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
… except for a handful of his fellow Media Village Idiots, and the Pale Male Oligarchs who enjoy his very special attentions.
But they have money! So — bygones?
NO.
The thing about Mark Halperin is that he was the most toxically useless tapeworm in all of DC media, and THEN he got exposed as a horrifying sex creep.
— Zeddediah Springfield (@Zeddary) May 3, 2019
I’m no lawyer but this seems kind of fucking bad. https://t.co/l2N6ga9JwE
— Molly “not super smart” Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) 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
V important that Halperin get back in the game for 2020 pic.twitter.com/w8szShFusL
— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 3, 2019
— G O L D I E. (@goldietaylor) May 3, 2019
rikyrah
Nope?
Duane
He could always work at Faux. They’ll take anyone.
Jerzy Russian
Christ, what an asshole!
Cathie from Canada
Mark Halpern always was the whiney-ass titty-baby for whom the word “smarmy” was invented.
We need some kind of new term or terminology for these guys, the ones who whine about how THEY are the “real” victims because how dare everybody be so mean to them. Maybe #WATBtoo ?
NotMax
@Cathie from Canada
if Hugh Hewitt is a cream cheese sculpture, Mark Halperin is a smarmite bust.
;)
Ruckus
@Cathie from Canada:
Not to be to crass but given his record and his skills how about
Fucking Asshole
It’s concise, true and there’s not much of a language barrier in most countries.
James E Powell
I’m against capital punishment, but I am fine with a death sentence for Halperin’s career. More of the careers of sex abusers need to be destroyed and more publicly.
I’m curious to know why anyone feels the need to bring this guy back. It’s not like there’s a shortage of dickweeds in the world who can do whatever it is that he did.
plato
What a ‘dick’ of a hack.
hackperin and cilizza – the top worst bw morons.
Waynski
To quote Judge Smails from Caddyshack, “The world needs ditch diggers too.”
Geeno
OMG after 2018, the real live year of the woman (women really), Halperin decides to arise from the crypts?
Seriously? Anyone who hires him MUST become anathema to the Democratic party, cuz seriously, WTF.
OOooh, it would be a death sentence for his career!!!! How many women’s careers did he ruin, because they didn’t want to fuck him? His career being killed by these accusations was not a sad by product of them — it was the WHOLE FUCKING POINT!!!
Mary G
I read that Joe and Mika have been plotting his return to the Moaning Joe zoo for some time. These people protect their own. Disgusting.
sukabi
@Mary G: not sure you could find 2 assholes more enabling of the status quo than Scarborough and Mika. It’s not surprising they’re working to get Halperin back. All 3 of them should take Megan McCain and fuck off to FOX.
SRW1
Creeps of the world unite!
Jay
There’s a club, none of you are in it.
Jay
@Cathie from Canada:
Are you not blogging any more?
hervevillechaizelounge
I suspect men in the news industry are projecting: I too did terrible things to women but I haven’t been called out yet. When/if I’m finally banished for my misdeeds I expect a triumphant return.
Republican women in the industry don’t care ’cause Halperin didn’t dandle his junk on THEM. If he harassed them personally he’d deserve the death penalty, not a mea culpa tour of the morning shows.
The RNC slogan for 20/20: empathy is for cucks.
Amir Khalid
I just don’t see the urgency to bring Halperin back. When last I looked, the world was not short of media pundits. Is there even a slot available for Mark Halperin to fill? And is the world crying out for his comeback?
Damien
I don’t understand, who’s stopping Mark Halperin from opining? He’s free to stand out on the street and bother random passersby just as much as the next fella. If he sticks a hat out he might even earn exactly as much as his opinions are worth.
N
I grew up not far from Mark Halperin. I was a grade ahead of him in school. We rode the same bus. I knew his brothers. His dad was super cool – Mort Halperin. Was on the Nixon enemies list, got bugged. That was maybe third grade or fourth grade?
Mark was a dipshit as far back as 4th grade. Well, every 4th grade boy is a dipshit, but Mark was extra. The incident that stands out in my mind was that one Halloween he and his buddy were boasting about egging cars, and Mark one-upped the friend by saying that he had stolen half a dozen eggs from the fridge two weeks earlier and hid them outside so that they would get rotten before they vandalized neighbors.
Jay
@N:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqzp9xqeoug
Hard to watch.
Kathleen
@Ruckus: I object! Assholes perform vital detoxifying function for the body. Without assholes we would die. I see Halperin more as a bowel blocker.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mary G: This is why I have my nym. These vile infotainers have no shame at all. All of them need to be put out of our misery.
Ruckus
@Kathleen:
All animals have one. Halperin has two. The original one on his face and the one that performs “normally.” I say “normally” because he’s so full of shit that they both function the same.
Ella in New Mexico
@James E Powell:
I’m guessing HE’S the one who feels a need to bring himself back. Desperately. And it has to be in the exact same job he’s held before. So he’s got his agent banging on all the doors and windows to get him back in. Because he has no other way to earn a living thanks to a complete lack of ANY employable skills.
Sitting on his fat ass for 6-8 hours a day giving his douchey-assed opinion on stuff and rubbing elbows with “big names” is all he knows how to do. Can’t make six figures grading English papers part-time for University of Phoenix undergrads at his kitchen table.
planetjanet
I know the thread is dead, but I just want to highlight this quote from the article.
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He has learned nothing. He deserves the EF Goldman salute.
Harbison
Was Halperin convicted of anything?
Raoul
This response to Molly’s “I’m no lawyer but this seems kind of fucking bad” tweet is so great
Cathie from Canada
@Jay: Thanks for noticing! No, I have had some health challenges over the last three years, and I pretty well stopped updating the blog. I am healthy again now, but just haven’t got back to it. I tweet sometimes and comment on other blogs, but I do hope to get back to my own blog during the Canadian election this fall — Trudeau is in trouble, I am afraid, so any help I can give him I will.
Dabba
Mommy, tell me the story about how white men get success and fame by their own hard work only, and women and Those People only make it cause of affirmative action?