Dana Perino: Obama A "Phenomenal Candidate," "I'll Give You Eight Months" For Press Honeymoon

Washington Post:

The network stars were gone, the seats half empty and the questioning low-key as Dana Perino held a White House briefing last week, her biggest announcement that the administration would try to ease air traffic for the holidays.

President Bush has faded from the news, and the last year has been hard on his press secretary as she tried to follow his orders not to defend him from the verbal assaults of the campaign to succeed him.

"We took it from all sides, and it was difficult," Perino says. "When you're that close to your boss, it's hard sometimes not to take it personally."

Perino marvels at the glowing press that Barack Obama has gotten -- "He was a great candidate, a phenomenal candidate," she says -- but warned his incoming chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, that it wouldn't last forever. "I'll give you eight months," she told him.

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Comments

[MiDemFem]

....as apparently it has only taken eight months to age Perino eight years.

[WorldGoneWild]

Dana,

Wake up and smell what has been going on for the last two years.

You give the Obama admin 8 months for a press honeymoon? Obama hasn't had a honeymoon with the press since he announced he was running for the POTUS. Remember Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, and the rest of the cast of characters your conservative conspirators dredged (or DRUDGEd) up?

[drsmc41]

Thank you! I am sure there will be more to come, too!

[steelerchicken]

I'll miss her baby blue eyes!

[Scandalouscandice5]

She is so v-ile. One of the single most n-asty person on Bush's team now. I can't wait until we never have to hear from her again.

[Scandalouscandice5]

P.S. Dana, Love the forehead lines. Maybe you can become a b-otox spokesperson after this.

Who would have thought B-otox was pending word?

[meede]

It was unfortunate when Tony Snow took sick that we got stuck with this 'thing'.

[takeyourballandgohome]

8 months for US to listen to competence, then perhaps solutions to the disasterous mess after 8 mos....no answers for questions about our war heroes, how many days (isn't it over one year)the Bushes spendt at Camp David) personal failings and language issues. Get real Dana...

[ElodieStClair]

Dana, I'll give you 36 years to figure out what the Cuban Missile Crisis is.

Oops... sorry. Time's up.

[old lady]

Didn't that have something to do with the Miss Cuba pagaent contestant tripping Fidel as he walked across the stage?

[northstar11]

bush got eight years .
why should obama only get eight months.

is the media suddenly going to get a spine transplant.

[old lady]

If only bush could GET 8 years - in custom stripes

[canucklivinginUSA]

Because he's a Democrat. The media only goes dormant when the Repubs are in power, but then suddenly remember they have a job to do when the Dems are in power.

[Deparis]

Dana, sweetie, I thought you had a brain! Obviously I was wrong. Poor little you, it's tough not having any attention, isn't it?

[demigod]

Dana, Dana, Dana. You are the official liar for the King of all Liars. You are the raw meat the Bush Administration has thrown out to the people. Your job is to distort the truth, and present falsehood as truth. Other Administrations have had to make their case, but this one flat out lies even when they don't have to. Their first instinct is to lie, then find out the subject matter of the question. They take pride in lying with no tinge of remorse or guilt. To even get the job of White House Press Secretary in the Bush Administration, you have to lie to your spouse, your children, your preacher, and to your dying mother. You have to tell your dog "we're going OUT !" and then NOT DO IT. And you have taken pride in lying for them, you are one of them. You are no Scott McClellan, who had a vomiting point. Don't even try to get sympathy from the people to whom you have lied, there is a special place in hell for you dear. They should have told you before you started, but then, they lie.

[Nan2008]

DITTO HERE. And we'll give her 6 months and then check back to see where she's working...FAUX NEWS NO DOUBT, the FAUX PIT is were all of GWB's STOOGES seem to be migaraing too.

[JDHART]

Dana Perino, I give you 8 months before your career is over.

[old lady]

When did it start?

[Rule Of Law]

I look forward to Dana and Sarah Palin in the "Girls of the Republican Party" issue.

[Wiserone]

She's telling Emanuel that he has 6 months with the press before they turn on him, the REAL pit-bull of politics? Dana the Stewardess is really caught in her notoriety, isn't she? She'd still be fetching coffee if it weren't for the sad demise of Snow. Seems she has taken on a certain Palin air ---- knows little, spews much.

[BBackSoon]

It strikes me as funny that anything this woman says is even entertained as being believable.

If I was standing outside, was soaking wet, with water falling from the heavens and she said it was raining, I would still have to be skeptical.

[girlwild]

Dana's 15 minutes of fame are almost over. 1-20-09.

[Shieldmaiden]

I cannot stomach this woman.

[nancytheragingliberal]

That makes two of us. I cannot stomach her in any way, shape or form. She is a nightmare and her rapid rate of speech and, of course, her lies, make you want to bang your head on anything close by. Leave it to W. to chose this no nothing person. She has done an awful job, just awful. The American people and the poor reporters trying to get a straight answer out of her, will be dancing in the streets, when she is gone.

[LMT]

Perino is a lightweight who should go to teaching kindergarten...and I'm not sure she could even do that well.

[robiform]

I've got news for you--most kindergarten students are smarter than Dana Perino!! Remember, this is the same person who was unaware that an event called the Cuban Missile Crisis nearly changed the course of world history!!