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Perino: No Terrorists Attacked America On Bush's Watch
Ben Frumin | November 25, 2009, 8:31AM
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Former Bush press secretary Dana Perino made a rather odd claim on Sean Hannity's Fox News show last night. Talking about how we ought to label the deadly shooting at Fort Hood -- and implying that the Obama administration was shying away from calling it a terrorist attack out of political concerns -- Perino said no terrorists attacked the U.S. while President Bush was in office.
We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term. 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.
Perino's claim went unchallenged -- no one on screen mentioned the 9/11 attacks.
Here's the video:
Late Update: Perino responded on Twitter to the flurry of criticism over her remark.
Last night on Hannity, I obviously meant no terror attack on U.S. post 9/11 during Bush 2nd term. We have the tools, just need to use them!
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bluestatedon
November 25, 2009 8:44 AM
Well, of course it wasn't mentioned. Everybody at FoxNews knows that 9/11 occurred during Bill Clinton's Presidency. Or if it didn't it was his fault anyhow. Or something like that.
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FebM
November 25, 2009 10:23 AM in reply to bluestatedon
But 9/11 does not count, not at all!
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jzap
November 25, 2009 5:13 PM in reply to FebM
That's because Dana Perino knows 9/11 was an inside job.
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expatjourno2
November 26, 2009 12:02 AM in reply to jzap
Exactly. Carried out by Republican operatives pretending to be terrorists.
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GregorZap
November 26, 2009 2:35 AM in reply to expatjourno2
Maybe it was Republican terrorists, not "acting" like terrorists, but actually being terrorists.
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MarinCat
November 25, 2009 11:15 AM in reply to bluestatedon
And it wasn't Clinton's fault it surely was Jimmy Carter's. Nuf sid.
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lyleleander
November 25, 2009 11:34 AM in reply to MarinCat
Actually, it was LBJ's. Get your fact's straight.
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jeffgee
November 25, 2009 12:03 PM in reply to lyleleander
Go back farther. It was FDR's fault.
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JNagarya
November 25, 2009 12:14 PM in reply to jeffgee
FDR did plant the seeds for it by saving capitalism from its unregulated self.
Damned Commie-socialist-fascist-Marxist Muslim-Muslim Marxist!
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kenga
November 25, 2009 2:23 PM in reply to JNagarya
KHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!
/jamestkirk
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LeeJo
November 25, 2009 4:35 PM in reply to jeffgee
If Thomas Jefferson had stuck by his guns and wiped out the Barbary Pirates when he had the chance we would not be looking at this long line of
Democrat Presidents who have hosted terrorists. At least President Bush protected the most sacred soil of Texas
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diamondjoe
November 25, 2009 4:53 PM in reply to LeeJo
If by 'protected' you mean pumped out and burned...
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expatjourno2
November 26, 2009 12:04 AM in reply to LeeJo
Exactly. But Thomas Jefferson was too much of a peacenik to nuke them.
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Cal Gal
November 26, 2009 2:15 PM in reply to LeeJo
Funniest snark yet. You're GOOD at pretending to be a numbskull.
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Turnaround
November 25, 2009 4:55 PM in reply to MarinCat
Oh give me a break. Everyone knows Algore invented The Terrorist.
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Turnaround
November 25, 2009 4:56 PM in reply to MarinCat
Oh give me a break. Everyone knows Algore invented The Terrorist.
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rbe1
November 25, 2009 11:36 AM in reply to bluestatedon
No, actually 9/11 occurred on Obama's watch. Bill O. or Hannity will get to this real soon, I'm sure.
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JNagarya
November 25, 2009 12:17 PM in reply to rbe1
With film proving it, no doubt.
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ohyeathatsright
November 25, 2009 2:58 PM in reply to bluestatedon
Just like the economic collapse somehow being Obamas fault. At least their true to their untruths.
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Overreach THIS!
November 25, 2009 5:25 PM in reply to bluestatedon
Good one, good one, good one!
Tools? Yeah, we got us some tools alright!!
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M.L.H.
November 25, 2009 8:45 AM
Obviously, every president gets a mulligan. Or is it just the Republicans?
Also, I keep forgetting. Was the anthrax scare a terrorist attack or not?
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brianm0122
November 25, 2009 10:37 AM in reply to M.L.H.
No, no,
The anthrax attacks were against the press and democrats!! That makes it good, old-fashioned, commmon sense!!
Terrorism? Hardly!!
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JNagarya
November 25, 2009 12:20 PM in reply to brianm0122
Got that right. The doubters only need to recall that the Bushit gang couldn't even spell terrorist.
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Cal Gal
November 25, 2009 12:26 PM in reply to M.L.H.
If somebody AMERICAN does it, it's not a terrorist attack (see OK City). So the jury is still out on the anthrax.
And Richard Reed never made it here, or his wasn't an attack, or something. For not being a terrorist attacker, he sure has wrecked havoc on our airport security. But still ... in ReThug Cloud Cuckoo Land, these don't count.
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Capitalist War Machine
November 26, 2009 9:39 AM in reply to Cal Gal
Or the D.C. sniper attacks, too. Guess that doesn't matter either.
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hologram5
November 27, 2009 3:05 PM in reply to M.L.H.
No, the Antrax was not a terrorist attack because it came from our own labs.
Also I think Dana Perino's freudian slip is remarkable. Goes to show that these boneheads KNEW something was going on that tragic day but did NOTHING to stop it.
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Peter Principle
November 25, 2009 8:46 AM
Gee, I've always suspected that 9/11, the anthrax attacks and the D.C. sniper were all just figments of my imagination. And now I know.
Thanks for straightening me out, Dana.
(What's really amazing is that the OBAMA administration just appointed this clueless hack to some government broadcasting sinecure. Now that's change you can believe in!)
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Indie Pro
November 25, 2009 10:40 AM in reply to Peter Principle
it is weird he honored her with a position in his adminstration.
lay down with dogs...
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AJM
November 25, 2009 11:38 AM in reply to Indie Pro
I strongly object to putting the reality challenged in charge of anything.
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JNagarya
November 25, 2009 12:21 PM in reply to AJM
Except, of course, challenging reality.
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Dorn76
November 25, 2009 12:57 PM in reply to Indie Pro
It's not quite a position in the Administration to be fair. It's a bipartisan board. They needed some Republicans, not sure why they chose her.
And she's no dog. A bit of a fox actually.
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kenga
November 25, 2009 2:25 PM in reply to Dorn76
And that makes her a good fit for the henhouse, why, exactly?
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Indie Pro
November 25, 2009 3:59 PM in reply to Dorn76
the womann who dismissed torture as good and legal, and was the mouthpiece for the Bush Administration, yes what a super pick for this board.
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slb
November 25, 2009 7:01 PM in reply to Peter Principle
(What's really amazing is that the OBAMA administration just appointed this clueless hack to some government broadcasting sinecure. Now that's change you can believe in!)
You have got to be kidding me. What next, appointing Sarah Palin as goodwill ambasador to Russia?
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East Coast Aussie
November 25, 2009 9:15 PM in reply to slb
She did a good job in Nailin' Palin'.
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GregorZap
November 26, 2009 2:37 AM in reply to Peter Principle
Gee, now why didn't they hold the DC sniper as an enemy combatant and try him in a military court?!?! Hmmm, where's the outrage about that?!?
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am4
November 25, 2009 8:47 AM
And Obama rewards her mendacity: 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.
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mikedrevguy
November 25, 2009 10:13 AM in reply to am4
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
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JNagarya
November 25, 2009 12:23 PM in reply to mikedrevguy
Does the governing statute require a balance of Democrats and hacks, and stipulate that a hack must be replaced with another hack?
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semiotix
November 25, 2009 12:26 PM in reply to am4
Well, there are two ways to interpret this.
1) The Naderites were right all along--there really is just one giant Demopublican party, and the elite-est elites scratch each others' backs and laugh at the little people who think that there's a hair's breadth of difference between the Obama Administration and the Bush Administration.
2) Politics involves a certain amount of horse-trading, and since Dana Perino will be rich and influential for the rest of her life anyway, putting her on some random advisory board is worth it for the sheen of bipartisanship and goodwill it will generate.
I think Obama's made some mistakes, but inducing big-name Republicans to take truly small-potatoes jobs in his administration isn't one of them. Sure, it sticks in the craw (that could have been cushy resume-padding for a progressive!) but I'm sure it's worth it.
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Cal Gal
November 25, 2009 12:28 PM in reply to am4
I guess HE'S not prejudiced against good-looking conservative women.
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jzap
November 25, 2009 5:29 PM in reply to Cal Gal
What's that got to do with Dana Perino?
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Cal Gal
November 26, 2009 2:18 PM in reply to jzap
Well, *I* think she's good looking. Better looking than La Palin by far. But talk about Botox ... I think she's been permanently botoxed or else has some muscle disorder than keeps her from moving her face muscles.
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VivaAmerica!
November 25, 2009 3:14 PM in reply to am4
Who the hell cared about that position prior to her getting the nodd? Get real, folks. You don't like her, but lets stop the faux outrage over this nothing position.
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runfastandwin
November 25, 2009 5:08 PM in reply to VivaAmerica!
Because no matter how trivial, it should have been given to an Obama supporter. We all worked like stink to get him elected and this kind of shit is a slap in the face.
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ipwatcher
November 25, 2009 5:51 PM in reply to am4
Broadcasting Board of Governors governing statute:
(b) Composition of Board
(1) The Board shall consist of 9 members, as follows:
(A) 8 voting members who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
(B) The Secretary of State who shall also be a voting member.
(2) The President shall appoint one member (other than the
Secretary of State) as Chairman of the Board, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
(3) Exclusive of the Secretary of State, not more than 4 of the members of the Board appointed by the President shall be of the same political party.
See http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/22C71.txt
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nova voter
November 25, 2009 8:49 AM
weird way to say "thanks for the nomination, mr. president."
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am4
November 25, 2009 8:59 AM in reply to nova voter
He'll probably nominate her for the chairmanship now.
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hewhohasnoname
November 25, 2009 9:11 AM in reply to am4
Considering your penchant for hyperbole, maybe he should have nominated you instead. At least your statements aren't as tasteless.
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am4
November 25, 2009 10:02 AM in reply to hewhohasnoname
I volunteered for his campaign and raised $1000. He'd never nominate me. He only rewards his Wall Street friends and his opponents, not his little supporters.
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hewhohasnoname
November 25, 2009 10:59 AM in reply to am4
I didn't realize that volunteering for the campaign came with a poetic license to reinterpret the truth as you see fit...
I shouldn't deviate from the script though: "1) Obama has done nothing for the people. Preventing our nation from sliding into another depression doesn't matter; it doesn't help 'his little supporters.' I guess a collapse of our economy would have been better? [Oops. Must not question what everyone else is saying, even facts to the contrary exist.] 2) Obama's just like Bush, because we all know that Bush would be trying to implement healthcare reform or heading to Copenhagen for a climate forum, etc. (or would have won a Nobel Peace Prize for that matter). 3) Obama's a corporatist; he clearly only cares about Goldman Sachs, or at least that's the impression I get when I ignore his small business initiatives, tax cuts for the middle class, foreclosure assistance programs, new home buyers credit (the improving housing market doesn't matter), etc..."
Did I forget anything? I don't want to deviate from the script.
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rbe1
November 25, 2009 11:38 AM in reply to hewhohasnoname
Oh, for God's sake, get a life and calm down.
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hewhohasnoname
November 25, 2009 11:51 AM in reply to rbe1
Sure thing. I'll stick to the script.
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cawleybo
November 25, 2009 5:43 PM in reply to hewhohasnoname
Rahm? Is that you?
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am4
November 25, 2009 12:06 PM in reply to hewhohasnoname
It's so cute, watching you set up and attack your straw men.
Right....that was the choice: depression v. wholesale transfer of trillions to Goldman, J.P. Morgan, et al. In your intellectually dishonest mind there is nothing in between. You might be happy with the scraps when Wall Street gets the trillions, but I'm not. And I'm not the only supporter he's losing.
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JNagarya
November 25, 2009 12:26 PM in reply to am4
Strawman alert!
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CoffeeAcheiverMohammad
November 30, 2009 10:07 AM in reply to JNagarya
It's a false dichotomy, not a strawman. But point taken: these are not the only two options. AW4 also makes a good point: there is undoubtedly a stark difference between the decisions Obama has made so far and the kinds of decisions the Bush regime made.
I'm not 100% satisfied with Obama, but he's a damn sight better than any one of the candidates this last time.
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CoffeeAcheiverMohammad
November 30, 2009 10:09 AM in reply to CoffeeAcheiverMohammad
I meant to say hewhohasnoname has a point.
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Cal Gal
November 25, 2009 12:30 PM in reply to hewhohasnoname
What's your problem? You're reply makes no sense at all. I don't have a dog in your fight, but you really over-reacted to a little joke.
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UTMark
November 25, 2009 3:03 PM in reply to hewhohasnoname
Yeah, there's also the Supreme Court justice he appointed.
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JNagarya
December 1, 2009 12:46 AM in reply to UTMark
Yeah, but, Bushit speaks Spanish.
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Armageddon T. Thunderbird
November 25, 2009 8:53 AM
George Orwell would be proud.
Dana did not just read 1984....she lives it.
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JohnW1141
November 25, 2009 9:15 AM
Note to Dana; President Barack Obama has protected us from attack for a longer period of time than the Bush/Cheney gang.
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CityGuy
November 25, 2009 10:52 AM in reply to JohnW1141
Agreed. And even for Faux News, it's appaling that someone didn't at least mention 9/11.
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rbe1
November 25, 2009 11:40 AM in reply to CityGuy
There goes Murdoch's accuracy in the media program.
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JNagarya
November 25, 2009 12:29 PM in reply to rbe1
I thnk we should nominate FOX for the fiction Nobel.
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slb
November 25, 2009 7:06 PM in reply to rbe1
Yeah, but Hannity's not part of the news operation, remember. He does opinion. Therefore, he is free to lie without consequence.
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realist
November 25, 2009 9:16 AM
When Reagan is reincarnated and takes his rightful place atop a shining city on a hill of steaming dung, Perino will be at his right hand.
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JNagarya
November 25, 2009 12:28 PM in reply to realist
And Coulter at his other right hand.
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Cal Gal
November 26, 2009 2:20 PM in reply to JNagarya
Love it.
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rxbusa
November 25, 2009 9:19 AM
Not to worry. It's all been taken care of: http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/11/09/tomo/index.html
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verite
November 25, 2009 9:48 AM
Poor Dana. Didn't know about the Cuban Missile Crisis and now has forgotten about 9/11 AND THE ANTHRAX KILLINGS during Bush's term. Note how Sean Hannity doesn't call her out!
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GOPHater
November 25, 2009 9:48 AM
Pray for Perino: Psalm 109.9
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ru4862
November 25, 2009 9:56 AM
Perino? You know, I am not at all surprised by this latest comment. Remember she couldn't even recall the Cuban Missile crisis. I think her selection by president Obama to BBG says less about her and more about Obama. It is know wonder is poll numbers are on the decline. "He better wake up and smell the coffee soon."
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Cal Gal
November 25, 2009 12:32 PM in reply to ru4862
Hey, give her another break. She wasn't even alive at the time, which explains why I, for example, don't know anything about the Civil War.
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JNagarya
November 25, 2009 12:39 PM in reply to Cal Gal
And I've never even heard of the "War for Independence"/"revolution".
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VivaAmerica!
November 25, 2009 3:17 PM in reply to ru4862
Yes, I'm sure THIS is the reason why his numbers are down.
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cawleybo
November 25, 2009 5:46 PM in reply to VivaAmerica!
It's part of the pattern.
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palau
November 25, 2009 9:59 AM
I guess Perino agrees with me; Al Gore was President on September 11, 2001. Because of a poorly reasoned Supreme Court decision, however, Dana's boss got to occupy the White House.
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henk
November 25, 2009 10:07 AM
Geez, when will you people get it, 911 was not a "terrorist" attack it was a Political Opportunity!
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thomas1
November 25, 2009 11:22 AM in reply to henk
Ladies and gentlemen we have a winner
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mcrose68
November 25, 2009 10:19 AM
Anthrax attacks weren't a terrorists attack.
Obviously, since Bush always gets his terrorists and we never identified who perpetrated the anthrax attacks - therefor there was no terrorist no terror and not attack.
And the sniper shootings . . . well, that wasn't a terrorist attack because. . . well, because that would contradict Perino and she kind of hot, so I wouldn't do that.
I'm not so amazed that the Republicans live in a fantasy world, but when their own narrative contradicts itself several times within the same sentence. . . I begin to wonder how these people make it out of the bathroom in the morning.
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George C
November 25, 2009 10:26 AM
Except for that unfortunate incident, there were no assassinations right after the Civil War.
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pmb50
November 25, 2009 10:26 AM
OJ thinks he never never killed two people either
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ilovebacon
November 25, 2009 10:33 AM
When the "Christian" anti-abortionist murdered the doctor in church in Dakota a few months ago, was not that terrorism? If a Muslim murdered a doctor for religious reasons, TERRORIST would be screamed on all the headlines.
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JimmyBobby
November 25, 2009 10:50 AM
No, Dana. Only once. And we've been completely whacked out ever since. Bush's RESPONSE to being attacked gave OBL exactly what he wanted, to sow confusion and fear in America. It's still working today, we look at EVERYTHING in light of 9/11 - it's like we've got Rudy Giulani inside our head. If Bush had taken out OBL and treated the whole thing as an act of criminals, we'd be over it like Europeans. But no.
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(RxR)
November 25, 2009 11:11 AM in reply to JimmyBobby
twice. people forget the anthrax mailings as well. lone wolf or terrorist? you decide.
i bet she can prove napoleon won at waterloo as well.
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Hussein Stemper
November 25, 2009 11:50 AM in reply to JimmyBobby
Nailed it...
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gene1138
November 25, 2009 11:11 AM
Uh hello 9/11/2001. Oohhh right the swearing in of the 43rd president was on 9/12/2001 not 1/20/2001. Silly us fact based lifeforms.
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barnacle
November 25, 2009 11:11 AM
One word response, begins with c, rhymes with punt.
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Cal Gal
November 25, 2009 12:36 PM in reply to barnacle
Oh come on. You're just the typical liberal who's prejudiced against good-looking conservative women like her and Carrie Pre-Jean.
More like starts with a d and continues with um ....
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gene1138
November 25, 2009 11:20 AM
Someone needs to setup a website with a Keeping Us Safe clock ticking up time for President Obama juxtaposed with the clock for W stopped at 7 months 22 days flashing obnoxiously in red.
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agostage
November 25, 2009 11:24 AM
Delusional
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JNagarya
November 25, 2009 12:44 PM in reply to agostage
I don't think she's mentally ill. I think she's a liar.
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Russell
November 25, 2009 2:44 PM in reply to JNagarya
Liar...no, I'd say just plain ol stupid!
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tomjuarez
November 25, 2009 11:27 AM
The look on Varney's face when she says it is priceless. He even has to cover his mouth for a moment before he decides to go ahead and roll with it. What a bunch of whores.
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Mr.E.
November 25, 2009 11:44 AM
News Flash, Perino recommends new Afghanistan commander, George Custer.
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quintiliusvarus
November 25, 2009 11:48 AM in reply to Mr.E.
sorry, i was busy reading about the administration refusing to sign the landmine treaty and the president preparing to send more troops into Afghanistan... were you saying something?
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jimlscotland
November 25, 2009 12:06 PM in reply to Mr.E.
Yes - Perino is still playing Custer's last hand. He had Aces full of nines but lost to the Lakota-Northern Cheyenne forces who held four Jacks. She was playing two deuces and Hannity did not even call.
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quintiliusvarus
November 25, 2009 11:50 AM
bah - this reply system is screwed up
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jeffgee
November 25, 2009 12:07 PM
Shorter Hannity/Perino: historians will need 50 years to fully evaluate W's 2 terms but Obama's already deemed a failure after only 11 months in office
Still makin' their own reality.
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JNagarya
November 25, 2009 12:11 PM
Oh, wow. Am I ever relieved! For years now I was convinced that the WTC towers were hit by airplanes.
My delusion is finally cured! Thank you FOX Noose!
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Dave Adams
November 25, 2009 12:14 PM
Does the failure to confront Perino on her whopping LIE contitute another firing-worthy Fox mistake?
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JNagarya
November 25, 2009 12:47 PM in reply to Dave Adams
Only if they ran footage, during her lie, which showed the WTC towers still standing.
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jeffgee
November 25, 2009 12:14 PM
Fox & the wingers are already blaming Obama for the next terrorist attack. Don't expect them to rally the nation then around the President the way they did in 2001. I'd expect calls for impeachment from them before the dust settles.
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JNagarya
November 25, 2009 12:16 PM
Is Perino gonna be fired for her mistake?
Will Hannity be humiliated again by being forced to apologize?
You decide.
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Cal Gal
November 25, 2009 12:23 PM
Well she OBVIOUSLY meant there were no terrorist GROUND attacks. She just left out one little word. Give her a break. She wasn't even press secretary then. That was Clinton's fault. And um, um ... look over there!
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JNagarya
November 25, 2009 12:50 PM in reply to Cal Gal
Ya know, the more ya think about, the more ya realize she's right.
No one threw any Molotov cocktails.
No one attacked with bazookas or tanks.
No one flew helicopters into buildings.
No one lit a match and publicly burned their credit card . . .
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SkippyFlipjack
November 25, 2009 2:37 PM in reply to Cal Gal
And she left out "ON U.S. SOIL." This was a terrorist attack on our troops. Over the last six years we've endured countless terrorist attacks on our troops overseas. But having it happen at home? COMPLETELY different. Or something like that.
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gharlane
November 25, 2009 1:13 PM
How weird, that all those airplanes went off course in the same 2-hour period of the same day, autopilots on the fritz, strange diseases affecting the cockpit crews, and they just happened to hit the WTC and the Pentagon. Coincidence, Dana, I'm sure. But terrorism? Why, of course not.
Oh, and that whole War On Terror thing? Boosh was planning that anyway. He just happened to start talking about it on 9/12/01. Pure coincidence.
It was also pure coincidence that Boosh decided to attack Afghanistan and did so a couple of weeks later. Must have been some other reason than terrorism and harboring OBL. But then, since there were no terrorist attacks on the US under Bush's watch, then OBL never really did anything to us anyway, did he? At least not on Bush's watch.
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Kuyleh
November 25, 2009 2:27 PM
Ummm...Excuse me? Who was President on September 11, 2001?
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Official A
November 25, 2009 5:35 PM in reply to Kuyleh
Dick Cheney?
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DancingBear
November 25, 2009 2:32 PM
"I hope they're not looking at this politically".
Absolutely right, sure would be sad for anyone to treat a tragedy like this as a political opportunity.
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vueartist
November 25, 2009 2:34 PM
Denial, denial, and more denial !!! Does anyone expect anything but revisionist, brainless comments from a Bushie representative?
But the really big question is whether Rupert will fire Hannity and company for allowing this big lie to stand unchallenged? I bet not - I'll also bet they don't even acknowledge this falsehood. And that, my friends, is the way it is on Fox News!!!
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Dersu Uzala
November 25, 2009 2:41 PM
The truth at last. 9/11 or the anthrax attacks weren't terrorist attacks, because...because they were inside jobs /s
Poor Dana, she couldn't keep it bottled up any longer LOL
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tiowally
November 25, 2009 4:15 PM in reply to Dersu Uzala
When attacks are orchestrated by a Dick named Cheney ... it's time to attack Fiji!
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GBHeron
November 25, 2009 2:50 PM
Don't you all remember that 9/11 INVENTED terrorism, and so how could 9/11 have been a terrorist act when on 9/11 terrorism didn't exist yet? It's only in the POST-9/11 world that terrorism exists.
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Informis
November 25, 2009 2:51 PM
Interesting to see how, when it comes to terrorism, the religion behind your actions makes all the difference.
Nidal Hasan: Murdered several people at Ft. Hood; motivated by radical Islamic beliefs and clerics. Status: terrorist.
Scott Roeder: Murdered George Tiller; motivated by radical Christian beliefs and clerics. Status: criminal.
Terrorism as a classification of action is terribly unexamined.
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cuchulain
November 25, 2009 2:55 PM
Perino forgot the slaughter at Virginia Tech as well. That happened on Bush's watch.
I feel dirty now. Talking about these things in a tit for tat way is pretty ugly. But the right has an almost insatiable desire for ugliness, distortions and lies, and I don't think it's a good idea to just let them get away with it. The right has always been more interested in scoring points than solving problems.
We, OTOH, want to solve problems. Obama, how on earth could you even consider Perino for a job?
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CVille Dem
November 25, 2009 2:59 PM
I'm wondering here -- if they don't consider any of the attacks to be from terrorists, why THE WAR ON TERROR? And why are all those people down at GITMO?
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ohyeathatsright
November 25, 2009 3:00 PM
BECAUSE BUSH WASN'T WATCHING!
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JohnW1141
November 25, 2009 3:30 PM
I thought FOX had a new accuracy policy with punishment for those who break it.
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DestinyofAmelie
November 25, 2009 3:54 PM in reply to JohnW1141
Very astute. Wish they actually followed through. I think that was a warning to the little people behind the scenes, unfortunately.
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JohnW1141
November 25, 2009 5:13 PM in reply to DestinyofAmelie
Destiny,
so FOX front liners Hannity and Beck can continue spewing world class BS, gotcha. :-)
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Rich in NJ
November 25, 2009 3:31 PM
Brain damage or a liar or just stupid?
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jimson
November 25, 2009 3:58 PM
Well duh. . . they've been blaming Clinton for 9/11 for so long that they have come to think it happened on his watch.
They have also been ravenous for there to be an attack under Obama's watch, so even if this guy was schizophrenic and firing at imaginary demons they'd be calling it a "terrorist act" simply because he has an Arabic name.
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jeffgee
November 25, 2009 4:01 PM
Another way to look at it is that Bush wasn't REALLY elected until 2004, unless you count the 1-vote majority that gave him the job in 2000, so, by this definition, there were no terrorist attacks in Bush's term.
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hey norm
November 25, 2009 4:14 PM
re: the update...
so the bar for republicans is no attacks in the second term. that clears up everything. i guess that means biden is allowed to shoot one lawyer in the face too...right? and obama can allow one prominent city to be decimated by incompetence.
anything else i'm missing?
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Rionn Fears Malechem
November 25, 2009 4:18 PM
0:35 I don't know, all of their "thinking" that goes into it.
It seems rash to be reflexively anti-thinking. And is that the same Stuart Varney TPM was calling a former CNN talking head earlier? I guess that he's a current 'Fox Business News' talking head answers the question why he's acting crazy.
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sisterkevin
November 25, 2009 5:00 PM
The girl is soooo silly. that's like saying when I reached the age of consent I killed someone, but since then I've kept it all under control. I'm cured now - so let it go.
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runfastandwin
November 25, 2009 5:15 PM
What is it with these dimwits, it's always the day after when they say, no, this is what I MEANT to say. What a load of crap. Then she compounds it with the twitter which ignores the anthrax attacks. Recall the US MAIL was stopped over that, clearly it was big terrorist deal at the time, coming so soon after the WTC was attacked. Yet she blithely ignores it TWICE so she can try and bash the Democrats over the Fort Hood tragedy. What a boob she is.
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runfastandwin
November 25, 2009 5:18 PM
You know I just watched this again and I realized these people are beneath contempt. The fact that Rupert Murdoch sees fit to give them a platform tells me he NEVER should have been granted citizenship. It's plainly disgusting how they are using this tragedy to try and make some kind of political point. They suck.
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TPMReaderHG
November 25, 2009 6:23 PM
Well, of course Bush’s watch didn't start until 9/12/2001, because up until that point he was just working on his golf swing, eating pretzels, and going on vacation.
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SteveGinIL
November 25, 2009 6:49 PM
9/11 was born in Kenya. Lou Dobbs has the documents to prove it.
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Reefdancer
November 25, 2009 7:49 PM
"Obviously" you meant you're an idiot Perino. You are so brainwashed. Obama should hire you to scoop Bo's poop, you're that stupid.
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Bugmenot
November 25, 2009 7:53 PM
Ahem. John Allen Muhammad + Lee Boyd Malvo in 2002, the former of which (pun not intended) was executed 15 days ago.
(TPM wouldn't let me create an account, so I'm using the bugmenot one)
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driftless
November 25, 2009 11:57 PM
maybe she didn't get the memo
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driftless
November 25, 2009 11:58 PM
maybe she didn't get the memo
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UTMark
November 26, 2009 12:58 AM
Perino: Almost a year after Bush slunk out of office, I still haven't been able to get my head out of my ass.
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Antineocon
November 26, 2009 11:55 PM
Wait a minute! Wasn't the September 11, 2001 attack on the WTC the second one and not the first that Dana ignored?
I guess since the Repugnicants didn't learn anything from the terrorist attack on the WTC that was during the Clinton administration, they probably continue to be too ignorant to take responsibility for the 9/11 attack during "W's" reign of stupidity.
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Tosh
January 30, 2010 1:27 PM
bush was clearly not watching http://www.m65jacket.com
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