...a half-assed comment I'd made on television.

...我在电视上发表的不妥评论。

The National Park Service in America – let's be candid here – does a pretty half-assed job of running many of the national parks.

咱们还是直说吧，美国国家公园管理局在管理众多国家公园方面做得相当不妥。