Ah, another Republican presidential debate. It had been so long — a whole month? — that expectations at the CNBC debate were high.
Thankfully, Rick Perry didn’t disappoint. The Texas governor searched — and searched and searched — for the third government agency he would cut when he gets to Washington. So Saturday Night Live’s Bill Hader gave Perry another shot this weekend, and the result was perhaps even more awkward than the original flub.
Perry’s brain freeze this time stretched upwards of five minutes, with the GOP presidential hopeful tearing off his blazer, and admitting, finally, that he probably won’t be president.
It got so bad that Jason Sudeikis, playing Mitt Romney, finally asked the debate moderators if the candidates could just move on. “I want to be president, but not like this,” he said.
And finally Herman Cain — played by Kenan Thompson — stepped forward, saying he would spill the details of his sexual harassment scandal if the moderators would just leave Perry alone.
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of mice and men... nice skit
of mice and men great skit
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not a good skit -- I doubt anyone could top the real event with a skit.
eve Painful as the original.
Really? I thought it was hilarious.
New ad: "It's 3:00 a.m. Will this candidate even be able to answer the damn phone?"
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Thankfully, people are starting to see Perry for the fraud that he is. It's not just that he forgot something. Anyone can have a moment where they're stumped and don't know the leader of Pakistan (ha ha) or whatever. But the issue that is most disturbing is that Perry came to the debate with a canned response that he obviously didn't feel very strongly about. This is why he forgot it.
I was sad they didn't include Jim Cramer.
"Will there be rabbits?"
Oh, my... :-D
haaz The "Of Mice and Men" part was awesome.
I confess I snickered a bit at Sudekis' line, “I want to be president, but not like this.”
Does it cease being funny when it's no longer satire and it's just reality? Does that make it funnier? Sadder? Both?
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