LATE BREAKING: Mark Halperin: "Could it be her???" (Hillary)

[wheresthemind]

http://thepage.time.com/

You guys see his teaser just put up? What you think?

He is one of, if not the best, connected political reporters out there...

[bluestateguy]

1. And of course he's not man enough to spill the beans with his evidence

nt

[dkf]

2. Nope. Never gonna happen

[Bicoastal]

3. Jeez. There goes Mark "made ya look" Halperin...

In all seriousness...at this stage, who knows?

[snowbear]

4. From the sounds of it, Halperin is on the mcLame train and he's a total asshole..

Protecting McCain's Ignorance with a 'Great Wall of Duh' article by Bob Cesca
Posted by: Bootsz

Senator Obama on Tuesday said of the McBush Republicans, "It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant." After eight years trapped aboard this dark ride, finally hearing a Democratic presidential candidate publicly and forcefully refer to the Republicans as ignorant liars ought to be enough to coax even the most indecisive leaner into the Obama column.


But let's take the senator's remark even further. The McBush Republicans don't just take pride in their ignorance -- their entire electoral strategy depends on it.


This is obviously a risky strategy given the existence of things like "reason", "facts" and "truth" -- each readily available to anyone who's industrious enough to seek them out. Fortunately, though, for the McBush Republicans, there's an outside collaborator working in their favor: the barbecue media whose success also depends greatly upon both ignorance and disingenuousness (Olbermann and others excluded). Paraphrasing Woody Allen, ignorance and disingenuousness are, collectively, their various breads and various butters. So the Republicans have a convenient and sizeable zero-barrier of protective stupid surrounding their golf courses and mansions and trophy wives, shielding them from reality. Let's call it the Great Wall of Duh.


To wit: Paris Hilton and Toby Keith have occupied above-the-fold placement in our national political discourse this week.


****** Barbecue media players like TIME's Mark Halperin are somehow taken seriously even though he's on record having recommended to Senator McCain that he frame Senator Obama as a "Manchurian Candidate" (read that: Islamic terrorist), while also recommending that Senator McCain allow his surrogates to engage in race-baiting. Very serious!

Continued: http://www.colfaxrecord.com/detail/90493.html

[Drunken Irishman]

5. Wasn't it Halperin who said Edwards would endorse Clinton?

[David Dunham]

6. If Obama continues to slump in the polls, he might well pick Hillary

[snowbear]

7. Where is he slumping?

He's ahead in most battleground states, and tied in some of the other battlegrounds.

SLUMPING?

[book_worm]

15. Slumping?

He's not slumping. He's running better in more states than Kerry, Gore and even Bill Clinton in '92 at this point. Did we ever have a time in the last 44 years where we have had so many states like Indiana, Virginia, Alaska, Montana, Colorado, North Carolina in play? He doesn't need Hillary or anybody else to win. He will select the running mate he feels most comfortable with and if it's Hillary fine, if not that's fine too.

[Phx_Dem]

19. He's increasing in polls, not slumping.

Again, the national daily tracking polls might be fun to watch, but they don't mean shit. Popular vote does not elect the president.

Look at his numbers by battleground states, blue states, and regions. He has increased in every category except red/southern states. McCain has lost ground in every area except red/southern states, and he can't win with Southern states alone. Additionally, McCain still can't get past 44 percent.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/15/185451/821/896/568618

[Hope And Change]

10. Halperin Apologized For Saying Edwards "Thinks Obama Is Kind Of A Pussy"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/13/times-halperin-_n_86504.html?page=7

:crazy:

[snowbear]

8. Looks like the dirtball removed the phony alert from his website..

We can all go back to talking about Wes Clark now.

[eshfemme]

9. Okay, Mark Halperin, what are you high on now?

He's pretty good at consolidating a day's news reports and stuff but he's a bit out there whenever he floats his own personal theory. In the end, he's just the MSM answer to Drudge.

[JoFerret]

11. R/w shit stirrer n/t

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[Azathoth]

12. No, it couldn't n/t

[DCBob]

13. Nope.

And on Drudge "Some political insiders" are predicting Kerry. All smokescreens for the real choice -- General Wesley Clark.

[H2O Man]

14. Could be.

[ErinBerin84]

16. Mark Halperin does not know what he's talking about.

He knows as much as we do.

[shayes51]

17. I hope so.

[kstewart33]

18. Halperin is NOT a journalist.

Nor is he that well connected. His rare 'analysis' of the race or politics per se is light as air which Josh Marshall at TPM.com has aptly noted.

He's former editor of The Note on ABC.com, the Repub daily 'news' summary.

His best talent is hiding his Repub bias on The Page site so well that it takes about 60 seconds to detect it.

[Phx_Dem]

20. Halperin has never been right about anything.

He's a tool, and this is hardly "Late Breaking" news. It's just one more piece of gosspic and speculation on his blog.

:boring::boring::boring::boring:

[AtomicKitten]

21. Sure, in BizzaroWorld it could be her.

[VolcanoJen]

22. Halperin is and will always be a GOP shill and bootlick

Just ask Glenzilla. Halperin is every Republican's rave-fave journo-shill!!

Mark Halperin and Hugh Hewitt -- all you need to know about the national media

Everyone can continue with the speculation, but Halperin doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. :-)

[TwilightGardener]

23. Didn't he just float Leon Panetta for VP a couple weeks ago?

How's that turning out? Lots of Leon buzz?