Mark Halperin Height, Weight, Age, Controversies, Wife, Family, Biography & More
Some Lesser Known Facts About Mark Halperin
- Does Mark Halperin smoke?: Not Known
- Does Mark Halperin drink alcohol?: Yes
- He was born to a Jewish family in Bethesda, Maryland.
- His father, Morton Halperin was a foreign policy expert and has served in the Johnson, Nixon, Clinton, and Obama administrations.
- In 1982, before he began his senior year at Whitman, Halperin lived with a family in Japan as part of the “Youth for Understanding program.”
- In 1988, Halperin embarked his career a researcher for World News Tonight and as a desk assistant for ABC News.
- In 1992, working as an off-air producer, Halperin covered Bill Clinton’s Presidential campaign.
- In 1994, with ABC’s special events unit in New York, Halperin became a producer and later an editorial producer.
- In 1997, Halperin was named the Political Director for ABC News. From there onwards, he frequently appeared as a political analyst and as a correspondent for television and radio programs of ABC News.
- In October 2006, Halperin, along with John F. Harris, released a book- “The Way to Win: What Clinton, Bush, and Rove Know about Taking the White House in 2008.”
- Since 2006, he has been a board member of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire.
- Halperin has also been on the NHIOP public advisory board since it was created in 2008.
- In March 2007, he replaced David Chalian as Political Director for ABC News. The same year in May, Time magazine hired Halperin as a political analyst and editor at large. He was also hired by MSNBC as its senior political analyst.
- In 2011, Time magazine released an iPad app called “Mark Halperin 2012” containing Halperin’s take on the news.
- On June 30, 2011, MSNBC suspended Halperin from his duties for “slurring” President Barack Obama on the program Morning Joe. Referring to Obama’s previous day’s press conference, Halperin said- the President came off as “kind of a dick.”
- Halperin, along with John Heilemann, wrote a book entitled- Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain, and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. The book was made into a movie- Game Change, which was premiered on HBO on March 10, 2012. Halperin also did a cameo in the film as a reporter.
- On October 26, 2017, CNN reported that multiple women had come forward and accused Halperin of sexual assaults and harassments.