Who's the D*ck?
Mark Halperin's gang of 500 ran for their fainting couches last week when he likened the President to a portion of the male anatomy. Predictably, the guardians of our political discourse are powerless in the presence of a good private parts story, but this incident reveals something so much more troubling.
What so upset Mark was that the President was using particularly harsh rhetoric to characterize the latest republican hostage crisis - the debt ceiling negotiations. That's right, Mark Halperin, who's a self-describe admirer of Karl Rove, who says of his colleagues in the media that "Matt Drudge rules their world", thinks that the President was being a, well, you know, for pointing out that the GOP was not willing to compromise.
Until recently, Mark Halperin authored "The Note", the daily political blog that all in the Washington press corp breathlessly scan daily for their names. That this member in good standing of the cool kids club gets so upset when somebody disrupts the natural order of things (Republicans strong, on the offensive, Democrats weak and disorganized) is as revealing as it is annoying. To Halperin, the sin is not the provable fact that the GOP's demands for a debt ceiling deal will once again slam the middle class with cuts in social security, medicare and safety net programs so that the rich can maintain their historically low tax rates. What's so unforgivable to him that he is willing to get suspended is that the President upset the world he and his colleagues are so invested in preserving.
Mark Halperin and his friends on "Morning Joe" did not spend much time worrying about whether the President's or the GOP's proposal would give the middle class the shaft, they were put out that the President was not respecting his place. That's the truth revealed by this incident. Ever wonder, Mark, why all of us in the great unwashed hate your gang of 500?
What so upset Mark was that the President was using particularly harsh rhetoric to characterize the latest republican hostage crisis - the debt ceiling negotiations. That's right, Mark Halperin, who's a self-describe admirer of Karl Rove, who says of his colleagues in the media that "Matt Drudge rules their world", thinks that the President was being a, well, you know, for pointing out that the GOP was not willing to compromise.
Until recently, Mark Halperin authored "The Note", the daily political blog that all in the Washington press corp breathlessly scan daily for their names. That this member in good standing of the cool kids club gets so upset when somebody disrupts the natural order of things (Republicans strong, on the offensive, Democrats weak and disorganized) is as revealing as it is annoying. To Halperin, the sin is not the provable fact that the GOP's demands for a debt ceiling deal will once again slam the middle class with cuts in social security, medicare and safety net programs so that the rich can maintain their historically low tax rates. What's so unforgivable to him that he is willing to get suspended is that the President upset the world he and his colleagues are so invested in preserving.
Mark Halperin and his friends on "Morning Joe" did not spend much time worrying about whether the President's or the GOP's proposal would give the middle class the shaft, they were put out that the President was not respecting his place. That's the truth revealed by this incident. Ever wonder, Mark, why all of us in the great unwashed hate your gang of 500?
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