Rick Perry has his “Libya” moment

In a sit-down with the Des Moines Register editorial board, Texas Gov. Rick Perry struggled for six seconds to recall the name of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, before finally calling her “Motomayor.” He also got the number of Supreme Court Justices wrong:

“I trust those independent school districts to make those decisions better than eight unelected and frankly unaccountable judges,” Perry said in discussing school prayer. 

It’s remarkably reminiscent of Herman Cain’s infamous discussion of Libya with the good folks at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (“got all this stuff twirling around in my head”).

We’re wondering: How long before the candidates stop allowing editorial boards to tape these interviews?

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1. catseal-archive reblogged this from some-disgraced-cosmonaut
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3. some-disgraced-cosmonaut reblogged this from steviemcfly and added:

   You are dumb. You are really, really dumb.

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5. vouslalala reblogged this from steviemcfly and added:

   loooooooooool

6. ihavenoidea28 reblogged this from steviemcfly and added:

   OH MY GOD I’M CRYING. MOTOMAYER. MOTOMAYER.

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   [emphasis mine, because HOLY SHIT THAT’S PERFECT]

10. steviemcfly reblogged this from frollospeaks and added:

    Rick Perry is Will Ferrell’s George W. Bush in Josh Brolin’s George W. Bush’s body.

11. frollospeaks reblogged this from firthofforth and added:

    Is this a bit? This is a bit, right?

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16. firthofforth reblogged this from waitingonoblivion and added:

    Oh, this. THIS IS FANTASTIC.

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    As a former Marine S/O all I can read this as is MOTO-MAYORRRRR!

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20. sheercalculatedsilliness reblogged this from dcdecoder and added:

    is motomayor the combination of associate supreme court justice sonia sotomayor and iron chef japanese masaharu...

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30. waitingonoblivion reblogged this from dcdecoder and added:

    Justice Motomayor is one of the eight Supremes. Rick Perry is a fucking genius.

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