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Joe Scarborough Sees Rick Perry Speech And Thinks ‘Valium, Vicodin and Vodka’

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After showing a mostly out-of-context series of clips from Rick Perry‘s loose appearance Friday in New Hampshire, the 4,000 people on screen at once on Monday’s Morning Joe wondered what had gotten the GOP candidate so loose. While the general consensus was that Perry was just showing a more fun side, there was a heavy bit of intimation that he might have been boozing it up. When prompted to name her favorite cocktail, Mika Brzezinski coyly demurred, but Joe Scarborough mentioned that when he had severe back pain, his cocktail was “valium, vicodin…and just a little bit of vodka.” After being accused of possibly implying Perry was using drugs, Scaroborough clarified. “I’m not saying he was using drugs, I’m saying I was.”

RELATED:Watch: Rick Perry Goes Off-The-Cuff During Unconventional Cornerstone Speech

Brzezinski then finished off the segment by leaving the whole thing open-ended. “It just makes you think, that’s all,” she says. “[There's] not a law against thinking someone was acting completely loopy and wondering…if they were maybe…”

Watch the extended clip of Perry’s performance in New Hampshire first, then enjoy the clip below, courtesy of MSNBC.

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  • Anonymous

    Joe Scarborough Sees Rick Perry Speech And Thinks ‘Valium, Vicodin and Vodka’

    Pretty low , Joe .

    Were you having visions of Brian Williams , too, Joe ? That’s the first indication that you’re over medicated .

  • Rex the Wonder God

    They trahd to make me go to rehab
    Ah said, Nine Nine Nine
    Ah ain’t got the time
    And mah backers think Ah’m fine 
    They trahd to make me go to rehabAh said, Nine Nine Nine

    They trahd to make me go to rehabAh said, Where the hail’s thet pos’ card card cardYa Ah been black but when Ah come backY’all be yellin’ Welcome home pard pard pard
    They trahd to make me go to rehabNow Wherein hail’s thet pos’ card card card

    Ah’d ruther be ahuntin with mah posse
    But Ah ain’t got time ta rest mah orbs
    ‘Cause they’s nothin’, nothin’ y’all kin teach me
    I cain’t larn from ol’ Steve Forbes

    Didn’ get a whole lot in class
    But I know it don’t come in a shot glass
    They trahd to make me go to rehabAh said, Nine Nine Nine

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    AS TO SITE USE TODAY:

    What a darn annoying ad. It seems to pop up at will and close after you prompt it, but not immediately. I’m so tired of seeing Brian Williams and Ted Koppel in that elevator.

    AS TO THE POST:

    I’ve seen Tollbooth erratic and spastic many, many times, but this is by far the worst I have ever seen him. He seems to have completely lost it. Victim of believing his own PR, I guess.

  • Anonymous

    Poor old Rick Perry.

    Good stand up ‘drunken routine’, but not so good for Presidential Politics.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Sorry, Big Petty, but Joe is 100% correct on this. I don’t think such erratic and spastic behavior can be explained short of pharmaceuticals. This was erratic and spastic even by Tollbooth standards. When this doesn’t work, as it most surely will not, I predict copious weeping. 

  • wawoo

    Who would ever think that Governor Bighair might have a dominant I’ll get drunk and screw you gene?

  • Philby

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  • Anonymous

    You guys elected him 47 times . Is he kind of off the wall sometimes , and relaxed and funny giving speeches ?

    Why assume drugs in any case ?

  • Anonymous

    The latest posting by the Treasury Department shows the national debt has now increased $4 trillion on President Obama’s watch.
    The
    debt was $10.626 trillion on the day Mr. Obama took office. The latest
    calculation from Treasury shows the debt has now hit $14.639 trillion.

    It’s the most rapid increase in the debt under any U.S. president.

    The
    national debt increased $4.9 trillion during the eight-year presidency
    of George W. Bush. The debt now is rising at a pace to surpass that
    amount during Mr. Obama’s four-year term.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    You might benefit from a rigorous look into cause in this case.

  • Jeffy Proud Teabagged

    If you are going to spam with more hot flashes you may want to give whats-her-face credit for crap on her site.

    And if you bother to read, the rest of the blame falls on YOU gNOpigs.

  • Anonymous

    I have several years’ experience working with Alzheimer’s patients who are in various stages of the disease.

    Rick Perry’s speech difficulties and odd behavior are similar to early symptoms of the illness. Is there any information that he may have this condition? I’m totally serious and concerned that he has become an object of ridicule.

    I am an Independent and have no favorite candidate in the presidential race.

  • Sean

    I don’t know … is it worse to have been on Valium, Vicodin and Vodka or just SOUND as if you were?

  • Anonymous

    For a guy who is so familiar with guns, this guy keeps on shooting himself in the foot.

  • Anonymous

    Save a pretzel for the gas jets.

  • Gramps, go take a nap

    What a darn annoying ad. It seems to pop up at will and close after you prompt it, but not immediately. I’m so tired of seeing Brian Williams and Ted Koppel in that elevator.

    It’s funny when the elderly try to work the computer box.

  • Anonymous

    Does it really matter what Perry might have “been on”?I doubt seriously that he was on drugs.That’s a assumption tailor made for Leftys looking to go after him.A few cocktails?Maybe but no reason to demonize,unless it suits your agenda.

    Perry won’t be the candidate so it really doesn’t matter.Personally I’d vote for a President who got loose now and then,had a few too many because that’s human and we could sure use a human as president instead of political creations that we don’t really know at all.

  • http://resistance.ning.com/profile/GregIngleright Greg Ingleright

    The Grampy Aught-Six is a computer targeted at the elderly market, for those who have problems opening digital images of their grandchildren or taking four consecutive steps. It features 400-point type, a meatloaf-sized cursor (also the shape of meatloaf), and a real mouse that will pre-chew your food for you (sold separately). There is a wooden frame around the monitor (which appears to be made of cross-stitch).

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    When I think of Rick Perry, I think of these 3 words:

    Deranged

    Demented

    Dangerous

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    It matters since just a few short weeks ago Conventional Teapublican Wisdom said Tollbooth was the second Incarnation.

  • Anonymous

    Looks like he’s off his meds.

  • GhostOfAmy

    Absolutely amazing. Hahaha

  • Your Mama’s so fat

    Looks like he’s snorting “Koch” again.

  • Anonymous

    Well, Joe & especially Mica would know all about, “Valium, Vicodin, and Vodka.”

  • Anonymous

    Howard Dean gave a rousing yee-hah! in front of a cheering, enthusiastic audience and was immediately dismissed as “unpresidential” by the so-called liberal media. Let’s see if the same rules apply to Rick Perry or if they bury this.

  • Anonymous

    Bwahahahaaaa! Clearly on speed!

     Someone should have asked him what he thinks about legalizing marijuana… :)

  • Bill

    Some may call this speech goofy and bizarre, but it’s the one and only time I have ever found Rick Perry remotely attractive.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s have a reality check, shall we? 

    Unlike Obama, Bush didn’t walk into an economic holocaust not of his own making. Unlike Obama, Bush put two obscenely expensive (and badly mismanaged) wars on the national credit card to let his successor pay for. Unlike Obama, Bush pushed through massive, unfunded tax cuts and a prescription drug program. Your numbers only tell a tiny part of the truth.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the history lesson , now lets get back to the facts .
    The latest posting by the Treasury Department shows the national debt has now increased $4 trillion on President Obama’s watch.
    The
    debt was $10.626 trillion on the day Mr. Obama took office. The latest
    calculation from Treasury shows the debt has now hit $14.639 trillion.

    It’s the most rapid increase in the debt under any U.S. president.

    The
    national debt increased $4.9 trillion during the eight-year presidency
    of George W. Bush. The debt now is rising at a pace to surpass that
    amount during Mr. Obama’s four-year term.

  • Go Navy

    “I don’t think such erratic and spastic behavior can be explained short of pharmaceuticals.”

    Whew…now that explains you and Joe biden.  Thanks. 

  • Go Navy

    Dare not question….it will always be GWB’s fault…..no one else had any responsibility…..even now as policies fail, it will still be GWB’s fault…..you must be reprogrammed.

  • Go Navy

    Did you stay at a Holiday Inn last night?  LMAO!

  • Guest

    Actually, it was a Navy Lodge. Saw you there.

  • Anonymous

    Does it hold a weeks worth of meds and remind you when to take ‘em?

  • Sportsman885

    Because he has back pain.  He underwent back surgery back in July.  And it was clear that the pain was impacting him in debates because he traded his cowboy boots for orthopedic shoes on the debate stage.

    So I would not be surprised at all if he’s using pain killers to minimize that pain.  And I don’t begrudge him at all.  That’s their purpose and their use is perfectly legal.  What I don’t know is if he had a couple of drinks at the event on Friday — he was the last one speaking, so it’s possible.

    I don’t think he should be judged on how he acted in that speech since I do think it stems from pain killers he takes for his back pain (note: this is an assumption on my part that he took pain killers to subdue the pain, but I do know he’s been suffering from back pain).  So its unfair he’s painted in such a negative light because of it.  And I’m a Democrat saying this — I’m no natural defender of Rick Perry.

  • Anonymous

    Pres. Obama has included the cost of Pres. Bush’s two wars in the budget.  Pres. Bush never included the cost of the war. 

  • Anonymous

    Gov. Perry has succeeded his potential.

  • lazzzlo

    He just reminds me of a a skittish colt.

  • Anonymous

    I am not a supporter of Rick Perry, so I am not defending him. I pray that he does not win the GOP nomination.

    That being said, when I read anything about “Morning Schmo” and the MSNBC Morning Ditz Mika Brzezinski, all I can say is, “Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.”

    And that doesn’t even begin to describe Morning Schmo’s two cohorts, Mike Barnicle Bill the Sailor, and Willie “Get Your Hand Off My Behind” Geist, perhaps the dumbest idiot on tv next to Carol Costello, the CNN Morning Ditz.

  • SayyyyyWhat

    There is a reason Joe Blowhard and Mika Airhead have the lowest ratings on LSDnbc. Their morning joey show really reminds me of a bunch of 4 year olds in pre-school who missed both their cookies and milk as well as their nappy time. The IQ level on that show is very low. But, the bottom line is if anyone would know about a so called cocktail of   “valium, vicodin…and just a little bit of vodka” it would be Joe & Mika. What a total waste of 3 hours of cable news space. Comcast needs to get involved and hire some adults for LSDnbc.

  • Anonymous

    YeeeHawwww!   Who’s got the launch codes?!

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forrget that when George W Bush DOUBLED the national debt, he also DOUBLED the INTEREST that now has to be paid, not to mention the unfunded Medicare Part D DRUG program that he encumbered the next administration to pay.  And not to mention the TWO WARS and 3 TAX CUTS for the rich,
    Yes, Bush left our economy in a very sad shape with the INTEREST on all the money he borrowed now taking up a good portion of the money being paid in.  And the fricking republicans who voted for all the “borrow and spend” can’t even step up to the plate and pass a tax increase on the richest 1%.,

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know what he was taking but I wish I had some.

  • Anonymous

    Oxy’s maybe.

  • Anonymous

    I agree with you. It definatly looks like behavior from an opiod (vic or perc.).  I had my share of surgeries, 13 or 14 so I know the feeling.

  • Anonymous

    valium makes you tired, vodka makes you drunk and vicodin makes you happy.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Then….don’t make the speech.  Make a “Thanks for coming”, and keep it moving. If he’s lit up, and making a fool of himself, that’s when your campaign handlers strike up the music and hook ‘em off the stage.  They let this thing run on for 25 minutes.

    –Cobra

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