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Dying, Edmund Kean said on his deathbed, is easy.

Comedy is hard.

That said, whatever else Rick Perry may, or may not be, he is capable of coping when times are hard.

The "oops heard round the world" is available pretty much everywhere.

Perry's damage control included a self petard hoisting with David Letterman serving as his second.




For additional comedy offerings, be sure and bounce back and forth between MSNBC and Fox.

And enjoy the laughs that come with listening to two polar opposites in perspective regarding the single issue of Perry's debate debacle.

MSNBC has all but written off the candidacy.

Fox News has the "lighten up, everybody makes mistakes" mantra held in their teeth like a pit bull with a mouth full of mailman.

Meanwhile, back at the presidential race.

Yes, everybody makes mistakes.

But, as any football coach walking off the Super Bowl field dry and un-Gatoraded will tell you, there are certain mistakes you simply cannot make.

And certain times you simply cannot make them.

Stumbling over simple facts and trying to oops out out of it is a mistake you don't make when you are asking to be entrusted with the free world's most powerful gig.

Credit where it's due, Perry, unlike, say, Newt, seems to have the ability to laugh at himself.

And, credit where it's due, he didn't try to tough, bluff or bullshit his way out of the faux pas pile.

Points made. Points taken.

Points scored.

So, let's give Rick Perry his due.

Let's give Rick Perry a break.

Hell, let's give Rick Perry his own weekly show on Fox News.

Let's just not give him the keys to 1600 Pennsylvania.