{"id":608,"date":"2017-10-17T17:41:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T17:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2017-10-17T17:41:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T17:41:17","slug":"rick-perry-it-is-not-a-country-goof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/17\/rick-perry-it-is-not-a-country-goof\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Perry &#8220;It Is Not A Country&#8221; Goof"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s not a country\u201d: Donald Trump\u2019s Energy Secretary Rick Perry has another Oops moment <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>No one seems to have any idea why Donald Trump chose Rick Perry to be the Secretary of Energy \u2013 including Rick Perry himself. He\u2019s already admitted to not knowing what the agency does. For the most part, he\u2019s been trying to lay low, while the rest of us sit around waiting for him to say stupid things. This one isn\u2019t going to be quite as infamous as his 2012 debate \u201cOops\u201d moment, but Perry\u2019s latest gaffe is pretty far up the charts.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>While testifying during congressional hearings about the Puerto Rico crisis, a visibly uncomfortable Rick Perry said that Puerto Rico is \u201ca country that already had its challenges before the storm.\u201d This prompted Congresswoman Kathy Castor to interrupt Perry, saying \u201cWell it\u2019s America. They\u2019re American citizens, so it\u2019s not a country.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Rick Perry responded by pointing out that he had in fact referred to Puerto Rico as a \u201cterritory\u201d earlier in his testimony, which in his view proved that he didn\u2019t actually think it was a country, and that he had simply misspoken when he went on to refer to it in that way. The moment was a reminder of just how low the bar has been set by Perry\u2019s bumbling political career; he had to clarify that he didn\u2019t actually believe the dumb thing he had just said.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Nonetheless, the moment serves to unwittingly sum up the public\u2019s view of the Donald Trump administration\u2019s handling of the post-hurricane Puerto Rico crisis: they\u2019ve been treating Puerto Rico as if it <em>were<\/em> another country. Considering the overtly racist polices of the Trump administration in general, it\u2019s not been lost on anyone that Puerto Rico\u2019s population largely consists of minorities. No wonder Rick Perry looked so uncomfortable during his testimony.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s not a country\u201d: Donald Trump\u2019s Energy Secretary Rick Perry has another Oops moment &nbsp; No one seems to have any idea why Donald Trump chose Rick Perry to be the Secretary of Energy \u2013 including Rick Perry himself. He\u2019s already admitted to not knowing what the agency does. 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