Rational Irrationality: Pop Goes Perry; Mitt Marches On : The New Yorker

This is just too embarrassing to even watch. I hope that was how to spell embarrassing. lol

Rational Irrationality: Pop Goes Perry; Mitt Marches On : The New Yorker: With Europe in chaos, Wall Street having another conniption, and global capitalism again on the brink, light relief is badly needed. Once more, last night, the Republican Presidential candidates didn’t let us down.

To begin with, of course, there was Rick Perry’s mental blackout, the tape of which you will most certainly have seen. (Just in case you’ve been held in solitary confinement and deprived of television and the Internet for the last however many hours, it is above.) But that was more snuff video than comedic entertainment. Wracking my brain to come up with similarly excruciating moments, I thought back to 1992, when Vice Admiral James Stockdale, Ross Perot’s running mate, struggled with his hearing aid and lost his train of thought during a Vice-Presidential debate with Al Gore and Dan Quayle. But when I went to YouTube and re-watched those incidents for the first time in many years, they didn’t look nearly as bad as Perry’s gaffe.