Rick Perry Booed For Going After Anderson Cooper At Republican Debate (VIDEO)

LAS VEGAS -- The audience is quickly becoming the most interesting player in the GOP presidential debates. Past audience members have booed a gay soldier and cheered at the thought of letting a hypothetical uninsured man die.

At Tuesday night's debate here, the audience rebuked Texas governor Rick Perry when he got testy with the moderator, popular CNN host Anderson Cooper.

"Governor Perry, the 14th Amendment allows anybody -- a child of illegal immigrants who is born here is automatically an American citizen," Cooper asked Perry. "Should that change?"

"Well, let me address Herman's issue that he just talked about," Perry said.

"Actually, I'd rather you answer that question," Cooper told him.

"I understand that. You get to ask the questions, I get to answer like I want to," Perry said, prompting boos from the audience. "And Herman talked about --"

"That's actually a response," corrected Cooper. "That's not an answer, but go ahead."

Comments

[north of the boarder]

03:40 PM on 10/20/2011

His "best before" date was a day before he entered the race.

[texfly]

01:06 PM on 10/20/2011

Didn't sound like booing to me. It was quite mixed. This was a non-story. How did this get play time?

[RubyMontana]

09:49 AM on 10/20/2011

Am I the only one who thought that Anderson Cooper lost control of his moderation?

[Robert Gudzikowski]

10:55 AM on 10/20/2011

Was the question AC asked Perry constructive? I think not, except for the sake of controversy or dumb question response factor.

[RubyMontana]

06:31 PM on 10/20/2011

I think AC`thought this was all about him. When the going gets tough (the debaters don't draw in the lines) he seemed to let it go to free-for-all. Maybe that was deliberate? Make them ALL look bad? I just thought AC seemed a bit "Jr League" for the job. He may as well not been there.

[joedas]

09:07 AM on 10/20/2011

I can't believe that Perry is well educated.

[Jimcracky]

09:42 AM on 10/20/2011

That's because attending school is not the same thing as being "well" educated.

[Patricia Russell]

09:00 PM on 10/20/2011

thanks Jim--f+f

[tonewheel]

07:12 PM on 10/21/2011

Precisely. Shrub illustrated that very well.

[texfly]

01:07 PM on 10/20/2011

Fact is, he isn't. Got an A in Improvisation of Leraning, though. The rest? Mostly low C's and D's and several F's.

[A Wright]

06:35 PM on 10/20/2011

LOL. "Improvisation of Leraning"

[Derni]

08:13 AM on 10/20/2011

The 5000 million or so viewers said that they tuned into the debate because they thought it was a sitcom but after realizing it was actually a real debate by GOP hopefuls they went to to their computers and voted for the legalization of weed..because weed would be the only drug to get them through 4 yrs with any of these "candidates."

[Alyse73]

03:30 AM on 10/20/2011

I'm not a Perry fan. He has never lost an election and has never really had to try before. He thought this would be like running for governor of TX. Everybody bows to him. It sad in a funny way

[Tammy Tyler Palmisano]

07:28 AM on 10/20/2011

Not all in Texas...most cannot stand him....we know he lies like a rug and we r praying the rest of America doesn't fall for his holier than thou bs

[rcross4774]

08:48 AM on 10/20/2011

The really sad thing is that the majority of Texas voters were dumb enough to keep putting him in the governor's chair.

[Shelby596]

12:35 AM on 10/20/2011

He's nothing but a spoiled bully. BTW, Rick, Cooper has more honor, bravery and intelligence in his little finger than you have in your entire family. Learn some manners.

[Arcelio Martinez]

12:06 AM on 10/20/2011

POETIC JUSTICE would be for the original EUROPEAN tenants of the 8 states stolen from Mexico would return

[MAGLATINA]

03:28 AM on 10/20/2011

Kuddos!!! ;>)

[Arcelio Martinez]

08:27 AM on 10/20/2011

que VIVA AZTLAN !!

[hhl482]

11:07 PM on 10/19/2011

Does that mean righty likes AC as much as killin' folks and laying folks off work? Or do they think of Perry as a gay soldier?

[chux3863]

10:52 PM on 10/19/2011

Does'nt he look like Mo from the 3 stooges Romney would be Larry and Cain would be Curly !

[Veganie]

08:57 PM on 10/19/2011

Perry was a racist Democrat, so that’s why he turned Republican, Democrats don’t like racism.

[MAGLATINA]

03:32 AM on 10/20/2011

Wow! If the people know... the consequence would be very interestin...

[The Fat Lazy American]

08:16 PM on 10/19/2011

Ricky, when it all comes down to it - you are just a spoiled little rich kid.

[chancetay]

07:56 PM on 10/19/2011

How many more of these debates are they going to have?????

[Justdontgetit]

10:09 PM on 10/19/2011

From what I understand about 12, twelve, more.

[Jessica Refsnider]

04:49 PM on 10/20/2011

I hope they have 1000 of them. The twitter comedy postings during the debates are becoming my weekly comedy show.

[kgdr24]

07:50 PM on 10/19/2011

George bush 3 in disguise....

[chancetay]

07:54 PM on 10/19/2011

Oh yes, yes, but worse. Have you noticed how he stand before the debate starts. He acts like he has boobs and he is sticking them out or he has something else stuck somewhere else and it is very painful. He is trying to play the big man and give Anderson a bad time. He is the Decider.

[chux3863]

10:57 PM on 10/19/2011

Bush light ?

[InnerSelf]

07:31 PM on 10/19/2011

just plain arrogant; - the old, lame Rick,
he will never understand the difference between arrogant and smart.