Mark Halperin Is A Dick

Mark Halperin (R) with the First Lady.

Been offline most of the day, but when I finally get on, everybody's talking about Mark Halperin calling the President a "dick" for what he said in the press conference yesterday.  You remember, the press conference where the President suggested firmly that Congress stop playing games and avoid an economic collapse?

So many good thing have been written about it by others I'll just go Linkapalooza:

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/30/fire_halperin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/msnbcs-suspension-of-mark-halperin-is-way-over-the-top/2011/03/03/AGjCnAsH_blog.html

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/06/30/the-mask-slips/

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/the-real-dickishness-problem/241288/

Shorter version: Halperin should be fired because he's an awful, awful political reporter who is terrible, awful, dreadful at his job.  Not because he called Obama a Cheney.