Obama nominates Dana Perino? WTF

[Thickasabrick]

President Obama has nominated Dana Perino, George W. Bush's last press secretary and a frequent critic of the new administration, to a board overseeing government-sponsored international broadcasting.

Dana Perino was appointed late Wednesday to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG).

"I'm honored by the president's announcement and I'm looking forward to serving on the bipartisan board, if I'm confirmed," Perino said.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reportedly urged the Obama administration to appoint Perino.

By law, no more than four of the eight members of the board appointed by the president can be of the president's political party.

Since leaving office, Perino has attacked the Obama administration for calling out Fox News and for its handling of the swine flu epidemic, among other things. But she also called Obama a "phenomenal candidate".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/19/dana-perino-nominated-by_n_363560.html

Of all people, why her? Understand it had to be someone outside of the party....but Dana Fucking Liar Perino??

I can't wait to hear the apologists on this one.

[Zen Democrat]

1. Okay, so name me a straight-shooting honest Republican. One is as good as another, pretty much. n/t

[DainBramaged]

4. Scott McClellan

why not?

[Thickasabrick]

11. Good answer...I couldn't think of one. : )

[Sebastian Doyle]

68. Yeah, if he was going to appoint ANY of Chimp's former mouthpieces

Scottie the duck would have been better than too much cappucino Perino by far. At least he's shown a little bit of remorse for the lies he told while in the Fraudministration (even if it was just to plug a book)

[DainBramaged]

84. I would give HIM a position in the Administration

he of all of the Booshe scumbags had scruples......

[Skittles]

2. LOLOL

Obama is still kissing repuke ass I see

[CreekDog]

49. by nominating a Republican for a Republican slot?

need a better example.

[geek tragedy]

53. The reflexive bashers and whiners and Naderites don't need facts or logic.

They just need an excuse to come in here and vomit up their latest batch of Hate Stew.

[CreekDog]

65. People have reason to hate her, but everything should be viewed with proportionality

this is less important than closing Gitmo.

this is far less important than the decision on our two wars.

this is less important than the health care bill.

this is less important the the unemployment extension.

this is less important than judicial nominees.

if someone here is trying to *make* a convincing point about Obama's policies, the Perino pick for a ostensibly Republican slot is *not* the capstone to that argument --instead probably one of the above lines is.

so yeah, i have my complaints too, but Skittles and ShortnFiery, you lost me in overdramatizing this as the final straw.

[geek tragedy]

70. He has to pick a Republican and consult with the Republicans in doing so.

It's not like he's going to get a RINO in there. It's going to be someone who really sucks.

[NYCGirl]

3. Yep, she's one of a group that is always bipartisan:

Obama also nominated Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute leadership group and former CNN chief executive and Time magazine editor, to serve as BBG chairman.

He was one of eight people tapped to serve on the board, including Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and CEO Michael Lynton, Susan McCue, Michael Meehan, Victor Ashe, Dennis Mulhaupt and S. Enders Wimbush.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gpxs-A7_KeHNXFlGtrDZ-QzIw-Fw

[Skittles]

5. UM

there's a difference between "bartisan" and "kissing repuke ass"

[NYCGirl]

6. By law, no more than four members may be from the same political party

The bi-partisan board consists of eight members appointed by the president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The ninth member is the Secretary of State. By law, no more than four members shall be from the same political party. The president designates one member (other than the Secretary of State) to serve as Chairman.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasting_Board_of_Governors

[Skittles]

7. but DANA FUCKING PERINO?

she's a certified REPUKE WHORE

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. The sitting president typically defers the choice to the opposing party.

But don't let that get in your way.

[Thickasabrick]

13. What in the hell is that suppose to mean? Way of what? This is a

proven liar (we have the evidence on the TeeVee), she should have been the LAST person nominated.

[Skittles]

17. it's apologist thinking, TAAB

really bad too

[Name removed]

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[ShortnFiery]

30. THIS is indisputable evidence that we've FULLY morphed into a RW Duopoly.

Forgive me, but IMO, the political ruling class poster child for all that is "venal, arrogant and ignorant" is fully personified in - one each, Dana Perino. :(

http://www.counterpunch.org/kuzminski08182004.html

What is likely is the continued consolidation of the right-wing duopoly, most evident in the erosion of civil liberties and the war on terrorism. Somewhere along the line, America lost its political freedom without even realizing it.

The coming darkness is the eclipse of American political freedom and the unchecked reign of a venal, arrogant, and ignorant ruling class. Onerous as its depredations at home are likely to be, even more ominous is its immoral, illegal, and criminal policy of preemptive war abroad. There is no end to the war on terrorism, since a terrorist is increasingly defined as anyone who opposes the duopoly at home or abroad.

In a dark age, it is the responsibility of those who care about things like political freedom and democracy to struggle to ensure that those values somehow survive and are transmitted to future generations, even if they can no longer play an effective public role, much as the monks of the middle ages preserved the learning of antiquity for a better day. That day will come, but likely not in our time.

[CreekDog]

51. No, *THIS* is *NOT* indisputable evidence of a duopoly

oh, it might exist, but honestly, that this is the slam dunk evidence that proves it is so laughable as to make you look ridiculous in saying so.

a bad pick for a Republican slot on a board is not indisputable evidence of anything.

[ShortnFiery]

74. We disagree. eom

[Skittles]

14. TYPICALLY?

I'd say now is not TYPICAL - Obama needs to learn he should not GIVE A SHIT what fucking REPUKES, who have DESTROYED AMERICA, want or THINK they want

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. Yeah, but that wouldn't be change I can believe in.

That's the George W. Bush approach to politics.

[Skittles]

23. are you fucking KIDDING???

it would be a HUGE change and change for the BETTER

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

34. No, and it's a shame you aren't either.

Bush was phony, ineffectual, and ran roughshod all over everything thinking it'd get him somewhere and it didn't, and that's what you'd have Obama do.

A huge change and for the better?

As if you'd ever heard of the Broadcasting Board of Governors before this morning.

[Skittles]

42. you don't compromise with a rabid dog

these fucking repukes care only about their party, NOT AMERICA - there IS NO COMPROMISE WITH THESE BASTARDS and the sooner Obama realizes that the better off we ALL will be

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

44. Skittles, you've become a rabid dog.

And not in a good way.

Obama knows what he's doing. And a lot better than you will ever understand.

[geek tragedy]

54. Which is why Obama is in the WH and Skittles is banging away in ALL CAPS. nt

[ShortnFiery]

46. Skittles, you're OK by me.

However, the game is rigged and the coming darkness where the political power elites run the show has arrived. Come on over and vote with us for Kucinich 2012 as the poster below suggests?

It's bad and there's nothing that you and I can do about it ... well, save for voting our conscious until (if or when) the American People awake.

To put simply, I'm only voting for liberal/progressive democrats in the future. No more sacrifice and/or guilt trips for me. No more "corporatists" will get my vote. Now that's liberation. :-) :hi:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

60. Dennis Kucinich was interested in Ron Paul as his running mate.

How's that for liberal/progressive?

[geek tragedy]

62. Ron Paul rawkkks!!!! He's totally better than Obama.!!! nt

[Skittles]

92. all I know is we could have done much better than this

MUCH better

[CreekDog]

56. More than health care, good picks for the cabinet, appointing good judges?

come on.

your hyperbole is getting way ahead of you on this one.

[bikingaz]

95. Too much hyperbole on both sides

You would think that Chicken Little is employed by both parties.

Go back a few years and according to some of the posts, everything Bush did would lead to the end of the world.
If you listen to repubs, everything Obama does will cause the end of the world.

Get a grip folks.

[Johonny]

27. I agree

I respect Obama's handling but once again I doubt he will get any credit for once again governing exactly the way he promised too.

[Skittles]

43. CREDIT???

:rofl:

[icee2]

16. Besides, they both serve the same interest groups

Rich people and BIG business.

[Thickasabrick]

8. There are tons of republicans other than Dana Fucking Liar Perino nt

[NYCGirl]

20. Not any that were the first woman WH press secretary. NT

[Qutzupalotl]

26. First Republican woman WH press secretary.

Dee Dee Myers, from our party, was the very first.

[NYCGirl]

28. I stand corrected. Forgot about her. NT

[robinlynne]

22. ok. there are independents, there are other parties.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

29. Each post is subject to Senate confirmation. Trying to do an end run around the bipartisanship

angle by appointing a member of a left wing party instead of a Republican or something like that wouldn't work out very well.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. Keeping your friends close, but your enemies closer, has a limit. I think this goes beyond it.

Trying to be bipartisan is admirable, but at this point, I think unwarranted. Enough!

I always viewed Perino is amongst the worst of the news bimbos - kind of like Caribou Barbie without the house in Alaska and bizarre family.

[ecstatic]

36. For whatever reason, people in DC don't seem to hold grudges

I've seen it time and time again... with H. Clinton forgiving McShame after he insulted her and her daughter, to Joe Lieberman's constant betrayals, and to President Obama. They don't hold grudges like we do. Or at least they don't seem to ever show it.

[ShortnFiery]

39. But, you see, they are not enemies but rather "fraternity/sorority members"

in The Big Club of Political Power Elites.

A club that, according to the late George Carlin, et. al., you and I are NOT a member.

"Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice . . . you don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying . . . lobbying, to get what they want . . . Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want . . . they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that . . . that doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin' years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers . . . Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it . . . they’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fuckin' place. It’s a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in The big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people . . . white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means . . . continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you . . . they don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you at all . . . at all . . . at all, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the American Dream cause you have to be asleep to believe it . . .”

[Laelth]

12. Vomit.

Sad, but perhaps necessary.

:puke:

:dem:

-Laelth

[Walk away]

15. Isn't she a "low information" type girl?

I thought she would give up and write a book justifying all of the lies she told for her hero, "W".

[QC]

19. Don't worry. It's part of a strategy far too fiendishly brilliant for mere mortals

to comprehend.

Soon everything will fall together and the Republicans will be utterly vanquished for all eternity.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

79. 10 dimensional chess to the 100th degree.

[robinlynne]

21. why does it have to bi-partisan? I dont remember any bi-partisanship under the 8 years of Republican

rule. Fuck bi-partisanship. It is not good for the country to put republicans (except for a very few good ones) into any government position. What is with all the bi-partisan love? why?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

24. It is bipartisan by law. 4 Dems, 4 Repubs and the Secretary of State.

I don't understand why it had to be Perino of all people, but it did have to be a Republican.

[robinlynne]

31. right. but it says no more than 4 Dems, nothing about needing republicans.

he could appoint independents or decent republicans....

[geek tragedy]

40. Yes, he should be ultrapartisan while appointing members of a bipartisan agency.

Dear lord, are people here really this stupid?

[mitchum]

25. Affirmative action for very white right wing bimbos

[sakabatou]

32. WTF?!

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[ecstatic]

35. What will her new job entail?

Do you even know?

[SoCalDem]

37. That commercial she did won't run forever..she needs a job

Click pic to see the ad...tell me that's not our Dear Little Dana:)

[ShortnFiery]

47. ...

:rofl: :-)

[Name removed]

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[L0oniX]

41. Oh for fucks sake ...Kucinich 2012

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

45. Would a President Kucinich sign a Republican bill to overturn health care reform?

Haha, trick question. There'll never be a president Kucinich.

[L0oniX]

90. This government will also never be of, by and for the people either.

[geek tragedy]

48. Ironic that a rape apologist would smear others as 'apologists' for supporting a Democratic Preznit.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6640831&mesg_id=6641817

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6642376&mesg_id=6642721

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6642376&mesg_id=6642711

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6642376&mesg_id=6643013

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6642376&mesg_id=6642772

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6642376&mesg_id=6643019

[Thickasabrick]

57. LOL...stalk much? You do realize how old those threads are? Don't

you think it's time to move on?

[geek tragedy]

58. If you weren't so gallingly hypocritical as to call anyone who disagrees

with you an 'apologist' it wouldn't be an issue.

But, defending Barack Obama makes a person an 'apologist' but it's okay to suggest that a 13-year old rape victim is a lying little slut because her rapist was a celebrity.

:sarcasm:

[Thickasabrick]

72. I never called anyone who disagreed with me an apologist. I call

people who blatantly defend a president on anything he does, whether it is right or not - apologists.

This thread isn't about Polanski, it's about our president knowingly nominating someone who lied time after time for Bush and his cronies and is now being rewarded for it.

The two events have nothing to do with each other.

[geek tragedy]

75. Because it's his fault the law says he has to pick a Republican.

And that means consulting with the Republicans.

I get your 'logic.'

[HughMoran]

52. "By law, no more than 4 of the 8 members ... appointed by the president can be the president's party

Seeing as there are no more than four Republicans left who aren't psychopaths (never mind qualified for this position) - it must've been really difficult to choose.

[geek tragedy]

55. So he's not supposed to consult Republicans about which Republican

to choose? That would completely undermine the whole point.

[HughMoran]

59. & he did

so...

[geek tragedy]

61. He actually rejected the Republicans' first choice.

The god-awful Cliff May.

[HughMoran]

64. good

& Perino is kinda squishy anyway, no biggie.

[Shagbark Hickory]

63. I'm just waiting for this guy to unzip his skin and watch GW Bush climb out of the costume. N/T

[HughMoran]

66. If you actually read the post

You'd feel differently.

[geek tragedy]

69. I doubt it. The Obama=Bush people have the reading comprehension

of an armadillo.

[geek tragedy]

67. Is that snark or just raw stupidity and ignorance? nt

[BlooInBloo]

71. They're not mutually exclusive, of course.

[HughMoran]

73. snarstupignance?

:)

[BlooInBloo]

77. Absosmurfly.

[Sinti]

76. She may be a blatant liar

but the question I'd be asking is, can she debate well? Can she sway people to her view, or does she just recite talking points?

You may call me an apologist, I don't mind. But consider for a moment a different angle. Let the Republicans pick theirs, that way they can't complain when you pick the best you can find for yours, IMO. Of course, I don't know that we picked the best we've got. Well-loved party faithful Republicans are generally not able to persuade and debate a solid logical point.

[Thickasabrick]

86. Good points - that could be the strategy. I just remember yelling

at her for being such a liar and smiling so sweetly while doing it. I get that he's trying to be bi-partisan but this to me was way over the top.

[varelse]

78. Why appoint an idiot?

couldn't he have found a competent Bush administration employee to fill the job? Oh, wait... :(

[Major Hogwash]

80. Gotta keep her off of Faux Snooze somehow.

She won't be able to go on Faux and bitch about Obama if she is working for him.

[PBS Poll-435]

87. My thoughts exactly

[Starbucks Anarchist]

81. How dare he pick a Republican!11!1!!

Oh, wait, he's legally required to:

By law, no more than four of the eight members of the board appointed by the president can be of the president's political party.

[tammywammy]

83. Don't expect people to actually look up the facts

It's much more fun to knee-jerk.

:)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

85. And even if they looked them up, some would still complain.

They'd want Obama to circumvent the law and appoint members of his own party, which sounds kind of... Bush-like.

;)

[Number23]

94. Gone beyone kneejerking. One person has called Perino a "whore" twice in this thread

Although it's entirely possible that given this person's apparent difficulty in typing a post without using all caps in baffling ways, multiple typos, and use of the word "shit" that they may have just misspelled what they were trying to say -- twice. :shrug:

[mamaleah]

98. Yes proving that again, sexism is not off the table around here.

It's perfectly acceptable.

[Thickasabrick]

88. I stated in my post that I understood it had to be someone outside

the party - you miss the point - it's not that it's a republican - it Dana Fucking Liar Perino.

Dunno - maybe she never drove you crazy with the lies.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

89. So who's your choice?

We're looking for a non-lying Republican here. :rofl:

[tnlefty]

91. John Dean?

But wait, he was so embarrassed by what the republican party has become that he no longer claims to be a member of that party. Kevin Phllips, oops, same. Catherine Cryer, nope, same deal.

Apparently the ones who have integrity and are fair minded don't claim to be republicans these days, kinda like some of my relatives. :shrug:

Perino is a lying airhead, but if she's the best that could be found of what's left, oh, well....

[Skittles]

93. repuke is one thing

lying repuke whore is another

[Raine]

82. Oh Gawd

that air-headed nitwit! :silly: :wtf: I'm completely repulsed! :puke:

[Stinky The Clown]

96. I'm sure this is related to 9 level chess or 12 level checkers or whatever the fuck it is .....

::::yawn::::

[jonnyblitz]

97. she'll fit right in. nt

[Blue_Tires]

99. ugh...I got to give Obama the benefit of the doubt and assume

that there is some kind of "favor to be repaid later in the senate" -type deal going on...that's the only way this makes sense in my mind....

[marlakay]

100. Maybe their thinking if they give her a job she will

learn to respect them and stop bad mouthing them. I think she could really fuck things up. i have heard her talk...but so have they and they hired her.