Like MSNBC political analyst Mark Halperin, who was suspended June 30 mere hours (and a phone call from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney) after he said President Obama had acted like "a bit of a dick" during Obama's press conference.
To be fair, Halperin had asked Morning Joe talk show host Joe Scarborough if the show was on seven-second delay and Scarborough had said yes, before Halperin uttered the name of our last vice president. (And really, isn't it possible he meant to refer to Dick Cheney, or Dick Armey, Dick Lugar or any other Republican Dick?) Carney said Halperin's words were disrespectful of any president, and we would agree, even if we also agree with Halperin's words and think this incident falls directly under the "you thought it, I said it" rubric.
But since MSNBC, the so-called liberal network, has been having a rough time lately, what with Ed Schultz calling conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham a "right-wing slut," the Powers That Be couldn't very well just let Halperin coast after Carney made the call. Now before we move on to yet another MSNBC pundit, Rachel Maddow, the token lesbian of political talk, we would proffer this about the Halperin debacle: If you don't want people to think you are "a bit of a dick" or call you out on being "a bit of a dick," then maybe you should check yourself behaving like "a bit of a dick." What would we call that president? Time to move out of the primordial ooze and get up on dry land, Mr. President. Of torture. For a gay soldier. Our gay soldier.
When Maddow called Obama out on her show the day after his big hilarity over not being for marriage equality even as he was taking queer money for his re-election campaign in New York, she made it clear she has finally poured the Kool-Aid down the drain, at least with regard to Obama on marriage equality. Coulter, a right-wing slut – or should we say, panderer – before Ingraham could spell thong, is touting her latest factless book about how the "liberals" are dangerous to America. (Memo to "liberal" comedian/pundit Jon Stewart: Please take on Coulter and do to her what you did so fabulously to Chris Wallace and Herman Cain.)
Coulter's new book targets "the liberal mob." Coulter was asked what she thought of a magazine cover with Diana, who would have turned 50 on July 1, aged to look 50 (unlike Coulter herself, who actually is 50) beside Kate Middleton. Coulter, an anorexic narcissist, called "Lady" Diana an "anorexic, bulimic narcissist," said "Kate Middleton is a really nice girl" and the cover was a travesty because there was no comparison between the two women. Hmmm.
