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

[lwaxanatroi]

It's not her job to know about the past. It's her job to know the lie of the day--no less, no more.

[Merckx]

Last night I told my wife Tom Brokaw was doing a show on the history channel called 1968.
I said I wanted to watch it, I thought it might be good. It was. My wife's response was, "What happened in 1968?" She is about the same age as this Perino.

My wife has her Masters and then some.

If you want to know why history is doomed to repeat itself.... this is why.

[Joeblue]

Is anyone shocked?

[GenXer]

Sadly, George chimed in, "yeah,I want to know too."

[NotMyPrez]

That's what you get when you put a Barbie zombie in a job requiring an MA in history...­.

[drkazmd65]

Yep,... the ignorant, apathetic, and uninformed are 'bravely' leading this country into the abyss.

Remember folks, she is allegedly college educmacted, and she works for a President with a degree in History,..­...

Dana,... other than your boss and Cheney, there is nobody else I would rather see resign at present.

[Subvet]

Now we know where the Blond jokes originate from. What an AIRHEAD and further embarrassment by our mental-midgets in the executive branch.

[robiform]

Gee, what a surprise--it goes along with the whole "ignorance is bliss" attitude of this administration!

[Dap]

))))))))))))))))) Jeeeeesh ((((((((((­((((((((((

[Bluedanube]

Another vacuous right wing ideologue that is ignorant of history. They need tutorial help to bring them up to speed but then facts and reality are meaningless to Bushbots.