Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon Dec 10, 2007 at 11:04 AM Pacific

They are stupid. Really, really stupid.

George W. Bush and Dana Perino

I don't know what's dumber: a press secretary who doesn't know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was, or a press secretary who admits it. I pray this country does not confront a crisis in the next year, because this band of jokers currently populating the White House would be lucky to tap a keg.

Still looking for that last-minute Christmas gift for White House press secretary Dana Perino? May we recommend a gift certificate for the forthcoming book on the Cuban Missile Crisis by our colleague Michael Dobbs, "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War," due out next summer?

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.

They are stupid. Really, really stupid.

George W. Bush and Dana Perino

I don't know what's dumber: a press secretary who doesn't know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was, or a press secretary who admits it. I pray this country does not confront a crisis in the next year, because this band of jokers currently populating the White House would be lucky to tap a keg.

Still looking for that last-minute Christmas gift for White House press secretary Dana Perino? May we recommend a gift certificate for the forthcoming book on the Cuban Missile Crisis by our colleague Michael Dobbs, "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War," due out next summer?

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.

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