Mark Halperin Now Just Telling People He's 'Dumb'

Apparently, last night's State of the Union address just didn't CHANGE enough GAME for poor, old Time magazine Photoshop blogger Mark Halperin, who went on various pundit shows to say that Obama's speech had just been some sort of straight-up bafflement. TPM's Josh Marshall asks, "What happened to this guy?" And so he's sending around this clip of Halperin, calling himself dumb and threatening America with more of his terrible, terrible listicles.

But what's to get? Halperin is just sad. The guy has a best-selling book, a plumb perch at Time magazine, and he's convinced HBO to make a movie of "Game Change" because, you know, maybe the original material was just way too subtle. You'd think a guy in his position has the luxury to be selective and not sell himself on the cheap. Instead, he's still schlepping from pundit show to pundit show, to make the same set of vapid pronouncements. It's all part of the sad day-to-day duties of a guy who's built a boom economy by credit/default swapping his own intellectual poverty. Far from working his ass off to prove that he's not dumb, he's embraced it as a selling point and is now preemptively pointing it out, on the teevee.

Mark Halperin is basically "the girlfriend experience" of modern political punditry.

Reporting live from the Huffington Post "Game Change" War Room, this is Jason Linkins.

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Comments

[evanrkg]

07:01 PM on 01/31/2010

It's a figure of speech, loaded with sarcasm.. I hate when HuffPo runs with nothing for a headline.

[SparkyDash]

07:21 PM on 01/30/2010

Excellent Jason.

[Jacksonian]

07:57 PM on 01/28/2010

Whos' Mark Halperin?

Oh, yeah, you're talikng about Trial-Balloon Boy.

I thought that kid was done vomiting on the airwaves.

[SteepleAston]

07:15 PM on 01/28/2010

Who is Halperin and why does what he says matter to anyone? Does anyone actually pay attention to this type of illogical ranting? Can't people simply form their opinions without having a blah blah person do it for them? Is Halperin important? Elected to office? A nobel prize winner? A famous scholar? I certainly don't care what Halperin says, do you?

[wattnot]

08:19 PM on 01/28/2010

He's on the TeeVee Man. Ipso Facto, he knows what he's talking about. In case you hadn't noticed, the Supreme Court recently made it illegal to form your own opinion- you have to buy them.

[Jacksonian]

08:29 PM on 01/28/2010

If you can't afford your own opinions, you can borrow Halperin's.

(If we're gonna crash and burn, we might as well speed it up.)