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Friedman Takes Off Boot, Inserts Foot Again


by: Matt Glazer

Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 00:00 PM CDT


The conservative Kinkster is a lightening rod here at Burnt Orange, and I think it looks like there might be some rain today. Over the past week, Kinky has gone from cute to racist, with a pit stop at Katrina bashing.

It all started a week ago when the independently minded Republican attempted to lay out his “border” plan, and instead wound up attacking Katrina and Rita evacuees from Louisiana.

KVUE has the video, but the Kinkster attempted to be cute when he lumped all of the remaining Louisianans still in Texas into two categories, artist or crackhead.

“The musicians and artists have mostly moved back to New Orleans now. The crackheads and the thugs have decided to stay. They want to stay here. I think they got their hustle on, and we need to get ours,” Kinky said.

He likened Rick Perry to a man throwing a dinner party at someone elses house by inviting all of these evacues into Texas and then skipping out when the check came. Good to see that when Kinky refers to border protection, he is also refering to the dangers at the Louisiana/Texas border. I personally think it is high time we keep hard working muscians and Americans out of Texas.

How did the Chris Bell campaign respond?

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"A former cokehead should have more sympathy for crackheads," said Heather Guntert, a spokeswoman for Democrat Chris Bell.

To respond to the long documented drug use, Kinky gave his usual response, "I quit doing cocaine when Bob Marley fell out of my left nostril."

I laughed, I cried… and that should be the end of this story. No, no, no. The Kink Man inserted his foot once again yesterday.

According to the Express-News, the man who carried Bob Marley in his nostril for so many years also had this to say, "I don't eat tamales in the barrio, I don't eat fried chicken in the ghetto, I don't eat bagels with the Jews for breakfast. That to me is true racism."

Me too Mr Fiedman. Me too. I would hope that Friedman’s handlers are currently informing him that there are more than drug dealers and musicians in Louisiana. It might also be good to let him know that our urban ghettos in Texas have a lot more problems than their love for that delicious fried chicken and there is far more to love in the barrios than their succulent tamales. And while you are at it, please tell me where there is a decent bagel place anywhere in Texas.

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He has a point... (0.00 / 0)
"He likened Rick Perry to a man throwing a dinner party at someone elses house by inviting all of these evacues into Texas and then skipping out when the check came."

He has a point.  What will happen to everyone when the FEMA money is cut off? Our Republican governor only cared about the dinner.  Not who was going to pay for it. Just as long as Texas didn't pay for it. 

The Democratic governor of Louisiana is now running "public service announcements" trying to lure everyone back to Louisiana with the promise of "up to" $150,000 in "resettlement" money.  Problem is, even if they gave everyone $150,000, which they won't, there is no housing for them to buy with it and no contractors to rebuild their own homes with it.

Both governors seem to sum up why most people are fed up finally with both parties. They're both about politics, not about people.

As for Kinky Friedman's comments about the evacuees, the harsh reality is there is some truth to the comments when the mayor and police chief in Houston attribute the rise in crime rates to those evacuees.

Reality hurts along with truth sometimes. 


What people? (0.00 / 0)
The crackheads or the artists? What about the Jews or the African Americans?

I would love to see what Kinky would say to Gov Richardson in New Mexico or the leaders in Mexico.

Would he brush off their concerns on race relations and border policy by saying "Bob Marley is up in my nose again... we are going to have to finish this conversation when he falls out."

Kinky is about selling books and making jokes. He doesn't have a policy that helps people.

And where are all these jobs Perry touts the Texas Enterprise Fund is creating?

Maybe if we spent some time creating jobs and talking about solutions we would get somewhere. Instead we are left with a Comedian, a Crony, and a Carole.


[ Parent ]
So what (0.00 / 0)
So there's some truth to the rise in crime -- I'd imagine that if you added over 100,000 people of any population, anywhere, there will be more crime. That's just statistics. But to say that everyone that is still there is a Cokehead? That's reality?!?!

Now, a very great man once said that some people rob you with a fountain pen.

[ Parent ]
In Snook's defense... (0.00 / 0)
If you added 100k people from Utah the result would be a lot different than adding 100k people from New Orleans.  The underlying cause of crime is poverty, and that state has poverty in abundance.  It's time we work on that problem!!!

[ Parent ]
No logic (5.00 / 1)
So which 100k people in Utah were you handpicking in this endeavor? Would it be the folks who live in compounds with 7 wives reading the gospel, or the regular folks who live in every other city in Utah where they have crime rates just like everywhere else in the country?

Your assumption that people in Utah (which by the way has Katrina victims living there!) are any better than New Orleans residents is ridiculous.

www.stonewalldemocratsofdentoncounty.org




[ Parent ]
For a moment, let's be real... (0.00 / 0)
New Orleans had, before Katrina, amongst the highest crime rates in the country.  Many of the people evacuated to Houston were the poorest and thus had the highest proportions of criminals. 

Simply closing our eyes to reality and saying "it's not so" because it's politically incorrect to admit reality is NOT the answer for Democrats.  The time has come to address real problems and give them real answers. 


[ Parent ]
Dealing with problems of poverty and crime is useful; (0.00 / 0)
Simply dismissing a whole group of people as crackheads and criminals is not.  That's what Kinky's comment is - dismissive and cruel.

Add to that his comment that the Katrina evacuees are just "sucking the system," and I see a person with no awareness and no compassion.


[ Parent ]
ding, ding, ding... (0.00 / 0)
you and david hit the nail on the head!

[ Parent ]
The truth? (5.00 / 1)
Kinky wouldn't know the truth if it fell out of his left nostril, because he only knows the "most recent truth" that fits his comic book campaign on any given day. But it's not funny anymore, and the saddest truth is the one that hurts most: the absurdity of his apologists - the same folks who would never give another politician (and that's exactly what Kinky is in 2006)such a free pass.

But... (0.00 / 0)
I bet Kinky Friedman knows how to release the safety on a shotgun!

I wouldn't bet Kinky knows too much about hunting (0.00 / 0)
Texas Monthly

Unfair Game Whether they're bagging Bambies or killing quail, hunters have always been a mystery to me. Now it's time to put them in my sights.

by Kinky Friedman
...
Deer season may have ended, but that does not mean any of us are safe from an errant bullet fired by an errant bullethead. It only means that hunters have turned their cold sights from harmless Bambies and creatures that fly higher than their dreams to other prey. There is never a moment when a Texan cannot legally curl his finger 'round a happy trigger. ...

Today, however, I do not suffer hunters gladly.... As Oscar Wilde once so aptly described fox hunting: "The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable." ...As blameless as bullfighters and butterfly collectors, these men for all seasons continue to wage a one-sided war against creation. ...

Fortunately only about 4 percent of all Texans are licensed hunters. This means that 96 percent of us are relegated to the unhappy status of moving targets. Once the hunters shoot the donkey in the farmer's field, they'll shoot our asses next. A great writer named Anonymous once wrote: "The larger the prey, the more corrupt is the soul of the hunter." This may help explain why so many big-game hunters suffer from erectile dysfunction and run the risk of ending up like Ernest Hemingway, who eventually bagged the biggest game of all, himself. If you live in the Hill Country, however, you're probably just proud to have survived another hunting season without getting your head blown off. ...


[ Parent ]
A Former Cokehead--Bell's campaign should be embarassed (0.00 / 0)
Looks like Bell's campaign calling Kinky a former "Cokehead" is just as bad as what they say Kinky's comments are.  Is anyone talking about the issues--or are Bell and Perry just interested in tearing down any and all challengers? 

Everyone is talking about the issues (5.00 / 1)
At every speech and every event. You're just not listening, plus the press doesn't cover much of the issues. Whenever I write on the issues, nobody reads/comments/cares about them, too -- so let's not get too high and mighty about issues here.

Now, a very great man once said that some people rob you with a fountain pen.

[ Parent ]
Ethnic jokes are hilarious (5.00 / 1)
... only when Carlos Mencia (or Richard Pryor, or a handful of other comedians) tell them.

File Kinky next to Claytie.

He'll keep passing gas out the wrong hole all the way to November, but the simple truth is he just ruined any miniscule chance he had.

And praise Senfronia for speaking up.

Don't let the Blue Dogs getcha down. Primary them.


Dee dee dee (0.00 / 0)
Carlos Mencia isn't running for the biggest office in the state of Texas. So I don't think his racist jokes pertain to the current situation.

www.stonewalldemocratsofdentoncounty.org




[ Parent ]
biggest office in the state? (0.00 / 0)
What state do you live in?

Maybe you were talking about the actual square footage.  Surely you didn't mean the most powerful.

Rob Hinojosa TexasToday.org


[ Parent ]
Dee Dee Dee revisited (0.00 / 0)
Well we seem to be paying an awful lot of attention to a race that doesnt matter.

And the most "powerful" race is being ignored. So are you saying we should be arguing instead why we don't like David Dewhurst?


www.stonewalldemocratsofdentoncounty.org




[ Parent ]
Downplaying the importance of the governor is how they show confidence (0.00 / 0)
in their candidate.

[ Parent ]
hey (0.00 / 0)
was that a carlos mencia reference there?

Please read the Community Guidelines and How to Rate Comments.

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The only people more ignornant than kinky (0.00 / 0)
is those supporting kinky.

Ignorant people shouldnt be allowed to vote.

Or pump gas.


And smart people... (0.00 / 0)
"The only people more ignornant than kinky is those supporting kinky."

Smart people use spell/grammar check!

And smart-ass people love to point that out.

It's "ARE those supporting Kinky" and most are actually quite intelligent. 

Don't believe me? Ask Molly Ivins.


[ Parent ]
If this has become the grammar forum, (0.00 / 0)
you may want to use a comma to separate dependant clauses when criticizing someone's grammar.

[ Parent ]
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