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NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC suspended political analyst Mark Halperin for an off-color remark about President Barack Obama on "Morning Joe" Thursday.

"I thought he was a dick yesterday," Halperin said on Thursday's show during a discussion about Obama's news conference the day before.

Halperin, a Time magazine editor at large, quickly apologized on the air and in a statement. MSNBC suspended him indefinitely and Halperin said he believed the action was appropriate.

Halperin had prefaced his remark by asking, "Are we on the seven-second delay?" and said after that "I hope it worked."

It didn't.

The reference was to a brief delay in a TV show transmission that gives a producer the chance to quickly silence an offending remark before it goes out over the air. MSNBC said "Morning Joe" had the delay, but a producer pushed a wrong button and Halperin's statement wasn't edited out.

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anybody?

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You can't really say anything on TV these days can you? **** PC brigade...... Or are you looking at this more along the lines of "Liberal media muzzling one of their own for saying something about Obama that wasn't glowing praise"? ;-P

I don't mind the occasional swear-word on TV, everyone's human, we all slip up a bit with the old language. There seems to be a self-appointed set of "moral guardians of the airwaves" though who operate a zero tolerance policy as if it's possible that someone will hear the f-word on TV and it'll warp their mind and they'll suddenly go out raping and murdering and stealing.  And the networks are running ****-scared (oops, did I say that? I meant poop-scared) of these ppl as they are the types who are likely to sue over the occasional curse.

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well i heard the f bomb a couple of times during the casey anthony trial when they were playing videos of her talking to her parents in jail. anyway, i dick one of those words you aren't allowed to say on the air? and isn't it sort of the technician's fault for hitting the wrong button? and i do have to wonder if the response would've been so sharp had it been bush in office.

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Even though I agree with Halpin in this case, MSNBC was right to suspend him.  Unfortunately they should have also suspended the others for misleading him into thinking the word would be bleeped.  

I dont like profanity in prime time.  Even though I've been weak from time to time and have used it myself, I still dont like it.  I dont like to hear it or read it.