Dana Perino on giving White House press peacocks ‘the bird’
Former White House press secretary/TV personality Dana Perino answers questions on SiriusXM. (Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty)
When Dana Perino became President George W. Bush’s last press secretary, a friend told her to make sure to put on her “big-girl panties” and brace for the challenge of a lifetime. Perino lays out her winding road to become the White House’s chief spokesperson in a new book, “And the Good News Is,” that explores her political coming of age, inside-the-Beltway machinations and what it’s like waging daily battles with reporters, whom she sometimes secretly flipped off from behind the podium. She discussed all of that in an interview with Yahoo News on Sirius XM’s POTUS, Channel 124.
On giving the peacocks in the press the bird:
On how she prepared for her first briefing:
On the advice she got from former Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry:
On why she wrote the book:
On Bush’s first question to every world leader he met:
