Perino: No Terrorist Attacks In America Under Bush (VIDEO)

Dana Perino, recently nominated by President Obama to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, made an odd claim Tuesday night.

On Fox News, the former press secretary suggested President Obama was playing politics by refusing to describe the massacre at Fort Hood as a terrorist attack. "We should call it what it is," she said.

"We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term," she told Sean Hannity. "I hope they're not looking at this politically. I do think that we owe it to the American people to call it what it is."

Watch:

For those with memories as spotty as Perino's, President Bush took office on January 20, 2001. On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the U.S. in terrorist attacks coordinated by al-Qaeda. Five people were killed later that year in the anthrax attacks.

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[zeus]

01:50 AM on 12/31/2009

Revisionis­m is a wonderful thing and truly helps you sleep at night.

[Pasqualina Farrar]

05:36 AM on 12/24/2009

If You Are Causing The Problem, It Is Insanely Easy To Blame Somebody Else.

[AKWrongWinger]

08:43 AM on 11/30/2009

You may want to go to the doctor and have him or her pull you head out of your A$$!

[lesterbud]

08:36 AM on 11/30/2009

She needs to go back to being a boat-show model.
She excels at selling cr@p that people don't want and don't need.

[Vyvjala]

04:42 AM on 11/30/2009

Once again, this woman's head whistles in a crosswind.­..........­...

[AgnesBankhead]

03:39 AM on 11/30/2009

if you have ever seen a building brought down in a demolition­, you could be forgiven for thinking just how accurate perino's statement is .........

[Congzilla]

09:05 AM on 11/30/2009

100% true. 911 was an inside job.

[Mondayboy]

03:02 AM on 11/30/2009

Effing liar!

[dadw5boys]

08:36 PM on 11/29/2009

Bushco still thinks they can rewrite history just by telling lies till everyone forgets the truth ?

[proshot22]

07:33 PM on 11/29/2009

Her comments make me more angry than anything. Everyone around Bush was this convoluted and blind to reality the past 8 years. It would have been better if she said there were WMD's in Iraq, or Katrina was just a light rainstorm, or 4,000 soldiers are just taking a nap.

[TheZillow]

06:18 PM on 11/29/2009

Maybe what she said was partially true. After all Bush was not watching in the summer of 2001!

[hypnotoad72]

10:35 AM on 01/31/2010

*Zing*, nice one and VERY apropos!

[Miketou]

04:43 PM on 11/29/2009

What does this woman think 9/ll was--a tea party? Definately not the brightest penney in the wrapper!

[mancoff]

12:25 PM on 11/29/2009

Typical of the Republican strategey since they left office. Just say something, anything no matter how big the lie, there is always some people stupid enough to buy it. If you just keep repeating it over and over, it will stick in some whcko's head. Indoctrina­te the uninformed and those who love to hate by just lying over and over and over. This is how Beck, The Chenney's, Hannity, Limbaugh and the Republican Senators operate. You notice no one corrected or challenged her comment on this Fox interview. Disgusting­? The media consistent­ly let's them get away with it thus further "duping" the country with this kind of crap. If Obam'a press secretary ever said something so false it would be on all the cable news programs and talked about by pundits for weeks and weeks and weeks.

[EagleFliesInSky]

12:21 PM on 11/29/2009

Earth to Dana.....

[LittleRedHenSez]

11:47 AM on 11/29/2009

Like most Republican­s do, she gives me vertigo.

[Layman23]

11:32 AM on 11/29/2009

That Bush's watch never worked, just like most of his administra­tion.