The Funniest #PerryHistory Tweets: Twitter Responds To Rick Perry Gaffe After GOP Debate

Sometimes, it's just too easy.

After tonight's Washington Post/Bloomberg GOP debate, Rick Perry misspoke when talking to the press at Dartmouth College about his anti-federalism views by emphasizing that "...the reason we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown."

Of course, he was only a little bit off -- by two centuries. Even the most basic student of American history knows that the revolution was fought in the 1700s, or in the 18th century. Then again, Perry hasn't seemed too fond of American history in the past.

And thus was born the Twitter hashtag #PerryHistory (apparently by David Roberts). In the words of The Atlantic's Garance Franke-Ruta, "The hashtag for the implosion of the Perry campaign is #perryhistory," a nod to both the governor's gaffe as well as his lackluster performance at the debate.

Here are some of our favorite #PerryHistory tweets since the debate. Send us your own Perry-style bungling of history at @HuffPostComedy!

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[chaapai]

02:44 AM on 10/20/2011

Why is everyone worried? GWB proved that you don't need to be awake to run this country. I mean, he ran it into the ground, but he still RAN it. Nothing bad happened? Right?! I mean, we are still a viable, prosperous nation.... right? Perry will do fine as POTUS! We'll just have to wake him on days where he needs to campaign for reelection. Other than that... We'll just run some John Wayne movies, dub in Perry's voice and make the rest of the world think he's in charge.

[DeTex]

03:54 PM on 10/15/2011

Rick clears it all up with a song.

http://soundcloud.com/mike-in-raleigh/rick-perrys-history-lesson

[fallenawayrepublican]

03:32 PM on 10/13/2011

Rick Perry, the joke and the punchline in two words

[dutch163]

01:15 PM on 10/13/2011

Let us not forget that it was another Texan who said "If English was good enough for Jesus, its good enough for me"
"MA" Ferguson
(her bible was in English, afterall...)

[sippewissett]

08:39 AM on 10/13/2011

Don't blame Perry. He got all these 'facts' from the 2010 Fundamentalist/Fringe-sanctioned Texas history books.

[Celebrindan]

06:58 AM on 10/13/2011

It seems redundant to comment on an article, about about comments, about someone else.

If not for Parry's name in the headline, what substance this?

Slow news day?

Get out to the Occupy Wall St., and take notes.

[Pelican1983]

02:52 AM on 10/13/2011

Soon the hashtag will be changed to #PerryHerstory, because Anita's gonna shove a Bluetooth in his ear so hard he'll be hearing radio signals through his Texas A&M thong.

[Pelican1983]

02:48 AM on 10/13/2011

I'm surprised Perry didn't recite that in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

[mrmikes]

02:51 PM on 10/13/2011

Was that in the thirteenth century?

[Kali03]

11:19 PM on 10/12/2011

Numbers 8 and 16 made me cackle loudly.

Yeah, Ole Bath House Ricky. Sad thing is--I could see him reading these tweets and nodding in agreement, finding them to be right on target and worthy of inclusion in Texas-produced history textbooks aimed at high school kids.

:/

[SouthJewishWman]

09:04 PM on 10/12/2011

What does this say about the people of Texas who keep reelecting this man?

[jimme]

12:42 AM on 10/13/2011

Nothing that we already knew.

[reck222]

08:48 PM on 10/12/2011

I didn't see a top 5 "how many states are there Obama?" list.

[ok so now what]

10:31 PM on 10/12/2011

Hello? Is this 2008? I hate when I go back in time!

[mfoto1986]

12:01 AM on 10/13/2011

That's it--- that's the the only thing baggers have on Obama. Ahahahaha

Let me guess--- you are voting for this clueless cl0wn right?? LMAO

[Beagle]

07:26 PM on 10/12/2011

"After tonight's Washington Post/Bloomberg GOP debate, Rick Perry misspoke when talking to the press at Dartmouth College about his anti-federalism views by emphasizing that '...the reason we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown.'"

Did anyone else pick up on the fact that Perry's views are actually radically pro-federalism. Federalism being the doctrine that the federal government has limited, enumerated powers, and all other powers reside with the states.

Other than that, yeah, Perry's an idiot.

[REDSTATEREFUGEE]

06:58 PM on 10/12/2011

When I first viewed the hilarious Bad Lip Reading parody of Rick Perry, I marveled at the incredible creativity of the producers of that video. Unfortunately, they have been outdone by Perry himself, who is continuing in the grand tradition of George W. Bush. Stay tuned for a 2012 Perry daily tear-off calendar collection of his misstatements, just like the one I purchased for his buddy George a few years back....

[DJE12857]

06:47 PM on 10/12/2011

They don't bother to learn history so when they rewrite it it's easier for them.

[DJE12857]

06:45 PM on 10/12/2011

Perry's favorite president was Ben Franklin who's kite hit the Hindenberg and he discovered electricity.

[WRPrintz]

11:21 PM on 10/12/2011

He discovered Gravity! Get it right.....next you will be forgetting that it was Pope Sexmachine IX that discovered that the world revoved around cosmic elephants.

[DJE12857]

06:05 PM on 10/13/2011

Lol! Thanks for the history lesson. I must have missed class that day.