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Sep. 22nd, 2006 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Something tells me Kinky Friedman's career in politics is pretty much over.
Earlier this month, Friedman referred to Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston, most of whom are black, as "crackheads and thugs." He later criticized ethnic politicking by saying, "I don't eat tamales in the barrio, I don't eat fried chicken in the ghetto and I don't eat bagels with the Jews."
Then a television interview from a year ago resurfaced in which Friedman was asked what to do about sexual predators. He said: "Throw them in prison and throw away the key and make them listen to a Negro talking to himself."
from NAACP seeks apology from Kinky Friedman
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Date: 2006-09-22 09:15 pm (UTC)Don Imus who is his friend and whom I
do not like. I dont like Howard Stern
much either but in the Imus/Stern
brawls always favored Stern...who also
ran for governor of new york or something
didnt he? I have idea they are all sort
of Libertarian in politics(Friedman,Imus
and Stern...is this correct? dont follow
it closely)
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In 1994, having never been a party activist, Stern declared for the Libertarian nomination for Governor of New York, campaigned for a few weeks, then abruptly dropped out of the race stating that he felt the income disclosure required of candidates to be too onerous and wanted to keep that information private.
He has had no further involvement with the Libertarian Party that I'm aware.
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Date: 2006-09-22 10:30 pm (UTC)and Friedman certainly are not, but
libertarian in the general sense as their
governing political idea.
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Date: 2006-09-22 11:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-22 11:22 pm (UTC)the ross perot sort of populism etc.
of those, thinking of stern and
Imus, I liked stuttering john and
his ambush interviews which were kind
of amusing...
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Date: 2006-09-23 01:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-23 02:12 am (UTC)with the club of medieval pagents
and the visconti sforza taroccos...
or I suppose homey with his weighted
sock.
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Date: 2006-09-22 09:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-22 09:37 pm (UTC)Maybe he should run for office in Louisiana.
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Date: 2006-09-22 11:14 pm (UTC)The sad thing is, i can almost appreciate what it is that he's saying about not wanting to be a superficial political suckup, but, ya gotta have more tact than that.
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Date: 2006-09-22 11:28 pm (UTC)Kinky's going for the "I'm just like one of y'all" campaign; not that I lump myself in with that (lol), but it's a real smart platform.
Why are all of the crazies from Texas???
(Uh, at risk of you know, lumping large groups of people into generalized categories or something)
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Date: 2006-09-23 01:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-27 08:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-22 09:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Asking him to apologize for a stupid remark made twenty-six years ago is just a bit much.
Regardless, the result of the collective weight of all this may be to cause some of the liberals and libertarians who have been laboring under the delusion that he would be representative of their interests to realize his true attitudes, causing them to shift back to the Democratic and Libertarian candidates.
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Date: 2006-09-22 11:16 pm (UTC)I'm inclined to agree, if there's been 26 years of growth and introspection and evidence of maturing and all that.
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Date: 2006-09-24 02:56 am (UTC)The guy who won the Democratic senate nomination in Minneapolis had ties to Farrakan when he was in college, but the Flack Catchers (as in "Mau-Mauing The" ) didn't make a big deal about that.
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Date: 2006-09-22 10:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-22 11:12 pm (UTC)One of the things that helped Dubya win over Ann Richards was the fact that he spoke Spanish. He butchered the language just as much as he butchers English, but it helped even still.
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Date: 2006-09-24 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-23 01:47 am (UTC)Not as stupid as he seems in this case...
Date: 2006-09-23 08:18 am (UTC)Now as for Kinky himself, I personally feel he is just a Republican puppet, but that is another matter altogether.
Re: Not as stupid as he seems in this case...
Date: 2006-09-24 03:00 am (UTC)Please, don't get me started.
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Date: 2006-09-23 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-24 01:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-24 01:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-24 09:47 am (UTC)Given that he's running on a "straight shooter" image, I think this can only help him. It's un-PC, and it contains just enough of a grain of truth that it'll get people talking about it. If he made comments like this *all the time* it would hurt him, but one or two just helps sell that image to people who might be buying.