Perino: men know more about war ‘by osmosis.’
On Fox News Sunday today, White House press secretary Dana Perino was named the “Power Player of the Week.” She explained to host Chris Wallace that, in addition to the pressure to look good, she faces an extra challenge as a woman — understanding military jargon:
Some of the terms I just don’t know, I haven’t grown up knowing. The type of missiles that are out there: patriots and scuds and cruise missiles and tomahawk missiles. And I think that men just by osmosis understand all of these things, and they’re things that I really have to work at — to know the difference between a carrier and a destroyer, and what it means when one of those is being launched to a certain area.
Watch it:
Perhaps this explains Perino’s confusion about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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the movement of water molecules across a semipermeable membrane from areas of high concentration to areas of lesser concentration?
March 16th, 2008 at 10:32 amThe lyin’ sack of cute was extra-squeaky on The Daily Show this past week.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:45 am[Dana Perino]: “Some of the terms I just don’t know,…”
That, Dana, is because you’re one of the dumbest freaking people that we have had the misfortune to have to put up with as White House spokesperson….
Cheers,
March 16th, 2008 at 10:45 amShe advertises her incompetence, her ignorance and her conservative view of women — none of which does she show any sign of improving.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:46 amPerino is one neuron short of a synapse. The sheer fact that Little Chrissy Wallace and FoxSnooze anointed her as “Power Player of the Week” is proof of their total lack of objectivity, journalistic judgment or credibility.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:47 am. . . and the only thing that distinguishes this braindead bimbo from GDumbya is the color of her hair.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:48 amDoes anyone, anywhere, take this buffoonette seriously?
March 16th, 2008 at 10:50 amMadam Curie probably felt the same way about geiger counters…\sarc
March 16th, 2008 at 10:50 amNow, if they had named her “Power Player of the Weak“, maybe I could buy it.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:51 amGreat, more commenting errors
March 16th, 2008 at 10:54 amBetween Bush’s “I’m just a simple president” and Perino’s knowledge via “osmosis” it is sort of like a Groucho Marx comedy routine. But when you realize this is your president and his spokesperson…it stops being funny and gets a little frightening.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:55 amHoly S***!
March 16th, 2008 at 10:58 amNo wonder this Administration is so fubar.
She certainly doesn’t make it any easier on blond women does she?
March 16th, 2008 at 11:04 amThanks for reinforcing that glass ceiling Piranha.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:06 amI’m ashamed to claim Perino as a member of my sex.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:07 amMen, on the other hand, don’t know very much about color matching, which explains why the interiors of those carriers, or destroyers, or whatever, are so dreary.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:09 amOT
Dodd and Shumer on Fox News Sunday……heh.
two recessions under bush…second much more serious as we no longer have the strong underpinnings that we had under the first recession…..
Treas. Sec. Paulson next to tell us that it’s all a lie and that everything is fine. I heard his lies already once this morning with Stepanopolis……they still just let them sit there and lie….
wanted: One journalist with one face and two balls.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:17 amAhh what I wouldn’t give for a good can of bean dip to have a conversation with…
March 16th, 2008 at 11:21 amZOMG!!! She doesn’t know the difference between a destroyer and an aircraft carrier?? Hint: Aircraft carriers carry aircraft. Jesus Hussein Christ. May I present Dana Perino, the dumb blond poster child.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:23 amThere must be by my estimate …oh, about 10-15 million Americans that are better equipped for her job than Bubblehead Perino is, but then again that is standard for the Bush Administration.
It’s sort of like a form of welfare for incompetent followers.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:23 amLike “Heck’uva job” Brownie, that other idiot who was caught shoplifting, the multiple morons in the Justice Department and Homeland Security, and on and on.
They must number in the hundreds at least.
20 flavorino Says:
recommended……right on target.
we are and will continue to pay for the incompetent cronyism that has been prevelant in this administration.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:34 amDana, honey, I hate to diss another woman but the sooner you realize and admit that you are functioning far below your pay grade the better off you will be. I suggest you go back to a desk job and a computer and just input copy for the people who KNOW what they are talking about.
No wonder we are having problems — if you don’t know the difference between a SCUD (one of theirs) and a Tomahawk or a Patriot (hint: both others).
March 16th, 2008 at 11:38 amOops — posting too fast again. #22 last three words should read (hint: both OURS).
March 16th, 2008 at 11:39 ami gotcha yer osmosis.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:42 ambtw - there’s still a problem with posting at this site.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:43 amThis stupid women is where she is because she thinks like that. What intelligent women would admit men know more about war. She could have said: “Man have been fighting wars since the beginning of time, but women have participated in many of them, so both are equally qualified to be commander in chief”. So I quess Dana Perino is endorsing John McCain and Barack Obama because it proves Hillary Clinton can’t be commander in chief, she’s a woman.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:44 amShe’s a real step forward for women.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:52 amWhattya bet she ends up on Fox News after Chympy rides off into the sunset.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:54 amTP’s not fun anymore. It takes 3 or more tries to post anything now. The new look is nice but the plumbing sux. Not an improvement.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:56 amDingbat Piranha; the most clueless of the lairs in this administration. Patterned after the Fox News bimbos who are short on skirts, long on boobs, are cute with no conscience or clue.
And people eat it up.
Disgusting.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:58 amThis chick is stupid and there is no two ways about it. I really hate to see poor Dana have to explain policy when she doesn’t know the difference between our weapons are and those used by Sadam. She is very highly qualified for the job she has. Dana Perino is the most qualified press secretary in the history of this country. She’s great at understanding the issues that are important to the American people. NOT
March 16th, 2008 at 11:59 am**giggle**
Honey, the carrier is the really big one with the flat top, so the airplanes and heckafloppers can land right on there. The destroyer is the littler one with the big, big guns. Oh nooooos! Carriers have guns, too! I’m so confused….
Goody for men, they have brain power!!
Are my pearls too tight…?
**giggle**
March 16th, 2008 at 12:00 pmThe Shadow Says:
…it proves Hillary Clinton can’t be commander in chief, she’s a woman.
Good afternoon!
I think Hillary can’t be commander-in-chief because she a warmongering version of a democrat, and we can’t have any of that within our party!
March 16th, 2008 at 12:03 pmDana didn’t do well enough to vary her coursework while majoring in Communications at Colorado.
Com/111 Bubble Gum Speaking A
Com/112 Public Gum Chewing — Watermelon Flavor A
Com/201 Microphone Giggling A
Com/202 Cutie Patootie A
March 16th, 2008 at 12:10 pmThis is just typical of the current Republican administration. It constantly strives to lower expectations. Thus, George was applauded for doing so well in the 2000 election debates because he did not drool the entire time. This led to unanimous praise by the press about his brilliant performance leading to the election of the first retarded person in history to the presidency of the United States.
Perino follows that proud tradition by standing as a full fledged bimbo who is unable to answer the simplest of questions without prefacing it with: “But of course, like, I don’t know nothing about this topic.” Thus establishing a new low for the right of the American public to have any information concerning the operation of their government.
Now we can see the upcoming election of Senator McCain as our next president. His claim to qualification already set because he rode a train and thus is at one with the common man. His constant pandering to the right and his constant flip flopping on issues excused because he is “Striaght Talk.”
March 16th, 2008 at 12:30 pmThis is what happens when you have a spokesmodel speaking for an idiot president.
March 16th, 2008 at 12:30 pmPerino should be tied to ‘one of the missels out there’ and lauched!
March 16th, 2008 at 2:10 pmAs a man myself, I know Weapon A. from Weapon G. because I remember the name and description of said weapons. But anyone with any intelligence and rationale of thought can do that as well. Perino on the other hand, doesn’t know anything because she’s A. dumb as a stump and B. not on any war planning committees in the administration. Dana has to fluff the president for the media and look like Bambi doing it…then be every conservative journalists dream a few hours later, if ya get my drift.
March 16th, 2008 at 2:12 pm“And I think that men just by osmosis understand all of these things, and they’re things that I really have to work at…”
Oh, I beg to differ. There are a lot of men who are dumber than a bag of hammers when it comes to “military jargon”.
By the way, anyone out there know where I can get good deal on a can of liquid squelch and a box of grid squares?
March 16th, 2008 at 2:51 pmSomeone should tell Dana that you can look these things up at at place called Google. It is part of the internets. Better yet, she could have some male staffer look it up for her. This way he can print off pictures when he tries to explain it to her.
OMG……….
While he is at it, they can go over the Cuban Missle Crisis.
March 16th, 2008 at 2:53 pmI’m not a woman, but it would annoy the hell outta me if a guy tried to pawn his own individual stupidity off on the gender as a whole, making me appear to be as stupid as he was.
March 16th, 2008 at 2:53 pmPeople, people… c’mon, don’t be so hard on poor Dana.
You have to give her some credit for at least knowing how to correctly pronounce osmosis. I might add she even used in the right context.
/sarc off
March 16th, 2008 at 3:14 pmIt has nothing to do w/ her being a woman. Willfully ignorant & conservative are largely overlapping concepts.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:24 pmPerino: I don’t need to, like, have qualifications and stuff to get a government job; I am young, pretty, and a Republican.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:53 pmPerino: men know more about war ‘by osmosis.’
Women are more permeable than men?
March 16th, 2008 at 4:54 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
March 16th, 2008 at 5:58 pmPerino:
“War is just like, you know, so icky, and messy, and like, well, violent…. I don’t really want to have to talk about it, ok? Like, you know what I mean?
Now, what shall I wear tomorrow?…. ummm, well, I’m just going to have to go shopping and boost the economy, you know?
March 16th, 2008 at 6:49 pmDanadanadanadanadanadanadanadanadanadanadanadana…
March 16th, 2008 at 9:48 pmYes, Dana, sad to say, you’re not going to learn about the military by sleeping with a Jane’s Defence Weekly magazine under your pillow and hoping the knowledge will just infuse your brain. People know about the military because they study the military.
Why we have a White House press secretary who knows nothing about the military, DURING A TIME OF WAR!, I will not hazard to speculate.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:47 pmThe next thing I was expecting to hear is “math is hard”.
March 17th, 2008 at 2:11 am