A local judge tells the Post: "It's just a name," said Haskell County Judge David Davis, sitting in his courtroom and looking at a window. "Like those are vertical blinds. It's just what it was called. There was no significance other than as a hunting deal."
ABC's This Week hostess Christiane Amanpour laid it on Perry rival Herman Cain on Sunday. Watch here. NewsBusters Cain also addressed the issue on Fox News Sunday. Huff Post CNN's Candy Crowley ran it at the end of her Sunday show.
Mediaite's Tommy Christopher cuts Perry some slack. But when the rock was painted over is irrelevant. This is Perry's media macaca moment. Whether he deserves it or not.
Monday update: “Campaigns are like an MRI for the soul — whoever you are, eventually people find out. Time will tell whether this comes to reflect him or not.”Obama election guru David Axelrod to the NYT
Oh look, the leftest media is calling a conservative republican a racist....yawn. In other news George Allen (R) is running for the U.S. Senate from Virginia. Yeah what a difference 4 years makes. Jim Webb (D) isn't running for reelection.
ReplyDeleteIf true I can't believe it took this long to become public. How many times was he elected governor of Texas?
ReplyDelete3 times for governor, plus 5 other races dating back to 1984.
ReplyDeleteWhat's as damning as the racism is the stupidity, of not REMOVING that stone and sinking it in a river, the moment he first decided to run for public office 27 years ago.
It's like Perry was playing with fire. Dumb fuck. You're right.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet it really said HUGGED and all the smelling salts are for nothing.
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