Perino: ‘We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.’
Perino: ‘We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.’
Last night on Fox News, host Sean Hannity whined — as he usually does — about how the Obama administration doesn’t use the term “war on terror” (which is actually a good thing). Former Bush administration spokesperson and current Fox analyst Dana Perino joined in, complaining that no one is calling the massacre at Ft. Hood a terrorist attack. She then made this astonishing statement:
PERINO: And we had a terrorist attack on our country. And we should call it what it is. Because we need to face up to it so that we can prevent it from happening again.
HANNITY: I agree with you. And why won’t they say what you just so simply said?
PERINO: They want to do all of their investigations. I don’t know. All of the thinking that goes into it. But we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term. I hope they’re not looking at this politically. I do think we ought it to the American people to call it what it is.
Watch it:
Of course, the terror attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center occurred on Sept. 11, 2001 — eight months into President Bush’s first term. But also, conservatives like to claim that the Bush administration prevented any terror incidents in the U.S. since 9/11. But they conveniently forget the anthrax attacks on U.S. news organizations and members of Congress over the course of several weeks beginning on Sept. 18, 2001.
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November 25th, 2009 at 11:03 amYou forgot to mention that Sean immediately corrected her…..Ooops, maybe NOT !!!
Maybe Varney said something to help her with her short term memory loss ?? NO again.
LOL
November 25th, 2009 at 11:03 amRepublicans love to rewrite history, or is it brain damage?
November 25th, 2009 at 11:03 amPerino: ‘We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.’
– - And the Russians never tried to put ballistic nuclear missiles in Cuba, right Dana? Jeebus, how could Obama appoint this pinhead to ANY position in his government?
November 25th, 2009 at 11:04 amBut But But…Bush kept us safe for 7.25 years out of 8….
That’s what counts, right?
/snark
November 25th, 2009 at 11:04 amDid they pop in from an alternate universe?
November 25th, 2009 at 11:05 am9/11 doesn’t count, does it Rudy JulieAnnie?
November 25th, 2009 at 11:06 amDon’t blame Perino, she’s just history-challenged. It’s a genetic condition among Republicans.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:06 amThis is just more Republican BS, smoke, and mirrors. Perino is not naive, but cunning. The real problem is that Fox spews the BS and the really stupid people, out there in media land, believe.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:07 amLet’s not forget Jim Adkinson, who walked into a Unitarian Church in Tennessee and started shooting because he wanted to kill liberals. And that idiot in Pittsburg, who murdered three policemen because he was afraid President Obama was going to come and take his guns from him. These two people are terrorists too,
November 25th, 2009 at 11:08 amHas someone been fired yet for this untruth? I thought that was Rupert’s new policy….
November 25th, 2009 at 11:09 amDenying that 9/11 suicide plunge on the USA was terrorism undercuts Bush’s motivation to attack/invade/occupy two Muslim nations, doesn’t it? Wait a minute… maybe we didn’t go into Afghanistan and Iraq at all. I’m confused.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:09 amThis is beyond the pale, even for dim bulb Perino.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:10 amEven if Ft Hood was a “terrorist attack” it happened AFTER Sept 11, so President Obama did better than bush because he kept us safe for longer. And he let fewer people die than bush so he’s ahead on that count. And he caught the “terrorist” so he’s ahead on that count. And he didn’t spend the day hiding so he’s ahead on that count. And his press secretary hasn’t threatened people by saying they need to watch what they say…. so he’s ahead on that count as well.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:12 amI hope they’re not looking at this politically.
You mean like your drunken idols GW and Cheney did (and do)?
You dance on the graves of those killed on 9/11 – for 8 years and counting – and now pretend it never happened.
Disgusting.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:14 amI had a situation the other day when they said President Putin said that our missile defense program was like the Cuban Missile Crisis. And so I got asked about the Cuban Missile Crisis and I was panicked a little bit because I really know nothing about the Cuban Missile Crisis…I came home and I asked my husband…wasn’t that like, the Bay Of Pigs thing? And he said, “Oh, Dana.” — Dana Perino
teehee
November 25th, 2009 at 11:14 amThis woman actually manages to live up to the stereotype. For shame.
Even if you don’t mention 9/11, there are the anthrax attacks.
Even if you forget the anthrax attacks, there were the Beltway Sniper attacks
Even if you excuse the Beltway Sniper attacks, there was the Seattle Jewish Center shooting
Even if you ignored the Seattle Jewish Center shooting, there was the Knoxville Church shooting
And, if you ignore all of those…
You must be in the GOP.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:14 amWell since 9/11 was the very first terrorist attack on the US who could have seen it coming? Oh it wasn’t the first. Somebody tell Dana who was president that day. She wasn’t the press secretary and she doesn’t do history, obviously.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:14 amAnd they wonder why Conservative women have their statements attacked, when liars like Perino appear certifiably insane? She insults Americans with her absurd, lying comments.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:17 amIn all fairness to bimbo barbie…I think this was an instance when she misspoke…the transcript would seem to support that…
November 25th, 2009 at 11:18 amPeople were so bizarre after 9/11..
I worked at one of those wal-mart style grocery chains at the time.. At their gas station there was a line around the block.. people filling up containers of gas – and gas was at it’s highest price. The price dropped something like $1 the following day.. I watched and thought ‘what idiots’..
On top of that… as I worked that day, we had far fewer customers than normal.. people were holed up in their houses.. and ones at the store made ridiculous statements like ‘what if they hit here?’…. ya, I’m sure some mid size grocery store in the suburbs of Grand Rapids Michigan is their next target..
Fricken wingnuts.. paranoid confused and illogical wingnuts.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:18 amLet’s give her a break folks, she was born and raised in Evanston Wyo a boom town 8 miles to the east of nowhere. She was undoubtedly the prom queen and princess of her tiny, inbred filled, high school and is used to being a 20 watt bulb in a pack of 10 watt bulbs. She’s not smart enough to know she’s stupid.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:20 amLooks like Dana “Queen of Spin” Perino is still hard at form for the Dubya admin.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:20 amNo wonder why people won’t admit the are Repugs. These people are delusional. This goes beyond revisionist hiistory. Dana needs professional help.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:20 amform = work
November 25th, 2009 at 11:20 amThat may have been the first real life example of the “aside from that Mrs. Lincoln how was the play?” joke.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:21 amI read an interesting comment on CQ that really nailed the whole Ft. Hood media fiasco. Assuming there is no definitive proof that Hasan was being directed by an operative, how is the Ft. Hood shooting much different from Charles Whitman’s rampage?
*Both Hasan and Whitman were in the military; Hasan a major in the army, Whitman a court-martialed marine
*Both had records of declining mental health
*Both invoked religion prior their attacks
*Both committed attacks on turf familiar to them, against people they’ve had a casual acquaintence with
and so on.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:21 amNoun. Verb. 9/11.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:21 amInstilling fear is terrorism.
Given that, the Republic Party has been terroristic for at least 9 years.
Fear is their middle name, and they wallow in it like pigs at a trough.
The American Taliban – If we can’t make history the way we want it, we’ll rewrite it and scare the daylights out of everyone in the process.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:26 amDave/John -
Monkeys are not only smart, they have addictive personalities: I used to own a squirrel monkey years ago. I could not keep that little f***er away from my beer – hell, any alcohol. He’d stick his arm inside a beer bottle, soak it, pull it out, then lick his arm. Seriously. He was a drunken monkey, kind of like GW Bush, but this was a REAL monkey.
Little bastard used to steal my ‘buds’ and eat them, too, then fly around my house loaded, screeching. I sh*t you not.
Kevin
November 25th, 2009 at 11:32 amChicago
Whoops – Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off topic.
Wrong website, too!
Sorry people.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:32 amFaux news deals with fiction. Fantasy to entertain those who need to feel superior to others, need somebody to blame, somebody to hate… in other words folks who are intellectually and emotionally challenged (even damaged).
Why don’t we define what a terrorist attack really is. Is it one deranged man opening fire on a crowd? Does it have to involve a gun? Would somebody plowing into a crowd with their car count? Would Columbine type incidents count? I don’t think so.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:33 amAnd god created:
November 25th, 2009 at 11:34 amBad religion, terrorists
False prophets and hate
lokidog says:
Whoops – Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off topic.
Wrong website, too!
Sorry people.
No problem, it was very entertaining. I figured you’d been eating your own buds…
November 25th, 2009 at 11:36 amgummitch says:
No problem, it was very entertaining. I figured you’d been eating your own buds…
LOL – yeah, the barren wasteland (known as my brain) really hits some rough spots here and there.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:39 amYes Mr. President she is a perfect nomination for the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:40 amWhat are you thinking and I’m a supporter. How many times reaching out does it take to learn your hand will just be bit?
And she makes CaribouBarbie look intelligent.. Wow, what a sad state for the GOP to be in. No wonder their numbers are decling to about only 20% of the population saying that they consider themselves republican.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:41 ampastcaring says: In all fairness to bimbo barbie…I think this was an instance when she misspoke…the transcript would seem to support that…
No, pastcaring — the transcript supports just the opposite of what you’ve concluded. When she says “And we had a terrorist attack on our country”, she’s referring to the topic that’s being discussed by her and her fellow panelists — the shootings at Fort Hood. The right wing fringe wants to classify this as a terrorist attack; that’s why she said what she said and then immediately says “we need to call it what it is”, and that’s why Hannity responds “why won’t they (referring to the White House) say what you just so simply said?” Followed by Airhead’s “they want to do their investigations” etc.
So when she says “We didn’t have a terrorist attack on our country during Pres. Bush’s term” she’s not simply misspeaking — it’s a boldfaced lie, trying to downplay a real terrorist attack on 9/11/01 while sensationalizing a single US soldier gone crazy a couple of weeks ago, to make a false comparison and suggest that somehow Bush kept the country safe while Obama isn’t. The transcript would seem to support that.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:44 amnellre says:
Why don’t we define what a terrorist attack really is. Is it one deranged man opening fire on a crowd? Does it have to involve a gun? Would somebody plowing into a crowd with their car count? Would Columbine type incidents count? I don’t think so.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:33 am
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UNSC Resolution 1566 seems to be the most comprehensive definition:
By this definition, hate crimes are terrorist acts. Assassination of an abortion doctor is a terrorist act. Violent acts committed by the Taliban and Iraqi insurgent groups are terrorist acts.
The Fort Hood and Columbine and Virginia Tech shootings are less clear. What were the political motivations for the shootings? Were they intended to intimidate a population? Is “everybody’s always picking on me” a political motive?
November 25th, 2009 at 11:44 amEven worse is the fact that Varney and Hannity don’t do anything to correct this obvious fallacy. What hacks.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:48 amlokidog, was your monkey’s name “Dana Perino” by any chance?
I actually thought you were making a connection between the two animals and were NOT off-topic. That’s where my brain goes!
November 25th, 2009 at 11:48 amHmmm…was that a Freudian slip by Dana Peroxide? Is she trying to tell us that 9/11 wasn’t a terrorist attack but done from within our own government?
November 25th, 2009 at 11:49 amCan you imagine the outrage on the right if a democrat, especially one associated with President Obama had claimed that the 9-11 attacks were not terrorist attacks?
November 25th, 2009 at 11:51 amDana Perino…lying sack of cute.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:52 amlokidog, feel free to go OT whenever you want if that’s where you’re going to go!
November 25th, 2009 at 11:52 amby their definition then, the following were ‘terrorist attacks’
columbine
Va Tech shooting
ANY and ALL abortion doctor killings / bombings
the shooting in orlando
the i-95 sniper attacks…
these bloody idjits will do ANYTHING for political aims… and to polarize the country… what ‘patriots’..
November 25th, 2009 at 11:53 amOK, I could laugh when the presser was too young to remember the Bay of Pigs. But this really takes the cake.
The shame is that the Faux viewers who have already turned their mind off, will start using this as a talking point.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:53 amWhere is Tundra? Why isn’t he, or OSTL, defending darling dana? I can’t wait to see how they tie themselves up in knots saying she’s right, but that 9-11 was a terrorist attack.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:54 amAnd Patrick Duffy’s just in the shower and 2001 was all just a dream.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:55 amWhere can I get what this brain dead hose bag is smoking?
November 25th, 2009 at 11:56 amPerino is such a lying dingbat.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:57 amBush was inaugurated in January of 2001 right? But we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term. Um, can she count? Just go backwards a few months, it really did happen during Bush’s term.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:57 amAh, yes, the phony “war on terror”.
This is the mentality of those pundits who try to equate the struggle against, say, global communism with the struggle against terrorism. As though the foes were even remotely comparable. Did the Soviets, the Chinese and their proxy allies around the globe rely on suicide bombers, IEDs and other technologically primitive weapon “systems” to take over the world? No, they had access to, among other things, mighty [nuclear armed] armies, air forces and navies. These very real enemies consisted of actual nations fully capable of waging war on a massive and devastating scale.
The war on terrorism? Let’s see, the first terrorist attack that sticks in my head was the initial attempt to bring down the Twin Towers in the mid-1990s. Then there were the embassy bombings, the Bali bombings, the USS Cole, 9/11, Madrid, London, Amman, Mumbai. And probably others that do not come to mind right now.
With the “war” on terror we can, back to 1993, go literally weeks or months without encountering any significant “enemy action”. The fact that this enemy is often reduced TO suicide attacks tells you all you need to know about what America is up against.
In just the first couple of days or weeks of past wars [the REAL wars against fascism and communism] the destruction and loss of life utterly dwarfs anything al qaeda has subjected us to. Or can subject us to.
In other words, this “war” on terror is largely just another manifestation of the military industrial complex that Ike warned us about. Or the “terrorist industrial complex” that Colin Powell talks about today. It is about the billions and billions and billions of dollars that have been shoveled into defense contractors, into Haliburtons and Blackwaters, into all the rest of the private mercenary corporations. Crowley, like most Americans however, simply refuses to acknowledge how wars and military spending are deeply embedded in the very heart and soul of our economy.
Terrorists? Somebody had to replace the Nazis and the Commies, right?
November 25th, 2009 at 11:58 amAmerica has two, intrinsically linked, problems that are completely preventing it from dealing with the many, many problems that face the country. The first is that one of the political parties has completely abandoned any fealty to the truth or to accepting reality. Facts don’t matter, only political calculations do. The second problem is that the press has slowly moved from being in denial about the serial lying of Republicans to being fully tolerant of it. They don’t say “Are Republicans lying” they only ask “is what Republicans are saying having political success.”
They’re like cheerleaders for a grand national suicide. Meanwhile Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Rushbo are triple-cast in the role of Dr. Kervorkian.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:58 amHey, thanks for elaborating and clearing that up…but Relax…your attack mode is bull$h!t
November 25th, 2009 at 11:58 amIt’s stuff like this that gets the attention of President Obama long enough to recommend her for his “Broadcasting Board of Governors” so that she may spread her ideas around the world.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:00 pmObama must be proud of her getting the word out on Fox.
In my next life I want to come back as lokidog’s monkey. :)
November 25th, 2009 at 12:00 pmI’m wondering, though, if she was trying to make a hidden statement; i.e., if the Fort Hood incident doesn’t qualify as a terrorist attack, then 9/11 wasn’t a terrorist attack, either.
Ridiculous on it’s face, but then again, that’s Dana Peroxide.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:00 pmPLC, my monkey was waaaaaaaay smarter than Dana Perino, who we know enjoys working for simians. Actually, his name was “Alvin” (after Alvin Lee, “Ten Years After” – LOL). Alvin was a horny lil’ monkey (as all are), and – this is true – liked engaging in ’solo acts’ ala’ Carrie Prejean.
And Bobwurst, thanks – I could probably write a book about Alvin and my time together. I have to admit it was easier raising two sons than taking care of Alvin for 3-4 years.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:01 pmSo is Dana saying that 9/11 was, in fact, an inside job?
November 25th, 2009 at 12:03 pmYeah but he didn’t make video of himself and send it to his girlfriend.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:07 pmWith GOP control of both houses and the Bush/Dick administration, who needs additional terror? Seems like our liberty was attacked mercilessly for 8 long years by these goons and this cartoon of a dumb blonde did her part.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:08 pmPerino was right, sorta.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:09 pm9/11 was a false flag operation and not an attack by Islamic terrorists.
Shayne says:
lokidog says:
Alvin was a horny lil’ monkey (as all are), and – this is true – liked engaging in ’solo acts’ ala’ Carrie Prejean.
Yeah but he didn’t make video of himself and send it to his girlfriend.
It wouldn’t have been video, certainly, and it probably never occurred to him to tape his wanking — and no Internet to post it on! What an empty life the 60s were.
(”Going Home” was one of my favorite cuts from “Woodstock.” )
November 25th, 2009 at 12:11 pmgeorgewalton says:
Terrorists? Somebody had to replace the Nazis and the Commies, right?
November 25th, 2009 at 11:58 am
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I only wish I had more than one “Vote Up” to give this post. Perfectly stated. Thank you.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:11 pm“Except for that colossal one in 2001. But apart from that…”
Of course the terrorists didn’t hit the US again, they didn’t need to. They got just what they wanted. With one attack. That doesn’t seem like something to brag about.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:12 pmDarn. TBTG @42 already had my idea.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:14 pmI’ve gotta stop reading about republiscum/neocon stupidity like this…my head will eventually explode.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:15 pm#22 Bobwurst:
Dana Peroxide went to Ponderosa H.S. in Parker, Colorado, a Denver suburb. She got her undergrad at CSU & grad at UIS so you can’t blame any “tiny, inbred filled, high school” on her idiocy. Ponderosa is damn proud of graduating tighty-righty goose-stepping GOP’ers and I’m sure she shone bright just like a future peroxided Faux News falsey.
Anyone interested in letting Dana know that she erred could drop her a line at:
Dana M Perino
November 25th, 2009 at 12:23 pm318 16th St SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 547-8502
Dana.Perino@bm.com
And by “our country”,she meant Texas.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:24 pmThey have repeated the lie that it was Clinton’s fault so much to the point they actually believe it was on Clinton’s watch.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:29 pmWWe really need to challenge the whole ‘on American soil’ concept.
When we order hundreds of thousands of GIs to invade a completely uninvolved country and spawn thousands of ‘terrorists’ who attack our soldiers with sniper fire or road-side bombs, those count as ‘terrorist attacks’ which are every bit as serious as ones which happen ‘on American soil’. It is counter-productive, cowardly and stupid to provide targets ‘over there’ so that ‘the terrorists’ have an easier, more convenient thing to kill than citizens ‘over here’, espcially if you also conveniently create the terrorists themselves at the same time.
There were hundreds of thousands of ‘terrorist attacks on Americans’ during Bush’s presidency. They maimed and killed thousands and thousands of Americans. Most of them were completely avoidable, and even the most horrific of them came with some pretty clear, but ignored, warnings.
To pretend that ‘Bush kept us safe’ completely excludes our soldiers from ‘us’ in an utterly despicable way.
The fact that many prominent Republicans dodged military service because of ‘country-club National guard duty’, or ‘other priorities’ or ‘painful butt cists’ gives these same people even less legitimacy to define who gets to be part of ‘us’ or whether ‘on American soil’ matters as a critical distinction about which ‘terrorist attacks’ we should ‘count’.
We ignore these idiotic distinctions at our own political peril; we need to challenge this horrendous frame.
(sorry about the long rant)
November 25th, 2009 at 12:30 pmpastcaring says: Hey, thanks for elaborating and clearing that up…but Relax…your attack mode is bull$h!t
“Attack mode”? What in the world are you talking about?
Never mind — I really don’t care…
November 25th, 2009 at 12:32 pmNo attacks on American Soil.
Like the old saying:
Other than that, how did you like the play, Mrs Lincoln ?
November 25th, 2009 at 12:36 pmThese people don’t even attempt to make Olbermann do any work for “World’s Worst”. They are the “gift that keeps on giving”.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:37 pmEveryone KNOWS nothing bad ever happened to our country before 1/20/2009.
Everyone KNOWS history only started on 1/20/2009. Before then there was no 9/11, no 3,000 Americans killed in the largest terror attack on American soil, no quagmire in Afghanistan, no “faulty” intelligence, no War of Choice for Iraqi oil, no 4,400 Americans killed, no domestic spying, no “outting” of CIA agents, there was no housing bubble, no economic meltdown, no $700,000 Million dollar theft from the US Treasury.
Nope, nothing bad happened before 1/20/2009.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:39 pmPerino needs to be fired from public life.
No really insane shit like that doesn’t have a place in public discourse and to allow her to stay in the limelight after sputing such a lie is orwellian.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:41 pmOn a serious note:
Anyone who purposely alters the history of that fateful day is in fact disrespecting those victims and their families!
How very un fcking American of Dana (1 brain cell left) Perino, and how disgusting that InSannity and company didn’t correct her.
Someone needs to be fired!
On a funnier note:
lokidog, you may have posted the most entertaining, laugh out loud post of all time.
I’m still chuckling.
And Shayne, I don’t want to be that monkey in another life. My gawd, I think I WAS that monkey my freshmen year in college!
:-)
November 25th, 2009 at 12:44 pmseriously? c’mon
November 25th, 2009 at 12:49 pmlokidog,
I had a squirrel monkey when I lived in San Diego. Perhaps it was the same one! I called it ‘Muncle’, after a monkey’s uncle.
I’ll never forget taking it to the San Diego Zoo. The Simians were very upset that ‘one of them’ was out of the cage. They threw a flurry of feces in our direction and were extremely vocal…just like Republicans!
I loved that little critter, but don’t miss the ‘monkey business’.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:49 pmHow would fealty to the truth and doing the right thing advance the GOP? That’s why they’ve discarded it. How doesn’t avoiding hypocrisy help the GOP? That’s why they’ve discarded it, too.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:53 pmIf there are any people still sticking to the conspiracy theory that Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks, we should forward this to them.
November 25th, 2009 at 12:56 pmOnce again, the anti-American teabaggers are attempting to revise history. Shocking
November 25th, 2009 at 12:59 pm9/11 did,nt happen on Bush’s watch. He was on vacation on 9/11 so he was’nt watching.
See how it works?
GOP sucks.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:14 pmShorter Bimberino: Dickster wasnt a terrorist!
November 25th, 2009 at 1:18 pmWell, I guess by the time President Obama is finished with his presidency, Bush was probably not born when 9/11 took place.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:39 pmFor seven years, Bushies and Bushites have stated that Bush has kept us safe — they have completely disregarded the 9/11 attacks and have totally blanked on the anthrax attacks —
but they have repeated the false claim for so many years now that it is becoming part of repugniscum thinking, both in the congress and in the public: they believe Bush kept us safe.
George Orwell would be so validated — he (actually Eric Blair) saw this coming years ago.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:42 pmI think Obama gave her an appointment because she is so dense, that she will fill the desired bipartisan quota, but she will be entirely dismissed for anything of substance.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:44 pmAnd what about the DC sniper attacks? I mean if the Ft. Hood shooting is a terrorist attack, shouldn’t we include the DC sniper attacks in the terrorism category too?
November 25th, 2009 at 1:46 pmThey are constructing their own reality. They really believe their version of events is true and cannot understand how anyone can think differently.
Facts are fungible and emotion trumps rationality. Reality has become a matter of faith for them.
http://blahgblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/the-uninformed-agrieved-at-least-they-know-theyre-mad/
November 25th, 2009 at 2:14 pm“Perino: ‘We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.’”
Oh, Dana, Dana, Dana.. You silly twit. Do ya think we are that stupid???? Having you forgotten 9/11 attack and how distorted and wrong info in Saddam/9/11 connection, Bin Laden/Saddam connection, Uranium/Niger/Saddam connection and the infamous 16 words from Bush at the State of the Union Address lead us to invade a country and on false pretenses and put our troops in harms way?
And yet Perino has been nominated by Obama to serve on the Broadcasting Board of Governors? It will be interesting hearing of her nomination at the Senate.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:17 pmIs Dana going to feel the axe of FAUX’s new zero tolerance policy for on-air “errors”. How about Inshannity? It’s his show.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:18 pm.
Dear Barbie Perino…
… Nine eleven!!!
YOUR MAN BABY, YOUR MAN!
.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:20 pmShe is being kept around to remind us how much better things are now. Still plenty of room for improvement, but soooo much better.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:28 pmRELAX SHEEPLE!
November 25th, 2009 at 2:37 pmHer emphasis is off. She misspoke. She wasn’t forgetting about 9/11.
She was trying to say that we shouldn’t diminish 9/11 as something that only happened to Bush’s America.
her point was – We did not (just) have a terrorist attack on our country during Bush’s term. We had a terrorist attack on our country (period).
The sad part is there are people who will read spartyj’s post and nod and say, yup. That makes sense.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:53 pmspartyj,
excellent parody — that’s just exactly what an inept and clueless rightwing republican would say.
spot on imitation of a buffoon.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:56 pmHoodathunk says:
The sad part is there are people who will read spartyj’s post and nod and say, yup. That makes sense.
Sounds like the usual response to Rush jamming his foot down his throat: “He didn’t say that, you have to understand the context, which means you have to listen to Rush everyday for 10 years and learn all the codewords. Then it will make sense.”
Apparently, when “conservatives” speak, they don’t use actual words — at least not words in the English language.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:11 pmPERINO: They want to do all of their investigations. I don’t know. All of the thinking that goes into it.
This one is priceless. Obviously investigations and thinking impair the process of jumping to conclusions and starting wars. It appears thinking is something that makes Dana’s head hurt. About the same as when the peroxide gets in her eyes.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:20 pmspartyj, seriously, how do get this out of what she said?
November 25th, 2009 at 3:27 pmA classic repub moment: in a matter of seconds saying we DID AND WE DID NOT have a terrorist attack on our country…amazing…she still has not lost her ability to speak out of both sides of her mouth…
As usual just like with Palin, Hannity goes right along with it…
November 25th, 2009 at 3:27 pm“Sheeple”???!!!
Dude, we’re progressives and mostly secular. You’re the people in the “flocks” buying and swallowing your dogma hook, line and sinker, marching in step towards ideological purity. What the hell are you even talking about?
November 25th, 2009 at 4:16 pmSorry, I get it now. Spartyj is pure parody. Great work. That was as obtuse as an idiot can get.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:18 pmPerino’s and Hannity’s 9/11 amnesia aside, the definition of terrorism is:
“the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes”
How does Hasan “going postal” at Fort Hood fit that definition?
Who’s playing politics, Dana? Who (and how) was Hasan intimidating or coercing? What was his political (or other) objective that fits the definition?
As tragic as it is, can’t we just recognize someone going off the deep end for what it is? It happens way too often but the perp being a Muslim does not make it a terrorist act.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:23 pmThe GOP should just hang a banner over the RNC headquarters aka Fox News HQ in NYC that reads:
“Looks and jingles before substance and merit”
Because things like education sure don’t top the priorities like a bridge to nowhere sequel and phony moral outrage and petty politicking.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:25 pmI’m sure Americans will believe every word Dana says and we can Bush was President plus he didn’t think the information about an attack on the Wall Trade Center was important as he quickly went on vacation. We are to believe Clinton and Obama caused the 9/11, invasion of Iraq, War in Afghanistan, torture of innocent Iraq people and yes the Great Recession.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:38 pmUmm, sparty?
Dana says you are wrong… from her twitter feed…
“Last night on Hannity, I obviously meant no terror attack on U.S. post 9/11 during Bush 2nd term.”
Boy, that’s a whole lot of qualifiers isn’t it?
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/perino-i-meant-there-were-no-terrorist-attacks-on-america-on-bushs-watch-after-911.php
November 25th, 2009 at 5:15 pmbelaccifer lacca,
Isn’t that typical? The fact remains that, if the freaks even bother listening to themselves and each other, one of those three people should have immediately said “oops! obviously Dana meant post 9/11″. But they didn’t.
I suppose it’s possible that none of them realized it but not likely. My guess is that the two gentleman, at least, caught it but decided to let it pass rather than have to assign Bushco any blame. Such an admission would detract from the fantasy that “Bush kept us safe”.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:24 pmyes because September 11, 2001 fell under Bill Clinton’s by GOP definition, extended term…
November 25th, 2009 at 5:43 pmDana is a perfect example of how well the un-exceptional and anti-intellectual succeed in the 21st century GOP. Quite scary actually.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:51 pmAmazing. Who could have imagined that George Orwell’s “1984″ was going to become the backbone for the entire strategy of the gNOp!
November 25th, 2009 at 5:53 pmmuzz,
To be fair, their constant quoting of Ayn Rand should have been a giveaway.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:20 pmNovember 25th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
95. spartyj says:
She was trying to say …….her point was – We did not
(just)have a terrorist attack on our country during Bush’s term.More Bush(Perino & spartyj)apologist from the Cheney/Bush legacy rebuilding team.
Allow me to remind everyone….
Flip
“The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him.”
- G.W. Bush, 9/13/01
“I want justice…There’s an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive,’”
- G.W. Bush, 9/17/01, UPI
Just six months later…..
Flop
“I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.” – G.W. Bush, 3/13/02
“I am truly not that concerned about him.”
November 25th, 2009 at 6:40 pm- G.W. Bush, responding to a question about bin Laden’s whereabouts,
3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)
I guess that our invisible vote-down troll prefers Bimbo Purina to Bible Spice.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:33 pmpete – why do the VDTs even bother? Thanks for helping clear out those mis-applied negatives.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:36 pmAs far as I’m aware, the Ft. Hood “terrorist” worked completely alone. Which makes him more of Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Whitman, or Kip Kinkel; and NOT a McVeigh, Mohammed, or Osama bin Laden.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:05 pmHaha that video provides a great picture.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:41 pmTwo liars taking a bubbleheaded dimwit seriously.
Ok, I expected the backlash. But I’m not defending her position, I was merely pointing out that her quote could have been taken out of context.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:16 amIt was easy to have the knee-jerk reaction that she’s denying 9/11 happened during Bush’s term. I did at first.
She says right before the quote, “we should call it what it is” “We had a terrorist attack on our country.”
But now after her twitter comments, I’m not so sure what she meant. Even if she meant after 9/11 no other attacks, it would be less obtuse, but still clearly wrong. Okay, I tried defending her. I give.
I still think it would be more effective to refute the intended claim rather than the misspoken statement. This “Repubs are rewriting history!” feels too much like what they do.
Sparty
“sheeple”?
Projection!
November 26th, 2009 at 8:44 amSparty.
Who is trying to diminish?
November 26th, 2009 at 8:46 amBut now after her twitter comments, I’m not so sure what she meant. Even if she meant after 9/11 no other attacks,
I seem to remember there was something called the anthrax attacks in Oct 2001, was pretty big news at the time…..even made the papers and got teevee coverage……….then it was disappeared down the memory hole.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:15 amI wonder why?
Republicans love to rewrite history, or is it brain damage?
November 26th, 2009 at 12:34 pmIt didn’t help when asked about Terrorist early on. “Bring em On” was Bush’s response.
The Bush administration helped terrorist around the World. Did more for their ideology.
Well remember when then President candidate Bush was was running for President and vowing complete support of Israel.. The World was listening. That message was enough to fuel a lot of hatred. The message sent on 9/11 came 10-11 months later.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:21 pmThe fact of Fux Noise putting Dana Perino in a chair as an analyst says more than anyone needs about the corrupt nature of that corporate font of agitation and propaganda (agit-prop). She’s a ditz and an airhead.
Oh, sorry, that makes her a perfect Republipimp and Troll pundit, doesn’t it? My bad, I’ll try to keep that in mind before I start ranting again…
November 27th, 2009 at 6:26 pmYou mean the false flag operation on 9/11… Bush/Cheney are the Terrorist
November 28th, 2009 at 2:39 amBiggest Terrorist Organization in the World is:
CIA
Mossaud
or PNAC
Certainly not any Muslim organization.
911 was an Inside Job Kids.
The Smart Folk figured it out already.
November 30th, 2009 at 12:18 pmAnthrax Attacks was an Inside Job as well.
November 30th, 2009 at 12:19 pm