Stories about the historical or geographical ignorance of US politicians abound and in my experience they often tell you more about anti-US European prejudice than they do about anything else. This story though suggests they’re not always without substance.White House Press Secretary Dana Perino recalls a reporter referring to the Cuban Missile Crisis during one of her early briefings. "I was panicked a bit because I really don't know about . . . the Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure."
Quite. I suppose it’s to Dana’s credit that she’s willing to recount this story and I guess at only 35 Perino she can be excused from having any first-hand knowledge about it. Still, given that she speaks for the most powerful man in the world every morning you’d have thought she was a little better informed than that. I’m willing to bet she knows where Iran is….
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The gross ignorance over there is an ego thing - a feeling that nothing, nothing is more important than what they themselves are doing. For what to be informed about history, they think, when living in "real time"?
Based upon my experience of living in the US for many years, it would not be surprising if she did not. Somewhere in Kansas perhaps?
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