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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 11:17 AM
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Rick Perry denies drinking or drugs influenced his strange NH speech

Rick Perry denies drinking or drugs influenced his strange NH speech

By Rachel Rose Hartman

Rick Perry denied Thursday that he was under the influence of alcohol or pain medication during a recent speech he gave in New Hampshire that prompted questions about the candidate's bizarre behavior.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Responding to the suggestions by some political observers that the animated Perry may have been on pain medication for his past back surgery, the governor said: "No. I was just giving a speech."

In his interview with the Chronicle, the Texas governor said he had spine surgery on July 1, but was not taking medicine "or anything else" before last Friday's event, the newspaper's Carla Marinucci writes. Perry also rejected the accusation that his behavior-- marked by giddiness, clapping, strange speech patterns, mannerisms and comments-- was influenced by alcohol. "It wasn't that either," he said.

Perry suggested the hype was the result of a video that was edited to make him look bad.

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izquierdista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 11:18 AM
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1. Natural stupidity?
:shrug:
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 11:18 AM
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2. "No, I'm just naturally weird. And boy do I love maple syrup."
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 11:22 AM
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3. .
:rofl:
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-11 12:15 PM
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25. He "cuddles" the maple syrup. Gotta love Rachel for that one.
Rachel rocks.
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hamsterjill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 11:26 AM
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4. He'd probably been speaking in tongues right before this.
You know - the gifts of the spirit, etc. Wasn't this speech given at a religious event?
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Blue Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 11:34 AM
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5. Nope -- just some good ol' down-home, Texas-size crazy
n/t
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 11:37 AM
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6. In other words, he's just naturally weird.
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 10:49 PM
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19. yep
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Happyhippychick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 11:39 AM
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7. That's a headline which makes any democrat smile
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themaguffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 12:02 PM
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8. based him talking elsewhere, he looked like his normal idiotic self
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 12:35 PM
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9. Rick Perry cuddling with maple syrup
:rofl:
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YvonneCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 02:00 PM
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10. Here's a new theory...totally my own...
Edited on Thu Nov-03-11 02:02 PM by YvonneCa
...after reading this article, posted to DU today:

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/11/02/end-of-the-reagan-narrative/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2235291


After the early Republican debates, several people remarked to me how much Rick Perry reminded them of Ronald Reagan. I couldn't see it, but I DID notice that his hair and dress seemed to be different than usual...maybe in an effort to seem 'Reaganish'?

Here's the theory...could Perry also be trying to sound like, behave like Reagan in his speeches and public events? That 'joviality' reminded me a lot of the Gipper. :7
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saras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 09:28 PM
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18. So he's imitating Alzheimer's? Woo hoo!
So it's not enough to be stupid and crazy? You have to imitate a more famous stupid and crazy person?

If that works, we should just have someone channel Emperor Norton.
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-05-11 07:11 AM
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27. interesting theory
I think he was trying to change his personality, sound more something, that something could very well be "more like Reagan". Well whatever it was, he missed so badly that no one can even tell what he was going for. Unless it was Richard Simmons, in which case he nailed it. ;-)
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YvonneCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-05-11 05:00 PM
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31. Richard Simmons! I hadn't thought of...
...that one. :7
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-05-11 08:31 AM
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29. You are correct.
That was him trying to do "charming".

He's just so solipsistic and fundamentally stupid he can't pull it off.
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YvonneCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-05-11 05:02 PM
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32. 'Charming'...
...has never been so ridiculous. ;)
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YvonneCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 02:00 PM
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11. Delete, dupe. n/t
Edited on Thu Nov-03-11 02:01 PM by YvonneCa
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 03:20 PM
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12. Governor MoFo doesn't get that pain meds is a better explanation for that behavior
than 'that's just how I am'.
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 03:52 PM
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13. "I was not drunk when
I gave that speech; so stop saying that."

I miss Bob Boudelang.
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-11 12:17 PM
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26. I was not drunk when I sideswiped that car officer, I normally drive that way.
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 04:00 PM
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14. Perry suggested the hype was the result of a video that was edited to make him look bad.
How does that work Rick? In the process of editing the technician is able to make you do strange things, laugh giddily at your own jokes, and make funny faces and nonsensical noises?
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nxylas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-05-11 08:04 AM
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28. The wicked librul media can do ANYTHING
(of course when James O'Keefe does it, it merely counts as editorial license).
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Politicalboi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 04:21 PM
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15. WTF?
"Perry suggested the hype was the result of a video that was edited to make him look bad".

Edited? It wasn't edited in any way. And he doesn't need an "edited" video to look bad.
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Brother Buzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 04:54 PM
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16. I saw a compilation video
His material was in no way edited, just a compressed to highlighted his bombastic attempt at humor in a short period of time.
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workinclasszero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 07:04 PM
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17. Ah so Perry is just a straight up loon then
Good info to know!:rofl:
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EffieBlack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-03-11 11:23 PM
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20. When you're denying that you were drunk or high during a speech, you're in serious trouble
Edited on Thu Nov-03-11 11:32 PM by EffieBlack
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-11 04:48 AM
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21. Maybe Rick had just gotten laid...
I wouldn't bet against him being a sleaze.
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bklyncowgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-11 05:15 AM
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22. This is not reassuring.
Alright, a presidential candidate showing up to give a speech after having had a few too many is bad, but a presidential candidate who acts like that without being drunk, stoned, hammered, plastered however you want to put it, is worse.

If this is what he's really like and he somehow gets elected, God help us.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-11 09:08 AM
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23. Maybe that's how he is sober?
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EffieBlack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-05-11 09:40 AM
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30. Jon Stewart said something like that . . .
He said he was either hammered during that speech or he was sober during that speech and was hammered during all of his previous ones.

:rofl:
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olegramps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-11 09:11 AM
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24. He should claim he was drunk or high.
At least that could explain his bizarre behavior. We can only conclude that he is certifiably nuts if this is his normal behavior and wasn't under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
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OhioBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-06-11 01:45 AM
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33. I don't believe him for a second
the guy was just short of being plastered - he was in the happy-feel good- chatty cathy stage of drinking. He was feeling warm and fuzzy.
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