Just a few days after his disastrous “brain freeze” during a nationally televised debate in Michigan, Gov. Rick Perry is back under the bright lights tonight. This time, he’ll be in challenging issue territory: foreign policy. We’ll be liveblogging tonight’s CBS News/National Journal Debate here.
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Ramshaw and Root on the debate that dominated the nation’s political news, Tan and Ramshaw on how it will affect Rick Perry’s campaign, Philpott on what “oops” might mean for Perry in South Carolina, Root on what it means in Iowa, Dehn with the latest Weekend Insider video, Galbraith on the split fates of water-related constitutional amendments, Grissom on an arrest in a 1986 murder case, Hamilton on UT-Arlington’s efforts to control tuition costs and M. Smith, Murphy and Gerdau on West Texas schools raising money with wind farms: The best of our best content from November 7 to 11, 2011.
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Texplainer: What Would Happen if the U.S. Dept. of Education Were Abolished?
Hey, Texplainer: One of the federal agencies Rick Perry managed to remember during Wednesday’s GOP debate is the U.S. Department of Education. He says he wants to close it. But what exactly would that mean?
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Video: “Oops” Moment Could Diminish Perry’s Support Among GOP Voters
By now, you’ve probably seen or heard about Gov. Rick Perry’s colossal stumble at this week’s GOP debate in Michigan. The Tribune’s Thanh Tan talks to Emily Ramshaw about why it’s yet another self-inflicted wound that threatens his ability to convince voters he’s ready to be president.
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Video: Daily Show Dubs Perry’s “Oops” Moment the “Dope Diamond”
On The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the host dubbed Gov. Rick Perry’s debate flub “the Dope Diamond.” That’s right before he unleashed team coverage of the governor’s “brain explosive diarrhea” — and the unintended consequences for excited “newsmen.”
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The Brief: Nov. 11, 2011
A humbled Rick Perry put on a happy face Thursday, but his infamous flub and the inevitable fallout have left his campaign shaken.
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Perry’s Brain Freeze Changes the South Carolina Equation
Has South Carolina’s primary turned from a must-win to a can’t-win for Gov. Rick Perry? Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports on how the governor’s South Carolina prospects may have changed.
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Perry Proves the Maxim: The Big Leagues Are Hard
In and of itself, Rick Perry’s latest debate gaffe really was just a human moment. Might have happened to anyone. But it’s not a lone symptom: Perry has been failing at this presidential thing almost since he started.
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Inside Intelligence: Oops, Before and After
Rick Perry’s “oops” moment was costly in our survey of political and government insiders, and we also took soundings on third-party candidates, court-drawn political maps, and the strength of the Tea Party.
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Video: Perry’s Top 10 Excuses for Forgetting That Agency’s Name
One day after he experienced arguably the most humiliating gaffe of his political career, Gov. Rick Perry poked fun at himself on The Late Show with David Letterman by delivering the night’s “Top 10” list.
