Rick Perry’s deadly “charm”: May have executed innocent man … but dopey press loves his new glasses!

[DonViejo]

The evidence keeps building that Texas covered up its execution of an innocent man. Oh well! Isn't he dreamy?

JIM NEWELL

Rick Perry is just so … adorable. And hardworking. And charming!

Did you know this? It’s the gist of a big long profile of “The New Rick Perry” in National Journal, the latest in a series of Rick Perry Is Adorable pieces to have emerged as the longtime Texas governor mulls another presidential run. The last one didn’t get very far, mostly because Perry hadn’t prepared and was all drugged up following back surgery and also isn’t a very bright guy. But the New Rick Perry is ready for the next sucker, according to this puff piece published in National Journal, which opens with a 10-million-word explanation for why Rick Perry now wears eyeglasses, and then offers credulous passage after passage. “The new Perry isn’t just working harder than his 2012 incarnation. He’s also seeking to occupy a different political space,” the author, Michelle Cottle, writes. “Last time, Perry ran as a conservative firebrand. This time, with Cruz and others sucking up all the oxygen on the right, he is trying out a new message. Forget the wild-eyed cowboy squawking about how Texas might be forced to secede from the union. Today’s Perry is pitching himself as a thoughtful, seasoned elder statesman.” Sure he is.

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He is, in sum, a dreamboat: “Looking especially presidential — gray suit, burnt-orange tie, and, at 64, still the best head of hair in politics — he bounced from topic to topic, but kept returning to a couple of overarching themes.”

Around the same time that National Journal was publishing this press release from Rick Perry’s political team, the Washington Post was publishing a piece of journalism regarding a case with which Perry is well familiar: the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was convicted of burning his house down and murdering his three young daughters trapped inside, and ultimately put to death in 2004.

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[Javaman]

1. cement head perry is homer simpson...

in an old episode of the Simpsons, homer attempts to look "serious and smart" by wearing glasses.

this is what the lame brain from Texas going for.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Pretty kewl, Rick: Chemical-resistant lenses for viewing executions close-up?

[Jefferson23]

3. The depth of shallow does not even begin to cover it..disgusting man. n/t

[Atman]

4. He is just as stupid as Sarah "fake glasses" Palin.

It is widely known (and widely ignored) that Sarah Palin's glasses are totally fake. Look at any picture of her. There is no distortion that would come from a real corrective lens. They're FAKE. She once admitted to getting the glasses because it made her look smart, because she was a dumb-ass beauty-queen ditz. So Rick Perry took the cue. He is also a fucking idiot, but he thought if he bought a pair of those smarty-pants book-readin' glasses, people would suddenly think he was all into that edumacation stuff and shit.

It's not fooling anyone. Oh, wait...apparently it is. Tea Baggers are easily fooled.