{"id":7891,"date":"2011-09-22T12:07:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T17:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7891"},"modified":"2011-09-22T12:18:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T17:18:10","slug":"hear-rick-perry-say-he-is-thinking-about-the-equivalent-of-secession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/22\/hear-rick-perry-say-he-is-thinking-about-the-equivalent-of-secession\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Rick Perry Say He Is Thinking About The Equivalent of Secession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have first extracted the audio from the article, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/09\/22\/325842\/rick-perry-no-truth-on-secession\/\" title=\"Article containing the audio clip\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Perry Rewrites His Own History Again, Claims He Never Considered Secession<\/a><\/strong>, because I think it is worthwhile to hear what he said before you see him denying that he said it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Perry is technically correct that he never uttered the word \u201csecession,\u201d but he did say that \u201cwhen we came into the nation in 1845, we were a republic, we were a stand-alone nation. And one of the deals was, we can leave anytime we want. <strong>So we\u2019re kind of thinking about that again<\/strong>.\u201d Just in case Perry doesn\u2019t remember saying that he is \u201cthinking about\u201d seceding, he can listen to himself saying it here:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jndQaJWZXfg\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"25\" width=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>For the record, Perry isn\u2019t just wrong about his own previously stated views on secession, he was also wrong the first time when he claimed Texas has the right to secede from the union.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>You can click on the link at the start of this post to see the video of his denial.  After seeing it, you can judge for yourself if what he said in his denial is an accurate description of what you hear in the audio.<\/p>\n<p>As a fan of Rev. Wright, I know how clips can be manipulated to make it appear you said something you never did say.  I will keep an open mind for the time when Rick Perry decides to explain the exact audio clip that I included above. Given that  he did say in the clip that he is thinking about the deal to leave the country anytime Texans wanted to, it is still possible that he further went on to describe how that option was no longer available after a Supreme Court decision that was handed down after the Civil War (or War of Northern Aggression as I have heard southerners call it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have first extracted the audio from the article, Rick Perry Rewrites His Own History Again, Claims He Never Considered Secession, because I think it is worthwhile to hear what he said before you see him denying that he said it. Perry is technically correct that he never uttered the word \u201csecession,\u201d but he did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7897,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions\/7897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}