White House Flunks Reality Check

James Carafano / February 03, 2011

History is not a strong point of this Administration. Last month it was President Obama declaring another “sputnik moment” for America–only to rattle off a list of big government ideas completely at odds with how Eisenhower responded to Sputnik.

Yesterday, it was White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs delivering another dose of “say what?” history. What’s been happening in Egypt over the last week or so, he informed the press, “are events that many people have not seen — nobody has seen in their lifetime.”

Gibbs was born in 1971. So in his lifetime alone we’ve seen quite a few examples of cataclysmic political upheaval, from the Iranian Revolution to the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. And you don’t have to be eligible for Social Security to remember the aborted Hungarian and Czech Revolutions. (more…)