'This Week' Guest: 'All The Texans I Know Can't Stand' Rick Perry
Call it Niall Ferguson's Pauline Kael moment . . . During the roundtable segment this morning on ABC's This Week, Ferguson, an academic with appointments at Harvard, Stanford and Oxford, said that "all the Texans I know" can't stand Rick Perry.
Ferguson was reacting to host Christiane Amanpour's question about Perry's highly-animated New Hampshire address. Ferguson professed to like the "swaggering Texan" side of Perry he apparently saw in the speech. George Will had a caustic comeback. Video after the jump.
Watch Ferguson and wonder how much time the Scottish-born prof has spent speaking with average Texans. Perry, after all, is the longest-serving governor in Lone Star state history, and never lost an election there. Not everybody can't stand him, it surely seems.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: How many of you watched the Rick Perry video?
NIALL FERGUSON: I watched it: quite enjoyed it. I like that side of him, the sort of swaggering Texan. I can't get enough of that. The problem is all the Texans I know can't stand him. And that seems like a pretty bad sign to me. Because if he really was that guy that we saw, swaggering, they would love him.
GEORGE WILL: First of all, you know the wrong Texans. Cause the majority of Texans keep re-electing him.
NIALL FERGUSON: I know a lot of Texans. You want a list?
WILL: You know a minority.
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Niall doesn't KNOW any Texans.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 3:20pm.
Or he knows the ones who live around Austin. Austin is the city where all of the liberal loons in Texas congregate so we can keep a watch on 'em.
Birds of a feather DO flock
Submitted by amyshulk on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 9:17pm.
Birds of a feather DO flock together then? Need to tell the D's - they see something sinister in it when R's do it!!!
Ronald Reagan
it's the Palin thing again
Submitted by michiganruth on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 3:31pm.
Sarah Palin had an 80% approval rating as governor of Alaska. when she became McCain's running mate, we were told that Alaskans suddenly all despised her.
Michael Moore was right the other day (maybe for the first time): the media ARE a bunch of punk liars.
Do his Texas friends have english accents too....?
Submitted by NeoKong on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 3:35pm.
Oh yeah...Niall has his finger on the pulse of Texas politics.
The guy probably would eat a hot dog with a fork and knife.
Well, over here in the
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 3:43pm.
Well, over here in the People's Republic of Hawaii, I don't really know anyone who likes that sawed-off cretin Neil UberCommie, but somehow he's our governor. I guess it depends on who you know, huh?? And this guy more than likely hangs around with wimpy libs, just like himself.
*SNORT*
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 3:46pm.
Oh that is too funny! These people! Is it too much to ask they have a SPECK of self-awareness? Seems time for a Clint Eastwood quote: "A man's got to know his limitations."
When your whole world is guppies, you don't spout expert proclamations on all the clownfish you know.
Good grief.
I believe this guy.
Submitted by Bobbygn on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 3:52pm.
When he said " all the Texans I know cant stand him," I actually believe him. I cant see where he would know any Texas at all except the small sprinkling of left wing loons that would even bother to talk to him...
You mean both of them, Niall?
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 3:52pm.
You mean both of them, Niall?
All the Liberals that I know....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 3:53pm.
...are complete Morons...
Wow, it's so easy to make generalities like that.
All the Texans this clown knows ..
Submitted by NL207 on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 4:03pm.
are probably from Austin, A.K.A. Moscow on the Colorado.
What a useless panel expert this fool turned out to be.
Submitted by Fredy on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 5:44pm.
What possible reason could there be to hear from his Texas friends? I guess we could ask them as many questions as the anonomyous people that all have unknown opinions of Herman Cain.
At what point does ABC simply drop this absurd show and put on some infomercials with that sham-wow dude?
I voted for the man
Submitted by octavioj on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 7:23pm.
So if Mr. Ferguson wants to have a chat it would be simple to find us. As the article stated there is a significant majority in the state.
I voted against him in primaries
Submitted by tdabbs on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 8:04pm.
.. and I voted for him in the general election. He's not "lovable", but he has done very well compared to the rest of the governors economically. He did not raise taxes to any degree, and he doesn't stand in the way of business.
I disagreed with him about toll roads, he loves the things. The Gardasil business was a political mistake, that was dead as soon as he announced it.
He would be a good President, compared to Romney. He is the anti-Obama in many ways.
Perry got 55% of the vote in
Submitted by big.league.slider on Sun, 11/06/2011 - 10:14pm.
Perry got 55% of the vote in 2008. Obama only got 44% of the Texas vote in 2008. By Niall's standard, the only person Texans apparently can't stand more than Rick Perry is Barack Obama.
I just spewed my coffee....thanks a lot!.....LOL.....
Submitted by nonncom on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 3:08pm.
Too funny.....
Austin Texans are like Bloomington Hoosiers
Submitted by Avitar on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 4:09am.
Liberal reservations that do not share the virtues of the rest of the state. Perry is the number one Governor in the country. Mitt Romney was 47 of the 50 governors of his time and in my book that is none too good.Huntsman and Johnson were both better Governors.