Salon’s War Room reports on White House spokesperson Dana Perino being apparently little more than a bobblehead… Rich Miller adds a little extra identifying info that leaves me embarrassed for UIUC’s sister school to the southwest.

At a White House press briefing on Oct. 26, a reporter asked [UIS Public Affairs Reporting grad] Dana Perino about Vladimir Putin’s suggestion that a U.S. plan to base parts of a missile shield in Europe was similar to the events that led to the Cuban missile crisis.

Perino’s response: “Well, I think that the historical comparison is not — does not exactly work. What I can say is what President Putin went on to say, which is that the president and President Putin have said that we can work together on this.” […]

Appearing on NPR’s “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me” over the weekend, Perino said she “panicked” when she got the Cuban missile crisis question because she wasn’t exactly sure what the Cuban missile crisis was. “I really know nothing about the Cuban missile crisis,” Perino said. “It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I’m pretty sure.”

Perino said she went home that night and asked her husband, “‘Wasn’t that, like, the Bay of Pigs thing?’ And he said, ‘Oh, Dana.’”

(emphasis added to Mr. Miller’s identifier)

Like, duh. Y’know?

And here we thought conservatives were concerned about Cuban exiles and their proud history, let alone ousting the only remaining Communist dictator in the Western Hemisphere…. Apparently not so much.

UIS needs to start adding basic recent history as a prereq.