Dana Perino, the top White House spokeswoman, very recently didn’t know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was, according to her own admission, which is now gaining national attention.
Appearing on an episode of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me, which aired over the weekend, Perino recalled a recent White House briefing when a reporter referred to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and she didn’t know what it was.
“I was panicked a bit because I really don’t know about…the Cuban Missile Crisis,” said the 35-year-old Perino. “It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I’m pretty sure.”
“I came home, and I asked my husband,” she recalled. “I said, ‘Wasn’t that like the Bay of Pigs thing?’ His response: “Oh, Dana.”
Oh, Dana… you don’t have to know things to work in the white house. as long as you are smarter than Bush. He doesnt even know where Cuba is.
That’s sad.
Anybody wish Democrats hadn’t, like, taken impeachment off the table? And they are so not doing what they were elected to do!
Cut her some slack. It’s not like she is making policy. She reads the press brief and answers questions when she knows the company line. Otherwise, she gets an answer from behind the door and then gives the answer.
Uhhh, it’s basic history. She should be embarrassed.
ummm I have to say I think a wholw lot of Amercans (if not > 50%)
can not point out Cuba on a map or they think it’s in FL
Way to go, Dana, you’re doing a heckuva job.
Pretty pathetic someone who speaks for the president has no idea about the closest we ever came to nuclear annihilation. Or would that be nukuler ? She proves the Peter Principle, like so many in this administration before her.
That is nothing compared to Chairman Reyes not knowing jack about the different sects in Iraq! Duhhh, I am the Chairman on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and I don’t know what a Sunni is or a Shi’ite. Go Dems!
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha hilarious
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