>> WHO IS THIS TWEET FROM?
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>>I LIKE HOW BEN MOVED TO THE COMPUTER SO I DON'T
PULL A TRUMP.
>> THE TABLE IS CURVED, THERE IS NO WAY YOU COULD NOT SEE IT.
" SPENDING YOUR DAY MANUALLY REFRESHING DRUDGE REPORT IS VERY
1990S, AND WHAT ALL HOLLYWOOD AGENTS, WALL STREETERS,
HILLARY STAFF WILL DO TODAY."
>> I AM GOING TO GUESS DAVID SIROTA.
>> NO, MARK HALPERIN.
>> BUT IT SEEMS LIKE HE IS MOCKING THE THINGS HE IS DOING.
THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE.
I THOUGHT IT WAS SIROTA CRITICIZING THE SCHMUCKS WHO ARE
STILL CHECKING DRUDGE AFTER DRUDGE HAS BEEN PROVEN TO BE
NOT ONLY EXTREME RIGHT-WINGER, BUT ALSO BORDERLINE LUNATIC
WITH CONSPIRATORIAL THEORIES ABOUT HOW THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION IS CONTROLLING THE WEATHER.
>> THERE ARE ALREADY HUGE STORIES ABOUT HOW SNOWDEN
REVEALS $30 FRAUD HACK.
WOMAN CHARGED WITH FELONY AFTER CASTING VOTE FOR DEAD TWICE.
HE HAS A VOTER STORY IN THERE, MARK HALPRIN.
WHEN HE SAID IN WHATEVER BOOK IT WAS, HE SAID THAT EVERY
MORNING THE FIRST THING THEY DO IS THEY ALL CHECK DRUDGE TO
SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING.
SO THEIR WHOLE DAY, NO WONDER.
AND THEN WE SAW MARK HELPRIN'S INTERVIEW FOR DONALD TRUMP
WHICH REVEALED TO A LOT OF PEOPLE EXACTLY WHERE HE STOOD.
>> IF YOU ARE NEW TO POLITICS AND YOU DON'T KNOW HIM, HE IS
THE PROTOTYPICAL MAINSTREAM MEDIA REPORTER.
HE IS THE GUY WHO SAYS I AM NEUTRAL.
JIMMY MAKES FUN OF HIM ALL THE TIME.
HE HAS WORKED FOR A LOT OF THESE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS.
HE IS ON MORNING JOE.
THEY ALL LOVE HIM.
IF YOU WANT A NEUTRAL GUY THAT HAS NO OPINION, OR CONNECTION
TO SANITY YOU GET MARK HELPRIN.
THAT IS THE KIND OF CRAP THAT IS REWARDED IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
HIS INTERVIEW WITH TRUMP WAS EMBARRASSING.
>>DO WANT TO KNOW HOW MANY MILLENNIAL'S WATCH ANYTHING
MARK HALPRIN?
MAYBE THREE.
HE IS DESTROYING HIS OWN CAREER.
HE IS IRRELEVANT TO MY AGE GROUP.
>>BUT NOT TOO MANY OTHER AGE GROUPS WHO ARE VOTING RIGHT NOW.
I GET IT, YOUR AGE GROUP IS GOING TO GET OLDER AND THAT WILL
MATTER.
I HAVE A FRIEND OF MINE ñ
>>THANKS, I HAVE BEEN READING MORE LATELY.
>>ñ BECAUSE OF GAME CHANGE HE THINKS MARK HALPERIN IS THE MAN.
>>I ALWAYS THOUGHT HE WOULD BE 5'6.
I MET HIM IN PERSON, AND HE IS MUCH TALLER, 5'11.
THAT IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT HIM.
>> I AM NEUTRAL ON HOW TALL HE IS.
>> THEY READ THE DRUDGE REPORT TO FIND OUT WHAT IS GOING ON.
>>THE MARK HALPERIN'S OF THE WORLD WILL
ADMIT ñ
IF YOU SAID TO HIM WHAT YOU CHECK OUT THE INTERCEPT WITH THE
SAME KIND OF RELIGIOSITY THAT YOU DO THE DRUDGE REPORT.
>>OR THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES.
>> HE WOULD SAY, THAT IS A RADICAL.
>> ACTUAL INNER INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING, THEY ARE RADICALS.
THE INTERCEPT HAS DONE SO MUCH INCREDIBLE INVESTIGATIVE
REPORTING.
THEY ACTUALLY SHARE THEIR OPINION IN AN HONEST WAY.
THEY DON'T PRETEND TO BE NEUTRAL OR ANY OF THAT BS.
>> THEY EXPLAIN HOW THE WORLD WORKS.
IN ORDER TO DO THAT, IT IS NOT OPINION AS MUCH AS IT IS
PERSPECTIVE.
THE MARK HALPRIN'S OF THE WORLD SEE THAT AND GO BIASED.
WHAT?
HE JUST SHARED A PERSPECTIVE THAT IS IMPORTANT AND IS BASED
ON FACT.
WHEREAS DRUDGE IS A RIGHT ñ THE WEATHER THEORY I WAS REFERRING
TO WAS THAT HE LITERALLY THINKS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WAS
FIXING THE HURRICANE REPORTS TO MAKE IT SEEM THAT THE
HURRICANE WAS GOING TO BE WORSE.
SCIENTISTS SAID YOU CAN'T FIX THOSE REPORTS.
AND THE MARK HALPRIN WORLD THAT IS NOT BIASED.
BUT REPORTING FACTS THAT SHOW YOU THE CORRUPT SYSTEM IS
BIASED.
YOU PROBABLY THINK WHY WE ARE SPENDING SO MUCH TIME ON IN
THE RELEVANT GUY LIKE MARK HALPRIN.
RIGHT NOW IT IS NOT IRRELEVANT.
HE IS SYMBOLIC OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA THAT TELLS YOU THE
SYSTEM IS NOT CORRUPT AND IT IS WONDERFUL.
HE WILL TAKE RIGHT WING DRIBBLE AND PUBLISH IT TO THE WHOLE
WORLD.
THERE ARE PLENTY OF PEOPLE WHO THINK LIKE MARK HALPERIN.
HE IS THE ONE THAT MAKES IT ON AIR ALL THE TIME.
HE MAKES IT ONTO MORNING JOE WHICH EVERYONE IN WASHINGTON
WATCHES.
HE MAKES IT ONTO MEET THE PRESS.
HE WORKED AT TIME MAGAZINE.
EVEN HBO, THEY WILL RUN HIS MOVIE AND DEPICTION OF THE
CAMPAIGNS.
ALL YOU SEE ñ YOU MIGHT NOT SEE IT IF YOU ARE A MILLENNIAL.
PEOPLE THAT WATCH TV, THE OLDER GENERATIONS, ALL THEY SEE IS
MARK HALPERIN'S TYPE OF PERSPECTIVE.
THAT IS WHY WE SPEND TIME TALKING ABOUT IT TO DEBUNK IT.
THAT TWEET THAT BEN READ IS EMBLEMATIC TO HIS LEVEL OF
THINKING.
TO THIS DAY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ñ
>> WHAT IF HE IS A RIGHT-WINGER?
>>BY THE WAY, PEOPLE ALWAYS THINK ñ
MY THEORY IS THAT HE IS A
REPUBLICAN.
>> THE FIRST TWEET RESPONSE TO HIM WAS, "MARK, YOU HAVE BEEN
EXPOSED AS A POCKET REPORTER.
THIS SINK WILL LAST A LIFETIME."
>>I HAVE A SINK FROM THE 20S.
SOMETIMES THEY LAST.
>> I OVERHEARD SOMEBODY THE OTHER DAY SAY POLITICO, THEY
ARE LEFT WING.
>>SUPER LEFT WING.
>>IT MAKES THIS BATTLE SUPERHARD.
>> I DON'T Know Which Way, Mark votes,
but there is only two explanations.
One is he thinks he is a liberal but repeats Republican talking
points at nausea which makes him a giant sucker and idiot.
Or he is just a Republican and is like GREAT,
THEY GAVE ME A FORUM.
WHEN IT COMES TO THESE GUYS AND WHAT THEY DO ñ THEY TAKE A
RIGHT WING POSITION AND THEY PRETEND LIKE IT IS THE LEFT.
YOU GET USEFUL TOOLS LIKE MARK HALPERIN, AND HE SPEWS OUT
RIGHT WING TALKING POINTS AND PRETENDS IT IS LEFT WING.
AND THEN EVERYONE SAYS WE HAVE TO MOVE FURTHER RIGHT.