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| josh4 |
| quote: | White House press secretary admits she didn't know what Cuban Missile Crisis was
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.' "
Perino was referring to the White House briefing held on October 26, 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?"
"Well, I think that the historical comparison is not -- does not exactly work," Perino had responded.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/White...s_she_1210.html |
I miss Scott. :( |
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| George Smiley |
| Heh, we learned about the Cuban missile crisis in high school!! |
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| ams.rld |
| quote: | Originally posted by George Smiley
Heh, we learned about the Cuban missile crisis in high school!! |
But still the English don't know much about history. I'd say they are as bad the Americans. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
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| donnybrasco |
Oh boy....
Looks like they're going to be looking for ANOTHER Press Secretary again already! :nervous: |
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| Capitalizt |
she's hot, so all is forgiven
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by Capitalizt
she's hot, so all is forgiven
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haha, I was gona say the same thing. She is HAWT  |
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| Zharen |
| So that's our new Press Secretary. A dumb blonde who doesn't know about history. Guess she sucked a lot of dick to get where she is now. |
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| josh4 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zharen
So that's our new Press Secretary. A dumb blonde who doesn't know about history. Guess she sucked a lot of dick to get where she is now. |
no you see, thats the whole point. put an actual idiot up there that doesn't know anything, because well she really doesn't know anything. after shes done you won't find her writing a book about what happened |
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