Mark Halperin's Photoshop Flop: Senator Landrieu With Semen In Her Hair?
By Logan Murphy Wednesday Nov 25, 2009 9:00am
Really? Yes, Really. For reasons unknown, Time Magazine's Mark Halperin decided to post a photoshopped picture of Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu with semen in her hair, ala Cameron Diaz in the movie There's Something About Mary. One would think he could have come up with something a little more appropriate. Jason Linkins has more at HuffPo:
...There are lots of ways to serve up this news story! And there are lots of creative ways to put it together for web trawlers. How about, "Mary, Mary, quite contrary?" or, if you're old-school retro, "Mary, Mary, why you buggin'?" Or you could just decide that the best thing to do is be straight about it. Not Halperin, though! Here's the imaginative Photoshop that went along with his "story." Read on...
My thoughts exactly. Halperin is a hack, with little to no journalistic integrity, but this is low even by his standards. While I don't agree with Senator Landrieu on all her votes, the health care bill in particular, I think she has an apology coming from both Mark Halperin and Time.
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strikes agin!
THEY BEAT BLUEGAL TO THE PUNCH!!!!!
If Bluegal photoshops a ridiculous pic it's funny and I am an asshole for calling her on it.
Halperin does it and it's not funny?
wow, making a story out o a non story. Semen...really? uh? who gives a shit? If I call her a "whore" that is just like the rest of them will you feign disgust too?
please, it's not like he gave her a pearl necklace. diaz put the goo in her hair not knowing what it was...
... how'd you like it if we photoshopped your wife, girlfriend, mother, or sister in the same manner?
It's grossly disrespectful.
It's a breach of journalistic ethics.
It's moronic, puerile adolescent humor.
The appropriate apology from Time, I feel, is a pink slip for Halperin.
1. My wife isn't a public official whoring her selfout to lobbyists
2. if she was a senator, I wouldn't give a shi* because I would be a millionaire working for a lobbyists
3. it's moronic and adolescent and as a senator's husband I would be above it all.
4. it wouldn't matter because knee jerk wingnuts and moonbats would rush to my wife's defense saving me from the stupidity of bothering to address a stupid photo-shop by an idiot
Bluegal does it everyday.
...a U.S. Senator a whore.
GFY.
It was insulting to whores everywhere.
I mean really, to be brought down to the level of the US Senate... They may get a lot of money out of the senators, but it doesn't mean they have to be compared to one (at least while not on the clock)
good point. I should apologize to whores everywhere
whores are honest about their profession and their price structure. congresscritters are certainly not.
they are? I never seem to get a menu. dang, wrong ones I guess
has all the specials in their head and will recite them for you. you need to go to a better establishment.
yes a whore, like all the other senators that whore themselves out. Chris Dodd? anyone? Sit's on the Banking committe and get's VIP treatment from who? They ALL are screwing us. And we lap it up.
The best senators money can buy
I'm working on new Photoshop project. Hey don, would you mind sending me a photo of yourself? After all, you're not one of those can-dish-it-out-but-can't-take-it GOP types, right?
like all the posters here complaining about this, but laughing at the ones posted in the open threads on this site? Pot meet kettle.
It's a question of professional standards.
Were I an employee of a publication like TIME, I would expect to be held to higher standards.
But spare me the hysteria of gasp, semen. It wasn't a load blown in here hair. Diaz was the dumb blonde that didn't know what it was. she wasn't defiled in some sexual way. That is what people are trying to get out of this and it isn't there.
It's offensive. He could have done the PS, and claimed it was BedHead, or some other kids hair product she did not know about...the whole spooge thing, fine if it's National Lampoon or some jr high school gazette, but TIME goddamn Magazine?
What people are getting out of this is not that it was sexual, but that implying she's got spooge in her hair is vile. Same if it were a loogie or poop.
I don't remember this outrage when it happened to Diaz? I'm sure women all over the country were offended and rioting in the studio lots of hollywood too?
I know what they are getting out of it.
I also know that I'm getting screwed while people argue about an idiot.
How many lobbyists did Mary meet with today. Our collective freak out is misguided.
Wait...gotta go. I see a shiny dime I have to go pick up
You know good and fucking well that the GOP would be demanding someone be fired if this were one of their lady senators.
The inconsistent interpretation of the so called rules by people like you is what pisses me the hell off.
Yes, I do and the media would lap it up and be right on board with them> I know that, you know that, we all know that. I don't care about it being a waaaaahhhhh moment that the GOP would exploit. So what.
I don't care either way. I am being consistent actually. She is a Senator that takes lobbyists dollars and isn't doing jack for us. We like to think she is....but she isn't. She might as well be Olympia Snowe.
you people are so gullible, you make it sound like it is Dem v. GOP.
When here we sit with a SUPER MAJORITY in both house...still fighting for the PUBLIC OPTION. Which, we didn't get.
Conservatives make the rules, then break them. Democrats break rules then apologize to everyone.
they almost both always get re-elected
What an ass.
She's a big old whore, no getting around it...back hey jack, you ARE one of 'you people' for getting your knickers in a twist over it as well.
Don't think you have? Read your own comments. I think someone needs to pull the undies out of his crack.
I'm not in a twist over HIS picture. I'm in a twist over the collective FREAK out. She is a freaking lobbyists wet dream and we are defending her. Hence, propping her up as someone worthy of our defense.
what a joke. We misdirect our outrage so easily. We should be raising money to get a candidate we like. Nahhhhh, be outraged by a stupid photoshop
I can take it just fine. I'm not a public official for one, so I'm off limits. And as a blogger, I've had my share of folks taking shots at me, my wife and my kids.
But when you do photoshop me. Make sure to get my good side...and the pile of money from my lobbying buddies that finance my campaign.
I'm screaming LIBERAL actually.
One that is pissed we are still in Iraq and about to see our "liberal" president fuckup by sending more troops to Afghanistan.
I'm one of those not-ever-happy-liberals- that hoped Obama would actually defend the constitution and put lawbreakers in jail instead of "looking forward"
... expressing your displeasure in civilized terms and not implying that you side with puerile pre-adolescents like Halperin?
What C&L is doing is no different the the GOP freaking out was my sort of point.
I don't disagree that halperin is a jack ass. But what are we doing defending her? As if she has done anything for us? Please, she is no different then ANY of her peers. Lapping up the lobby$$$ for re-election.
We are all dopes for buying this crap.
she not only doesn't deserve our defense, she deserves our scorn
Here?
And I think it's rather funny that you're comparing a very serious journalist with pajama-clad bloggers who opine from their moms' basements.
and putting human hair gel in the picture really clarifies that halperin is just as confused as you are on the matter.
The idea "came" to Halperin during an "uplifting" moment while reading with one hand about Landrieu securing funds for rebuilding LA. This photo is the "climax" of his journalistic fantasy.
Mary-Mary is a cutewhoor in a collection of cutewhoors.
Time Mag is a rag in the service of cutewhoors.
Whoopie freekin' ding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grd-iHznoGM
should have been photoshopped with pork in her hair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XxFZTm9lsY
..jindal and cao for the additional money for medicaid in LA doesn't matter? You know, of course, that Medicaid to LA was going to be cut heavily due to an income formula that (rightly or wrongly) included funds from Katrina Aid and that cut would have hurt quite the number of citizens still reeling from Katrina..
It was mentioned earlier in the Open Thread. Still, the whole "prostitute" and "semen" thing is pretty low class until we consider the source and understand that's all those ugly bags of water are: LOW CLASS
Did I say Jindal postering for money doesn't matter? What I have a problem with is when a Conservadem DINO has to be bribed to get on board with health care reform.
Is the "semen" tag going to start being used frequently?
It is pretty awesome, though! I can't think of anywhere you couldn't use it!
sadly
No, no, I'm sure Obama will show the dignity to finally step up and stop treating a bucket of puke like it belongs on the dinner table. No "man" would tolerate this, certainly no "man" who represents the whole country and is the leader of the free world.
I can't believe that even THIS arouses the need in some people to jump straight to thinking protectively of Obama.
I can't think why it shouldn't be. lmao
It's not like Landrieu is the only rep with lobbyist semen all over their face. Over three quarters of them are outright knob-gobbling seed-swilling hookers.
I think you are off. 100% of them are taking the lobby jiz with a smile
Something for miss sarah and other hunters must perforce consider:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_cor...
mary Landrieaux at least can properly conjugate a polysyllable, unlike america's hottest candidate.
of all people, bill-o nails her in his own delusional way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfI0IXRKIKw&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ2utnbwiXk
when the pages started sticking togethrr.
..can come right after the apologies from beck and limpbaugh.
In other words, don't hold your breath!
... TIME should fire him, apology or not, for unprofessional conduct.
People should be flooding the street outsid the TIME building for several blocks, screaming and rioting. If only we were France. The sheer wobbling imperial size of this country makes every one of us a big fat drooling cripple. That's how they're getting away with murder.
maybe we should make a law that says you can't have free speech!
So don't complain when the rw bitches are smeared.
not a problem. I'm a liberal to the core. Unlike the idiots around here that are Dem partisan hacks I actually am not afraid to call them all whores. with maybe the exception of Franken...for now.
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Where are the real (not photo shopped) pics of Mark teabagging Cheney, Gingrich etc.?
Why single her out? They always go after Democrats.
in the classic sense of the word.
Halperin should be fired. but, he won't be. He'll get a month off with pay at the worst and Limbaugh or Beck will invite him to do a stint about how he's a victim.
the right media seem to be engaged in a competitive 'one downmanship' to see who can produce the most outrageous act of bad taste in attacking people they don't like. Your move, Glenn.
caught in Filene's basement shopping for plus size undergarments :P
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/david-vitter-caug...
i thought about it for awhile, but i can't think of any redeeming values of halperin. truly, he is carbon pollution
(that said, sen landrieu deserves more respectful disrespect)
is a fucking PIG!!!!!
The new journalism
It isn't just something I disagree with while others don't disagree with it. It isn't a matter of opinion, unless whether or not Charlers Manson is innocent of the Sharon Tate murder is also a matter of "opinion" with both sides being "equal." No, it's unaceptable and intolerable, it blows out the foundations of modern civilization, it is the END. What is? President Obama extending the "bipartisan hand of friendship" to this "side" of the current political debate. This isn't a "side." This is a bucket of puke set on the dinner table with the food, dishes and silverware, being treated with respect because it has the same right to be on the table as the food does. No other democratic country has this. We are so sick we're dying!
Good thing Baby Butt Beck, et al, exhausted and super-trivialized the use of "Nazi" and "fascist" so the words can't be used now, where they fit. It was a deliberate, calculated, brilliant banning of these words in preparation for the coming downfall of us all they are engaged in.
This being allowed, extending a hand to it to show you're not its enemy, is what the Germans did. We looked back and asked, "How could those people have gone along with that?" This is how. It is happening.
This is a crisis. The billboard in Colorado isn't even a flicker of a crisis. THIS IS.
I'm kind of curious as to what triggered the deletion. Is it just because it was in response to something else out of bounds, or are we sensitive about the turkey lobby?
[Yes, sort of. The comment to which you responded wasn't out of bounds, it was off topic. The conversation belongs on an open thread. Site Monitor]
C&L must have been related to the other hacks mentioned??
I'm done.
If it were at least particularly clever, one could overlook the adolescent poor taste of the 'chop. But it's not clever. I'm not even really sure what he was going for, and I've seen the movie in question and read the articles about Landrieu.
So Halperin owes Landrieu an apology and everybody else an explanation of why he thought it was funny or witty in the first place.
At least cameron diaz was hot in that movie and you wanted to do her. halperin just ruined the movie for me. Now instead of envision cameron as the whore...I picture mary landreu.
Cameron Diaz looked like she needed to be fed.
That sort of waif look should've left with the sixties like Twiggy.
http://ghostofthetalkingcricket.squarespace.c...
Where's the brain bleach?
that was the edited version of what I wanted to say. :)
... that the wrongwingers were up in arms IRT Palin "The disrespect shown to her, I don't think we've ever seen in politics before -- certainly for a female candidate."
Which rapidly became a meme for them.
Halperin needs to be fired.
Could've fooled me.
but we put semen in her hair! DEFEND! SWARM AND DEFEND HER HONOR!
Industry Total
Lawyers/Law Firms $2,733,691
Oil & Gas $743,594
Lobbyists $703,998
Real Estate $686,797
what a joke
... Landrieu's take from lobbyists than the lack of professionalism from Halperin. Who promptly was featured on Morning Joe ... just a different kind of whore, I guess.
Is we are freaking out over a guy that has literally NOTHING to do with our health and weatlh and freedom.
but sure, go ahead, defend a lobbyists we dream
... but if you can marginalize the messenger, then it doesn't matter if he's correct about a public servant being on the take.
This is, sadly, politics as usual.
yep, and both sides do it with extreme effectiveness.
"that guys an ahole" trust me...
After all, who knows more about whores than the bottom in a long term Dominant/submissive relationship with Matt Drudge?
If we want something other than the ADOSM (Attention Deficit OOOOH! SHINY! Media), it's up to consumers. We have to hit them where it counts - either through sponsors, or ultimately cultivating new, reliable sources of news. (Aggregate sites like HuffPo regurgitate network, AP, NYT, and WaPo, so you're not really getting anything 'new' there - sorry, Arianna.)
The task is being made difficult by the expected sandbagging of net neutrality. People watch Beck because he's marketed to them, and they're buying.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49jKeGyUCJE
... little did they know.
boosh becomes a segway spokesman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9Gm-aRe5A&fe...
the outrage on this site is so predictable. BORING!
... you came here, you read all the comments, you took the time to post one of your own.
In broadcasting, that tells us you're watching. :D
How can you tell? It looks like hair gel to me. Maybe she's just gettin' down with her inner douchebag. There's an entire website dedicated to mocking idiots like that:
http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com
and there are PLENTY of examples of people far more stupid looking hair than that, like this dimbulb:
http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/2008/1...
I thought the picture was funny.
Don't be an idiot. It was from Something about Mary. that aside, I could careless. She is a lobbying whore who doesn't deserve CL's defense and faux outrage.
Landrieu, but I am offended as a woman whose noticed Halperin's track record towards women.
He is a misogynist douchebag.
We dropped our subscription to Time some years ago - during the right's war on the Clintons. They were tools then and they'll always be tools.
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How did Mark Halperin Photoshop Senator Landrieu's "semen hair-do" so perfectly?
Easy answer, but still a big secret: He simply looked in the mirror and used his own semen-soaked hair-do as a model
People are _dying_ without universal health care. How much respect did Charlie Chaplin or the Three Stooges give to Mussolini or Hitler?
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