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sky_masterson

(524 posts)
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 04:21 PM Monday

So I've been watching Mark Halpirins Two Way zooms for several weeks

They try to push the mantra of "Peace,Love,and Understanding"
It is frequented by such thinkers as Newt Gingrich,Sean Spicer,Megan McCain.. and a few Token Democrats.
It is gaslighting of the highest order. Every episode is a harsh criticism of Harris and Walz, and a passing critique of Trump if a zoom caller brings it up. Critiquing Trump is always a few episodes away. 80 to 90 percent of the zoomers are MAGA.
Every episode it gets more MAGA as the zoom rips into Harris with only 2 or 3 Dem Zoomers who actually bring a bit of truth.
They all are being led to believe that Trump is surging and is certain to win.
And less and less Harris voters are showing up to the zoom. They arent converting, they just notice the gaslighting.
Halpirin pushes this sentiment on his zoom that Harris is in trouble, but the other day I watched him on another smaller zoom with a guy who had few subscribers, and when asked who He thought would win, He said . Wait for it. Harris 55/45.
When the guy asked him if the economy was the main concern,he said Trump would win.
None of this means anything except that They truly believe in Trump world that they are winning.
When they lose. They are going to go nuts and believe anything Trump wants them to believe.
I don't why I even posted this, I'm just sort of pissed off.
I also don't believe for a second that Trump is going to win.
I guess this is a reminder to NOT believe the words of disingenuous people.

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So I've been watching Mark Halpirins Two Way zooms for several weeks (Original Post) sky_masterson Monday OP
Mark Halperin was very anti-Gore. I've forgotten the details ms liberty Monday #1
Mark Halperin is anti common sense Wiz Imp Monday #2

ms liberty

(9,736 posts)
1. Mark Halperin was very anti-Gore. I've forgotten the details
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 05:59 PM
Monday

But the disgust at the mention of his name remains.

Wiz Imp

(954 posts)
2. Mark Halperin is anti common sense
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 07:25 PM
Monday

Some of his "greatest hits":

On June 30, 2011, Halperin was suspended from his duties at MSNBC for "slurring" President Barack Obama on the program Morning Joe, after he said of Obama "I thought he was kind of a dick" for his performance at the previous day's press conference.

In December 2011, Halperin was listed as number 1 in Salon's 2011 Hack List, his reporting described as "shallow and predictable" as well as "both fixated solely on the horse race and also uniquely bad at analyzing the horse race."

Alex Shephard, writing in The New Republic, criticized his coverage for being "totally fixated" on the horse race and for shallow analysis, and "that he’s wanted to carry Donald Trump's bags for years."

The Washington Post's Dana Milbank called Halperin's analysis in the 2016 United States presidential campaign "soulless" and "amoral", citing several instances when Halperin praised Republican nominee Donald Trump. Milbank noted that Halperin had declared on Morning Joe in March 2016 that Trump was "one of the two most talented presidential candidates any of us have covered."

In June 2016, on his Bloomberg TV show, With All Due Respect, Milbank noted Halperin asserted that "it's not racial" for Trump to attempt to disqualify an Indiana-born federal judge as a "Mexican" because of his ancestry. His reason: "Mexico isn't a race."

In November 2016, NBC's Brian Williams said Halperin had "gone out of his way" to give Trump favorable coverage.

On October 26, 2017, CNN reported that five women had accused Halperin of sexual harassment. Yet another woman told CNN that Halperin once pressed his penis to her shoulder during the 2004 campaign cycle. And another former ABC News woman employee, told CNN that she had been on the road with Halperin when he propositioned her. CNN also reported that three other women described Halperin, "without consent, pressing an erection against their bodies while he was clothed." A day after their first story, CNN ran a second story revealing that the number of women accusing Halperin of misconduct had grown to "at least a dozen".

And of course he now works for NEWSMAX!

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