{"id":34447,"date":"2011-06-30T06:57:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T14:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=34447"},"modified":"2011-06-30T06:58:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T14:58:58","slug":"why-is-mark-halperin-apologizing-for-calling-the-president-a-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=34447","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Mark Halperin Apologizing To The President For Calling Him A Dick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with calling the president a dick (except that such language is inappropriate on a news show). The president was a tool at his press conference yesterday. I don&#8217;t sympathize with this American tendency to automatically treat their presidents respectfully. <\/p>\n<p>Presidents are politicians. They don&#8217;t deserve any respect unless they&#8217;ve earned it through their actions. Obama is the worst president in at least 80 years, perhaps ever.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Mak reports:<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC senior political analyst Mark Halperin was suspended on Thursday by the cable network after he called President Obama \u201ca dick\u201d on a popular morning show and then quickly apologized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he was a dick yesterday,\u201d Halperin, who also is an editor-at large for Time, said on Morning Joe, referring to the President\u2019s conduct during his press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0611\/58098.html#ixzz1QltbX238<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with calling the president a dick (except that such language is inappropriate on a news show). The president was a tool at his press conference yesterday. I don&#8217;t sympathize with this American tendency to automatically treat their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=34447\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[10581,26978,1655,26979,26977],"class_list":["post-34447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-mark-halperin","tag-morning-joe","tag-msnbc","tag-political-analyst","tag-popular-morning-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34449,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34447\/revisions\/34449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}