Oh Dear Lord. ON EDIT
Y’all, I am clumsily blogging on my iPhone again but this won’t wait until I get home.
Not only does Rick Perry say Charleston was “an accident,” he also says it may have been cause by prescription drug abuse.
No. No. No, Rick. Prescription drug abuse is YOUR problem.
On Edit: Again, I apologize. I am gonna learn to blog on the darn iPhone.
Here’s the part that gets me. Perry orates ….
“It seems to me, again without having all the details about this, that these individuals have been medicated and there may be a real issue in this country from the standpoint of these drugs and how they’re used,” Perry said.
Maybe I have lost my mind but I do not recall anybody suggesting that Dylann Roof was on prescription drugs but I do remember many people believing that Rick Perry’s bizarre behavior because he was abusing prescription pain killers.
Now we have this. Perry’s staff claims he misspoke.
Reached for comment, a Perry communications adviser wrote in an email that Perry clearly meant to say “incident” and not “accident.”
Burglary is an incident. Murder is not an incident – it is murder.
No, he did not “misspeak.” He knew exactly what he was saying. He was desperately pandering to his base by trying to make it look like President Obama was coming after their guns because somebody accidentally slipped and pulled a trigger enough times to murder 8 people. It was an accident. It was an incident. It was a thing that happened. It was misfortune. It was anydamnthing but racial terrorism.
Rick. Go home. You’re drunk.
Leave it to Icky to say something stupid.
1http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/rick-perry-charleston-massacre-was-an-accident-caused-by-drugs-not-guns/
2Rick Perry is an accident.
Accident: an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury.
3Does he have any idea what he’s talking about? from his mention of “individuals” on drugs and an “accident,” it sounds like he’s talking about some completely different event than the one we all heard about.
Or does he think one of the churchgoers was whooped up on too much medicine and started firing around the place?
It’s too damned ugly even to make a joke about him.
4The only truly bad thing happening in this state because of mental deficiency, drugs, or lack of them, is that we have republicans in charge. Maybe it’s time they took out the feds stopped controlling our minds with the fluoride they sneak in the water and try something stronger. Maybe thorazine?
5Sorry about the broken sentence in the last post. Phone rang mid-thought.
6This was his *oops* moment for this election cycle. He’s moldy toast.
7He and his fellow Republican candidates are twisting themselves into knots trying to rationalize this latest shooting. None of them want to admit that it was racially motivated, or that it should be treated as an act of terrorism. But Perry takes the cake when it comes to out and out cluelessness.
8It’s sounds like Perry is the one on drugs, with his distorted view of reality.
9I bet he comes to blame this word salad on the medication he is or isn’t taking for his bad back! What a maroooon!!!
10The comments on the Raw Story article are a hoot. I particularly like the one that says “Rick Perry really makes morons look bad.”
11Rick Perry: “It seems to me, again without having all the details about this [‘accident’], that these individuals [may] have been medicated.”
Which individuals? What medication? Are you proposing, Rick, that the church members all got high and shot themselves “multiple times” each — by “accident”?
Of course Perry blamed his dismal 2012 performance on “medication” he was taking, so maybe he means that HE HIMSELF shot the church members? With Rick Perry you can’t assume ANYthing!
12One could argue Perry’s mouth engaged before his brain kicked i………ah who the hell am I fooling.? Perry has no discernible brain. Another clueless,extremely white,extremely wingnut nut.
13Reached for comment, a Perry communications adviser wrote in an email that Perry clearly meant to take “a couple of valium” and not “a fistful of seconal”
14Sound like Rick has been taking both speaking and logic lessons from Pat Robertson. Speaking of Pat, hasn’t that senile old duffer yet hitched a ride on the GOP presidential clown car this time around?
15In the good old USA there is no longer any racism, and our universal easy access to guns is not a problem.
Oh, wait. The sentence above is not a fact. It is a plank in the Republican platform.
16Should be interesting to see how many of his cult will vote for him but the question is separating those who know about this latest “accident/incident” of his from those who don’t. Any odds on the spread?
17We here at JJ’s know why the right is trying to spin the deaths of the nine innocent members of Emanuel AME into an “attack on Christianity.” They contributed to Dylann Roof doing what he did. Of all individuals in the country, only right-wingers have been talking about “taking their country back” and saying that he/she/they is/are “destroyiing our country.” Instead of being brave enough to step up and tell the nutters to knock the nonsense off, Perry and his rw political buddies sat on the sidelines and cheered them on. They even participated in pushing these ideas. Since Roof has admit it was a racist attack, right-wingers now know the “attack on Christianity” will no longer float, so Perry has punted to the “drug” meme. Expect to hear this from another one of these tools and for some to talk about his mental health issues.
When Dylann Roof killed those nine persons, right-wingers got a good, close look at what their careless, hateful language caused to happen. They had no idea that someone like Roof was listening and believing what they were saying. Truth be told, they’re in a state of shock, which is why it is my suspicion that someone sent out the emails and/or phone calls yesterday and told them to say these deaths are an “attack on Christianity.” Anyone who has been paying close attention to them knows that they’ve played the race card continuously since January 20, 2009 while denying it. It was obvious to me that they enjoyed doing it, too. Now that it’s time to pay the piper, they’re grasping for any old excuse and hoping no one points the finger at those who are really responsible for pushing racist talking points—-themselves.
18I hate to be the one to ask the obvious, but everyone is so upset that this massacre happened at a CHURCH. How horrible. Yet no one is asking where was their god? People at church for a prayer meeting. Why didn’t their god protect them? Obviously the god they worshiped didn’t love them enough to stop them from being slaughtered. So sad.
19Clearly those smart glasses aren’t working. The rotten rocksucker!
20@Mark J—Rick Santorum says what we should have had in this country to avoid this tragedy is…wait for it….more prayer. Um, isn’t that what the victims were doing for an hour with the killer before he shot them all?
21I don’t know if Roof was medicated, but I know for certain that he was armed.
22arghghghghghghg
23In most jurisdictions such an insensitive lout would not be allowed to run for dog catcher. Why does this man think he can be president? It’s a leettle harder to be president than a cheerleader. Just ask Gee Duh-bya. pRick is such A Idiot.
@ majii 18 – Yes, this.
24I see all of the news organizations pulling apart this shooting and examining all of it to make sense of it … then they reassemble the story to reflect whatever their political position is, sometimes mentally duplicating some parts, and sometimes leaving parts out (sort of like then you get furniture shipped in a flat box and try to put it together…). Perry’s inane comment is not alone in insensitivity and projection, I see all kinds of rightwing retelling the story as an attack on Christianity. I am particularly disgusted by Fox’s “contributers” who are Black but deny any racial component in what Roof did. How much were they paid to do that? And how can they even say it … Any Black who does not see this for what it is, and say it out loud has no integrity at all.
25I suppose, to a “conservative Republican” it was an accident that killed 9 people in a church (historic black church) and required the assailant to reload his .45 pistol FIVE times. Each victim was shot multiple times. Yep, Rick, it was obviously an “accident”. Now go home and STFU.
26Bravo, majii. I’m sure we remember a certain town meeting when john McCain was taking questions and an elderly white woman, visibly upset asked him if Brack Obama was a terrorist.
27This was a direct result of the republican propaganda painting him as such. He tried to calm her by saying, “No, he’s a good man…”
Their hateful words have consequences, stimulating fear and ignorance to the extent that these horrendous tragedies occur.No wonder they try to twist the facts, attempting to render themselves blameless.
They are owned by the gun industry and that’s a fact. Until Democrats surge to the poles and sweep these grifters out of public office, nothing will change.
Compared to Rick Perry’s utterances, Reveille’s droppings look like thoughtfully composed epigrams.
28Rick Perry’s birth was an accident. An incident that every rational person on the planet sincerely regrets.
29Trump says the shooting was “incomprehensible.” Only for those who can’t understand anything, Donald-of-tiny-brain.
Cruz says it was an attack on Christians.
Bush says he doesn’t know what was in the shooter’s mind (despite the shooter having said what was in his mind.)
And Perry comes up with accident/incident resulting from overprescription of drugs to somebody.
Let’s see how many other GOP candidates won’t call it racially motivated (or will try to blame African-Americans for being the target of racism.)
30“Without having all the details” … are the operative words here.
Rick Perry should have just STFU. (sorry Momma).
That there are people in Texas that thought this person was qualified to be Governor… of The Great State of Texas…. is mind-blowing…. in, and of itself.
That there are actually (American) people who think Rick Perry is qualified to be President of The Whole Damned United States…
I can’t even wrap my head around that.
Has Texas REALLY been DUMB-DOWNED…. to that extent?
31@26–the thought about his reloading five times was what just blew my mind; that’s why I have waited so long to respond to JJ’s post.
And when he was blathering about “raping”, he shot seven women.
Someone should remind his family where he got these ideas:
“You’ve got to be carefully taught”.
Chairman Mao: “Give me the child, and I’ll have the man”
32(a thought shared by the religious charter schools which are using taxpayers money to educate the future segregationists of America, no doubt) Not to mention other insightful philosophers in our world.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/20/rick-perry-condemns-charleston-shooting-after-accident-remark
You sure changed your tune,Reverend Perry.Now,after rightfully getting lambasted for stoopidity,you decide it WAS a hate crime. You don’t get repeated second chances to correct those 3a.m. phone calls in the White House,stoopid and insensitive.
33Perry needs a better speech writer.
34I’ve finally figured out where Perry got his glasses!
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/421756143976067072/TyCkvtY6.jpeg
35Good one,Fred!
36Thanks, Fred Farklestone. You gave me a grin.
37People become a lot less eloquent when they force themselves to avoid what is in front of God and everyone. You gotta come up with some feasible and that just takes too much work. You could parrot the war on Christianity, but that had already been debunked. Obviously he was mentally ill because what sane person would….yeah…prescription drugs, that’s the ticket.
It would be foolish to paint an entire faction of people with a broad brush. After all, that’s the battle I’ve been fighting in other threads here. However, the right has a tremendous perception problem on their hands. They are perceived as the racist party and that’s a problem for them. Admitting that it exists would be a good start to fixing it, but they really can’t bring themselves to do that.
38Like most of the RWNJs around, Perry automatically says “accident” when someone is killed with a gun (esp toddlers, next door neighbors through walls, self-inflicted, etc.). The NRA has trained them well.
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