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Poor Dana, I'm sure back in college on her debate teams, she never figured she'd have to defend a war-criminal and his outlandish, coke-laden claims.
The pretty litttle spokesliar for the President can't handle the hard questions that blow apart the scenarios that W presents as possibilities.
Good job busting the mythology Eric.
In one way one does have to feel badly for poor little Miss Draina having to create plausible rationales to explain the bleating of her boss, the ever deficient DuMbya. But then again she did choose to accept the role, so the least she could do is add some THOUGHT to that which she is presenting as the thoughts of the blowhards she so fervently serves. Fervor is a must-have personality deficiency needed to be considered for any position in this administration, as is the ability to suspend, entirely, rational thinking, science, simple logic, etc. Those qualities are decidedly unwelcome in an administration that derides intellect, but craves power- at ALL costs.
Epic Victory! You bring great credit to Rawstory.
We are all being lied to. Is that what the government is supposed to do? You know, we pay Purina's salary. She lies to us and we pay her for it. Exactly just who is the sucker in the deal?
looking a little raggy today Dana, is all that monkey spin getting to you?...
Bravo, Eric. You are showing the press corpse how their job should be done. I wonder if Dana will ever call on you again?
Man, I feel as though I've actually contributed to the betterment of society. Very nicely done.
Hooray! Go RAW! Not an AP story, not a Reuters story.... One of your OWN talking straight to a Spinmaster-wannabe. Score another one for the good guys.
XOXO
Standard GOP tactic....marginalize the on-target questions--and the people asking them--especially those questions which are "untidy" and overly complicated for the Sprecherinista to field. Looks like Bush wasn't the only one who squandered an education.
god, I can't wait to have these unpatriotic losers off the taxpayer dole. Neither can 3/4 of the Army.
Uh oh, does that she read my comment when I said in the past that she's really hot and should compete to be the next Miss Universe? I'm blushing now.
Ari 'Watch What You Say' Fleischer would not have allowed himself to be rudely interrupted so many times, and rudely interrupted by a member of the 'soft shoe media' to make matters even worse.
Yes, one can argue that interrupting J. Goebbels would have been a good thing.
On the other hand, I don't think that Bonnie would have become a killer without Clyde giving her the validation (and the pistol).
It's a shame that Perino isn't working as a mouthpiece for Norman Finkelstein, instead.
What a peculiar home life Dana Perino must have. Imagine having her for a mother, and asking her where your college tuition fund monies have gone.
"Gee mom, I'd saved up fifty grand by, er, mowing lawns, and now suddenly the joint account's closed and you're wearing that big new diamond stud in your nose....where's my cash?"
Or being the totally-bald Mr. Perino (husband of the press sec), and wanting to know why the bath tubs, the sauna and the marital bed's pillows are always carpeted with long, BLACK hairs following his regular businiess trips on behalf of the U.S. prison-industrial complex?
"Dana, dear....what are all these long , jet-black hairs doing tangled in YOUR boxer shorts and footie-jammies? I even found one in the Miracle Whip jar this morning!"
I bet helen was smiling...
I wish someone would ask her to find Cuba on a map.
Well fucking done. You almost make me feel like we have a free, adversarial media again.
Excellent work.
What a pack of liars.
What a country of gullible fools.
Four more years of this is what u.s. deserves. Unfortunately no one else does.
Why are all of the bloggers so much smarter than the AP, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, reporters? I was just wondering. Notice I did not include FOX. FOX does not have any real reporters!
Give her a break, she was up all night reading about the Cuban missile crisis. And did anyone ask her about THAT? No!
Perino is just mouthing the usual script from Bush-Cheney. Brewer, why don't you ask her next time how much of Iraq oil revenues are paying for the war and who actually is Al-Qaeda?
Al-Qaeda much like the phony war on terror is a boogey man used for all ocassions when needing war. Study the history of Al-Qaeda and you will find its roots in the Soviet-Afghan war where it was funded and created by our very own CIA! Don't believe me, look it up for yourself!!
Great job, Eric! Her attempt to spin bush's BS was laughable (surely she knows this...right?).
Nice of you to be so nice to Dana. However, that takes away the notion of personal responsibility that repblicans love for us here on the ground, but don't like too much as applied to them. Dana should refuse to tell lies and read nonsense in speeches. Colin should not have made the false argument to the UN. What happened to standing up.
Eric, the GOP alienated anyone with a brain...well, certainly before the end of the Reagan years. otherwise, good job - and I'm guessing it wasn't even that hard to do!
What I'm wondering is why they are letting people like Patreaus and Lieberman 'correct' people like CNN and McCain when they are mouthing the Al-Qaeda is in Iraq/Iran meme that the administration is pushing?
Wait, wait... if they're reading what Rawstory writes, are they reading our comments, too?
Hey Bush: I HATE YOU *middle finger*
Well done.
Purina was left in a tail spin.
If Zarqawi and bin Laden gain control of Iraq, they would create a new training ground for future terrorist attacks. They’d seize oil fields to fund their ambitions.
— George W. Bush, North Island Naval Air Station, August 30, 2005
Imagine a world in which they were able to control governments, a world awash with oil and they would use oil resources to punish industrialized nations. And they would use those resources to fuel their radical agenda, and pursue and purchase weapons of mass murder.
– George W. Bush, Military Officers Association of America, September 5, 2006
If we do not defeat the terrorists or extremists in Iraq, they will gain access to vast oil reserves and use Iraq as a base to overthrow moderate governments across the broader Middle East.
– George W. Bush, press conference, October 25, 2006
Each strain of violent Islamic radicalism will be emboldened in its efforts to gain control of states and establish new safe havens. The extremists would use oil resources to fuel their radical agenda and to punish industrialized nations and pursue weapons of mass destruction.
– George W. Bush, Remarks at Latvia University, November 28, 2006
I worry about a situation where if radicals took control of a country like Iraq, they would have oil resources to use at their disposal to try to achieve their objectives.
– George W. Bush, Associated General Contractors of America, May 2, 2007
If we were to quit Iraq before the job is done, the terrorists we are fighting would not declare victory and lay down their arms. They would follow us here home. If we were to allow them to gain control of Iraq, they would have control of a nation with massive oil reserves, which they could use to fund new attacks and extort economic blackmail on those who didn’t kowtow to their wishes.
– George W. Bush, July 4th Remarks, Martinsburg Air National Guard Base, West Virginia, July 4, 2007
To begin to bring troops home before our commanders tell us we are ready would be dangerous for our country. It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al Qaeda, risking a humanitarian catastrophe, and allowing the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq and gain control of vast oil resources they could use to fund new attacks on America.
— George W. Bush, radio address, July 14, 2007
Nothing would please me more than a sex scandal coming out on this lying bitch
Nice going. I hope she still calls on you next time.
And whatever it's worth to you, the more you can piss her off, the better. It brings me joy and reminds me of springtime.
-Wexler
No offense to Eric Brewer, but why is he the first member of the press to point out these absurb claims of Al Qaeda taking over control of Iraq's oil? Why haven't the other Jeff Gannon wanna-be's in the White House press corps asked the same question? Why is this coming from Raw Story instead of the Washington Post, or one of the networks?
Thank God for the internet, or we'd have NO real journalism in this country.
Brilliant! Kudos but I bet you don't get called on to ask questions anymore.
Keep up the good work.
Aww, how sweet. She read your complaints and magnanimously decided to call on you. She's a sweetheart.
Dana: I want to impregnate you with my Liberal Seed.
Now.. your starting to get it. Anything not in line with the current admins policies... IS "AL que whata?"
Al Qaeda stealing oil --
Maybe they'll pass the savings on to us by dropping the price.
Can't wait to see this exchange lead on the nightly news tonight. Oh, wait. Right. Well maybe it'll make the Daily Show. It's better to light a candle then curse the darkness. Keep it up Eric. Thanks!
I'll give Perino this much: she doesn't look a damn bit like Mona Charen.
What is really amazing is that this bitch has actually convinced herself she will not be held responsible for her lies and will not face procecution at the Hague.
Sign Me, Dana Dear,
Robert S. Finnegan
Southeast Asia News
seanews1@yahoo.com
P.S. I'll be there to cover your trial.
Bravo Eric!
Why indeed do so many questions go unasked? What a bad imitation of a free press the White House Corps provides. Bushco's secret, power hungry pack of liars ru(i)ning our country needs to be embarrassed. But what's more important is the rest of us see and hear of the hard questions being asked and BS responses. Kinda like what a free press is suppose to provide.
However I wouldn't count on Erick being called on any time soon. Maybe when the next bunch of secret , power hungry pack of liars occupies the WH. And Eric, I wouldn't count on being invited to McCain's barbecue this summer either....;>)
RIGHT ON ERIC!!! YOU MADE HER LOOK LIKE SHE WAS COVERING UP SOMETHING BECAUSE SHE WAS COVERING SOMETHING UP.
KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON, ERIC!!! YOU ARE THE KIND OF JOURNALIST THIS NATION NEEDS!!!
As ever any self respecting dictator will renounce any kind of opposition to diktats as the actions of terrorists, and renegades. Hence the pronouncements of al qexcuseada and terrorists galore.
Well done Eric, and commendations to Raw Story. This kind of interactions should be the norm, not the soft ball Gannon style aiding and abetting propagandists.
Finally, what is the ¨Context¨ in which we should read the repetitive pronouncements of the dry drunk in chief?
Would lying down on the side and reading these be of any aid for a better understanding?
Or is there a need for a total lobotomy before anyone can contextualize the aforementioned pronouncements?
God Bless You.
This goes back to Sununu's (sp?) difficulty explaining Desert Storm way back when. Remember when pressed, he finally blurted out, "Jobs. It means jobs!" if we didn't intervene.
Well maybe it's true, but if we never shine any light on it, how can we substantiate or refute it?
I'd like to see this examined more fully. To me, that would be more patriotic than wearing a flag lapel pin and singing God Bless America.
Poor poor little dana perianal. She needs to stop sucking george bush's cocklet long enough to use what little brain she has left.
BTW, when they are handing out the indictments as war criminals to those in the bush/cheney administration, they should be sure that little dana bitch is on it close to the top.
Congrats on grilling Dana, and, by proxy, our War Criminal in Chief, George Bush. Still, even war criminals tell the truth sometimes. And there may be truth in what Bush says about using oil money to fund the insurgency. I read recently that as much as a third of Iraq's oil is being siphoned off for sale in the black market, and that some of this money is being used to support the insurgents. Whether so-called "Al Qaeda in Iraq" is involved in this is anyone's guess. But it might be true.
I was an accredited White House correspondent. As an aside, I not only know that the official explanation for Guckert/Gannon is a complete crock, but that the White House press corps covered up on behalf of the Bush administration.
But that's not what I came to comment on here. My comment is about your the manner of your questioning. Why wouldn't you let Perino answer your questions before interrupting her?
If she was launching into a dilatory fillibuster, that would be one thing. But you never even gave her a chance. I never understood why so many reporters in the press room did things that way.
To me, it was one of several aspects of that whole system that made it seem like high school. Between the combative exchanges and the unwillingness of one reporter not to follow up on a previous reporter's unanswered questions, the White House press situation has long since been reduced to a parody.
You might glean from this that my time was brief at the White House. It took me about a month until I was agitating with my editors to get me out of there. It surprised them; they'd never seen someone turn their back on the White House beat.
Well done Eric. Probably too well done. Bet she won't be calling on you because I see what you write about and how you come here and you really want to have questions asked again.
Ex-WH Journalist
PLEASE tell us the details about Guckert/Gannon. What he doing someone in the White House? PLEASE tell us!
As usual, it would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic. Eric, it would be great if you give her more space to hang herself with her own words. No one can spin gold out of W's half-wit reasons.
As for exWH correspondent: A little more info on the Guckert/Gannon thing would be very welcome. You have to figure the press corpse would need to work overtime to bury a story like that -- male prostitute overnights in the White House and poses as reporter? Spitzer's story is a bore in comparison.
This is a total Raw Story exclusive.
Because no one else fucking cares.
On Jon Stewart tonight the Iraq correspondent for U.S. News said the soldiers are afraid we aren't paying attention. Go Raw! Keep asking! Shoot down such nonsense. We are paying attention and we do care what is happening in Iraq, no matter how much the Oaf of Crawford tries to disguise it.
We broke it. We bought it.
The Bush Administration has been able to get away with War, slaughter, criminal activity, et al because of the ignorance and inattention of the American people. That goes for our do little Congress as well. We are loosing our nation due to apathy. Now the media is picking our candidates for us and then picking them off until their choice is elected. The entire situation is beyond shameful.
Bush is right except there are a couple things he isn't being abundantly clear about.
One: al Qaeda is actually a joint effort of intelligence agencies from the UK, US and Israel.
Two: This is the most favorable condition possible as war is the health of the state and an sovereign and independent adversary is too unreliable to be of any use.
I'm pretty sure all of the following was written somewhere -- just not in the major media, because they didn't want anyone to know it:
Guckert/Gannon couldn't get regular credentials because his publication was unqualified by the standards of the congressional accreditors. This matters because, to get WH creds, you first need a congressional pass.
Gannon/Guckert got around this through admittance on a series of "day passes." Something like 200 of them. Folks, that's flatly unheard of. You simply don't get 200 day passes to the WH unless you know someone VERY high up.
Typically, a day pass takes a couple weeks to get. If it's issue to a reporter, it's issued as the result of a request from his organization. Which must be a recognized media outlet.
A typical example is if the Waterloo, Iowa Courier wants to send someone to Washington to cover the ceremony for the local Little League team that won the Little League World Series. They'll submit a request a couple months in advance and everything will be checked out.
The point being that day passes are one-offs. They are NOT something that gets handed out to the same person 200 times. Not ever. If that happened, that in and of itself is evidence that Gannon/Guckert had juice somewhere, pardon the pun.
Then there's the first-name questions from the press secretary and from the president. Those never, EVER happen by mistake. NEVER, okay? It was all planned, and every single person in the room knew it at the time, and so did everyone who either wrote about it later or ignored it later. Guckert/Gannon was wired in there.
Finally, there are the Secret Service records showing that he stayed overnight on several occasions. God only knows what that was about, but I assure you that no one EVER stays in the White House overnight just because they're a member of the media. Nor do those records get lost or confused. The place is tighter than a drum. Period, end of paragraph, end of story.
This thing didn't become a national scandal because the NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, USA Today, L.A. Times, and the TV networks decided that to cover it up. There is no other explanation. Anyone who has ever spent even a month on duty there know this.
As for Eric Brewer, all the best of luck, but as far as I'm concerned it's a foolish little game there. No one in America gives a goddamn about what the White House press secretary says. People stopped paying attention to that puppet theater a long time ago.
Let me say something else. The action in the WH press room is not in those exchanges from behind the podium. It's all about the off-the-record crapola that's done in the back offices.
That's how Gannon/Guckert got his access, and it's how the major media get their unattributed scoops, which are nothing more than spoonfed propaganda. It's hard to convey the extent to which anything from a WH correspondent is pure fiction until you've been in that facility for a while.
Raw Story, if you want to get value for your money, send your Washington reporter elsewhere and tell him to look for real stories. They are everywhere you look in Washington, but NOT in the WH press room.
Eric Brewer,
If White House reporters had been doing the kind of job six years ago that you did hear, we'd have a couple trillion dollars to spend on other things, and a million Iraqis would still be alive.
I can barely stand to watch TV interviews of politicians or even the debates because reporters ask questions that seemed designed to set up the pols for their talking points rather than extract any actual information from them or point out their lies.
Please, please, please keep going!
all the oil in the world is finite its the best drug right now grab you share before its over. thats what our nation is doing right now. both the reporter and dana are not speaking the truth. get the facts after the oil is depleted its back to the stone age unless we invest in alternative energy
If 9/11 is indeed an inside job that was (if anyone has read Project for a New American Century) made to order by Dick Cheney's people. Then the world , right now, is looking at the best scheming , most crafty and intelligent terrorist organization the world will ever see. All cloaked under the cover of government, that it just can't be possible, it's too crazy to believe.
Yet, when you put it all togther, there it is. The Columbian/Cocaine connections alone are a hint that government is capable of playing with the biggest devils, but under the cover of darkness. Even in the dirtiest of US government books, so long as it has something to do with war, then it is OK. Probably the most powerful terrorist organization the world will ever know is smiling back at us from the mafia chain of American main stream media brain drainers.
"The world has learnt a tough lesson, and it has been a lot tougher for those tens of thousands of dead, innocent Iraqis ... than for a few humiliated pundits. The correct response is not more spin but a sense of shame and sorrow." ,,, Andrew Sullivan, libertarian conservative author and political commentator.
Would all network and major newspaper reporters now beging taking instructions from Eric Brewer about how to actually ask a question at a White House press conference?
Absolutely beautiful! Of course, she'll never call on you again...
Bwahahaha, I love when the, very few, forthright reporters (The ones not being paid by political parties or lobbyist) Question people in the Bush administration. Most of the time their reply is, "I won't answer that", "You are getting that out of context", "That question cannot be answered at this time", or "Weapons of Mass Destruction".
I like your comments about "[Bush administration] running the risk of alienating anyone with brain", especially about the military guy in the end. Classic. Keep up the good work!
"Go back and read..." That's really a childish retort to put the burden back on the questioner when she doesn't have a clue of an answer. I've heard her use that one numerous times. She was taught to say that, you can bet.
great how liarchick
rolled her eyes like
she was tolerating you,
and the "whacked out" left,
but then couldn't answer the
question.
like a hot chick
tolerating an ugly guy
hitting on her.
but america is the hotchick with aids. and the "ugly" guy hitting
on her is justice.
LOL, never heard of you before. But i saw Keith Olberman highlight the exchange. Good job. Keep on keeping on bro.
To those wondering if this means that they read the comments section as well -
Of COURSE not! The comments are written by PEOPLE, and they've already said just in the last couple of days that they do not care about the opinions of the people.
Where's a monster-facial when you need one?
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Foreign policy for four year olds. Watching W holding forth about foreign policy is like watching a kid sitting down with crayons drawing pictures on a page.
How dare you ask Dana an off-message question that the American public would like answered? If you worked for an MSM company you would have apologized and toed the line long ago!
She's right, you know.
You purposely ignore most of what that statement was about and then think you did a good job? Really? Hopefully you don't hurt yourself patting yourself on the back, but comeo on! If the U.S. Pulls out, the most likely entity to take over the oil field is Iran so yes the most plausible scenario is a foreign entity taking over the oil fields. Who funds Al-Quaeda? Iran. Not sure what you missed, but you really need to pay more attention before you make yourself look more like a fool.
It is obvious to anyone who can tell the difference, the truth just doesn't matter anymore. Especially in the Whitehouse. Dick tells that to all his staff, he even has Pelosi running around now. Dick told you America, straight in your faces. You don't matter. Only results for his enterprising associates. The guy probably can't get over how easy it was for him to overthrow the country. The British government should take note.
jhgt: "you really need to pay more attention before you make yourself look more like a fool."
......................
*stifles laughter*
Great story, Eric - Bush is nuts, no doubt, and poor Dana Perino (and Tony Snow before her) that has to defend these nut-jobs. However, where in these stories does it say that "Al Qaeda is in Iraq, stealing OUR oil"?
The multi-nationals that carved up Iraq's oil ARE foreign interests. So the Bush mal-administration can hand Iraq's oil back to Iraq now since Bush cares so very much about Iraq retaining control of their oil. Of course Bush is just lieing again. I would congratulate you Eric but its your job to ask tough questions, thank you for doing it though, unlike so many of your peers.
Well played. Bravo! I've been reading a lot of Glenn Greenwald's disappointment in how our press selectively chooses to hold the administration accountable, for fear of upsetting people and, believably, kicking people out who don't lob softball questions. I would gladly give you a honorary Ph.D. to school some of the other idiots out there.
Running the RISK of alienating anyone with a brain?
Sir, you are too kind.
People with (working) brains abandoned Bush long ago, leaving him with that depressing 20-30% who think he is A OK.
In other news, this turns out to be (roughly) the percentage of people who fail to complete high school each year.
Coincidence?
I know Dana is cute but she should be confronted on every question asked. No one ever seems to ask the brutal follow up questions. Well,except this time with Eric. Bet Eric never gets called on again.
Isn't A-Q Sunni and Iran Shia? Why would Shia fund Sunni? They hate each other.
"Al Qaeda In Iraq" is a Karl Rove-invented brand name, sold for American consumption - a product, just like soap or beer - to be marketed and promoted.
There is no organization that created and called itself "Al Qaeda In Iraq" that was not invented and funded by the US government.
Think about it.
next time keep on it a bit more. i'm pretty sure you can make her cry if you try hard enough.
Next time ur there maybe you could ask why we're looking at $4.00 a gallon gas and Iraq is pumping oil past pre-war levels. Once that started we were supposed to have cheap fuel. Of course, I would nneeeverrrr presume that the administration is just making sure that oil companies would make huge profits at the expense of the little guy. I'm sure nothing like that even crossed their minds.
It's a very bizarre suicide. I know he had problems because he sued David Horowitz for slandering him as a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer and the courts ordered Riad to pay the all court costs to the tune of over $60,000. (article here:
http://www.ngo-monitor. org/article/
_court_dismisses_frivolous_case_against_ngo_monito
r_
but please remove the space before the .org)
What you noted about the hands.... It wasn't just his hands but his whole face
http://progressiveindependent.co...&
topic_id=83835
After police fished the body of Riad Hamad out of Lady Bird Lake in East Austin, Texas, they told the media the non-violent Palestinian activist and directing coordinator of the Palestine Children’s Welfare Fund had committed suicide.
“Right now, the indications are that this was not, there was not foul play involved,” police Sgt. Joseph Chacon told KXAN, never mind Mr. Hamad was found bound with duct tape. “Parkgoers who saw the body said the death did not look accidental. They said the man’s face was wrapped with duct tape, and his arms appeared to be tied in front of his body.” KXAN did not bother to explain how Hamad managed to wrap himself in duct tape.
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