That book was required reading when I was in high school. And I'm the same age she is.

She has no excuse.

That is horrifying. She's educated, I am assuming. How can she not know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was?

That book is required reading, and I'm 19.

She makes me hate being a woman. I thought we couldn't be brought over to the dark side, but obviously we can.

Speechless

Oh yeah, and she should just watch "The Good Shepherd."

Even an true friggin' idiot could figure that one out.

@AmericanSplendor: Uhhh, I would rather have my public officials uneducated than get their information from and base opinions and policy on Hollywood movies.

I am horrified and disgusted. I will continue to be horrified and disgusted for the rest of my evening. That is all

@Trixie from Toronto: This is what I'm saying. How could you have never heard of it, even? And didn't she go to college (jesus, even high school)? Man, just when you think this administration can go no lower, that you've finally seen the bottom of the well of human stupidity, one of these asshats steps up to bat again and knocks it out of the park.

Hmmmm, admitting when you don't know something is one thing. Repeating a dialogue that showcases what a idiot you might be - something else altogether.

What a disgrace.

I don't know how she has the audacity to condescend down to other people when she herself is so stupid.

This is one of those examples of a woman acting or being dumb and thinking it's ohsoprecious. Oh, hahaha, I had to ask my husband, who is British. I'm so cute! I wish CJ Cregg was our press secretary.

psst hey Helen Thomas, sorry about that whole talk down to you thing last week, umm yeah so could you tell me about the cuban missle crisis? and if you have time, bay of pigs? kthanks

Moe, please tell me you can dig up video of that. I really want to see what asshat expression she wears when she admits her idiocy.

Weeee, I totally heard that this weekend!@PhillyLass: I'm sure it's archived online at npr.org or some such.

@PhillyLass:
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(No video; it's a radio show, and a good one!)

Her un-botoxed forehead is scientific proof that even non-thinkers can get horizontal lines.

I don't hate her quite so much for not knowing as for not knowing so publicly. I posit that there are things that, depending on your job and your level of public exposure, you should never admit to not knowing about. In her position, this is definitely one of those things.

And I love "spokespretty."

Bush likes his women a bit on the ignorant side. It's easier to sell them his horse puckey and he can feel smarter than someone.

"It had to do with Cuba and missles, I'm pretty sure...". At least she was able to put that much together.

With overeducated journalists - some of whom are bound to be both cute and Republican - walking around DC practically in herds, how in the world did she get this job?

Says Mr K: "And that's how the Republicans want it. 'Don't know the answer to a question? Ask your husband. Now get back in the kitchen, bitch!'"

HAHAHAHAH! My hubby is awesome. That is all.

how jessica simpson of her!

It's become very clear to me now that the only reason Perino agreed to serve as WH spokesperson is because she's the only person in DC not smart enough to say "No" when offered what might be the worst job in the world.

(Seriously, the person who follows horses in a parade so they can shovel up the shit has a better job than she does.)

I hate that woman. She enrages me almost as much as Ann Coulter. And whatever happened to Tony Snow? He just sort of disappeared...

@Trixie from Toronto: I'm not sure being educated is a significant requirement for the Bush Administration. They hired a ton of attorneys into DOJ from Regent!

Am I the only one who thought it was funny that when she fights with her husband, he asks her not to use her "White House voice"?

They're not even trying anymore!!

@emily.jayne: Were they ever trying?

TEAM SPOKESPRETTY

Perhaps your best invention since "Crappy Hour." You guys are professionals, you are the best!

@laurie: Tony Snow's cancer returned. He said it had nothing to do with his resigning, but, come on, ya know? Then again, maybe he too jumped ship for richer pastures.

Nothing surprises me about this administration. She could open her mouth and bray like a donkey and I'd think, "sounds like business as usual with those tards".

Are we really that shocked? That someone in the Bush administration is an idiot with no actual knowledge of the history of their own country? The absolute balls on this woman to go into politics without knowing anything about history or political crises of the last 50 years is beyond me. Truly. But not shocking or surprising at all. Bush doesn't know half of what happened before 1985 and he's been caught with his idiot pants down many times.

I will forever despise this woman since that staged event where soldiers talked to Bush and told him how awesome the war was. They were all officers and supporters of the WH. And the video leaked. Y'all remember that?

WORD. My lil bro was in iraq for a year. You want to hear the truth, talk to a soldier one-on-one. We have no business over there, for at least four years, if at all.

Bay of Pigs came first, Cuban Missile Crisis followed. Both involved Castro. He won.

Memorize that and we can move on to the Tet Offensive.

Classic example of hiring a woman just for the sake of hiring a woman.

@LessThanZero: Unless George Clooney is involved in said movie. That would be okay.

@athertonmerriweather: Well I don't think this is the point. I hate Dana Perino with a white-hot intensity, but I don't think she was hired "because she was a woman." Do you have any information to back that up? If you hadn't noticed, the Bush Administration has a policy of hiring idiots so stupid they cannot be held responsible for their actions (i.e. Alberto Gonzalez) regardless of gender. I don't think it has anything to do with affirmative action, esp. given that the first what, 3 or 4 spokespeople for Bush were men.

@J.D.Regent: Exactly. It's not a "woman" thing. It's a "Bush hires only sycophants with no intelligence and even less experience" thing.

Aw c'mon - Barbara Boxer does stuff like that every day.

@zibby: umm, bullshit.

@J.D.Regent: also, perino is yet another of the fox news type girls they hire. see: monica goodling, et al. pretty, obedient, not-very-bright people who "graduate" from places like REGENT LAW. a scraping-into-the-fouth-tier school.

@zibby: Actually, no. But nice try.

@charlotte corday: Well they figure that if the press sees a pretty girl they won't ask the hard questions. But they don't ask them anyway, so no worries!

@charlotte corday: girl, i know it. i am OBSESSED with the blond brigade (hence my avatar/name). it KILLS me to know this city is filled with brilliant, well educated, progressive young women TOILING at non profits and as staffers who can't get a job in government, and these fucking airheads are running the place?

@SinisterRouge: here's the thing: bimbo perino went home and asked her ENGLISH husband about AMERICAN history. and she works in the damn white house!

@charlotte corday: Does anything even shock anymore? Fits perfectly in that White House.

@J.D.Regent: I KNOW!! i look around at my girlfriends here in dc and think, "THEY should be running the white house" and not just the press office neither. i walked past a bookstore yesterday that was advertising jonah goldberg's book about (and he's being serious here) LIBERAL FASCISM. oh nooooo, we might be forced to share something!! with brown people or liberals! want. to. smack him.

but that list is long....

@lacey in ak: ahahaha! I thought that was hilarious.

She is not the only one who doesn't know her history. Look at her boss(es), hence the reason we are in Iraq.

@charlotte corday: That Regent University is where the WH gets all of its lawyers, PR people, everyone. There or ORU. I'm not saying Christian institutions have low standards, because many are very good, I'm just saying these two do.

@whynotshesaid: "(Seriously, the person who follows horses in a parade so they can shovel up the shit has a better job than she does.)"

Well, following Tony Snow, that's pretty much what she was doing, isn't it?

"Spokespretty." Heh.

@LessThanZero: whatever. that's bullshit academic elitism. Hollywood Rules.

From Wikipedia: Perino graduated from the University of Southern Colorado (now known as Colorado State University-Pueblo) in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in mass communications and minors in both political science and Spanish.

I miss C.J. Craig.

@howdoesthatmakeyoufeel: Political science ?? You'd think, ya know, she'd know something about politics.