Letters to the Editor
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Somebody Call Slim Pickens.
So in other words, the only thing she'll give any answer at all on for the administration is Iran. And all of those answers plays up the big, impending threat.
We're in Dr. Strangelove territory, folks. And we're going to war with Iran.
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Well, you'd probably get more information from the phony one....
The only thing Ms. Perino really seemed certain about was Iran.
I'm sure that's just a coincidence though.
It's happening right beneath our noses, isn't it?
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It's a flashback...
...to the days of yore when blonde jokes abounded. Only this time the jokes aren't funny.
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Perfect pitch
Ms. Perino is the perfect embodiment of the empty rhetoric of the administration she represents. And they treat her the way they treat the public and the U.S. Congress. They tell her only what they want her to know and repeat, and they don't care how stupid she looks and feels in the shadow of their supreme arrogance.
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I Know Nosssing, Nosssing ...
"I didn't get a chance to sit down on that, but I'll check. . . .
"I can't remember exactly what our position is. . . .
Well Dana, apparently your position is not sitting, but it seems that's news to you.
God, this is enough to make you wish for the return of Ari Fleischer or Tony Snow. They, at least, took the time and effort to lie and dodge the question well. Perino just goes through the motions and falls back behind the Sgt. Schultz defense.
She's Junior's mouthpiece, I'd expect her to be more informed than her boss.
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Ignorance
The calves are like the bull. Typical Buishit.
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I'll get back to you...
Do they ever get back with any answers when they say they're going to "look into it"?
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at least Tony Snow was/is smart
Perino just seems..how shall I say? dumb.
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re: Perino just seems..how shall I say? dumb.
I'm not sure that she's dumb.
She's just... uninformed.
The White House Press Secretary is supposed to be a presidential mouthpiece to communicate the president's views to the public. The president just doesn't give a f--k anymore, so he doesn't bother to inform Perino.
Perino: like a lamb headed for slaughter. Perino wool, if you will.
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Connecting some dots
"It's happening under our noses." "Lamb led to slaughter."
Love the Alfred Hitchcock references there, people!
Hey, it's Friday...look it up in your TV trivia books...
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Why show up?
What if the news media simply stopped covering the Bush administration's press "opportunities" - briefings, press conferences, photo ops? Wouldn't we get more substantial and accurate information from other sources? Hell, just making up one's own news stories would have as much validity as their made-up ones; and probably more relavence.
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Perino is too nice
They should just make Ann Coulter the press secretary.
What does the administration have to lose?
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Perino wool...Love it!
I can't believe I'm saying something in defense of Dana Perino (must be late Friday afternoon and my brains are scrambled) but I did hear her on Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me, and she didn't sound like a complete moron, truthfully.
Then again, not sounding like a complete moron is a pretty low bar, isn't it?
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well...
people voted for them - twice. And Ray Gun twice as well.
Go bless America
land of the flea
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How Precious
One Blonde Moment after another! AHH--HOW PRECIOUS.Way Cool YA'KNOW--OK?
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How much lower can we sink?
She sounds like someone the temp agency sent over because the real press secretary was out with the flu.
This makes me wonder -- is it possible to satirize an administration like this or are we at some critical point where social satire and social realism collapse into one another and form a singularity of unsuspendable disbelief?
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There's a message here...
Bush is telling us that it's not worth his effort to appoint a competent liar.
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Bush in San Diego
Perino is a poor excuse for a press secretary, and I'll get around to her utter inability to answer a straight question at some point. I just read some of what Bush said in San Diego.
Bush said it makes a big difference when the governor of a state wants to lead during a disaster. Comparing Schwarzenegger to Louisiana's Blanco.
I remember very well the video from New Orleans of people stranded on rooftops in 2005. I remember that Bush showed up four days later for his photo op, making promises of help. Empty promises.
People have lost their homes, possessions, and some even their lives in southern California. In New Orleans, thousands of people died. But the president has time to say something like that.
Disgusted is not an adequate word for how reading Bush's comment makes me feel.
Shut up, Bush. Just shut up.
January of 2009 can't come fast enough.
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The logic of insane people.....:
Presumably, Ms. Perino offers only opinions that are sanctioned by the White House. On October 24, 2007... she offered this bit of insane spin regarding global warming:
.... I'm sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true that many people die from cold-related deaths every winter. And there are studies that say that climate change in certain areas of the world would help those individuals
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And hell's fires are a fine place to roast marshmallows.
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The white house press secretary shoud be replaced by a Magic 8-Ball
Correspondents with questions could shake it to produce answers like "Signs point to yes" "my sources say no" and "ask again later."
It would streamline the Daily Press Briefing, give reporters a fun toy to shake, and save tax payers over $100,000 a year in Dana Perino's salary (though there's the $7.50 one-time purchase for the magic 8-Ball).
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Hey, hubcap halo....
I think you've got it1 YOU could be a WH press secretary! You've broken the code on the standard-issue answers:
The 20 standard answers on a Magic 8-Ball are:
* As I see it, yes
* Ask again later
* Better not tell you now
* Cannot predict now
* Concentrate and ask again
* Don't count on it
* It is certain
* It is decidedly so
* Most likely
* My reply is no
* My sources say no
* Outlook good
* Outlook not so good
* Reply hazy, try again
* Signs point to yes
* Very doubtful
* Without a doubt
* Yes
* Yes - definitely
* You may rely on it
Ten of the possible answers are variations of "yes", five are ambiguous and five are variations of "no".
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Just doin her job
I really never understand the anger at these spokespeople. They are just doing the job. Of course it can be frustrating a s hell and render these discussions worthless. My main concern over this post is how closely the phrasing around Iran today mirrors that used before the Iraq war. All the "it's not us it's them, balls in thier court" stuff. Deja vu.