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On The Five, Dana Perino Grows Agitated Over Eric Bolling’s ‘Disgusting’ Name Calling

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On Thursday’s edition of Fox News’s The Five, Dana Perino admonished panelist Eric Bolling for mocking Energy Secretary Steven Chu with a mask on a stick.

“I think it’s disgusting the way we name-call here on both sides,” Perino said. “This is a guy who was an accomplished scientist. Maybe he shouldn’t have been in charge of the green energy loan program going out. It wasn’t as if both Republicans and Democrats didn’t ask for the program in the first place.”

The panel had been discussing yet another green loan kerfuffle, and Perino had cast the issue as a problem for both Republicans and Democrats.

This didn’t sit well for Bolling, who disagreed with Perino’s analysis. “Why are you blaming Republicans? Where did that come in? These are loans under Steven Chu?” Bolling argued.

“Both Republicans and Democrats voted for the money, approved it and lobbied for some of it. Not for this in particular, but overall…” Perino reasoned.

Bolling criticized government loans going to Nissan as incentive for the Leaf. “Wait a second, Eric!” Perino said. “Nissan has a lot of American employees.”

“It’s a Japanese company!” Bolling countered.

“There are plenty of Republicans and Democrats that both lobby for this money,” Perino continued. “They wanted the program in the first place. They ask for it and they lobbied…I also think that Secretary Chu –”

“Underqualified!” interjected Bolling, before being chided by Perino.

Bolling appeared to be frustrated that the green loan flaps haven’t stuck to the Obama Administration. The Wall Street Journal conducted a recent poll that showed voters viewed green companies like Solyndra more as “bad apples” rather than “indications of a systemic problem” and they still overwhelmingly favored support for renewable energy programs.

Watch Bolling and Perino trade words below, via Fox News:

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  • Anonymous

    Perino’s last day is tomorrow.

  • Anonymous

    “I think it’s disgusting the way we name-call here on both sides,” Perino…”

    Dana was also referring to obnoxious oaf Beckel , with his constant belittling and insulting nicknames for any conservative he has to force himself to talk about . This childish behavior is hard to take and I would hate to sit next to this coughing , sneezing ,burping , wheezing clod .

                 Signed , Gloves ( not a Beckel fan)

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Cheers to Dana. Credit when due.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Aw tiny Eddie putz just had to get a dig in a beckel of course! Who saw that coming? And dig the irony!

    Signed Rufus(not a tiny eddie putz fan)

  • Anonymous

    Fact: That’s all Mediaite got from the five today? Most of the show was about how the OWS are filthy idiots!!!!

  • hihihi

    ailes is establishment
    if anything, bolling is out

  • Anonymous

    Your stalker is back.

  • Anonymous

    Tantaros = Cute and dumb. I chuckle everytime I read her NYDN column and ponder how anyone could actually earn money scribing that garbage. 

  • Rufus Danegro

    Your concern is noted retard. 

  • http://www.noneedforastinkingwebsite.com dow daytrader

    she is Karl Rove with a skirt….RINO ! 

  • RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

    UH OH …. Flashback : Obama speaks out against political games that divide us by class  http://www.therightscoop.com/flashback-obama-speaks-out-against-political-games-that-divide-us-by-class/

  • Anonymous

    Apparently you haven’t read anything by Andrew Sullivan.

  • Rufus Danegro

    Hey Sarah Palin makes money saying even dumber things. Go figure.

  • Anonymous

    Dana is at least reasonable, Bolling is just a dick.

  • Anonymous

    Why? I actually don’t mind Perino. She is a Republican, but she’s fair and not a complete ideologue like the likes of Tantaros, Guilfoyle etc.

  • Anonymous

    Bolling reminds me of Donny Deutsch on NBC/MSNBC.I have no idea why he’s there,what he has done,what his so-called expertise is or why the network would want him there.They both say stupid and insulting things that piss people off.

    In this case I side with Perino,she’s right both sides are to blame.That said some of the loans were obviously not good choices and that should fall on the administration.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure your parents are proud of your rhetoric.

    I hope you don’t have kids. What horrible manners!

  • Anonymous

    From my understanding, Bolling is self-made. Deutsch inherited his dad’s company. They are far apart in personality.

    Perino was right in this instance.

  • Anonymous

    I disagree. The only place I think he has been really misguided is with the Trig birtherism crap. I have liked him ever since The Dish was at The Atlantic. He’s also not shy to admit when he’s wrong. A journalist w/o a big ego always gets points from me.

  • Anonymous

    So he has come out and apologized for the Trig stuff? I’d like to see this.

    However, since you made fun of the mentally handicapped community, your opinion going forward is pretty worthless.

  • Anonymous

    Clearly being reasonable and fair is unacceptable to ideologues like Eric Bolling. Good thing the majority of Americans don’t think like him.

  • Anonymous

    No one cares what you think.

  • Anonymous

    “I hope you don’t have kids.”

    Again – no one cares what you think.

  • Anonymous

    And she only does so 140 characters at a time. 

  • Anonymous

    Well thanks for asking about my parents, who are dead by the way.Manners would suggest you do not bring up family members if you have no idea where the comment will go. Now we are even

  • Anonymous

    Sullivan is one of the few honest and thoughtful conservative writers left on the scene today (along with Frum, Buckley and Bartlett). He’s willing to see both sides of an issue, challenges established orthodoxy, doesn’t pander to his audience, refuses to parrot nonsense talking points, and THINKS FOR HIMSELF, which is what drives the dittoheads crazy. He doesn’t buy into their victimization or their anti-Obama screeds or any of the ideological crap that turned me off about conservatism. 

    He’s a breath of fresh air. 

  • Anonymous

    And exactly what should he apologize for? 

  • Anonymous

    Sullivan and Frum are not conservatives. I don’t know enough about Buckley or Bartlett to comment.

    That is all. Off to workout. :)

  • Anonymous

    Still Palin 2012? hahahahahahaha christ I bet you’re still that stupid too

  • Anonymous

    Being alive or dead has no bearing on the manners they taught you when they were here on Earth.

    I am sorry that they passed away. I’m sure they’re in a better place (if you believe in that sort of thing).

  • Anonymous

    You keep replying therefore you do.

    Thanks for playing.

  • Anonymous

    I agree. She’s not disagreeable or shrill. Why can’t she get an hour in primetime and not Sean Hackity. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    She needs to be more civil. That word seems to have escaped her kind.

  • Anonymous

    As though you value opinions that don’t agree with yours. hahahahahahahaha. Christ you’re stupid.

    I bet you sent SarahPAC money too. And bought all her books. What a rube.

    “Well actually she has more power in her current position”. Yeah, private citizen Sarah Palin without the lure of deceiving her ignorant supporters into thinking she’s running will sure be a force. hahahahahaha

  • Anonymous

    Hardly in context.  Yesterday Beckel got in trouble for his constant derogatory name calling.  Dana was obviously pissed off enough that even Beckel sort of  backed down for awhile.  

  • Bware

    A bunch of crazy low-brow clowns just what you expect on Fox.

  • Anonymous

     We should tone down the ridicule in political rhetoric.  But without ridicule, MSNBC would have nothing to put on the air.  So don’t expect this to happen any time soon.

  • Anonymous

    Got any roach spray ?

  • Anonymous

    Name call on both sides,give me a break.Its the right wingers on the panel.

  • Your Mama’s so fat

    She can’t have her own show due to the D.B.Q. at Fox.  That’s “Daily Blond Quotient” which has already been met or exceeded apparently.

  • Michelle

    It’s interesting, the panel got on Bob for his constant name calling yesterday and it didn’t warrant a piece on Mediaite.  I wonder why?  Any thoughts, James?

  • Michelle

    He’s downright creepy some days.  He was trying to flirt with Kimberly one day and it was really icky.

    ps, Every time I see Kimberly (who I love), I wonder how on earth she was every married to Gavin Newsom.  Did she lose a bet?  Go temporarily insane?  What.  I have to know!

  • Michelle

    It’s obvious you don’t watch the show.  The biggest offender is Bob.  He does it more than the other 4 put together. 

  • Anon

    lol

    this woman is a blind idealogue…usually

  • Your Mama’s so fat

    Do you think Bolling will ever realize that he’s just a dick?

  • Jeffy Teabagged

    Do I have to remind you widdle gNOpigs that Boils was warned about his idiotic antics just to keep going, and still be cuddled by Fux, after he issued his standard gNOpig half arsed apology?

    “It is a JAPANESE company!”

    Oh, pray do tell, Mr. Boils,  CAPITALISM and invention and profit STOP at the USA border?

    Say, Mr. Boils, any chance you start questioning the source of the gasoline going into your widdle red Porsche?

  • Rufus Danegro

    sniff sniff Media bias!!!!!

  • Rufus Danegro

    Be sure and spray some in your mouth! It might help you with that other little problem…

  • Lenny

    Oh be quiet..You are so self righteous its a joke..BEcause he called Bolling a dick, which he is as he is just a nasty man, you say something disparaging about his family…Nice!

  • Anonymous

    I’m ABO.

    All of the candidates on the Dem. and Rep. side are horrible. Face facts dude.

  • Anonymous

    So you’re a truther. Good to know.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t send money to candidates. Not at this stage of the game. Sorry to break your meme and all.

    She does have more power in her current position. All of the candidates for office for the President (including Obama) are horrible candidates. The ONLY saving grace is that the Democrats will have no one to run after 2012.

  • Anonymous

    Deleted – not worth it. :)

  • proud2tbagu

    Still using all witty words I see. TOOL

  • Anonymous

    Gavin is a good looking dude. Last I checked, he’s now a mayor of a city in a big democratic state and has a very good future (governor maybe) in liberal politics while your dear is a cable news hack. 

  • Anonymous

    Felix can’t bash FOX, so he has to go off topic to bash MSNBC like a good little FOX loyalist.  

  • Anonymous

    Are you nucking futs? How the hell did I make fun of the “mentally handicapped community” with my comment..you idiot? My own wife has a mental disability. I have volunteered MY own time teaching at a Salvation Army school for the physically handicapped. I have done more for the disabled than you would in a lifetime. I clearly said Sullivan is misguided by exploring the Trig birth conspiracy. I said so because I do not agree with him on that issue and I believe he’s wrong even though he doesn’t think he is. Can’t you read? Why are you asking me to apologize for Sullivan’s opinions? When did I say he apologized for it? I said he has apologized for his mis-statements. I didn’t indicate the birther conspiracy was one of them…moron!

  • Anonymous

    She’s a total idiot of course. 

  • Anonymous

    Yes she did, and she told us months ago how “sure” she was that Sarah Failin’ was going to run. Once a quitter, always a quitter though for the Alaskan numskull.

  • Jeffy Merrill Teabagged

    I see disgusting “proud teabagged moron” came to the defense of proven racist teabagged morons like Eric Boils.

    Surprise us and tell us Boiles is NOT a racist phuck.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Was she under  the Clinton White House furniture before Bush ?

  • Michelle

    She didn’t say anything disparaging about his family.    She was responding to a disparaging comment someone else made.  Perhaps it’s you being self righteous.

  • Anonymous

    Are you a chick?

    As a younger chick, Gavin is not a good looking dude. I dare say that Kimberly adds more benefit to society than Gavin does in SF.

  • Anonymous

    Where did I say that it had anything to do with a comment you made?

    As I said, your opinion means squat. Continue to attack the mentally handicapped.

  • Anonymous

    Calling someone out for their rude behavior is self-righteous? Good to know.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    Dana Perino is a crony capitalist and had to rationalize these fascist behavior under the Bush administration. She can’t exactly turn on the act now that this exact same fascist behavior has continued under the Obama administration. She does this a lot, it’s pretty annoying. When’s the next time Monica Crowley will be on to take her spot?

  • Anonymous

    What exactly does she do other than being a stooge barker on Faux Nuz? Gavin is serving the people. Try again.

  • Anonymous

    Is this Royal Pain in the Arse?  Sure talks like it, and I say ‘it’ purposefully.

  • Anonymous

    You have shown your ignorance…..again, big surprise. You do not even know who the Buckleys are and yet you are judging people’s conservativeness. Guffaw. What a tool. BTW, Bartlett is an econ wonk and frequently writes for The Fiscal Times. He used to work as an advisor to Reagan on economic issues.

  • Anonymous

    huh?    Dana is the most centrist person on that show – though its hard sometimes  to get Greg’s view straight since he’s rarely serious  about any issue.

  • Anonymous

    That’s what I thought ToiletinWI. You couldn’t defend your bullshit.

  • occupy the GOP

    newsom used to mayor. now he’s lt. governor. 

    i concur, he’s a good looking dude. chicks (that aren’t politically partisan) dig him.

  • Guyoxim

    Chick? Have you no self respect?

  • Guyoxim

    I met Dana recently. She’s an arrogant little bitch.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    I can buy that… But in this case she did alright.

  • Anonymous

    Yoda, as usual, you make no sense.  If the subject is ridicule, the obvious culprit is MSNBC.  As for Fox….you should check out the O’Reilly Factor sometime to see what substantive, ridicule-free commentary looks like.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DMHWE4GFMVW5VQD53XFLCGYBO4 Ishmael_137

    Should probably just hit Chu with the stick.  The DOE has no business playing venture capitalist with public money. Giving money away to Obama’s friends is criminal

  • Anonymous

    You can’t understand because you can’t see outside that FOX bubble.  Even you Felix should know that the O’Reilly Factor is full of non substantive, non-ridicule-free commentary. He doesn’t let his guests finish a sentence, he lies and he just repeats the talking points that gets passed down to him from Bill Sammon.  

  • Anonymous

    You probably smelled bad.

  • Anonymous

    At least she gets paid. What’s your excuse?

  • Anonymous

    You want clowns? Tune in MSNBC between 5PM and 9PM.

  • SlyFox

    I think Perino is really a very nice gal and all she was saying was name calling is so juvenile on both the republican and democrat side. She was raised differently in a conservative well-mannered home. Bolling is tired of all the MSM portraying repubs as some dispicable radical rich sympathizers, as well as am I. Fox will not remove her because she really believes what she says and maybe she is a little naive is all. If they do not get rid of Beckel for all his cussing, they surely will not get rid of Perino. Perino really tries to see the good in people instead of trying to find ways to demean people and it is pretty refreshing to me.

  • Chauncy Gardner

    Bolling is a bigmouth asshole not to mention he’s dumber than 2 bags of hammers.

  • Rio

    I think so, got that impression with his first comment in the Catholic thread.  Such a child.

    What a waste of a thread this has turned out to be, like children tossing their popcorn all over the neighbor’s living room.  Can’t take them anywhere.

  • Anonymous

    Dana Perino spoke well on the subject and wouldn’t allow her clearly thought out view to be shouted down.

  • Anonymous

    Speaking as an Independent, the way I see it is simple:
    Bolling is…quite frankly…a dick.
    As a comparison, he is to Fox News what Ed Schultz is to MSNBC.

    In both cases, we’re talking about die-hard ideologues who make no bones about it. Now THAT alone isn’t what makes either of them dicks. I have no problem with someone being a Republican, much like I don’t mind someone being a Democrat. But what I DO hate — and what turned me into an Independent like millions of other people — are people (from either side of the aisle) who are SUCH ideologues that there’s absolutely NO reasoning with them. And what makes them dicks is that they are SO determined to be ideologues that they’ll just yell you down or get nasty or mean-spirited to ensure they always get their say or have their way.

    To her credit, Perino was being fair — which is a definite no-no to a dick (like Bolling). However, the cold hard FACT is that Solyndra DID begin under the Bush Administration, when they were pushing money in the company’s direction TOO. And as Perino correctly points out, Republicans have been every bit as guilty as Democrats of lining certain business pockets.

    Which is why Bolling is an even BIGGER DICK. As the article notes, polls show that people look at Solyndra as a bad apple, but overall the public still believes — in majority numbers — that we HAVE to start weaning ourselves off oil and into alternative energy, so that we — as a country — can have fuller control over things.

    But Bolling is just another die-hard disciple of the Palin school of “drill, baby, drill” — where oil companies can do no wrong, and the profits they make can never be enough. And the price you pay at the pump will always be fair because — hey! — no oil company…or no corporation for that matter…would EVER cheat you.

    No, no, no — Eric Bolling wants you to know that EVERY SINGLE CORPORATION…in fact, EVERY BUSINESS IN THE WORLD…ONLY has your best interests at heart. As Bolling will assert over and over and over again, there’s NEVER any bad people in the business world and EVERY profit margin was earned by the goodness of deeds and the generosity of their hearts.

    Truth be told, at first, I couldn’t figure out WHY Fox was keeping Bolling around. Or WHY they were letting him become such a prominent figure on the network (for example, giving him the center seat on a show like THE FIVE) since he seems to have an IQ of about 12.

    Then one day I realized he is SUCH a buffoon and says SUCH stupid things that he makes good TV. Which makes for good ratings…which, to Fox’s mind, is all the more reason to keep him around.

  • Sanga

    Dana is hot.

  • caconservative

    She’s beautiful, intellegent, and fair. Every the Liberal clown she sits with, isn’t!

  • Anonymous

    No, WC. Seriously. Exactly what should Sullivan apologize for. And BE SPECIFIC.

  • Anonymous

    You mean that they’re not YOUR flavor of conservatism, which sounds more Christianist. That doesn’t undermine their conservative credentials. 

  • Bob Uda

    Dana is all wet.  This guy Chu did not understand the Gulf Oil Leak problem and made some stupid decisions to block the hole.  He also has made poor decisions regarding Solyndra et al. poor investments on his green quest.  The guy is as qualified to have earned the Nobel Peace Prize as Obama is to have earned his.  It is all a progressive NPP committee’s decision to perpetuate theor own kind.  These two NPP winners are losers.

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    A japanese company?  

    So is toyota, and look how many tundras you see driving around Rick Perry’s home state.

  • Anonymous

    Cause James is a hack  like most of the writers,  that write for mediaite.

  • Anonymous

    Dana Perino, Dana Perino?  Oh year, she was Bush’s paid designated liar wasn’t she?

  • Anonymous

     Goody-Goody Perino to sensitive to take a panel like this, how do you think Democrats/liberals are talking, dummy?

    Get in the game or go back to snow white dress rehearsals.

  • redstatekate

    Exactly – in the segment right before this, Beckel was doing his usual name-calling and Dana had gotten annoyed. Kind of one-sided for this article to say that she was agitated with Bolling only.

  • Anonymous

    Does anyone expect a scientist to have the skills and abilities to manage a massive government department?  That’s like expecting a PhD in car engineering to run Ford properly.  Bolling is mad at the Chu when he should be mad at Pres. Obama and Congress.   

  • http://spacegod.tumblr.com/ spacegod

    Eric Bolling is one of the very few people on earth that I instinctively feel like punching on sight.
    It’s about time Dana performed a little emasculation on him.

    I disagree with the interchangeable brunette top model reject–I like the louder Bob Bickel.
    But even so, he is an embarrassment.
    We need a left-leaner on The Five that can actually punch his way out of the panel’s wet paper bag.

  • http://twitter.com/ZackyBeatz %Zackyatz%Music

    What is this show, holding cardboard signs 
    His underqualified, he rides his bike to work ?….

    I use to think Glenn Beck was bad, this Eric Bolling guy is so hateful that he hits a new low every time he talks, he smears people all the time..
    whats wrong with these people..   decent argument and sane critique rather then ad-hominem attacks

  • Evighedspanda

    She is a rino because she doesn’t like name calling?

  • ARNOLDBANDY

    You scared of a little woman whos “fair n balanced”?

  • ARNOLDBANDY

    ALL TALK, NO FACTS…YOU, NOT HER

  • Arnoldbandy

    This Woman has the rare ability to see and say things as they are, if You can’t see this , You are voluntarily blind

  • Arnoldbandy

    Dana Perino not civil??? Only a fool could make this statement

  • Arnoldbandy

    She points out the truth D*p sh*t, pick up on it

  • Arnoldbandy

    Yeah, protecting your mother

  • Anonymous

    Ooooh…nice rebuttal there Genius. I guess I touched a nerve on your pinup blowhard. Guffaw.

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