Tweets Of The Day -- Heapin' Helpin' Of Halperin

We noted yesterday the boomlet led by friends of disgraced Republican legacy hire Mark Halperin to get him back on tee vee in time for his astute observations about the 2020 race.  The reactions have been too good to pass up.  Here are a few examples:

V important that Halperin get back in the game for 2020 pic.twitter.com/w8szShFusL

— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 3, 2019

Yes, let's wave away accusations of sexual misconduct so we can all bask in the brilliance of a guy who told us John McCain's campaign gaffes were good news for John McCain.https://t.co/GwvPAj8QGV

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 3, 2019

OK, sure, he did all of that horrific disgusting stuff, but on the positive side, he gave us deeply brilliant insights like this: https://t.co/pjmx8fwsTI

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 3, 2019

Just so no one forgets: Halperin is accused of pressing his erect penis against multiple women, grabbing a woman’s breasts, throwing a woman against a window & when rejected, calling a woman to tell her she’d never work in media again https://t.co/u1jBKhXPJg

— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) May 3, 2019

If only there were some women who could do his job, like binders full of them.

— Molly “not super smart” Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 3, 2019

Where is this generous sentiment for all the women whose professional careers were extinguished by workplace sexual harassment, through no fault of their own and often because they stood up for themselves? https://t.co/09JASimx6N

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 3, 2019

Dear all media outlets: have fun covering the liability on this dude if you hire him into your organization because he is a check you will have to write eventually for his misconduct.

— MB 👑🌞🕊🌹 (@MB2018Resist) May 3, 2019

Here's one where his good buddies yuk it up like the bunch of puerile jackasses they are when Halperin calls President Obama ... well, you'll see:

Nah. https://t.co/R27OAwCrCU

— G O L D I E. (@goldietaylor) May 3, 2019

Now, let's hope that's the last time we have to post about or think about this worthless hack.  (Maybe these Russian cutout bugf*ckers will hire him.)

Republican Fluffer Mark Halperin Accused Of Sexual Harassment

Long- time Republican fluffer, politics- as- horserace "journalist," and wanker emeritus Mark Halperin, who in his political coverage infamously and continuously lowered the bar for his bud Donald "Rump" Trump (see here and here also), has apparently been following his master's example:

Veteran journalist Mark Halperin sexually harassed women while he was in a powerful position at ABC News, according to five women who shared their previously undisclosed accounts with CNN and others who did not experience the alleged harassment personally, but were aware of it. [snip] 

...[W]women who spoke to CNN say he also had a dark side not made public until now. The stories of harassment shared with CNN range in nature from propositioning employees for sex to kissing and grabbing one's breasts against her will. Three of the women who spoke to CNN described Halperin as, without consent, pressing an erection against their bodies while he was clothed. Halperin denies grabbing a woman's breasts and pressing his genitals against the three women.

Halperin has been working for NBC and librul MSNBC as a senior political analyst (he's been suspended from on air duties for now), even though his brand of political "analysis" has been debunked time and time again. Now this, which frankly comes as little surprise to us.  Well, when you lay with dogs, you get up with fleas.

BONUS:

Mark Halperin hailed reports that Donald Trump sexually harassed women because they bolstered "Donald Trump's brand" https://t.co/VVcgwwRlJf pic.twitter.com/v3jDvjiie6

— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) October 26, 2017

(Photo: Let's see those hands, boys.)

Tweet, Counter Tweets

Wanker Emeritus Mark Halperin attempts a thought experiment, minus the thought:

What would happen if Trump picked a popular, qualified vp, started talking only abt need to change DC, middle class, Hillary=status quo?

— Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) June 19, 2016

What would happen if the Twitterverse rose up in collective mockery?

@MarkHalperin What would happen if you and I flew to Mars and opened a Bloomberg outpost?

— John Weaver (@JWGOP) June 19, 2016

@MarkHalperin What would happen if Le Cirque started serving bus station chili?

— Charles P. Pierce (@ESQPolitics) June 19, 2016

.@MarkHalperin would certainly make your job as White House press secretary easier

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) June 19, 2016

Everyone would totally forget about everything Trump has said or done in the past forty years. https://t.co/OBjRFe9Bay

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 19, 2016

Tweets Of The Day - History Will Remember Mark Halperin

Words came out of neo- fascist demagogue Donald "Rump" Trump's mouth today, and some, like the putrid Mark Halperin, were impressed.  History won't remember the speech*, but history will remember Rump's enablers:

On his 2nd lifetime use of a TelePrompTer in public, @realDonaldTrump is already better than most politicians. Lot of research in here too

— Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) April 27, 2016

Yes, it was almost... Presidential!

The responses to Halperin's "analysis" are wonderful.  Here are just a few of many examples:

.@MarkHalperin yes, it must've taken him hours to dig through all of those Internet comment sections.

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) April 27, 2016

@MarkHalperin @realDonaldTrump Are we watching the same thing?

— Paula Lawson (@pdlawmom) April 27, 2016

@MarkHalperin @realDonaldTrump ...please take your hand out of your pants when "reporting" on Trump's skills.

— JD Cornbluth (@BluthX) April 27, 2016

Count on a lot more of this from Halperin and others in the amoral media.  We'll keep track.

BONUS: Rump's sworn enemy, Sen. Lindsey "Huckleberry" Graham had a few burning tweets about Rump's speech:

Question #1 for Trump: Are we sure the guy running the teleprompter has the pages in the right order? #notmakinganysense

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) April 27, 2016

Question #2 -- Did teleprompter guy actually write the speech? #notmakinganysense

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) April 27, 2016

*BONUS II:  Charlie Pierce takes apart Rump's big foreign policy debut.  And then there's this:

This isn’t presidential, this is “I paid a nerd to write my term paper.”

— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) April 27, 2016

Tweet Of The Week - Mark Halperin, Dick Or Clueless Dick?

I've read this like 19 times and it still doesn't make sense http://t.co/hhtBorL2gJ pic.twitter.com/wz1InmpQYY

— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) June 12, 2015

At Millionaire Mitt Romney's weekend gathering for Republican fat cats, candidates and the hacks who shill for them in Deer Valley, Utah:  "Sunrise pilates with Ann Romney and Mark Halperin."  This won't put the final nail in Halperin's career of failed "insider" political analysis, carrying water for Republicans and general dickishness, though in a better world it would. (h/t Balloon Juice)

BONUS:  So you won't have to go to the sunrise pilates session, here's a vision of Halperin, courtesy (?) TPM:

TPM illustration by Christine Frapech. Images via AP and Shutterstock/wavebreakmedia.

Wanker of the Week

Rethuglican stenographer and Wanker Emeritus Mark Halperin, for this both-sides-do-it gem regarding Willard "Romney Hood" Romney's birfer "joke":

"The level of vitriol and personal animus that exists on both sides over the flap is truly discouraging."

Yes, outrage over birferism is equal to the racism and ignorance of birferism itself! What's truly "discouraging?" Wankers like Halperin being given credence and a public platform.

BREAKING: Blind Squirrel Halperin Finds Nut

Unless his blog's been hacked, Time's Mark Halperin, noted wanker and McCain BFF, has a remarkably upbeat piece about President Obama today. It's worth a read, even though we question some of its assumptions and characterizations. It might be noteworthy also in the fact that Halperin is a notorious adherent of the Beltway Conventional Wisdom, so this might be an indication that the prevailing media narrative over the past year or so, wherein "Real Americans are mad as hell and the Dems are going down," might be undergoing a course correction.

Village "Games"

Take time to read Glenn Greenwald's scathing review of the latest gossipy tome, "Game Change," from Washington media Villagers Mark "Drudge Rules Our World" Halperin and junior partner John Heilemann. It's a perfect summation of all that is wrong with today's political "journalism" emanating from Washington, which prizes the sensational and shallow stories over substantive coverage of issues that impact our daily lives. To them, it's all a "game" and they simply keep score: who's up, who's down, who's in, who's out.

The book is full of anonymous, unattributed backbiting of the kind that you would normally find in supermarket tabloids. In particular, the duo's gratuitous, overkill smear of John and Elizabeth Edwards -- who have long since faded from the political scene in disgrace -- is causing some second thoughts from cable's talking heads this morning (e.g., MSNBC's besweatered Mika and Bob Woodward). Why was it necessary to publish anonymous, unflattering tattle about Elizabeth Edwards' role in her husband's campaign, when she is battling final stages of cancer? Was that necessary to round out the picture of the 2008 presidential primaries?

Greenwald nailed it once again.

Our Broken Media: The Villager Party Circuit, cont'd.

Think Progress' Matt Yglesias skewers the insufferable Villager Mark "Drudge Rules Our World" Halperin's take that the Obamas are "failing" at keeping the Washington cool kids happy and entertained. Halperin apparently believes that attending more embassy parties and cocktail parties with the journalistic elite would serve the Obamas better, than say, attending to more pressing national problems. "Wooing official Washington" to Halperin seems to mean wooing his friends like the Sally Quinns, David Broders. and Cokie Robertses rather than anything "official," as Yglesias points out. But this is exactly how the Beltway media think of themselves: running "official" Washington, holding court and requiring elected officials to pay their respects at their "salons." Otherwise, nasty op-eds and stories appear, whispered rumors spread, and careers are ruined. Just ask the Clintons.

Halperin & Politico: Poot's Infantry

Balloon Juice wraps up (with the able assist of James Wolcott) the latest attempt by the deranged right - led in this charge by Sgt. Poot Gingrich - to see if their latest thrown pig shit will stick to the wall. (Not likely, though the wall is getting awfully thick with the stuff.) Villager co-conspirators Mark "Asshat" Halperin and Politico fill in the ranks behind Sgt. Poot. (Poot's girth notwithstanding, this is truly the Charge of the Light Brigade).

(Image: Asshat Halperin marveling over the latest egg laid by Poot Gingrich.)

"Deep Thoughts," by Mark Halperin

No less an expert on "media bias" than Mark "Asshat" Halperin is now offering up his "thoughts" on the "extreme" media bias in favor of Obama. Asshat was polishing his glass belly button from the inside when the following pro-Obama stories occupied endless media hours: Rev. Jeremiah Wright, flagpin, bitter people clinging to guns and religion, shouldn't Obama be doing much better in the polls, the phone call at 3 a.m., Obama's illegal alien aunt, and of course, Obama: Muslim terrorist, or simply Muslim? John Cole nails Asshat along with some of his fellow snivelers, all of whom demonstrably had man-crushes on McMaverick, or would for anyone with an "R" next to his name.

Just more "working the refs" from the right wing propagandists.

(Former) Asshat Mark Halperin Grades the Debate

Either Time's Mark Halperin has suddenly experienced a metaphysical conversion, or he had a fill-in write this assessment of last night's Obama/ McNastymaverick debate. In any event, we would, of course, agree with the assessment.

Wanker of the Week

We stumbled onto George Steponaflagpinopolous' teevee gig today to see how the punditz would assess the Obama-Biden ticket, and other stuff. First of all, aside from Donna Brazile, has there ever been such a collection of mutts in one place? You had the Georgies (Prissy & Teeny), Obama vacation adviser Okie Dokey Cokie, and finally, our Wanker of the Week, Mark Halperin. Balloon Juice beat us to the punch in awarding Halperin their own special award, and for capturing how Halperin just can't hide his love of all things McBush (P.O.W.!), including his four/ seven/ ten (but who's counting) homes. Move aside, Matt Drudge! Now it's McBush (P.O.W.!) who rules Mark's world!

Our Broken Media, Cont'd.

It's been clear for a while that Time's Mark "Drudge Rules Our World" Halperin has been in the tank for Sen. John Barbeque McSame. Last week, after the McSame campaign self-destructed over Phil Gramm's Americans are "whiners" statement, McSame's Social Security is "a disgrace", etc., Halperin declared the week was "won" by McSame. Sure, and the Nationals won the World Series last year.

Now, he's pushing McSame's late recognition that there might, just might, be a problem in Afghanistan/Pakistan that could use some extra troops. At the same time, Halperin pretends that Sen. Obama is just now shifting his position in recognition of that fact. Despite the public record to the contrary. Asshat.