Dana Perino: Fox's Bret Baier didn't "beat up" Obama, it was WH staff's fault for not being prepared

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Geraldo Rivera criticized Fox News host Bret Baier for his interruption-heavy interview of President Obama Wednesday.

Friday morning on radio program "Brian and the Judge," Geraldo — a Fox News host himself — said that Baier should have treated Obama with more respect.

"At a certain point, you gotta recognize...when the President seemed exasperated and frustrated and unable to complete a sentence, I thought at some point you gotta make a difference between the guy who's the senate whip or the house whip, or the assemblyman, the leader of the state senate," Geraldo said. "He's not a mayor, he's the President."

Former Bush Press Secretary Dana Perino disagreed.

"There's not a single reporter who ever interviewed President Bush who would have done anything different," she said. "I was there for 7.5 years, I watched them all...Diane Sawyer, others, they're aggressive and they should be.

"The only place I've seen that is Sarah Palin," Geraldo responded. "Sarah Palin's the only one who gets beat up the way Bret Baier beat up Barack Obama."

"I don't think he beat him up," Perino said. "He asked him some questions that the White House did not prepare the President for. That's a staff problem.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/19/geraldo-criticizes-bret-b_n_506793.html

[rfranklin]

1. Was this the guy that was yelling over Obama as if he was...

on one of those screamfests that substitutes for debate on Fox?

[LiberalLoner]

2. Yes, exactly.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Yep, it's been nicknamed the "Interrupt-A-Thon."

I forget the actual count...interrupted him something like 25 times in the brief interview. Here's the photo from the article I posted:

[opihimoimoi]

3. TYP DELUDED GOPiac Comment...a put down...cyniac and a pessimist..she is full of it.

[shraby]

5. I think I could live out my years in peaceful bliss if

I never hear or read another word spoken by Dana Perino who is probably one of the few people who had never heard of the Cuban Missle Crisis.
That my dears is one person who has no knowledge beyond what is written on a piece of paper for her to regurgitate.

[tishaLA]

6. 1. Sarah Palin has NEVER been beaten up in an interview

she has been to fucking stupid to answer basic questions like what she fucking reads, or about the Bush Doctrine (in what respect, Charlie, indeed)

2. But had ONE aggressive interview in which he was mildly interrupted during his entire tenure. It was by an Irish journalist and it made republicons go nuts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fze2J2Ve9is

[hlthe2b]

7. This stupid fool is well past her date with

karma...

She is so very much the "pretty, but very incessantly NASTY cheerleader", who got by on her looks and manipulation alone, never learning anything and always protected from facing her own consequences. Even her husband has as much as admitted how vapid and stupid she is...(remember her faux pas re: WWII and total lack of knowledge of the Cuban Missile Crisis)


Why won't these cretins just go away...

[LiberalFighter]

8. We know her 3 kids will grow up stupid. Unless their universe goes beyond Dana's.

[SoCalDem]

9. The conservative plan is to interrupt every 7 seconds

It disrupts the other's speech pattern/thought process, and never allows them to present a complete sentence...and it keeps them constantly "answering" the interruption, but then being interrupted yet again.. It also presents the "questioner" with an opportunity to edit the interview later, and come up with an "interview" that makes the person being interviewed, look like a bumbling, inarticulate person..and the "interviewer" then can claim that "so-and-so did NOT "answer the questions"...and was evasive/unpersuasive, etc. :grr:

[PBS Poll-435]

10. When fucking Bernie Goldberg tells O'Reilly that Baier was rude and unprofessional

I am going to take his word over Perino.

[Paladin]

11. Just Shut The Fuck Up, Dana. (n/t)

[bridgit]

12. I think Obama's WH staff was fully prepared to offer up Fox's Bret Baier as the poster boy...

For hysterical paranoia and disrespectful anti-American RW neocon spittle to be seen for what it is: the froth of rabid dogs. Knowing by way of the already-prepared-for accolades for such behavior from the the likes of the GOP's little cheer-leader letter writing sorority sister of an un-communicator: Dana Perino, like a bargain basement Peggy Noonan where the matronly no longer do the splits - *I'm sorry to have interrupted you so many times, Mr. President/That's OK it's your job* - no preparation indeed