Dana Perino

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Some Concern, Concerning Concern

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


If you spend any time watching Dana Perino respond to reporters on the matters that matter to the nation, you begin to wonder to oneself: "My God, is ...

Perino: I Didn't Know What The Cuban Missile Crisis Was

Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Still looking for that last-minute Christmas gift for White House press secretary Dana Perino? May we recommend a gift certificate for the forthcoming...

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: No Press Secretary Left Behind

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


If you were seven during the Carter administration, and are currently serving as White House Press Secretary, it should not be possible for you to tell the story Perino told this weekend.

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: What Didn't President Bush Know And When Didn't He Not Know It?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


White House Press Secretary has been away from the press room for a few days - probably detoxing - but now that she's back, she might want to find a q...

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Consistency Is All I Seek

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


One of our favorite things about Dana Perino is her tendency to assert, from time to time, that the administration is governed by certain global princ...

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: 'Resentments?' Are You Kidding?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Dana Perino, in her daily depiction of her boss' frame of mind, sure makes some interesting turns of phrase. And in describing Bush's meeting with fo...

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Perino Offers Comment On McClellan

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Today at the off-camera briefing, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said she has discussed Scott McClellan's forthcoming book with the president.

Judith Miller Comments On McClellan Revelation

Politico | Mike Allen and Michael Calderone | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Shortly after news of the McClellan excerpt broke, Politico caught up with Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper, two reporters who received information ab...

McClellan Blames Bush For Lies, White House Reacts

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


White House press secretary Dana Perino said it wasn't clear what McClellan meant in the excerpt. "The president has not and would not ask his spokesp...

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Not Much Of A Blackmailer

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


White House Press Secretary Dana Perino does a few things well. Why, just today, The First Post highlighted three of them. She can train dogs to mak...

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Scott McClellan Grabs A Seat At The Former-Bush-Aide-Turned-Author Table

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


McClellan stepped down in May of 2006, and has since penned a book that will finally allow him to do what he never could as press secretary: tell all.

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Or, If You Prefer, 'Devolving'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The state of emergency in Pakistan really has Dana Perino in a bind. She cannot just come out and tell the press the truth, which is that President B...

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Watch Out, Guatemala!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


In today's press gaggle, Dana Perino had some ominous words for the people of Guatemala and their new President-elect, Alvaro Colom: At 9:50 a.m. tod...

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Presidential Apparel

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Even as the crisis in Pakistan continues to unfold, Dana Perino is using her word-hole to utter some remarkable things, including novel positions on P...

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Long Distance Relationships

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Good news, everyone! After a few days of being harangued about how maybe he should respond to the crisis in Pakistan by picking up the phone and talk...

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Perino's Portrait of Presidential Power Pierced, Penetratingly

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Hoo, boy. When Dana Perino took back the press room podium from Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt this afternoon, she sure imagined...

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Fighting For Democracy Over There, In Lieu Of Having It Here

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


It is a comfort to note that if President Bush had his way, Pakistan, at least, would be a lovely place to live.

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Tortured Reasoning

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


So, there is a matter of great concern to the Senators that will have to confirm Mukasey that they'd like to see resolved. Perino promises that he will do so, but only after he's confirmed.

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: The Anatomy Of Obfuscation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Remember how back on September 16, 2007, a bunch of mercenaries-for-hire from Blackwater Worldwide shot up Nisoor Square, killing 17 people? That the...

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Perino Terms A Deliberate Attempt To Mislead The Press "An Error In Judgement"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


On Friday, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino had to take up the issue of FEMA's decision to stage a Potemkin press conference on the agency's re...

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The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Perino's Pseudo-Science Gets Frosted

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino made heads spin when she claimed that climate change offered the prospect of health benefit...

The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Dana Perino Reveals The Awesome Benefits Of Global Warming

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


While White House Press Secretary Dana Perino may lack the showstopping musical theatre skills of her doppelganger, Kristin Chenoweth, she nevertheles...

In Media: WH Press Secretary Slams New Yorker's Hersh, Won't Respond To Claims

Washington Post | Dan Froomkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


White House Press Secretary Dana Perino yesterday cast aspersions on investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh and his anonymous sources -- but refused ...

WH Press Secretary Slams New Yorker's Hersh, Won't Respond To Claims

Washington Post | Dan Froomkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


White House Press Secretary Dana Perino yesterday cast aspersions on investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh and his anonymous sources -- but refused ...

Dana Perino: WH Press Secretary Is "Wonderful Job"

Denver WestWord | Michael Roberts | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


I've heard one former press secretary at another agency say they'd rather die than have this job," says Dana Perino, the new White House press secreta...