Friday’s White House Press Briefing included two economic advisers to discuss the volatile economic situation here in the US, though they were careful to not paint to dire a picture. Obviously, with crude oil trading at record levels and OPEC releasing a statement blaming the price on the weakness of the American dollar, the media might be expected to ask a question or two. However, White House Spokesperson Dana Perino was not having any of it.
Q I’d like to follow up on their refusal to talk about the dollar, if I could. I mean, we’re in a kind of a bad situation here, when OPEC says the reason for $105 or $106 a barrel of oil is the falling value of the dollar — and you won’t address that issue. Where do we go to find out who is right?
MS. PERINO: Well, as he just said, the Treasury Secretary is where you go to talk about the dollar. It’s a longstanding policy that predates this administration, and I’m not going to change it today. But Treasury can talk about it.
Q I don’t expect you to change it, but I do expect you to be able to say whether OPEC is completely wrong about this, or whether there is at least something to their claim that the dollar is responsible for the high price of oil right now.
MS. PERINO: Wendell, I’m under strict instructions, and have been from the beginning, to not talk about the dollar, and I’m not going to get fired to satisfy your question.
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This is exactly what happens when you have leadership that doesn’t know how to lead. Reich-wingers, are you proud?
The dollar must be involved in an ongoing investigation.
I’m sorry, we only talk about the reality that we create in our own minds….next question!
Boy, Perino looks noticeably older than even a couple months ago. Must be hard to obfuscate and lie like that. At this rate she will be physically a 70 year old and need to retire by the end of the term, if she lasts that long.
She said she’s “not going to get fired” for answering to the people of the United States? She should get fired for NOT answering that question!
White House propagandist Tokyo Perino.
self-incriminate much, Dana?
She can’t talk about the dollar cuz they ain’t ready
to roll out the Amero………..just yet.
LOL.
Pixie @ 2:
tOO FUNNY!
teknikAL @ 4:
Next month she’ll be sitting in the front row next to Helen and we won’t be able to tell them apart. Well, Dana will be the one throwing softballs….
Ruthless People @ 5:
Or better yet, Tony-o Perino
Perino is just a sock puppet. The scary part would be her making up stuff about the dollar in order to answer a question like that. The dollar would end up in a free fall.
If she had any scruples or morals what-so-ever she would quit! But then again if she had those they wouldn’t have hired her.
She’ll be working for faux by next year and shortly after will be sexually harassed by KKKarl, Vannity, and O’Racist.
Where does the “policy” stem from? We are acting like it came from GW, but is it from Treasury? If she can’t talk about “other departments” then why can she talk freely about Iraq?
now thats just an odd statement.
who would tell her not to talk about the dollar and why?
What is interesting, looking at a graph
the value of the dollar - going down… it parallels exactly opposite
..the value of oil prices going up.
The value of the dollar (-) , the price of oil (+) match and parallel the timeline of the Iraq War policies starting in 2002.
Has Perino talked about Torture lately?
I wonder what Physicians have to say..
http://physiciansforhumanright.....truth.html
Thought for the day … from history..
Speech, State House of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1 August 1776)
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” -Sam Adams
In the old days, after giving an answer like that, the only question she would have received from the press from that point forward would have been about the dollar. Those were the good old days.
Is that a prison outfit she’s wearing? Looks good on her, she should wear prison gear more often. Hey maybe the whole WH could start wearing prison wear.
Perino didn’t know the difference between the Bay of Pigs episode and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Is this really the person people want to explain economic reality?
And which Presidential candidate has been sounding the alarm about the falling value of the dollar? Anyone…anyone…Bueller…
The answer is Ron Paul.
I actually went to Obama’s website, and his only mention of inflation was that he wants to index minimum wage to inflation. That doesn’t fix the problem. So he isn’t going to do anything about inflation. So your dollar will continue to lose its value and the price of oil (as well as other goods and services) will continue to rise. Hope, indeed.
Leslie Hussein @ 8:
Priceless..
Good! That’s one less lie that will be coming out of her mouth.
“I’m under strict instructions to obfuscate, confuse, dodge, hide and basically refuse to answer anything of substance.”
D.Perino
Pixie @ 2:
Beat me to it. How bout, “there is an ongoing appeal involving the dollar” or “the dollar is subject to the executive privilege” or “we don’t discuss specific techniques we use to torture the dollar for the enemy to adjust”
Of course she would get fired that’s so obvious what the hell does the White House or it’s press secretary know about the dollar. I’ll tell not one fucking thing
Is she afraid of being fired or tortured?
BobD @ 17
kind of looks like she belongs on the Starship Enterprise with that outfit.
wonder if she’s reptilian?
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
http://uk.youtube.com/results?.....arch_type=
a year ago
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zmyvEhU-gmw
ONLY AL JAZEERA CAN TALK ABOUT A FALLING DOLLAR!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
MS. PERINO: It’s a longstanding policy that predates this administration, and I’m not going to change it today. But Treasury can talk about it.
Uh-oh … I can hear the YouTubular firing up ….
Then tell us about the quarter and repeat it four times.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” -Sam Adams
That is fuckin awesome!!!
If she had anything positive to say about the future of the Dollar, this would have gone un-noticed. By this time next year, the Dollar is worthless.
The press secretary’s job is to represent the entire mob, not just Tony Soprano personally.
A real reporter would ask her about Petro-dollars …
Pixie @ 2:
Comes under heading: Things I wish I’d said and may later say not giving Pixie one iota of credit
25 Dale Says: Is she afraid of being fired or tortured?
I’m sure she’s into that.
Its part of that whole Ostrich, head in the sand, school of economics, if you talk about the real conditions of the economy then your part of the reason its a disaster if you ignore it or only use Rosy talk then you can wish it better. Kinda like if you don’t support the war then you don’t support the troops, or there are terrorists every where so be afraid but go shopping.
“I’m not going to talk about something neither I, nor anyone else in the junta, know anything about!”
Perino reminds me of the three monkey’s, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil all wrapped into one nice neat little package. There is literally no one in this administration that isn’t shitting in their pants at the breath of the dollar drop, and none of them have the balls to do the right thing. That is to shut down the printing presses and take your medicine. The addict doesn’t need another financial fix. Oh! I forgot, it’s an election year.
No one should be mad at the administration anymore - we know who they are: crooks and liars.
But there is NO EXCUSE fo the press to continuously allow them to stonewall and lie, and then cover for them. The press and our cowardly opposition party is the problem.
BLAME THEM.
A real reporter would ask her about Petro-dollars …
Even the Pedro-dollar is probably worth more now.
My understanding is that oil prices are pegged to the dollar. So the statement by OPEC is fairly transparent.
I’m shocked , she just didn’t lie about it nothing ever stopped her before. What a know nothing bitch she is.
38 Andrew Says: Perino reminds me of the three monkey’s, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil all wrapped into one nice neat little package.
Spank that monkey.
Follow up question should have been: What would you be willing to get fired for?
Any moron can see the high price of oil is a direct consequence of the weak dollar.
Remember that the Euro started out at 1:1 to the dollar. Now it’s about $1.55.
Oil is about 65 Euros right now.
lucid fiction @ 26:
She’s certainly cold blooded, can she lick her eyeballs? THAT would definitely stop a lot of reporters’ questions!
The real question: Why do we care what the press secretary says anyway?
She/they will only do one of two things:
1. Lie
2. Stonewall
It doesn’t matter what the administration says. The reporters need to leave the press room and go out and DO SOME REPORTING.
37 Dr. Acula Says: “I’m not going to talk about something neither I, nor anyone else in the junta, know anything about!”
The great white junta?
Pixie @ 2:
Heh.
Control, steer, and spin. If that fails just start shouting over and at your opponents Fox News style.
BobD @ 46:
:lol: THAT is funny. Ever see the teevee miniseries “V”? Mebbe she’ll open her jaw and eat a live rat right in front of the WH press lackies.
46 BobD Says: lucid fiction @ 26:
BobD @ 17
kind of looks like she belongs on the Starship Enterprise with that outfit.
wonder if she’s reptilian?
She’s certainly cold blooded, can she lick her eyeballs? THAT would definitely stop a lot of reporters’ questions!
That little cunny could probably lingas herself.
51 Bonkers Hussein
I remember V, it was back when Robert Englund wasn’t trying to be a comic.
Is Perino REALLY afraid her boss is going to fire her for leaking information about the dollar to the press?
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