WATCH: Jay Smooth Points Out The Irony Of Rick Perry Comparing Himself To Superman

Rick Perry, the governor of Texas and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, has taken a hard line on immigration during his time as the Lone Star State's chief executive. So when Perry recently compared himself to Superman at a campaign stop, the popular vlogger Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine couldn't help but note the irony.

"[Superman] loved America so much that he was willing to take on a secret identity, live a double life, and step up to do all the hardest, most backbreaking work no one was willing to do so he could be part of America," Smooth said.

Rick Perry, the governor of Texas and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, has taken a hard line on immigration during his time as the Lone Star State's chief executive. So when Perry recently compared himself to Superman at a campaign stop, the popular vlogger Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine couldn't help but note the irony.

Comments

[calloy]

03:28 PM on 09/08/2011

truth, justice and the american way. i didn't see any of that in texas under perry. in fact, perry talked of seceeding from america. i rest my case. please imprison perry in the phantom zone for a couple of centuries.

[yukonsam]

01:12 PM on 09/08/2011

If Rick Perry were part of the Superman mythos, he'd be the silver-age Terra-Man, a cheesy space cowboy who was recently offed by uber-badas Black Adam.

[LuLou Murder]

01:11 PM on 09/08/2011

So Rick Perry was created by two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland?

[haval2]

09:38 AM on 09/08/2011

Superman is the least of what this cracker doesn't get. But truly he does not begin to understand what Superman stands for.

[hawhite2000]

03:33 AM on 09/08/2011

Loved it!

[Ken Scherer]

12:42 AM on 09/08/2011

Gov. Rick Perry compared himself to an illegal immigrant named Kal-El! All Republicans, Tea Partiers & Libertarians should HATE Kal-El for illegally entering the USA! Oh, wait, Kal-El gets Amnesty because he's a Super[White]man! LOL, Gov. Rick Perry is Superstupidman. :D

[Marc Eisenman]

06:07 PM on 09/07/2011

Rick Perry, in case you didn't know... Superman is an illegal immigrant.

[EvieEve]

05:25 PM on 09/07/2011

I love Jay Smooth

[Elbrando]

05:22 PM on 09/07/2011

The difference is that his own book will be kryptonite.

[GQ 336]

01:38 PM on 09/07/2011

This was really funny and clever. Much props to Jay Smooth because you actually gave me a good laugh today.

[rudewaitress]

10:49 AM on 09/07/2011

It's no surprise, with an ego like his, that Perry would fancy himself some kind of Superman. As comic book characters go, though, I see him more as the Jughead of the GOP.

[Omega10]

09:33 AM on 09/07/2011

All we need is another half-witted cowboy with a lot of bravado in the White House. The last one drove us to financial ruin, giving money away to million & billionaires, encouraging fraud thru deregulation & wasting US assets & lives by creating senseless wars. Perry is an empty suit willing to do the bidding of the same racist oil & chemical barons that finnagled Bush jr's election. Most of the jobs he claims to have created were taken from other states, were low-wage or part-time, or were funded by the U.S. govt. That he is being considered at all & touted wildly is only a reflection of how desperate the GOP is to find anyone marginally resembling a candidate to run. This guy wants to secede from the union, not strengthen it. If you want lawlessness, a theocracy & a replay of the Civil War, then Rick Perry is your guy.

[afinch9]

06:42 PM on 09/07/2011

If they were funded by the ggovt. why didn't the other states show the same increase? and if they were so low paying then the other states must have been glad to get rid of them. And you why haven't you started a company paying union wages/benefits? do you really not care for the unemployeed, and prefer to sit arond and whine. Or are the job creators that much smarter than you?

[Psikotyk]

09:17 AM on 09/08/2011

He said some were funded by the government not all, the irony of which is that Perry rails against federal money. You, afinch9, accuse someone else of not caring for the unemployed, but you just dismissed jobs that "were so low paying that the other states must have been glad to get rid of them". So you're saying that only certain jobs count to you? You're a job elitist?

Also, it's easy to say to someone else, "Why haven't YOU started a company?" How do you know he hasn't?

And lastly, enough with the "job creator" bit. That's a new buzzword introduced in the last twelve months as a GOP shortcut to rail against the idea of raising taxes on the superrich. If they call them "job creators" and not "super rich", then they're hoping to deflect taxes being raised on those that make more than 250K a year. Google "job creators" in terms of GOP speeches, and you'll see that no one was using that term before 2010 in any extensive way. It's doublespeak that's trying to convince the public that taxing the super rich is wrong.

And by the way, a doctor making 400,000K a year might pay $90,000 in taxes, while a teacher making $38,000 might pay $7,000. Sure, the doctor is paying a lot more. But he gets to keep $310,000, while the teacher gets to keep $31,000. That's TEN TIMES AS MUCH. Take a hard look; taxes aren't exactly starving the super rich.