MSNBC suspended contributor Mark Halperin indefinitely for saying that President Barack Obama acted like "kind of a dick" after his petulant rant of a press conference on June 28, 2011, where he chided Congress for not being around like he has (right before he headed off for another vacation). Personally, I find Halperin, who also works for noted conservative voice TIME Magazine (you got peanut butter on my sarcasm!), to have been dead on point, if inappropriate. The White House officially called the comment inappropriate and unacceptable, and announced that they had told MSNBC as much (whither Freedom of the Press?). The point I'd like to make here is this: if this comment is so inappropriate, why hasn't the President apologized for calling Tea Partiers the derogative term teabaggers, in reference to a sexual act? Or maybe for saying the people of Pennsylvania and the Midwest who don't agree with him are just clinging to religion and their guns? As I've written before, how can we honor the office of the President when it's occupant shows so much disdain for the people he is supposedly serving?
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