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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHalperin's Legacy Was Worse Than Sexual Harassment
November 22, 2017 at 12:42 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
Eve Fairbanks: Three weeks ago, numerous women stepped forward to accuse him of extraordinary acts of assault But Im not here to talk about that. I want to talk about the deeper, subtler, more insidious effect Mark Halperin had on our politics one which well be paying for for years to come.
The Note purported to reveal Washingtons secrets. In fact, its purpose was the exact opposite: to make the city, and US politics, appear impossible to understand. It replaced normal words with jargon. It coined the phrase Gang of 500, the clubby network of lobbyists, aides, pols, and hangers-on who supposedly, like the Vaticans cardinals, secretly ran DC. That wasnt true power is so diffuse. But Halperin claimed he knew so much more than we did, and we began to believe it.
Once you believe that, its not hard to be convinced that politics is only comprehensible, like nuclear science, to a select few. There were those chosen ones the people whod flattered Halperin to get a friendly mention in his newsletter, the ones he declared to be in the know and the rest of us. Halperin wrote about Washington like it was an intriguing game, the kind that masked aristocrats played to entertain themselves at 19th-century parties: Everyone was both pawn and player, engaged in a set of arcane maneuvers to win an empty jackpot that ultimately meant nothing of true importance.
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Halperin's Legacy Was Worse Than Sexual Harassment (Original Post)
DonViejo
Nov 2017
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I hope this bastard never works again. I hope he's totally ruined and penniless.
PearliePoo2
Nov 2017
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PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)1. I hope this bastard never works again. I hope he's totally ruined and penniless.
I STILL remember on 'Morning Joe' when he called President Obama a "dick".
Fuck you, you sneering, smug p.o.s.
I hope the mother of your child leaves your disgusting ass and takes you to the cleaners for 18 years of child support.
(I DO feel sorry for his infant son)
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)2. Seen this? MM has been on his case since The Note
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/07/27/msnbc-mark-halperin-pushes-right-wing-attack-mueller-s-fitness-special-counsel/217408
https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2006/10/25/abcs-halperin-told-oreilly-and-hannity-his-netw/137068
Eric Boehlert was on to him long ago:
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/amp/Shill+wind%3a+all+of+Washington%27s+political+reporters+read+ABC%27s+The...-a0148368499
https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2006/10/25/abcs-halperin-told-oreilly-and-hannity-his-netw/137068
Eric Boehlert was on to him long ago:
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/amp/Shill+wind%3a+all+of+Washington%27s+political+reporters+read+ABC%27s+The...-a0148368499