Posted on 10/02/2011 6:55:31 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Bryan Preston
October 2, 2011
Seriously. Here’s the Post story, which once you get past all the history they try packing into it that has nothing at all to do with Rick Perry, is about a hunting lease that Gov. Perry’s family used, and which once had an offensive name that his family did not give it, but which was unfortunately somewhat common once upon a time. Once Perry’s family leased it, they painted over a rock with the offensive name on it to cover it up, and eventually turned the rock over to cover it further. So the Post has devoted its resources and space to tell the world about…a rock way out in West Texas.
Perry’s campaign disputes much of the detail in the Post story.
“A number of claims made in the story are incorrect, inconsistent, and anonymous, including the implication that Rick Perry brought groups to the lease when the word on the rock was still visible,” Sullivan said. “The one consistent fact in the story is that the word on a rock was painted over and obscured many years ago.
“Perry’s father painted over offensive language on a rock soon after leasing the 1,000-acre parcel in the early 1980s. When Governor Perry was party to the hunting lease from 1997 to 2007, the property was described as northern pasture. He has not been to the property since 2006.”
Sullivan also specified that the family has never “owned, controlled or managed” the property.
Just so we’re all clear, a hunting lease isn’t property you own or really have any meaningful control over. You lease it for hunting, and only visit it periodically. For hunting.
The Post knows all too well how this game is played. The original story will get major play, and while the follow up and its own climbdown will attract less attention, a lot of dust gets stirred up and most of it ends up on the Post’s target, in this case, Perry. What’s left in the mind of those who don’t follow the facts is that Perry is somehow associated with racism.
The Post, which ran dozens of stories over a single word in 2006 to sink George Allen, can be expected to stretch out this non-story about an old rock for the next year and a half. Just when Perry starts making a move in the polls or lands a solid punch on Obama, out will come some new revelation about the stupid rock in West Texas. It’s what they do.
Please explain his cronyism and how that's "conservative".
Insofar as being from TX, that doesn't give you special qualifications; it appears that more than half the TX posters on FR are against him, that doesn't mean a hill of beans to me, but his record does.
I agree with your post. Cain shouldn’t have hit on Perry over this.
Cain’s biggest problem is his ‘foot in mouth disease’ He needs to engage his brain before he opens his mouth. He’s done this several times...no Muslims in his administration, no mosques in Tennessee, and then has had to ‘back-track’. The media is playing him like a fiddle!
Now he attacks Christie as too liberal after attacking Perry over a sign on a rock at a hunting camp 28 years ago. A sign Perry didn’t have made and one his father had painted over. I heard Byron York on Bill Bennett’s radio show say that there are places in other states including Vermont where the same sign was used. And he found a mountain with that same name.
Unfortunately, the more Cain talks the less credible he becomes. It’s a shame because he gave such a great speech at the FL straw poll.
Oops.... that reminds me of someone else.
An Aboriginal group in Australia didn’t want the mountain’s name changed.....
Look at this:
- ‘Like renaming Australia England’
:)
Conservatives who live in the area surrounding the publishing house or properties of its other media organizations in other states should set about documenting the evidence of the current racist nature that exists to this day at the Washington Post.
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