Hutchison campaign admits videotaping Perry; audiotape transcript follows
Houston’s KHOU broke the story.
A commenter sent the audiotape, which I listened to. Here is what I heard on the audiotape. After Perry asks, “Are we in one?” — referring to a recession — and the laughter, Perry says:
But seriously, the fact is that because we have positioned ourselves so well economically, we’re going to be the first state that starts showing that major recovery, and the rest of the states will follow [behind us? beside us?] whenever that is going to be.
The tape was unquestionably edited after “Are we in one?” to eliminate the words, “but seriously….” So the answer to the headline of my first post on this subject, “Is the Perry videotape a dirty trick?” is yes.
Here is the situation as I see it.
Perry: He committed a gaffe. He made a joke about the recession that revealed, as I wrote at the time, arrogance and callousness.
Hutchison: Her campaign is now making the charge that Perry really didn’t know that there is a recession. This won’t stick. Perry’s discussion of a recovery is itself an acknowledgment that Texas is in a recession.
To sum up: Perry made a mistake. Point to Team Hutchison. Team Hutchison cheated. Point taken away from Team Hutchison. I think that the memory of the joke will be longer lasting than the memory of the mendacious editing.
Tagged: kay bailey hutchison, khou, rick perry.
Anonymous says:
So Team kay has admitted to violating state law by posting a video without a proper disclaimer? Good to know her campaign hacks from DC don’t think Texas law applies to them.
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Anonymous Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 8:21 pm
was the video posted? that is a violation of Texas campaign law…booyah, game on.
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Official Comments says:
The KBH campaign has become painful to bear witness to. It wasn’t bad enough she was banned from Google because of the “embedded” remarks on one of her official web pages. Now she is blatantly doctoring video tape of Perry’s speeches to make something he said take on an entirely different meaning? That’s just poor campaign tactics, and it’s an embarrassment to the Republican party as well as the people of Texas that one of our elected senators could allow her campaign staff to act this way.
Burka, say what you want on the “point match-ups”, but you’re going to have a hard time justifying her tactics on this one. This was no joke, and I’m sure it isn’t funny to the Perry campaign. She’s opening the door to some fairly malicious campaigning. And it’s worth noting the Perry campaign has seemed to avoid acts of retaliation along the same lines.
Now there’s some irony, I thought the KBH campaign was trying to paint Perry as the bad guy in this race? However, if things continue as they are I’m not saying Perry will come out of this thing looking like a saint, but Kay’s definitely looking a lot more like a sinner.
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paulburka Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:53 am
“You’re going to have a hard time justifying her tactics on this one….”
There is no justification for her campaign’s tactics, and I’m certainly not going to try to justify them. Editing a video to create a misleading impression is dirty pool by any standard. There is nothing to argue about here.
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Anonymous says:
from the Slater column: “I smiled at her. She looked at us grim-faced. There was not a hint of pleasure in her demeanor. It was almost as if she didn’t want to know me at all. And I swear she had dead eyes. Black, small, not a sign of joy or life in them. They sent a cold chill through my body.”
All of Perry’s ‘attacks’ have the air of a spoof – you can’t help but laugh because it is only a tiny bit mean.
This is big time mean – cheating and sinning. And in keeping with the paragraph quoted above and the other decsriptive prose in the Slater column. It will stick.
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KBHon1/24/09 says:
“People are looking for positive, happy warriors, and I’m a positive happy warrior.”
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Kay Kay Go Away says:
Paul is not nearly as giddy in this posting as he was when he saw the “doctored” video tape. How can you or anyone now trust what the campaign sends or says or what Kay says?
Kay’s campaign lied when they said Rove was not involved in her campaign early on and come to find out he was. Kay’s campaign lied when they said Rick Wiley was not leaving and he did. Kay’s campaign lied when they said they did not place “hidden words” on their website and they were banned by google. Kay’s campaign lied when they said she was “monitoring” the vote to defund ACORN and instead was at a fundraiser in Dallas. Kay lied when she said she would vote against the bailout the day before she vote FOR the bailout. Kay lied when she said she would serve only two terms and then ran for a third. Kay lied when she said she was pro-life, but voted against a symbolic resolution against Roe-v-Wade. Kay lied when she said she opposed taxpayer funded abortions and then voted for taxpayer funded abortions in committee…there seems to be a pattern here and that is the real story.
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Dewhurst's Watchwinder says:
The problem for Perry is twofold. Nothing was doctored, and, if you listen to the rest of the audio, there is no empathy expressed for those in economic hardship–at all. Also, to the claim of election law violations, there is no use of “magic words” to ask anyone to vote for or against a candidate. Anyone who truly believes that a law was broken in the instance of the perry speech recording must be incensed that Colyandro, Toomey, and Hammond are walking the streets as free men.
Those guys are kinda fond of Perry.
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Cow Droppings Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 9:34 pm
put down the cocktails. whether TAB advocated for the election or defeat of a specific candidate is not the same as whether they disclaimed who paid for their advertising.
If KBH’s campaign put this out, they should have had a disclaimer (and it would be comical if they claim they are not advocating for the election or defeat of a candidate — the question now is which one!)
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paulburka Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:58 am
The tape was doctored. There can’t be any doubt about that. It was cut off before his comment of, “But seriously….”
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Anonymous Forever Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:46 am
Doctored? the “but seriously…” was after the fact. No? He definitely made a joke about the recession by saying, “We’re in one”? And they did laugh. And he didn’t say, “Don’t Laugh.”
How is this doctored, again?
Seriously.
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Anonymous Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:19 am
Except the magic words test only applies to interest group express advocacy versus independent expenditures. It gas nothing to do with the activites of a campaign, or in this case a SPAC, whose communications are all by definition express advocacy. You clearly don’t understand campaign finance law.
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Dewhurst's Watchwinder says:
Oh, yeah. KBH’s problem is that she purports to be above this kind of stuff. Nobody looks good here.
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Anonymous says:
This is the first point KBH’s team has scored…and you can’t take it away from them. All the whining from the Perry team/fans is just bologna. They’ve already done worse.
Liked that one of KBH’s people said “this is about the future of Texas, not third-grade schoolyard antics.” Amen.
P.S. I’m not a vote for KBH. Perry is just an embarassment to everyone with a brain.
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Dewhurst's Watchwinder says:
CD:
I get your point on the difference in issues regarding election law, and you are correct. I just believe that the question of election integrity left any point of relevance about twenty-five years ago. Yes, it should have had a disclaimer from a traceless, “non-affiliated” non-entity with a Tarrytown P.O. Box.
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General Sam Houston says:
Let me see if I understand. You think the KBH campaign is guilty of a dirty trick because the tape was cut off after the “joke” and the audience laughter it provoked. But what followed was not what you previously suggested was required for Perry — some expression of sympathy for those who have lost their jobs and their savings in the deepening recession. Instead, he reverted to his usual talking points about how good small government was for Texas.
What’s more, I am told by an attendee that the “but seriously” was done in a half-jocular manner. So he didn’t do the mandatory 180 — the full story doesn’t help Perry in the slightest. All that is changed is that you, Paul, have moved the goalposts in Perry’s favor — perhaps in an effort to appear neutral and objective.
Here’s a suggestion. View the full tape. I suspect it will soon be available, if it’s not already available now. Then go back to your original post and see if the “but seriously” section does anything to change your original impression of Perry as displaying “an egotism, an arrogance, a self-importance, a callousness that are downright creepy.” I’ll wager your original impression will only be reinforced.
And look at the posts above. The Perry Blog Management Team simply cannot let this matter drop. They have been stung, and stung badly. Perry has been caught being the jerk that he is. Feel the outrage. A smarter campaign operation would have moved on, but the Perry folks are dwelling on this. They’ve put Rob Johnson on active spin patrol, and tried to get Michael Quinn Sullivan involved as a “neutral source who was there when it happened.” Talk about desperation!
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Credit where credit's due Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 10:04 pm
I find it funny “General Sam Houston” brings up the Perry blog management team in his insistent ramblings, especially since the only blog management team I’ve heard of in this election is the one that Kay had to fire from her staff after it was banned by Google. Way to make a solid point there General…
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Pat Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Actually, since you’re dissing General Sam Houston, that would be “Debit where debit’s due.”
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Anonymous Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:25 am
I find it even funnier that General Sam Houston, A
aka Joe Pounder, had Dave Beckwith running around the Press Corp denying the Hutchison campaign had anything to do with this tape. What did Beckwith tell you about the tape, Paul? Tells you a little something about the character of a campaign that lies and violates Texas campaign law so flagrantly.
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paulburka Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:07 am
To General Sam –
Do we have a difference of opinion here? I don’t regard Perry’s “but seriously” as an exculpatory statement. It isn’t an expression of empathy. There is no expression of empathy. But I think it is clear that Perry understands that there is a recession and that Texas is experiencing it. I’m not moving any goalposts. The Hutchison camp did themselves a disservice by editing the videotape. An unaltered version would have made the point just as well. This was not a standup comedy routine. You can’t “but seriously” your way out of a gaffe.
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Anonymous Forever Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:56 am
Did they “edit” the tape? Or do an excerpt? There is a big difference. Unaltered version? Did they “alter” it? Maybe if they had added a laugh track. But they didn’t do that, either. This conservative crowd “loved” it.
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el_longhorn says:
Bwaa haaa haa. BWAA HAAA HAAA!!!
Are you serious Paul? Hutchinson cheated, bad on her? BWAA HAAA HAAAAAA!
Come on, Paul? What were they supposed to do, give Perry the benefit of the doubt? Stupid joke to make, KBH pounced. Simple as that.
We all remember Perry implying that Tony Sanchez was complicit in the murder of US drug agents, right? KBH taking Perry’s comments slightly out of context is pretty much par for the course, a plain vanilla political attack.
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Cow Droppings says:
GSH,
one question: if your contention is “the full story doesn’t help Perry in the slightest” then why did the Hutchison Campaign release a video that edited out the full story if that is the case? Why did they take out the very next sentence, abruptly ending the tape if the next sentence simply served their case? I think you know why…
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paulburka Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:10 am
I think they did it because they want to make the point that Perry doesn’t think Texas is in a recession.
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Anonymous Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:22 am
Paul, here’s what I believe — Team Hutchison edited the tape because Perry made a tasteless joke. It’s not the first time — he does it all the time but no one pays any attention or calls him on it. It’s so “normal” that it’s only recognized for what it is – compassionless and out-of-touch with mainstream values – when it’s isolated and people have to really look at it. That includes much of the so-called mainstream media (and especially the right-wing media), which has been giving both Perry and his predecessor a pass for years.
Pretty ugly when you actually look at it, huh? As evidenced by your reaction in your first blog post.
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Anonymous Forever Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:00 am
There was no edit. It was an “excerpt” of Perry thinking he was being “cute and funny,” at the expense of people who are suffering. There is absolutely no excuse for any of that.
I would like to thank the Hutchison campaign for bringing this to our attention. Great job!
The Perry Campaign needs to grow up. The BIG crybabies.
cyrus Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:05 am
“I think they did it because they want to make the point that Perry doesn’t think Texas is in a recession.”
Tell me that was a joke, Paul.
Clearly the take away here is not about Perry’s supposed ignorance of the recession – that’s just a bonus. The point is that he thinks it’s a punchline; that HE DOESN’T REALLY GIVE A DAMN.
To a great extent, your first post title (”Let them eat chili”) was spot on; now you’re over-thinking it and getting a ridiculous case of the vapors over this silly meme about “doctoring” the tape (also known as editing). The extra context – what he said after the hearty laugh about the recession was shared by his business friends – does nothing to soften the callousness and insensitivity of Perry’s joke. Nothing. Thus, said “doctoring” is irrelevant. Tagging this as a “dirty trick” played on Perry is by turns laughable and a red herring. The egg is all on Perry’s face right now, and this tape – with oir without his subsequent rermarks – will ccontinue to pay dividends for Perry’s opponents for the forseeable future. This is no one’s fault but Perry’s, and none but the most ardent of right-wing Perry acolytes (if there’s any left) will buy the victimization (”I was framed!”) routine from his camp. End of story.
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Anonymous Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:18 am
You’re right on the first part, Cyrus. It’s clear even from the tape that was “cut” that Perry wasn’t really confused about whether we are in a recession. But I’m not at all sure that his crass joke will continue to pay dividents for his opponents.
What you refer to as his “business friends” are really just a bunch of pretty normal chamber of commerce members (albeit in a Republican-dominated part of the greater Houston area). I’ll guarantee that many if not all of those who laughed are feeling the pinch of the recession.
Therein lies the problem. Too many people (especially in Texas) still don’t get that insensitivity should not be the basis of a joke. If they did, Perry wouldn’t have gotten by with “adios mofo,” “let’s just get on down the road,” etc. And GWB wouldn’t have been our governor, much less our president.
paulburka Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:58 pm
To Cyrus (above)
I wouldn’t have brought up what the Perry campaign thought Hutchison was up to if I hadn’t talked to them. The material after the laughter was important from their point of view because it showed that Perry was aware of the recession’s affect on Texas. I don’t just make this stuff up.
anonymouse says:
jeeze, you people are more churlish and pedantic than burka. at least he owns the joint.
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Anonymous says:
The media knew they were being played all along, too. Only Paul had the intellectual honesty to admit it. But you can tell because the story is pretty much only on the blogs – no mainstream coverage. She didn’t even do her dirty trick well.
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Anonymous says:
Burka, didn’t Perry’s emissary and Dan Patrick say that Rick Perry expressed empathy for the hard times people are facing right after he made what everyone agrees was a stupid joke? Seems like Perry’s guys didn’t know what their guy said and were being dishonest to you. “But seriously” doesn’t equal sympathizing with people for the hard times they are going through. But seriously Burka, why are you letting the Perry people lie to you?
Plus, if I read correctly, Rick Perry was interviewed by a liberal think tank on Saturday and didn’t express any regret or say his comments were taken out of context. Rick Perry’s people didn’t record their own event and that’s embarrassing. Instead, the KBH people have dominated this entire discussion for good or for bad.
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817 says:
I agree with Paul’s last sentence. The memory of “What recession?” will be longer lasting than the memory of the editing. I score this as a point to KBH.
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Joplin, TX says:
KBH was banned by google? Can someone please explain what in the h3ll that means?
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Rollie the JBC operator says:
This is just another cheap stunt by the KBH campaign, just like how they hid search terms like “Rick Perry”, “gay”, and “homosexual” all over her website and then got busted for it. KBH also lamely tried to link Perry to ACORN for some signing ceremony in 2005. That’s weak. She’s going to lose by a large margin at this rate.
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Anonymous says:
Why did you not include this part? Seems important to place comments in context. “We’ve got our own challenges. When you’re the No. 1 exporting state in the country, which we have been for the last seven years, and you have that kind of international and national contraction of the economy, sure, you’re going to be impacted by it and we have our challenges. But we’re still substantially better than any other state. We’re 1.8 percent less than the national average on unemployment. It’s not lost on me that those Texans that have lost a job, that’s a family. But what we can do and what we do work on, Dan, every day, the real answer to that is not creating another big-government program to keep people unemployed. The answer is to create a climate where the jobs get created in this state and that man and woman can have a good job to take care of their family in the future”
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Anonymous Forever Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:03 am
When you slide into making “fun” of the whole idea of a “recession,” there is no “context” that makes that work.
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paulburka Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Re Anonymous @ 8:33 a.m. –
I had posted most of this already in a takeout from the story by the reporter for the Deer Park Broadcaster. I wasn’t going to repeat myself.
I don’t know that there is anything else to stay about this story. Everything is known. It’s time to move on.
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Anonymous says:
Tin ears to human suffering and dirty tricks on the campaign trail. Business as usual.
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Anonymous says:
Perry supporters…stop trying to defend his joke…your defense is really starting to sound riduculous. The Governor mad a joke, it was a bit tasteless…he then covered the joke up with “ah shucks that is a joke.” Really no big deal other than words are harmful. Kinky made some jokes on race that came up last election, they were made in fun but people took offense. My guess is that some people will take offense to this joke no matter what was said before or after. Can we move on?
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Anonymous Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:12 am
See what I’m talking about, Cyrus? This “Anonymous” is already ready to move on down the road…”really no big deal other than words are harmful.” Obviously, “words are harmful” phrase is just a little token “bone” for those who are offended…but what he really means is “no harm, no foul.”
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Prince Royal says:
Yawn.
Next subject.
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Anonymous Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Yes, please entertain me. I don’t want to talk about serious issues.
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Anonymous says:
I wrote that “words are harmful” as more than a bone to those offended. I really do believe (and so do most people that I know) that words are harmful and we should stand by them when we say them,,,and if we say them as a joke we apologize for one that is tasteless and then we move on…that won’t happen. So this video joke is on the shelf until about and around January 2010. That is why I say we should just move on…and I don’t have a dog in this hunt anyway.
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Brisoce Democrat says:
Burka, KBH is DESPERATE, I’m sorry I still see Perry winning the primary regardless of this crappy gaffe.
Plus the recent poll last week is a JOKE.
If the economy improves (which it will), the Democrats could win KBH’s Senate seat in a special election and may even give whoever the GOP nominee is in the governor’s race a run for their money in the general.
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paulburka Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:43 pm
To “Briscoe Democrat”
Attacking the Rasmussen poll as a joke deserves a “delay of game” penalty. Rasmussen is a reputable pollster. The Hutchison campaign did not challenge it when they were behind. I’m not going to take up space debating the accuracy of a poll from a reputable shop. That goes for Rasmussen and anyone else. If you are going to attack it, make a rationale argument.
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Anonymous says:
Thanks, 1:46. I appreciate your explanation. You’re right about Perry by the way…he’s already blaming the “political hack,” as if he weren’t one himself. I don’t have a dog in this hunt either, by the way…except that I would really like to see the people of Texas elect someone better than anything I’ve yet seen running for governor…and I think it’s going to take a whole lot of people doing some serious self-reflection about what’s really valuable (like other human beings, for example) before that’s going to happen.
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Anonymous says:
Cutting a video short and doctoring the video to take something out of context are two very different things. Rick Perry, being the arrogant ass that he is, made a bad joke. He has yet to appear the least bit remorseful for making light of unemployment and hard times – two very real situations that are affecting millions of Texans. The complete content of his speech do nothing to help his case. Advantage Perry? I don’t think so.
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anoname says:
kay coming across as the dirty tricks candidate with google banning her and misleading via video…
this plays right into rick’s strategy of painting her as a dirty washington politician. was anyone fired over this?
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Briscoe Democrat Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:51 pm
anoname, Kay’s problem is that while Perry never lost an election, she HAS (1982 bid for Congress and she’s never gotten over that).
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Anonymous says:
whatever…the guy taking the video should get a raise. as a private citizen I am glad to see what my Governor is saying when out and about in my state. And get off this whole “manipulated” video…manipulation would be putting words in where they werent – sounds like all real words to me. I for one am glad to see the comments, I at least know a little bit more about the Governor’s humor. As a seventh generation Texan, I think I have a right to know what my leaders are saying in public. I am offended that any of you would claim otherwise.
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Briscoe Democrat says:
Burka, KBH is a pathological LIAR when it comes to term limits, I mean she promised back in 1993 when he won Lloyd Bentsen’s Senate seat that she would serve 2 full terms, but she lied and ran for a 3rd in 2006.
Now she wants to enforce term limits, I’ve got words for the hyprocrite: NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN EVER in my lifetime because the good old boys will see to it that her “proposal” never gets anywhere.
What’s wrong with Perry being the state’s 4th governor since Shivers, Daniel and Connally to serve 3 terms ? it didn’t stop those three guys(Shivers, Daniel and Connally) then.
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Anonymous says:
because all of those guys served two year terms…
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Briscoe Democrat Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Anon, Briscoe could have won reelection in 1978, had it not been for the nasty primary against then-State AG John Hill (D).
Bush and Perry are the only 2 Texas governor to win full four-year gubernatorial terms.
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slick Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:29 pm
“Bush and Perry are the only 2 Texas governor to win full four-year gubernatorial terms.”
What about Richards, Clements and White?
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Dewhurst's Watchwinder Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Slick:
Thank you for demonstrating the failure of your particular educational pedigree.
Wikipedia is free. Please use it or ask an adult to help you.
Dewhurst's Watchwinder Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Wait! I see. Sorry, Slick. BD meant consecutive four-year terms. Clements had two of them, but not consecutively.
Briscoe Democrat says:
T. Boone Pickens is set to endorse Governor Perry’s reelection campaign to a 3rd full term, according to the Perry camp.
http://www.rickperry.org/
http://www.statesman.com/
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new news says:
I’m hearing (in Dallas) that KBH team is reshuffling again, hiring a guy named Keats Norfleet to “save the campaign”
source—an anonymous lobbyist
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Buck says:
Who cares whether Perry said something stupid this time?
He will again soon.
Just wait for the next Gov. Bimbo eruption.
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Jamie says:
Reshuffling? That’s the word I associate with the phrase: “Like deck chairs on the Titanic.”
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Brisoce Democrat says:
KBH is on a TITANIC and the water is quickly going to her neck very fast.
KBH’s personal life will likely be picked apart by the Perry camp, who is known for running negative attack ads in the past (see Sanchez’s Tesoro Savings and Loan scandal and drug money with Mexican drug cartels, etc., Bell’s inexperience and tax-raising policies, Sharp’s baggage, and Hightower being smeared by Rovian tactics.)
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paulburka Reply:
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:21 pm
The Perry camp has made no secret that they intend to go after KBH’s personal life. That is a risky strategy. She isn’t Tony Sanchez.
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Anonymous Forever says:
Our next Governor of Texas has the common sense, maturity and Texas values that are obviously lacking in the Republican Party’s candidates for governor:
[...]
Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Calls Perry’s Recession Remarks “Out Of Touch” And “Irresponsible”
This governor has the worst unemployment record of any governor in Texas since the 1970s. More people were unemployed during Governor Perry’s administration than any time since 1986 and 1987 when the oil and real estate markets collapsed.
His record keeps getting worse. Our jobless numbers for June, July and August of this year are the worst we’ve seen in decades. They are off the charts,” Gilbert said. “I’ve heard of wearing rose-colored glasses, but this is ridiculous. Rick Perry must have on a virtual reality helmet.”
[...]
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Anonymous says:
Inside baseball. won’t hurt until it comes out in the last month of the campaign right before early voting. BUT you cant just show that – she will have to tear down Texas to show we are or where in a recession. That is a little trickery.
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Inquiring Minds says:
Paul, do you know something we dont by saying the Perry camp will go after Kays personal life? What is there to attack? The same things Steve Bartlett attacked? What do you know Paul
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paulburka Reply:
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:04 am
What do I know? I know that the Perry camp believes that they can attack her private life. This could be done with a whispering campaign, as was done to Ann Richards. Otherwise, I don’t “know” anything.
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Brisoce Democrat Reply:
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Burka, what are the odds of another Democratic governor in TX anytime soon ?
A. 2014-if Perry wins next year.
B. 2026
C. 2030
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Anonymous Forever says:
But until they go after her personal life…Perry is certainly more restrained today.
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Brisoce Democrat Reply:
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Anon Forever, Perry says he’s AGAINST term limits.
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Anonymous Forever Reply:
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:57 pm
So? Why are you bringing this up? You’re a little late for hijacking this thread.
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Marcus Boudreaux Reply:
September 24th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Anon Forever, I wonder if Perry and Co., will sink very low in using racially charged code words to get reelected like comparing KBH to illegal aliens ?
George Wallace did this in his reelection campaign for the AL governorship against fellow Democratic Gov. Arthur Brewer in the nasty Democratic gubernatorial primary of 1970, where then-President Richard Nixon endorsed Brewer’s bid for a full term and had the IRS investigate Wallace’s personal life, finances, etc.,