Rick Perry's Unusual Speech Performance (VIDEO)

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry raised some eyebrows Friday night with a speech performance in Manchester, N.H., that was unusually expressive.

A Huffington Post reporter was in the audience for the speech but did not have a chance to review video footage of the Texas governor's remarks until Saturday afternoon when a montage of moments in the speech surfaced on YouTube.

The video below is not a full version of his remarks. It is a carefully edited montage designed to highlight the giddiest and strangest moments of a roughly 25-minute speech. The owner of the YouTube account, CharlieJohnson1986, did not respond to a message sent to the account.

But while the video is designed to make Perry look bad, it does capture elements of his speech that were widely remarked upon in the crowd by those who saw the speech.

"It was different," Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas told HuffPost after the speech.

A Perry spokesman did not respond to an e-mail Friday night inquiring about Perry's manner, and initially declined to comment on Saturday.

Update at 9:25 p.m.:

"The Governor is passionate about the issues he talks about," Perry spokesman Mark Miner said in an email to HuffPost on Saturday night.

This article has been changed to remove a reference unrelated to the event. It has also been updated to reflect that Rick Perry's spokesman declined to comment Saturday. Mark Miner later offered comment.

Comments

[kneelo33]

03:38 PM on 11/12/2011

I held off on viewing this until now...

so, Mr. Perry on what meds?? Or was he at a rave the night prior to this "speech"?

[rockysparks]

10:33 PM on 11/04/2011

I haven't seen anyone look so hammered since Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona's last debate appearance --- or my son Shawn the last time I took his car keys away from him and told him to sleep it off on the couch. There's a certain look that drunks get when their blood alcohol level has reached "CHA-CHING!" level --- big smiles, slight weaving, flushed faces and speech just two beats slower than normal.

"I grew up on a farm ... giggle ... "

Yeah, he looks hammered like a nail in a wall ...

[Harbinger08]

02:23 PM on 11/02/2011

I think the scariest thing is the possibility that he might have actually have been sober, and that people really want him to be president anyway.

[alfredo1]

02:19 PM on 11/02/2011

If Perry was actually sober while delivering that speech, it must have been ever so slightly.

[Andromedos]

10:05 AM on 11/02/2011

And this, dear children, is the reason why a sensible person uses a teleprompter when holding a long speech.

[rusty apache]

09:22 AM on 11/02/2011

What's the big deal! He's acting like someone high on safe, and legal prescription pharmacueticals.

[Pijiu]

08:33 AM on 11/02/2011

I think his presentation was quite refreshing when compared to the stiffness he exhibited at the debates.

[ZeraLee]

04:49 AM on 11/02/2011

I think he was lobbied by the medical marijuana people. Or he's channeling Steve Martin.

[kenashby]

01:16 AM on 11/02/2011

Looks like he's been snortin' Koch again...

[Buzzard Beach]

08:36 AM on 11/03/2011

Snortin' Koch? I like it.
It sounds exactly like something a bunch of rich, white, Wall Street Republicans would do between bottles of Chateau Cheval Blanc.
Bunch o' Trustafarians.

[justalurker]

11:58 PM on 11/01/2011

Downright Scary! To think that this man was considered a serious candidate just months ago by many Republicans. He was obviously a "used car salesman" from the beginning -- "Bush without a brain".

Here in New Hampshire, in an exceptionally giddy frame of mind, he seems to be doing a parody of his normal campaign speech. It's as if he's tired of the daily grind and had to let go! Which leaves me wondering how he lowered his normal inhibitions this one time?

[dre7861]

11:05 PM on 11/01/2011

What a goober!

And Jeez, I haven't seen anyone act that gay since the Village People.

[Janet Inkley]

07:12 AM on 11/02/2011

Then you missed Bachmann dancing with her husband.

[anthonytaurus]

10:56 PM on 11/01/2011

I don't care what anyone says. That is NOT drunk. He was HIGH. That's a marijuana high right there. I recognize that anywhere. And, it was the good stuff, most likely a good sativa hybrid if not a pure sativa.

Don't let the DEA fool you with their sponsored ads through Truth and DARE to make you believe that marijuana will make someone lazy and apathetic. If you believe that then you have little to no clue of all the kinds of marijuana that exist in the world. That's been a part of the misinformation campaign against marijuana users since the mid to late 30s.

Look up the difference between Sativa and Indica marijuana. Once you know that, you may very well recognize that Rick Perry is definitely high on a strong sativa.

[sprouts]

02:25 AM on 11/02/2011

Interesting that you and others call this a marijuana high. It appears perfectly "drunk Texan" to me; and a longstanding stereotype no less!

[Sondra Barrett]

10:06 PM on 11/01/2011

Rick Perry had to be stoned - that he's passionate? give me a break.

[foerschnerr]

09:31 PM on 11/01/2011

I wonder if Rick got this giddy and drunk when he and Trump had "lunch" together not too long ago. Of course Trump couldn't remember Perry's first name so I'm sure he had his fill of "maple syrup", too.

[thomasdep]

09:24 PM on 11/01/2011

Any more doubt that he's dumber than Bush?

[Leadsled]

09:40 PM on 11/01/2011

Well, less sober than Bush at minimum.