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Perino: Talk to the Hand
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Bush AdministrationSoon-to-be-unemployed White House spokesmodel Dana Perino spared no reporter her snappy wit and dazzling repartee on her next-to-last press conference. When asked if the President had any last minute pardons in the pipeline, Ms. Perino replied, "I just have you talk to the hand when it comes to pardons. But I don't - we have never talked about them from here, in terms of what may or may not be coming, and I'm not going to start on - five days to go. ... I don't anticipate that you'll have any, necessarily, on the 20th." Oh, snap, Dana! You go girl! Watch below (video via Think ...
Perino to press: ‘Talk to the hand when it comes to pardons.’
Think Progress —
In her second-to-last press briefing today, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino refused to answer questions about possible last-minute pardons from President Bush. A reporter asked whether to expect any more pardons from Bush before he leaves office, and Perino replied by telling the press to “talk to the hand”:
PERINO: I just have you talk to the hand when it comes to pardons. But I don’t — we have never talked about them from here, in terms of what may or may not be coming, and I’m not going to start on — five days to go. … I don’t anticipate that you’ll have any, necessarily, on the ...
Perino On Bush Pardons: "Talk To The Hand"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
There's been plenty of speculation about last-minute pardons from President Bush. But reporters won't be getting any solid information out of White House Press Secretary Dana Perino. At her second-to-last press briefing, Counselor to the President Ed Gillespie suggested that Perino would give some information. She responded:
Q Dana, as you heard Mr. Gillespie say, you're going to spill your guts about pardons. Where is that process?
MS. PERINO: I don't know why he threw me under the bus on that. (Laughter.)
Q Is there debate on that?
MS. PERINO: He doesn't know that basically I just have you talk to the hand when it comes to pardons. But ...
Perino On Bush Pardons: "Talk To The Hand"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
There's been plenty of speculation about last-minute pardons from President Bush. But reporters won't be getting any solid information out of White House Press Secretary Dana Perino. At her second-to-last press briefing, Counselor to the President Ed Gillespie suggested that Perino would give some information. She responded:
Q Dana, as you heard Mr. Gillespie say, you're going to spill your guts about pardons. Where is that process?
MS. PERINO: I don't know why he threw me under the bus on that. (Laughter.)
Q Is there debate on that?
MS. PERINO: He doesn't know that basically I just have you talk to the hand when it comes to pardons. But ...
Clock is ticking on pardons
Political Animal —
CLOCK IS TICKING ON PARDONS.... It's possible that the Toussie fiasco rattled the Bush White House a bit on the issue of clemency, but I more or less assumed we'd be hearing more about pardons as this presidency winds down. Today a reporter asked White House press secretary Dana Perino about pardons, and she replied that she has reporters " talk to the hand when it comes to pardons ." (Yes, an acute case of "senioritis" among top White House aides has set in.) Perino added , "[W]e have never talked about them from here in terms of what may or may not be coming. And I'm not going to start on five days to go.... I don't anticipate that you'll have any ...
