Insert Blond Joke Here
Via the Beav, one of those, "You can't make this shit up moments", from the Bush White House, courtesy of White House press secretary Dana Perino
Appearing on National Public Radio's light-hearted quiz show "Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me," which aired over the weekend, Perino got into the spirit of things and told a story about herself that she had previously shared only in private: During a White House briefing, 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 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, I'm younger than Perino is, so I also managed to miss out on any personal memories of the crisis, but someone apparently decided that the nearest the world has ever gotten to a full-fledged nuclear war was worthy of a mention in school history classes, not to mention movies, books, and re-enactments on period-based TV series. How the hell do you miss this kind of stuff?
As Dave puts it, in the Bush White House, history is, "something that will judge George Bush sometime in the nebulous future."
