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Rick Perry compares civil rights movement to GOP fight for lower corporate taxes

7:45 pm - 08/22/2011
Besides Muammar Qaddafi, Rick Perry may be having the worst day in politics. His extremist belief that everything from consumer protection to Social Security to federal child labor laws is unconstitutional keep dogging him on the campaign trail.

Now he’s been caught on tape in South Carolina comparing the civil rights movement to the GOP’s fight for lower corporate taxes and deregulation. He could hardly have picked a worse day to fundamentally misunderstand and misrepresent the struggle for civil rights in America. Today marks the opening of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial to commemorate the great civil rights leader who died marching for economic justice for poor communities. In Rock Hill, South Carolina, a reporter pointed out to Perry that this year also marks the 50th anniversary of a historic sit-in in the town:

QUESTION: And coming to the Old Town Bistro you’re actually visiting a very important place in Rock Hill and the nation’s civil rights history. This year we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Friendship Nine sit-in here. Care to comment on that?

PERRY: Listen, America’s gone a long way from the standpoint of civil rights and thank God we have. I mean we’ve gone from a country that made great strides in issues of civil rights. I think we all can be proud of that. And as we go forward, America needs to be about freedom. It needs to be about freedom from overtaxation, freedom from over-litigation, freedom from over-regulation.And Americans regardless of what their cultural or ethnic background is they need to know that they can come to America and you got a chance to have any dream come true because the economic climate is gonna be improved.


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I can't.
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[info]devour_theflesh 22nd-Aug-2011 11:52 pm (UTC)
Fucking what the fuck.

Man, these businesses have it fucking MADE.
[info]lilyginny27 23rd-Aug-2011 12:00 am (UTC)
I can't even.

Um, no. Just no.
[info]doverz 23rd-Aug-2011 12:08 am (UTC)
Wow. Just wow.
[info]layweed 23rd-Aug-2011 12:10 am (UTC)
He also backpedalled on his book, the one where he said Social Security was unconstitutional. Not surprising I guess, since he went from hating the federal government and talking about secession to running for the highest office in the country.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/08/22/300479/rick-perry-disavows-fed-up/
[info]elobelia 23rd-Aug-2011 12:11 am (UTC)
Whenever I think that Barack Obama is doing a shitty job as president, I remember that guys like this are is competition. Sigh.
[info]chasingthenuns 23rd-Aug-2011 12:29 am (UTC)
Me too and that's when I think I'd vote for him again.
[info]nonnycat 23rd-Aug-2011 03:24 am (UTC)
And that Obama is fighting people like this every step of the way to get ANYTHING done.
[info]txvoodoo 23rd-Aug-2011 04:43 am (UTC)
+1000
[info]with_club_sauce 23rd-Aug-2011 05:20 am (UTC)
this,
[info]brewsternorth 23rd-Aug-2011 01:58 pm (UTC)
Exactly. I once read a political thriller where the job of POTUS in trying to get stuff done in Congress was compared to trying to ride a dinosaur - a dickens of a job to get moving, and even more of a one to steer. The novel was complete tripe, but the analogy stuck in my head.
[info]wrestlingdog 23rd-Aug-2011 04:36 pm (UTC)
Precisely.
[info]nothingmuch 23rd-Aug-2011 12:27 am (UTC)
The Republican answer to literally any and every question: more tax cuts for the rich.
[info]romp 23rd-Aug-2011 02:56 am (UTC)
Give it another 40 years! The money will trickle down...or you'll be a serf with no forum to voice complaints anyway.
[info]layweed 23rd-Aug-2011 03:00 am (UTC)
Tax cuts and lower regulations, pretty much.
[info]sunoftheskye 23rd-Aug-2011 12:29 am (UTC)
[info]roseandheather 23rd-Aug-2011 12:51 am (UTC)
I do not have sufficient words to describe the awesomeness that is your gif. I really do not.

All About Eve, right? Bette Davis... *worships*
[info]sunoftheskye 23rd-Aug-2011 12:54 am (UTC)
Yes girl. That scene had me GAGGING.
[info]crossfire 23rd-Aug-2011 02:29 am (UTC)
A+ gif usage.
[info]roseandheather 23rd-Aug-2011 12:50 am (UTC)
I have no words for the immense fail. I really don't.

But if I'm lucky, Rachel Maddow will.
[info]baked_goldfish 23rd-Aug-2011 12:52 am (UTC)


And yet it's unsurprising. Given that these teabagging hatriots have been trying to paint the super-rich as the Most Oppressed Class In America, of course a teabagging hatriot candidate will stick to that line.
[info]masakochan 23rd-Aug-2011 12:53 am (UTC)
You know what, I almost want him to keep talking like this- just so that keeps giving me more assurance of him not getting elected.

Though there is the other side of me that just wants him to shut up with the amount ignorant crap he's spewing.
[info]jiaren_shadow 23rd-Aug-2011 01:09 am (UTC)
I kind of want him to keep talking and just let it escalate; eventually he'll be comparing himself to Rosa Parks every time he calls Shotgun.
[info]homasse 23rd-Aug-2011 01:15 am (UTC)
Oh.
[info]danyjoncew 23rd-Aug-2011 01:36 am (UTC)
Ahahaha. That's where his mind goes when he hears "civil rights"? And over-regulation?! Was he in a coma in 2008? Ugh, I'm just gonna stop here, there's so much incoherence I'd be typing all night.
[info]innosancta 23rd-Aug-2011 01:48 am (UTC)
Oic
[info]stevie_jane 23rd-Aug-2011 02:23 am (UTC)
He's so fucking stupid. I wouldn't let him run a bath, FFS.
[info]crossfire 23rd-Aug-2011 02:27 am (UTC)
This comment made me lol, thank you.
[info]kyra_neko_rei 23rd-Aug-2011 05:05 pm (UTC)
Nor trust him to tell me whether the water in it is wet or dry.
[info]crossfire 23rd-Aug-2011 02:27 am (UTC)
UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT *eyetwitch*
[info]amyura 23rd-Aug-2011 02:46 am (UTC)
Wow. Just when I thought nobody could top Romney's "corporations are people too" thing.
[info]wrestlingdog 23rd-Aug-2011 02:50 am (UTC)
Are. You. Fucking. KIDDING ME?!

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[info]serendipity_15 OT — 23rd-Aug-2011 04:35 am (UTC)
I LOVE that scene (well, that and Lorelai's "Well, that depends, can he swim?").
[info]romp 23rd-Aug-2011 02:58 am (UTC)
Now he’s been caught on tape in South Carolina comparing the civil rights movement to the GOP’s fight for lower corporate taxes and deregulation.

A strong subconscious urge toward self-sabatogue? It's so over-the-top, it's kind of amazing.
[info]moropus 23rd-Aug-2011 01:08 pm (UTC)
That's not a wealthy, white area. WHAT was he thinking?
[info]schmanda 23rd-Aug-2011 03:45 am (UTC)
He could hardly have picked a worse day to fundamentally misunderstand and misrepresent the struggle for civil rights in America.
He could have said the same thing yesterday, today or tomorrow, and it still wouldn't:

1) change the colossal, breathtaking fuckery of the statement; and
2) be damaging to him in the least since, for whatever inconceivable reason, he's The Media's latest shiny object.
[info]red_pill 23rd-Aug-2011 06:59 am (UTC)
i dont know. i dont think his compearing so much as making an awkard segway in to a point "civil rights are impotent. do you know what else is importent? my compain platform, for witch you should vote". subbtle as a basalist used to backstab a fighter, but not all that awful, imo.
[info]kitschaster 23rd-Aug-2011 03:44 pm (UTC)
Oh yes, because the GOP is TOTES getting hosed, having dogs sicked on them, and being segregated from the rest of the country! Those poor, poor rich white men!
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