Dana Perino says bush has never asked anyone to lie for him

[BOSSHOG]

as dana "fired back" at scotty mcclellan, per faux radio news. So dana lies to protect her lying boss. But dana lying is a conservative value. Why do you all hide the pride (another conservative value)? If it weren't for lies how could the bush administration have an agenda?

In a new book to be released in April, lil scotty gets in touch with his liberal and rational side and admits, yeah I lied (but I didn't know it.) Incredible. Lying surely was a prerequisite for getting the job of press whore for dubya.

[Lex]

1. She's lying

too.

[cascadiance]

38. HOW can she KNOW this if she's not been around him every second of the day!

for his entire administration! She CAN'T! Therefore it is obvious what just said is a LIE on that basis alone! Therefore what she said is totally MEANINGLESS!

[Atman]

2. George never ASKS for anything. He demands it, or he'll hold his breath.

Then he throws a tantrum. Then he threatens. Then he gets what he wants.

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[NewJeffCT]

That was my thought as well

Bush just tells them to lie for him, "I'm the president, you will say this for me or we'll send the rest of your family to Iraq."

[Atman]

13. It's all about playing with the language with these assholes.

I wasn't even kidding. I'm sure she felt she is telling the truth when she said "George Bush never asked anyone to lie for him." He TOLD them to. He didn't ask. Therefore, she is telling the truth.

:crazy:

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[Demeter]

10. Or Cheney Calls for His Trusty Shotgun

[Bitwit1234]

21. Darn I was going to post that.....

[Dervill Crow]

25. Exactly my thoughts . . .

He's never "asked" for anything in his life.

[bdamomma]

32. * has anger problems also.

[dkf]

52. Exactly! Ask? George Bush? The man thinks he's king.

[blogslut]

3. Is there a WH presser today?

It sure would be nice to watch the ice princess squirm just before Thanksgiving

[spanone]

4. and maybe someday, dana's conscience and sense of what is right will command her to tell the truth

perhaps

[countingbluecars]

11. Perhaps someday

when she has a book to sell.

[Ravy]

5. Bush may have been repeating the lie, himself.

So the follow-up question should be "Who lied to the President about their involvement?"

[opihimoimoi]

6. The Pubs always LIE...or....go into DENIAL

[meegbear]

7. Maybe she's telling the truth ...

and they're all pathological liars.

[VP505]

8. That paid liar

might be right, Bu$h never directly said "lie for me", but we all know that such thing are strongly implied and it usually comes from a third party so that claim can be made.

[Captain Hilts]

9. Whew! That's settled! nt

[marmar]

12. It's like the silent "e", Dana - understood even if it's not expressed.....

Although I suspect it's been expressed.

[whistle]

14. Bush never has to ask his people to lie, they just do it automatically

[Virginia Dare]

48. Or at his poppy's "behest"...n/t

[whistle]

50. Well, yes it is all part of the criminal conditioning

[WritersBlock]

15. Did he ask her to say that?

These people disgust me.

[GOTV]

16. It is easy for W to get out of this....

... he won't even have to get out of his chair.

He just claims that what he told McClellan was the truth as he knew it but obviously Libby was lying about his non-involvement and W believed him.

Unless that statement can be proven false W remains in the clear and McClellan's claim remains unsubstantiated.

[GOTV]

17. How does she know? Was she there? n/t

[Johonny]

18. Key word is ask

The King doesn't ask you, he commands you.

[Supersedeas]

19. Peppy pom-pom Perino goes to FOX/Guiliani News to explain

[pdxmom]

20. Why would believe anything Perino has to say? We know we've been

lied to previously. Do they think that if they say it often enough and loud enough we'll start believing them? She's lying, just like Scotty did.

[gratuitous]

22. Easy to parse

Bush has indeed never asked anyone to lie for him. Here's how it goes down:

Press Secretary: Boss, the zoo is getting restless, asking a lot of questions about Scooter Libby. As you know, that all went down before I got here.

President (looking up with an expression of annoyance/disgust from his GameBoy): Yeah?

PS (nervously): Well, what should I tell them?

P (hitting "pause" button with no little exasperation): Just tell them that we're looking into it.

PS: I kind of said that yesterday. Any developments?

P: No! And we don't know anything more about it. Begone! (Turns full presidential attention back to level 9 of GameBoy)

***

See? The press secretary was never told to lie, he just wasn't told the truth to pass along. And, smart boy that the press secretary is, he knew not to ask too many questions about what was an obvious line of bullshit. So he trots out to the press room, says nobody knows nothin' which the press dutifully reports without so much as an implied raised eyebrow of skepticism/suspicion, and everyone goes on his or her merry way.

Years later, the press secretary's conscience finally eats away enough of his soul that he feels he has to come clean. The public, which knew this all along, rolls its collective eyes. The media, which colluded in the lies in real time, pretends to be sort of, well, shocked isn't the right word. Let's just say some tut-tutting is done. And the White House? "We never asked anyone to lie."

End of story.

Until Dana's conscience makes an appetizer of her shrunken little soul. Then we do it all again.

[radfringe]

23. I guess you can believe that

since bush told her to say it

if you believe a lie to be the truth when told the lie was the truth would you be lieing if you repeated the lie? :eyes:

[Junkdrawer]

24. She's saving the truth for HER BOOK, wherein we are all to admire her...

for her courage.

[tanyev]

26. There's no need to ask.

His supporters love The Leader so much that they will always try to protect him.

[spanone]

27. i'm sure he didn't 'ask' scotty to lie, he ordered him to lie

[Rex]

28. Anyone? Wow, just letting the shit roll off the tongue!

Dana must be the WH fluffer.

[lpbk2713]

29. RWers readily admit lying is perfectly OK if it achieves the desired result.

Lies, deceit, exaggeration and distortion. They have no problem with any of it. They have been doing it for years. And they continue to deceive at will. Just tune in to OxyRush at any time and you will hear him in full propaganda mode ... if you have the stomach for it.

[deminks]

30. Yeah, cause, you know, he does his own lying quite well, thank you very much. nt

[bdamomma]

31. what BS

she is shoveling.

[Botany]

33. Ah, Dana the phrase, "... large quanities of uranium from Africa."

That would have been a lie. The CIA told bush it was a lie too.

And from those lies

3,800 Americans Dead
37,000 wounded, hurt, ill, or mental problems (air lifted out of Iraq)
1,100,000 Dead Iraqis
2 million have Iraqis have left the country
2 million have left their homes inside of Iraq
8 million Iraqis without food, water, medicine, and power

those are WW II type numbers.

And by the way why did they out V. Plame? so as to keep the lies that started this
mess going.

[JohnnyLib2]

34. That's about how cult members understand things,

to say nothing of the millions bamboozled by "godly" millionaire religious figures. "There's a sucker born ......"

[Bolo Boffin]

35. LOL! And there are no homosexuals in Iran... n/t

[CitizenLeft]

36. oh, well, hell, that's a relief.

I was really worried there for a moment.

[The Magistrate]

37. Probably True, Sir: Doubtless He Flat Out Told Them To....

[Joe Fields]

39. Bush told her to lie about this...

[spanone]

42. that's right, junior told her to lie about him not lying and he'll lie about telling her to lie

[Virginia Dare]

40. George W. Bush has made a career and a lifetime out of..

asking people to lie for him. We can trace it all way back to college at least. Remember his former fiance who was paid a tidy sum to keep her mouth shut? Remember the cocaine and alcohol issues? Remember the National Guard "service" or lack thereof? Remember the illegal insider stock trading at Harken Energy? George Bush's life is one big lie, he didn't just start this, he just escalated it to the point that he brought our entire nation into an illegal war. What is it going to take to stop this man? What is it going to take for people to stop lying for him?

[renate]

41. you definitely should make this post a thread of its own

So much of his life has been covered up... there really is a pattern here that started long before he became president.

[donkeyotay]

43. Ha ha! If dana had read Frannie's resignation letter, she'd know He doesn't have to ask.

The brides of the bush personality cult do it on the natch. I can hardly wait to read her resignation letter, if it's fit to print.

[Mz Pip]

44. Why should anyone believe her?

Why would that be the one true thing out of the press secretary's mouth> Why that?

I don't believe her. And someone in the press corp should ask that question.

Actually, someone in the press corp should ask "Why should we believe you?" after every answer that comes out of that spin queen's mouth. Every last one.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[JerseygirlCT]

45. LOL, as Dana lies... to protect her boss. nt

[guitar man]

46. so, maybe they all volunteered

either way, scores of vermin have told whopper after whopper to cover the slimebag's ass.

Impeach Now!! :grr:

[lpbk2713]

47. Perino is still in *OJT*

:rofl: :rofl:

[onethatcares]

49. neither did Al Capone, it was just a given

ya know?

[Canuckistanian]

51. I sort of believe that's true

In the sense that Bush, never having experienced life outside the bubble, instructs his minions in whatever dreamland fantasy the neocons have put in there.

I don't think he ever gave a speech that Cheney (or his acolytes) didn't vet first. And if there was a "problem" i.e. a talking point Shrubbolini didn't like, the usual lineup of stooges would be sent to the Oval Office to "explain" it to him.

Yeah, that's right, I don't believe for a second that the chimpan-czar has ANY clue what he's really talking about.

He's not even CLOSE to being the "mastermind" that a lot of people say he is.

[SoCalDem]

53. I recall BC saying almost the same thing, and I also remember

EVERY republican in the US proclaiming him a LIAR!!.. Shoes only fit democrats, I guess.. Republicans are running all over the place in oversized clown shoes:)

[upi402]

54. Thank you for this BOSSHOG

This story needs to stay on top.

kick

[madeline_con]

55. I think a flunky does the asking.

DUH-bya's too busy getting the hang of riding a bike to be bothered with trying to use a phone.