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Cuban Missile Crisis? Huh? What's that?

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Another example of the people currently occupying the White House:

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History has a way of repeating itself.

White House press secretary Dana Perino has been front and center of the White House's push to continue to label Iran a rogue state for its pursuit of uranium enrichment technology.

This comes against the backdrop of a new intelligence estimate positing that the Islamic state abandoned its nuclear weapons in 2003.

Turns out she doesn't know quite so much about nuclear weapons as she supposes. And we're not talking about Iran.

Appearing on National Public Radio's quiz show, "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me," this weekend, Perino admitted a story she'd previously only shared in private: When a reporter asked her a question during a White House briefing in which he referred to the Cuban Missile Crisis -- she didn't know what it was.

"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."

The exchange was first noted in the Washington Post.

"I came home and I asked my husband," she said on air. "I said, 'Wasn't that like the Bay of Pigs thing?' And he said, 'Oh, Dana.' "
When I first saw Perino I thought "Hey she's cute but appears to be another of those Fox News bimbots the Right seems to love on their TV's. I'll still give her the benefit of the doubt since I don't really know her." I've got nothing more to say on this now other than I was wrong to give her the benefit of the doubt.
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Well, if there's one thing I've seen in the last seven years, it's that Republicans don't exactly value knowledge.
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"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."
Let's not forget the crisis part, toots. VERY important.
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Someone needs to get her Dr. Strangelove for Christmas.
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I'd still hit it.
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