Obama hasn't learned anything: "Obama names Bush’s former spokeperson to Broadcast board"

[still_one]

"Hopefully, the United States won't be broadcasting any programs about the Cuban missile crisis to foreign audiences.

President Barack Obama has tapped a former top aide of his predecessor George W. Bush to a key post on a board overseeing government-sponsored international broadcasting, just a few weeks after she called his administration's behavior "unbecoming" with regards to the so-called "White House war with Fox News."

Dana Perino, the first Republican woman to serve as White House press secretary, 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.

She currently serves as chief issues counselor for the United States at international public relations firm Burson-Marsteller and as a contributor to the Fox News Channel, which has sparred with the Obama administration over the past several months."

http://rawstory.com/2009/11/obama-names-bushs-spokeperson-broadcast-board/

[Buzz Clik]

1. Perhaps he's attempting to destroy the BBG's credibility.

:shrug:

[Renew Deal]

13. Most people here hadn't even heard of the BBG up until they read this thread

It's a non-controversy.

[saracat]

22. because some posters on a board haven't "heard of it'BBG is unimportant???

Sheesh, it works to filter and distribute our image abroad and that is no small thing.I do not think having Perino make those decisions in any way could be considered good and the reasoning for such a vivble Bushie to be so placedis baffleing. And I no longer buy the frenemies. Sorry.

[redqueen]

2. Oh FFS.

WTF is going on? Dana Perino? Seriously?

[still_one]

6. Unbelievable, especially after some of her comments on faux and her criticism about

his administration

[Taverner]

10. For fucks sake indeed

WTF?!?!?!?!?!

[ixion]

3. yeah, let's just bring back the whole freakin' BFEE while were at it...

:argh:

[Individualist]

4. That's just what DLC wants to do.

[earth mom]

38. Makes ya wonder who's really calling the shots doesn't it? nt

[mikelgb]

5. well we can only hope it is a friends close enemies closer deal

but the friends don't look so close and the enemies are practically between the sheets

[msongs]

7. gee is GW Bush getting a third term...default? nt

[sui generis]

8. jeepers. Really Obama, there was NOBODY else more qualified?

I guess I got the bad koolaid - just sugar water.

[arcadian]

9. There's that liberal media showing it's ugly head again.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. CHANGE!!!

:evilgrin:

[FormerDittoHead]

19. +1 n/t

[Renew Deal]

25. Hillary runs this board.

She probably made the choice. :evilgrin:

[Renew Deal]

12. I think this is a bipartisan board by design

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

In November 2009, President Obama nominated to to the board:

Walter Isaacson, chairman
Victor Ashe
Michael Lynton
Susan McCue,
Michael Meehan
Dennis Mulhaupt
Dana Perino
S. Enders Wimbush

http://www.bbg.gov/about/index.html

[redqueen]

14. OK... well that would make sense I guess... but still...

Dana Perino?

This is the dipshit who tried to spin global warming by saying that there were public health benefits to climate change.

[Renew Deal]

15. It's odd

but Obama loves doing this shit. He could have done worse, though not much worse.

[T Wolf]

16. Just ONCE, could he show a hint of that radical leftist that the reich has painted him as? I'm

beginning to think that the President suffers from a victimization kind of complex where he seeks the approval of opponents and enemies to validate himself.

Why he does not seek validation from Democrats is beyond me.

He is bipartisan to an enormous fault. To the point of being a better republican president than even Bill Clinton was.

Change, indeed.

[abelenkpe]

17. That would be nice. nt.

[Toucano]

27. +1

A new broom is supposed to sweep clean.

[Romulox]

18. Whither Scott McLellan?

:shrug:

[shraby]

20. I read on DailyKos that it's a bipartisan board..half and half.

[saracat]

21. That doesn't explain THIS choice.

[BeFree]

24. BBG Czar?

She is a master at delusion and we do need the world to start thinking the US is cool, so.....

When will Fox call her a czar, is the question.

[saracat]

26. Except the delusion she is the master of is self. I guess FOX will

be thrilled to have its perspective promoted internationally!

[BeFree]

28. America is number 1

That is the Fox perspective, eh?

So she sells her soul. Nothing new there. Lots of folks do it.

All in all good for Empire, right?

[saracat]

32. " Soul" ? I think her soul was gone long ago.As to what is left to sell, that is

open to speculation! LOL!

[still_one]

30. but this choice is not even a competent one /nt

[marshall]

23. The spirit of bipartisanship?

"In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people," Obama said. "Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long."

see http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/article891974.ece

[still_one]

29. Isn't that nice. However, choosing "bipartisanship" over a competent person is not a good thing /nt

[marshall]

34. I wouldn't call her incompetent

Just very divergent from what is likely to be Obama's opinion. But as long as she's not part of a majority the worst she can do is express her own opinion.

[Octafish]

31. ‘Wasn’t that, like, the Bay of Pigs thing?’

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2454555

PS: It bothers me that Obama keeps wanting to be friends with the same people who lie about him.

[juno jones]

36. That's what makes me wonder if there is outside coercion being applied here.

No speculation. Just wonedrin'.

[DU GrovelBot]

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[geek tragedy]

35. It's a bipartisan panel, so he appoints whomever the Republicans pick.

He's not going to pick a major fight over something like this--the idea behind having a bipartisan board is to avoid partisan foodfights.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

37. Given how completely dishonest this latest poutrage is...

I think all the complaints over Fox News and Dana Parino are interesting, given it's just the sort of phony crap that they pull.