By IANS,
Washington : A US cable news network has indefinitely suspended a political analyst after he insulted President Barack Obama, a media report said.
MSNBC suspended senior political analyst Mark Halperin after he called Obama “kind of a ****” on the network’s “Morning Joe” show.
The show’s co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski had assured him that the show had a seven-second delay in effect and that he should “take a chance”, washingtonpost.com reported.
“Are we on the seven-second delay today?” Halperin said, adding: “I want to characterize how I thought the president behaved.”
Halperin then went on to say: “I thought he was kind of a (vulgarism) yesterday.”
A stunned Scarborough said: “Oh, my God! Delay that! Delay that! What are you doing? I can’t believe you. I was joking! Don’t do that. Did we delay that?”
And then a man is heard saying off-camera: “I hit it. I hope it worked.”
MSNBC in a statement said: “Mark Halperin’s comments this morning were completely inappropriate and unacceptable. We apologize to the president, The White House, and all of our viewers. We strive for a high level of discourse and comments like these have no place on our air. Therefore, Mark will be suspended indefinitely from his role as an analyst.”