Dana Perino On The Offensive
September 25, 2007 at 4:21 pm
It’s not often the White House press corps gets called offensive, but it happened today.
From the press briefing with White House spokesperson Dana Perino.
MS. PERINO: On the speech — your question about the speech, the drafts are circulated, and there was an error made in trying to make sure that interpreters had what they needed. I don’t know how the draft of the speech — it was not final — was posted, but it was, and it was taken down. There’s really nothing more to say about it.
Q And they were phonetic spellings of various countries — as well, we understand.
MS. PERINO: That’s not unusual. We do that for many speeches.
Q Does the President have a hard time pronouncing some of these countries’s name?
MS. PERINO: I think that’s a offensive question. I’m going to just decline to comment on it.
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