TIME Editor Mark Halperin Calls Obama ‘Kind of a D*ck’ During Live MSNBC Show
- Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:02am by
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MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” prides itself on the relaxed and loose feel of its “sitting around the breakfast table, talking about the country” program. There are even rumors that CBS is in talks to steal the show for their perennially lackluster morning programming slot.
Considering the kind of chatter delivered by the “Morning Joe” crew today, I wonder if CBS might reconsider their plans?
It was just after 6am and the discussion kicking off the day was dealing with President Obama’s press conference from the day before. Regular MSNBC contributor and TIME Magazine editor Mark Halperin was asked his thoughts on the presser and he gave a rather unvarnished assessment:
[Content WARNING: clip contains an inappropriate reference]
The segment continued with some additional references to the “delay button” problem, but after a commercial break, Mr. Halperin was given the chance to apologize to the President:
“Joking aside, this is not a pro-forma apology, this is an absolute apology, heartfelt to the President and to the viewers, I became part of the joke, but that’s no excuse. I made a mistake and I’m sorry and I should not have said it, and as I say I apologize to the President and the viewers who heard me say that.”
Halperin’s facial expression tells a great story:
MSNBC’s official video posts from Morning Joe edited around the gaffe and the apology.
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The spontaneous “magic” that happens in first half hour of Morning Joe’s three hour, daily show is often rebroadcast in the eight o’clock hour, it is doubtful that MSNBC will repeat the first half hour of June 30, 2011, but one never knows.
Update: “Morning Joe” did break from their typical format, starting the 8am hour with live programming (instead of the first segment of the 6am hour). The segment also featured a second and third apology from Mark Halperin.
Halperin has also added a Twitter apology. (I wonder if Obama “follows” the Time editor?)

Update: Halperin has been suspended ‘indefinitely’ by MSNBC.



















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Comments (307)
zman173rd
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:43amSocialist media. Running scared. Even the truth is Verboten!!! Heil!!!!!
Report Post »satotbs
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:42amGreat now Mika can move to the “View” and get fat with “Joyless and Whoops”. She might even get to replace Baa-Baa as the hostless, now that Babs is senile. Joe on the other hand might have to join “Algor” and Keith and lose one of his two viewers. Oh well, what goes around comes around.
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:37amWhoah.
Report Post »For a minute there, I thought I could start buying Time magazine because it was going to tell the truth. My bad.
Let the magazine Obamaganda magazine fade into obscurity.
superglide
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:37amImus got fired from MSNBC for inappropriate language…. Now they are joking about Obama being a “Dick” at yesterdays press conference….. Let’s see if Rev. Sharpton and Rev Jackson go after advertisers and get them all fired like they did for the I-man???
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:28amWOW msnbc finally got something right !!!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:39am…and quickly retracted it.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:25amROFLMAO
TIME magazine SCORES again
Halperin and another doofus wrote some dopey book which is going to Bollywood
ONCE again the CuppaJoe/Meeka show reveals their stupid idk
but then I do agree with what Halperin said
NO BO in 2012!!!!
Report Post »jhonjhonson1
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:22amThat stupid RINO (liberal) Scabboro blaming someone other than the person that said the remark…. the producer that couldn’t find the dumbazz button!!!!
Report Post »GulfPeg
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:22amObama is going to get him fired. Wait and see!
Report Post »HTuttle
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:18amHe’s always been a dick. But he’s a clever enough conman to fool gullibles that he actually likes them and shares their views. All LIES.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 7:17pmOf all the words ever to use about obama….that is the very most unlikely. Does it not relate to something masculine ? Not a word to associate with this Puppet !
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:17amyou speak the truth ,and during a break, the SS beats the heck out of you and you are forced to apologize ,man this country is in for a lot of apologizing under communist rule.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 10:00amHey, this cat deserves some kinda award for telling the truth. I understand that he was brow beat and had to renig on his statement.
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:15amI love it!!!!!!!!!!!!! lmao
Report Post »Finally someone on MSNBC tells the truth ;)
I.Gaspar
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:32amIt was a first…and probably the last.
Report Post »But it was refreshing to see a moment of truth on that 4th rate show.
BetheLight
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:39am& on GE’s own network… priceless. -until the retraction, he should have retracted the “kind of”.
Report Post »randy
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:15amNever apologize for saying how you feel!
Report Post »liberalsarealiens
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:15amHey, he is what he is! I wasn’t offended in fact I loved it! Oh, and Mika was hallarious this morning when they had a proponent for Palin on the show! He told it like it really is and they had a fit! As usual Mika made a fool of herself!
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 3:47pmMika doesn’t have to work very hard at being a fool…..
Report Post »She manages to do that at some point during each show..
I‘ll bet she never say’s “Go FOR It” again, still laughing !!
Aaron in Polk County
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:14amCalling him a Dick is a start. Now let’s get the Left acknowledge that he is an inept President.
We (not me) hired a person with no experience to run the country and we are getting what we deserve.
Remember, Blazers, the LEFT thinks emotionally first. Calling him names is the first sign that they understand he is a horrible President.
Report Post »Anne Marie Pogo
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:14amI’m sure Mark is waiting for the axe to fall….this is not something MSNBC wanted their viewers to hear…his sentiment was an honest one. It would be refreshing to hear more of the same (though maybe not in such a crude way) on MSNBC.
Report Post »TotalCredence
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:12amShould have just called him a weiner.
Report Post »EZDOZIT
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:44amObama has third world Dicktator DNA.
Report Post »I SPY
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:10amMorning B l o w.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:10amPresident Obama is all talk and no action.
Report Post »leepoulson
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:53amall talk and “wrong” action
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:10amUH OH! This guy is going to have to go to the White House garden and do the Japanese cut the guts open thing! Hey Mark, he is a d*** ! So why say sorry??
Report Post »slimkendall
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:09amPut that ‘D*ck in a Box’
Report Post »Firebrand
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 11:08amStep one: Get a box.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:09am.
Report Post »I saw that I almost pee’d the bed laughing……………….
SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:12amSpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:09am Your comment is awaiting moderation.
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I saw that I almost pee’d the bed laughing……………….
Please tell us why you are reporting this comment:
What is wrong whit this? Please tell me FREE SPEECH
Report Post »Rob
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:08amHee, hee… I saw it. Mika and Joe are so embarassed that their god was dissed… loving it.
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:40amI bet Joe dropped a load in his pants after hearing that comment.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 3:13pmI’m going to be laughing right through the Long weekend, Gawd !!
Report Post »thanks Blaze, thats been the best one in a long time. Ha,Ha,Ha..
Seeing Joe fall out of his chair, and hearing Mika say, “Go For It”
Ha,Ha,Ha…tears….. Made my day !!!!!
Gonzo
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:08amBelieve me Mark, you’re not the first…or the last.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:43amweiner is back in the news
Report Post »hi
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 10:14amRepublicorp Your comments are funny!
Report Post »STAR SPANGLED SPAMMER
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 12:36pmWow I’m kinda spooked that I see eye to eye with MSLSD on an issue.
(“trust nobody”)….Power to the People!!!!
Report Post »ares338
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:07amAwwwwww……don’t apologize, you were right!
Report Post »vincere vel mori
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:14amIm glad he spoke his mind, the guy is a tool. Rush and Mark Levine routinely call Obuma a phalic symbol on a daily basis. Along with tool, he is also a marxist, ego flagulator, Lier, freedom destroying dirtbag. Enough said.
Report Post »obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:16amTruth on State TV!!!!!!! It was priceless. Right after he said it , the Whitehouse was on Mika’s blackberry scolding them. Then they had everyone from host to producers to tech guys apologize on air. BWAHAHAHAHA! Finally truth in their reporting and they had to take it back !! Just proves the Whitehouse owns MSNBC, NBC and Time Magazine. And hopefully when the country sends Obama packing this sham of a news organization will be gone too.
Report Post »cowdude
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:20amWhy in the world when someone tells the truth it’s a BIG new story? Forget the penis reference, regardless of how true it is, if you want you to offend OBAMA, call him a conservative.
Cowdude
Report Post »http://conservativewatercooler.com
cowdude
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:29amMan-up! You said it. You meant it. Then you retracted it. What a little man! Can you say weasel?
Cowdude
Report Post »http://conservativewatercooler.com
HKS
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:36amIt’s so hard to lie all the time, every once and a while the truth slips out, occupational hazard.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 10:34amThe truth of the matter is, It has been said, let it stand !!
Report Post »we all know it’s TRUE . Miki said “go for it” YEA !!!!!
lana720
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 2:56pmExactly, hwy apologize for the truth?
BTW, they said worse things against GWB and NEVER apologized. In fact, I heard the other day that he and VP Cheney are on the World Yearbook’s list of criminals along with Khomeini and Bulger. Instead of the D word, whoever included those two names are P-words themselves, or lily-livered libs.
Report Post »sedition
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 8:13amWhy talk if you have to apologize after every word… Ridiculous!
Report Post »norma55
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:03amWHy can we nolonger share Baze Stories on facebook??????
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:13amwow what a b*tch. 3 minutes pass and he‘s kissing the pres’s butt again
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:14amActually, I think that is the most honest description I have heard from the media to date. Don’t apologize.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:18amI can think of a much worse name than “d*ck” and be even more accurate. How about “Liar”?
Report Post »Aaron in Polk County
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:20am@NORMA55
Report Post »You can still link news stories from your Facebook account. Just copy and paste the www.* address to your Facebook page.
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:25am@Grandmaof5:
Agreed, there are times not to apologize, especially in concern to the truth.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:30amHe‘s too much of an appeaser to be a ’dick’
Report Post »watchmany2k
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:34amNo “kind of” about it, Obama is the genuine article.
Report Post »Halperin throws it out there, and scarboro does backbends choking on it.
Delay, delay, delay, LOL no wonder his ratings are lower than kinko the klown’s
HKS
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:34amWow, if conservatives were like Liberals this could be a whipping post for years.
Report Post »BoiseBaked
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:41amGive him a break. He probably was thinking about.Dick Durbin at the time.
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:44amIf he had called morning joke a dick noone would have given it a second thought.
Report Post »BoiseBaked
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:45amnorma55, because it’s probably something Facebook is doing – because it sucks and it’s the beginning of the end for Facebook. Oh BTW, will you Friend me…. nobody loves me… BLAH!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 8:45amApologize! NOW! for the “Kind Of”
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:09amDitto on the Facebook comment. And even the ‘send’ button rarely, if ever, works.
Report Post »bbg1123
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:09amAll he is doing is trying to solidify his base, blacks, gays, hispanics, muslims … and for some unknown reason, some Jews … The rest of those who voted for him and his “change” because they were mad at Bush, I think realize his brand of change is not acceptible to Americans.
Report Post »We just need to get him out of office … and with luck, banished to a country that likes his type of rule. Maybe he can go hang with Chavez, and Castro.
chazman
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:24amUh huh, that’s a Freudian slip …
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:26amI don’t care WHO you are,
THAT’S funny, right there! – - – - Larry the Cable Guy
ROFLMAO!!
Did you see the LASER BEAMS
SHOOTING out of their eyes???
Wholly COW!!!
They were PEEEED at him – that was the textbook face of socialist democrat HATE ! !
Gotta save that one for future reference!
How DARE YOU not praise OUR annointed one!
You‘re not allowed to speak ill of obama’s actions. We thought we brain-washed you better than that!
He’ll be lucky if he keeps his job after that…
Don’t believe me? Just ask Juan Williams !
ROFLMAO!
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:28amFinally someone on MMMMMsn tells the TRUTH !!!!
Thats pretty much what I was thinking during Bama’s shpeel..Good Call !!
Report Post »Patrick in AZ
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:34amcause you are doing it wrong. I shared one last night.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:35amDick Durbin or that Weiner guy, or maybe he DOES think OBAMMY is a D!ck, I don’t know. Damn funny though.
Report Post »jethrObama
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:54amYou can share anything on facebook you want. Copy and paste the link…
Report Post »JohnGalt
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:55amYou know if they were heartfelt about the “President” they should all apologize Bush and how they smeared him when he was President.
Report Post »jeffyfreezone
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:57amHalperin is becoming disillusioned with their Dear Leader. He’s been saying for months Obama would recommend specific cuts and not demogog on SS and Medicare. I guess being wrong about the messiah is getting to him. FYI, every morning I forward REAL news stories to Joe@msnbc.com so they will have access to the things flyover country reads. WSJ, American Thinker stories, etc. I think it gets under their skin. On occasion they have mentioned things in my emails, so if any of you are into tweaking the left, it’s a fun thing to do. I complained about Norah Odonnell’s cackling laughter, and they mentioned it, so SOMEONE there is reading the emails.
Report Post »EnoughBS
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 10:04amI definitely agree with Halperin’s description. He’s spot on!
However, bring up a real argument/discussion, if you want people to take your reasoning seriously. Anyone can play the schoolyard name-calling games.
Report Post »Arizona4Ever
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 10:04amBecause Facebook is censoring conservatives and conservative sites. They’re “archiving” conservative pages & feeds, regardless of the blowback coming from what they feel is a “minority” in the “global Facebook community.” In other words, they don’t want their huge flock of sheep disturbed.
Report Post »middleclassprophet
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 10:05amObama was on the attack guns blazing at that press conference. If that’s being a “d–k”, bring it on!
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 10:12amThe SCM (so-called-media) call Sarah and Michele sluts and nobody seems to have a problem with that but call this sob a dic and it requires an apology…. give me a break
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 10:43amSounds like something Ed Shultz would call Palin..or Bachmann..
Report Post »He’s a real smooooth talker with No Brains..MMMMMsn BOZOS !!
Sure is milking the union bustin B.S. in WI..give it up, PigEd !!
Midwest Blonde
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 10:45am@NORMA55
Probably because NOW, the Blaze has it’s own facebook page. Just go there and hit “like” and stories will appear on your page.
http://www.facebook.com/theblazenews
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 10:56amFirst sign of truth in a long time.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 11:02amhe really has to read a prompter to appologize? really? MSNBC wrote an appology and made him read it? sad…
do people have to appologize for being honest about their feelings? really? if he thought he was a d!ck yesterday, then he thought that.. does it matter? nope. does anyone give a flick?, no. most people think obama is a self centered arrogant douche bag, so what. welcome to the club. ;)
i don’t like to say it, but it’s the way i feel…“pretty much” everyone in the media is a ‘d!ck’. no normal person could stand 5 minutes of being around these people.they have this constant demand on others to cater to their every need, as if they are gods…. this is the way i see it. it has been portrayed over and over and over again in history… movie stars, news reporters, politicians… most of them think that others can not live without them. prove me wrong. i never said ‘all’, so.. don’t even try to go that route… think about it first.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 11:10amWhy aren’t Mika an Joe suspended? They goaded him to go forward!!
Report Post »jsmac0118
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 11:22amYou can force this article on Facebook – copy link in browser than go to Facebook and click on link option and paste the link in pop up box. Facebook is run by very left leaning group and I assume that is why they are making it so hard to post Blaze articles. Hope this helps.
Report Post »nysparkie
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 12:37pmWhat? What? WHAT!? did he do? He stated fact. Mom always said: Dick is as DIck does… Obambam must fit the definition. Mother always knew best.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 12:38pm“Go ahead, it’s ok…Why’d you say that….I was kidding!”
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You told him it was OK! You told him to GO AHEAD!! Why no ramifications for the two dopes on the other side of the table?!!!
Report Post »Cptnjarhead
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 1:06pmfunny, they probably all talk that way about BO when the cameras are off.
Report Post »They just hate republicans more.
the ends justify the means!
JimCDew
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 1:10pmNotice how he said he was sorry for saying it, for anyone hearing it, but not that it wasn’t a true statement.
The liberal press is so good at parsing words, don’t you think?
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 1:33pmNow we all got hacked off (myself for sure) over Schultz’s reference to Laura Inghram on his show and as much as I think Obama is a buffoon and a liar this should be no different. He was wrong to say that on national TV (despite how little viewership MSNBC actually has) plain and simple.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 1:37pmI do NOT accept Mark’s apology. I agree with his original statement in full. Obama IS A DICK!
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 1:38pmSo that;’s how MSNBC reacts to someone asked their honest oppinion and not their bias scripted progressive party oppinion. I think the President is an a55,wait an ignorant a55,no a wannbe dictator ignorant a55. No wait a enemy of the Constitution and a wannbe dictator ignorant a55.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 1:45pmThis is FUNNY, these Jerks are running like a bunch of cats, trying
to cover shi** in a marble hall.. Miki said, “Go For It” funny !!!
See Ya, Mika and Joe, Top of the Morn’n To Ya !!
“Go For It” Ha, Ha, Ha !!! Mika your soooooo funny, Gawd,,tears….
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 2:45pmi see no reason for him to say “sorry” I will not say i am sorry for the things i have said against Obama and i was being fairly nice
Report Post »grabyrgun
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 2:46pmlike it first, add coomment and post it.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 2:49pmFNC will probably pick him up……………….
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 2:56pm@ middleclassprophet
Obama was on the attack guns blazing at that press conference. If that’s being a “d–k”, bring it on!
Get a grip, It’s made the airwaves, it’s official, The man is a DIC**..
Report Post »He’s like a schoolgirl, blames everyone else for the crap he does
or doesn’t do..get your head out of the sand, the guy’s a screwup !!!
Soros wasted big bucks on this looser !!
jzs
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 3:03pmYet again, MSNBC provesthat they have standards. On FOX, people get a raise for that kind of comment and it’s called “straight news.”
Report Post »Parkeralan
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 3:17pmAn insult to penises everywhere…
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 3:32pm@ jzs
Yet again, MSNBC provesthat they have standards. On FOX, people get a raise for that kind of comment and it’s called “straight news.”
UH HUH, I like their standards ! Mika and Joe said “Go For It, we’ll catch you”
Report Post »you LEAN FOWARD and call him a DIC**, we won’t let you fall, Ha,Ha,Ha, !!!!!
angiea
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 3:34pmThis was deliberate, anyone can tell it is just deliberate drama, like Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction. Am I the only one that has caught on??
Report Post »Pujols
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 3:48pmWho watches JOE the Moron and the thing who’s on with Him?
Report Post »She gives ‘Dumb Blonds’ a bad name. What a ditz.
JohnGalt
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 3:55pm@JZS, MSNBC has standards? firing him because the guy gave his two cents worth, his honest belief. You are obviously one who believes don’t tell a person the truth if offends them. Journalism is supposedly about being honest.
Report Post »DEM
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 4:08pmOboma can’t be a dick thats part of a MAN !
Report Post »Timmtamm
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 4:28pmLet me get this straight. MSNBC anchors can use “slut” all the time when refering to conservatives, but if they use a similar term for the president, they are suspended indefinitly? And no one else sees the hypocracy in this?
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 4:29pm“Yet again, MSNBC provesthat they have standards. On FOX, people get a raise for that kind of comment and it’s called “straight news.”
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JZS – Typical. Throw out accusations without any examples. I watch Fox a fair amount. I have yet to see/hear anyone on that station call Obama what your liberal friend did.
And what standards are you refering to? The standard that you suspend the person that said it but not the two boneheads, who are the face of the show, that pushed him, prodded him, pleaded with him to say it?! Nice standard you are holding up there JZS but typical for you!!!!
Report Post »SUPPLY_SIDE
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 5:10pmA lot of stories about Dicks and Weiners in the Liberal news lately.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:01pmOh, PUHLEASZ, do not apologize to me! That was great! :D
Report Post »Americangal1953
Posted on July 1, 2011 at 10:38ambecause facebook and youtube are conducting censureship, you can post at http://www.mrctv.org/
Report Post »good luck