Robert Gibbs recognizes the hackery of the Halperin:
...the Obama campaign's communications strategy was predicated in part on an aggressive indifference to this [Washington] insider set. Staff members were encouraged to ignore new Web sites like The Page, written by Time's Mark Halperin...
But how did they survive without their daily PageCast video in which Halperin names random things from the newspaper and tells us to "watch for them" as if he's imparting some kind of prescient wisdom. For instance, "Congress is doing congressional things. Watch for that."
Seriously, I'm sure Halperin advising McCain to use racism and the Muslim rumors to attack Barack Obama didn't help his hackery status inside the Obama campaign. And this sheds some light on why Halperin was so batshit about the so-called "disgusting pro-Obama bias." When a very serious hack like Halperin is denied, he does what very serious hacks do best: they lie.