Flustered by reporter, Perry repeatedly demands source’s name

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Flustered by reporter, Perry repeatedly demands source’s name

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/02/flustered-by-reporter-perry-repeatedly-demands-sources-name/

By Andrew Jones
Monday, January 2, 2012



When Politico reporter Mike Allen asked him about rumors of discontentment within his campaign Tuesday morning in Iowa, Perry repeatedly insisted that Allen name his source before he’d comment on the story.

“I don’t know who you’re talking to so I can respond to,” he said. “Give me a name.”

When Allen would not name his source and instead repeated the question, Perry dug in.

“You’ve got a name?” he asked. “You’ve got a name? You’ve got a name?”

[LiberalAndProud]

1. Translation: HEADS WILL ROLL!!

Too funny.

[customerserviceguy]

17. That'd be fine with them

By next week, most of them are going to have jobs in the Santorum campaign anyway. They're the same political opportunists who bugged out on Newt when his Stepford wife wannabe started calling the shots. They were willing to work for pRick as long as he still had a wad of cash to pay them with, but they're smart enough to hop the fence for the greener grass.

[seabeyond]

2. so and so says.... that has become the new manipulation repugs and fox use to spout garbage

they created it. now they are finding a way to challenge when it is done to them

interesting. thanks

[hedgehog]

3. Perry is a very odd, unstable person. Whenever he thinks he's

planted a zinger on Romney, he looks around for people to slap him on the back and praise him. It makes the hairs on the back of my neck rise.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. It's that whole George W. Bush vibe, always smirking and waiting for the next ass-kissing.

Reminds me of the "Tiny Elvis" sketch on SNL:

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/tiny-elvis/1354925

Tiny Elvis: Hey, Sonny, Red, you boys having a good time?

Red: Count on it, Tiny Elvis.

Sonny: Takin' care of business, Tiny E!

Tiny Elvis: Well, that's good man, that's real good. Hey, Sonny, Red! Look how big that lamp is, man! That's hu-u-uge!

Sonny: [ laughs ]

Red: That's right, E!

Tiny Elvis: Well, man, I don't know how I'd ever turn that thing off, man. That is enormous!

Sonny: That's right, Elvis, that's a big lamp! (slaps his knee)

Tiny Elvis: Sure is, man. That's a really big lamp!

Red: That's hilarious, Elvis!

Sonny: Yeah, Elvis, you're really funny!

Tiny Elvis: Hey, man.. look at that salt shaker, man. That is huge! Man, I'll never be able to use all that salt, man. That is way too much!

Red: Yeah, that's a big salt shaker, Elvis!

Tiny Elvis: Sure is huge, man.

Sonny: That's hilarious, Elvis!

Red: Score another one for the Tiny E!

Sonny: Man, we can't keep up with you!

Tiny Elvis: Well, I'm just saying it's a big salt shaker, that's all.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/92/92aelvis.phtml

[tabatha]

5. Yep. Dumb, stupid, incoherent jerk.

[SteveW]

19. I rarely speculate like this, but he seems off his meds. nt

[hedgehog]

20. No, i think he's just always been able to

bully people to get his way. I've seen people behave this way in business and with their families!

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. My predictions

APRIL: The first day of spring sees the return of a perennial rite of the election season: flag-pin mania. Michele Bachmann, still gamely hanging on despite low delegate numbers, gets the ball rolling when a picture of President Obama taken on a Hawaiian beach shows him without a flag pin. "A president who was a real American would figure out a way to attach the pin to his chest, even without a shirt," Bachmann proclaims. This sets off a war among the GOP candidates to see who can most ostentatiously display the largest flag pin. Tragedy brings the contest to an end when Rick Perry attempts to nail a seven-by-five-inch pin to the center of his forehead and ends up in a coma.


MAY: Rick Perry miraculously comes out of his coma, but dramatically changed in that he can now remember more than two things at a time. His rebounding poll numbers drop precipitously when Republican primary voters turn against him for "acting like he's smarter than us."



He's a republican and an idiot but I repeat myself.
I didn't realize how dumb he was until this primary
since he didn't get national exposure.


My name is slim shady mr. perry.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. You guys probably misread this , I know I did.

On 2nd read, it is clear what really happened is that Perry forgot his own name.

“I don’t know who you’re talking to so I can respond to,” he said. “Give me a name.”


See?
then as his dementia sets in more firmly, he is begging for his identity:
“You’ve got a name?” he asked. “You’ve got a name? You’ve got a name?”

[RZM]

8. He's been using this same defense on everybody since the story broke

I don't think it's working all that well and it's rather unnecessary to boot.

All he would need to say is: 'I don't know who made that accusation and I don't care. I think the campaign is going fine.'

Surely among all of those people he's paying, somebody is telling him to say that. If not, then he's wasting his money. Of course, given his chances of winning the nomination, he's wasting his money anyway.

Perry is a glaring example that money can't always buy success in politics. You need money, but what you need even more is a candidate capable of not screwing up constantly. And Perry ain't that.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. It's Meg Whitman all over again

Continue your little spending spree, Rick. Y'all can afford it.

And while it's HIS money to burn (just like it was WHITMAN's to burn during her failed run), I remember the stories that came out after Brown defeated Whitman that showed the GOOD that could have been done with the money that was blown.

But it's not about others, it's about them, and just like Queen Meg is sitting high on the H.P. throne in the wake of her defeat, Perry will land on the other side of the 2012 Presidential elections with some kind of fat, comfy opportunity that will eventually put all of that money back into his wallet.

[RZM]

11. One of the arguments about Whitman

Was that she was sucked in by grifty political operatives/strategists who convinced her that her quixotic bid had a chance of success so that they could line their own pockets with her personal fortune. She was a carnival pigeon, writ large.

I can't help but feel some schadenfreude about the Perry campaign team. Undoubtedly some of the same types of grifters were behind his decision to run. And then there were the Gingrich staffers who jumped ship, only to realize that the jumped onto one that was sinking much faster.

Hehe.

[hedgehog]

12. I think the difference here is that the good people of Texas have been

paying for a lot of the campaign expenses. I think any politician needs to be properly protected, but the cost for Perry's security detail seems outlandish.

[Kablooie]

10. Ah yes. The paranoia grows.

[zbdent]

13. Here's the source, Rick ...

"Some" ...

[WI_DEM]

14. He's made a national reputation for being dumb

[customerserviceguy]

16. And arrogant at the same time

He figured he was in the clear when Newt started sinking, and he'd have a second bite at the apple. He sure didn't figure on Santorum being the next hot blob in the lava lamp.

Hey, pRick, how did calling your base heartless work out for ya?

[gratuitous]

15. Like the pine trees lining the winding road

I got a name, I got a name.

That's not how it works, Mr. Perry. It's not like when someone comes into your fancy-schmancy governor's office.

[MisterP]

18. he's getting a Reagan face