A part of PL’s quote of the press corps today at the WH briefing:
QUESTION: Dana, apparently, the New York Fed has just signed off on a deal of quadrupling [sic] the offer that JPMorgan is making for Bear Stearns from $2 to $10 a share. And critics are saying the offer, this higher offer throws cold water on the administration’s explanation last week that at $2 a share the government was hardly backing a Wall Street bailout while letting American homeowners suffer their own fate.
They say that this new deal, on top of the $29 billion guarantee that taxpayers have already committed to, shows Washington cares more about Wall Street fat cats (inaudible).
PERINO: I think that you should go back to your experts and make sure that they understand what they’re talking about, because this is a deal between Bear Stearns and JPMorgan. The Fed is involved, but this is in regards to the Bear Stearns price that JPMorgan is going to
pay. The taxpayers aren’t bearing any brunt of that price.
And part of the Fed’s commitment to the country and their mission is to make sure that the taxpayers are protected. And that is particularly true in this regard, as well.
The Fed’s bailout of JPMorgan or BearStearns or whoever was a lot more palatable when JPM was offering $2 and the BearStearns greed meisters were getting hammered. Perino is offering up one more of the usual WH ‘this is our story and we’re sticking to it’ deals. Pure and simple country club Republicanism.
What I always find astounding is the sheer pomposity of the WH press corps. They never read any original documents and are entirely captive of their political allies who provide all background info and even the questions.
They do not have the mental wattage to step out of the liberal zeitgeist long enough to get an independent perspective on anything. They don’t have a real strong grasp of how government really works but they firmly believe that they do.
That they are increasingly in their own little world is evidenced by the fact that they don’t seem to notice or care that America is steadily tuning them out. If all we are going to get from the MSM is political spin, then why not just go to Rush, Kos, Coulter, Hannity or the HuffPo depending on the spin flavor one prefers? That is exactly what America is doing and the arrogant snots in the White House Press Corps and their brain-dead editors and producers are to blame.
What I always find astounding is the sheer pomposity of the WH press corps. They never read any original documents and are entirely captive of their political allies who provide all background info and even the questions.
Completely agree. Fact: the White House press corps has never broken a story, not one. Not during Watergate, not during Iran-Contra, not during Clinton-Lewinsky. All they do is regurgitate the White House releases while acting like it’s news they dug up themselves.
It would make sense for the news media to have people over there to receive these press releases and process them for publication, but why are the television White House correspondents considered such “stars”? They do nothing.
QUESTION: Dana, on Iraq, according to the A.P., 97 percent of the American deaths have happened after President Bush declared major combat ended. In retrospect, does he think perhaps he was premature in doing that?
Ahhh...good question, I think! Given that 4000 brave soldiers have died for GWB’s belief that God told him to go to war!
Perfectly legitimate questions for Ms. Perino. What do you expect them to do, celebrate? Iraq is one of the worst places on earth 5 years in. Even worse, if that were possible, than it was under Saddam. The Bush administration bears much of the responsibility for this.
Iraq is one of the worst places on earth 5 years in. Even worse, if that were possible, than it was under Saddam.
Can I have some of what you’re smoking? Powerful stuff, that. I’ll wash it down with the Mikey Moore Kool-Aid you’ve been drinking. After all, you obviously agree with his pre-invasion Iraq-kids- flying-kites hogwash.
Let’s not forget that 10 years ago, nearly all of the Democrats-from the President on down to the 2000 and 2004 Dem presidential candidates-said Saddam was a terror threat and had WMDs. But in your fever swamp, anything that occured before the evil Bush stole the 2000 election never happened.
The past 5 years?
Let’s see, certified WMD Saddam Hussein and his two monster sons are dead, his people shredding machines aren’t running any more, al Qaeda is now reduced to using widows as suicide bombers and is also admitting they’re in trouble, and details have emerged that Uday Hussein was planning terrorist attacks in London. Iraq’a own military and police forces are now in control of half of that country’s provinces, there are now more than 100 privately owned radio stations, 31 television stations and 600 newspapers published in the country, and daily oil production is now over 2.4 million barrels a day. The country’s economy is projected to grow by 7 percent this year.
Yet all you college kids want to celebrate is US military death number 4,000. This is despite the fact that they are all volunteers, and that since the war started over 1.6 million of them have served there in rotation. The percentage of those 1.6 million military people who have made the ultimate sacrifice is therefore infinitesimal. I’m not downplaying their deaths, but they chose to serve their country, unlike yourself.
Given that 4000 brave soldiers have died for GWB’s belief that God told him to go to war!
God didn’t tell him to go to war!
(How ridiculous!)
Congress told him to go to war, after they voted on it and after an 18-month long “rush-to-war” debate.
4000 dead for nothing.
They’re not dead for nothing!
(This is an appalling thing to say, even as a partisan lie and I can only hope that none of the fallens’ family or friends read your comment.)
They died draining the swamp of IslamoNazis, thereby protecting us at home and the Iraqis in the immediate neighborhood of those Islamist killers.
God rest them.
No WMDs.
WMDs wasn’t our only rationale for going to war.
And we did find some, but not all--they were disappeared some other way.
But Saddam did have them: we know that for a fact.
The WH press corps is enamored with their title: WH Press member. Empty suits, for sure. Most take their orders from the NYT. They are very, very quick to attack anyone who follows orders but they are so far from any kind of original thinking or ideas, it’s pathetic.
Heck, most don’t read anything outside their bubble; check facts? nah, too difficult and too time consuming - they may miss a three-martini lunch; do basic 5th grade arithmetic? no, who needs numbers when you can copy someone else’s.
They are representatives of bias and an education system run amok - they simply do not think. Stupid, I don’t think so - but so biased, so lazy, so into their sphere of power - heck - they should try, really try living somewhere else for a change - somewhere where people actually have to work for a living.
JH: John Hinderaker, Power Line News. Given that President Bush has taken the economy from the trash heap that Clinton left and turned it into the best economy the world has ever seen, does the President mind that the media does not give him credit? Does he think it’s because the media is owned by the Party of Hate? Or are they stupid, too?
Perino: Well, the President has acknowledged that the economy has slowed down a bit, but he has urged Congress not to over-compensate and trigger inflation.
JH: Of the candidates poised to follow President Bush, which one does the President think will best continue his incredibly successful War on Terror (centered in Iraq)? The war hero who pledges to continue Bush’s winning strategy? Or the black messiah who can’t wait to hand America over to the terrorists? Or the she-devil who will institute full-fledged Socialism?
Perino: The President has endorsed Senator McCain and believes that the Senator has all the right qualities to rule, er, run America.
JH: Has the President considered not stepping down at the end of his term? Wouldn’t America be safer? Does the President realize that the Terrorists WANT him to step down? Has the President considered jailing the traitorous Reid? Will the President order the detention of Pelosi as an enemy combatant?
Perino: I’m sorry, that’s all the time we have for today.
The MSM is so out of touch with the rest of the country that it’s no longer a joke...it’s really quite pathetic. These people have their own agenda, which is to promote themselves as some kind of intellectual elite that’s better qualified than the rest of us to make informed decisions. I haven’t watched a local or national television newscast in at least five years because of the tripe they present as news.
