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Texas Governor Rick Perry does not try to resist parody. If anything, he embraces the tendency of journalists to portray him a political extremist and a boob. His refusal to respond, earlier this week, to a reporter's question about whether he was, at that moment, carrying a concealed weapon – "that's why it's called 'concealed'" – is the kind of banter that one expects from Saturday Night Live skits, not the evening news.
-- Ana Marie Cox at The Guardian
Oh, lordy, to think that this sort of Texas yahooism should be playing again in our presidential politics, so soon after we have seen how well that works in real life with Dubya, is enough to make you shake your head and give up.
-- Ana Marie Cox at The Guardian
Oh, lordy, to think that this sort of Texas yahooism should be playing again in our presidential politics, so soon after we have seen how well that works in real life with Dubya, is enough to make you shake your head and give up.
