There’s Something About Marky
My bad- the media probably will miss Palin’s “Liberals hate the troops” bullshit because our beltway insiders are busy photoshopping sperm into Senator Mary Landrieu’s hair:
But the other feature of “The Page” are the exceedingly juvenile photo illustrations that Halperin provides for his stories. For example! Take Mary Landrieu! She’s a moderate Democrat from Louisiana who was holding out on health care reform until she accepted a porky deal that would bring an additional $100 million of Medicaid subsidies to her state. There are lots of ways to serve up this news story! And there are lots of creative ways to put it together for web trawlers. How about, “Mary, Mary, quite contrary?” or, if you’re old-school retro, “Mary, Mary, why you buggin’?” Or you could just decide that the best thing to do is be straight about it. Not Halperin, though! Here’s the imaginative Photoshop that went along with his “story.”
Stay classy, Halperin.
licensed to kill time
Conservative humor is just so clunky.
beltane
But if you, for example, did this to Our Lady of Perpetual Starbursts it would be portrayed as a sexist attack on all women. Halperin and the rest of them are the people we all hated in high school. Even when they’re eighty, they’ll still be like this.
Zifnab
Stand back everyone. Serious journalist coming through. Clear a path. Clear a path.
In other news, I am shocked to discover the rapid decline of the print journalism readership.
demkat620
Yeah but she ’s Democrat woman.
So, this is totally okay. Can you imagine the shit storm if he had done something like this about Say-ruh? O.M.G. They would have heard the screeching on Mars.
Incertus
I think Halperin needs a visit from the Christian Side-Hug guys, so as to fully understand what is appropriate and inappropriate conduct.
calipygian
I don’t get it.
Seriously, I don’t understand. At all.
I clicked through links for context.
I got nuthin’.
Its the exact same feeling I get when I watch any Seth MacFarland cartoon.
“Funny, this is? Nu, what does he know from funny! Feh!”
General Winfield Stuck
Or maybe Halperin is some kind of pol-fu genius and has discovered double reverse ratfucking. And no, I don’t know what that is. Yet.
Shalimar
@demkat620: I’m pretty sure Halperin has just made it ok to do it to Palin too. You know, if it wasn’t offensive and also painfully unfunny.
beltane
@demkat620: Even showing an undoctored picture that she herself posed for only a few months earlier was deemed to be a sexist attack. Showing Palin with jizz in her hair would have gotten Halperin fired immediately.
JK
Past Examples of Mark Halperin Staying Classy
Media bias was more intense in the 2008 election than in any other national campaign in recent history, Time magazine’s Mark Halperin said Friday at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election. “It’s the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war,” Halperin said at a panel of media analysts. “It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage.”
h/t http://www.politico.com/news/s.....15885.html
Mark Halperin Apologizes For Saying John Edwards “Thinks Obama Is Kind Of A Pussy”
h/t http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....86504.html
jl
Calm down. This is what the kids these days call ‘edgy”, or “hip”, “hep” or “with it” the hep-cat Michaele Steele can explain it to you old fogeys.
Just Some Fuckhead
How do conservatives come up with these cutting-edge 11 year old comic references??
demkat620
@beltane: Yup. And don’t forget, he helps drive the daily media narrative.
Way too much power in that idiot’s hands.
handy
I thought it was universally understood that manatees write the jokes, so what would you expect?
SpotWeld
Anyone ever wach Ratatouille?
There’s a speech by the food critic that applies here as well:
Barak Obama, while not a total re-invention of politics, is certainly a notable shift from the politics we had under Bush (and even Clinton and Bush Sr.)
And the thing is, critics don’t even have to defend Obama specifically, they have to defend “the new”.
Mainstream media is locked into the classic, easy, criticism. There is no puase so they can do the difficult job of talking about the new.
Someone needs to shove a rat down thier pants.
Rey
Well, this is par for the course. Beck and Limpballs called Landrieu a prostitute/hooker-whore yesterday because of the pork she asked for her state of Louisiana and her vote on cloture of the health care bill. I really hate Mark Halperin, he is such a pencil neck geek Bastard…
Scott
Soliciting photos of Mark Halperin having sex with a goat, please…
calipygian
More incomprehensible right wing “humor” from Red State:
n fact, it’s such a neat idea I’m coming up with a list of my own ten Republican principles:
(1) Punching hippies is a legal form of expression.
(2) The moon should be declared hostile and nuked.
(3) The average American should be armed like Neo from the lobby scene at all times.
(4) Nachos are awesome.
(5) The federal government needs to stop wasteful spending. Also, researching giant war robots and dinosaurs with rocket launchers on them is not wasteful.
(6) America owns Antarctica.
(7) It’s not good diplomacy unless the foreign leaders are kneeling before us.
(8) Vampires shouldn’t sparkle.
(9) The fact that we torture terrorists isn’t horrific and is actually kind of funny.
(10) Biggest problem facing our nation: Too many sissies.
Snail Darter
@calipygian:
There’s a lot of pecker in them jokes.
Sierra Matt
Oh, and by the way, let’s be correct in how we describe Landrieu (and Nelson, Lincoln, Bayh, etc.):
They’re not moderate Democrats, they’re CONSERVATIVE Democrats. ‘bout time we all started calling ‘em that.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Sierra Matt:
Exactly, moderate Democrats are with us on everything except the war.
Les
@calipygian
I agree with your items 4 and 8.
It’s nice to have at least a little common ground on which to begin a conversation with a Republican.
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ruemara
@calipygian:
hm. 4 & 8 are universal truths and should be discarded. The equivalent republican purity questions should be something in the order of: 4. Carbon Dioxide is not toxic and I wish I had tank right now & 8. It’s never cheating on my wife if it involves a strange man in an airport restroom, 2 wetsuits & a dildo. The farm animals are optional.
Paul in KY
I posted basically the same thing at Salon: Should be good for us that Halperin posted that, because it show’s the Senator what they really think about her. I just hope she does see it (staffers don’t hide it from her).
How can she vote with the Repubs after they photoshopped her with cum in her hair?
Also, I don’t think she should be called a ‘Moderate Democrat’. She is a ‘Conservative Democrat’.
jack
I don’t get it. Seriously, what? Where is the original picture? Why does this supposedly look like sperm? IM SO CONFUSED