PERINO-‘We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during Bush’s term’ (WTF was 9/11?)

[kpete]

Perino: ‘We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.’

Last night on Fox News, host Sean Hannity whined — as he usually does — about how the Obama administration doesn’t use the term “war on terror” (which is actually a good thing). Former Bush administration spokesperson and current Fox analyst Dana Perino joined in, complaining that no one is calling the massacre at Ft. Hood a terrorist attack. She then made this astonishing statement:

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.

VIDEO & More:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/25/perino-terror-attack-bush/

[msongs]

1. another victory in Obama's desire to be bipartisan at any cost lol nt

[WCGreen]

2. If the shooter had been an White Christian American....

Would they call it a terrorist attack?

[musette_sf]

3. There may be more said here than what is on the surface

I mean, if "we did not have a terrorist attack... during Bush's term", then what's the alternative?

An inside job.

[Nikki Stone1]

6. +10,000

:) Maybe a Bushie inadvertently admitted the truth.

[Echo In Light]

8. Absolutely, but still a "terrorist" attack, nonetheless. Plus, the anthrax incident

[anigbrowl]

15. eh...not really. I don't think you can read so much into an offhand remark.

Bear in mind that Perino is a) famously clueless and b) didn't become press secretary until several years after 9/11. I'm filing this firmly under 'idiocy', it's not evidence of anything greater.

[treestar]

4. She's just wrong

And Fort Hood was not a terrorist attack. I hate the M$M.

[KansDem]

5. Don't you remember? It was "one terrible pilot"...no, make that "two terrible pilots"...

...wait!..."three"...uh, no..."four." Yeah, that's it! "Four terrible pilots."

That's why Bush sat and did nothing but stare into space...

What can I do? What can the President do about "four terrible pilots?"

[pipi_k]

7. There was some twisted logic out there...

still is, but anyway, for a while after 9/11 I actually saw people write that it wasn't Bush's fault because he "had only been in office nine months" when it happened.

So it was really all Clinton's fault.

I asked some of these people how far into Bush's term would he have to be in order for something like that to be his responsibility, but never got any answers.

Those people really scared me.

[CJCRANE]

9. "Creating reality", it's what the RW does best.

I can't imagine what it's like to lie non-stop every day of your life. Does the money make it easy?

[whistler162]

10. Wonder if Mitch is having second thoughts on his pick?

probably not.

[Initech]

11. The pukes sure seem to be enjoying their selective memory lately.

[Javaman]

12. remember this moron didn't know what the Cuban missile crisis was. nt

[anigbrowl]

16. precisely .nt

[librechik]

13. The earth was created on 9/12/01

at least that's where Cheney planted the goalposts.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. September 11th? Anthrax murders? D.C. Sniper?

I'm not sure how these nuts are defining the words terrorist attack, but it sounds like they're saying that the definition is whatever can be construed to make Obama look bad and whatever can make a certain fetid Chimp look good (whick is nearly impossible).