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Megyn Kelly: ‘Is Gov. Rick Perry Dumb?’ Michelle Malkin: ‘Compared To What?’

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Politico published an article today that openly questioned whether or not Texas Governor Rick Perry was an intellectual light weight, or pointedly, is he dumb? Megyn Kelly followed up on this report today, asking conservative news analyst Michelle Malkin whether or not it was a fair critique of the GOP front runner. In response, Malkin damned Perry somewhat with a faint defense, predictably calling it a left-wing media smear, then following up by saying “compared to what?!”

The Politico piece in question was penned by Jonathan Martin, and cites a number of unidentified sources who describe Perry’s intellect in an unfavorably dim light:

Doubts about Perry’s intellect have hounded him since he was first elected as a state legislator nearly three decades ago. In Austin, he’s been derided as a right-place, right-time pol who looks the part but isn’t so deep — “Gov. Goodhair.” Now, with the chatter picking back up among his enemies and taking flight in elite Republican circles, the rap threatens to follow him to the national stage.

“He’s like Bush only without the brains,” cracked one former Republican governor who knows Perry, repeating a joke that has made the rounds.

Since Perry appears to be way ahead of his competitors in the polls, it stands to reason that his record and background would come under much finer scrutiny. Malkin, however, sees this treatment as unfair. Where was the scrutiny of Barack Obama‘s college transcript, she asks breathlessly, a sore subject for many right-of-center political pundits who have made this repeated complaint.

But it’s worth nothing that Malkin never directly counters the notion that Gov. Perry is a relative dimwit. Her response says more about her thoughts on her political rivals and the overall process in a classic gambit known as “best defense is a good offense.” Or in other words, it certainly seems like Malkin considers Perry just as dopey as most other elected officials.

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  • TruDat

    Can you imagine if the Republicans were all as smart as Obama, Reid, Pelosi, or Frank?  We’d be asking for financial aid from Somalia.

  • Redleaf

    Honestly, on Fox News what kind of response do you expect to the question, “Is Rick Perry dumb?”
    It’s just an opening to not only burnish Perry’s credentials, but also denigrate any media outlet that would propagate such a story.

    So, really, it’s the perfect FNC story: they get to prop up a Republican and make fun of the so-called liberal mainstream media! 

  • Redleaf

    Honestly, on Fox News what kind of response do you expect to the question, “Is Rick Perry dumb?”
    It’s just an opening to not only burnish Perry’s credentials, but also denigrate any media outlet that would propagate such a story.

    So, really, it’s the perfect FNC story: they get to prop up a Republican and make fun of the so-called liberal mainstream media! 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    “ predictably calling it a left-wing media smear, then following up by saying “compared to what?!””

    Predictable because that’s obviously what it is? Show me the Politico article about If Obama is dumb or not. In fact, show me any MSM article that questions if a Democrat is “dumb”. 

  • Anonymous

    Better look closer at King Obama . His writing at age 29 is that of grade schooler :

     
    “…Obama was prompted to write by an earlier letter from a Mr. Jim Chen that criticized Harvard Law Review’s affirmative action policies.  Specifically, Chen had argued that affirmative action stigmatized its presumed beneficiaries.

    The response is classic Obama: patronizing, dishonest, syntactically muddled, and grammatically challenged.  In the very first sentence Obama leads with his signature failing, one on full display in his earlier published work: his inability to make subject and predicate agree.”
     To his credit, Obama concedes that he “may have benefited from the Law Review’s affirmative action policy.”  This did not strike him as unusual as he “undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs during my academic career.”On the basis of his being elected president of Law Review — a popularity contest — Obama was awarded a six-figure contract to write a book.  To this point, he had not shown a hint of promise as a writer, but Simon & Schuster, like Sidley Austin, took the Harvard credential seriously.  It should not have.  For three years Obama floundered as badly as Michelle had at Sidley Austin.  Simon & Schuster finally pulled the contract.Then Obama found his muse — right in the neighborhood, as it turns out!  And promptly, without further ado, the awkward, passive, ungrammatical Obama, a man who had not written one inspired sentence in his whole life, published what Time Magazine called “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.”http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/early_obama_letter_confirms_inability_to_write.html   
    To his credit, Obama concedes that he “may have benefited from the Law Review’s affirmative action policy.”  This did not strike him as unusual as he “undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs during my academic career.”
    On the basis of his being elected president of Law Review — a popularity contest — Obama was awarded a six-figure contract to write a book.  To this point, he had not shown a hint of promise as a writer, but Simon & Schuster, like Sidley Austin, took the Harvard credential seriously.  It should not have.  For three years Obama floundered as badly as Michelle had at Sidley Austin.  Simon & Schuster finally pulled the contract.
    Then Obama found his muse — right in the neighborhood, as it turns out!  And promptly, without further ado, the awkward, passive, ungrammatical Obama, a man who had not written one inspired sentence in his whole life, published what Time Magazine called “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.”

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/early_obama_letter_confirms_inability_to_write.html
       

  • Darladoon

    tell me what the republicans plan is for the economy, truedat?

    besides, tax cuts, of course.  

    please, enlighten us.  

  • Darladoon

    your argument is meaningless

  • Anonymous

    Great segment from both ladies. Leave it to you guys to try to make it sound bad.

  • TruDat

    Study their positions on your own.  At least they have positions, and documented positions at that (see Paul Ryan).  The Democrat congress never bothered to even produce a budget.

  • TruDat

    I saw this earlier.  No wonder he hides his college transcripts.

  • Redleaf

    And where were you when Newsweek asked, “Does (President) Clinton Have a Problem With the Truth?
    or Politico to wonder, “Does
    Obama Really Have What It Takes? Some Dems Whisper He’s All Hype and No
    Heft.”I guess you just conveniently forgot that. I guess it’s only an issue if they question politicians you agree with. Sounds fair and balanced to me…

  • TruDat

    Malkin is HOT; no dispute there.

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012

    Rick Perry is dumb, but I haven’t heard enough from him to say he is dumber than George Bush.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Not that it’s a big deal anymore, but if people in the media are poring over Perry’s college transcripts and grades, the question will naturally have to resurface – what were Obama’s grades?

    For no other reason than to put them side and compare smarts, I’d think that his supporters would welcome this scrutiny that the press failed to provide for the American public in 2008.

  • Anonymous

    “What if Obama isn’t so smart?”

    Based on results, Perry has been more successful as governor of Texas than Obama has been as president, or as anything else he has ever tried being, in the entire whole course of his life.In 2008, Obama was hailed as a genius, a “first rate intellect,” the smartest man to ever be president, and we know now the first part is true. He is the political genius who shed 30 points in his first years in office.He’s the political genius who blew up his coalition in his first months in office, who led his party to annihilation in the 2010 midterms (while showing utter indifference to the fate of congressional Democrats), and gave the Republicans — who were on the floor, in a coma — more than they needed to come roaring back from the dead.So while there are many things to dislike about Perry, his tiny brain” might do him no harm. But the real examples of those who campaigned well and bombed afterward are Democrats, such as Obama and Carter, whose careers peaked on the day they took office and went steadily downhill from then on.
    And if Obama is brilliant, and Bush is an imbecile, how come the genius kept most of the things the dolt set in motion: the protocols for fighting the war against terror, the surge strategy, the timetables, and even, in Robert Gates and David Petraeus, some of his main appointees? Why couldn’t the genius improve on the idiot’s handiwork?
    Maybe he isn’t that bright.

    Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/08/what-if-obama-isnt-so-smart#ixzz1WRkz5f6dRead more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/08/what-if-obama-isnt-so-smart#ixzz1WRkUFrBn

  • TruDat

    We’ve heard enough to know Obama’s dumber than both Perry and Bush. 

  • Anonymous

    Be silent simpleton… lets see Obama’s grades and compare. No?

  • Joseph Bernard

    Michelle Malkin is a news analyst? Uh, no..she’s an ideological hack. Otherwise known as most of what’s on Fox News.

  • Joseph Bernard

    Michelle Malkin is a news analyst? Uh, no..she’s an ideological hack. Otherwise known as most of what’s on Fox News.

  • TruDat

    I suppose you think the Huffington Post clowns on MSNBC qualify?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    More specifically, tax cuts for the wealthy and tax increases for the poor. Just think of all that potential revenue if we taxed the poor! It’s a brilliant plan, I say: “Brilliant.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    The article in Politico has a provocative title, yes, but if you read it closely you’ll see that the article’s main points are that Perry is a rather savvy politician who just knows what he has to know to get by. The article is not saying he’s dumb, just not intellectually curious.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I fairness, not one could compete with W and Big D*ck in destroying a vibrant economy. They were masters, I say: “Masters!”

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    In other words, the Republicans have nothing. Thanks, but we alreasy knew that.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Most assuredly, Tollbooth is dumber than W. He is even dumber than that guy with curly black hair who sits next to Gretchen O’Van Karlsen, but not as dumb as Il Douchey.

  • TruDat

    I think Obama doubled down on any damage Bush may have done.  Unless, of course, your a blind, left-wing loon.

  • TruDat

    Nothing if you can’t read, so I guess I understand your position.

  • Anonymous

    You continue to expose your ignorance on a daily basis. Thanks for stopping by.

  • Anonymous

    I’m still waiting for the press to vet Obama.

  • Anonymous

    All of the spin was in the bulk of the work and not the headline.

  • TruDat

    And nowhere near as dumb as you.

  • Valkyrie101

    The conservative commentators are going to be forced to back someone, and I do not get the impression that Michelle is pro-Perry.

  • BR

    Michelle said much more than that and her argument was NOT a “faint defense” as claimed in this article. I know that liberals have trouble doing this but I’m going to suggest it anyway.  Listen to the entire interview and decide for yourself!  

    She also pointed out the FACT that Perry had poor grades in college but we still don’t know about Obama’s grades. 

    It’s funny that this article refers to Michell’s facts as “predicable”.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    …”But it’s worth nothing that Malkin never directly counters the notion
    that Gov. Perry is a relative dimwit.”…

    really?…  so it must be true, then, eh?… 

    back in the day we had “what did the president know and when did he know it?”…  now all we got is “is rick perry dumb?”…  brilliant…  what a great moment in political journalism… 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    …”But it’s worth nothing that Malkin never directly counters the notion
    that Gov. Perry is a relative dimwit.”…

    really?…  so it must be true, then, eh?… 

    back in the day we had “what did the president know and when did he know it?”…  now all we got is “is rick perry dumb?”…  brilliant…  what a great moment in political journalism… 

  • Anonymous

    Dems only read HuffPo or the NYT. So if the NYT says the moon is racist they will believe it.

  • insideguy

    The way I look at it is this. If he is dumb it will come out in the debates and the american people will have to decide. If he makes what are considered dumb comments and they decide to elect him then bad for my side. But it wont be the end of the world(I hope). Politicians on both sides say they are going to to one thing then reality of the office strikes them when they get in. Presidents do no have as much power as many think,and this has been proven over the years. Perry is currently talking about how bad social security is and thats red meat for his base. But if and when he gets into office he will run into the same thing george bush did and get nothing done. Obama talked about many things on the campaign trail closing GITMO is one example. But once he got in he understood how hard this was going to be. It still may get done but not the way the libs would like. As much as the right wants people to believe that Obama is the anti christ and is sitting up in the oval office getting all kinds of socialist programs past its not true. He managed to get a health care bill past which pissed off both sides and got a watered down stimulus package past thats about it. he’s been more proactive in afghanistan which the right should like but criticize him on it anyway, and got us involved in a air war in Libya which any republican probably would have done as well. He did shut down enhanced interrogations which was nice and don’t ask don’t tell is gone which is also nice. Neither of these guys is going to be the great change that their sides wants, and the system is set up for that. I hope Perry doesn’t win but would not declare the end of the world if he does. Because inevitably the pendulum will swing back the other way and the dems will take control of congress again. The soap opera continues:)

  • Anonymous

    and he is. 

  • Anonymous

    Yes, ya got to be a genius like Obama to accomplish this in just over 2 years:

    First downgrade of USA debt in the history of the country
    9.1% unemployment
    Record monthly deficitsRecord monthly deficitsRecord debtRecord debtRecord # of foreclosuresRecord # of foreclosuresRecord # on welfareRecord # on welfareRecord # living in povertyRecord # living in poverty

    US house price fall ‘beats Great Depression slide’

    Heck of a job Barry!
     

  • Anonymous

    I bet your brain feels as good as new, seeing that you’ve never used it.

  • Anonymous

    TruDat, boy you could see this “dumb” charge coming, after all it has only been used against every  Republican since maybe.. Nixon.  
    So lets look at some of the past, “brilliant” Dem candidates:Teddy Kennedy- never learned that a woman trapped underwater in a car would drown. Hillary Clinton- did not know her husband had sex with other women.John Edwards: shocked that his wife would leave him, when he fathered a child with another woman – while his wife dying of cancer.Gee I could go on..I have not even mentioned Jimmy Carter or John Kerry. Boy, how could you go wrong with such “smart” people. All showing not only great intellect…but even better outstanding judgement !

  • insideguy

    Stonepark you have like 5 things that you say. I suggest you take a break and come up with at least 5 new things to say.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, God forbid we ask libs to contribute to this country!

  • Anonymous

    I suggest you get a life, child.

  • Re-Elect Obama 2012
  • Anonymous

    They both have nothing. A majority of them have been in the legislative branch for too long. Steal Less/Do more 2012!

  • insideguy

    Ahhhh so clever you do your side proud.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, your lib socialist economists are of no interest to me.

  • Anonymous

    You were born an unwanted child and now, you are wanted in 5 states.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for using so many words to express so, so little.

  • Texan

    she is

  • insideguy

    lol

  • richs

    He has been Governor of the state you choose to live in for almost 11 years.  He has been re-elected three times, he is the longest continuously serving Governor in the United States and the state he is governing is attacting jobs and population.  Sounds like a diaster to me. 

  • Texan

    BARACK Obama’s long-lost “Uncle Omar” has been arrested for
    alleged drink-driving outside Boston and detained as an illegal
    immigrant, The Times can reveal.ROFL!

  • Texan

    Onyango Obama, 67, was picked up outside the Chicken Bone Saloon…

    Still LMFAO!

  • richs

    General Grant got bad grades at West Point, General Lee got top grades at West Point.  Which one surrendered at Appomatix?

  • TruDat

    Read that and laughed and laughed.  Ol’ Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy has nothing on the Obama clan.

  • Anonymous

    Like father like brother?

  • Anonymous

    they are

  • Anonymous

    Since Robert dislikes Perry so intensely , the Governor is probably a fine and decent man , a patriot and leader who is not owned by the unions and assorted shady characters . His wife has to be a good woman who is proud of her country and will never take advantage of her position to spend untold millions on herself and take more vacations than Robin Leach .

  • Anonymous

    Billy was Jimmy’s smarter brother.

  • Anonymous

    Unidentified member of the Republican elite referring to Perry: 
    “He’s like Bush only without the brains”.

    Could there be a better campaign slogan for Perry than this testamonial?  Would that not resonate deafeningly well with the Tea Party community and send them into a patriotic rapture?  If Perry actually were dumber than W, would that not be the ultimate credential?

  • NDanielson

    Wow, the man who wants space aliens to come down to save the economy, also wrote that we need a housing bubble to save the economy:

    To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs
    soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And
    to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to
    create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble. – Paul Krugman 2 Aug 2002

    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/opinion/dubya-s-double-dip.html

    Some more Krugman:
    http://www.punditpress.com/2011/08/paul-krugman-compilation-his-decade-of.html

    Krugman’s Aliens Rush to Keynes’ Rescue. Keynesianism is a weapon of intellectual …

    http://www.realclearmarkets.com/2011/08/23/krugman039s_aliens_rush_to_keynes039_rescue_117423.html

    Yeah, that collapse had nothing to do with the democrats putting people into houses that could not afford them, huh, genius? Forcing banks to loan through the peanut farmer’s CRA had nothing to do with the collapse, huh, genius? Government backed loans for private risk didn’t harm the housing market at all did it genius?

  • Anonymous

    Obama’s 2012 slogan ” Shit, it could be worse Just give me another  chance!!

  • Anonymous

    He tried to use his 1 phone call to call the White House…and was sent to voice mail.

  • NDanielson

    Let’s not forget the corrupt Rodger Clinton…

    Call him the brother who couldn’t shoot straight. While Bill Clinton ran the nation for eight years, his half brother, Roger, lived in Bill’s shadow. …
    http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,165992,00.html

  • Texan

    Nice rebuttal..wait, you had none.

  • Rio

    Nothing ever on Al Sharpton, I think he’s dumb and he competed in the 08 primary.  Where’s the articles on poor dumb old AL?

  • azgrandma

    Trashing conservatives michelle – that puts you right up there!

  • Rio

    My husband thinks she’s just beautiful.  Everytime she’s on he repeats how gorgeous she is.  Pretty spunky little gal, imho and yes, I agree with hubby.  Also, Megyn is lovely too.

  • Texan

    and the good reverend was caught stealing…

  • Rio

    She’d wipe the floor with you in a NY minute.  I’ve noted you have to struggle in here. lol!

  • James

    BOWONGA is Barry’s smarter brother!

  • Guest

    They must have been referring to Obama having a double-digit IQ and a triple-digit disapproval rating.

  • Anonymous

    Where did they dig  to dig this monster-Malkin out again?! I thought she media-died.

    No, now it’s apparently the time for all these sickos to resuscitate and spew their venom on Fox. 
    Make your living by propagating hatred under the label of ethnic minority. Sad and pathetic!

  • James

    I would eat the soles right off Michelle Malkin’s shoes!

  • Ralph

    Listen you suckers, you screwheads, here’s a man who would not take it anymore, who stood up against the scum, the dogs, the filth.

    Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.

  • Moosenuts99

    Travis?

  • Moosenuts99

    Hmmm

    How you forget that REAGAN MADE THE SAME SPACE ALIEN CLAIM

  • Anonymous

    Colby wrote “predictably calling it a left-wing media smear”

    Well Colby, what’s actually “predictable” is that the left-wing media SMEARS.  On cue from OFA, DNC or John Podesta.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    Someone’s college transcripts can be an issue or a non-issue. Perry does not sound dumb nor I believe that he is. I watched this segment with Michelle Malkin. Both Kelly and Malkin are talking about a non-issue. Why not address his views on the issues whether fiscal or social. I’m concerned about him using religion for political gain. The self proclaimed Texas prophet is allowing himself to be used by christian extremists who deem themselves as the modern day Apostles. Through him, they want to bring religion and become a major force in governing using the white house as their stage. It takes more than a PHD or a law degree to govern. Mostly, it takes insight into the countries problems and the flexability on how to govern with common sense. You can’t hold a hardline fixed position regardless of the circumstances. There has to be flexiblity in the way to govern. This is where I think the right wing of the party is making a mistake. At the end of the day, I think with all those average or below average grades that Perry received in college don’t prove a damn thing. At 22 I didn’t particulary care whether I would be on the Deans list every semester. Consider that Michele Bachmann got an advanced degree in tax law and as a tax attorney does not appear to be the brightest ligh bulb in the room. I don’t know what her grades were, but it goes to show that getting all A’s during your college degree is not a shoe in for the nomination or the presidency.  It takes much more than fancy degrees to be a leader. It takes the ability to adapt and be flexible to given situations and most imprtantly, it takes common sense. Other than that, all presidents have more strategists and advisors then necessary from all fronts beginning with national security all the way to when is a good time to fart, sneeze, and cough. 

  • Anonymous

    I can remember not too long ago the head douchebag over at Politico came out bristling, even feigning outrage if I’m not mistaken at the thought of anyone acussing his organization of being nothing more than a bunch of left wing lackyies, a sort of personal goon ( imbacilic ) squad for the Obama regime. 

    They don’t even try to deny it anymore…the bunch of morons they truly are

  • clever

    You can’t enlighten liberal stupidity so why try I learned that along time ago.You Voted in a guy as President OF the US with NO QUAILIFACATIONS.So don’t try to act like you Libtards have some grand plan that takes 8 years.

  • clever

    Yeah we do we are going to vote in are most inexperienced guy that votes present on every bill and never shows up 90 percent of the time.Maybe a community organizer.No just kidding only liberals are that dumb.

  • Anonymous

    Getting your grubby mitts off of it so it can run.

  • clever

    So called main stream media?Get mental help you need it.It will be free if you libtards win Big  IF

  • NDanielson

    I see. So claiming to have seen one, and wanting aliens to save our economy from socialists and Keynesian economics are equal in liberal-land??? Okay.

    Hey, is Joe Biden dumb???

  • Anonymous

    Then there’s Hank Johnson who took over for the illustrious Cynthia McKinney. Winners, all.

  • clever

    All aruguments with liberals are meaningless because they can not think with out the help of MSNBC or any other Leftwing MSM

  • Anonymous

    No, that’s your rebuttal you’re smelling.

  • clever

    How about this for a story IS OBAMA SERIOUS THIS TIME ABOUT JOBS ?
    ANSWER:Only his own

  • Anonymous

    I’d reckon that if you’re smart enough to pilot a C130, you’re a heck of alot smarter than the average person.

    Can anyone else picture Obama being smart enough to fly a plane? Hell, I bet he drives a car about as good as his drunk father and uncle.

  • Anonymous

    TMI

  • Anonymous

    So you’re against spewing venom?

  • Anonymous

    When I said “Change you can believe in” I didn’t say it would take 4 years. Change takes at least 8 years…suckers!

  • Anonymous

    You don’t get many dates do you?  In fact, the dates you’ve had, well, never mind.

    When you were a kid you got picked last for whatever game was being played, I’m right, aren’t I?  In fact, neither team really wanted you, but the teachers made someone take you…

    You were not even one of smart kids who was clumsy with thick glasses, rather, no body liked you and you had to go to the men’s room during class, for fear of getting beat up.  I’m right, aren’t I?

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    And which one turned out to be an incompetent Republican that had one of the most corrupt administrations and sets of advisers in the history of DC? 

    And no, this is not a defense of Lee in any way. He may have been a skilled tactician but he was also a traitor, regardless of how certain states like to spin it. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Tyler/100001071466947 Steven Tyler

    Are you a negro?

  • Moosenuts99

    You mean, except for when they function as DICK Cheney’s personal Facebook page, right?

  • expatpatriot

    A rock, Michelle, a rock.

  • expatpatriot

    Flying an airplane is your measure? That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard since the last time Rick Perry opened his mouth.

  • Anonymous

    Excellent point. Dummies can’t fly C130′s.

  • Anonymous

    I’d love to be in a bounce house with both of them.

  • Anonymous

    You’re boring.

  • Anonymous

    So Air Force pilots are dumb in your book, but drunk Obama’s getting their legs ripped off plowing their cars into stationary objects like trees are smart? Okay……..

  • Anonymous

    The dumbest people voted for Obama in 2008.

  • Anonymous

    Can you fly an airplane?  Can sail a sail boat?  Ride a Motorcycle?

  • Michelle

    That’s why the liberals hate her. They despise strong, Conservative woman.

  • Michelle

    Well, it was Colby that wrote it, so what did you really expect?  Certainly, you didn’t expect him to be at all fair and impartial in his analysis.

    ps, Consider me checked, Colby!

  • Rlaurencin01

    Ugh..
    The worst part is that I won’t be able to get that six minutes and twenty-four seconds back.

  • Anonymous

    You say absolutely nothing with tremendous passion. Bravo.

  • expatpatriot

    Bullshit. The notion that one would consider flying an airplane as qualification for political office is fantastic. Or moronic, which accords well with Rick Perry “smarts.”

    I suppose riding a motorcycle qualifies one for county council?

    Get a grip.

  • Anonymous

    Gosh, what are these people thinking. It´s forbidden to raise questions about the intelligence of any politician running for the White House. We don´t need an intelligent person in the WH. Didn´t W.Bush made the point lately?

  • Anonymous

    It’s good to see Megyn slowly getting back her Faux outrage face.

  • Anonymous

    Who knows, who cares?  YOU are an asshole.

  • Anonymous

    Unidentified member of the Republican elite referring to Perry: 
    “He’s like Bush only without the brains”.

    Could there be a better campaign slogan for Perry than this testamonial?

    “Unidentified member of the Republican elite” is kinda long for a bumper sticker, and it doesn’t have much punch. What you want from a quote like that is a video clip. Don’t quit your day job, kid.

  • Anonymous

    M.Kelly: “Gov Rick Parry of Texas being criticized by his enemies some on both side of the isle…”

    If it was a Democratic candidate, FoxNews’ puppet would have been “Some critics say…”

    But since its a republican that Fox is supporting, It’s his “enemies” that are calling him dumb.

  • Anonymous

    Randy “Duke” Cunningham was a Vietnam era fighter pilot ace, he flew a F-4 Phantom II.

    He’s also a Republican war profiteer who sold his vote for old French furniture, a nice ride and house, how smart was that?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Cunningham

  • Anonymous

    Randy “Duke” Cunningham was a Vietnam era fighter pilot ace, he flew a F-4 Phantom II.

    He’s also a Republican war profiteer who sold his vote for old French furniture, a nice ride and house, how smart was that?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Cunningham
     

  • Anonymous

    Randy “Duke” Cunningham was a Vietnam era fighter pilot ace, he flew a F-4 Phantom II.

    He’s also a Republican war profiteer who sold his vote for old French furniture, a nice ride and house, how smart was that?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Cunningham
     

  • Anonymous

    If flying skills are a qualification for political office then right-wing war profiteer Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R) should be the next Republican presidential nominee… when he gets out of jail.

  • Anonymous

    Michelle Malkin is plain old SMART. Damn she is good.

  • expatpatriot

    Flying airplanes does not equal governing nations. Please be real.

  • expatpatriot

    Use gloves while handling. Dispose in a safe manner. Take note of local landfill regulations.

  • expatpatriot

    Dang! Maybe Perry *will* win the nomination!

  • Anonymous

    Navy flyboy ace Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R) needs a pen pal.

  • Anonymous

    That’s the best point you can make? Wow.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, Obama, who can’t talk to schoolchildren without a teleprompter is the best proof of that.

  • Anonymous

    Yes. He was smart, and a crook. A smart crook.

    Did you have a point or something?

  • Anonymous

    Going to jail doesn’t make you dumb. Being a dishonest crook gets you in jail. If being dumb was the only criteria for going to jail, there wouldn’t be any lefties on this blog.

  • Anonymous

    You really think you have a point, don’t you? He is in jail for being a crook. Not because he is dumb.

    Duuuuhhh!

  • Anonymous

    It is now… – because the “is Obama a genius” question was never vetted by the infatuated media, nor backed up with any proof other than people parroting it, people who wanted so badly for him become president. 
    Is Obama a genius? Would he be criticized for his haircut or style as an indicator of his ‘smarts’? Is he is all flash and no substance? 

  • ??????????????

    Are you a bitch…..never mind I know the answer…..you are a bitch and so is your mother. 

  • ??????????????

    Are you a bitch…..never mind I know the answer…..you are a bitch and so is your mother. 

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  • Anonymous

    You wanna bet all your money that he can´t talk to schoolchildren without a teleprompter? And that´s really the best you can come up with that Obama is dumb? Pathetic.

  • Sharpo

    trudat is too stupid to mention that paul ryan plan actually costs more over 20 years than if you didn’t enact it

    why is trudat lying ? is it because his pee-pee never gets happy anymore?

  • Sharpo

    texan is a coward with a vagina.

  • Sharpo

    why are you a nullo? is it because your mom and dad did too many drugs before they had sex?

  • Sharpo

    you are dumber than a cancer tumor. at least the tumor grows.

  • Anonymous

    You’re all over the place now. The argument presented here by the leftists is that Perry is dumb. That is obviously not the case because he went through Air Force pilot training. The Air Force is very selective with their pilot recruits.

    Now since you want to change the argument to governing, since your last stupid response just got destroyed, let’s compare the success of Perry’s three terms GOVERNING Texas to Obama’s three years of FAIL, mmmkay?

  • Anonymous

    I’m just giving you facts, Princess. Did he, or did he not talk, to schoolchildren in a classroom with a teleprompter?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    Neither of which is what I asked about. 

  • Anonymous

    Again, in case your ADD is acting up, the issue here is Perry’s intelligence, not corrupt behavior. Obviously, Perry having successfully completed Air Force pilot training puts him in the upper IQ percentile.

  • Anonymous

    Now, twisting your own words. *ROFL.

  • Who’s on first

    Its Obamas to lose, and hes losing bigtime!!!!!!!

    A potato could beat him.

  • Anonymous

    So I’ll take that as a NO, you can’t fly an airplane, or ride a motorcycle?  I bet you can’t even start and operate a chain saw?  I am sure Sarah Palin can.  Ouch!

    In fact, judging from your reaction, you seem to have questions about your masculinity?

  • Anonymous

    Your pals are actually arguing that flying aircraft has something to do with intelligence.

    I’m pointing out that Cunningham flew and flew well sophisticated fighter aircraft.
    “Yes. He was smart, and a crook. A smart, right-wing, Republican ultra-patriot darling and war-profiteer who sold his soul to a defense contractor for old French furniture while our troops where in harms way kind of crook.”Fixed it.

  • Anonymous

    Gosh, what are you thinking?  We have one in there right now who doesn’t seem to know which end is up.  

  • Anonymous

    Didn’t twist anything.  He had a teleprompter to talk to a grade 6 class.  Seriously, you want to argue that the man is a genius?  

    p.s.  Your response indicates that you had none so you attempted to ridicule the poster who was not twisting anything – just thought you were too dumb to understand his first post and clarified. 

  • Anonymous

    Your rebuttal made even less sense than you original comment.  The guy was a brilliant crook – so…….

  • Anonymous

    And Randy “Duke” Cunningham was a graduate of the Navy’s TOPGUN school that puts hime in the the upper IQ percentile as well.

    How’d he work out for you?

    But who care as long as there’s an (R) by the name and they are a religious nutjob you wingnuts would vote for a idiot.

  • Anonymous

    lol – really lame there bro.  Malkin wasn’t “dug” out of anywhere.  She is on all the time.  You don’t like her chatter, that’s a different matter.  

    I suggest you stick to people you can identify with like Ed, Chris and the newest member of the “bright lights” – Al.  (p.s. there is your living by propagating hatred under the label of ethic/ethnic minority.

  • Anonymous

    remember the lovely little lady who voted for Obama because he was going to buy her gas and pay her mortgage?  (we thought she was dumb but maybe not!!!!) lol

  • Anonymous

    Recently he even made fun of the fools who believed him, in a speech.  Pathetic, absolutely pathetic.  If I have to hear once more how “brilliant” this guy is because someone once said so – I will heave.

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    As noted over on Hot Air, I await the next installments of “Is Rick Perry crazy?” and “Is Rick Perry evil?”.  We go through this every 4 years with every Republican candidate.  Apparently, the Democrats are all sane and emotionally stable.  Evident by their exclusion of Republicans at the Labor Day parade in WI.  Perfectly sane.

  • Anonymous

    And Randy “Duke” Cunningham Republican was a graduate of the Navy’s TOPGUN and he went on to use his intelligence and political power to profit financially from the Iraq war while are troops were in harm’s way… I think was $2.4 million.

  • Anonymous

    Lemmingsrnotusdamnit, I am not a crook.

  • expatpatriot

    I see. Being able to fly a plane, sail a boat or ride a motorcyle is now a question of “masculinity?” And the fact that Sarah Palin can putatively operate a chain saw is evidence of what? Her masculinity?

    That’s a very strange road you’re traveling down. But at least it highlights how ridiculous the original premise is, that piloting an airplane is some measure of fitness for high political office.

  • expatpatriot

    The question is: “Rick Perry — too stupid to lead? Discuss.” Your answer: “He can fly an airplane.”

    I rest my case.

  • warrenlee

    agreed

  • Anonymous

    If Libbies were ‘fair’ they’d demand Obama’s transcripts.   Hauling out Perry’s transcripts and attempting to discredit him for his grades is ridiculous as well as irresponsible.  But then again why would Libbies want to be responsible.

  • Anonymous

    My point is that being a pilot of sophisticated aircraft has absolutely nothing to do with how that person will carry out their duties as an elected official.

    Randy “Duke” Cunningham, “Freedom Fries” Congressman and a TOPGUN graduate turned war profiteer makes my point nicely.

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps you do, but I’ve never thought that being a criminal was a smart lifestyle choice.

  • Anonymous

    2.0 (D) student from Texas A&M, “Dumber than Bush.”

    You should feel responsible for fielding this idiot.

    Here’s Perry defending abstinence only sex education while his state Texas has the 3rd highest teen pregnancy rate in America.

    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_08/perry_parties_and_pragmatism031653.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+washingtonmonthly%2Frss+%28Political+Animal+at+Washington+Monthly%29

  • Rvdenver

    wowowowowo… hum… I remember when I graduated from college I had a higher GPA than some and lower than some. But I still got more job offers that some with higher GPAs. Show me a guy that is thinking on his feet with ideas and you can have that GPA non-sense.

  • cdnhawk

    Yes, and W’s administration had absolutely nothing to do with those records?

  • expatpatriot

    Have you seen video of Perry “thinking on his feet”? It’s not pretty.

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  • Anonymous

    Pray tell what did you field?  

    You should feel responsible for not allowing him to be vetted.

    p.s.  I wouldn’t even go there with your pregnancy rate – you might not like the results if you dug a little deeper.

  • sticks

    Didn’t W. Bush made that point lately ?… Are you going to run for office ?… Somehow I don’t think you will get that

  • Anonymous

    or pro-Huntsman…

  • Razdabar6

    Show me where and when tax increases on the “Evil Rich” benefited ANYONE…. ooops time’s up. Now grow up and vote like you got sone sense from a higher authority other than the pot you keep smoking. And BTW, I’m not rich, white or take as gospel the BS from Obama, Maxine Waters or good ol’ Rev. Al…

  • Razdabar6

    How ’bout a follow up after “meaningless”… GENIUS. Whether you realize or not, Obama and the Senate LibDems are in serious jeopardy of losing BIG in 2012… If there is no plan from the President other than the same song he’s been singing… IT - WILL – BE – ONE – TERM for the big O.

  • B W

    Here we go again with the Huntsman-bashing…

  • Snake5875

    I’m sorry to burst your bubble but you can’t get much lower than a 2.2. I can’t think of any reason to have a 2.2 other than being the Village Idiot. I have 4 children and none have ever got a C let alone a D. He got a D in Economics and you think he’s qualified to run the country.

  • insideguy

    Hey I didn’t say that about Bob Dole! Bob wasnt dumb or crazy he just didn’t have a lot of charisma:) Actually the first Bush wasn’t dumb or crazy either.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Retro-Scifigeek/100001485885738 Retro Scifigeek

    If you deny the existence of evolution then you might be a retard.  Rick Perry is right up there.  He might be dumber than George Bush. 

  • Snake5875

    Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law and edited the law review. Before you say 90% of the students graduate that way I have researched and can find no evidence they gave C students A’s. Harvard is and was one of the best schools in the World and Perry couldn’t of gotten a job there as janitor. Perry graduated at the bottom of his class at middle of the road University WOW impressive.

  • http://www.facebook.com/joseph.c.carr Joseph C. Carr

    haha… Michelle Malkin just called the law students at Univ. of Chicago “liberal.” That’s a laugh.

  • Anonymous

    Perry makes Dubya seem smart … and that’s not saying a lot.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Royce-Earnest-Jr/515733979 Royce Earnest Jr

    If the Republicans have a viable plan for the economy, they are traitors  to the US for not sharing it. The truth is, they don’t have any more of a plan than Obama does. They are all the same.

  • expatpatriot

    ‘Licans only read the National Enquirer or the New York Post. So if the New York post says Phobos is socialist they will believe it.

    Now isn’t that a stupid thing to say?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZX7QFJTBH6LERTKH2JFHQXHXQI Jane Yavis

    Wait, Frick and Frack Feinists of Fox News ,,,,,didn’t he already assure the electorate he wasn’t as smart as Bush who went to  Yale…   “He only went to Texas A&M!!!!!!”

  • Anonymous

    Seriously, you want to argue that reading from a teleprompter is a sign for dumbness. Wow, that really has nothing to do with a lack of intelligence.

    And seriously nobody with an IQ over 100 is doubting Obama is an intelligent person. Not even Tucker Carlson.

  • Anonymous

    No, because your reply is so clever….

  • TruDat

    I guess you’re proof that a tumor grows.

  • Roadworrier

    Goldangit, let’s give Guv Perry the benefit of the doubt.  We NEED those new Chick Fil’A's and Hilton Garden Inns in every hamlet across our land, and by golly he’s our man to generate these jobs.  Let the Chinese and Indians have all those banks, engineering firms, auto factories, TV and chip manufacturers.  How the hell are we Republicans going to pay the Amurrican people less than the minimum wage if we can’t get rid of all those high end businesses that don’t employ illegals?  

    Hmmm, doesn’t sound too much different than Obama, except Michelle doesn’t like Chick Fil’A……

  • Rio

    The Rank & Rancid Ugly American chimes in,

  • Rio

    Dan Rostenkowski was also smart and speaking of furniture:

    http://www.congressionalbadboys.com/Rostenkowski.htm

    That smarty pants William Jefferson…was into freezers:

    http://www.congressionalbadboys.com/Jefferson.htm

    So we get it, you are more transparent than the temporary resident of 1600.  Nose around in that site, it’s full of past and present Congressional bad  boys and girls……a few democrats that should be in prison are still in office, guess they are smart….er.

  • Anonymous

    alreasy?

  • Anonymous

    Then there’s the GA Democrat Rep who questioned a General about Guam tipping over if the US added a base there.

  • Anonymous

    Reminds me of an old TV ad with cavemen inventing square stone tire. “They were DUMB”! sorry. Just hit me. : )

  • eyemjustsayin

    There is only one thing maulkin is good for. . . . making hannity the little frog, drool in her interviews. She must stay up at night thinking up her cute little sayings.  Otherwise, what useful purpose does she serve?  Oh, yeah, none.

  • TommyTelephone

    One, a former president of the Harvard Law Review, who never published a paper, never has held a job and lied his way into the presidency.

    One is a former Air Force fighter pilot and three term governor.

    Which is smart and which is dumb?

  • Anonymous

    Huntsman is not the one. He’s another Obama Lite.

  • Anonymous

    They aren’t?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1451539658 Jeff Keating

    Michelle Malkin, who doesn’t have enough brain power to light the bulb on a license plate, makes Rick Perry and, for that matter, Megyn Kelly both look like Albert Einstein.

  • Buckcameron01

    Perry flew transport, not fighters.  You’re thinking of that other guy who kept the skies over Texas safe during the Vietnam war.

  • Molly Mullen

     Every time taxes have been higher on the rich, we’ve had coinciding periods of economic booms.  It’ s called history, look it up.  Higher taxes on the rich have always coincided with economic health, low taxes have always gone with economic downturn.  Economics is actually easy to understand if you open your eyes to reality.

  • MMORRELL1

    Typical – talk about the other guy instead of talking about what YOUR plan is… Republicans have no plan, except cut taxes… No funding for FEMA without paying for it… how about RAISING TAXES so we can pay for disaster relief?   Are we not our brother’s keeper?  Let’s take 4 TRILLION dollars and put it back on the books by making the rich pay their fair share?  How dare they pay 15% IN TAXES WHEN I HAVE TO PAY 22% ON 22k THAT i GOT ON UNEMPLOYMENT LAST YEAR?   ARRRRGGGHHHH!!! STUPID!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rhonda-Reichel/1339255666 Rhonda Reichel

    Compared to what?  HOW ABOUT RON PAUL….Malkin is an idiot

  • Anonymous

    Nonsense. So if someone is not a far right irrational ideologue, then they are the ‘other side’ bad guys? How about you explain how he is somehow a left winger? A proven fiscal conservative(something I’m sure you would contest Obama is not) is somehow not because he isn’t anti-states rights as the likes of Michelle Bachmann, and Rick Santorum?  I bet those two have you completely fooled because like with Huntsman, you really don’t care about reality or facts. What are they true purebreds? They are only pro states rights when they aren’t in power. According to them when they are, they will trample all over the states when they disagree with their decision making. Does that make them ‘Democrat lite’s? Oh yeah, of course not. Not being in favor of the authoritarian ban on gay marriage is, even though marriage itself is complete bullshit. Wait… President Obama believes marriage is between a man and a woman just like Bachmann and Santorum, and unlike Jon Huntsman. They must be Obama lites! Looks like both fiscally and socially Huntsman opposites the President.

  • Anonymous

    How was that “Huntsman-bashing”?

  • Anonymous

    michelle shut your buck teeth mouth you’re so ugly

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