Just how profoundly ignorant from a historical perspective you have to be if you are in the Bush regime or indeed a supporter of the Bush regime was exemplified by none other than Dana Perino; the White House press secretary.The White House spokesperson who often starts sentences with “…if we take a historical perspective” knows nothing about history at all. How else can you justify her comments. According to this story when a reporter asked her:
“Do you want to address the remarks by President Putin, who said the United States setting up a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe was like the Soviet Union putting missiles in Cuba, setting up a Cuban missile crisis?”, she replied saying:
“I was panicked a bit because I really don’t know about . . . the Cuban Missile Crisis,” said Perino, who at 35 was born about a decade after the 1962 U.S.-Soviet nuclear showdown. “It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I’m pretty sure.”
Now this is a person who speaks for the White House or in other words for the President of the United States and she doesn’t even know the difference between the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs invasion by the US. She is just like the other Bushies, profoundly ignorant of just about everything including history.
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Patrick // December 11, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Ahhh, now that’s funny! All I can say is that she is certainly doing a great job of representing Bush with comments like that.
Marc // April 24, 2008 at 11:41 am
Here we are months later and I’m still bugged that such an ignorant bitch holds such a position. How the hell did she get that job?
Tony Whitson // May 28, 2008 at 5:04 pm
That’s the kind of staffer the Bush team needs, though — you won’t see her betraying Bush the way Scott McClellan has done now.
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