Dana Perino Can't Remember The Last Time The Press Asked Her About Iraq

Huffington Post   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 6, 2008 07:16 PM


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White House Press Secretary Dana Perino was on "Fox & Friends" this morning and host Brian Kilmeade asked her when the last time was that she'd been asked about Iraq in the White House press briefing. Perino said, "I don't remember having sustained questions about Iraq" (though she said that "maybe there'd be a one-off") and said she hadn't had to respond to questioning on the Iraq war "since probably early December." Wow. Go get 'em, D.C. Press Corps! Kilmeade also asked her about John McCain's "100 years" in Iraq comment, and asked about the planned long-term relationship between the U.S. and Iraq; Perino sidestepped neatly by instead invoking America's long-term relationships with Japan and Germany. She also noted that the White House was going to be requesting an additional $108 billion in Iraq War funding soon. Amazing what a lame duck prez can put on the agenda, ain't it? Watch:






UPDATE: Wow - our brethren at 23/6 have gone over the transcript and have uncovered just how bad Perino's memory is — turns out she's been asked about Iraq pretty recently...like, the day before she gave that interview.

Note: This post has been updated to include Perino's "one-off" comment above, to further clarify her response.


 
 

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when was the last time any of them ANSWERED a question on Iraq ? ? ?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:56 PM on 03/10/2008

Stop picking on Perino. It's not her fault.


The WH tried to have some Press Secretaries with brains, but since they got savaged, they went with the Faux News route. It's not her fault she got picked for the brainless bimbo role.

(But, jeez, she is SOOOOooooo clueless.)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:48 PM on 03/08/2008

What a joke. WOW.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:37 PM on 03/08/2008

I wonder when the last time the Press Corp. asked an intelligent question.

Even longer, I'd bet.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:00 PM on 03/07/2008

What difference does it make what they ask? The answer is always the same inanities. Really, the whole process has come to be ridiculous.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:11 PM on 03/09/2008

she's pathetic.. but oooooh sooo hot....!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:45 PM on 03/07/2008

These Bushtards simply lie to lie. There's no other reason.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:50 PM on 03/09/2008

I wonder though if she has one of those portraits in her attic that absorbs all the bad looks because lying actually makes a person real ugly, and we know that she as well as her predecessors seldom speak the truth. I suspect that the press corps stopped asking questions about the war because the answers is always the same, Mission accopmplished, and the surge is working wonderfully.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:11 AM on 03/08/2008

Yes, it sort of like Groundhog Day in the Bush press room. No matter what the questions the anwsers are always the same.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:12 PM on 03/09/2008

A movie about the life of Perino (however unecessary that would be) would be called "Revenge of the Valley Girls." It may be subtitled "You thought they were clueless, but now they're running the country."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:29 PM on 03/07/2008

Maybe you're thinking of "Legally Blonde".

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:15 AM on 03/09/2008

Well, yeah, I think the point is still mostly intact; she probably hasn't gotten asked much about Iraq for some time, since the MSM seems to be lapping up that Jedi-mind-trick thing about how "the surge is working, there's nothing to see here, you don't need to see any real progress." We're preparing for perpetual presence in Iraq, we hear reports of violence every single day, oil prices are at an all-time high, Bush's friends are figuring out what kinds of deals they can make with which groups for which oil fields, and we are friggin' THERE for the foreseeable future. And they quelled violence, sort of, around Baghdad and a few of the population centers; elsewhere, violence is down because of deals cut with the people who were shooting at us last week--or, in other words, they've figured out a way to use us for as long as we'll be used.

Yup, the surge is working, all right. For big oil. For Halliburton. But it's just a coincidence, I'm sure, that we have big-oil and big-reconstruction guys in the White House. Life's all good. It just depends on where you sit.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:23 PM on 03/07/2008

This pathetic woman can't remember anything unless it promotes Bush & Cheney. She is a ridiculous drone for the Bush Admin. & no one ever believes her anymore. How sad for her. Get a new job, Perino. We think you are a total loser.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:10 PM on 03/07/2008

B..But...but that's why she has the job in the first place...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:45 PM on 03/08/2008

Iraq is a serious subject and regarding the fact that Perino shows such flippancy toward it is characteristic of the flippancy of this whole administration. To the Bushies, there is no objective reality, rather everything is a matter of media spin amd manipulation. If one pretends the war in Iraq has gone away, then it will eventually go away, or so Bush sycophants believe. Her statements and disregard for the reality on the ground in Iraq are callous and uncaring in the extreme. Rove wanted to create a permanent Republican majority based on this war and now the administration will not even mention it. It is the war that can not say its name. It is cynicism in the extreme. Perino has the intellect and temperment of a spoile child, as does her benefactor George W. Bush.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:02 PM on 03/07/2008

We should all realize that Dana's remark was not intended to have truth value. She is just practicing the mantra of the ex-Bush admin functionary, "I can't remember".

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:48 PM on 03/07/2008

Is she married to Paul Krugman?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:22 PM on 03/07/2008


Nope. She's married to some Englishman who thinks it's a good idea to swear at a cop and tell him to go chase squirrels. And names his dog Henry.

http://wonkette.com/politics/dept'-of-white-house-criminals/dana-perinos-husband-thrown-in-jail-257848.php

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:38 PM on 03/08/2008

Brian is the brown-haired guy who's not Steve Doocy, right?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:53 PM on 03/07/2008

Did Dana Perino drop out of school in the 4th grade or the 5th grade?

She is one of the dumbest most clueless individuals to ever serve in the Bush admin

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:01 PM on 03/07/2008

I went on from the 4th grade 60 years ago..and I can still remember the text books, the teacher and the class. So Perino didn't GET to the 4th grade. She doesn't remember because she pushes the automatic answer button...the one marked "iraq". I doubt she even knows what she is lying about today.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:09 PM on 03/07/2008

True. In fact most people KNOW that there is no relationship between her reporting and the grim reality that is in Iraq. No wonder they bypass her. She gets her White House edited news report straight from the Bushie point men. But they love her at Faux, right?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:06 PM on 03/07/2008

At Fox, any Bush apologist is always welcome. Fox News loved Bush. His endless warfare was good for ratings and waving the flag. The Bush presidency has long ago melted down into a disaster. I hope Fox shares this same fate.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:04 PM on 03/07/2008

Yeah, it's at the point of when you stop trying to teach the chimpanzee to play checkers, and just let them play with their little poops. Thanks, Bush, for eliminating the functionality of the White House Press Corpse.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:41 PM on 03/07/2008

Looks like my tax dollars are going to pay for the duck bill lip injections. Always a clear act of desperation and insecurity. Its a pretty big stretch to equate Japans surrender to a endless shit storm and financial blackhole that is Iraq. Perhaps a boob job will be next?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:30 PM on 03/07/2008

Bush nuuty sycophants always reach for the WWII comparison and it is a far reach with no equilvalency at all. Bush and his team have not reached this simple conclusion yet and are incapable of anything which approaches the truth.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:06 PM on 03/07/2008

Not altogether surprising, really.

You have to search to find any mention of Iraq here on HuffPo, and when you finally do, the comments are closed.

Just sayin'...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:15 PM on 03/07/2008

That is simply not true. I have seen many posts mentioning Iraq and I mention it often, as well. You think 300 million Americans just simply woke up one day and forgot about this awful, unnecessary, endless, bloody war?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:09 PM on 03/07/2008

The truth is that AH is doing her best to "diss" HRC on every turn and does not recognize that the world IS still turning.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:11 PM on 03/07/2008

Hey, what the hell, they are not our kids, fathers, brothers, sisters. or mothers This whole thing hearing about Iraq got boring, a few dead here, a few dead there, what the hell. It is like Bush said they are just numbers.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:18 PM on 03/07/2008

She can't remember hardly anything, why should questions about Iraq be any different.

But if anyone thinks that this dumb war is going to disappear before November, they're wrong.

Kids are still dying over there and the Iraqis are still getting a free ride.

Of course the "decider" will have his dung boots up on the desk in Crawford by the end of next January.

But he'll be remindd over and over again of what a coward he is to leave this mess in the hands of the American people while he rides off into the sunset.

From the day he leaves, his terrible administration's legacy will grow and grow in stature as the worst ever.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:00 PM on 03/07/2008

that's because all you do is lie through your teeth in return dana. they've simply given up the ghost of ever getting a truthful answer from you.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:51 PM on 03/07/2008

It's not nice to pick on the mentally disturbed.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:20 PM on 03/07/2008

No one should be surprised that Dana Perino doesn't remember the last time she was asked about Iraq. Remember that this is the same person who had absolutely know idea that there was such an event as the Cuban Missile Crisis! As I said at the time, her mindset fits right in with that of the current occupant of the White House. (I am, of course, being generous in assuming that the current occupant of the White House HAS a mind!!)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:12 PM on 03/07/2008

Anything prior to 1990 or so is likely unknown to her. She does her research from a Macy's catalogue.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:10 PM on 03/07/2008

What would be the point of asking this airhead anything? She either doesn't know the answer and says something stupid like, "You'll have to call the Secratary of State for the specifics on that one," or she outright stands there and lies. what is the point of this administration having a press secretary at all? It is all bullcrap anyway and a big waste of tiem. The reporters that sit through these bullshit sessions would spend their time more wisely at the bar.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:06 PM on 03/07/2008


Maybe it's because they know that it will all be more Bushit and lies

about successes, turning a few more corners w/ a Kool-aide smile.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:51 PM on 03/07/2008

This is news? An air-head representing the lame duck President talking to an idiot is not news worthy.

The way to deal with them is not make the Republicans irrelevant is by ignoring them.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:50 PM on 03/07/2008

We must also uncover the Bush illegalities and vote them out of office.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:11 PM on 03/07/2008

No! We can NEVER just ignore them! Without anyone watching, there's no TELLING what kind of mischief they'll get into!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:36 PM on 03/07/2008

Come on the Internet, where the people are, Dana, and we will ask you about Iraq and a LOT of other things, too.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:46 PM on 03/07/2008

Members of the media are terrorized.

"Florida and Georgia law enforcement officials, speaking on conditions of anonymity, now report that (Ray) Lemme had also stumbled across the importation of underage Mexican teens and children being used as sex slaves in Valdosta. This ring was linked to the criminal activities Lemme was investigating at the time in Florida and is likely part of the reason he was drawn to Valdosta as part of his investigation, an investigation that had officially been shut down on the direct orders of Jeb Bush. "

This is not the first time the Bush family has been linked to using children for sex. Ray Lemme was also investigating how NASA was linked to selling tech secret to China and a vote-switching program utilized in the 2004 election and paid for by the Bush team. Ray Lemme is dead - murdered "mob-style."

http://www.apfn.net/MESSAGEBOARD/04-10-05/discussion.cgi.9.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:42 PM on 03/07/2008

Can it be that a woman as intelligent as Dana hasn't figured out that if you lie every time you open your yap people start to ignore you and you become irrelavent?

The lame duck President and his lame duck mouthpiece are about as clueless as it gets.

Just throw some money and power at me I'll lie all day every day. Dana's credo.

She is the perfect female clone of Tony " Weeee! Look at me! I work for the President Snow"

Woe to you America. God is dead. Your best and brightest crib their test answers off the internet. Vacuous Xanex munching prostitutes speak for your President. What will you do America?

Meanwhile a fine red mist falls over Baghdad. It's all that remains after the bodies of innocent muslim women and children are exploded. America. You will reap what you sow.