Chris Matthews: Rick Perry A 'Clown' Full Of 'Texas B.S.' (VIDEO)

Chris Matthews didn't mince words on his Friday show when it came to the newest entrant into the GOP presidential race.

Rick Perry formally entered the 2012 campaign on Saturday, but everyone knew that he was running days before. On Friday's "Hardball," Matthews made it clear that he doesn't think much of the Texas governor. As he watched the footage MSNBC was playing of Perry, Matthews openly mocked him--and his Texas ways.

"He looks like a clown," Matthews said. "He dresses very fancy. There's something about the way that he puts himself together that doesn't look authentic. He looks like, I don't know, a wax figure pretending to be governor. There's something about him that doesn't add up to me. Maybe it's this Texas B.S., this boots and tuxedo thing they do down there. Why does it work? Outside of Texas it doesn't travel very well."

Matthews also criticized Perry for mangling the history of Texas' relationship with the rest of the U.S. Matthews said that, unlike what Perry has claimed, Texas never had any clause in its founding documents that allowed it to secede from America. He wondered whether Perry was being "deliberately ignorant" in his telling of the state's history.

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[tenilla]

06:34 PM on 08/20/2011

tenilla
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05:07 PM on 8/17/2011
Way downthread I am accused of being paid by George Soros to post here -- a Bagger response to my allegation that many of the trolls who have infested HuffPo Comment threads in the last year are only here to disrupt intelligen­­t debate.

Here again are two links and a copy-and-p­­aste of a late March Craigs List ad
that would document the fact that the attack on liberal message boards is very well organized:

http://www­­.guardian­.­co.uk/wo­rl­d/2010/­oct­/13/te­a-pa­rty-a­meric­ans-­for-pr­osp­erity

http://www­­.dailykos­.­com/stor­y/­2010/12­/29­/93218­2/-E­XP
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[tenilla]

03:08 PM on 08/20/2011

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05:07 PM on 8/17/2011
Way downthread I am accused of being paid by George Soros to post here -- a Bagger response to my allegation that many of the trolls who have infested HuffPo Comment threads in the last year are only here to disrupt intelligen­t debate.

I have Commented at HuffPo since the first day it was published. Huffington Post was and still is perceived as a liberal leaning online newspaper, despite the hundreds of Comments by rightie trolls.

Here again are two links and a copy-and-p­aste of a late March Craigs List ad
that would document the fact that the attack on liberal message boards is very well organized:

http://www­.guardian.­co.uk/worl­d/2010/oct­/13/tea-pa­rty-americ­ans-for-pr­osperity

http://www­.dailykos.­com/story/­2010/12/29­/932182/-E­XP
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Writers needed to post right-wing comments to social media and news outlets.

We are a social media company working for a political organizati­­­­­on, hired to help balance the left-wing bias of the major media outlets by supplying a team of writers who will post to newspaper comments, media forums, Facebook pages, etc.

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[tenilla]

10:09 AM on 08/20/2011

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05:07 PM on 8/17/2011
Way downthread I am accused of being paid by George Soros to post here -- a Bagger response to my allegation that many of the trolls who have infested HuffPo Comment threads in the last year are only here to disrupt intelligen­t debate.

Why would George Soros pay a liberal/pr­ogressive to post at a liberal venue?

Here again are two links and a copy-and-p­aste of a late March Craigs List ad
that would document the fact that the attack on liberal message boards is very well organized:

http://www­.guardian.­co.uk/worl­d/2010/oct­/13/tea-pa­rty-americ­ans-for-pr­osperity

http://www­.dailykos.­com/story/­2010/12/29­/932182/-E­XP
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Writers needed to post right-wing comments to social media and news outlets.

We are a social media company working for a political organizati­­­­­on, hired to help balance the left-wing bias of the major media outlets by supplying a team of writers who will post to newspaper comments, media forums, Facebook pages, etc.

Compensati­­­­­on: TBD, hourly rate and volume of online activity. Bonuses for controvers­­­­­ial postings that heat up a topic or forums thread.
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[tenilla]

01:36 AM on 08/20/2011

My published Comments are gone again.

Again, please tell me how to close my Huffington Post Account. I do not want to be associated with anything that is complicit in advancing the agenda of the Tea Party.

[tenilla]

12:39 AM on 08/20/2011

The long post is up -- after being up for 24 hours and then gone for 30 hours.

What is going on here?

[tenilla]

11:46 PM on 08/19/2011

Please close my Huffington Post account or tell me how to do so. I do not want to be associated with Huffington Post in any way.

[tenilla]

11:20 PM on 08/19/2011

I have a screen shot of a long Comment I made two days ago that was "published" and up for
24 hours.

I have serious questions about the integrity of Huffington Post and AOL Comment threads.
The long Comment that was wiped after 24 hours cited two links and had one copy-and-paste
which documented that the infestation of liberal message board by Tea Party trolls is deliberate and systematic.

I no longer want to have anything to do with HuffPo Comment threads that would appear to be complicit in advancing the Tea Party agenda.

The Moderators here have been very generous in "publishing" my posts, and had the long post
not been up for 24 hours I would not complain. But I find it very troubling that the long post and
several posts pointing out that it was censored after the fact were removed.

[tenilla]

05:27 PM on 08/19/2011

Eight Comments of mine have been "published" and then disappeared. I realize that the long post of August 17 with two links and a copy-and-paste might have been threatening, but why was it up for almost 24 hours?

Maybe HuffPo Moderators allow a post to be published, but AOL Moderators have the power to wipe anything. Whatever it is, the integrity of Huffington Post Comment threads has certainly
become suspect.

[tenilla]

08:36 AM on 08/19/2011

I now have 6 or 7 Comments that were published, then disappeared hours later. On August 17
a long Comment I made showing two links and a copy-and-paste proving that the Koch brothers et al. systematically and successful send Baggers to infiltrate liberal message boards was published and "stood" for almost 24 hours, but then was wiped.

[tenilla]

08:44 PM on 08/18/2011

New Moderator? Now my long post of yesterday and several posts of today are gone. Thanks.

[tenilla]

04:12 PM on 08/18/2011

Fortunately, I have a screen shot of what was posted here yesterday.

I have contacted Matt Taibbi already. I am working on a letter setting forth the insidious
takeover of what calls itself the mainstream media by the corporate oligarchy that runs this country. It would appear that AOL and Huffington Post are members of this oligarchy.

[tenilla]

02:44 PM on 08/18/2011

I am starting a one-woman campaign to make liberals and progressives aware of how the
"mainstream media" is being systematically and successfully infiltrated by the Tea Party.
I will certainly use the 24-hours later censorship of my published post about Baggers directed to
liberal boards as evidence that Huffington Post and AOL are compicit in this takeover.

[tenilla]

01:08 PM on 08/18/2011

I took the time to make a long post yesterday documenting the fact that Tea Party members
are encouraged -- and sometimes paid -- to post on liberal message boards. The post was
"published" and up for almost 24 hours. Now it is gone.

I think I deserve to know why it was censored.

[tenilla]

12:30 PM on 08/18/2011

I believe that readers who continue to Comment on HuffPo threads should understand that a
post that has been "published" can be censored and wiped 24 hours later.

[tenilla]

12:18 PM on 08/18/2011

Nice to see that a long comment with links that I made and tht was posted yesterday has been
wiped. So long, HuffPo.