Nah. Saw the video. He pretended to call on the mannequin as a joke.
Oh, what do you know— it does look like Perry was just being funny.
After [Rick] Perry left, walking by a mannequin wearing a Squat N’ Gobble T-shirt whose hand was raised above her head — a hand Perry tried to call on during a question-and-answer period […]
part of the last paragraph of a campaign report by Alana Semuels of The Los Angeles Times. Talk about burying the lede! (via washingtonpoststyle)
*face palm*
Reblogged from Style
Looking in her eyes, I couldn’t come up with an answer to defend the exemptions for rape and incest…And over the course of the last few weeks, the Christmas holidays and reflecting on that…all I can say is that God was working on my heart.
Rick Perry has shifted his views on abortion farther to the right, citing a meeting with Rebecca Kiessling, a spokeswoman for Personhood USA who was adopted after her mother, a rape victim, tried and failed to abort her.
Reblogged from Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr
That’s a bunch of sissy stuff—pills and tonics, the type of crap for wimps and losers.
Dr. Kent Sepkowitz takes a look at Texas Governor Rick Perry citing back pain as an excuse for his poor debating, as opposed to pills and tonics.
Today’s headlines in under two minutes. AKA, cheat sheet video style!
As Perry struggled to come up with (as it turned out) “The Department of Energy,” his levels of the stress hormone cortisol undoubtedly went through the roof. Cortisol is bad for your brain, particularly the hippocampus, which encodes memories. Perry’s panic caused his brain to be flooded with the hormone, which impaired his cognitive function and memory even more, which released more cortisol. The guy didn’t stand a chance.
Otherwise known as “choking.”
Rick Perry tries to overcome debate gaffe by flaunting it
Making weakness a strength: That would seem to be the strategy Rick Perry is employing to try to weather his absolutely excruciating brain-lock at last night’s presidential debate (if you haven’t watched it yet, you really should). His tact from the moment he got off the stage (with reports from the spin room that he acknowledged he’d “stepped in it,” and a similar Tweet) seems to suggest his damage control plan is light humor at his own expense, to hope “oops” becomes a humanizing moment. source
Can Perry’s gaffe really turn into an advantage?
Reblogged from ShortFormBlog
So let’s say there were a 20 percent tax on income. A married-filing-separately taxpayer who makes around $74,000 right now pays 20 percent. So under Perry’s plan, people above that figure would be getting a tax cut. And obviously, the farther away from $74,000 you go, the larger, in real and percentage terms, your cut. And I hope the obverse has already occurred to you: yes, the lower earners would be in for sizable tax increases under the 20 percent plan. For example, a $25,000 earner would go from paying 13.3 percent to 20 percent, which is about a 35 percent increase, while our $1 million earner gets around a 46 percent decrease. And Kim Kardashian, forget about it. She’d pay a fraction of her current rates.
Rick Perry unveiled a flat tax plan of his own today. We’ve got an overview of what we know so far and a take on the plan from our Michael Tomasky (quoted above).
The real life of the hunting party, though, wasn’t [Governor Perry], writes Waddell. It was Ted Nugent, an outrageously hard-right rock guitarist who ‘had a great time shooting five hogs’ with his 8mm pistol, played the Star Spangled Banner, and supplied ‘the tons of fresh pork’ everyone enjoyed eating.
Is Perry Over? —Andrew Sullivan
So a U.S. District Court Judge in Texas just issued an injunction temporarily blocking this law from taking effect today, but if Gov. Rick Perry became president, not only would he be in favor of legislation like this but he’d take it a step further:
Last week, he joined Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann in signing the Susan B. Anthony List’s Pro-Life pledge, which commits him, among other things, to restricting his Cabinet appointments to people who share his opposition to abortion, something neither Bush nor Ronald Reagan ever did.
Politicians chowing down on foods on a stick. Yeah, we went there.
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