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Mark Halperin Suspended From MSNBC After Slamming President Barack Obama on Air

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simoom6/30/2011 12:35:21 pm PDT

Mark Halperin: #2 on Salon’s Top 30 Hack List; self-important purveyor of beltway conventional wisdom; Drudge suck-up:
abcnews.go.com

“If Drudge has a siren up, people know it’s something they have to look at,” said Mark Halperin, ABC News Political Director.

A new book, The Way to Win, co-authored by Halperin, compares Drudge to Walter Cronkite.

“Today Matt Drudge can influence the news like Walter Cronkite did,” Halperin told ABC News. “If Drudge says something, it may not lead everybody instantly in the same direction, but it gets people thinking about what Matt Drudge wants them to think about.”

Drudge’s coverage affects the media’s political coverage, Halperin said.

“Matt Drudge is not doing stories on policy, on welfare, on healthcare. He’s doing stories on the most salacious aspects of American politics,” he said. “When that drives the dialogue, that’s where the country heads, that’s where our political coverage heads.”