no longer can present even a facsimile of the facts? Halperin just presents low quality bafflegab now, pathetic.
But seriously, he’s one in a long lineage of cretins who have traded access for reporting. He is, after all, a journamalist who had access to the McCain campaign that foisted Sarah Palin on us all. If that wasn’t the story to break all agreements for the sake of the real story, then Trump, who is widely known, will not cause Halperin to break character. He deserves all the mockery he gets.
David Koch
@different-church-lady: Half of this game is 90% pitching
gratuitous
We had eight years of strong and lethally wrong. I’m not anxious for a reprise.
Renie
Did anyone hear about Trump using images of Nazi soldiers in a campaign photo tweet? MotherJones has the story.
SatanicPanic
@Baud: “Who you calling criminals!?!” sounds better coming from someone who isn’t a verified criminal. maybe that’s just me
mdblanche
Disease and deprivation stalk our land like two giant stalking things.
Baud
@mdblanche:
Faulkner?
Turgidson
@dedc79:
If we’re lucky, it would be one of those bullets like in Indiana Jones that cuts down multiple people. And, it just so happens, Ron “Severe Dementia” Fournier is standing right behind Halperin.
mai naem mobile
@David Koch: but Jim Gilmore hasn’t gotten in yet. Just wait till Gilmore gets in. You’ll have 3 people in two digits.
Felonius Monk
Halperin is an Idiot, that’s part of his idiocy.
Roger Moore
@jl:
If the voters don’t wanna come out for Trump, no one can stop ’em.
dedc79
@Turgidson: Can we get Charles Lane in on that action too?
Patricia Kayden
@Hungry Joe: How can you be militaristic if you’ve never served in the military? Yet no one calls him out on this false boast.
trollhattan
Welp, I don’t know why I never made this Trump connection before. Now that’s fixteded. Thank you Mark Halperin.
Just One More Canuck
“Trump is strong, that’s part of his strength”
Halperin is the Ralph Wiggum of punditry
Richard mayhew
@mai naem mobile: how many decimal places?
Hungry Joe
@Patricia Kayden: How can you suggest that Trump isn’t militaristic? He’s the most militaristic-est militaristic candidate ever, because of how militaristic he is, and all. And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile …
Turgidson
@dedc79:
Indiana Jones’ magic bullet took down three Nazis, so I don’t see why not. Lane is a good choice, as is BoBo, of course.
ThresherK
@BGinCHI: who comes in second place at being second place
Joe (Midnight Cab Ride) Lieberman was excoriated, rightly, for bragging that he finished in “a three-way tie for third place” in New Hampshire one year.
How many R’s in the Clown Car would give their eye-teeth for a result like that?
trollhattan
@Hungry Joe:
“My military will be epic, and classy, and YOOGE! unlike the militaries of my weaker than weak opponents, who are losers. We have had a Pentagon for too long, and nobody respects things with five sides. I will make it an Octagon and challenge any nation in the world to a cage fight!” #TweetLikeTrump
beltane
But my news headlines tell me that Lindsay Graham has rejected Donald Trump. Why does Sen. Graham dislike strong men?
Botsplainer
Halperin looks like the guy in high school who cuts a greasy fart in the hall and picks on the retarded kid for doing it. He gets picked second to last for games but fancies himself a jock. When he plays dodgeball, he aims for the head of the smallest, weakest kid on the other team, and misses.
Felonius Monk
@Botsplainer: Are you saying that Halperin is an Asshole?
Roger Moore
@beltane:
I guess he’s a top.
Cacti
Latest USA Today poll:
Trump leads GOP field, trails Hillary by 17.
trollhattan
@Cacti:
Clearly, this is good news for John McCain.
I’d missed that Trump had a wee advertising glitch. Something about those helmets….
Baud
@Cacti:
That Trump would get over 40% of voters is insane.
beltane
@Baud: We live in a country where even Donald Trump’s large colon is guaranteed at least 40% of the vote. Even worse, Donald Trump’s colon would easily win a majority of white men.
gelfling545
@Renie: If that actually was posted by Guzman (and tweeting when you’re on the run from a jailbreak doesn’t seem too bright) it appeared to me he only threatened to make Trump “eat his words”, using the informal register, of course.
muddy
@dmsilev:
HULK RESUME SAY
HATE TEAMWORK, SMASH ALL MEETINGS
ALWAYS BE SMASHING
jl
@beltane:
But is Donald Trump’s colon as boring and featureless as Uranus?
Better check that out first before we make predictions.
different-church-lady
@beltane: Donald Trump is 90% large colon, and the other half is mental.
Roger Moore
@different-church-lady:
So he’s only mostly full of shit?
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: The rest is wig.
EthylEster
@zmulls:
These are NOT marquee candidates.
Please familiarize yourself with the meaning of the term.
I suggest a substitution: “wannabe”.
schrodinger's cat
Saw James Woolsey on the Snooze Hour this evening. He was muttering something about why we can’t trust Iran. Paraphrasing Woolsey, something something they can lie to infidels and that they are not like the Russians. Sounded really wingnutty.
Another Holocene Human
@Tree With Water: I’ve always thought the name was darkly ironic, in a GenX (and X-Files) kind of way, but yeah. Not only does it need to go, it should have never been. What a message to send. So inappropriate.
Another Holocene Human
@schrodinger’s cat: something something I’ve never met any Persians in real life something something all Moooslims look alike
GregB
@schrodinger’s cat:
Woolsey is the friendliest of the beltway fascistas.
Bitter Scribe
I think this guy is auditioning to be the next Bill Kristol.
Kathleen
@DougJ: You didn’t ask me and someone probably already answered it but yes it was Lenny Kravitz.
NonyNony
@beltane: I’m on record for 46% of the popular vote being the GOP floor. That’s John McCain picking Sarah Palin after the collosal fuckup second term of GWB.
After 8 years of a Democrat in charge, even Trump could get that much. Unless he picks Sarah Palin or Josh Duggar for Veep.
maysonic
@Archon: Paul Krugman is constantly being called out for being wrong [especially, of course, when he’s incontrovertibly right].
JenJen
It’s a worthy nom, but no way in hell we’ve reached Peak Halperin this early in the cycle.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
Because my boys are primed, really primed, because I primed ’em.