"Mark Halperin, editor-at-large for Time, called President Obama 'a dick' on Thursday on a popular MSNBC morning show and then quickly apologized." —This sentence is so objectionable! I mean, "Morning Joe" gets about 450,000 total viewers, so I'm not sure you can really call it "popular." Anyway, so then host Joe Scarborough apologized to the children watching. What horrible monster parents are letting their kids watch this garbage? I know school ended this week but Jesus H, people, get it together.

Was there a time when anyone took Mark Halperin seriously? I mean, there must have been, right? Perhaps someone with a memory longer than mine can recall a long-vanished era where mention of the man's name did not inspire hearty guffaws or lip-curling disgust (or, for his unfortunate co-workers, sad and silent shaking of the head). So how did we get from there to here? Oh, right, things like this line from his ridiculous "Sarah Palin is TOTALLY the read deal" piece: "This week Johnston and Palin's daughter Bristol reannounced their engagement after months of estrangement, removing – with apparent serendipity – a blemish from her wholesome narrative." Yeah, [...]

John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's 'Game Change' was many things, Ana Marie Cox discovered upon actually reading as one does with a book. It is a source of astounding sentences, for one thing!

But Hillary feared that her war vote would get her hooted off any campus where she spoke. (page 153)

The political gamble here was evident, but the upside was huge: If Clinton carried the caucuses, the nomination would be in the bag. (153)

They liked him and they didn't like her, and there would be no changing that-her negatives were just too deeply cooked into the casserole. (156)