Rick Perry Buys $1M in Ads on Fox News

Huge buy is part of aggressive post-flub strategy
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 11, 2011 4:07 PM CST

He's not just trying to joke his way out of political trouble: Rick Perry's campaign has shelled out a whopping $1 million for ads on Fox News, reports the New York Times. That means regular viewers can expect to see him seven times a day for the coming weeks, writes Jim Rutenberg. The Hill notes that one of the new ads plays down the importance of debates—or at least oratory—with the tag line, "I'm a doer, not a talker." (More Rick Perry stories.)

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