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A Pre-9/11 Mentality

By Big Tent Democrat, Section War on Terror
Posted on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 08:48:30 AM EST
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Via Media Matters -- Bush Press Secretary Dana Perino -- "We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term."

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    So... what am I no seeing? (5.00 / 3) (#5)
    by desertswine on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 09:41:09 AM EST
    Wiki-

    On November 18, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Perino to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a board overseeing government-sponsored international broadcasting.

    On November 24th, 2009, while appearing on the Hannity show on Fox News, Perino drew ire by criticizing President Barack Obama for not labeling the Fort Hood shootings a terrorist attack, accusing the President of playing politics. She then stated there were no terrorist attacks on United States soil during the entirety of the Bush administration, omitting the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attack on New York city, which took place 9 months after President Bush took office.

    Maybe Obama recognizes a good propagandist when he sees one, I thought hopefully.
     

    More Likely (5.00 / 1) (#12)
    by The Maven on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 10:48:07 AM EST
    it simply is yet the latest recurrence of the sadly complete cluelessness of the current administration, promoting someone in a manner that effectively legitimizes one who seeks to do the administration malice, instead of marginalizing and denigrating such person.

    Yes, statutorially, Obama cannot nominate more than four members of the same party to the Broadcasting Board, but there was no reason to include Perino, who will doubtless continue to attack the administration and attempt to rewrite history at every opportunity.

    Perhaps the most charitable spin one could put on her nomination is that it's a further example of the soft bigotry of low expectations -- and she's fulfilling that standard.  Still, it's hard to conceive of a worse choice.

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    It's worse than that really (5.00 / 3) (#13)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 10:51:40 AM EST
    If Perino is going to go on Fox and lambaste Obama, she can not serve on the Broadcasting Board it seems to me.

    Obvious conflict of interest.

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    Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like (5.00 / 3) (#7)
    by steviez314 on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 09:56:11 AM EST
    the play?

    O.K, O.K. (5.00 / 1) (#9)
    by NYShooter on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 10:06:55 AM EST
    I can't believe I'm saying this, but...

    Don't you think its plausible that ("missile crisis? What missile crisis?") Perino actually meant:

    Brave warrior Bush, after winning a landslide election, and being confirmed by a unanimous Supreme Court ruling, strode into office, and was immediately attacked by evildoers from the Mid....mid.... wherever, due to prior President Clinton having completely dismantled our security forces, scrapped our military, and leaving us completely defensless.

    Our courageous President, George W. Bush, immediately leaped from his University lecture series, "the anthropological history of goats,....... for Kindergarteners,"  and single-handedly restored the military , upon which........

    We were never again attacked by terrurrists from.......over there

    C'mon, Ms Perino may have flunked out of Mensa, but forgetting 9/11?

    The point is that the Bushies (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by gyrfalcon on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 10:26:24 AM EST
    never have and never will acknowledge the slightest iota of responsibility for ignoring the warnings from the Clinton administration people that something like 9/11 was about to happen.

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    Oh, I agree (none / 0) (#11)
    by NYShooter on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 10:34:54 AM EST
    But I believe Perino's comment, in her zeal to skip over Bush's culpability in 9/11, really meant, "SINCE 9-11, we weren't attacked again."  

    Duplicitous? Of course. Unaware? I doubt it.


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    Yes, she was given that talking point (none / 0) (#14)
    by Cream City on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 11:06:36 AM EST
    some time ago, and it is so ingrained in her now that it is the answer no matter the question.

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    You probably don't know (none / 0) (#17)
    by jimakaPPJ on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 12:58:10 PM EST
    so let me tell. After reviewing what the Clinton administration had done Bush:

    add to the existing Clinton strategy and to increase CIA resources, for example, for covert action, five-fold, to go after Al Qaeda.

    So said Clinton's NSA, Richard Clarke.

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    BTW That was early spring 2001 (none / 0) (#18)
    by jimakaPPJ on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 01:05:12 PM EST


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    And how'd that work out? (none / 0) (#19)
    by ChiTownDenny on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 01:40:05 PM EST


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    You can lead horses to water but you (none / 0) (#20)
    by jimakaPPJ on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 04:46:06 PM EST
    make them believe believe the CIA.

    "At the special meeting on July 5 (2001) were the FBI, Secret Service, FAA, Customs, Coast Guard, and Immigration. We told them that we thought a spectacular al Qaeda terrorist attack was coming in the near future." That had been had been George Tenet's language. "We asked that they take special measures to increase security and surveillance. Thus, the White House did ensure that domestic law enforcement including the FAA knew that the CSG believed that a major al Qaeda attack was coming, and it could be in the U.S., and did ask that special measures be taken."

    Bush's NSA warns agencies.

    Now, should Bush have shut down the country?

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    BTW ... That was over a month before the (none / 0) (#21)
    by jimakaPPJ on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 04:47:45 PM EST
    famous PDB.

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    Yes! (none / 0) (#16)
    by ChiTownDenny on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 11:43:18 AM EST
    You hit the nail on the head.  

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    Now that is funny.... (none / 0) (#1)
    by kdog on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 09:01:30 AM EST
    even funnier is picturing the sheep "baaaaah-ing" in agreement in front of the boob-tube nationwide.

    Apparently Dana Perino (none / 0) (#2)
    by lilburro on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 09:13:32 AM EST
    read the Pet Goat for oh, 8 years?

    Ummm (none / 0) (#4)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 09:31:04 AM EST
    Waht 9/11 attack is more to the point, dontcha think?

    Ahhh (none / 0) (#8)
    by CoralGables on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 09:56:36 AM EST
    the ability to live in an alternate world where you create your own reality. Dana Perino has the skills. And congratulations to Sean Hannity for his Fox News skills showing his ability to keep a straight face and ignore the propaganda elephant in the room.

    to paraphrase Blazing Saddles:

    "Facts? We don't need no stinking facts!"

    I'm not a fan of blonde jokes (none / 0) (#15)
    by Cream City on Wed Nov 25, 2009 at 11:07:11 AM EST
    but Perrino has now become one.

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