Dan Pfeiffer: A Slightly Dumber, Less Attractive Version of Dana Perino - FDL

[WillyT]

Side note: Pfeiffer got his start working for Evan Bayh.

Dan Pfeiffer: A Slightly Dumber, Less Attractive Version of Dana Perino
By: Blue Texan - FDL
Sunday June 19, 2011 11:50 am

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You’d think that, to become the Communications Director of the White House, you’d have to be pretty good at communication. But based on Dan Pfeiffer’s performance at Netroots Nation, the president must have filled the post using some other criteria.

Here’s Dan, explaining the hector the base strategy the White House employed so successfully leading up to the 2010 midterms.

“When Glenn Beck and John Boehner and Mitt Romney attack us, we expect that,” he said. “And sometimes when our friends attack us, we get frustrated. It doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do to get frustrated.”

Facepalm.

Glenn Beck makes millions comparing Obama to history’s worst mass murderers, while the liberal base of the Democratic Party has been known to remind him of his campaign promises. Easy to see why Pfeiffer would lump those “attacks” together.

Moreover, the White House didn’t just “get frustrated” with what it sneeringly dismissed as the “professional left.” These weren’t just a offhand remarks. What they did, in fact, was engage in a very systematic campaign to antagonize us. It was political malpractice at its worst, and it failed miserably. And because it failed miserably, what Pfeiffer should’ve said was, “It was stupid, and we were wrong to do it.” Full stop. Rather than, you know, compare us to Glenn Beck.

Then there was this little piece of historical revisionism, about Obama’s 1996 support of gay marriage:

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[TheWraith]

1. Well, when the Firebaggers are allying with Grover Norquist...

I'm not surprised that they would have a single round file labeled "irrational anti-Obama attacks."

[Bluenorthwest]

2. The entire 'talent pool' of political communications professionals

is comprised of the dregs left over from all of the other far better paying and more enjoyable fields available. So they have a the worst of the worst entering the field to begin with. It really can not get better from there. And the politicians do not seem to have the sense to stop listening to them, much less sending them to speak for them. The average cable food show host has more wisdom in selecting representation and public relations.
It is a sad spectacle to behold. To be honest about it, I see this stuff as a disservice to the President as well as an insult to the people, all done for the sake of the ego of some behind the scenes staffer whose job is supposed to be to assist the President in serving the people. The smarmy attention seeking types who wind up in those roles fail in their jobs when the President does not look better the moment they speak. If the President looks worse, that is failure. When the President looks worse and even one voter is insulted, this should be seen as unacceptable job performance.

[WillyT]

3. + 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!!

And insulted I am...

Did you catch this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1322884

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[nashville_brook]

4. k and r

[marmar]

5. Dumber than Dana Perino?

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