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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Rick Perry's Revised TV Ad

Rick Perry is campaigning directly to his core constituency -- idiotic Christian conservatives, a.k.a. "values voters" (if you consider intolerance, persecution, homophobia, xenophobia, jingoism, and forcing women to give birth to unwanted babies to be "values".)

In his latest TV ad, he declares himself an unabashed Christian and complains that "we allow gays to openly serve in the military, but our children can't openly celebrate Christmas or openly pray in public schools." Rick says that when he's president, he'll "put an end to Obama's war against religion, and restore our religious heritage."

When he was reminded by his handlers that not everyone is Christian and was told that this 30 second spot made him appear to be a real gay-bashing, Bible-beating, paranoid asshole, Perry replied, "Yeah? What's your point?" But he relented and agreed to shoot a revised version. Here it is:

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