MSNBC's "Moral Outrage"

So MSNBC suspended Mark Halperin last week for calling President Obama a "d*ck." The exact quote: “I thought he was a kind of a d*ck yesterday...”

Now I'm not going to get into the discussion that Halperin was goaded, that everyone on the set acted like a bunch of high school kids who were giggling over at a one-cheek sneak, or perhaps the Morning Joe new producer didn't know how to work the 7-second delay. Instead I want to address MSNBC's statement after the corporation suspended Halperin indefinitely;

Mark Halperin's comments this morning were completely inappropriate and unacceptable. We apologize to the President, The White House and all of our viewers. We strive for a high level of discourse and comments like these have no place on our air. Therefore, Mark will be suspended indefinitely from his role as an analyst.

Inappropriate and unacceptable? Yet it was totally appropriate and acceptable to fire Phil Donahue for his anti-war beliefs leading up to the Iraq War? A war, I might add, that cost hundreds thousands of deaths and injuries, displaced millions more and sent the country of Iraq back into the Stone Age.

Here is a part of the memo which stated that Donahue was a

"difficult public face for NBC in a time of war......He seems to delight in presenting guests who are anti-war, anti-Bush and skeptical of the administration's motives."

Instead of canning him, how about having THAT kind of "high level of discourse"? Nope. Instead, MSNBC chose to gag any kind of discussion that opposed the war.

So calling the President of the United States a "d*ck" is inappropriate and unacceptable for MSNBC, but jumping on the War Wagon leading to the ruination of millions of lives is perfectly acceptable and appropriate.

"High level of discourse," indeed.