Blowhard News for Tuesday.

Boehner points finger at Dems over market meltdown

McCain says Obama didn't call Palin a pig

Despite His Threat To Veto Equal Pay Bill, Perino Says Bush Is ‘The First Gender Blind President’
on CNN, host John King asked White House Press Secretary Dana Perino about “charges of sexism in the media.” “Tell me what it is like. And do you agree with those charges?” King asked.

Perino responded by saying how “fortunate” she is to be able to work for President Bush — “the first gender blind president“:

KING: We have currently allegations that we’re elitist from the McCain campaign, [with] charges of sexism in the media. Tell me what it is like. And do you agree with those charges?
PERINO: I’ve been fortunate to work for a president who I consider to be the first gender blind president. I have a seat at the table. I feel very confident and very comfortable in my relationships with the others — with others that I work with at the White House. And there’s many other women throughout the Cabinet that the president has appointed.

Fiorina rips Tina Fey’s portray of Palin as ‘dismissive’ and ‘sexist.’
On MSNBC yesterday, McCain adviser Carly Fiorina decried Tina Fey’s portrayal of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live as “sexist.” “I think she looked a bit like her — I think of course the portrait was very dismissive of the substance of Sarah Palin,” Fiorina argued, calling it “totally superficial,” “disrespectful in the extreme,” and “sexist.

Palin doesn’t appear to share Fiorina’s complaints, however:
According to her spokesperson Tracey Schmitt, the real Sarah Palin had a good laugh along with the press corps in the back of the plane and millions of Americans at home.

“She thought it was quite funny, particularly because she once dressed up as Tina Fey for Halloween,” Schmitt said.



George Allen: ‘Americans are not addicted to oil, they’re addicted to freedom.’
Monday on Laura Ingraham’s radio show, former Virgina governor George Allen (R) scoffed at claims that Americans are addicted to oil, calling it “an elitist point of view.” Allen insisted it was freedom, not oil, that Americans were actually addicted to:
ALLEN: I love that statement, America is addicted to oil. What an elitist point of view. Americans are not addicted to oil. Americans are addicted to freedom — the freedom and liberty to move where and when we want