WASHINGTON \u2014 President Barack Obama has tapped a former top aide of his predecessor George W. Bush to a key post on a board overseeing government-sponsored international broadcasting.<\/font><\/p>\n Dana Perino, the first Republican woman to serve as White House press secretary, was appointed late Wednesday to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG).<\/font><\/p>\n Created in 1994, the BBG oversees all of the US government’s non-military international broadcasting outlets, including Voice of America, Alhurra television, Radio Sawa, TV Marti, Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe.<\/font> Read on…<\/a><\/p>\n Where to begin? I understand that President Obama campaigned on the idea of bipartisanship, but this is truly an insult. Forget that he is appointing<\/font> an intellectual lightweight<\/a> who ran cover for, and spread propaganda for the worst president in American history<\/strong>. Dana Perino stood before reporters and routinely lied to them and the world<\/strong> — even<\/font> defending the use of torture<\/a>, calling it "<\/font>effective, safe and legal<\/a>." <\/font><\/p>\n And now President Obama believes that she has the integrity to hold a key position<\/font> in an agency<\/a> that oversees government-sponsored, international broadcasting?\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Crooks and Liars<\/a>><\/p>\n I\u2019m searching for something to say here, but I just can\u2019t shake off my sense of utter amazement and disbelief! Shit! How could he?!!?<\/p>\n This appointment is one that has to be confirmed in the Senate. If people had told me yesterday that I would be calling for Senate Democrats to filibuster an Obama appointee, I would have told them they were crazy and would have suggested they had been sipping the GOP Kool-Aid. But that\u2019s the only thing I can think of! WTF!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most of my criticism of President Barack Obama has centered around his appointment of right wing ideologues to government posts. On that, his record is dismal at best. But this time, he has gone completely off the deep end. Like the author, I did a double take too! Yep, I did a double take too. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"dana-perino-bush\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/WTFIsHeThinking_2B5A\/danaperinobush.jpg\" "\\"dana-perino-bush\\"")
<\/a> Yep, I did<\/font> a double take too<\/a>. <\/font><\/p>\n