{"id":21842,"date":"2011-06-30T09:29:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=21842"},"modified":"2011-06-30T09:29:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:29:47","slug":"huffington-post-mark-halperin-suspended-for-obama-dck-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/06\/30\/huffington-post-mark-halperin-suspended-for-obama-dck-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Huffington Post:  Mark Halperin SUSPENDED For Obama &#8216;D*ck&#8217; Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Halperin has been suspended indefinitely by MSNBC for calling President Obama a &#8220;dick&#8221; live on air.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension came just hours after Halperin, a top editor for Time and a regular on &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; profusely apologized for the remark, which came during Thursday&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC&#8217;s statement read:<\/p>\n<p>    Mark Halperin&#8217;s comments this morning were completely inappropriate and unacceptable. We apologize to the President, The White House and all of our viewers. We strive for a high level of discourse and comments like these have no place on our air. Therefore, Mark will be suspended indefinitely from his role as an analyst.<\/p>\n<p>Halperin also issued a statement:<\/p>\n<p>    I completely agree with everything in MSNBC\u2019s statement about my remark. I believe that the step they are taking in response is totally appropriate. Again, I want to offer a heartfelt and profound apology to the President, to my MSNBC colleagues, and to the viewers. My remark was unacceptable, and I deeply regret it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/06\/30\/mark-halperin-calls-obama-a-dick_n_887604.html\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Halperin has been suspended indefinitely by MSNBC for calling President Obama a &#8220;dick&#8221; live on air. The suspension came just hours after Halperin, a top editor for Time and a regular on &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; profusely apologized for the remark, which came during Thursday&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; broadcast. MSNBC&#8217;s statement read: Mark Halperin&#8217;s comments this morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}