Perino: I Didn't Know What The Cuban Missile Crisis Was

Still looking for that last-minute Christmas gift for White House press secretary Dana Perino? May we recommend a gift certificate for the forthcoming book on the Cuban Missile Crisis by our colleague Michael Dobbs, "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War," due out next summer?

Appearing on National Public Radio's light-hearted quiz show "Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me," which aired over the weekend, Perino got into the spirit of things and told a story about herself that she had previously shared only in private: During a White House briefing, a reporter referred to the Cuban Missile Crisis -- and she didn't know what it was.

Read entire story here.

Read more about Dana Perino from HuffPolitics reporter Jason Linkins.

Comments

[Mark701]

Hmm. A Bush administration official who doesn't know her ass from her elbow. How does this make her any different from the rest of them?

[GeoNorth]

Dana Perino? Shamefully stupid....

[quintus]

Well, I guess we really do get the government we deserve. What? Do you really expect that they'd put in someone SMARTER than Bush for WH Press Secretary? She's perfect for the job she has been given.

Smart Americans have learned to expect less not more from this administration.

[bluestatelib]

Perino's lack of basic knowledge about the Cuban Missile Crisis is an indictment of her basic qualifications to serve as press secretary.

Furthermore, her inability to realize just how much of an indictment such lack of knowledge is, to the point that she would casually annouce her ignorance on a national radio program, is an equal indictment of her qualifications.

[daddawg]

Let's see, Kennedy was a Democrat, and they are evil, so the Cuban missile crisis never really happened. See how easy it is to be a Republican.

Asshats!

[avraamjack]

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There were 666 comments when I read this story.
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Being a good Christian , I had to say something.
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[ipv4]

I'm just dumbfounded and speachless I don't know what to say, is this actually possible?

[yukoner1]

She IS dumber than she looks, but that's a plus in GWs Whitehouse

[genseric]

Maybe she's a product of the public school system. This is a symptom of the specialization in a modern economy, wherein it's better to know one thing really well, in this case PR stuff, then it is to have a shallow knowledge of many things. In the old days, you needed to know a lot of things to survive, now you do much better being an expert at one discipline. Perfect example are all of the people that post here. Unfortunately it's just wasted knowledge. You won't make a dime reading this stuff.

[unique]

THESE ARE THE PEOPLE LEADING OUR COUNTRY.

WONDER WHY THE WORLD HATES AMERICA?

[unique]

PARINO IS JUST AS STUPID AS BUSH.

HEY PARINO, DO YOU KNOW WHO VENUS DE MILO IS?

HOW ABOUT THE COUNTRY PERSIA, WHERE IS PERSIA?

[phasechange]

Perino is part of the "Foxnewsification" of Republican politics - pretty and glib eye-candy is enough to get the public to swallow their facile slogans. Can we get Olberman to hire a cranky ugly old bitch to tell the truth and set these tarts on their ass?

[kirkland]

As appaling as this may be I find it less un-nerving than the comment : " Once a Bushie , always a Bushie". ( Dana Perino)
She strikes me as dumb as a box of rocks.

[lex]

i wonder if Dana Perino is still scoring her crystal meth from Rev. Ted Haggard?

[watchingthings]

Tony was as dumb as Dubya's left shoe and Dana is as dumb as Dubya's right shoe.