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RUSH: The White House says an off-color remark about President Obama by MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin was inappropriate. I heard other people play it and they bleeped it out. I don\u2019t know why anybody bleeped it out. They said it. Here\u2019s something else now. I\u2019m also being told that Halperin on MSNBC was told that what he was going to say wouldn\u2019t be heard because there was a seven-second delay. Now, folks, I\u2019m a highly trained broadcast specialist, you\u2019re sitting there on live television, “Look, I want to say something, but can we bleep it?” You just don\u2019t say it! (interruption) We use the deedle button. Is our deedle button even hooked up now? Let me hit the deedle button. Nothing happens. Okay, here\u2019s the deedle button. (deedle) There we go. See, I can deedle myself. (deedle) Yeah, I\u2019ll do it again here. You know what I love to do? You get some sweet little old lady on the phone, “Hi, Mr. Limbaugh, I just love you so much, I and my husband, we have been listening to you for 35 years, you are the greatest… (deedle).” I love deedling these little old ladies saying nothing wrong making everybody in the audience say, “What the heck did she just say that they had to deedle?” I have fun with the deedle. <\/p>\n

We take no chances with our delay here. We\u2019re on a 40-second delay. It used to be standard seven-second delay in the broadcast business. We, of course, are trend-setters. We went to 40 seconds, and the reason we went to 40 seconds, there\u2019s two reasons. One, to have fun with it. If somebody says something we know we\u2019ve got 40 seconds to on-air decide, while you can hear us deciding, “Gee, should we let that go by or not?” Count down, ten seconds to go, five seconds — okay, bleep it. Another reason why there\u2019s 40 seconds is so that there is no panic on the part of anybody at the broadcast engineer console. We got time to make the decision. The point is that what you\u2019re hearing me say now actually occurred 40 seconds ago. So any of you people on the phone attempting to corrupt the program or pollute it with your own profanity, you\u2019re not gonna get away with it. It\u2019s impossible. (interruption) Now, when I say deedle little old ladies, I mean this (deedle). Come on, Snerdley, where is your mind today? (laughing) Here, ladies and gentlemen, Mark Halperin yesterday on MSNBC Morning Joe, the Joe Scarborough show with Mika Brzezinski.<\/p>\n

HALPERIN: Are we on the seven-second delay today? I wanted to characterize how I thought the President behaved. … I thought he was kind of a dick yesterday.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, the White House says that that remark was inappropriate. The White House says it\u2019s inappropriate. White House spokesman, Mr. Claire Shipman, Jay Carney said that “the comment was an inappropriate thing to say about any president,” except George W. Bush. Well, he didn\u2019t really say that, but you know damn well if Halperin had called Bush that name they wouldn\u2019t even have apologized. “White House spokesman Jay Carney said the comment was an inappropriate thing to say about any president. Carney also said he had expressed that sentiment to network executives. Halperin quickly apologized on the air Thursday. MSNBC suspended him indefinitely hours later. MSNBC also said Halperin\u2019s comment was completely inappropriate and unacceptable. The network apologized to Obama.”<\/p>\nSo let\u2019s take a look here. The word “dick” inappropriate. But the Republicans will hurt disabled kids is totally permissible. The Republicans will hurt college kids. The Republicans will take food out of old people\u2019s mouths. Totally appropriate. The Republicans want to take Social Security checks away from old people, totally appropriate. Paul Ryan will push your grandmother to her death over a cliff in a wheelchair, totally appropriate. The rich are selfish, mean-spirited, extremist racists, totally appropriate to say. Conservatives are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, totally appropriate to say. It is totally appropriate to make up quotes I never said and attribute them to me. It\u2019s totally appropriate for left-wing sportswriters to invent things I never said, that\u2019s totally appropriate. <\/p>\n

The word “dick” is inappropriate. It\u2019s totally appropriate for the president of the United States to tell a mother asking him about her 100-year-old mother whether or not his health care plan would give her a pacemaker, it\u2019s totally appropriate for the president to tell that woman, we\u2019ll just give your mom a pain pill. That\u2019s totally appropriate. I\u2019m gonna bankrupt the coal industry. You can go ahead and open a coal-fired power plant if you want, but you\u2019re gonna go bankrupt \u2019cause that\u2019s my intention, said Obama, totally appropriate. You can\u2019t just get on your corporate jet and go to Vegas anymore; those days are over. That\u2019s totally appropriate. Don\u2019t listen to Rush Limbaugh, that\u2019s not how things get done. Totally appropriate. It is totally appropriate to lie, to malign, to impugn people if you are a liberal Democrat from the White House on down. But it\u2019s inappropriate to use the word “dick” on NBC.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Matt, Morris County, New Jersey, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a huge fan, listen every day, even named my dog after you. I just wanted to let you know that you\u2019re actually not playing the full clip of the Mika and Joe excerpt there with Halperin. I think that speaking of sabotage, they sabotaged him. Even Joe goes, “Oh, we got your back.” The camera pans to the production staff back there, “Oh, yeah, we\u2019ll hit the button, we\u2019ll hit the button.” And they didn\u2019t. My question on top of this is, even if they hit the button, what woulda happened? Would the White House still be upset? I\u2019d like to get your feeling on that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, two things there. You are right, we didn\u2019t play the whole clip because brevity is the soul of wit. We get to the meat of things here at the EIB Network. That\u2019s the first thing that we do. We don\u2019t dillydally around in all the extraneous stuff. But you\u2019re right, he did say, “Are we gonna be delayed here?” and Scarborough, they thought that they had a competent production board op back there that was gonna bleep it. But that\u2019s still no excuse. You don\u2019t take the chance. Folks, there\u2019s an old rule of thumb. When something is on tape, you intend for it to air, because there\u2019s always a chance to edit it if it\u2019s on tape, if it\u2019s not really live. <\/p>\n

The Scarborough show is not really live. There\u2019s a seven-second delay. They are on tape. Now, they\u2019re claiming that their board op failed and didn\u2019t know how to implement the whole thing. I don\u2019t think they set him up. I think they like Halperin. But let\u2019s start with the sound bites on this since you bring it up. This is Mika Brzezinski, and this was this morning on Morning Joe, they were talking about the waning support for Obama on the network. They\u2019re being accused of not having enough support for Obama on that network.<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: We\u2019re getting hit a lot lately for not bringing on people who speak on behalf of the White House and really stick up for the president. But we are bringing people on, but they\u2019re not doing it as much lately.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Could you imagine this, the White House thinks that Mess NBC doesn\u2019t have enough Obama supporters, and so Mika Brzezinski says, (paraphrasing) “Yeah, we\u2019re being hit for that. We\u2019re bringing people on, but they\u2019re really not sticking up for him as much.” Can you believe this? (laughing) We\u2019re bringing in the supporters, but they\u2019re not supporting. Here\u2019s Mr. Claire Shipman, this is Jay Carney, this is yesterday afternoon at the White House, the daily press briefing, a reporter said, “What is your reaction to Mark Halperin\u2019s comments this morning and MSNBC issuing an apology.”<\/p>\n

CARNEY: The comment that was made was inappropriate. It would be inappropriate to say that about any president of either party. And on behalf of the White House I expressed that sentiment to executives at the network. We just expressed our concern about the inappropriateness of the comment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is that how you sounded when you called? (imitating Carney) “I\u2019m Jay Carney, going to call MSNBC.” (imitating dialing) <\/p>\n

“Uh, Phil Griffin, please. Yes. Yes. I\u2019ll wait. Jay Carney, the White House. Yes. Yes. Yes. I\u2019ll wait.” <\/p>\n

(imitating Obama) “Jay, what did they say?” <\/p>\n

“I\u2019m on hold.” <\/p>\n

(imitating Obama) “You let \u2019em have it, Jay, when they pick up.” <\/p>\n

“I\u2019ll handle it.” <\/p>\n

“Hi. Phil Griffin.” <\/p>\n

“Yeah. Phil, Jay Carney, White House. No, we met at a party. Dan Snyder\u2019s suite, Redskins, you remember? No, I\u2019m at the White House now. Yeah, I\u2019m the press spokesman. You know, Phil, I\u2019m really concerned here. Well, Halperin, that was… I really wanted to express our concern about the inappropriateness, you know, the dick thing. Yeah, that\u2019d be good, yeah, suspend him for awhile. Okay, okay, thanks, Phil, any time.” <\/p>\n

Is that what that call was like? But where does the White House get off calling a news network telling it what it can and can\u2019t say? Seriously now, where does the White House get off thinking it can call a news organization and say, “I don\u2019t like what you\u2019re saying. It\u2019s inappropriate.” Let Richard Nixon try that. Let Dick Nixon try that sometime. Well, but the point is they don\u2019t call Fox, they call their buddies. MSNBC is their buddies. That\u2019s who they call. But Mika, you know, we love you here Mika, but you didn\u2019t do them any good there by saying you get some Obama supporters on, but you just can\u2019t get \u2019em to talk the guy up.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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