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We have an alert customer around here named David.  David caught George Will’s editorial about Rick Perry and focused in on this little item (italics mine) —

Pausing in his enjoyment of a hamburger the size of a hubcap, Perry, the Eagle Scout son of Democratic tenant farmers, says that he entered politics as a Democrat: “I never met a Republican until I was in the Air Force.”

George Will: Not a Fact Checker

Rick Perry’s parents were wealthy ranchers and cotton farmers in West Texas.  His dad was also a county commissioner in Haskell County.  Rick Perry was not born in a log cabin.

So, appropriately enough, when the Dallas Morning News reprinted Will’s column, they left out the tenant farmer thing.  It’s by subscription only so here’s what happened.

Pausing in his enjoyment of a hamburger the size of a hubcap, Perry says he entered politics as a Democrat: “I never met a Republican until I was in the Air Force.”

So, if you start reading that Rick was born in a manger in a tenant log cabin and read his homework by the light of the fireplace as they burned their meager furniture to stay warm, please remind people that he’s living in a $10,000 a month rented mansion because that’s the lifestyle he was born into.

Thanks to David for the heads up.