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Good evening. hey, bret. video of rick perry s speech in new hampshire on friday has as they say gone viral on the internet and become the subject of much ridicule in some quarters of the national media. one eight-minute excerpt had more than 600,000 hits on youtube as of this evening. the comedian jon stewart played part of it last night with much mugging and gaping suggesting that perry flipped his lid. one msnbc host said the speech could mean the end of perry s campaign. but the episode may tell us less about perry than the gulf between the media outlets and people in places like new hampshire and texas. to be sure, the rick perry of friday speech is a far cry from the uncomfortable and wooden figure of his early debate. as the veteran political reporter dan bolt of the washington post put it perry on friday was, loose and extremely animated even playful. also, apparently saw nothing in perry s performance to suggest some have that the governor was suffering from an overdose ....