Perino quotes Daily Show host ‘Don Stewart.’
At today’s White House press briefing, spokeswoman Dana Perino said that setting a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq is like sending a “save-the-date card to the Iraqis.” She added, “I stole that from Don Stewart,” referring to the host of the Daily Show, evoking laughter from the press corps. One reporter tried to correct her; another said, “I bet you just guaranteed yourself an appearance there.” Watch it:
Transcript:
Q Can we go back one more time to this notion of what a clean bill is? Now, not to negotiate, but to define it. If a bill shows up, stripped of the pork, but still has some kind of timetable in it, is that unacceptable to the President?
MS. PERINO: I’m not — I know that would be great to get me to negotiate from here. I would refer you back to the position of the President –
Q I don’t want to negotiate. I want a definition.
MS. PERINO: He has said that an arbitrary timetable in which we send a save-the-date card to the Iraqis is unacceptable to him.
Q So you say save-the-date? So you –
MS. PERINO: I stole that from Don Stewart. (Laughter.)
Q I bet you just guaranteed yourself an appearance there. (Laughter.)
Q I don’t think that was Jon Stewart, I think it was Don Stewart. (Laughter.)
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And this post was warranted because?…
April 10th, 2007 at 6:02 pmDana’s gonna be famous.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:03 pmFembots can only say and do as they are programed. Obviously ‘The Daily Show’ is not in her memory bank.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:04 pmPerfect, a bubble headed blonde as the official voice of the idiot occupiers.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:05 pmDon Stewart? The preacher that heals people with magical handkerchiefs on TV?
April 10th, 2007 at 6:07 pmRocks911 Why do you hate bubble headed blondes?
April 10th, 2007 at 6:08 pm“#1
And this post was warranted because?…
Comment by Rebel in CA — April 10, 2007 @ 6:02 pm”
Because this is a blog?
April 10th, 2007 at 6:09 pmI much as I hate to complement anyone who supports the dumb Chimp, I have to say I think Dana Parino is really pretty damn good looking….She also does 10x better a job the Tony Snow EVER had done in dishing out the bullshit Bush lies and spin without making herself look like a total ass clown…Just my 2 cents on that :)
April 10th, 2007 at 6:09 pmOh no she didn’t. Stole his line and pretend not to know what his name is? Yeah, sure. “Don is close enough, he’s not one of us anyway…”
Dana dead eye. I swear she really looks like she could just stand there and watch puppies drown.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:10 pmHow many more soldiers died today while they’re giggling together?
April 10th, 2007 at 6:10 pmShe must have Don Imus on her brain, all that trashy talk…..
April 10th, 2007 at 6:11 pmkelso,
How did you draw that conclusion from my post?
April 10th, 2007 at 6:11 pmShe didn’t instead find a humorous quote from Fox News’ 1/2 Hour News Hour?
April 10th, 2007 at 6:12 pm“got the bubble-headed bleached blond, comes on at 5
she can tell you ’bout the plane crash, with a gleam in her eye
it’s interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry…..”
“Dirty Laundry”
April 10th, 2007 at 6:14 pmby
Don (!) Henley
just a laugh a minute related to timetables related to the 650,000 dead and counting in Iraq - good stuff Dana, BLEEECHHHHH
April 10th, 2007 at 6:15 pmAnyone notice that the Republicans are refusing to define what is considered “pork”? By defining what they consider “pork” in this bill, they will be setting themselves up for attack by their Democratic opponent in the 2008 election. The Republicans are caught between a rock and a hard place and all they can do is recycle their crap, that includes recycling their spokes people like Delay and Gingrich. They have nothing to offer except recycled old crap.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:15 pmOff topic but did anybody see this?
WASHINGTON - President Bush’s spy chief is pushing to expand the government’s surveillance authority at the same time the administration is under attack for stretching its domestic eavesdropping powers.
Yeah that makes sense, they’ve done such a good job so far… What a pack of clowns.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:17 pmRaven,
I had that quote in mind but was afraid to call her a “bleach blonde” for fear of being challenged how I knew she bleached.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:18 pmIt sounded like “Jon” Stewart to me.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:18 pmJoking rocks. I hate idiot occupiers, not bubble headed blondes.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:19 pmOnly her speech writer knows for sure………….
April 10th, 2007 at 6:21 pmis it perhaps because you spend so much time in there, jake?
April 10th, 2007 at 6:23 pmDoes that gang in the press corps have a great time together or what?
April 10th, 2007 at 6:24 pmit’s obivious that they’re going with the hottie in hopes of tamping down the hard questions. Ari got blasted off the the stage, finally and they went with the lost puppy named scotty, when he finally drowned, they tried one of the press corps own in hopes that they would cut tony some slack, when that slack got used up, they’ve gone to cute little thang hoping that the guys will go easy cuz they all want a date. my question is who’s next? a grandma of a dead soldier? a little boy with leg braces?
April 10th, 2007 at 6:50 pmWhile I love Jon Stewart’s show, when the WH press secretary makes a joke out of this war - one has to wonder how the hell we let such clowns in this White House? I hate to say this - but I’m hoping for Tony Snow to have a speedy recovery.
April 10th, 2007 at 6:52 pmDid she really say Don? Or is that a TP typo?
April 10th, 2007 at 6:53 pmFor all the relevance george has as president any more, he may as well be his own next press secretary………
April 10th, 2007 at 7:04 pmI think she is more familiar with Don Stewart, the charlatan preacher.
April 10th, 2007 at 7:04 pm.
Don ….. Jon,
Iraq ….. Iran
Same-o, same-o, right?
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April 10th, 2007 at 7:04 pmha. ha. ha.
War is funny.
April 10th, 2007 at 7:17 pmPerino—NOT AN ORIGINAL IDEA IN THIS SKANK-BITCH’S EMPTY AIRHEAD NOGGIN, SHE’S CHANELLING Tony Snow–OH,THAT’S RIGHT HE’S NOT DEAD YET, SEMI-CHANELLING HIM THEN!!!!!
April 10th, 2007 at 7:20 pmAnd this post was warranted because?…
Comment by Rebel in CA
Because sometimes, even in the midst of all this sickness, we need to laugh.
C’mon Rebel, it was funny. :D
April 10th, 2007 at 7:25 pmThe funniest part is that she’s probably referring to something Colbert said on the Colbert Report during his interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel
April 10th, 2007 at 7:36 pmThis is another empty headed airhead in the Dubya administration…why would any thinking woman be a republican? There is something wrong with a blond woman who is a republican.
April 10th, 2007 at 7:46 pmPathetic yuppie, towing the party line just like every other mindless drone in that hornet’s nest.
April 10th, 2007 at 7:52 pmDon’t laugh…She is doing her homework by watching ‘The Daily Show’,and even stealing words from Dan Stewart…
That will easily make Tony Snow Jealous…!!
April 10th, 2007 at 7:54 pmWhen will these guys stop telling lies?
April 10th, 2007 at 8:29 pmShe said Jon. Someone else joked “I don’t think it was Jon Stewart, I think it was Don Stewart”.
April 10th, 2007 at 8:55 pmCan she be any hotter?
I mean seriously.
April 10th, 2007 at 9:12 pmC’mon folks, she’s freakin’ hot.
Oh, you’re gonna get on my case about it?
Think about it, she’s everything that the rest of evil cronnies in this regime aren’t. She’s charming, self effacing, she shows deference to the press…
If she had held the job at inception instead of Ari, Scott, Tony… I bet the bushie’s approval rating would be 34% instead of the 32% they’ve got now. In other words, they’d still be evil scoudrels & failures, but slightly more charming evil scoudrels & failures.
Hey… she’s worth 2 pts any day…
April 10th, 2007 at 9:58 pmCan she be any hotter?
I mean seriously.
Comment by jc
Can she be any more stupid?
I mean seriously.
Men….
April 10th, 2007 at 10:09 pmCan she be any hotter?
Comment by jc #39
…there’s meat in my freezer…
…hotter than that…
…seriously…
April 10th, 2007 at 11:29 pmThe official White House transcript says that she says Don, but I think if you watch the alternate video from Crooks and Liars which has better audio and where the camera is on her when she’s saying it, it’s pretty clear that she says Jon.
Also, the White House transcript says that a reporter follows up with “I don’t think that was Jon Stewart, I think it was Don Stewart.” which would make no sense if she had said Don.
April 11th, 2007 at 2:31 amhats one repug I’d do.
mmmmm snowballs
April 11th, 2007 at 3:50 amWhat a busy ditch.
April 11th, 2007 at 7:41 amThanks, Lawrence. I watched it live, and I thought she said “Jon” as well. This is just another TP typo.
April 11th, 2007 at 8:38 amThanks, Lawrence. I watched it live, and I thought she said “Jon” as well.
April 11th, 2007 at 8:38 amSorry for the double post — as for all these superficial comments about MRS. Perino, no big surprise given what was said and implied about MRS. Kucinich last week. Some “progressives” we have here . . .
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April 11th, 2007 at 12:01 pmApril 11th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Maybe she really meant Don Stewart. We’re all assuming she got the line from The Daily Show; but maybe she got it from Don Stewart of the Word network.
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Way to go, Jana!
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April 11th, 2007 at 1:13 pmNicest face i ever came across.
April 11th, 2007 at 1:29 pmWay hotter than Coulter. A new hot blond speaking for the forces of evil- very nice.
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