Burnt Orange Report

He's had plenty of rope to hang himself, and, apparently he did.

As a general rule of thumb, however, if you thought of New York as a Negro talking to himself and of California as a VCR with nothing to put in, you wouldn't be too far off the mark.
(1993), A case of Lone Star. New York (Wings Books), 379

Friedman is a joke candidate, so perhaps he is merely playing that role...y'know, joking.

He should have used Jesse Jackson's slur against New York: "hymietown". It's much more politically correct today to be a bigot against Jews than against blacks...I mean, Negroes.

i saw the show, and he did indeed say both of those quotes.

Is anyone really surprised by anything this man says or does? This is the best choice that the TDP has, for some of the guys on top. This is the candidate of choice..go Perry!

My what a bunch of humorless ***ks you guys have become . . .

Funny how no one objected to the comment in 1993 when it was published. But of course he wasn't running for governor then.

"This is the best choice that the TDP has, for some of the guys on top."

Last time I heard, he had told TDP "no thank you."

Of course at this point, TDP will deny Charles Soechting's comments inviting Kinky Friedman to run as a Democrat and try to use this comment to bolster support for Chris Bell. Despite the African-American community's distrust of Chris Bell over the ethics complaint he filed against Al Green. Now Congressman Al Green. Of course as I recall, that was Jay Aiyer who actually filed it. But Jay Aiyer was his campaign treasurer.

The reality is this was published before they asked him. Kind of late to distance yourself from someone. Particularly after they have distanced themselves from you. I guess they don't really look into a candidate's past that much. Just at whether they can possibly win. With the leadership it has at this point, good luck.

Don't try to, um, snooker people by throwing up a lame excuse and a smokescreen of half-truth attacks on others.

It's just so Rovian.

It doesn't matter whether he wrote it in 1993 or 1893. Kinky made a racist comment in 2005 on television -- outside the context of his "character" in one of his books.

That he dug up that old line shows he's running low on bullshit -- and time.

Much more importantly, he ought to be ashamed himself and apologize.

And, Snookems, until you say whether he should apologize, then you've got nothing worth reading (as if you ever did).

And name one Democrat who went after Senate Democratic Grand Kleagle Robert Byrd when he dropped the "n-bomb" on Fox. Hypocrisy.

I'll leave it up to the African-American community to decide whether he should apologize.

If he ever uses the word n*gg*r, however, you will see all hell break loose.

All this fuss over the Kinkster cracking wise! Meanwhile,
former KKK Kleagle (recruiter), and current
DEMOCRAT Senator Robert Byrd is still a sitting Senator. The hypocrisy boggles the mind!

Hollis,

You are right, the hypocrisy does boggle the mind; however, the source of the hypocrisy is where you have it wrong. You trot out the pathetic canard of Senator Byrd's ancient participation with the KKK? Really tired, that one.

First of all, byrd is a DEMOCRATIC Senator, despite your cutesy and stupid misuse of the proud title DEMOCRAT.

Secondly, he has renounced his participation and created a decent record of civil rights support. You cannot say the same for so many of the neanderthal right wingers in the Senate (that I'm sure you are fond of). Many of whom would not bring themselves to cosponsor a Senate resolution denouncing lynching. What a shame upon the GOP. If shame was possible for you guys.

Democrats simply have more latitude on race issues.

And they should. Because it is not the Democratic party which still relies upon racist resentment and the use of racial code words. What did we just see in the Old Dominion when hapless dolt Jerry Kilgore was falling behind Tim Kaine in the last days? The GOP ran hard with loathesome immigrant/Mexican bashing in a bid to salvage the smoking wreakage of that campaign.

When the GOP no longer resorts to xenophobia and racism as the mothers milk of your unholy coalition, then you may lecture Democrats about having an elderly Senator who participated in the KKK in his early years. Dolt.

Chip Staniswalis has renounced racism.
Where does Chris Bell stand?