Mark Halperin's BACK On MSNBC!

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Mark Halperin returns to MSNBC sometime this week, after serving his month-long suspension for calling the president a "dick," on "Morning Joe,



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" Poor Mark Halperin's summer vacation ends this week. The famous political analyst who doesn't understand politics and is wrong about everything will be back on MSNBC sometime this week, after serving his month-long suspension for calling the president a "dick," on "Morning Joe," on July 30. I had sort of hoped, a month ago, that MSNBC would just quietly not ever lift the suspension, or maybe they would all forget that MSNBC ever even employed Mark Halperin. Not to be! Soon, Mark will be back on "Morning Joe" where he will cover politics like a horse race, as covered by someone who had never seen a horse race.

Mark has surely learned his lesson, and from now on he'll be politely wrong about everything, constantly.


http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/02/halperin_back



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[SusanaMontana41]

1. He's the one who told Obama to ignore his base in 2010.

He said, "Where are they gonna go?"

His base didn't go to the polls, for sure.

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2. This says it all..

"......political analyst who doesn't understand politics and is wrong about everything...."

[SusanaMontana41]

6. Yup. n/t

[Divine Discontent]

5. yep. see what that rationale achieved....

[SusanaMontana41]

7. He sucked the enthusiasm out of a generation of voters,

many of whom would have walked through fire for him.

Don't blame them.

[Divine Discontent]

11. yes, it's amazing the uncaring attitude many of the young people take now, after this past 2 years

of ridiculousness in conceding much to the other side, as if it appears P.O. agrees with them on many of the issues.

[SusanaMontana41]

13. My son was an enthusiastic supporter. Now he's crushed. n/t

[Divine Discontent]

15. sigh... well, hopefully things change. I sure as heck don't want the raving lunatics in charge of

senate and the WH. If he fought though as hard as he sounded like he would in the primaries and gen. election, many people would feel differently.

tell him (son) not to give up fighting for progressive change, no matter if our elected folks don't always live up to what we want them to every time.

[provis99]

8. that's another slur on liberals.

Liberals turned out in high numbers in 2010. It was the damned moderate and conservative Democrats who sat on their asses.

[SusanaMontana41]

9. No, it wasn't. 23 million young people voted in 2008.

Only 9 million voted in 2010.

When Democrats vote, Democrats win.

[provis99]

10. that is irrelevant. Liberals turned out in high numbers.

"3. The liberal-moderate-conservative numbers in 2008 were 22%, 44% and 34%. Those numbers for yesterday were 20%, 39% and 41%. A big conservative jump, but in all likelihood because liberals didn't vote in big numbers."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2010/nov/03/us-midterm-elections-2010-turnout-says-a-lot

Liberals make up 18% of the voting population, so their turnout in both 2008 and 2010 was higher than their proportion in the population. The moderates failed to turn out in the midterm elections, as usual.

[SusanaMontana41]

12. 14 million voters are irrelevant? Okaay ... n/t

[provis99]

14. it is ridiculous to assume all 14 million are liberals.

Likely, the young are roughly 3-5% more liberal for their age cohort than are older age cohorts, which is a nearly insignificant difference given the entire spectrum of the electorate numbers.

"The pollsters for Harvard also asked questions on 20 different issues that they used to determine the political ideologies of today's young adults. Two of those ideologies were consistent with traditional political parties: the "new conservatives" (most like Republicans), representing about 13 percent of the young adults, and the "new progressives" (most like Democrats), making up about 17 percent...The largest ideological group was the "new passives," which made up 40 percent of all the young adults surveyed."
http://chronicle.com/article/College-Students-Agree-With/64565/

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. Yet Adolf Buchannan remains on the payroll...

[wndycty]

4. Halpern comes back to MSNBC the same time it decides to refer to POTUS as "Boy"

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