Fox News star Dana Perinos love story was just plane luck

Fox TV’s Dana Perino might be Fox’s best-looking anchor.Also maybe savviest.Years ago, there were two strangers — last to board an airplane — “We were the final passengers to get on.” Long flight.

Big conversation.Peter McMahon had been married previously.They talked.

Married now 28 years, they’re still happily together.Dana: “The dating scene in Washington is dismal.He knew history.

He was brilliant.Exciting.”Her birthplace, a state called Wyoming — wherever that is.

Schooling — University of Southern Colorado.Work — waitress.

Sideline: Host of campus TV show “Capitol Journal.”As a child, she read the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News.She said, “My sister told me, ‘You can do anything you want to do.

Figure it out.’ From then on, I had to pick out two articles before dinner.“I wanted to be in news,” she said.That jumps to meeting Karl Rove.

That leaps to a Marine One helicopter ride.She said, “I was nervous.

I figured if I go to Washington, I will never work in television.” The ride produced meeting then-President George Bush.All this unfolded while sitting in my home’s library during “The Five” co-host’s lunch break.Over a tuna sandwich, she said: “Peter had traveled.

I had not.So we spent one year living in his Great Britain birthplace.

I was bored so we moved.“Then came 9/11.We were living in San Diego.

I was stagnating.Working for a p.r.

outfit.My DC friends in the Justice Department worked for the younger George Bush and asked would I come back there to work.

My husband, involved in handling medical equipment and working from home, then drove cross country with our dog to be with me.”Time to relax?“We go out one night a week.Look, I was born Lutheran.

Small town.I’m no politician.

I can make no financial contributions.I was just a big reader who lived on a ranch and worried about the future.

Worried would I meet somebody.And then came indoctrination and left-wing ideology.

I thought...