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WTF … Perino: “We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term”

Dana Perino clearly has spent way too much time in the Bush Administration and speaking out on Fox News. You expect people to be mostly bigoted and generally dumbed down on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program, but this is ridiculous (even by Hannity standards). Perino, a former spokesperson in the most recent Bush Administration appeared to have momentarily lost her mind when she uttered the following stunning words during an exchange on Hannity’s show:

PERINO: And we had a terrorist attack on our country. And we should call it what it is. Because we need to face up to it so that we can prevent it from happening again.

HANNITY: I agree with you. And why won’t they say what you just so simply said?

PERINO: They want to do all of their investigations. I don’t know. All of the thinking that goes into it. But 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 we ought it to the American people to call it what it is.

WTF?

I am pretty sure her boss George W. Bush was president on Sept. 11, 2001 during the worst-ever terrorist attack on U.S. soil. As the Think Progress article points out, Bush Administration people have been fond of citing how it supposedly has kept America safe from terrorist attacks during the last seven years (of its administration) by conveniently starting history after Sept. 11, 2001. Also, the Think Progress article points out the Anthrax scare/attacks (which I had forgotten about). if Fort Hood was a terrorist attack then were the Anthrax attacks terrorist attacks? This is a combination of partisanship and the stupidity of labels.

All are terrible tragedies and people need to stop exploiting them for political gain.

Back to Perino … I hope Dana will at least clarify her remarks. Say it isn’t so, Perino!

It’s becoming hard to believe President Obama’s administration is offering her a job.

Hmm... maybe she is talking about President George H.W. Bush.

Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/25/perino-terror-attack-bush/

UPDATE: Someone mentioned the D.C. sniper killings. Was that terrorism?

Bill O’Reilly Lives Up To His Pattern Of Abuse

On June 6, 2009 I wrote the following in a blog:

Fox News conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly clearly has not mastered the art of the sincere apology. After O’Reilly lied about the coverage of the murdered Pvt. Long, he issued an apology. But, during his apology he took a cheap shot at CNN’s Rick Sanchez (who called O’Reilly out for his lies on the air). In other words, Bill O’Reilly(the hypocritical man who whines all the time about being smeared and about having his rights violated by critics) blamed the victim.

But, CNN should not feel too good about the apology. At the end of the clip, O’Reilly sets the stage for a Monday attack on CNN after he has a chance to regroup and dig up something else to use against the Fox News competitor.

O’Reilly lived up to that by going on a weak attack against CNN after being embarassed by being caught lying about CNN’s coverage of the murder of Pvt. William Long.

Like a child, O’Reilly came back after CNN this way:

“Let’s go back to Private William Long, assassinated last week in Arkansas by an American Muslim terrorist,” O’Reilly said near the end of the Talking Points segment seen below. “Now I criticized the network news and CNN for basically ignoring the story while ginning up the Tiller murder. As I reported last Friday, I did misspeak about CNN. They did cover the story day side, but their prime-time coverage was scant. In fact, up to the point where I mentioned the long Tiller comparison, CNN had devoted approximately 190 minutes almost three hours, more than three hours to Tiller while giving about 36 minutes to Private Long. That’s about a six to one margin. So there you go.”

Weak, weak, weak.

Once again, Bill O’Reilly exploits being busted for his lies about CNN to take another cheap shot at the assassinated Dr. George Tiller.

He’s still trying to cover up for his lies about CNN by re-framing the issue to try and make himself look like less of a liar.