Dana Perino Daily Show Goodbye (VIDEO)

Ahh, Dana Perino! We'll miss her! Last night, President Bush's diminutive flack made another appearance on The Daily Show, a venue which, to her credit, she's always managed to present herself as a gracious and likable guest. But, this being her last time -- before she writes her "tell-all where some restrictions apply to the 'tell' and the 'all'" book about her time in the White House, host Jon Stewart wanted to know what the mood was like in the last twelve days of the Bush administration.

"I liken it to graduating from high school or college," Perino said, "because there's an end date, and you're going to have to leave." Finally, the White House gets into "timetables for withdrawal!"

Perino also mentioned that they've planned no pranks, akin to the alleged missing W's on the computer keyboards left behind by the Clinton White House. "During the campaign someone asked if we would remove all of the O's," Perino said, "and I said how do you know we won't remove all the M's and the C's." No one in the audience understood what on earth she was talking about, and finally Stewart had to explain that she was referring to John McCain, because ha ha, everyone hated that guy.

Perino was much better at setting them up for Stewart:

STEWART: Does [the President] seem happy? Does he seem sad? Does he seem drunk?

PERINO: He never seems drunk! He doesn't drink!

[PAUSE]

STEWART: Right.

Stewart went on to criticize the Bush administration for the very few areas they are leaving in a condition better than they inherited. Perino was quick to disagree, perplexedly suggesting that the Bush administration had effected significant improvements abroad: "I disagree on foreign policy. As compared to what? When we got there?" To be fair, she's only recently gotten up to speed on the Cuban Missile Crisis. In another decade, maybe she'll hear about how Bush's totally awesome plan to create democracies in the Middle East led to the rise* of Hamas and Hezbollah and left Iraq under the influence of Iranian hardliners. That will be neat!

Perino did get this right: "The media was obsessed over what [the former, current, and future Presidents] had for lunch, the color of their ties. They don't talk about substance." Yes. LUCKY FOR YOU, DANA. We'll see you around.

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*Written too quickly, words chosen poorly. I would contend that the President's policies have undeniably spurred bolder postures from both Hamas and Hezbollah, and enhanced their influence(s) in the region. But I don't want to confuse the issue. Clearly neither Hamas nor Hezbollah came into being during the Bush administration. I apologize for not being clear.

Comments

[lant2005]

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[joselopez]

I have to say Dana it the hottest woman in politics, bar none. Her walk was a little funny, but she gorgeous.

[Ungoliant]

Is she a robot?

I bet she's a Nexus 6.

[MisterCole]

You watch. She'll get a high paying gig on Faux or CNN as a "Political Analyst / Contributor" or "Republican Strategist" These people never go away they just get cushy jobs on TV or shilling for some "think" tank. If they only had to work a real job. Better hang on to those looks honey.

[lizr]

Great dress though. You got to give her that :)

would look great on me too -lol

[karinova]

I was so dismayed when I saw that dress!
I had literally JUST finished cutting out the fabric for what is going to turn out to be a near-exact copy of it. I don't usually get all female like this, but DANGIT!!

[RuthlessDictator]

I could easily fall in love with her!

[Heavy]

Barf

[flossophy]

Ja-son Link-ins... You used the phrase "diminutive flak"

I'll bet my left one that you're a Chom-sky reader - and you pride yourself on slipping that term into a miss-ive on miss per-ino. I'll also bet that you've never wikipedia'd any crit-iciz-m of Chom's media theo-ries, which are hila-rious - and even more hilar-ious that you probably believe them.

tell me if i'm wrong.

[carlgt1]

Yeah, there's a nice sub-industry if pseudo-intellectual right-wing twits who try to reverse-engineer Chomsky, and fail. I read some funny ones on amazon.com posted as "reviews" of Chomsky's books.

by the way, you think using the phrase "diminutive flak" is Chomsky-esque or somehow flags one as a Chomsky aficianado? hahahahahahaha

[superduperandy]

She's just so pretty and cute! It's a good thing the entire Bush administration isn't that way or we would have let them behave 100 times as bad.

[ChelseaC]

LOL!

[hoogly]

funny

[Caledonia]

I was so distracted by that dress I hardly heard what the poor woman was saying. It was red and relatively low-cut, but horrifically unflattering. Really bad. I can't believe she doesn't have one friend or advisor who was honest and kind enough to say, "Dana, don't wear that on TV." Very sad.

[WoodyGrant]

Maybe we should stop worrying about the red dress on "Daily Show" and concentrate on the fact that Bush picking such a non-forceful, non-skillful press sec'y for his final years in office betrays how little he thought of the American press and the American people, and that he no longer cared about really explaining his actions.

[SurrealPumpkin]

He was right, wasn't he.

[vishix]

i dunno, i thought the dress was fine. kinda distracting which i suppose was the purpose

[RuthlessDictator]

Her shoes weren't very flattering, too.

[Ontrackmac]

Wouldn't it be cool to listen in on a Robert Gibbs Dana Perrino discussion.

[ankae]

I actually believe Robert Gibbs will be more ruthless. He is very close to Obama and protective of him. I expect even more coverups from Team Obama - plus the team of Gibbs, Jarret, Axlerod and Rahm know how to keep a secret.

Robert Gibbs is no push over - and he can lie just as good as Dana. It will be an interesting 4 years.

[applescruff]

Bush and his administration worked full time on coverups and nothing much else as is apparent by the state of the nation. Obama , or any one else for that matter realizes there is no time for such extensive incompetence and crimmnality.
Wew could have put this country on Auto-pilot and come out better after eight years.

[Bulbul]

Dana, became more of a cartoonish figure in the daily show. First, she was visibly uncomfortable and then she was blurting out sentences like a robot ,with a smile. Her shrill voice was not of much help either....wish her well though. Perhaps a book is coming up ?

[MikeDu]

Don't you wonder just what she's up to on that show? Its incongruous seeing a 'conservative values' WH spokesperson in a low cut flaming red dress. Makes you wonder who vetted the dress, how many 'focus groups' were involved to produce just the 'subtext' for their beer-drinking, gun-toting true believers.

[roblabrousse]

All these legacy visits...these drones will go to any length to put a humanizing face on one of the biggest 8 year debaucheries in US History. Also it gives Perino celebrity status don't ya know???

[lunchlady]

Reminds me of Ann Coulter's black cocktail dress and her other displays of her bod. I preferred it when Republican women wore tweed up to their necks. Maybe they want us to not think they're dykes.

[madisonhack]

To her credit, Dana looks great compared to that beast Coulter and the very tired black dress that makes her look as if she just crawled out of someone's hotel room.

[lizr]

hey- we wouldnt claim her!

[Martymar74]

This young woman has let her blind ambition make her a pawn for one of the most corrupt administrations in U.S. history. Sometimes I wonder if the elite class pick people like her from non-aristocratic backgrounds (She went to Colorado-S­tate-Puebl­o) because they know they can be manipulated and they want to move up in society at all costs. D.P. may not be a bad person, she just suspended her morals temporarily for her own personal ambitions.

[AbbieHoffman2]

Dana Perino is a charming, intelligent woman. She's also very attractive. To bad she had to work for the slimey people. I hope the stank is out of her clothes soon.

[roblabrousse]

She didn't "have" to work for slimy people. SHE CHOSE TO WORK FOR SLIMY PEOPLE. She got great coverage and status over the time she worked in the White House This was a deal made with the Devil for a devil and a by -product of notoriety for Dana Perino. No one gets to her level by accident !!!!

[madisonhack]

What makes you think she is intelligent? And how do you define charming? Neither of us can make that judgment, except by what we see on television. She did what she was hired to do, which is to obfuscate Bush's agenda - not to inform us as to what was really going on.

[superduperandy]

Uh huh? And what I just saw on televesion was a charming and intelligent woman. So she's been required by her position to misrepresent facts for some years, so she IS one of the bad guys, but give credit where it's due. How do you suppose we make the determination of "charming and intelligent" - disect her brain?

[applescruff]

Why would you assume she is intelligent? Nothing she has displayed indicates that this is the case.

[carlgt1]

I don't quite get what's so gushingingly charming & intelligent about Dana Perino.

Her job is like any corporate shill press officer, i.e. the talking-head who had to smile for the cameras for Exxon after the Valdez spill etc.

She'll leave in a few weeks and go into that sort of job. Count me unimpressed.

[lunchlady]

Dana looks like a Hollywood version of a GOP First Lady.

[IAmNoOne]

She's gorgeous!

[billw8017]

And the GOP first lady she reminds us of (red dress and all) is Nancy Reagan -- the Hollywood version of Dana Perino.