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Mark Halperin Booey Bombs Morning Joe During Phone Interview

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TIME magazine political analyst Mark Halperin called in to Morning Joe Tuesday morning to discuss his grades for Monday night’s Republican debate on Fox News. He was promptly hammered for previous grade inflation and being too kind to the frontrunner.

“Let me explain to the group here,” Mike Barnicle said, noting the “B” grade Halperin gave Mitt Romney. “Mark’s grading system is geared to sucking up to the candidate most likely to win.”

After fielding another question from Donny Deutsch, Halperin set them up for the most high-profile Booey Bomb possibly in television history:

“Hey I got one more thing to say… Baba Booey.”

“Get him off,” an unamused Mika Brzezinski said. “We’ve got enough stupidity here.”

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  • Pablo

    “Get him off,” an unamused Mika Brzezinski said. “We’ve got enough stupidity here.”

    Indeed you do, Mika. Indeed you do.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    To be sure, MJ lacks the intellectual scope of O’Van Karlsen, Il Douchey, that Guy With the Kurly Black Hair and the renowned P-Jo pm F&F.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I was glad Halperin called in. His debate scorecard made no sense (Willard a “B” when in debate performance he scarcely earned a “D”). Halperin explained is system is 50% performance and 50% chances of advancing in the nomination process. I still think the scoring was a bit high. Under than scenario Willard would get a “C”, but it was useful information. Halperin always has an interesting, useful and surprisingly accurate take on most matters.

  • Gloves Clay Donahue

    “We’ve got enough stupidity here.”

    Haven’t seen Baba Booey, but he sounds more interesting than Donny.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Really? I think he works for Blightphart. I’d have thought you’d see him often. Maybe he telecommutes.

  • Gloves Clay Donahue

    Instead of Baba Booey, they should call in and say ,” Dick HARPOOTLIAN ! “.

  • Anonymous

    More importantly, those “grades” that Halperin issued bear no connection to the reality. They all flunked, along with the audience, which was the most surly yet.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Indeed, the audience was deplorable. I’m always a bit shaken when I discover how truly vile and mean some Americans are. Surely, this can’t be American character. Ought we not be positive, upbeat, confident? Do positive, upbeat, confident people routinely cheer the deaths of others? I should think not. That seems to be more Imperial Roman. More Taliban.

  • Anonymous

    Halperin really is a shameless kiss ass to whoever the GOP front runner is. You would think after the humiliation he endured after his pathetic kowtowing to the McCain campaign in 2008 he would have learned a lesson but I guess some people are just too stupid.

  • Anonymous

    You know how it is; nobody at Bratbart wants to admit they work there or they get forevered tarred with the association to that talentless hack John Nolte and his golden shower loving young sidekick Dana Loesch

  • Hout Bosques

    And what a complete shock that was – that the sovereign state of South Nullificationa, the home environs to so many movement saints ( the patron saint of nullification, John Calhoun; the patron saint of opposition to civil rights, Strom Thurmond; the patron saint to the TPers, Jim Demint; & the patron saint to closet cases, Lindsay Graham ), would turn out to be the most raucously insane white extremist enthusiasts for Know Nothingism. 

    (And under the category of Damned If You Do versus Damned If You Don’t, the entire sense of faux enthusiasm the GOP generated by its bi-weekly GOP candidates’ show is pfffting out into the ether, as its bases settles in nicely with their masters’ determination to nominate the establishment candidate, Willard Mittens Rmoney Pate de Fois Gras avec Grey Poupon Gordon Gekko Thurston Howell III.)

  • Hout Bosques

    I object: yes, he’s a shameless kiss ass, but not to the GOP front runner, rather to the GOP establishment; & yes he kow-towed pathetically ot the McCain campaign in 2008, but that allowed him to generate the single most forgettable stale-dated piece of cheap twerpish gossip mongering in On The Campaign Trail literary history; & no he’s not stupid, he’s a tool.

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