Rick Perry on the Death of ‘Kim Jong the Second’

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Rick “Brain Freeze” Perry does it again.

Another week, another Rick Perry gaffe, this time concerning the big news item of the day, the death of Kim Jong-Il. What could Perry get so wrong about the late North Korean dictator, about whom it’s hard to say anything controversial because nearly everyone in America agrees he’s a Very Bad Man? His name. “In an email statement regarding the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il, Rick Perry mistakenly referred to the despot as Kim Jong the Second,” reports Think Progress. (The�posting on Perry’s website�has since been updated with the correct spelling.)�We see what happened: some sans-serif news brief on his death tripped up a Perry PR person, as a upper-case I and a lower-case l next to one another can easily be mistaken for “II” — i.e., “the Second.”

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19 comments
1 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:38:29pm

I'm confused. Did he actually say "The Second" or did someone just make a typo?

2 EdDantes  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:39:30pm

I think Typo.

3 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:40:20pm

It's less dramatic than I feared, it looks as though he simply typed "II" rather than "Il".

4 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:40:28pm

If it's only a typo then meh.

5 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:41:24pm

According to Think Progress, however, both Lazio and Bush have said it wrong out loud.

But they're not running.

6 jamesfirecat  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:42:50pm

Honestly I was feeling a little the Second today and called my boss I wouldn't be in...

7 Henchman Ghazi-808  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:43:15pm

OMG I was about to fall on the floor tittering. But it's a typo...so I'll merely sit on the couch guffawing.

8 Charles Johnson  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:44:36pm

Also left out the hyphen though. Looks intentional to me.

9 EdDantes  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:44:56pm

I just got my 1500th upding. Don't hate on me 'cause I got potato moths.

10 Kragar  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:45:41pm

His statement on fracking is a lot dumber and a lot more intentional on Perry's part.

11 wrenchwench  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:46:00pm

re: #8 Charles

Also left out the hyphen though. Looks intentional to me.

That would indicate ignorance of Korean naming conventions. Kim was his surname.

12 Henchman Ghazi-808  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:46:49pm

re: #8 Charles

Also left out the hyphen though. Looks intentional to me.

At the very least sloppy and lazy, uneducated.

Seems to be the status quo.

13 EdDantes  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:47:20pm

re: #9 EdDantes

I just got my 1500th upding. Don't hate on me 'cause I got potato moths.

Ed, that was a non sequitur.

Crap.

14 lawhawk  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:49:28pm

re: #8 Charles

I've seen L'il Kim's name done in several permutations - Kim Jong Il, Kim Il Jong, and Kim Jong-il.

The latter appears to be the current official version used by media types.

15 Kragar  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:51:21pm

Kim Jong II: Electric Boogaloo

Too soon?

16 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:53:39pm

As my grandmother always said, "If you can't think of anything nice to say about a person, they might just have been an evil tyrant responsible for the suffering of millions."re: #15 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

17 Robert O.  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 12:56:40pm

re: #6 jamesfirecat

Honestly I was feeling a little the Second today and called my boss I wouldn't be in...

You do mean Third.

18 Mattand  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 3:12:03pm

re: #15 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Kim Jong II: Electric Boogaloo

Too soon?

Never.

19 Mattand  Mon, Dec 19, 2011 3:17:50pm

The logical/skeptical person in me is trying very hard to chalk this up to an honest mistake. I typed "IL" last night when I saw that spelling it online correctly (Il) made it look like a Roman numeral 2.

However, given that Perry has gone out of his to prove he's less of an intellectual than George W., it's well within the realm of possibility that the Guv is completely ignorant to world politics.

Granted, not as ignorant as "Ubeki-beki-beki-stan", but Perry wants to be President. You fucking need to know this stuff if you want to run my country.


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