Kinky Caught in Another Lie About His Support for Bush

by: stopkinky

Mon Oct 09, 2006 at 09:26 AM CDT

First, there is no question that Kinky voted for Bush/Cheney in 2004 (some Kinkaholics on "Satan's internet" still dispute this fact):

"The voting record doesn't look strong, but my voting record is better than Dick Cheney's," he said, referring to reports in 2000 that Cheney skipped 14 of 16 votes in Dallas County - including the presidential primary in which he could have voted for his future running mate, George W. Bush.

According to Kerr County voting records, Friedman voted in the 2004 presidential general election but not in any other contest since 1994.

"I was for Bush in 2004," he said.

Question: So does this idea of the honorable cowboy have anything to do with why you threw your support behind President Bush in this last election? You did, didn’t you?
Friedman: Yes. I did in this last election, but I didn’t vote for him the first time.
Question: Who did you vote for in 2000?
Friedman: I voted for Gore then. I was conflicted. . .but I was not for Bush that time. Since then, though, we’ve become friends. And that’s what’s changed things.
Question: So it’s your friendship with him that’s changed your mind about having him as president more than his specific political positions?
Friedman: Well, actually, I agree with most of his political positions overseas, his foreign policy. On domestic issues, I’m more in line with the Democrats. I basically think he played a poor hand well after September 11. What he’s been doing in the Near East and in the Middle East, he’s handling that well, I think.

Interestingly, these two interviews with Kinky demonstrate an obvious lie about Kinky's voting record.  Clearly, it cannot be true that Kinky "voted for Gore" in 2000 if "Friedman voted in the 2004 presidential general election but not in any other contest since 1994."

Some Kinkaholics say that Kinky was merely mistaken, and his false statement about voting for Gore is simply an innocent mistake.  Yet even that weak justification for Kinky's lie does not hold up.

In the April 2001 edition of Texas Monthly, less than six months after Kinky supposedly "voted for Gore," Kinky wrote "now, I have hope once again in our political system, thanks to the election of George W. Bush as president."  Kinky's statement of hope in American politics due to the Bush's presidency comes in the brief window of time after the highly controversial Supreme Court interference in the Florida recount and before 9/11.  I cannot believe anyone who voted for Gore would have said "now, I have hope once again in our political system, thanks to the election of George W. Bush as president" just a few short months after the Supreme Court prematurely ended the Florida recount.