Trying  to outdo Anthony Weiner, Mark Halperin called President Obama a “dick” on Morning Joe today. Halperin quickly apologized on air, and on twitter and again on air. The apologies just keep coming. MSNBC Statement: Halperin’s comments … were completely inappropriate & unacceptable. We apologize to the President/WH/our viewers. MSNBC …

Andrew Sullivan speaks highly of Mark Halperin in his latest blog post: No one does it better than Mark Halperin. Every single thing he cites in his latest brain-dead critique is, I believe, tangibly false, and the moronic attempt to grab some pageviews by a counter-intuitive and utterly dumb analogy …

They Changed the Game, All Aright

Nikki Schwab and Tara Palmeri: The media circus surrounding ‘Game Change’ Talk about a lucky find. … It was about 8 p.m. Friday when the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder walked into the Kramerbooks in Dupont Circle to meet a friend. He noticed a copy of John Heilemann’s and Mark Halperin’s new …

The second graph of the Beltway’s best round-up should get you back up to speed: Good Monday morning. The president is off to Eastern Europe, the HUD secretary is out, the Treasury secretary wants to rewire the nation’s financial regulators, Al Gore is launching an ad campaign featuring Pat Robertson …

From your parent’s basement to K St., according to the Wall Street Journal,  in “New-Media World,” everyone sounds like an inside beltway wonk [and everyone’s got a blog]. WSJ looks into the tip sheets and web sites that drive the politically plugged in chattering class – from Mark Halperin to JoMa to …