Dana Perino Compares Claims Obama/Rove Equivalency Regarding Emails
Always willing to milk every possible drop out of an Obama scandal, even one of their own imagination, Fox News host Martha McCallum asks Bush's former Press Secretary Dana Perino--a highly impartial source, to be sure--if sending out "unsolicited" emails is a problem for the Obama White House.
Of course, the ever-so-concerned Perino thinks it is, and of course, thinks the Obama White House is getting a free ride on it:
PERINO: Imagine this: imagine if it was three years ago, and all of the sudden, people across the country who, unsolicited, started getting emails from Karl Rove. The media would have gone ballistic. They would have demanded answers, and I would have felt obligated to give some. And I think that standard should be….that the Obama administration should be held to the same standard. I know that if I all of the sudden started getting emails, I would wonder how did they get my email address. People get your email address through various ways, but when it’s the White House Political Advisor, it’s a little bit different and kind of creepy.
Honestly, I'm not sure what the big deal is. I got an email from David Axelrod myself. It was hardly unsolicited, as I know that the Obama administration kept their campaign email list, of which I was also a part. In fact, I was on McCain's email list as well, so I could keep tabs of what he was sending out to supporters. Methinks Fox News would not be so up in arms if President McCain had sent out an email to his supporters list.
But the attempt to claim that the mean ol' media would have beaten up on poor, persecuted Karl Rove for a similar infraction is laughable on its face. Karl Rove LOST FOURTEEN MILLION EMAILS which could potentially have implicated him in a whole host of infractions and the media yawned. Rove was improperly using his RNC email address to avoid the oversight law demands, and the media shrugged. Karl Rove had his stubby, sticky little paws in sandbagging Don Siegelman, the fired US Attorneys and the media didn't say boo. In fact, the media was so deep in the pocket of the Bush administration that they were part of the reason that the Valerie Plame investigation didn't go further than Scooter Libby.
So, yeah, Dana, let's try to draw an equivalency over Axelrod sending emails to a list culled from passionate supporters over a two year campaign and all manners of impropriety and illegality that Rove committed. It's so fair and balanced of you.
the GOP's human trampoline.
I have lawn furniture more intelligent than this twit.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Of this republican deceit and BS , but it is working on the people they wish it to..
But the most dangerous problem for Americans today is;; We no longer have an uncorrupted news media and the news media gets to say and publish any d... Docu Fairy-tale it likes to.
There is no punishment for any lie , deceit or miss-information that the news media publish or says today and they have become the trash magazines of yesterday..
But look at MSNBC stations... Meet the press with david gregory Sunday have been a continuation of their attacks on Democrats and Obama.. David thought he was a real journalist the way he attacks Obama and his policies while thinking he is cool..
Just still look at the news media , there are only around two or three spots which the Obama and the democrats get a fair shake.. Olbermann , Rachel and ED.
You have Joe Scarface which has a continuous attack on democrats , you Have Gregory which how in the h... he ever received his spot is beyond belief.
Of course Obama , Emanuel , Pelosi , Reid , Blue Dogs , Feinstein , Schumer , the centrists , Baucus and others are getting to be a disgrace to the democrat party.
Maybe that should read the democrat party is beginning to be a disgrace to their voters..
Olbermann has been attacked by sponsers because his attacks of the blanten lies , Deceit and BS coming from O'Reilly , Beck and others at Fox ???news??? How does one call this net worth a NEWS program..
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First of all, I thought I'd never have to hear Perino's strange nasal tones ever again! Bleh!
Second, check out this pile of crap from my Road Runner home page, a pile that is three pages deep!
http://www.rr.com/news/news/article/9009/8651...
Fox has a following. Debating the size of this following is moot, given that Murdock has the money to effect the kinds of parallel support represented by this egregious article on Road Runner! This is VERY scary to me! Murdock knows that the majority of us have been weaned on television and are easily swayed by what we see on the 'news' channels. Why do you think Billo and his ilk use sexual pics so frequently?! Why do you think they do negative reporting so overwhelmingly?! God help us all.
I'm sure people sit on her too.
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...she didn't even know the difference between the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis. She can't be expected to know the subtle differences in a situation like this.
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Dear Dana (Barbie) Perino,
NAME ONE PROSECUTOR WHO'S OBAMA'S E-MAILS GOT FIRED?
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
Maybe he's doing a Ron Howard with his baldness.
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They all seem to look alike -- bleached blond hair, lots of lip gloss. Perino, Coulter, Ingraham, Meghan McCain (though she has 1/2 a brain, at least) and the deceased Barbara Olson, and numerous of the Cluster Fux News "commentators." Stepford women who never met a lie they don't love more than human rights. Let's here it for the 1 celled thingies in petri dishes they want so badly to protect while 50 million of us go uninsured!!
"By words the mind is winged." - Aristophanes
I always thought the blond dye seeped into their porous brains.
“Why rob a bank when you can steal far more by owning one,” has taken on new meaning in 21st century America.
Imagine it if you were really competent enough to put together a compelling argument for your cause. You would not need three years to get your stupid shit together dear, you'd need three lifetimes.
GOP androids/airheads like you pretending like you are competent to comment on politics are a real pain in the ass for people like us that are actually intelligent enough to have a reasoned conversation.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Sez you...
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"Imagine this: imagine if it was three years ago, and all of the sudden, people across the country who, unsolicited, started getting emails from Karl Rove. The media would have gone ballistic. They would have demanded answers, and I would have felt obligated to give some. And I think that standard should be….that the Obama administration should be held to the same standard." The same standard that she just imagined? Let me see if I can top this: Imagine that people who lie hurt other people. Imagine that I lied while being a shill for the corrupt Bush Administration, and hurt people. The media should have gone ballistic, but as they are themselves just shills for their corporate media owners, nothing happened. Therefore, I should just shut up, before I accidentally tell the truth about something. God forbid the truth ever comes out. Look what happened to Valerie Plame. Did I say that out loud?
This was worth watching if only for the comedic value of Dana Perino commenting on the current WH Press Secretary not doing a good job of answering a question!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v9yUVgrmPY
She dresses just as schlocky as that creepy fertility dump on The View. She's so frickin family values... who raises her kids while she galavants all over the country from football camp to TV studio?
By the way, Perino is a dumb ass schlock.
Is a schlock a clock that keeps shi**y time?
I think I have one of those.
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You know, I think she is a total ass, too. But attacking her for being some kind of bad mother (as well as attacking her taste in clothing) is extremely sexist and offensive. Knock it off.
but that dress is truly a fashion faux pas.
I see no reason to believe she has miraculously come up with one in the last 8 months or so.
me-oww!
Did David Axelrod use official emails or his own account?
Did he have any part to play in the illegal data mining by the boosh junta?
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Is there anyone on the planet (aside from Fox newsies) that thinks this ditz (adj. fart in a windstorm) has ever had a clue what she was talking about?
is it illegal to send unsolicited email?
The Republicans made a great argument for retiring the filibuster in the Senate during the Bush administration. It's time to take them up on their offer and let this antiquated throwback to elitism die a quiet death, and get on about the business of passing reform.
Real reform would start with the elimination of first amendment rights for corporations, and an end to corporate money in politics.
Can you imagine what those blood sucking leeches - the ones who are supposed to represent us - would do if their cashcade dried up?
I don't like unsolicited emails from anybody - whether Obama or Rove.
Then don't sign up for Obama's email list. If you're on the list, it's not unsolicited.
What the fuck is Dana wearing? Are we in Star Trek now or something?
The Murdoch FOX Theatre still in full fascism mode i see.
Too bad about them. They went with the corporations but the people went a different way. FOX Theatre = fail. Murdock is not as smart as he thinks he is.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Darling Dana is still dumber than the sack of hammers with which most everyone would like to cave in her head just to shut her up.
Perrino, Malkin, Coulter, Bachmann, Palin....
Is every single hussy in the right wing nut collective really compulsively brain damaged?
Did Perino get some work done? Her face seems different. Nose is smaller, eyes wider... maybe my imagination.
I wondered what she needed money for so badly that she would whore herself to BushCo.
"The Tiny Dancer of Deception".Once again, creating controversy where there is none.Obama doesn't have any E-Mail adresses that were not freely given to him during the campaign.Or maybe they have forgotten the campaign,which was largely won or at least waged via the internet.But again that's common knowledge, not easily found or expressed on the faux news.
If Karl Rove was sending out e-mails it would be with someone else's e-mail account spreading a rumor.
She is a blonde wannabe, a liar and a fool the perfect republican!
republicanism is a mental illness!
When did Major Garrett become an investigative reporter?
I thought he worked for Faux Snews?
The no news all the time channel.
republicanism is a mental illness!
"I know that if I all of the sudden started getting emails, I would wonder how did they get my email address. People get your email address through various ways, but when it’s the White House Political Advisor, it’s a little bit different and kind of creepy."
Me too Dana, I always find info on current events to be creepy, especially from a site where I put myself on a mailing list. You neglected to mention that, didn't you Dana. I see you haven't lost your ability to freely lie and misrepresent.
A very nice overview of e-mail related BushCo perfidy.
Oh, and to all the
f*cking idiotsposters prating about her dress: STFU, you superficial wankers. There's enough real meat on this steer; why must you insist on chewing the bollocks?Comments are closed on this entry