Dana Perino
Martin Bashir: Fox Commentators and Rush Limbaugh 'A Sewer of Absolute
July 23rd, 2013 5:30 PM
MSNBC's Martin Bashir on Tuesday called Fox News commentators and Rush Limbaugh a "river of sewage" and a "sewer of absolute crap."
This from the man with some of the consistently lowest ratings on all of cable news (video follows with transcribed lowlights and commentary):
Former Obama Advisor Turned NBC News Analyst Rips CBS's Schieffer for
May 28th, 2013 10:33 AM
Former Barack Obama senior advisor David Axelrod on Tuesday demonstrated why it's absurd for him to have been hired by NBC News at the beginning of his previous boss's second term.
Appearing on Morning Joe, Axelrod struck back at CBS's Bob Schieffer for his criticism of the White House on Sunday's Face the Nation (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Fox's Ed Henry: Colleagues Cheered Me On When I Grilled Bush Administr
May 25th, 2013 11:54 AM
Fox News senior White House correspondent Ed Henry said Friday that when he used to grill George W. Bush press secretaries Dana Perino and the late Tony Snow when he was working for CNN, his colleagues cheered him on in private.
"Then when I was at Fox covering the Obama administration," he told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, "it can get a little bit lonely sometimes" (video follows…
Greg Gutfeld on America: 'Obama is Nero, Media is the Fiddle, and We a
May 2nd, 2013 11:19 AM
Fox News's Greg Gutfeld made a statement about the relationship between President Obama, the media, and America on Wednesday's The Five that deserves serious consideration.
"Obama is Nero, media is the fiddle, and we are Rome" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Hypocrisy Unleashed: CNN's Kurtz Rips Perino's Interview of Her Former
April 29th, 2013 5:12 PM
As part of the Fox News Channel's coverage of the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Texas on Thursday, Dana Perino, co-host of the channel's “The Five” weekday program and a White House press secretary for the 43rd president, interviewed her former boss “not to break any news here” but for viewers to meet and get to know him “as I do.”
That seven-minute…
MSNBC's Wolffe: Before 9/11, Bush 'Ignored All the Warnings About Al-Q
April 25th, 2013 5:54 PM
On Wednesday's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC analyst Richard Wolffe -- formerly of Newsweek -- claimed that President Bush "ignored all the warnings about al-Qaeda wanting to attack the homeland" before 9/11 as he mocked Republicans for praising Bush's record of preventing terrorist attacks on U.S. soil after the 9/11 attacks. As he alluded to Republicans criticizing President…
Greg Gutfeld: 'Jim Carrey Is the Most Pathetic Tool on the Face of the
March 26th, 2013 10:10 AM
As NewsBusters reported Monday, actor Jim Carrey released a satirical video at the comedy website Funny or Die which attacked gun owners and the late Charlton Heston with penis size jokes.
Later that day, Fox News's Greg Gutfeld and his co-hosts at The Five thoroughly trashed Carrey (video follows with LexisNexis transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):
MSNBC’s Finney Uses Jovan Belcher Shooting to Attack Republicans
December 10th, 2012 11:29 AM
In what has become a recurring theme on MSNBC, liberal panelists will find some way of attacking Republicans for a completely unrelated issue. The latest example is the tragic murder-suicide involving NFL player Javon Belcher last week, which MSNBC’s Karen Finney used to smear Republicans in Congress, not over gun control -- that would be too predictable -- but, you guessed it, the "war on…
Greg Gutfeld: 'Go To Hell, Paul Krugman, You Bearded, Bitter Buffoon
September 13th, 2011 1:16 AM
The outrage concerning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's disgusting comments on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 came from all quarters of the political arena Monday.
Never one to mince words, Fox News's Greg Gutfeld on "The Five" said what many Americans were feeling about this liberal sociopath, "Go to hell, Paul Krugman, you bearded, bitter buffoon" (video follows with transcript and…
MSNBC Cherry Picks, Edits FNC Clips to Claim FNC Incited Sherrod Resig
July 21st, 2010 9:05 PM
On Tuesday’s Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, as host Maddow complained that a video clip of former USDA official Shirley Sherrod had been edited to make it appear that she currently has a tendency to discriminate against white farmers at USDA – a clip that led to her firing by the Obama administration – the MSNBC host not only incorrectly claimed that FNC coverage of the clip had helped incite her…
Lauer Sticks Up for Obama On Charge He's Soft on Terror: 'Get Rid of I
January 6th, 2010 11:58 AM
NBC's Matt Lauer dismissed the idea that Barack Obama was weak on terrorism, as the Today co-anchor, on Wednesday's show, wanted to "get rid" of the notion that "the President doesn't take the threat of terrorism seriously enough because he's not out there talking about it every day." Lauer, in a political roundup segment in the 7am half hour, also spun the retirements of Democratic Senators…
Olbermann: Dana Perino ‘Worst Person’ After Insisting Ft. Hood Was
December 1st, 2009 6:55 AM
On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann named former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino "Worst Person in the World" – ahead of Mike Huckabee and Glenn Beck – in response to Perino’s November 24 appearance on FNC’s Hannity show in which she insisted that the Fort Hood massacre should be called a "terrorist attack," and, while referring to the often cited fact that the Bush…
Dana Perino Compares White House Attack On Fox to Hugo Chavez
October 26th, 2009 10:20 AM
Former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino on Sunday compared last week's attempt by the White House to exclude Fox News from of a pool interview to Hugo Chavez shutting down television stations in Venezuela. As NewsBuster Jeff Poor reported Thursday, the Obama administration earlier in the day tried to shut Fox News out of an interview with pay czar Kenneth Feinberg that was to be part of…