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August 30, 2011

Broadway Rick

By Michael Shaw

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If ambitious, it’s a far-fetched photo the Perry people posted on Rick’s Flickr site recently, the cowboy-candidate posturing himself as fashionable to the urban East Coast as well as the financial establishment. (The shot, as you see, dates back to ‘09.)

Perry has some tough auditions ahead to sell the idea he’s ready for Broadway. Although he’s solicited here by the rabidly promotional market exchange, Perry’s free market script (underpinned by his chairmanship of Texas, Inc. with its system of pay-to-play), his stock might be tempered somewhat by his improvised threat of harm to the Fed Chairman, representing an all-too-random and unpredictable style of regulation.

(photo: Flickr.com/Governor Perry)

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  • bks

    The picture is not interesting, is technically flawed and features an ignoramus who is now the frontrunner for the GOP nomination for President of the United States.

        –bks

    • Anonymous

       Imagine that: the GOP favoring an ignoramus. Such a disappointment, considering the high quality of the national figures available to them: Boehner, Cantor, Palin, Bachman, Scott, the Pauls, Walker, Kasich, Christie, Romney…

  • marc sobel

    Visually, it looks like a bad photoshop cutout.  I suppose because the light and color on  Jimmy Dick is different than the background.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/George-Mokray/767686527 George Mokray

    Figureheard on the prow of the NASDAQ ship of state (Bernie Madoff, former chair).  He’s purty and almost out of central casting as “a manly man” (complete with gay rumors).  October 26, 2009 reminds me of October 24, 1929 but then I have a taste for history.

    Picture off kilter, buildings dominate, falling up.  Perry looks Photoshopped in or like a cardboard cutout, only people looking at him are blurred.  ”Do Not Enter” sign barely legible warning below the precarious green light boomed in off camera.

  • quincyscott

    I like the way Perry looks rather isolated and touristy.  This is the same photo any newbie from the hinterlands takes when they visit the Big Apple.  The actual business folks are either ignoring him on the left, or chuckling at him on their way to work on the right.  Unintentionally, I think Perry’s provincialism is on full display here.

    He’s going for impressive, but his smallness shines through.

  • tinwoman

    A black suit, and silk tie and lapel pin for a New York tourist visit?  Somehow pathetic, he looks very strange there.  Like he’s “in role”.  I doubt a truly experienced politician would make that mistake.  We all know that one old guy in the neighborhood who gets up in the morning and puts on a complete suit right down to the tie, no matter what he has to do, even if it’s only sit on his porch.  In this day and age, such formality amounts to eccentricity.  Is this still considered good form in rural Texas?

    In the background, it says, “Texas, Wide Open for Business”.  Who dreamed that slogan up?  On a New York street corner (any street corner) a politician standing in front of a giant sign sayng “Wide Open for Business”, causes associations to streetwalkers to come to mind unbidden.  He’s spread wide open, is he? 

    I don’t know about you, but I snickered.

    Perry is toast.  The trouble is, there is still no plausible replacement.

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