Female White House Spokesperson Has Trouble With Boy Military Stuff

[DeepModem Mom]

Media Bistro: Monday Mar 24, 2008
Female White House Spokesperson Has Trouble With Boy Military Stuff

It's tough to understand boy things like weapons and warfare if you're a girl. So said White House spokesperson Dana Perino in a recent Fox News interview with Chris Wallace (video at link).

Perino complained that she had difficulty understanding military and defense issues as a woman:

"Some of the terms I just don't know, I haven't grown up knowing. The type of missiles that are out there: patriots and scuds and cruise missiles and tomahawk missiles. And I think that men just by osmosis understand all of these things, and they're things that I really have to work at — to know the difference between a carrier and a destroyer, and what it means when one of those is being launched to a certain area."

Although we're assuming the reason for Perino's admission was to humanize herself during a televised interview, it backfired. The last thing we want is a White House spokesperson who publicly admitted to not knowing the difference between a carrier and destroyer before taking the job.

In a previous interview, Perino admitted to not knowing what the Cuban Missile Crisis was.

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/media_people/female_white_house_spokesperson_has_trouble_with_boy_military_stuff_80593.asp

[Ashy Larry]

1. She will be hired by Fox news in January.

Bet on it.

[Dr Fate]

6. Nah-clearly NY Times editorial page potential. n/t

n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

15. Editorial? I must have posted a thousand NYT editorials here...

that I don't think Dana would have been writing. Quite a few of them made it to the Greatest Page before the GDP deluge.

[Dr Fate]

18. It was a Bill Kristol (R) reference. n/t

n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

19. Oh -- I get it! You're right, so sorry! nt

[panader0]

She's perfect for her job.

[Supersedeas]

23. Bush likes 'em like that -- feed the media more vaccuous jello

[Mountainman]

2. A stupid spokeswoman for a stupid president, seems to fit doesn't it?

Could a really intelligent person do that job of lying about Bush all the time?

[Bucky]

3. I believe there are plenty of women trained to shoot guns & fire Tomahawk missiles

The problem is when you put an upper crust dilletante of either sex in charge of explaining what's happening in a war that neither she nor any of her prep school classmates ever stood any risk of serving in. This isn't a gender issue; it's a class issue. It's a chickenhawk issue.

[sarge43]

10. It's also condescension.

"I'm just too, too feminine to bother my pretty little head with boy things and any woman who does ... well we know what they are -- teehee."

Yeah, there are and those women stand head, shoulders and kneecaps above that creature.

[wolfgangmo]

14. Well said.

You have nailed the issue.

It isn't about gender. It is about wealth and privilege. She has it and others don't so fuck you all everyone.

[Tesha]

26. Thank you -- well said: "It's a chickenhawk issue." (NT)

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. I guess history is also absorbed by osmosis cuz that's not a girl thing

now girls know how to cook clean and get pregnant...

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Where do they get these pretty blond Stepford Women?

[Aristus]

5. "Don't worry yor purty l'il head 'bout that stuff, darlin' You jes' let the menfolk

deal with alla that. Now, fetch me some ice tea, willya, gal? Attagirl!"

Someone have the Bush Countdown clock up? How much time left?

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. less than a year

hartman mentions it every so often

And trust me, we need to get these imbeciles out ASAP...

Somehow though I don't expect they're gonna let go off power if they can... since menfolk, especially them menfolk, know what's best for us peasants

To quote Darth Chenney... SO?

[SeattleGirl]

11. Don't know about the clock, but as of today, there are 301 days

left. 301 days too many for me, but at least we are getting there.

[bdamomma]

32. yea, but if our own candidates do not start attacking McSame

on his agenda we will be facing another 4 years of this, we cannot blow this election it will serious consequences for all of us, but again, we are dealing with American people here.

[sarge43]

12. 301 days today. Ojala.

Way off topic, but how's your Dad doing, Aristus?

[Aristus]

30. He's doing much better, sarge.

Thanks for asking. :-)

[sarge43]

40. That's great!

Give the man a :thumbsup: for me.

[RedCappedBandit]

8. Does being that vapid hurt?

[islandmkl]

9. you want to know where they find these women to do the message 'carrying' and 'presenting'??

...check out McCain's current wife...

well, i guess that doesn't show you exactly where they come from, but it definitely shows where they are headed....

[SeattleGirl]

13. "Ah'm jist a little ol' gal, an' Ah don' know nothin' 'bout them

guns 'n' stuff. 'scuse me, now. Ah gotta go git mah har done."

God, Dana, stick a sock in it, will you?

[lonestarnot]

16. knows nutt'n 'bout nutt'n ...

:shrug:

[frogcycle]

50. I can't help thinking of Butterfly McQueen n/t

[DemocratInSoCal]

17. But She's A Hottie!!

If she would promise to keep her dumb, ignorant, blonde mouth shut, I'll show her what a Tomahawk Missile looks like.

[alarimer]

20. Her brain cell must be pretty lonely

with no one else to talk to.

[Iris]

21. Did she never play Battleship growing up?

Jeez - how hard does she have to work at this, I wonder?

[knitter4democracy]

36. I wondered that, too.

I remember my brothers showing me the pieces and explaining what all the ships did and why. My dad explained Naval stuff to me, too, since he grew up a Navy brat and lost his uncle at the Battle of Midway.

[Iris]

44. yes! I mean why do we now assume children grow up in gender vacuums? nt

[KansDem]

22. Weren't there carriers & destroyers at that "Crisis of the Bay of Cuban Missile Pigs" thing?

:wtf: Isn't it bad enough we're led by rabid, neo-con war mongers, that they have to be ignorant rabid, neo-con war mongers?

[Lyric]

24. It has nothing to do with being a "girl" and everything to do with being

a uneducated, ignorant, brainless, spineless, pandering little moron.

:hi:

[bdamomma]

33. dana just another flea on the windshield.

incompetent and another bush loyal

[niyad]

25. hey, dana, you insipid, ignorant little twit-- unlike you, I know EXACTLY what all those things

are, what they do, and I understand the bay of pigs, vietnam, laos, and testosterone poisoning.

oh, by the way, I'm also a blonde, and I didn't learn all of this by osmosis, nor did any of the men I know.

does it hurt to breathe when you are as stupid as you appear to be?

[tkmorris]

27. She's perfect

Seriously. Too dumb to answer any questions even if she knew what the answers were, which she doesn't.

She's a firewall of stupidity.

[Solly Mack]

28. and when you pull her belly-button string does she simper?

[trof]

29. Barbie the Press Secretary

Ain't she cute?

[stlsaxman]

38. Barbie Perino

[bermudat]

43. That kind of looks like here.

[bdamomma]

31. just more incompetence being displayed.

sickening.

[stanwyck]

34. Dana is Vanna White, just turning over the letters

in front of the press corps. She was on The Daily Show recently and when asked by Jon if she ever knew as she was saying something that it wasn't, uh, completely accurate, her answer was merely "No." Now I understand what her job is, but either she is totally vapid or she is unable to answer honestly. She could have said that she is asked to speak on extremely complex issues and has to present the administration's policies. But to say that she is ALWAYS convinced that her answers are totally truthful is insulting to the American public. She is showing herself to be nothing more than a cheerleader who is unable to have a dialogue based on reality. There is only one side for Dana, and that's the Boss's side. American people be damned. At least Scotty, Ari, and Tony would engage ont he issues and have a discussion. Dana merely stands there and repeats exactly what she memorized from someone else's talking points.

[knitter4democracy]

35. She doesn't know the difference between a carrier and a destroyer?

I'm a woman, and heck, I know that. Pretty freakin' obvious.

Dang, Perino, you've got more hair than sense.

[csziggy]

41. Dana's Theme Song

:silly:

Wonderful World
By Sam Cooke

Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about a science book
Don't know much about the French I took

But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you love me too
What a wonderful world this would be

Don't know much about geography
Don't know much trigonometry
Don't know much about algebra
Don't know what a slide rule is for.

But I do know that one and one is two,
And if this one could be with you,
What a wonderful world this would be.

Now i don't claim to be an "A" student,
But I'm trying to be.
So maybe by being an "A" student baby
I can win your love for me.

Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about a science book
Don't know much about the French I took.

But I do know that I love you,
And I know that if you love me too,
What a wonderful world this would be.

Latatatatatatahuwaah (history)
Oehwoewoe (biology)
Latatatatatatahuwaah (science book)
Oehwoewoe (French I took)

But I do know that I love you,
And I know that if you love me too,
What a wonderful world this would be. :sarcasm:

[MissDeeds]

37. I just doesn't stop

Of course it would never occur to her to, um, LEARN the terminology that the job requires. Learning "stuff" is not the Republican way. It's hard work.

:puke:

[Baby Snooks]

39. Not the only thing she doesn't understand...

She also apparently doesn't understand the difference between truth and propaganda. But of course no doubt she is well-versed in the latter.

But didn't she just look so cute and so coy? Bat, bat go the eyelashes.

[dysfunctional press]

42. "aircraft carrier" "destroyer" the names SAY what each does...how hard is it to figure out?

jesus h. fucking christ. what a fucking NATIONAL embarrasment.

[Phillycat]

45. Seriously!

It says it RIGHT THERE.

Can we have CJ Craigg back, please? :cry:

[Echo In Light]

46. Willful sexism runs rampant in authoritarian structures: either gender "knows their place"

[Kitty Herder]

53. That's is so true. nt

[sutz12]

47. Typical Republican female commentator....

Fair to middlin' ornamental value without all that 'intelligence' stuff to screw up the fantasy.

[Javaman]

48. ...

Kind of explains morons* outlook on everything, "I don't know...giggle giggle"

:banghead:

[pnwmom]

49. This is exactly why Rethugs have always hated Hillary. They prefer bimbos

to women who are 10 times smarter than they are.

[LeftHander]

51. Shouldn't the spocksman for the dumb be dumb? nt

[lumberjack_jeff]

52. She's not ill informed because she's a woman. She's ill informed because she's a Bushie. n/t

[ProgressiveFool]

54. and the worst part is, she's OK with it

All this incompetence, and they think it's just "human". They seriously do believe that anyone can do any job, and if they miss a thing or two, well, it's just anavoidable. Heck of a job, Brownie!

What sounds better, Dana Brownie, or Brownie Perino?