Animation: Rick Perry gets a bottle of syrup

Published October 31, 2011 4:00am ET



If it hadn’t been for the Cain story, this Rick Perry video would have been the top news of the day.

The speech has been described by news outlets as spirited, uncorked, passionate, giddy, strange, drunk, revved-up, bizarre, and wild.

Bloggers are gleefully cutting highlight reels of the speech and reworking the footage.

Take a look at this animation of Perry accepting a bottle of maple syrup after the speech.

Watch the highlight reel below.