Letters to the Editor
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Bay of Pigs?
Isn't that a BBQ joint outside of Austin?
Pax
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Wait Wait
Wait Wait is a comedy show, so I'm not sure how seriously I'd take this comment on "It has something to do with Cuba and missles, right?" I heard her appearance. I think it's pretty clear she didn't know as much about the missle crisis as she should, but she was trying to be funny. They were playing up her youth; she told a story about visiting the White House when she was 7 (I think) during the Carter administration.
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History
Is Icky
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You've got to be kidding!
She's a grown woman who works for the most powerful administration in the entire world and she doesn't even know the basics of the Cuban missile crisis?! And instead of asking a reporter she just dodges the question? The worst part: the reporters let her slide. If a spokesperson for Gordon Brown tried a similar stunt with the press they would've been skewered.
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Oh, Dana
Makes me want to pull out my old Big Star records: I'd rather shoot a woman than a man ...
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Just when I thought
the Bush Admin couldn't get any more unreality-based, the Press Secretary reveals she has no idea of what the Cuban Missile Crisis was. Just amazing. The peasants remain in control of the castle.
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wait wait!
I heard the show also and it didn't seem she was joking when she mentioned her ignorance about the Cuban missile crisis. Although she doesn't need to be a historian to qualify for her job, one would hope that a minimum of knowledge about the events that have shaped American history would be required.... but wait wait! we are talking about the Bush administration... never mind!
I am glad Tim has included this little anecdote in today's stories, it definitely fits her profile.
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Bom Bom Baba Ku
I felt like vomiting after reading this disgusting item but luckily I have a powerful anti-emetic at hand.
That Bay of Pigs thing. Oh Dana indeed.
And then there's Rudy Giuliani, with his romantic vision of America beating the Nazis all by her lonely self.
Forget science -- today's Republicans can't even master the history of the century they were born in.
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Sounds about right.
After all, why would a Republican talking head actually know anything about a Democratic president taking a hardline on foreign relations, standing toe to toe against a dangerous enemy, and ultimately protecting America from actual Weapons of Mass Destruction?
The only thing mass-produced dittoheads like Perino know about the Kennedy administration is that he banged Marilyn Monroe in the White House. She probably also buys into that legend about the two of them snorting coke off the diving board of the pool that Nixon heroically had converted into White House press room.
Freakin' loons.
Those who do not remember history, blah blah blah.
I wonder if she even knows what the KGB was? She probably thinks it was the Russian equivalent of Skull and Bones. No big deal that every powerful member of United Russia is former KGB. After all, Putin has a good relationship with W. He must be a great guy.
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The real question is who is dumber?
Perino or the MSM questioners at WH press briefings?
Is anybody actually surprised by this? Every time she opens her mouth she proves she’s dumber than a rock.
That’s what makes her so eminently qualified for this job. What should amaze us is why attendees at White House press corpse briefings expect to, you know, uhmm, actually learn something.
Then again, maybe not.
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Answers a lot of questions
Dana Perino's admission of ignorance answers more questions than she ever has, at a press briefing. She's another example of the Bush administration's proclivity for putting certain incompetent people is positions that only exacerbate stereotypes - in her instance she compounds the "dumb blonde"
syndrome. Now we know why she can say with a straight face that a bald face lie is just an "unclear reponse".
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EMStoveken!
You had me LMAOing at your snarky post up above.
Wished I'd written it!
Hope you get a star.
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Come on, it's pretty obvious isn't it?
Having a knuckle-head fronting damage control alleviates the stress "I have no trouble sleeping at night" Bushit gets hammered with each day. The bad news then takes a right hand turn to how stupid Perino is rather than how incompetent Bushit, or his comments, are. She's nothing more than an untalented neocon head-fake. As to the poster who "would like to have her" he/she'd be placed into jeopardy of catching AIDS (Another Idiot Democrat Silenced).
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She Wasn't Kidding
She wasn't kidding. My jaw pretty much hit the steering wheel.
She seemed to have little idea (or concern) that the panelists and host were actually laughing in disbelief at what a complete fool she was.
And what complete fools we all are.
That the mouthpiece of the "leader of the free world" is not even slightly embarassed to admit on national media that she does not know the basics about American history shows what this Administration is all about: shameless ignorance.
And the state of our nation -- down the long slide to Idiocracy.
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Kick the puppy
They seem to have chosen her to be a cute labrador puppy -- wags its tail, looks nice, is soooooo cute and soooooooo dumb. The thing is, everyone loves puppies, and no-one would kick the cutsy little blond labrador, even if it shat on the rug, humped the cat cross-eyed, and ate their shoes.
So she gets away with the things the previous Press Secretaries could no longer foist on a credulous White House press-corps since none of them want to be publicly cruel to the puppy -- they just wake up in the morning a feel like a ravished Siamese, but without the pedigree, with smelly chewed shoes.
All together -- ahhhhhh!
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another gem.....
....from the show was when she told the hosts that her husband complains to her when she talks to him in "her White House voice"....
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I believe that U.S. Americans, such as...
When did Ms. South Carolina become press secretary?
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I can't believe
she has a husband. HOw can it be that these idiots found someone to marry them?
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Question for everyone
OK, quick poll question, because I truly can't make up my mind.
Leaving aside the perfect world in which a press sec would be educated, intelligent, thoughtful, honest, having integrity, and an honest broker between the press and the administration...
(isn't it sad we have to start like that?)
Which is more entertaining for us pol junkies?
A deviously clever word-parser whose skill you can't help but admire even though you know he's lying and HE knows you know he's lying but damn, you gotta tip your hat (and then go write frantically in your blog to try to unpack his spin and get the truth out),
or
An incompetent boob (I'm thinking here actually of Comical Ali, Saddam's press guy who stood there saying there were no tanks in Bagdad while tanks rolled past him in the background, but you could be thinking of Dana here, free country and all that) who flounders during her shuck and jive, knows naught of American history, and can't even hold her own against Helen Thomas? (Oh, wait, I guess I'm thinking of Dana, too.)
I really can't decide. When Tony Snow was Press Sec and he would be out sick, I really missed him because Dana was such an idiot it just didn't feel like you were getting the real "show". (Forget real news, this isn't utopia, as I said.) But then, sometimes I feel like I'd rather have a good laugh than a good puzzle (the truth hidden in this picture somewhere).
So, War Roomies, what do you think? Mr. Grieve? Would you rather yell, "Damn your evil spin!" or sigh, "Oh, Dana..."?