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October 30, 2011

What the Hell Is Rick Perry Jabbering About Now? (VIDEO)

by Ken Layne  

Here’s an eight-minute video of a rambling idiot talking about “lovin’ on you a lil’ bit” or whatever, we don’t even know. New Hampshire! Politics! Cocktail hour!

According to the news wires, this video is Proof that Rick Perry is ready to “take on” Barack Obama, using a mysterious “bright line.”

Rick Perry on Sunday sought to reassure GOP primary voters concerned about his wobbly presidential debate performances, saying he would draw sharp distinctions with the Democratic incumbent in televised showdowns next year.

“I’m not worried a bit that I’ll be able to stand on the stage with Barack Obama and draw a very bright line,” Perry said.

Rick Perry is so delusional he thinks he can “draw” another “bright line” of cocaine after he snorts all the actual cocaine. And maybe he can! Maybe the reason he’s pretending to be so confident of whatever he’s doing these days is because he can do magick.

Maybe Rick Perry is actually Harold and the Purple Crayon, have you conventional-wisdom diptards at Fox and Friends or Monday Night Football considered that?

All of Politics will be talking about this, tomorrow. Why? Because it’s easier than talking about the insane, decades-long no-winners bloodbath revolution that is days/months away from breaking out in a couple of dozen U.S. cities, simultaneously. 2012 is coming soon! We will wish that asteroid hit us! [via 500 commenters & the YouTube]

{ 223 comments }

raygotaway October 30, 2011 at 5:57 pm

In the vernacular–P.Rick is buttered.

horsedreamer_1 October 30, 2011 at 6:37 pm

It's made in house, though, do it's nice & frothy.

paris biltong October 30, 2011 at 7:16 pm

This should get him the shitface votes, along with maybe even a few AA newcomers.

nounverb911 October 30, 2011 at 5:58 pm

Needs more Gordon Gekko.

memzilla October 30, 2011 at 6:01 pm

Shorter version: "Debate? Hurt head! Speech? Not hurt head!"

nounverb911 October 30, 2011 at 6:02 pm

Has Jeebus put the fires out in Texas yet?

chascates October 30, 2011 at 8:41 pm

Yes, but He hasn't done shit about the drought.

WhatTheHeck October 30, 2011 at 10:56 pm

I think Jeebus overstepped his bounds and put the fire out of Rick Perry’s campaign. He used too much retardant.

HateMachine October 30, 2011 at 11:32 pm

Nah, "too much retardant" is what Perry drank immediately before he wobbled up to the podium.

lochnessmonster October 30, 2011 at 6:02 pm

Mash up between GW Bush and Nixon…anyone else see that? And I am disturbed ppl are laughing at this…

MegPasadena October 31, 2011 at 3:47 am

The girlish hand gestures are certainly from Palin though.

Occupy V572 October 30, 2011 at 6:05 pm

"If they print anymore money over there in Warshington, the gold's gonna be good." Must not be the real Rick Perry, who wouldv'e called it "Warshington Deecee." Is this just one of those badlipreading.com sendups? Sounds like it…

not that Dewey October 30, 2011 at 7:47 pm

The last one of those I saw made a helluva lot more sense than anything he's actually said.

Some do the Olympics, and some defy the titans.
Ice cream.

Barb October 30, 2011 at 6:07 pm

"Victory or death" Rick Perry and I agree about something now. Let's not waste time with his concession speech though.

Katydid October 31, 2011 at 7:37 am

Cake or death!

LesBontemps October 31, 2011 at 10:41 am

The cake is a lie!

Tundra Grifter October 31, 2011 at 6:52 pm

Barb: How about the slogan he likes: "Bring it!"

Isn't that the one that worked out so well for President Bush (43, of course).

Troubledog October 30, 2011 at 6:09 pm

If you close all the schools, you won't accidentally educate any illegal children. It's the only way to be sure.

Arken October 30, 2011 at 6:43 pm

On a totally unrelated subject, your avatar is my 17-month-old daughter's favorite book… although she thinks it's called "Go Go!"

BerkeleyBear October 30, 2011 at 9:45 pm

I have loved that book – and convinced my boss at the time to use it in court. There was a dispute about what it meant for one thing to be "over" another (yes, I went to trial over shit like this) and I was reading that book to my son and getting so pissed at how simple the idea was that a colleague and I pushed him to put it in our closing. The woman who turned out to be the jury foreperson nodded along with that part of the presentation, and we won after several hours of deliberation.

Arken October 30, 2011 at 9:48 pm

That's awesome. I love it.

jetjaguar October 30, 2011 at 7:47 pm

if you make school illegal, only the illegals will go to school

wait…

ManchuCandidate October 30, 2011 at 6:10 pm

Klaatu Barda Nickto to you too Ranger Ricky Poo.

Numbat_Dundee October 30, 2011 at 6:11 pm

If he's going to "love on" us "a little" will he clean up afterwards? Has he brought a box of Kleenex?

Numbat_Dundee October 30, 2011 at 6:14 pm

Anyway. It just occurred to me that he has a better receptable for his "love juices" than the prone bodies of the suffering American electorate. He gets to share a stage on a regular basis with a "perfectly lubricated weathervane".

samsuncle October 30, 2011 at 6:14 pm

Thanks Rick, because of you I don't have to hang my head in shame anymore when people find out that Bobby Jindal is my governor.

Arken October 30, 2011 at 6:47 pm

No, you still do.

BelleSC October 30, 2011 at 6:57 pm

Hey, count yourself lucky. We have Nikki Haley.

Spurning Beer October 30, 2011 at 7:39 pm

I'll see you one Sikh-American, and raise you one sick American: Rick Scott, Florida's first basilisk governor.

bagofmice October 30, 2011 at 9:53 pm

Now you've done it. What are the lizard people going to say?

user-of-owls October 30, 2011 at 9:54 pm

Sort of like Roland Burris being Illinois' first obelisk (building) Senator?

ProudLibunatic October 30, 2011 at 8:09 pm

Sorry, after years of dealing Der Grohpenfuhrer, I'm all out of sympathy.

(Piyush is a prick, though.)

TitsAkimbo October 30, 2011 at 10:04 pm

I did my duty and stayed in CA long enough to vote against recall, but nobody would listen to me. Moved to NV shortly after, but still worked in and for the Golden State. I swear it was like the prick knew I voted against him, the way he treated me…

BerkeleyBear October 30, 2011 at 9:47 pm

Hey, the people of Illinois who survived Blago resent Louisiana trying to claim anyone is more embarrassing/shameful than the Big Easy. We rely on you guys to make us look slightly less corrupt.

OKthennext October 30, 2011 at 9:59 pm

I agree samsuncle. We have Rick Perry/Rick Scott/Scott Walker/Jan Brewer spreading the crazy and incompetence on the national stage. Our little Bobby will have to step up his game to get noticed.

Now I'm a little bit scared.

Katydid October 31, 2011 at 7:41 am

At least you don't have the governor who looks like he ate all the other governors, the fat fuck.

Negropolis October 31, 2011 at 8:02 am

At least you don't have a governor who if you spoke to him on the phone you'd mistake him for Kermit the Frog.

ProgressiveInga October 30, 2011 at 6:21 pm

Dude was definitely over-served some adult beverages at dinner. And, btw, I've never seen anyone get so giddy over maple syrup.

Arken October 30, 2011 at 6:48 pm

I think he believes it really is liquid gold.

OneDollarJuana October 30, 2011 at 7:28 pm

Hmmm. Maple syrup. True story: my aunt mailed us a gallon of maple syrup from Maine, her home. It broke open in the mail. The post office was not giddy.

Tundra Grifter October 31, 2011 at 6:53 pm

Other than Buddy T. Elf, of course.

subsum October 30, 2011 at 6:21 pm

I'm so tired of these clowns. I'm like "enough already!" And to think it's not even 2012 yet. I don't know how I'm gonna get through the actual campaign. Well, at least n-1 of these douches are supposed to go away but I doubt it. They will continue blabbering about whatever and I'm not going to be able to make them stop. Where's the fucking vodka?

ManchuCandidate October 30, 2011 at 6:29 pm

I thought 2008 was bad but these assholes are even worse.

To quote the Simpsons' Captain McCallister: "Arrrr, not a looker among the bunch."

OneDollarJuana October 30, 2011 at 7:30 pm

At least, you know that if one of these crazy idiots wins the election, even the Republicans will have to admit the election was rigged (third time's the charm).

Bonzos_Bed_Time October 30, 2011 at 8:08 pm

At least you can look forward to tonight's Treehouse of Horror not being interrupted by a stupid baseball game!

ColonelDoctor October 30, 2011 at 7:42 pm

I think Rick has the vodka.

HateMachine October 30, 2011 at 11:37 pm

Had, you mean.

MiniMencken October 30, 2011 at 6:22 pm

At the end of the clip, I had the momentary sensation I was watching a baby shower thrown for a gay couple.

FakaktaSouth October 30, 2011 at 6:34 pm

Here's what I know – Rick Perry is too dumb for Alabama – so ya know he's fucked.

The West Alabama Republicans straw poll picked Herman (who was THERE, getting booed by the Paultards and reg Rs for repping for the Fed) 50, Dr. Paul 45 and then it was Newty Bootie THEN PERRY, then Mitt sooooo. basically the Rs are so outloud stupid here, its fascinating. They hate everybody, including themselves. Beautiful.

samsuncle October 30, 2011 at 6:55 pm

Are you ready for the big show down in Brian Denny this Saturday?

FakaktaSouth October 30, 2011 at 7:07 pm

I could never, ever be ready, but I am excited. There are going to be people sleeping on my floors, we have tickets for us and for sale and a tent ready to go up on the quad. We are expecting the influx to begin on Wednesday (RV pkg lots open then) and I imagine everyone will already be drunk by then.

samsuncle October 30, 2011 at 7:20 pm

I heard that cheap seat tickets were going for 5 G's. I'll be rooting for bama to come in a close second!

FakaktaSouth October 31, 2011 at 9:28 am

I ain't saying NOTHING to a son of the Pelican state, karma and all. I did the butt-dance at half time of the Aub game last year and learned my GD lesson – and even though they hate us for dating their ex-girlfriend, LSU peeps don't bother me none like some of the others and I kinda love Les Miles. Who wouldn't?

Dashboard_Jesus October 31, 2011 at 1:52 am

srsly you're EXCITED about watching a stupid football game, in Alabama, while Rome is BURNING, ftw? no offense intended but 'Merkan futbol is just the modern day version of Roman gladiators (…don't pay attention to what's happening in the Senate 'ol Spartacus, just watch me throw this pass/ Christian")

FakaktaSouth October 31, 2011 at 9:33 am

Yes, fooseball is the devil and all of that. I also got my kids, the hubs, food, sex, alcohol, how long my roots are, working out, my tan and cleaning my house for distractions. BUT, unlike Rick Perry, I can and will debate anyone anytime on any policy issue they put in front of me, and I am always aware of who is trying to screw me next (been a blonde with big boobs since I was 13, so I'm good at that all the way around). And if people wanted to start messing with Christians around here, I'd be fine with that, really.

Chet Kincaid October 31, 2011 at 9:52 am

You say that like it was a bad thing.

Spurning Beer October 30, 2011 at 6:56 pm

I speak as someone who once ran against George Wallace, Jr., in a junior high school trackmeet in Montgomery when Lurleen was governor.

In Alabama, the title "coach" carries more prestige than "Doctor," "Your Honor," or "Your Holiness." And the coaches are dumber than a sack of peat moss.

If Alabamians think you're stupid, pay attention. They know from stupid.

(I say that with love, FS. Just lovin' on ya a little bit.)

Negropolis October 30, 2011 at 10:17 pm

You can always rest assured that you aren't Mississippi. I mean, you may only be Mississippi with industry, but that's still a step above being the Mississippi, the one and only.

They always speak of these places as the "place time forgot." Time didn't forget; it saw the trajectory of these places and got the fuck out before it was lynched for having a "liberal bias."

Spurning Beer October 30, 2011 at 10:57 pm

I think you're onto something there. Time progresses.

You wanna hear a burning hunk of irony? The recently retired Anglican bishop of Malawi is a Mississippi-born gringo who lives here in Pensacola now. His homophobia puts him at odds with (non-Southern) Episcopalians, but he's right in tune with the prevailing African Christian opinion.

HateMachine October 30, 2011 at 11:41 pm

Damned if shit ain't complicated as hell, man.

Dashboard_Jesus October 31, 2011 at 1:47 am

no shit, you ACTUALLY ran in a track meet against George Wallace? hope you beat his sorry white ass real bad (btw that must mean you are REALLY old right?) btw I heard when they asked Bear Bryant to run for Governor he declined cuz it was such a step down from his exalted position…srsly any state/ human that worships football/ coaches that much needs to have their collective heads examined

Spurning Beer October 31, 2011 at 8:09 am

1. I am old, yes.

2. Not that old. It was Wallace's son, George Junior.

3. Yes, my sorry white ass beat his sorry white ass. His sorry white ass rode around town in a canary yellow Chevy II SS396, and his daddy was still ambulatory at that point.

Dashboard_Jesus November 1, 2011 at 2:32 am

even if it was George, Jr still an awesome story! (oh and I thought you was a black guy, cuz of the Burnin' Spear and all…I'm a little dyslexic also..my bad)

Chet Kincaid October 31, 2011 at 9:57 am

Don't forget Wallace's Scrooge/Grinch-like transformation in his final term:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace#Chang...

Occupy V572 October 30, 2011 at 6:57 pm

They should get all the candidates in a room and let them settle amongst themselves…Huntsville style.

Negropolis October 30, 2011 at 10:19 pm

You mean with NASA rockets?

O-ring libel!

Occupy V572 October 31, 2011 at 2:49 am

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_University_of_Alabama_in_Huntsville_shootinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_University_of_A… />

Come here a minute October 30, 2011 at 6:34 pm

Congratulations to Governor Rick Perry for taking it to the next level. George Bush got elected for being "the guy you'd rather have a beer with." Governor Perry is showing us just how fucked up he'll get when you gave a beer or six with him. He'll match up with "fancy microbrew" Obama any day of the week!

Negropolis October 30, 2011 at 10:21 pm

Rick Perry is "the guy you want to watch, and the reason why all of your kitchen cabinets have locks on them."

HateMachine October 30, 2011 at 11:43 pm

Rick Perry is "the guy you want to see on 'Cops' getting pinned against the ground with his shirt off."

Negropolis October 31, 2011 at 12:47 am

He can keep his shirt on as far as I'm concerned.

HateMachine October 31, 2011 at 11:44 am

I'm not eager to see that part myself, but it's pretty much a requirement where Cops is concerned.

HistoriCat October 31, 2011 at 11:32 am

Great – now I'm imagining Anita Perry haranguing the cops : "get off him! He's a good man and ah luuuuuuv him!"

Negropolis October 31, 2011 at 11:02 pm

Can we please call her Lurlene from now on?

mrblifil October 31, 2011 at 9:44 am

Rick Perry: Guy I'd most like to cook a spoon with.

Except I wouldn't.

prommie October 31, 2011 at 10:32 am

Ain't no froo-froo pussy french dijon mustard on his hamburger.

ProgressiveInga October 30, 2011 at 6:41 pm

And check out the Fosse Hands at 2:33 – Marcus must be all a-glitter! ✮

iburl October 30, 2011 at 6:57 pm

Makes his big toe wanna shoot up in his boot.

Arken October 30, 2011 at 6:41 pm

He's not high on cocaine! He's high on life! And cocaine!

Kat_man October 30, 2011 at 6:41 pm

Is this from that bad lip reading website?

iburl October 30, 2011 at 6:57 pm

Evidently that site did have an effect on p-Ricky.

NewtsChicknNeck October 30, 2011 at 6:42 pm

i can haz monies?!?!?

north_of_moscow October 30, 2011 at 6:46 pm

It's like Paul Lynde and Lewis Black had a drunk baby.

bflrtsplk October 30, 2011 at 6:54 pm

Paul Lynde made the best commercials for Manufacturers Hanover Trust with Rod Serling. They were like one minute versions of Twilight Zone episodes.

iburl October 30, 2011 at 6:55 pm

drunk crack baby

ttommyunger October 30, 2011 at 6:46 pm

OK, Ken. I'll go so far as to read you on Sunday and even comment, but no fucking way am I watching videos of the Republitards on Sunday; or any other day come to think of it.

iburl October 30, 2011 at 6:58 pm

It's really funny though, if you like drunks/cokeheads/flamers.

ttommyunger October 30, 2011 at 11:31 pm

You left out pedophiles.

Occupy V572 October 30, 2011 at 7:00 pm

Tommy…no "MTP" for you on Sunday morning? How can you expect to stay informed on current events? The questions that David Gregory's staff put on the TelePrompTer for him really cut to the heart of every issue. Of course Dancin' Dave is totally befuddled by responses and therefore never follows up.

I'll grant you, all the sex appeal went out of the Sunday morning shoutathons when Novak died.

ttommyunger October 30, 2011 at 11:30 pm

Oh that Robert was a manwich, especially in his red Corvette.

flamingpdog October 30, 2011 at 10:20 pm

Three blog posts on teh Wonkettez on the weekend, and on a boring weekend to boot? Should I cash in my shelves of hobo beans now and buy Wonkette.com stock?

ttommyunger October 30, 2011 at 11:29 pm

I AM impressed! Talk about commitment.

HateMachine October 30, 2011 at 11:45 pm

Why bother? Hobo Beans are the only currency you can convert Wonkette.com stock into.

Negropolis October 30, 2011 at 10:23 pm

but no fucking way am I watching videos of the Republitards on Sunday

I agree; this is the Lord's day. Watching Republicans on a Sunday is a vulgarity.

ttommyunger October 30, 2011 at 11:28 pm

Now that I think about, or any other day of the week that ends in “ay”.

Joshua Norton October 30, 2011 at 6:47 pm

Rick Perry: “I come from a state where they have this little thing called the Alamo, and they declared ‘Victory Or Death!’”

Perry does realize they lost at the Alamo and everybody died, doesn't he? Not really the best example of how much of a winner he is.

Occupy V572 October 30, 2011 at 6:58 pm

They did define the possible outcomes correctly, however.

user-of-owls October 30, 2011 at 7:02 pm

Better still, they were killed by a bunch of Mexicans!

paris biltong October 30, 2011 at 7:22 pm

Does he?

flamingpdog October 30, 2011 at 9:55 pm

Given the 234+ executions in Texas since he became the Guv, I'm not sure victory is his top priority of the two.

Although in Texas, I guess prioritizing the latter does provide the former.

Negropolis October 30, 2011 at 10:24 pm

Did Perry also forget that that war was largely to claim for the South an expansion of his region's "peculiar institution"? Fuck the Alamo.

bflrtsplk October 30, 2011 at 6:49 pm

A "bright line" as opposed to what – a stupid line.

flamingpdog October 30, 2011 at 9:56 pm

In his case, a dim line.

Callyson October 30, 2011 at 6:53 pm

"Gold is good"
Thus, the 10's version of "greed is good" is born…

user-of-owls October 30, 2011 at 6:55 pm

So that's what I used to look like.

RadioOcupados October 30, 2011 at 7:43 pm

Well, that and if you had 40 less IQ points and weren't doing the thumbs up effeminately.

Callyson October 30, 2011 at 6:57 pm

"I graduated in the top 10 of my high school class"
I'm not as dumb as the last Texan who was in the White House…

Blueb4sunrise October 30, 2011 at 8:18 pm

Out of……?

LetUsBray October 30, 2011 at 9:15 pm

He was talking about what a small town it was. I'm guessing, no more than 5.

SheriffRoscoe October 30, 2011 at 9:51 pm

There were about about a dozen students in his class. No joke. He thinks self-deprecation = cute.

Pat_Pending October 30, 2011 at 11:26 pm

I keep thinking he's dumber than W, but then I have to keep reminding myself that Mr. P doesn't have Karl Rove to prop him up after every blunder (a more-than-full-time-job), so… ya know…

user-of-owls October 30, 2011 at 7:01 pm

I come from a state where they have this little thing called the Alamo, and they declared ‘Victory Or Death!’

Dear Texas,

Where are my royalty checks?

Che Guevara.

Tundra Grifter October 31, 2011 at 6:55 pm

Let's not forget Texas wanted to be independent from Mexico because the mother country had outlawed slavery – and Texans just couldn't live with that.

Callyson October 30, 2011 at 7:03 pm

"You'll put it on your pancakes or waffles or whatever other Southern food you eat"
Those poor rentboys are going to have to scrub themselves in the shower after meeting with the Rickster now…

iburl October 30, 2011 at 7:05 pm

Cocaethylene is a hell of a drug. If you want to skip (npi) to the most flamingly gay parts, they start at about 2:44.

CrunchyKnee October 30, 2011 at 7:09 pm

Bush Jr. Jr.

paris biltong October 30, 2011 at 7:11 pm

All these Republican clowns, since Nixon, the only thing they've managed to do is make Barry Goldwater look a little better.

grex1949 October 30, 2011 at 9:00 pm

He was wrong-headed on most civil rights and foreign policy issues of his day, but at least Barry Goldwater was intelligent and articulate. Some would call him a statesman. That's not a description you hear bandied about in discussions of the current crop of Republican candidates.

Callyson October 30, 2011 at 9:02 pm

Hell, they're starting to make *Reagan* look better.
I terrify myself…

BarackMyWorld October 30, 2011 at 7:18 pm

Any else read James Carville's column on Rick Perry. Sure, he barely made a logical argument in support of his main idea, but the Carvillisms were magnificent, especially if you're actually imagining Bill Hader doing his Carville impression as you read it.

jetjaguar October 30, 2011 at 7:38 pm
donner_froh October 30, 2011 at 7:38 pm

Was he drunk when he made this video?

Or perhaps the question should be: Was he sober since that is such a rare occurrence with Gov. Fucknutz.

RadioOcupados October 30, 2011 at 7:45 pm

And I thought we despised this guy because he is a Christian.

ColonelDoctor October 30, 2011 at 7:45 pm

My gaydar is blowing up. Has Marcus seen this?

DahBoner October 30, 2011 at 7:49 pm

"SHUT UP DRUNKY"

He's just been "somewhere else", before.

Rick Perry drank up all the groceries.

Now he's working on the rent…

flamingpdog October 30, 2011 at 10:00 pm

…BOY!

smashedinhat October 30, 2011 at 7:57 pm

I remember that one time I smoked PCP. Errr, someone told me about it afterwards.

JustPixelz October 30, 2011 at 8:01 pm

Nice to see Rip Taylor still out there knocking 'em dead every night, plus Sunday matinees.

Bonzos_Bed_Time October 30, 2011 at 8:06 pm

Rick Perry is not cool.

Guppy October 30, 2011 at 8:09 pm

So presidential debates will now involve Lite-Brites?

Blueb4sunrise October 30, 2011 at 8:27 pm

In my [2 beered] opinion, this is not alcohol and/or coke, but some bipolar mood leveler he's on. Maybe took a little extra.

deanbooth October 30, 2011 at 8:30 pm

You know who else gave a "Cornerstone speech"?

Blueb4sunrise October 30, 2011 at 8:42 pm

Frank Lloyd Wright?

RadioOcupados October 30, 2011 at 9:21 pm

Perry Mason?

flamingpdog October 30, 2011 at 10:01 pm

This looked more like a Cornerstoned speech.

Chet Kincaid October 31, 2011 at 1:39 am

The Grand Master of the Freemasons?

jakegittes October 31, 2011 at 7:56 am

Timothy Leary?

SudsMcKenzie October 30, 2011 at 8:37 pm

Many Conair's died to bring you this message.

chascates October 30, 2011 at 8:43 pm

Rick wants to avoid them debates cause he can't debate good. He cain't speak good, neither.

AlterNewt October 30, 2011 at 9:24 pm

"…and thas the troof…"

datateday October 30, 2011 at 9:26 pm

He could be talking about marinades, pop rocks, cruise missiles, compost, leg warmers, sprockets, ham bakes, disco balls, large scale HARO objects, the Davidson County comptroller, Peter Sellers, octopi, Marsala salads, floating artillery, baked goods, polonium compounds, radish rings, the Shmooze, chewing tobacco, weather veins, cocker spaniels, hobgoblins, window dressing, repair manuals, tortoises, quilts, Pan-Am, Red Sox, luggage, Victor Moorland, settled flour, mufflers, prime numbers….

user-of-owls October 30, 2011 at 9:56 pm

If he talked about all those things simultaneously, the speech would have been more coherent.

SheriffRoscoe October 30, 2011 at 9:47 pm

A little whiskey to "take the edge off" goes a long way, Ricky.

Either that, or, as I truly suspect, Rick Perry has come unwound. Rick Perry is a cowboy with the heart of a thirteen-year-old girl.

user-of-owls October 30, 2011 at 9:49 pm

I don't think you can take the edge off something that isn't sharp to begin with.

user-of-owls October 30, 2011 at 9:48 pm

I haven't been paying close attention lately. When did Foster Brooks join the race?

Tundra Grifter October 31, 2011 at 6:59 pm

UOO:

If you ever get a chance to see the video of Johnny Cash live at the Tennessee State Pen, you'll see a smoking hot Linda Ronstadt, and Foster Brooks doing two great jokes – his birthday and poison mushrooms. The second one went over particularly well with that crowd…

comrad_darkness November 1, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Tundra Grifter November 1, 2011 at 3:10 pm

comrad darkness:

Yes! That's the one – thank you very much.

How did Ms. Ronstadt get out of there alive? WoW!

No surprise – I'd forgotten about Roy Clark.

Biel_ze_Bubba November 2, 2011 at 12:45 am

Can't help noticing the audience … not exactly a cross-section of the prison population.

flamingpdog October 30, 2011 at 10:06 pm

Well, he's got the drunk and stupid part down, at least.

owhatever October 30, 2011 at 10:10 pm

I wudda been here sooner to love on ya, but I had to execute me another guy last week.

flamingpdog October 30, 2011 at 10:10 pm

“lovin’ on you a lil’ bit”

Rick, Everybody loves somebody sometime.

Negropolis October 30, 2011 at 10:11 pm

I can't take a minute's dose of Rick Perry, let alone eight minutes plus. I think I could probably guess a summary that includes the words Texas, America, Freedom/Liberty (capitalized), job-killing, oil, Obamacare, down-home Southern folkisms, repeat.

flamingpdog October 30, 2011 at 10:13 pm

Watch it with the sound off. I think you'll get the picture without frying your brain in the process.

SheriffRoscoe October 30, 2011 at 10:13 pm

Oh but this is actually video of a train wreck. Everyone likes watching train wrecks, and so shall you!

Negropolis October 30, 2011 at 10:27 pm

Is it like an Indian Train wreck (i.e. "Train Derails in India; 2,000 people killed"), or a simple Amtrak derailment affair?

SheriffRoscoe October 30, 2011 at 10:42 pm

Well, it's not exactly like the Howard Dean train wreck, in the loud, explosive, spectacular sense; but rather just a long, continual, coming off the rails type of train wreck.

Negropolis October 31, 2011 at 12:52 am

I still get angry think about that lie that is "The Scream."

ProgressiveInga October 30, 2011 at 10:28 pm

But this is Rick Parry, the drunk gay comic alter-ego of Gov. Rick Perry. I've watched it 3 times today and it has only made me marginally dumber.

Chet Kincaid October 31, 2011 at 1:46 am

Oh, you gotta watch this one. It is the queerest speech you will ever see from a major party candidate, like that one Star Trek where they were all running around the Enterprise blubbering and overacting.

ChessieNefercat October 31, 2011 at 12:06 pm

That one Star Trek where they were all running around the Enterprise blubbering and overacting?

El Pinche October 30, 2011 at 10:16 pm

HEES A STUOPID DURNK LIKE ME! WHENS VOTIN TIME!!? *BRRRP*

ChessieNefercat October 31, 2011 at 12:06 pm

I like "durnk."

Negropolis October 30, 2011 at 10:32 pm

Meh. Bright line, (The Shining) city on a hill, a million points of light…this is standard Republican fare. Call me when he starts talking about the dogs with bees in their mouths, or shark with freakin' laser beams.

offbrandboobs October 30, 2011 at 10:33 pm

That just HAS to set the new record for "most words spoken while having a massive stroke". Srsly, what the hell was his head lolling around like that for?

Mahousu October 30, 2011 at 10:52 pm

People used to say that Bush was a "dry drunk." Perry has now successfully beaten that rap.

imissopus October 30, 2011 at 11:20 pm

Looks like someone got into the Manischewitz before the seder started.

Negropolis October 30, 2011 at 11:22 pm

Gold is good, all the time.
And all the time, gold is good.

Can I get an amen? **crickets**

I finally watched the video after much consultation and battling with the logic-based side of my brain. As a compromise, I watched it while scrolled down the page so I wouldn't actually have to see him. A few observations, some long since apparent:

1. This guy is dumber than a box of rocks. Either that, or he's an honest-to-goodness alcoholic. That speech was more incoherent than Anna Nicole Smith — god bless her soul — anywhere, ever.

2. This guy's so far in the closet he's finding Christmas presents.

3. Charisma? The man is just plain awkward. I honestly don't see what Texans see in the guy. You know, for as much as disagree with someone like Haley Barbour, he seems like a genuine enough guy with actual charisma.

I guess this is the kind of shit you get in states as politically uncompetitive as Texas, and this really does go both ways, though, Dems do tend even when they have control over a place to try elevate a reasonably intelligent politician to the fore.

That was just painful.

Ken Layne October 31, 2011 at 12:06 am

2. This guy's so far in the closet he's finding Christmas presents.

As old as I am, and even being from The South, I have never heard this incredible saying. Thank you, I think.

Negropolis October 31, 2011 at 12:45 am

Credit where credit is due, I heard this one on Family Guy.

Chet Kincaid October 31, 2011 at 1:50 am

Aw man, you should have WATCHED him, that's most of the comedy!

ChessieNefercat October 31, 2011 at 12:09 pm

"I finally watched the video after much consultation and battling with the logic-based side of my brain."

My sincere sympathy to the logic-based side of your brain. I hope it recovers quickly.

Pat_Pending October 30, 2011 at 11:27 pm

OHMYGAW!!! I had no idea he was such a lispy queen! I do that routine at Thanksgiving, mostly cuz my idiot relatives make me so uncomfortable!

Ken Layne October 31, 2011 at 12:07 am

Oh yeah, we've been calling him the "haughty waiter at the Dallas country club" for months now.

Negropolis October 31, 2011 at 7:32 am

No "self-important Southwest Airlines flight attendent"?

Chet Kincaid October 31, 2011 at 1:31 am

What the fuck, I have just seen a man go through menopause!

Chet Kincaid October 31, 2011 at 1:32 am

Jesus, it's like watching Charles Nelson Reilly have nothing witty to say.

mavenmaven October 31, 2011 at 1:46 am

I just got it. He's the drag version of Sarah Palin.

Chet Kincaid October 31, 2011 at 1:53 am

Well, I just could not picture the gay on him, until that video.

mourningnmerica October 31, 2011 at 1:56 am

He really is an honest to God cretin, isn't he.

SayItWithWookies October 31, 2011 at 2:41 am

You can calll Rick Perry lots of things — a myopic excuse for a fundamentalist quidnuncian creationist anthropogenic-climate-change-denying fraud, for instance — but you must admit that he's a great tribute to Spalding Gray's portrayal of Earl Culver in the cinematic masterpiece True Stories that prophetically described life in small-town Texas in the late twentieth century.

zappadoo76 October 31, 2011 at 2:42 am

Perry talked to his audience like a teenage kid talking to his girlfriend. Is he planning to fuck these people?

smitallica October 31, 2011 at 9:59 am

If he's elected, he'll fuck us ALL.

NellCote71 October 31, 2011 at 1:35 pm

All of 'em, Katie.

I am Texan, already been there. Do I get a pass?

Monsieur_Grumpe October 31, 2011 at 3:07 am

This is what happens when you channel Ronald Reagan and you don't have enough room in your brain to accommodate him.

Negropolis October 31, 2011 at 7:40 am

Well that's just fucking pitiful, then, because Reagan was known — by both his opponents and supporters, alike — just as much for his second-rate intellect as he was for his mediocre acting abilities. To download Ronnie to your brain only takes up a few dozen kilobytes.

Chichikovovich October 31, 2011 at 9:59 am

For logic nerds only:
Back in grad school, sitting around the lounge, somebody read out loud a bit of the newspaper when Nancy R. was quoted saying Ronnie had "a brain like a computer". One of the theoretical computer science people immediately remarked. "Yes. A one-state Turing Machine".

freakishlywrong October 31, 2011 at 7:35 am

♫ And Save a pretzel for the Gas JETS! ♪♪

Katydid October 31, 2011 at 8:18 am

Speaking or morons, Politico reporting Cain was accused of sexual harassment: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67194.h....

Looks like the GOP gave politico permission to go after Cain.

DerrickWildcat October 31, 2011 at 8:36 am

White folks walk like this….but a Brother walks like this…

Terry October 31, 2011 at 8:50 am

I thought those good God fearin' Texas Baptists didn't drink. Rick, you breaking the rules or are you high on life?

LiveToServeYa October 31, 2011 at 8:59 am

A likely story. His bright line seems rather dim.

smitallica October 31, 2011 at 9:05 am

After viewing this video in its entirety, I can now say with confidence that Rick Perry is not in any way on drugs, and is not gay. Nope. Not at all. Not even a little.

prommie October 31, 2011 at 9:42 am

Meanwhile, in New Jersey, Chris Christie's Mansion of Doom suffered power outage during the freak snowstorm over the weekend, and was without power for almost 4 hours. Christie was forced to resort to cannibalism to survive, eating two of his aides and one bodyguard before he was stopped with a tranquilizer dart.

Negropolis October 31, 2011 at 10:55 pm

Hell, he has enough fat stores to last him at least two winters.

mrblifil October 31, 2011 at 9:42 am

What's more appealing that watching a drunk narcissist become expansive?

DemonicRage October 31, 2011 at 9:47 am

Why do I get the feeling that he would deal with Occupy Wall Street by declaring them Communist Terrorists and sending in troops to machine gun them.

DahBoner October 31, 2011 at 9:48 am

Dear God, I pray that Google on Halloween day, will have a bunch of giant pumpkins on haybales. In Jesus's name I pray….

Chichikovovich October 31, 2011 at 10:03 am

Good show! Your record with public requests to the Big Guy Upstairs is 100% better than Rick Perry's. (Well, infinitely better, really, given that the ratio divides by zero. But why run up the score?)

__kth__ October 31, 2011 at 10:12 am

Unctuous geniality reminds me of Pat Robertson.

neiltheblaze October 31, 2011 at 10:28 am

Rick Perry is like a babbling Brooks Brother.

Biel_ze_Bubba November 2, 2011 at 2:31 am

Foster Brooks has a brother?

neiltheblaze November 2, 2011 at 8:23 am

Or David Brooks has a cousin.

Tommy1733 October 31, 2011 at 12:26 pm

Hard to watch much of this but I highly endorse the part at 2:44. Must-see-tee-vee

owhatever October 31, 2011 at 9:19 pm

I keep having to watch this. It sure looks like a Saturday Night Live skit.

comrad_darkness November 1, 2011 at 2:13 pm

I know I'm horribly late to this party, but I had a realization about this video. Rick Perry woke up, got more than three neurons firing at the same time and thought, fuck I don't wanna be Rove's butt boy for 8 long years. How the hell do I get out of this??

lulzmonger November 1, 2011 at 5:45 pm

Looks like someone shouldn't've licked that toad.
Pull out the stick & stop turning him over – Perry is done.

Wonderthing November 1, 2011 at 7:23 pm

Need moar insane blood baths.

starfanglednut November 1, 2011 at 9:17 pm

Drunk or not, that is one very, very annoying man.

Thurman Munster IV November 2, 2011 at 5:10 pm

Half a trillion dollars in tax preparation? Little Ricky really pulled that one out of his smarmy ass, didn't he?

prommie October 31, 2011 at 9:48 am

How long it take you to figure out, being a blonde with big boobs, that EVERYONE was trying to screw you?

Dashboard_Jesus November 1, 2011 at 2:29 am

ok, ok…sorry to dis-respect yer Alabama footballin'. I hear it's practically a RELIGION down there (and I also hear'd that big boobs is REAL poplar in 'Bama, too…also :) btw, I AM a big fan o' yer commentatin' (jus' not a big fan of the football. my bad)

FakaktaSouth October 31, 2011 at 9:51 am

When I heard Chris Rock say so. "Can I open this door for you? Can I offer you some dick?" Changed my whole attitude…

prommie October 31, 2011 at 10:02 am

I believe thats called being "gallant."

FakaktaSouth October 31, 2011 at 10:05 am

Whatever it is, I'm ABSOLUTELY FINE with it, and hope it doesn't stop anytime soon.

prommie October 31, 2011 at 10:10 am

I magine how bad Walter Raleigh wanted to bang Queen Elizabeth, with that "here, let me throw my coat over that puddle of shit there; want some dick?" act?

prommie October 31, 2011 at 10:19 am

Its pretty simple, its now been proven that the one thing that will make a racist white man go running into the arms of black Africans to make common cause, is their shared hatred of homosexuals.

FakaktaSouth October 31, 2011 at 10:20 am

No doubt. I never had anyone start a war for me either, so there's definitely gals that got it way better'n me, but I'll take some rando-dude getting stuff off the high shelf at Target for me all. day. long.

prommie October 31, 2011 at 10:35 am

Be aware that stopping and letting the ladies go first, thats not gallantry (which we have established simply means "an offering of dick"), thats so we can stare at your asses.

FakaktaSouth October 31, 2011 at 10:41 am

Good Lord, I sure hope so since I'll be off in just a bit to squat, lunge and lift things for just that purpose.

prommie October 31, 2011 at 10:46 am

lemme get that door for you.

FakaktaSouth October 31, 2011 at 10:52 am

Perfect.

Negropolis October 31, 2011 at 11:01 pm

It's funny, though, because homosexuality didn't become a hysteria until organized religion was introduced to them by the likes of the Europeans and Arabs.

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