Perino’s Mission Accomplished
August 7, 2008 at 11:44 am
Today’s Yeas & Nays has a great piece about White House press secretary Dana Perino. Headline: “Subtler than Snow, funnier than McClellan.”
An excerpt:
American Urban Radio’s April Ryan says Perino is “straightforward, but can inject personality.”
“She has a comfort in front of the camera that McClellan never had,” Ryan said.
Mason’s favorite example of Perino’s style of humor occurs once a year. “Every year on the anniversary of ‘Mission Accomplished,’ reporters come into the briefing room with guns blazing, demanding a mea culpa from the White House. When it was his turn, Tony let the briefing devolve into a massive argument about the meaning of the banner and who did what when. Dana this year just scoffed at the whole thing, saying it’s the news media’s most favorite day of the year and turning it back on the room. End of discussion.”
What did that encounter look like? Let’s go to the tape … and Helen Thomas.
Frank G said,
August 7, 2008 @ 9:47 pm
PLEASE! No more Helen Thomas! That frumpy nut should have her press pass pulled. She’s an embarrassment