Ahh....the benefits of being a Bushie: you never have to apologize for your lack of knowledge.
Dana Perino appeared on NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" and admitted that she RECENTLY had to ask her (British) husband if the "Cuban Missile Crisis" and the "Bay of Pigs" were the same thing.
Keep that in mind the next time she says, "let's take a historical perspective on this..."
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She may be stupid ,but she sure is damn good lookin.
I heard the same thing. Frankly, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Of course, she speaks for the President, so knowledge and facts isn't that important.
I'm so sad for my country, and so embarrassed to say this is our government.
jimbeam @ 2:
Oh come on without the makeup . . . never mind.
Can I nominate Ms. S.Carolina as successor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
well bush co has now set a new benchmark, she has to be the dumbist press secretary in modern times.
charles @ 6:
Overqualified!
jimbeam @ 2:
I'd rather go on a date with Helen Thomas than this air head any day :)
I am never amazed by the stupidity of what the Bushies say although this could be a new low....
Good grief. I heard that show and she did fine. I don't know the details of the Cuban Missile Crisis either and I was actually alive at the time. So what -- stop hating! It's not good for you.
"Being a Bushie means never having to say you're smart."
I hope the press corps crucifies her over this. Oh, right, never mind.
smiley @ 11:
You aren't the White House Press Secretary, either. Though apparently you're qualified for the position.
I heard it. What an ignorant airhead. Perfect example of the Bush Administration.
Slightly less irritating than the last few Press Liars though.
Dana is a fox.
Her words are worthless.
C'mon, she's trying to learn.
Last week, she learned Iraq was not spelled with a 'K'.
Next week, she's going to try to find it on a map.
Of course, she has to go kind of slow with this stuff. Knowing more than your boss can be embarrassing.
I just watch her lips move.
She's purdy.
Did she say something????
Siiiiiiiiiiiiiigh ....
smiley @ 11:
We're not hating, we're just revolted with facts. There's a difference.
If you want to scare yourself silly, just try to imagine what would have happened if Bush had been president during the Cuban Missile Crisis instead of Kennedy.
Looks like a bogus degree.
There was a time when I would have been surprised, about 10 years ago. Really.
Medical Diagnosis by Video @ 15:
I don't think she's an airhead by any means -- she is a condescending, calculated liar. She knows exactly the semantic tightrope on which she is walking, has nothing but disdain for her press colleagues, and willingly lies to advance a sinister cause. She reminds me of an elitist rich kid cheerleader who got on the squad because her parents are rich.
Looks are immaterial. I despise Tweety for making several lecherous comments about her looks.
She's a hack for Bush, but cute as a bug's ear.
Someday she'll get to write a book . I look forward to the chapter about Sadam Hussein orchestrating 911 .
Perino always reminds me of that years-old viral video of the office twit singing "Ray of Light" to her webcam before some irritated coworker from the background snaps and walks over to whomp her on the head with a book. Now I'll always think of it as a history book.
Well now we know Perino is just a pretty face to mesmerize the 30%ers.
NPR: Dana Perino Don’t Know Much About History
Why do I think that since it speaks of a third person the proper grammar should be DP DOESN'T know much about history?
jimbeam Says:
She may be stupid ,but she sure is damn good lookin.
pretty doesn't trump stupid.
That's why I love her. Pretty and not a brain in her head ;) (yes, I'm kidding).
I dream of a world where rinky-dink tinpot yahoos in faux-military garb are no longer anywhere NEAR center stage when nuclear weapons are involved.
I continue to dream.
wiki,
Perino graduated from the University of Southern Colorado (now known as Colorado State University-Pueblo) in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in mass communications and minors in both political science and Spanish.
Nothing there about pigs'n missiles.
The Bay of Pigs is what we called one of the women's dormitories at Purdue. The Cuban missile crisis is what we called the situation that transpired after Ev Gonzales got caught by one resident of the aforementioned dorm (who he was supposedly dating) on a date to Harry's Chocolate Shop with another resident of the aforementioned dorm.
He was a player, that Ev. Wonder what ever happened to him.
Alright already, quit thinking with your [enter sexual organ here.] Try closing your eyes and pretending that she’s the wicked witch of the east or something. Jeebus.
Dana Perino,has as much business being the White House Spokes Person as George Bush has, being the so called President of the United States.
Both are doing a disservice to this country and need to step down in shame, as what will ultimately be the case as history will write and have a whole lot to say about this administration. We can take that to the bank, if they are still in business.
smiley @ 11:
I took the liberty to brush up on my "Bay of Pigs" real quick like..
Perino's mistake was letting it be known that she is slow. There are ways around slow and she missed a chance.
immigrant @ 28:
It's a line from an old Sam Cooke song, "Wonderful World".
Frank Dufek @ 19:
Well, OK , but it was a game show. And a liberal game game show at that. I was glad she was a good sport about the shit she got from the people on the show.
We're not hating, we're just revolted with facts. There's a difference.
Sure sounds hateful to me. Whatever... This kind of stuff is either the boon or bane to the democratic party. I know what you all think but it remains to be seen what it means in reality.
betcha she's gone before the end of next year........
immigrant @ 28:
If you ever thought, you might have thought that the 'Don't' was making the point.
Lynn Cheney was on WWDL2me recently. What an insult these scumbags go on Public Radio.
I turned both off.
mudshark @ 39:
You're on Mudshark. I will up the ante to say she will split during the winter break, along with a few more Bush insiders.
Just watch the cowards try to do a "sneak" resignation while people are on vacation.
These people are SO SO stupid it is painful. How in the world did America elect the absolute underbelly of society and humanity?
ALL Bush press secretaries have been suspect in the "informed" department so maybe we should ratchet down the misogyny here , gentlemen .
Bush thinks "Bay of Pigs" is the noise they make.
mudshark @ 39:
No, she serves her purpose. She serves up the party line, says, "I don't know," a lot, insults Helen Thomas, spins like a wobbly top, defends the administration when it does something indefensible, and lies through her teeth. She's doing just fine. No need for her to go.
RobertD @ 46:
I agree. She's an administration tool and adept at stammering her way through press conferences. Too valuable to lose.
charles @ 32:
She probably went there on a religious bible-thumping scholarship, and had some love-struck 'minister' sit in for her on exams. She may have acted as a 'bed dictionary' for an illegal alien to get through her Spanish minor. And she could have blown some fundamentalist, evolution-denying Colorado congressman to squeak through her political science course. (Isn't 'political science' an oxymoron?)
mudshark @ 39:
Are we trying to be funny? Bush ,thank God ,only has 407 days left.
Conservative policy on media relations.. When in doubt, hire a bimbo.
cheers the smat bitch! she gradutated the third grade!
Preacher Boob @ 48:
Isn't political science an oxymoron---not necessarily in the past, but given the extreme debasement of our political system in the last 8 years, most certainly. Right now we're just a perfect example of what NOT to do.
jimbeam @ 2:
If it helps you gain some clarity and perspective, I call to mind a line from the film Zorro the Gay Blade, where Bunny Wigglesworth - Zorro's gay twin brother -says,
"Well, look at it like this: in another 50 years she'll be just another toothless old hag."
Personally, her dishonesty and inner corruption make her so ugly to my senses that her physical appearance doesn't even register. I end up feeling like I need to bath in disinfectant everytime she speaks.
smiley @ 11:
No hating, just ridiculing and getting a laugh (better than a cry) out of incompetence.
Start thinking! It's good for you.
Paul @ 54:
Right on, Paul.
"She may have acted as a ‘bed dictionary’ for an illegal alien to get through her Spanish minor."
WTF is this racist comment doing here at C&L? Not funny.
Castanea @ 47:
This is why I don't think she'll last...the stammering during the NIE report on Iran...she got very flustered.She'll crack...not to mention this admin is going to get called out for all it's injustices....the last year is always the toughest one.And we all know that these clowns have more than the normal baggage......nope....she'll walk.
Biggus Diggus @ 23:
I submit she 'made the team...' because of her tremendous skill with her mouth.
You can see whenver Mr. Decider appears with her he's mighty friendly.....
I don't really blame her for being so ignorant about history and facts. It's an American tradition. We're the most ignorant people on Earth. If you have any doubts, watch this week especially and over the next several months as all hell breaks loose in and around Kosovo. You'll see. The dearth of talk about Kosovo on this site almost proves the point.
I love peoples disgust for ignorant republicans. Ignorant republicans make great dates. Always willing to sacrifice their self-respect for a nice, hard... um, lecture?
So this and Miss South Carolina are where the blond jokes started.
smiley @ 11:
You know what it is not good for you; trying to assume that because you are ignorant about the basic history and culture of your own country that should be the norm.
I wasn't alive at that time, and yet somehow I managed to fully understand the difference between the Bay of Pigs disaster (the failed invasion attempt by CIA-led Cuban right wing ex-pats trying to depose Castro) and the Cuban Missile Crisis (when JFK and Nikita were playing chicken with nuclear Armageddon). Heck, I wasn't even born in this country, go figure...
At some point there has to be a minimum baseline of cultural and historical knowledge that should be required for most citizens. And in my not so humble opinion, knowing when the world has been closest to complete annihilation (The Cuban Missile Crisis) is the least an American citizen should know... this country can't be responsible for almost destroying the world and then after a few decades have someone in charge of the US Government communications not even knowing about that simple fact. It is fucking ignorant, and there is nothing hateful about pointing that and call an idiot an idiot.
I would love to see all those idiots, who complained about all those silly immigrants not speaking English a couple days back, if they would be able to pass a refresher quiz on American culture. Those who fail get their citizenship stripped... wouldn't that be fun?
When I heard her on WWDTM I thought Oh snap, wait until the WH press hears about this.
They are going to tie every current question with some sort of historic reference just to see how she spins ignorance.
bmw 528 @ 53:
Actually Political Science *is* an oxymoron regardless the state of politics. It is a misnomer of such magnitude that I automatically ignore anything written or uttered by a political "scientist." Here is the rule of thumb, if they can't even get the name of your field right, chances are that they can't manage or analyze more complex tasks...
Again, just because they labeled it a "science" does not make it a part of the scientific process by a loooooong shot, in fact most social "sciences" should drop the science (I know it sounds cooler, alas they are piggy backing their field on the achievements of real sciences, which I think it is fairly disingenuous... And yes I am real scientist :-) )
Damn, this Perino-ditz gives a whole new meaning to blonde jokes. Dumber than a box o'rocks
Ignorance of history is the must have prerequisite For Americans who participate in main stream politics and media...
She is cookie cutter cute, nothing to write home about cute. I know many women much more beautiful than her and very real people at that. Hey, I like my female friends, I'm an unusual male.
On the job, unfortunately she is a bush shill. What ever the hell that is.
Not to forget, I know about the bay of Pigs invasion, and the Cuban missile crisis. I was young at the time but knew very well that things were tenuous, a word I never would have used. I was a paper boy and men would meet me at the door for the paper during tough events, I learned to pay attention when certain guys met me at the door.
Bush thinks the Cuban Missile Crisis is about Lewinsky.
What did Dana Perino say when she saw a banana peel in her way as she was walking? "Oh no, not this again!"
Isn't it nice having someone naive and ignorant (Perino) lecture smart and experienced people (like Helen Thomas)? In America, beauty trumps smart.
The Dude @ 65:
As a political "scientist" myself, I do understand what you are saying. As you say, the designation of "science" here does not imply that accepted scientific processes are used in this discipline, clearly, they are not, rather "science" is a more broadly and perhaps inaccurately defined term in this context. In reality, it probably does need to be renamed. The rigor required for genuine scientific process and politics are clearly at odds.
Speaking of such things, I wonder if she's heard of Operation Northwoods.....
charles @ 69:
Darn those Monte 2's anyway.
The Dude @ 63:
now now don't be giving huckabee any new campaign ideas :twisted:
I was listening to the show when this happened. I wasn't paying attention to who it was until later on when they said her name again. Then I thought back and my jaw hit the floor. The WWDTM guys got a couple digs in I must say. But man, talk about carrying the torch for know-nothing fail-wards all-stars. I would think a law-n-order repub would at least know the BOP and CMC, know the difference, and when they happened and what they were about. For the president's press secretary to confess not knowing this is...well it would be shocking if I said I expected more of them than that. I wonder what south Florida thinks of that admission.
Another idiot covering for an idiot.
Lord,
Will the reign of the Idiot Emperor and his Incompetent Minions ever end????
Paul @ 53:
My my, aren't you noble.
As for myself, I can't say my libido is exactly turned off by her dishonesty and inner corruption. Yeah, yeah, I know it probably should be. But it isn't, and I'm not going to sanctimoniously pretend that it is. I would gladly "do" the evil Ms. Perino, if only just to defile her.
Christ-- the whole group is a bunch of ignorant, pampered morons. This is a person who feels justified in mocking the political views of others, when she hasn't even learned the basic history behind her OWN views.
She's even worse than brainwashed-- she's never even WORN her brain.
I think there's a strong possibility that knowledge and/or history aren't mentioned in her job description.
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Cat Atomic @ 78:
She doesn't wear it because it doesn't match her blonde...so she's having it bleached.
By the way, I knew the difference between the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Cuban Missile Crisis by the time I was in ninth grade. It's not brain surgery.
Sorry, there is no excuse for any American citizen not knowing the difference.
But then, what do I know? After all, I'm one of those geeky weirdos who thinks no American should be allowed to graduate from high school without passing a comprehension quiz on the Federalist Papers.
Maybe Jeff Gannon could explain it all to you, Dana. On second thought...
C-U-Next-Tuesday!
Otay @ 70:
Perino sure has a quick tongue though. Too bad her wit lags so far benind.
TM @ 81:
in the future anyone with an IQ over 75 will be sent to special reprocessing camps, knowledge can be a dangerous thing dontchaknow ;)
There's a way to see when she's flustered and making shit up. Her neck turns bright, fire engine red. Makeup covers her embarrassed face. When she shows up in a turtleneck, you'll know somebody clued her in.
tyree @ 51:
this is not tyrees work its a troll i would have said danas douchbag is loaded with kool aid!!!!!but im flattered someones useing my name while im resting!
Just in case you wondered Dana, the Germans did not bomb Pearl Harbor despite what Bluto said. We know you majored in Mass Deception with a minor in Smug Righteousness in college and may not know this little known fact. Wanted you to be aware to avoid any further embarassment, which given who you report to will be a very challenging task.
She is dumber than Paula Jones...........
Bush needs Terry Schiavo for his next press secretary. What ever became of her?
I go to the University of Illinois at Springfield.
This bitch (and I say so only because of the word game she pulled on Helen Thomas) graduated from our MA in Public Affairs Reporting in 95'. She's rarely talked about on campus, and when she is, it's usually in the pejorative.
Listen - I have nothing against U of I @ Springfield, but shouldn't we see something like an Ivy League pedigree? Oh, right - Brownie attended the University of Central Oklahoma.
I forgot.
smiley @ 11:
:lol:
I think that is a dangerous road to go down, requiring ivory tower intellectuals. I think just people capable of problem-solving and logical thinking, PLUS a proven record of determination all wrapped in a bowl of ETHICAL JUDGEMENTS would suffice.
But then again I go to UIS so, I should know how many underachieving assholes go there. Myself included, but I am a secret genius.
Gekke @ 85:
all you have to do is subject them to NCLB. :P
I don't think she's all that dumb.
I do think she's tasked with delivering the Admin's whoppers and she does it by putting it out there like a tired special ed teacher. The implication is that if the reporters don't believe it, it's because they're too dumb to understand.
Rufus @ 24:
you mean like the centerfold in BUG'S EAR magazine? :)
Two points to make. It is bad enough that the average American most likely cannot tell the difference between the failed Bay of Pigs and the traumatic Cuban Missile Crisis. The point, of course, is that someone in Perino's position certainly should have been aware of the two events. The second point which plays off of all this is that it is quite doubtful that even with Perino's admission that she did not know what each were, [never mind that she could not distinguish between the two], she most likely did not feel any shame or regret or guilt about not being able to intelligently state what each historical occurrence, two incidents that directly involved the United States, meant in relation to world history. One wonders if she was almost proud of her ignorance. As others have noted, it reflects badly that most Americans are not aware of their history. It becomes more egregious when a member of the U.S. government cannot recognize and define two crucial moments that happened during the rule of another American president.
It is no wonder that many if not most foreign countries look with scorn at how little Americans know about history, much less a member of American government who seemingly has no hesitation in admitting her ignorance of foreign events of which the U.S. was intimately involved. It would have been more understandable if her husband did not know about what happened between the U.S. and Cuba but being British it would not be too surprising if he knew more about history than Ms. Perino, a high-ranking government employee no less, does.
smiley @ 11:
Ignorance is not a virtue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umICHwvMQqA
C-Ray - I agree that we can do w/o the ivory tower intellectuals, but BushCo. does seem to favor the academically challenged. Problem solving and determination play second fiddle to party line and loyalty.
Remember Bob Jones University? What was the name of that little snappercrat who acted as Alberto's hired hand????
Those grads are all over this administration, breeding and spreading their zealotry. Breeding, spreading, Bob Jones.....
I'm off to heave...
Reason no. 15,489 why I can't wait for January 2009.
Cat Atomic @ 78:
This is it exactly. She thinks what she thinks, but she doesn't know why, doesn't care about the facts behind the issues she addresses, and doesn't really know enough to intelligently address them at all (or refute those she mocks for questioning or disagreeing with her).
This is emblematic of right-wingers, but, unfortunately, it's a problem for Americans in general. We're not at all knowledgable about the world or how it got the way it is. (And I can't excuse myself on this issue, either.) Bush's administration *must* be a wake-up call for this country. We're in deep doo-doo, and we can't afford to ignore what is going on around us anymore--OR continue to elect know-nothings who salve our insecurities by lying to us and telling us to "just go shopping" when times get tough. If we do, we're headed toward our demise.
Scytherius @ 43:
for the umpteenth time....
2000 - boosh the lesser was selected by scalia, who suppressed the florida recount, which gore won.
2004 - florida, ohio and colorado indulge in voter suppression, engineered voting-machine shortages, voter challenges and blatant miscounts of votes via diebold, tss and sequoia voting machines.
boosh was never elected.
brithumeistheantichrist @ 90:
even brain-dead(before) and literally dead(now) she's brighter than perino.
smiley @ 38:
you're looking for a date, aren't you, slick?
immigrant @ 28:
Hee-hee... you called her "DP"! I wonder what her nickname was at Southern Colorado.
Qualifications for press secretary: must be able to lie like a rug.
TM @ 81:
I too knew about the Bay of Pigs in grade school, but it was not thru public education.
The thing about the neoconservatives and their lackey's is a total absence of intellectual curiousity and situational awareness.
They have all lived in their well-to-do bubble's their entire lives, safely sheltered from the unwashed.
OMFG!
Only in an Administration where the President himself is so stupid as to think that Rembrandt was a Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtle could you get away with a White House Spokeswoman who has to be taught RECENT AMERICAN HISTORY by her British husband!
smiley @ 11:
That's not the point at all. The point is that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Again, and again and again and again. (Or should I say WE are doomed to repeat it, since people like these never have to clean up their own mess.) We don't 'hate' these people. We're just frustrated that they're so badly and pathetically unqualified and unprepared for the jobs they have, and frustrated by a press who is equally unprepared for the job THEY have, and never call them on it because they figure it's more important for the public to know the status of Paris Hilton's underpants.
Emily @ 20:
I think we'd be at the point of giving the 'surge' for the occupation of Cuba another six months, right about now.
CoIntelPro @ 103:
You left out 2001 -Boosh the Lesser recess appoints Eugene Scalia, son of Antonin Scalia, to chief legal officer for The Department of Labor as payola for Scalia handing him the Presidency.
the junta just gives these Pravdans index card parachutes
I don't want to even watch it . . . I was watching the British House of Commons tonight on CSPAN and their PM Gordon Brown. . . and as I watched him deal with dissent, the funny insult, the questions and concerns raised by other MPs his knowledge base on many across the board questions (even if the MP didn't think Brown knew a flip about what he was talking about) I despaired that our own president could not sound so intelligent and knowledgeable
Can't help but wonder how well Sherry Shepard would do as a press secretary. If Dana end up leaving, you know that Bush would like to keep outdoing himself, with a new low of performance.
I wonder how the educated women of the country felt when Ms Perino
put her stamp on the job by announcing she was going to put on her big girl
panties and immediately broke out in tears in public? They must have been
real proud. Bless her little heart.
Dana Perino? Umm, still thinking...what is not to like about her? She is a model spokeswoman for a moronic president. I give her credit for not trying to know anything. I guess Ms. Perino pays attention to her boss-in-chief Bush and his political Sugar Daddy Dick Cheney, well. After all, she has to put on a nice smile for the Bush administration criminals.
For her own sake, its better that Ms. Perino not be so smart about the crimes of this administration. Perhaps, she wants to avoid having to provide Grand Jury testimony in the future.
like all of you are walking copies of wikipedia... i like this site, but this is a bit of a moot point.
I have to get off this thing with Perino's Panties.
Why? Because I have just had a personal inspiration
given to me by my personal God whose mind is my mind
that Perino's Panties are akin to Mormon Sacred Temple Underwear
and that I should maintain proper stewardship with regard to
her unmentionables. Besides she was quoting Margaret Spelling
when discussing that which cannot be mentioned.
A dumb Bimbo!
seemingly a babbling baby blowing spit bubbles is the bar for a competent press secretary
She talks like a stupid sorority gurl ... so giddy and dumb.
She might have lipstick, but she's still a pig.
.
'Cuz...
I'm a barbie girl in a barbie world...
.
"...the benefits of being a Bushie: you never have to apologize for your lack of knowledge."
Hell, Bushies don't have to apologize even if someone catches them sticking their tongues up their dogs' assholes.
how the fuck does someone end up in government without knowledge of american history...especially recent history
i know for a fact that they still teach about the bay of pigs and the cuban missle crisis...shit there was a movie on the missle crisis that was out only a few years ago
the npr crowd mightve felt this was cute...but i am sick to my stomach
In terms of gotchas you could have against this administration, its pretty small.
Daniel @ 117:
i may not have all the knowledge of the world at my fingertips, but i sure as shite know the dif between the cuban missle crisis and the bay of pigs....and if i was working in government, i wouldnt think it was cute to acknowledge my ignorance on either subject
its not like either happened centuries ago
but thanks for telling us what is moot when it comes to the idiots at work in the bush admin
smiley @ 11:
It's her JOB to know. We pay her to know these things.
What do YOU do for a living? Are you that incompetent at it?
TM @ 77:
Has nothing to do with nobility or sanctimony, I don't think. Like Bush, she comes across like a violation of my senses.
ok....to all the people who wish to be apologists for the ignorant slut
she got her minor in......POLITICAL SCIENCE
as far as i recall, us history is a part of that minor
so which professors was she blowing in order to pass her courses
let me add this....
she was born in.,....1972....not fucking yesterday
She's a trampy little spokesmodel. She's not supposed to know stuff.
Erroll @ 98:
Sometimes the "failure" of an operation is the desired outcome. It seems rather obvious in hindsight that it was going to fail. Kinda strange that Allen Dulles insisted on being out of town at a conference that day. Perhaps a pretext for a full-on invasion of Cuba was desired. Or perhaps the continued existence of a Soviet satelite 90 miles offshore served the useful purpose of hyping the Communist threat and justifying a bloated military budget.
It's likely that Dulles was behind the failed U2 flight of Gary Powers, which led to the failed Paris Summit. What fun would it have been for these self-styled masters of the universe playing their "great game" if the Cold War had been ratcheted down or ended? No fun at all. Can't have that.
Is there anything she knows something about ?
I seriously doubt it..........
smiley @ 11:
The White House Press Secretary , with a supposed minor in Political Science during her college days , is supposed to know the difference between the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis ; you , a tilt-a-whirl operator , not actually a prerequisite........
I can see why the US doesn't learn from its mistakes. Whew!!! What a complete moron! WHen does this puppet show stop! It is a complete nightmare!!!
She wasn't hired for her brain. Dick is the Big Giant Brain: no one else needs to think; just OBEY!! She's just a mouthpiece: pretty with a bitchy edge.
smiley @ 11:
That's exactly the problem with your F---in' country (sorry other good folks). Most citizens are intellectually incurious, and don't give a damn about the rest of the world. Just fill your face with junk food and go to the mall.
A press secretary for the White House should at least have some basic history in her repertoire, especially such recent history. In fact, they should know a great deal about history, current events, and recent current events (which includes the Cuban Missile Crisis). I was alive then, I'm not American, and I can tell you all about it. Shame on you for not knowing why your country went to the brink of a nuclear war with the USSR!!! SHAME!!!
I'm not surprised this administration doesn't care either. Bush probably doesn't know what the Cubam missile crisis was either. He would not understand why Vladimir Putin brought it up, in reference to the planned US missile defence system in Eastern Europe. Yet, Putin is absolutely correct.
I am appalled at your stupidity smiley@11.
TM @ 77:
I totally agree with Paul @ 53. She's ugly to me.
#29:
Wrong. Pretty does trump stupid at closing time.....
Dana, you're a moron; wish your incurious mind would venture into a website like Crooks and Liars, so you could step outside your little world and find out a few things...like that you're complicit to the biggest f ..up in our history. And oh, by the way, you have the blood of our children on your hands, including my son. Including about a million Iraqis.
another blathering tw*& in a suit.. all suit no brain.
NOW I KNOW WHY THEY'RE CALLED CONSERVATIVES.
BECAUSE EACH NEW OFFICE HOLDER FROM THE GOP IS SO MUCH MORE CORRUPT, STUPID, OR PERVERTED THEY MAKE YOU WISH YOU COULD GO BACK TO AN OLDER MORE TRADITONAL VERSION, AND SOMEHOW "CONSERVE" A RATIONAL GOVERNMENT.
THIS WOMAN HAS PROBABLY blocked out anything to do with JFK because she's a loyal REPUBLICAN.
Dana Perino is a good example of the saying, "Looks aren't everything.".
"Ahh….the benefits of being a Bushie: you never have to apologize for your lack of knowledge." Especially on NPR ...
Why doesn't she wear an earpiece like Chimpy?
so goes the nation........
smiley @ 11:
You don't know the DETAILS. This bitch doesn't know WTF it even was! Don't apologize for these lying scumbags -- it's not good for you.
SCHMUCK!
How can the WH press secretary NOT know the difference!??
How come I a simple foreigner born 20 years after the Cuban missile crysis in a far away land, never been to the US, know the difference, but NOT the WH press secretary? I thought this was common knowledge in the US? Two of the most well known events in US postwar history. How can the White House press secretary NOT know the difference!??
What else doesnt she know?
Listening to it now she sounds even more clueless. "I know nothing about the Cuban missile crisis... Isnt that like the Bay of Pigs thing?" HELLO!?? Cuban missile crisis for crying out loud! When the world was on the brink of Nuclear War!? Nuclear Holocaust you know World War 3? No.. not the imaginary stuff Bush talks about. The real deal!! God save us from these idiots
Perino proves once again that to get a job in the Bush White House, qualifications are second, if not fourth, to loyalty.
I know of a few underdeveloped countries that are experiencing the same problem in their executive branch.
Another Liberty University graduate......God, I can't wait for this administration to be history! It's both sad and embarrassing for our country.
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