Scarborough blames producer for Halpernin "mishap"..

[RandySF]

During the Morning Joe show, host Joe Scarborough hoped to prevent the comment from being broadcast, saying, “Delay that. Delay that. What are you doing? I can’t believe… don’t do that. Did we delay that?”

Just minutes later, Halperin quickly apologized on the air to the president and viewers for his choice of words. “Joking aside, this is an absolute apology. I shouldn’t have said it. I apologize to the president and the viewers who heard me say that,” Halperin said.

“We’re going to have a meeting after the show,” Scarborough said.

According to Scarborough, there had been a mishap with the seven-second delay button – a new executive producer apparently didn’t know how it worked. “You are supposed to know how to do the job,” Scarborough said of his producer. “I would tell you what I think of him, but he doesn’t know what button to push.”



http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/58098.html

[malaise]

1. Joe Scum said

fuck on air and wasn't suspended

[WhiteTara]

2. Suspend Dead Intern Scarborough. n/t

[no limit]

3. Really? With all the bullshit they spew on that show daily...

the line you can't cross is calling the president a dick?

That makes sense.

[Ian David]

4. Wow, I wonder what ELSE we would have seen, had the LAST producer not known what button to push. n/t

[hedgehog]

6. GOOD POINT!

[hedgehog]

5. Would Halperin have been suspended if his words hadn't been broadcast?

In other words, would MSNBC still have him on the air knowing his real attitude?

[The Wielding Truth]

10. Halperin still said it. He was wrong to have disrespected anyone like that.

[immoderate]

22. No. He was wrong to drop his poker face.

I can understand disrespect.

I'm amazed that he just committed an "unforced error" of that magnitude.

I am not condoning incivility, but this is show business.

--imm

[butterfly77]

20. No.and we have all known his attitude..

about the President,he scowls everytime Obama is mentioned and gives that look like how dare he.

He and the republiCON party are angry because Obama told some truths and they look like it as how dare that n----- tell us anything. I heard someone on CNN say that the RepubliCONS are saying worse behind the scenes and how angry they are.

He should be,should have been telling these asshole what most of us have known for a long time,this bipartisan bullshit is getting tiresome..

From my family to you and your republiCONS KISS MY NATURAL-----ASS!!!!!

[patrice]

7. MSM creature reveals the truth about himself and that's a "mishap"??? DUly noted, Joe. nt

[City Lights]

8. Way to pass the buck, beady-eyed Joe!

What a stand-up guy he is!

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Why would Halperin even say that when he knew the mike was hot?

If you don't want to chance having language not being "delayed" or "bleeped", don't say it at all.

[Raven]

11. Yup, blame the guy with the button not the asshole with the mouth. n/t

[CTyankee]

14. Yes. This is a training issue. The producer did push one of the delay buttons but

there was ANOTHER one that he clearly had not been trained to use. If he had been trained properly -- which he obviously wasn't -- then it would have not gone out over the air.

I would hate to see the "little guy" blamed...he received inadequate training...

[Kahuna]

12. I was watching the whole things but somehow missed what word

was said by Halperin that has caused the uproar. Yeah, they did blame the producer in the booth.

[PATRICK]

13. In Hell

everyone blames someone else, according to Dante.

[polichick]

15. Joe told him there was a delay, and then acted horrified when he said it.

[Atman]

16. Cancel the show...it's what the GOP would demand of Democrats.

In fact, Time Magazine should be shut down. Seriously...if a Democrat made any statement like that against a Republican, they'd have their house foreclosed and their children sent to DYS. But IOKIYAR.

.

[Ganja Ninja]

17. MSNBC should just cancel the whole show.

Mika is useless and Joe is a jackass. It's just not very good TV.

I have an idea! Why not produce a news show that primarily covers current world events instead of just politics, politics, politics.

[eleny]

18. How about just blaming Halpernin, Joe?

You know, Republican responsibility and that grown-upy thing. Just sayin'.

[butterfly77]

19. What Scar means is...

that they didn't cover for him like they usually do. When someone comes on and kicks Scar's ass we never can find the video.

They usually post the republiCON talking points where all white men on the panel tell the country what is good for them and how it goes. Melissa lacewell hasn't shown up lately or anyone who is going to tell them where to shove it.

[MakingANoise]

21. screw him

Both and him and Mika were egging Halperin on....so, that show just lost me (and that's bad because they only had 8 viewers)...

[truebrit71]

23. I read that Halperin asked whether the delay was on, and then said Obama was a dick...ANYWAY...

...so, fuck you Dead Intern, it's Halperin's fault, not some new guy you fucking douchebag..