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?

Don Imus Is Back And Already Taking A Nasty Shot At President Obama

It didn’t take controversial new Fox Business Network host Don Imus long to make his first controversial statement with yet another piss-poor attempt at humor (you’d think he’d have learned something from his situation with the women’s basketball team of Rutgers a few years back). But, the I-Man is still old school, stubborn and with a distinct inability to avoid making idiotic and controversial statements. Imus hosted Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain (arguably the most media-hyped presidential campaign loser in United States of America history) on his show and the two men shared a joke (one in very poor taste in light of how much conservatives whine about comments about former President George W. Bush’s involvement in 9/11). Apparently, Sen. McCain was quite amused by a joke comparing President Obama to the 9/11 attacks:

“Ha ha,” she added dryly, when I told her that Imus, in a discussion with another first-day guest, Sen. John McCain, repeated a “joke” that after 9/11 “President Obama was the second attack on America.” (McCain, on the phone, laughed more heartily.)

As Think Progress points out, Imus must have had his conscience return (if he has one) after making telling the “joke” on the air as he tried to walk back from the comment and weakly offered about the joke that it was “an idiotic thing to say.”

Teabaggers Planning Protests

I saw this headline from a Media Matters for America entry:

Kilmeade predicts that “[t]ens of thousands of people from across the country” will participate in 9/12 protests

By the way, that is right winger Brian Kilmeade, of Fox News, referenced above.

Are right wingers, these tea baggers, really planning to exploit the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001 to launch yet another partisan attack on President Obama?

It sure seems that way.

Media Matters for America:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909110001

Ralph Peters, Part Of The Rupert Murdoch Empire, Again Sounds Like An Idiot

Ralph Peters, who is appropriately a columnist for the Rupert Murdoch New York Post was on Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News to join with Bill O’Reilly to help trash President Obama with 9/11 as the weapon.

Here is how the Media Matters for America headline reads:

Ralph Peters claims it’s “shocking” that “eight years after 9/11, we have a president who doesn’t think it was any big deal”

These right wingers are now exploiting 9/11 to attack the president. But, as you will see, this is not the first and only time that those on the far right will use 9/11 to attack this particularly president.

Visit Media Matters forAmerica to check out additional outrageous Peters’ comments:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909100060

Some Of These Far-Right Nutty Parents Are Pitiful

Some of these far-right nuts, who find a comforting environment at Fox News, on right-wing programs like the dreadful Fox and Friends. Media Matters for America has a clip of a parent or parents wanting to keep their kids home from school so they will not hear President Obama’s Stay-In-School speech that some of these individuals feel is a form of “indoctrination.” It’s amazing to see how some of these men and women on the extreme right have lost their minds in just a few months of President Obama’s administration and have begun to tag him with labels such as communist, Marxist, socialist, radical, racist, a hater of America, a person who wasn’t born in America and so on and so forth. Now, the president is working to encourage young people to stay in school and prejudiced individuals don’t even like that from Barack Obama.

Here is the headline from Media Matters:

Fox & Friendshosts parent who plans to “keep kids home” from Obama stay-in-school “indoctrination” speech

The one-sided video and Fox’s right-wing lean (not even disguised) is pathetic. As one commenter said, it wouldn’t have mattered if it had been run past the board. If the board had passed it then the cry would have been something along the lines of “the liberal board of education caves into liberal, socialist, Marxist, communist, America-hating, non-American, radical, black, white-people-hating President Obama.”

Media Matters for America:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909030011

Florida Student Sent Home For Hateful And Racist Message

Just in case you didn’t think anti-Muslim racism and anti-Islam hatred continues in the United States of American then you have been asleep at the wheel. A Florida high school student came in with a hateful T-shirt and was sent home by the school. This is a highly disturbing story I initially spotted on the Web site Think Progress where it initially caught my attention. The hateful, bigoted message on the shirt (as you can see in the photo) reads “ISLAM IS OF THE DEVIL.”

Students have a right of free speech, and we have allowed students to come to school wearing clothes with messages,” Wittmer said. “But this message is a divisive message that is likely to offend students.” [...]

He said there also has to be equal treatment of different faiths.

“The next kid might show up with a shirt saying ‘Christianity is of the Devil,’” Wittmer said.

This kind of speech is hateful, bigoted and the school district was proper in its decision to send these individuals home to hopefully think about the ridiculous nature of their actions and their clothing choices. This is a dangerous time in our society where hate, bigotry and racism can spark unspeakable acts of violence. In the years since 9/11, the anti-Islam and anti-Muslim hate has only grown stronger in this nation. The good people of this country have to decide that they are going to stand up against this kind of hatred that creates a hostile environment for people.

Here is a passage with a quote from the young lady in question:

Wayne Sapp’s daughter, Emily Sapp, 15, was the student sent home from Gainesville High on Tuesday. Both Faith and Emily Sapp said it was their decision, not that of their parents, to wear the shirts to school in order to promote their Christian beliefs. Emily Sapp said the “Islam is of the Devil” statement was aimed at the religion’s beliefs, not its members.

“The people are fine,” she said. “The people are people. They can be saved like anyone else.”

Sadly, Emily simply doesn’t get it.

While trying to excuse herself from the disguised racism that is virtually unmistakable, she is trying to say it’s just about religion. However, condemning an entire religion (which is up for interpretation since some would say the same things about Christianity. That too is wrong) is no less hateful, stupid or wrong than condemning an entire race.

Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/26/islam-devil-shirt/

The Gainesville Sun:
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090825/ARTICLES/908259940/1002/NEWS01?Title=More-students-wear-Islam-of-the-Devil-shirts-to-school