But you probably knew that already.
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.”
Of course, those of us in the real world and not in the gilded class of the Bush administration had to know the facts of the Cuban Missile Crisis in order to get through high school.
Then again, I went to a public high school which is just one step away from communism so what do I know, right?
Famous quote, don’t remember who said it.
“I am not saying every conservative is a stupid person, but ever stupid person is a conservative.”
Or words to that effect.