Governor Huntsman is awesome at telling awkwardly delivered jokes at these GOP primary debates. He just told Governor Perry (Texas) that “Texas is not the gas capital of the country. Washington DC is”. Perry had no. freaking. clue. that that was a joke… I hope to get the video of this later. When you see Perry’s reaction shot you’ll know what I mean. dude did not catch the joke whatsoever. He thought it was a factual correction about natural gas. Reminded me of when Al Gore was on Oprah awhile ago and she asked him what his favorite cereal was and he thought he was being cute by saying “Oprah”… let that sink in for a second before I explain… Gore had thought she meant to ask his favorite “serial”, as in the old-timey name for a periodically broadcast program. oy.
But Huntsman has a less stiff background than Gore – played in a band, rides a motorcycle – that kinda nonsense – so idk why he doesn’t have a cooler presence than he does on TV.
This is the 3nd time a Huntsman joke to another debate participant fell flat* and the 2nd one to Perry. The first one was citing Mitt Romneys book “No Apologies” saying “I don’t know if that was by Curt Kobain or not”. -wtf? I later found out that Kobain had a song titled “all apologies”. The other was when he told Perry that Perry’s immigration stance “bordered on treason” with a smile. I was like wtf?? but read later on that it was an awkward reference to Perry calling something close to being treason earlier.
harr harr Huntsman.
Later in the debate Huntsman referenced businessman Hermain Cain’s 999 tax proposal (9% income tax, 9% sales tax & 9% business tax and NOTHING else) by saying at first he thought it was the price of a pizza. Get it!? Cain is the former CEO of Godfathers Pizza (a chain i’ve never heard of before this election) and $9.99 could be a pizza price! (in fact i read somewhere that it WAS a pizza price at Godfathers at some point while Cain was there). Oh Huntsman, you little scamp.
The only line that came close to Huntsmans chicanery was when Michelle Bachmann said of the 999 plan that the devil is in the details and to turn it upside down (which makes it 666, the mark of the beast). nice.
I like that they used the coffee table from The View for this one to make the tone more conversational and less “people standing at podiums”.
Beyond that, it’s kindov boring. Huntsmans bad lines were the highlight.