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News & ArtsThursday, June 7, 2012
2012 Watch Rick Perry's Ridiculous Promotional Video
Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:11 PM
Jesus Christ! It's like The Triumph of the Will 2: Texas Two-Step up in here:
This fucking video blows my mind. D-Day! Military jets! The "beacon/seekin'" rhyme in the opening! The world-domination rant that climaxes with Rick Perry shouting "Texas! Texas! TEXAS!" and concludes with a creepy assertion that we are following up the American Century with the Texas Century! It's all mind-blowing stuff. This is the sort of thing that convinced Republicans that Rick Perry was their guy for 2012. Too bad he turned out to be an idiot.
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"Too bad" he turned out to be an idiot? Isn't that pretty much what they get off on down there, though?
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I'm from San Antonio, I can tell you that while we love -- FUCKING LOVE -- Texceptionalism and all that, this ain't it. What this is is a fucking Frankenstein of self-indulgent bullshit wrapped up in this weird meta-patriotism that assumes that since Texas will be in charge sooner or later it's fine to be totally in love with it.
I also need to point out that, as someone born and raised in the blue part of this very red state, the root of his Texceptionalism is actually a harmless and almost joking self-awareness about how Texas just seems weird, it's a little too big, we have way too much influence and there were far too many films made about us back in the day.
I also need to point out that, as someone born and raised in the blue part of this very red state, the root of his Texceptionalism is actually a harmless and almost joking self-awareness about how Texas just seems weird, it's a little too big, we have way too much influence and there were far too many films made about us back in the day.
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Damn! That's one helluva video! I'm sold! Nothing could stand in the way between Rick Perry and the White House! (He has to do a couple debates, but...)
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Everything's bigger and more ethical in Texas.
Reminds me of that Tim Pawlenty video from yesteryear, the one that Stephen Colbert parodied. Dramatic music, abrupt cuts between shots (of airplanes flying overhead, no less)...
Reminds me of that Tim Pawlenty video from yesteryear, the one that Stephen Colbert parodied. Dramatic music, abrupt cuts between shots (of airplanes flying overhead, no less)...
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