December 12, 2007 05:57 PM UTC

Dana Perino Gets Schooled

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• by: Colorado Pols

Colorado native and White House press secretary Dana Perino didn’t exactly make our state’s education system look good this weekend, as the Denver Post’s Politics West blog reported Sunday:

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, who answers tough questions daily about the president’s foreign policy, confessed over the weekend she didn’t know about the Cuban Missile Crisis when a reporter mentioned it in a recent briefing…

“I was panicked a bit because I really don’t know about…the Cuban Missile Crisis,” the 35-year-old Perino recalled, as retold by the Washington Post. “It had to with Cuba and missles, I’m pretty sure.”

Perino added she then went home and asked her husband about the historical event.

“I said, ‘Wasn’t that like the Bay of Pigs thing?’ And he said, ‘Oh Dana,'” she said.

Perino, a University of Southern Colorado in Pueblo graduate who previously worked for former Colorado Reps. Scott McInnis and Dan Schaefer, became White House Press Secretary earlier this year after Tony Snow stepped down.

It’s a shame, actually, because we’ve always understood Perino to be articulate and knowledgeable. But now she’s the butt of yet another joke about the Bush administration, destined to go down alongside the infamous Bush/Segway “malfunction” and Michael Brown’s wardrobe tips during Hurricane Katrina. She probably deserves better than that.

On the other hand, we learned about the Cuban Missile Crisis in 9th grade history and can still tell you all about it. A poll follows.

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