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Laughing To Keep From Crying of the Day: After a day rife with talk show appearances, Gov. Rick Perry poked fun at his now-infamous debate gaffe on last night’s Late Show by reciting a list of his “Top Ten Excuses.”
Between Herman Cain’s campaign ads disguised as sexual harassment denials and Rick Perry’s whirlwind media tour, it’s getting to the point where Republican Presidential candidates are going to engineer scandals just to get some unsolicited airtime.
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Follow Up of the Day: Governor Rick Perry stopped by nearly every morning news show this morning in an effort to attempt an explanation for his odd memory lapse during last night’s debate.
“I think that I’m like most Americans in that there are so many agencies of government I’d like to forget that the Department of Energy was one of those,” Perry told the Today show’s Ann Curry.
He repeated the same talking point to George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s Good Morning America. On CBS’s The Early Show, Perry tried the same folksy “I stepped in it” line he gave his Twitter followers after last night’s debacle.
Another leitmotif of the early show appearances: I may not be the perfect candidate, but that’s because there isn’t one.
Getting down to brass tacks, New York Times political handicapper Nate Silver asks “is Perry toast?” and answers: “Mr. Perry’s demise could be a self-fulfilling prophecy: If everyone thinks he is going to lose, he almost certainly will.”
At least one person doesn’t think Rick Perry is going to lose: Rick Perry.
“You know what day it is?,” he asked NBC’s Curry. “It’s the 236 birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps. If there was a day to stay in a fight this is it.”
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Whoopsie Daisy of the Day: Tonight’s GOP debate isn’t even over yet, but the quote of the night already belongs to Rick Perry.
Just over an hour into CNBC’s Republican Presidential Debate, Governor Not A Talker suffered a potentially catastrophic senior moment when he was unable to name the third agency of government he “would do away with” as President.
“I can’t. The third one, I can’t. Sorry,” Perry sputtered before ending on the worst sound bite a presidential hopeful could possibly utter: “Oops.”
15 minutes later Perry recalled that it was the Department of Energy he was “reaching for.”
