Dana Perino: "What's the Cuban Missile Crisis?" »
Posted By TechnologyExpert 1 year, 11 months ago in NewsThis is why I love the NPR show, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. This weekend they had White House Press Secretary Dana Perino on during the Not My Job part of the show, and she admitted she didn't know what the Cuban Missile Crisis is.
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bruhaha1 year, 11 months ago
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crghss1 year, 11 months ago
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What the he11 are you talking about? JFK took us to the brink of war. It was one of the most irresponsible things ever done in the history of the USA. The USSR thankfully backed down and THAT avoided war. Apparently you don't know about the Cuban Missile Crisis either.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 11 months ago
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keepinreal1 year, 11 months ago
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Just heard there is going to be a new show, DO YOU KNOW MORE THAN A KINDERGARTENER and the guests are going to be Bush's brain trust (is that an oxymoron?). By the way, when asked what an oxymoron was Bush said "its someone too stupid to breathe".
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Beau78901 year, 11 months ago
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Exactly. While I was barely alive during the Cuban Missile Crisis, we learned about it in high school.
I heard the show on Saturday and was amazed she didn't know what it was--she said she thought the Cuban Missile Crisis was something like the Bay of Pigs. I was expecting to read more about this admission, but this is the first article I've seen anywhere mentioning it.
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mesodude1 year, 11 months ago
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October 2007
"So I've told people that, if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran] from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."
guess who... bawhahahahahahahahahahaha! Ahem. ;-p
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MRCOFFEECAKE1 year, 11 months ago
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Yeah, you and crg can go to the next Holocaust denial convention. After all, FDR created that hoax to get us into a war, right??
hey genius, it was your boy Joe (the drunk) McCarthy that heightened the most embarassing years in US history since slavery, pitting neigbor against neighbor, and although your boy Bush is the closest thing to a fear mongering ignoramus, it is insulting to anyone above a third grade education
(unless they're from your state and then it's high school)
to even mention JFK in the same breath..
Do you have no shame??
How about asking a 3rd grader??
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gamahuche1 year, 11 months ago
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Well that cracked me up too!
I guess no one can accuse me now of being partisan..
I also lived through this and organised a vigil and fast in the town where I was a student in England.
The local paper carried a great headline but alas that escapes me now.
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Hobe1 year, 11 months ago
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'"What's the Cuban Missile Crisis?"'
John Kennedy was responsible for this crisis which Should have NEVER Happened!
The wealthy Kennedy Irresponsible playboys should never have been in American Politics....
Ted kennedy the swimmer is still a disgrace in washington...
Many Cuban freedom Frighters trying to get control of there Country were Murdered in the Bay Of Pigs thank to John Kennedy for Betraying them...
The KoolAid drinkers thing he was a good Prisident... w o w
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sinophil491 year, 11 months ago
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Hobe - "John Kennedy was responsible for this crisis..."
I did NOT know that JFK shipped those RUSSIAN missiles secretly into Cuba. I did not know that JFK sent in all those RUSSIAN advisors (missile handlers) into Cuba. I did not know that JFK and Fidel Castro were such bosom buddies.
GASP! JFK was a super secret RUSSIAN mole that infiltrated into the highest reaches of American government. If he wasn't assassinated by Oswald, he might even have programmed our very own missiles to fire on American cities.
DOUBLE GASP!! Oswald was probably a CIA operative assigned to kill the RUSSIAN mole to save our Republic!!!
TRIPLE GASP!!! Putin was the former head of the KGB. He met with Bush. Bush is going to turn the US over to the RUSSIANS!!!
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!! AAAUUGGGHHHH!
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MRCOFFEECAKE1 year, 11 months ago
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Can your Kennedy obsession overcome your Clinton obsession long enough to realize how the Democrats at least screw women,
while the Republicans screw the whole country??
Ahhhh, we can draw it for you in crayon if you need it..
THE CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS WAS WHEN RUSSIA HAD NUCLEAR WARHEADS
ON SHIPS READY TO BE OFFLOADED ONTO MISSLES POINTED AT THE US
IN CUBA...KENNEDY BLOCKADED THOSE SHIPS AND THEY TURNED AWAY..
GET IT?? OR WAS THE HOLOCAUST A JEW LIE TOO???
(don't forget to get your white sheet back from the dry cleaners)
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keepinreal1 year, 11 months ago
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People, its not worth trying to explain to those who still hate the Kennedy's, and are intent on revisionist history. Their ignorance doesn't come from poor education in school. You went to school and you know the curriculum.
THEIR IGNORANCE IS WILLINGLY EMBRACED and spewed forth from the maw of hatred like so much bile. The truth is not to be sought by them, only the use of words to spin and distort. It has been that way since Cain first asked "am I my brother's keeper?" and has been refined these last thousands of years to plague and bedevil those of us who try to live up to the words in our Constitution and our Bible. Let them not vex us, nor confuse us like the serpent tried, but let us continue the fight against these disseminators of lies. Their arrogance knows no bounds. In fact it these enemies within that are the greatest threat to the country. We must remain ever vigilant, prepared to meet them with the truth.
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KYRed1 year, 11 months ago
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The Cuban Missle crisis. Another instance where the Democrats were more than willing to drop nuclear bombs. Let's see. Harry Truman. No, not Eisenhower. Yes, John Kennedy was willing. No Republican president has threatened this action.
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ADAGUY1 year, 11 months ago
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Yes! I agree exactly. 100%! We would all have been much better off had Truman just surrendered like Nixon did! Then we'd all got to learn Japanese for free!
Who wouldn't jump at an opportunity like that!
(Every time I read a post like yours it makes me so intelligent! Please keep em' commin')
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SwampFox11 year, 11 months ago
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Not to grade you on your history, but you must have been playing hooky with your squeeze during history class. Not to fret, did it myself a couple of times. Nothing like a day skinny-dipping with your beloved during history class.
Don't know where the hell you were, but I was sitting on the tailgate of a C-130 loaded for bear during the Cuban Crises. Our Battle Group had been selected to jump into Fidel's out-house and blow the s*h*i*t out of it. We didn't have to because our president -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- averted WW-III. Bush, on the other-hand wanted to drop the big-one on Cuba.
Get your facts straight before blowing your mouth-off.
Airborne all the way...
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decoherence1 year, 11 months ago
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I'm uncertain how well JFK handled the crisis, but it is difficult to argue with success. Maybe when more documents are declassified, we will know more. It is my understanding that JFK made a secret deal with the Russians to pull our missiles out of Turkey and agreed not to invade Cuba in exchange for the Russians seeming to back down. Is my understanding correct?
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SwampFox11 year, 11 months ago
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Not to fret, my cool friend, JFK did make a deal with Russia. He promised not to attack Cuba -- if, and only if Nakita Khrushchev agreed to withdraw all nuclear missles from Cuba.
But you are correct, Khrushchev didn't want to cross the ship embargo. The Navy were ordered to sink any ship attempting to land in Cuba. I know this to be true, I was there...
PS: ******ed George H. P. Bush something terrible! Remember, it was not only George Bush who trained Fidel Castro, but more importantly, it was the same rodent who drew-up the plans for the Bay Of Pigs fiasco. He wanted air support for his little Cuban army. Jack kept his word with Krushchev. That and the fact Jack was also going to pull all US personnel out of Southeast Asia were the reasons for the assassination. When Jack was assassinated, there were only 55,000 military advisors in all of South Vietnam. How do I know all this? That's where I got the handle "Swamp Fox."
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hyperbola1 year, 11 months ago
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Why are you surprised at this? The bushie admin has repeatedly appointed "poltical commissars" throughout the federal government to feed you propaganda. The main requirement for these appointments is NOT any kind of relevant expertise, but rather the desire to regurgitate the "faith-based" propaganda as commanded by "dear leader".
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