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Mark Halperin is the Village’s Official Idiot

January 4, 2010 By Jonathan Zasloff

This must be the most vapid, smug, and inane commentary that has come out of the Village in a long time — and that’s a high bar.  My personal favorite is Helperin’s blaming of Obama for Republican obstructionism on the stimulus.  And who can blame him: after all, the President only agreed to make 40% of the stimulus tax cuts when direct spending would have been more effective.  In the dictionary next to Dunning-Kruger Effect, there’s a picture of Halperin.

It’s just a waste of time to Fisk the whole thing.  But impress your friends!  How many egregious cliches, obsession with trivia, and smarmy whines can you find on any page?

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: MSM (mainstream media), Wayward press

Comments

  1. Brett says

    January 4, 2010 at 3:04 pm

    It's Mark Halperin. The guy is basically a so-called "moderate" who thinks the Republicans are Oh So Clever (he particularly has a thing for Clintonian centrism and Karl Rove), and generally agrees with most of their arguments regarding the media. He also seems to have an almost personal distaste for being potentially regarded as a liberal – I remember something Glenn Greenwald posted where Halperin went on some right-wing radio talk show host's program and basically abased himself before the guy there, and then kept wimpering like a total wuss when said talk show host kept attacking him as a liberal.

  2. Alex F says

    January 4, 2010 at 3:06 pm

    You clicked through and read all 21 pages of that? Wow. Congratulations on finishing. And it's worse than it sounds, since the whole page has to reload for each click (Ajax tutorial please). On web design alone, I wouldn't have been able to get through if it were… if it were… well, I'm going for hyperbole here, I wouldn't have been able to get through 20 reloads even if this were an article by the SameFacts team. 🙂

  3. Ed Whitney says

    January 5, 2010 at 2:56 am

    To Fisk? I Fisk, you Fisk, he Fisks, I have Fisked, I shall have been Fisked, etc. I can conjugate the verb but have no idea what it means. Please advise.

  4. agorabum says

    January 5, 2010 at 3:10 am

    #4, you are clearly not aware of all internet traditions. Or how to use google. Or wikipedia.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisking

  5. Eli says

    January 7, 2010 at 12:58 pm

    Blech… I didn't bother reading far enough in to be truly bothered by anything in particular. But it reads like the filler from some crap magazine. What's next, his favorite Christmas cookie shapes?

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  1. We Have Met The Village And It Is You « Around The Sphere says:
    January 5, 2010 at 10:53 am

    […] Jonathan Zasloff: This must be the most vapid, smug, and inane commentary that has come out of the Village in a long time — and that’s a high bar.  My personal favorite is Helperin’s blaming of Obama for Republican obstructionism on the stimulus.  And who can blame him: after all, the President only agreed to make 40% of the stimulus tax cuts when direct spending would have been more effective.  In the dictionary next to Dunning-Kruger Effect, there’s a picture of Halperin. […]

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