Audio of Rush: MSNBC’s Response In Firing Halperin Would Have Been Different If He Had Defamed Bush

But he didn't defame Bush, he instead called Obama "a dick" because of the arrogant presser he gave full of strawmen and demagoguery and not much else. Via BreitbartTV:

As it is, he offended the moonbat messiah: White House Called MSNBC About Halperin’s Comments

"The comment that was made was inappropriate it would be inappropriate to say that about either president of either party."

And thus Halperin was fired, which somehow is now called "suspended indefinitely" and presumably without pay. But there''a also a Double Standard: F-Bomb Dropped on MSNBC’s O’Donnell Show, No Suspension

During a film montage tribute to late director Sidney Lumet, the obscenity "f**king" was broadcast on MSNBC. There have been no repercussions. This is in stark contrast to the immediate and indefinite suspension of MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin today after he said President Obama was "kind of a dick" at yesterday's press conference at the White House.

Could it be that Halperin was not suspended because of the obscenity itself, but because of the target of the obscenity?

It was the target of course.

UPDATE: Red Eye's Take on the Halperin / Scarborough Affair!