Macho? Tough guy? Really?!?!?!
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"It was not in a lot of pain," he said. "It pretty much went down at that particular juncture." The governor left the coyote where it fell. "He became mulch," Perry said. [emphasis added.]
The governor left the coyote where it fell.
"He became mulch," Perry said. [emphasis added.]
Bragging about killing is not the stuff that true men of courage are made of.
I believe Rick Perry also probably hums "Macho, Macho Man" to himself quite a bit. And that he believes that the Village People were all straight and ex-Marines. And that Sarah Palin and the Palinites are the Lost Tribes of Israel. Whom the rest of us wish would just get lost.
Seems to me that he (Perry) is simply trying to downplay the photo of him shooting "blanks." Too bad he had to tell a story about shooting a coyote that was supposedly lurching toward his daughter's puppy to give him a better image for some people. Maybe there needs to be a picture of the dead coyote with the governor standing over it triumphantly.
Oh, and just today in this morning's Dallas News... there's news of a "bull" running wild (Saturday Night) and ramming cars on I30 (between Fort Worth and Dallas) and then being shot dead by the Arlington police after it lunged toward an animal control officer who was trying to shoot it with a tranquilizer gun. There's a picture of the downed "bull" in the print edition. It doesn't look like a bull...and it's a sick story with vivid details of how "the bull" was bloody from ramming cars...to me, it seems strangely coincidental to this "Rick Perry Shoots a Coyote" story.
It will surely become fresh fodder just in time for the Monday morning North Texas radio talk shows (Mark Davis).
I still can't find a picture of the "downed bull" online. Seems he would be easy enough to identify...don't they all have brands to prevent cattle rustling?
He doesn't report a coup de grâce which a real man would have done. He says a single shot, and while that works in Wild West movies, it doesn't always work in real life. A failure to fire the second shot calls into question his humanity. ('course executing innocent prisoners could raise flags too)
And a coyote approaching his dog in the presence of the Governor and a security detail? Unless the coyote was rabid, that just doesn't sound right.
Anyway, this has been my lunchtime distraction of the day. Thanks for reading.
