ABC cuts off Rick Perry’s conspiracy rant about Obama, immigrants, drones, and hurricanes

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

ABC cuts off Rick Perry’s conspiracy rant about Obama, immigrants, drones, and hurricanes
By David Edwards
Sunday, July 6, 2014 14:49 EDT

ABC News host Martha Raddatz on Sunday cut off Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) after he spent four minutes defending a conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was plotting to fill up the United States with undocumented immigrants.

Speaking to Fox News last week, Perry had asserted that the president was responsible for the growing crisis of women and children immigrants coming across the border.

“We either have an incredibly inept administration, or they’re in on this somehow or another,” Perry opined. “I mean I hate to be conspiratorial, but I mean how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into the United States without there being a fairly coordinated effort?”

During a Sunday interview on ABC News, host Martha Raddatz gave the Republican governor a chance to back away from his conspiracy theory.

“Governor, do you really believe there’s some sort of conspiracy to get people into the United States by the federal government, by the Obama administration?” Raddatz asked.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/06/abc-cuts-off-rick-perrys-conspiracy-rant-about-obama-immigrants-drones-and-hurricanes/

[Judi Lynn]

3. Since when did the United States not control its own borders, and cease to control its destiny,

along with the destiny of every other country?

[The Magistrate]

4. You A Special Little Snowflake, Fella, Ain'tcha....

[pothos]

6. enjoy your stay

as brief as it may be...

[santamargarita]

2. I wonder what it would take to get this vicious bastard deported...

for anti-American activities or maybe he should succeed from the Union. Do the country a favor.

[pfitz59]

5. America is a big empty country

with room for millions more. Its not immigration that's the problem, its division of wealth and property. the "haves" love to watch the many "have-nots" blame each other. hungry Mexicans mean you no harm, the Koch brother; however, continue to rape you...

[amandabeech]

11. Many of the "empty" areas consist of farmland and woodland.

We need all the farmland we have. Our population keeps growing and we pave over an immense amount of farmland every year. We did not import much food in the past, but now we import more and more food, and not just specialty foods that won't grow here, from other places. It isn't a good course for a nation to be dependent on others for its food supply, if at all possible.

Woodlands are important to our overall environment. We have drastically lost woodland in this country to make way for farms and population centers, and also to harvest wood for its various commercial purposes.

We also have significant empty spaces that are mountainous and/or too dry for much human settlement.

Really, we cannot take all the people that want to come here without screwing up our ecosystem even more than we already have.

[King_Klonopin]

19. Amen!

Regarding problems and grievances, we Americans tend to get
easily distracted and caught up in complaining about the symptoms
of a problem rather than its root causes -- especially if we are
complicit in some ways.

In this case, lots of people are streaming into the country through
the Mexican border. Our reaction has been to get pissed at the victim,
blame whichever political party we hate for not fixing the problem, and
vent our anger in all directions. We just want the problem to go away,
but we don't spend much time looking into its cause.

WHY are these people coming to America in droves?

The reason is that the entire region is crumbling under the weight
of poverty and violence -- poverty we helped create (NAFTA) and
also benefit from. They are hopeless, destitute people who are fleeing
to safety. Gang violence, drug trade and crime flourishes in the
vacuum which the poverty created -- just as it does here in our
cities -- except on a much larger scale, but eliciting the same responses.

If the tables were turned, would any of us find it easy to leave our
home country, with nothing but the clothes on our backs, risking our
lives and safety on a 1000 mile trip through Mexico and Central
America UNLESS our situation was so desperate that we saw no other
options. This is no whimsical endeavor, when you think about it for a
moment.
And then, upon arriving, how would we feel if we were threatened,
menaced, and told "go back to where you came from !!" That's
right; go back to that miserable existence you're trying to escape from ?
That term "illegals" is intended to be nasty and disparaging. I hate it
because it is bourne out of misplaced anger and hate. These folks aren't
"illegals", they aren't "aliens", and they aren't even immigrants. They are
refugees, fleeing an unimaginably horrible situation -- literally
running for their lives -- no different than people fleeing from Syria or Iraq.

America has a refugee problem along its southern border, and it is just a
symptom of a deeper problem. If we want to reduce the number of people
crossing our borders from Mexico and Central America, the solution is to
address the underlying cause -- hopeless poverty. To ignore that central
issue is politically dishonest and callous.

[Ferretherder]

7. I don't know about you, but,...

...I think I see, flying spaghetti monster willing, the 2016 republican presidential nominee!

Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please..........

[DBoon]

8. Do they make tinfoil cowboy hats?

Perry could use one

[Joe Bacon]

9. I'm shocked that she actually shut him up!

I guess she couldn't take any more from Governor TexAssHole.

[Gothmog]

10. Juanita Jean had some fun with Goodhair's latest act of stupidity

Juanita Jean could not pass this opportunity up http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/07/06/oh-yall-its-gotta-be-brain-freeze/

Rick Perry has to study-up to be dumb.

I swear on all that is holy that he’s been taking America-lessons for the past two years so he can run for President and be two IQ points smarter than Sarah Palin.

It didn’t work.

Dumb as a sack of hammers.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) is not backing away from a conspiracy theory he recently floated about the Obama administration somehow coordinating the surge of immigrants coming over the border for some unknown reason.

Perry recently suggested on Fox News that the Obama administration might be “in on this somehow” and helping move immigrants over the border. Asked about that statement on Sunday, Perry didn’t back away.

What? President Obama is going to use refugees from a Central America drug war to herd us all into underground bunker reeducation camps ruled by the New World Order in Roswell, New Mexico, with Janet Reno’s, the woman who shot Kennedy, black helicopters hovering overhead?

Well, crap Rick, everybody knows that. Just go ahead and say it.



And by the way, please make Rick quit torturing the English language. In an attempt not to end a sentence with a preposition, we get this …

I have to believe that when you do not respond in any way, that you are either inept, or you have some ulterior motive of which you are functioning from,” Perry said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.

Nice try, Dumbo, but you could have ended the sentence at the word “motive.”

I’ll give somebody fifty dollars cash American money to go convince him that he’s already been President and now it’s time to go to the ranch and paint pictures of himself in the bathtub.

I mean it.

Goodhair is a really stupid person

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

13. Apparently the Teabaggers love word salad with lots of dressing.

[Cha]

16. Funny.. thanks Gothmog. i always like it when some brilliant person explains things.. like Jon

Stewert and JJ did with Rick Perry. rofl

"And by the way, please make Rick quit torturing the English language. In an attempt not to end a sentence with a preposition, we get this …

I have to believe that when you do not respond in any way, that you are either inept, or you have some ulterior motive of which you are functioning from,” Perry said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.

Nice try, Dumbo, but you could have ended the sentence at the word “motive.”

[freshwest]

12. Is ABC willing to lose this very important viewing demographic?

Since the 2008 presidential campaign, wharrgarbl has been frequently used... where a person continues to spew rhetoric in the face of often conclusive evidence to the contrary.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wharrgarbl-sprinkler-dog

That describes Perry and most of the fact challenged crowd.

[pbmus]

14. Clown car driver barfing .... ridiculous nonsense ...nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. Oh sheeze,....he has GOT to stop flirting and he and Michelle Bachmann need to get a room.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. The stupid. It burns!!!!

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[PatrynXX]

18. well ignoring moron Rick

I'm no fan of borders or walls. as they dont' work. Enforcing the laws against companies who hire illegals in the first place 1. saves alot of money 2. punishes the rich for hiring them 3. reduces the idea that illegals would cross the border to get a job. Bloody border wall is expensive. impossible to monitor and they can tunnel as deep as they can

course before 2008 Republicans were all for em.