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Mark Halperin's Greatest Hits

I thought it would be timely to remind DU of some of the other things Mark Halperin has reported in the past.

Mark Halperin Blows Obama VP Story, Then Covers It Up

Hey, kids! Late yesterday evening, Mark Halperin, who writes "The Page" for Time Magazine - which is like a comic book, full of listicles for children - had up on "The Page" a post that, in his Halperin-y way, suggested or spitballed that Obama had chosen his Veep, and that Veep was Dick Lugar. It was titled "Hoosier Values" and read:

What is Barack Obama looking for in a running mate?

"Obama tells TIME he wants someone who is "not about ego, self-aggrandizement, getting their name in the press" and tells CBS News he wants someone he would "feel comfortable with."

Obama at Saddleback: "There are people like ... Dick Lugar, a Republican, who I'd listen to on foreign policy."

On CNN this past Sunday: BLITZER: "Do you agree with Senator Lieberman that Senator Obama has not put the country first?"

LUGAR: "No. I think that was clearly a partisan statement at a rally. I respect everybody their opinions in a political campaign, but that's all that was."

To see what the future could look like, click here."

Dick Lugar, of course, has endorsed John McCain for President. A brief amount of time passed, and then Halperin took the confounding post down, and there has been no mention of it since then. No update, no correction.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/22/mark-halperin-blows-obama_n_120543.html

Or who could forget this amazing piece of work

Mark Halperin's Mary Landrieu Photoshop: Pure Class

As many of you know, Mark Halperin is this babbling idiot whom Time magazine hired to cobble together this insipid web product called "The Page," which is designed to scam people looking for trenchant, up-to-the-minute political news into giving Time many, many unnecessary ad impressions as you follow Halperin's teasing links to his content. That content tends to be a really dumb listicle, or a one sentence piece of pure and unadulterated banality, or, if you are really lucky, a paragraph or two of analysis that's either so conventional as to appear slam-dunk, or so witless that it's completely laughable and wrong.

There are never any consequences for this terrible content, because the end result is that Time gets to serve ads to sponsored links, like the one I'm reading now that says, "'DO NOT Bleach Teeth' 1 simple trick, discovered by a mom, dentists DON'T want you to know."

But the other feature of "The Page" are the exceedingly juvenile photo illustrations that Halperin provides for his stories. For example! Take Mary Landrieu! She's a moderate Democrat from Louisiana who was holding out on health care reform until she accepted a porky deal that would bring an additional $100 million of Medicaid subsidies to her state. There are lots of ways to serve up this news story! And there are lots of creative ways to put it together for web trawlers. How about, "Mary, Mary, quite contrary?" or, if you're old-school retro, "Mary, Mary, why you buggin'?" Or you could just decide that the best thing to do is be straight about it. Not Halperin, though! Here's the imaginative Photoshop that went along with his "story."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/24/mark-halperins-classy-pho_n_369273.html

What about this sweet one

Mark Halperin Exasperated By Obama's "Bad Makeup Job," Declares It "Horrible" (VIDEO)

During an interview on Katie Couric's webcast following Wednesday night's debate, Time political analyst Mark Halperin rebuked Barack Obama's makeup not once, but twice.

"I thought Obama looked bad," he admonished. "If the person who did his makeup tries to touch his face again, he should slap them away."

He then went on to talk about more substantive matters, only to return to the subject of makeup a few minutes later. "Again, tired and a bad makeup job. You may not understand this Katie, but for some people on-camera, tired and a bad makeup job..." he then threw his hands in the air, and in a sing-song voice declared the whole situation "horrible!"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/16/mark-halperin-exasperated_n_135360.html

Halperin's Take: SCOTUS Focus

1. The reason that “white men need not apply” for the soon-to-be-open Supreme Court seat is because, unlike President Bush 43, Barack Obama can choose among a lot of supremely qualified women and non-white men who match his view of what an outstanding candidate for the job should be— and sources say that is the direction he plans to go.

http://thepage.time.com/halperins-take-scotus-focus/

Obama Gets "Very Flirtatious" At Campaign Stop

Via Mark Halperin, the pool report from Obama's campaign stop in Allentown, Pennsylvania:

It may be April Fools Day, but Sen. Barack Obama was acting like it was Valentine's Day. He was in full charm mode while touring the Tama Manufacturing plant, a JC Penny supplier of made-in-the-USA clothing in Allentown.

Obama was especially flirtatious today, winking and grinning at the female workers who were swooning behind their cell phone cameras. Tama President Mark Fogelman told quality inspector Carol Davis not to be nervous when she talked to Obama, even though he was "only the next
president" greeting her. Obama smiled ear to ear as he looked at her work, saying: "These look pretty comfortable, this is all pretty leisure wear."

After the presidential hopeful walked away, Davis let out a "Whoo!" and fanned herself.

"It got hot in here. He ain't bad looking either," she told your pooler.

"I hope he wins," Davis said, adding she was not registered to vote. "I wish all of them good luck, just bring the troops home is all." During the 25-minute tour, Obama called a woman "sweetie," and thanked her in spanish, then told another woman who let him know she is from Thailand, "I love Thai food."

But Obama lavished compliments on dancewear manufacturer Marisa Cerveris, who gave him a black and pink leotard for Malia and Sasha, explaining she was once in the New York City ballet. "You look like you might be a dancer," Obama told her, later adding: "You're big time."

"You're gorgeous," he told Cerveris after glancing at one of her old ballet photos.

"I was," she replied.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/01/obama-gets-very-flirtateo_n_94477.html

Mark Halperin Somehow Concludes McCain Won The Week

First Posted: 09-18-08 01:40 PM | Updated: 10-19-08 05:12 AM

Okay. I was alive this past week, and I couldn't help but notice that the following things occurred:

* The economy collapsed, putting McCain's party at a distinct disadvantage.
* McCain, nevertheless, said the "fundamentals of our economy are strong."
* Then he said they weren't.
* Then he said that by "economic fundamentals" he meant "workers," a definition no one else in the world uses.
* McCain's response initially was a big government approach to fighting greed.
* Followed by a small government approach to fighting regulation.
* Prominent conservatives like David Brooks, Chuck Hagel and Charles Krauthammer, threw a big wet blanket on McCain for his choice to put Sarah Palin on the ticket.
*snip*

After that sort of week, one might expect that the negative poll trends that bedeviled Obama in the run out from the Republican National Convention would begin to reverse themselves. And, you know what? They have.

BUT FORGET ALL THAT. Because Mark Halperin, over at his Kooky Komic Book Of Politics, sees it differently: "Obama Closes Strong, But McCain Wins The Week." Which raises one question. Why is Mark Halperin TOTALLY BOGARTING THE PINEAPPLE EXPRESS HE'S SMOKING?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/18/mark-halperin-somehow-con_n_127512.html