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The Spectacle Blog
Now that’s a game changer.
Mark Halperin of Time magazine fame called President Obama “kind of a dick” on MSNBC.
Worse, Halperin quickly apologized.
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Paul Windels| 6.30.11 @ 8:32AM
This post is disgraceful. Not only does it resort to the sort of empty name-calling that Bob Tyrell's column properly calls out the left on, it does so in obscene language. Regardless of how we might disagree with President Obama on policy, we should express those disagreements in a REASONED way, and one that does not show disrespect for the office of President of the United States.
Truth to Power| 6.30.11 @ 8:45AM
You're a weiner, Paul. A liberal calling the President a name is amusing and an appropriate blog item. If you want to complain to Mark Halperin, you are in the wrong place.
Paul Windels| 6.30.11 @ 9:25AM
Gee, another name-caller. Did you feel the same way when people called President Bush names? Filth isn't witty, period. And, if you read the original post, the blogger APPROVED of the obscenity and objected to Halperin's having apologized.
Michael L. Hauschild| 6.30.11 @ 9:44AM
You are a wiener, Paul; a wiener of such breadth and depth that all other humorless wiener’s pall before you. Your induction to the wiener hall of fame is not only assured but any preliminary wait should be waived; you should stride to the podium unimpeded and address the world with your magnificent wienerness. Any mere mortal handicapped by a sense of humor, as Truth To Power, should be immediately shot.
Truth to Power| 6.30.11 @ 9:58AM
Don't shoot me. I thought Paul would take it as a compliment. He has several weiner-like qualities and I am sure he was a weiner supporter.
Grzmlyk| 6.30.11 @ 11:57AM
I'm offended because Halperin associated the traitor in chief with the wrong body part. What Halperin called the vengeful, petulant, ignorant, petty, arrogant, corrupt, lying, narcissistic sociopath in the Oval Office gives Obama waaaaaaay too much credit.
There IS another body part that describes Obama to a "T."
I'm thinking of a certain orifice.
Had Halperin called Obama that, it would have been forgiven as speaking truth to power.
Truth to Power| 6.30.11 @ 12:33PM
I think you are on to something. Obama is full of it and doesn't smell too good either. Flatulence is metaphor for one of his press conferences. No offense intended to the office of the Presidency.
Grzmlyk| 6.30.11 @ 1:59PM
Yes, the metaphors are endless: He's taken the rich banquet that used to private sector opportunity and turned it into a steaming pile of doo-doo.
Only one thing comes out of his administration, and it ain't orchids.
Occam's Tool| 6.30.11 @ 3:07PM
An Urethral opening?
Bob Grant| 6.30.11 @ 10:08AM
You're kidding, right? ...This is mock indignation, right?
Let me remind you Obama is the most antagonistic president in my lifetime. He makes Clinton seem like a statesman. His manipulation of facts is something that is expected at his news conferences.
The fact that a political analyst calls him DICK out of frustration should not come as a surprise.
Take your phony lecture somewhere else!
solidground| 6.30.11 @ 10:16AM
It is very difficult--nay, impossible--to respect a man who does not to any degree respect any voice that does not agree with his. Sorry, Obama IS a dick, always has been, and will continue to be so after he leaves office and spends the rest of his life snatching dollars off of people too dumb and self-involved to understand that he thinks less of them than he might of a single-cell organism.
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 6.30.11 @ 11:38AM
Isn't this exactly the kind of finger-wagging, schoolmarm tsk-tsking we endured for 8 years under Bush/Cheney? That if you can't respect the man, at least respect the office?
What's more, it's just another exercise in the smug, arrogant hypocrisy from the Moral Mountain that the Right has falsely claimed as its own.
W| 6.30.11 @ 12:31PM
I assume then you were equally upset when the Dems such as Harry Reid, Pelosi, and Algore called Bush a Nazi, Loser, Liar, Traitor?
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 6.30.11 @ 5:09PM
Yes, actually, I was offended at those descriptions - well, except liar. That's pretty much been proven. Weapons of Mass Distraction, anyone? Saddam was an al Qaeda agent? Iraq was buying yellowcake in Niger?
I'd also use "deserter" if you read the appropriate articles in the Military Code of Justice and not accept daddy's acquisition of discharge papers.
But Nazi? Loser? Traitor? No. That's not appropriate.
And it still doesn't address the basic issue - that of the Right presuming sole claim to moral righteousness that it demonstrably does not deserve.
beebop| 6.30.11 @ 6:18PM
I just wish Jake Tapper would chime in as well. The respect is earned by the occupant of the oval office and is not something to be assumed.
Atheist| 6.30.11 @ 8:16PM
Right, you need a shorter name, how about "lefty?"
As for liar, this has been discussed ad nauseam and the charge proved false. Everybody thought there were weapons of MD. Read the speeches by Clinton, Kerry, Schumer,etc. All we know is we did not find them. Maybe they are in Syria. Maybe he did not have them. But you sound too rational to believe that Bush made it up as a pretext to invade Iraq. Everyone now agrees we did not have good intelligence on the ground, probably the result of the Clinton years of ignoring the terrorism starting with the 1993 World Trade Center attack, the Khobar towers, the Kenya embassy, the Cole, etc. At worst, Bush may have overreacted to invade Iraq, but remember Congress approved the Iraq War, unlike Obama's Libyan War.
As for the deserter claim, that is pure Democrat bumper sticker drivel. How can you say that when you probably voted for Clinton, who is without any doubt a draft dodger?
No president should be called a D___, but remember it was liberal journalist who called him that.
NoLib| 6.30.11 @ 12:57PM
Halperin called Obama a dick not the office of the presidency. It's refreshing to see a liberal speak the truth for a change.
Occam's Tool| 6.30.11 @ 3:05PM
Right, right. Like the gentle reasoned assassination film on President Bush.
Let me be more specific: I don't think of Obama as a dick, a putz, a schmuck, or a John Thomas. I think of him as a Communist/ terrorist sympathising and befriending traitor.
I am sorry that that seems disrespectful to the office of POTUS. Considering that his Democratic rivals called the Greatest American President (a Republican) "The Original Gorilla," I don't see much of a history of Democrat civility.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 6.30.11 @ 8:34AM
I think if Halperin had simply referred to Obama as a Wiener it would have been responsible and acceptable and trendy.
Having said that I would like to echo Halperin's comment and add to it. Obama isn't kind of a dick, he is a dick.
Matthew Vadum | 6.30.11 @ 8:38AM
3...2...1...(BACKFIRE)
Perhaps you should take a time out from your fit of indignation to watch the video. Mark Halperin said it. So now reporters can't even quote people criticizing the president?
Paul Windels| 6.30.11 @ 9:30AM
If you are supposed to be a reporter, you should at least get the facts straight about your own post. You didn't simply report what Halprin says, as you pretend here, which would have been fine with me. You ENDORSED what Halperin said and CRITICIZED him for apologizing.
WL| 6.30.11 @ 10:07AM
Mr. Windels,
Take your self-righteous garbage and shove it. I guess you are the speech police now. I guess you can decide what is said and what is not.
You and your McCain-like rubes that you slither around with already lost us the 2008 election, and now you want to pontificate at everybody.
How about this? Take your crap and get outta here.
No Labels would love to have you....
GO ON....GET OUTTA HERE!
Grzmlyk| 6.30.11 @ 12:31PM
My, my, doesn't it just feel so GOOD to luxuriate in the refracted glory of self-righteous indignation??
I do hope you patted yourself on the back at LEAST three times after shaking your finger at the crude cretins who populate this web site.
By golly, we all know that being a well-behaved Republican is to get into the game and fight, fight fight - but what's really important is NEVER to get our uniforms dirty. Heaven forfend!
If you want to hold your teacup steady and extend your pinky finger daintily even as you are being raped by an avaricious political class drunk on power and bent on destruction and plunder, you go right ahead.
If you're REAL polite and ask nicely, I'm sure the panjandrums at the Ministry of Re-Education will allow you to teach etiquette to your fellow inmates in the gulag.
We'll save a great big gold star to put on your pauper's grave.
Purple Lips| 6.30.11 @ 9:07AM
At least he didn't call him a Wiener!
Michael L. Hauschild| 6.30.11 @ 9:12AM
He is a steaming pile of Clinton?
ralph| 6.30.11 @ 9:14AM
Seems Halperin accidently on purpose called it as he saw it.
W| 6.30.11 @ 10:59AM
Halperin is a liberal. This is a sign Obama will lose in 2012 because even his liberal sycophant supporters refer to him as a Wiener. Instead of D----, let us call him a Wiener.
Clint| 6.30.11 @ 11:14AM
Obama Is No Dick !
He's A Pussy.
It's Michelle Obama Who's The Dick.
All American American| 6.30.11 @ 12:06PM
Concur--liberal men are the biggest pussies on the planet. Liberal women, however, seem to take on a traditionally masculine persona, mebbe cuz their men act like women???
Brenda| 7.1.11 @ 9:52AM
I sit and view all these negative comments about our President, but to call his wife a dick. What did she do to you or anyone else. I am a white female and personally, I do not think that President Obama has done any worst than any other President. When he came into office, Bush had already sunk this country. How many times were he called a "dick" or how many times did you get on here and talk about his wife? Could this be because the man is "Black?" Come on people when will people in the US stop basing everything on race. Everyone deserves respect. I know that other countries got to laugh at us and think that we must be very ignorant to disrespect our President and his wife like we do just because of their skin color.
NoLib| 7.1.11 @ 12:50PM
Liberals like you make me laugh. Your vile language and behavior toward Republican leaders and their spouses has been off the charts for decades. There is no filth low enough to which you and your fellow democrats will not stoop . Yet, here you come whining and complaining about ONE insult of Moochelle! Toughen up, losers. Shut up about the predictable "racist" claims and stop blaming GWB for the utter failure and incompetency of the Bamster. It isn't working anymore. lol
Obama owns this economy. He broke it and the only way we will fix it is by kicking his sorry ass out of the White House in 2012!
We didn't call Obama a dick, one of yours did--get off your highhorses, hypocrites.
Brenda| 7.1.11 @ 1:55PM
That's why Bush sorry A got kicked out of the White House and a President got in who was smarter and could do the job. By the way prick, I am not a liberal just a person who see your racist A for who you are. You know this economy was in a mess when Bush was being booted out. Just as long as it took Bush to F up this economy is just as long as it should take for President Obama to fix it. You are the kind of stupid individual who probably thinks Sarah Palin could actually be President. Where can she see Russia from now? Oh yeah, her back yard.
NoLib| 7.1.11 @ 2:15PM
You leftists are the ugliest race-baiters around. You continue to lose the argument so you scream racism. Stick your rants where the sun don't shine, loser.
Sorry, butthead Brenda; Obama owns this economy and he will pay for his utter, abject failure on November 6, 2012. His approvals continue to tank and 70% of Americans say our country is going in the WRONG direction. Doesn't look good for the Community Organizer in Chief, does it?
Unemployment measured about 5% throughout GWB's 8 year tenure, so don't try to blame him for Obama's disgusting destruction of our economy.
See you on election day, troll.
Brenda| 7.1.11 @ 2:24PM
No Lib, I will definitely see you on election day. Republicans do not even have a decent intelligent person to run. Where are those weapons of mass destruction? Wow, love how Bin Laden was hiding in those caves during the Bush era. Why didn't Bush just say that he didn't know where the man was. You don't have a leg to stand on. President Obama will win again in 2012.
NoLib| 7.1.11 @ 2:41PM
Obama's a complete failure. Anyone with half a brain knows it, too. 9+% unemployment, skyrocketing food and fuel prices, trillions more in debt, more wars, democrat union corruption and thuggery and more suffocating regulations.
Democrats are unfit to hold office, and you will be thrown out in 2012 just like we threw you out in 2010. You really should lay off the dope.
Obama will be tossed out next. Can't wait! I just hope our country can survive the POS until then.
Brenda| 7.1.11 @ 2:52PM
You might as well stop quoting statistics. No one gives a crap about that. The people have the last say & they will turn out again for President Obama. Why? Because all of the Republican candidates are doo doo heads. Have a Nice Fourth. Smooches. Signing out. I just wanted to put your stupid comments to bed. You can reply, but I want see them. Be at the polls 2010 for the big pay back. Again smooches.
Brenda| 7.1.11 @ 2:54PM
I meant be at the polls 2012. The prick made me have a typo.
NoLib| 7.1.11 @ 3:17PM
LOL! Loser lib won't even take responsibility for its own typos. We WERE at the polls for the big payback in 2010, worthless moron--and we'll be there again in 2012!
Those "statistics" are 10% unemployment and $5 a gal gas, fool--EVERYONE is noticing them.
We're gonna kick your ass--again-- in 2012, loser.
NoLib| 7.1.11 @ 3:36PM
It's fun to run off loser libs. Cowards.
Shame| 7.1.11 @ 10:06AM
Clint would you like for someone to call your wife a "DICK" or your mother, but you are so stupid until who would want to marry you or birth you. You probably don't have either.
NoLib| 7.1.11 @ 12:51PM
Shut up, stupid. No one is filthier than a loser liberal like you.
TheRightIsAnythingBut| 6.30.11 @ 11:40AM
Wow. Is this a group therapy session for 12-year-olds in seeing who can come up with the more immature taunt on the playground?
NoLib| 6.30.11 @ 1:02PM
First there's Weiner and his tweeter-weiner hijinks, now there's Halperin calling Obama a dick--what's with you liberals and your tawdry obsession with the male sex organ? Perhaps it's because you don't have one.
Clint| 6.30.11 @ 11:53AM
You're A Poopy Face.
NoLib| 6.30.11 @ 12:58PM
lol
prestonsbrooks| 6.30.11 @ 12:22PM
Barry X is neither weiner or beaver. He is a pederast, as are all good muslims.
CalMark| 6.30.11 @ 12:23PM
Oh, the panic. This scares the libs: 21 posts before mine, about half by trolls, possibly the "fake people by committee" Obama cooked up with his "new media" sycophants to shout down and overwhelm conservatives.
The things that people called Bush are perfectly OK. Because, according to the Gospel of Liberalism that is...well...Truth. Handed down (or up, or something) from Gaia. Or Zeus. Or Apollo. Or whoever the Divinity acceptable to the Left is this month.
Liberals are enraged, and panicking, because it's obvious that the truth has come out: lots of committed Dems clearly don't like the godling in the White House. Damage Control time--so we can get back to sailing the ship of state onto a Marxist reef.
Oldefarte| 6.30.11 @ 12:34PM
Well Bill Maher of HBO is making his insane living off of alternatively calling Sarah Palin a C-Word, so maybe all's fair in love, war, and politics, huh?????????????
NoLib| 6.30.11 @ 1:04PM
T-word, Farter--don't make it worse than it is.
Controse| 6.30.11 @ 12:36PM
Finally we get to eavesdrop on a genuine expression of opinion from one sycophant to his fellow sycophants. He didn't think it was being broadcast. Boy is it ever heartwarming to know what Halperin really thinks. Maybe he does see through the fog of wow after all.
John Frankfurter| 6.30.11 @ 1:02PM
Chill out, everyone! I think he was referring to Nixon.
NoLib| 6.30.11 @ 1:05PM
Nah, it was correctly meant for Obama.
artesian jacket| 6.30.11 @ 1:04PM
I just wish that Bill Maher had made the mistake of calling Sarah Palin the "C"word while her husband was around. Maher would still be picking his teeth up off the floor.
NoLib| 6.30.11 @ 1:05PM
T-word, jacket.
Clint| 6.30.11 @ 1:35PM
Maher's A Hybrid Twunt !
Oldefarte| 6.30.11 @ 3:15PM
Nah, Maher is AROUND THE CORNER [anally speaking] from that of which you speak!!!!!
NoLib| 6.30.11 @ 4:22PM
LMAO!
MikeBee| 6.30.11 @ 1:22PM
Halperin needs to apologize to all dicks everywhere. What an insult to dicks!
Oldefarte| 6.30.11 @ 3:19PM
Yep, he should have had the decency to use the adjective LIMP, at least!!!!!!!!
Cpm| 6.30.11 @ 1:34PM
How come Halperin hasn't been called a racist yet?
Dick Bender| 6.30.11 @ 2:16PM
The first truthful thing I ever heard on MSNBC.
Oldefarte| 6.30.11 @ 3:23PM
Don't credit MSNBC, since Halprin inquired if the 5 second delay/bleep was operative and was told that it was [which it wasn't] before using his wording. That's why their whole cast/crew were subsequently urinating all over themselves in apologizing thereafter!!!!!!!
cmblake6 | 6.30.11 @ 7:03PM
Oh, that was marvelous! To address a couple of points, respecting the office is not the same as respecting (or not) the individual in it. How did this nation become so p.c.? Or is this the same as those who counter protested in 1775? The only way to deal with life is honestly. If this miserable communist is so bad that even his base insults him, shouldn't that be an indicator? And, I'd have gone slightly south of there to find the appropriate orifice as descriptive.
Al| 7.2.11 @ 9:44AM
Obama is a jerk! So what is the big deal with telling the truth about the lying, rotten, corrupt, STUPID S * O * B!
US Constitution First| 7.3.11 @ 12:36AM
I find it ironic that a writer for the very magazine a few days earlier called the Constitution "irrelevant" has been silenced by the Obama administration who clearly believe in freedom of the press only if it serve as its accomplice to the destruction of our country. Will Time come to the defense of its writer? It is doubtful because Time has become irrelevant,not the Constitution! This incident reinforces the brilliance of the Constitution, the protection it gives American citizens to boldly question the authority of government, and the desperation the Obama Administration continues to display as they try to install their European Socialist Agenda. The majority of us that live West of I-95 and East of I-5 need to stick to our principles, the constitution, and our heritage. Only then will our country be able to move forward again and return the socialist movement back to the fringe.
Mark| 7.5.11 @ 8:09AM
For everyone who admires this person's honesty in calling the President "kind of a dick" I have one question for you:
Do you think your boss is kind of a dick?
If you do, then go into work tomorrow and say "boss I think you are kind of a dick." In other words put up or shut up. If you think this is acceptable behavior then do it! You've talked the talk, now walk the walk.
Jeremiah| 7.6.11 @ 2:07AM
Obama's not our boss, moron. Critical thinking is your friend lib freak.