Kinky's "worst interview ever". This is really bad.

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

Friedman talks in what he calls his 'worst interview'

I knew this guy was a fuckin joke, but watch the video. He's worse than I thought. Under the political microscope, he melts.

[0007]

1. Please cut through commercial

Never did get to Kinky

[acmejack]

2. It won't matter to the Kinky fans.

He's "funny", Bell's not nearly as amusing so they'll go with Kinky. Guess who the joke will be on? Yeah Rick Perry will be laughing as he bends us over again! Or is that still?

[PunkPop]

3. What a joke.

"But while kicking politicians out, Friedman said he would like to put back in the Ten Commandments and mandatory prayer for students in Texas public schools despite court rulings to the contrary."

This guy is a fool. Keep your prayers to yourself and your church asshole. And while you're at it put out that nasty ass cigar that's fouling the air for everybody in the immediate vicinity.

Just what we need - some obnoxious dick with no plan and no idea of the proper role of government - just a few good "ideas" and a sense of humor.

He's come out for the legalization of marijuana. I'll have to admit some of his "plain talk" can be appealing. I think it is what has attracted the gullible souls who are supporting him. A little more of that from Democrats might go a long way.

[Czolgosz]

4. That's a pretty bad Kinky interview, but THIS gets my vote for his worst:

Susannah McNeely: I seem to remember a year or so ago in a television interview, you said that at 60 you wanted nothing more or less than to be the Salsa King of Texas. And after your bid for Justice of the Peace in ’86, you said you were leaving “that worthless tar baby that is politics” to the young people. What happened that changed your mind and prompted you to run for governor of Texas?

Kinky Friedman: Nothing changed my mind, that’s still correct. This is not a political campaign. It’s a spiritual one—a spiritual calling.

...

KF: Well, you’ve got people falling all over themselves to apologize for saying “Merry Christmas” for instance. That’s a good example. It’s political correctness gone awry. Smoking regulations are strangling the live music scene in Austin, the live music capital of the world. Another example is prayer in schools: people are afraid of even nondenominational prayer in schools, and I say, what’s wrong with a kid believing in something? And now it’s the cowboy, the word’s being used derogatorily; and I think that’s wrong.

SM: How do you think “cowboy” has been used pejoratively?

KF: By Europeans, by some Americans . . . maybe it’s because of George W., maybe not. It’s been used that way to mean a loose cannon or a bully. But a cowboy has never been that. A cowboy has always stood up for the little people. He’s always been a knight out of time, beloved by all the children of the world. I want to preserve the cowboy as he really is. I want to take us back to a time when the cowboys all sang and the horses were smart. I’m gonna beat this wussification, if I’ve got to do it one wuss at a time.

...

SM: 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?

KF: Yes. I did in this last election, but I didn’t vote for him the first time.

SM: Who did you vote for in 2000?

KF: I voted for Gore then. {NOTE: THIS IS A LIE, SEE: http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4517585} 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.

SM: So it’s your friendship with him that’s changed your mind about having him as president more than his specific political positions?

KF: 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.

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Link: http://www.ruminator.com/content/040501.html

[Freddie Stubbs]

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http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?s=8945

[Czolgosz]

7. Corrected link below (it's too late to edit the post)

corrected link: http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4517585

The information is discussed in more detail on the Stop Kinky blog where apparrently they know how to make links that actually work: http://stopkinky.blogspot.com/

[Czolgosz]

8. Wow! Check out the newest post on the Stop Kinky blog.

Kinky's lie about his prior racist statements would kill Kinky's candidacy if he was a real candidate. Why does the media give him a free pass?

Here's the lie:

On Wednesday, September 13, 2006, the Dallas Morning News published an Associated Press interview with Kinky Friedman. Kinky tried to downplay the racist nature of his recent unfortunate comments saying that the black hurricane refugees in Houston from New Orleans were "thugs and crackheads":

Friedman last week said he would provide $100 million to Houston, or any other city facing similar crime problems, so Houston could hire 1,200 new police officers to deal with crime and weed out the "crackheads and thugs" among the thousands of Katrina evacuees from New Orleans who relocated to Houston.

Roundly criticized as a thinly veiled attack on blacks from Louisiana, Friedman said Wednesday his proposal "was not in any way racist."

"How can you possibly regret that, telling the truth?" he asked. "I am not a racist, I am a realist. ... I never said what color their skin was. .... I'm smarter than that."

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/091406txmarijuana.2801769.html

Yet on September 9, 2006, Guillermo X. Garcia with the San Antonio Express-News Staff reported on a question-and-answer session with Kinky and directly quoted him:

In answer to a question, Friedman said the comments do not indicate that he holds racist views. Rather, he said they demonstrate his ability to take on a subject the other candidates won't touch.

"Racism was here before I came around," he said. "I am just trying to bring up these issues within the (expletive) society."

Later, he said: "As it happens, the crackheads and thugs who remain in Houston after Katrina happen to be black; that's fact."

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/politics/stories/MYSA090606.01B.kinkster.2e4be7a.html


This lie is just the most recent, more at http://stopkinky.blogspot.com/

This kind of evidence of lying would be fatal to Perry or Bell, but Kinky will get a complete pass in the media.

[STxDem]

9. That's outrageous, but I find Kinky's lies about his past votes even

more disturbing because it seems like part of a deliberate plan to make Kinky seem more bi-partisan than he really is (because all his progressive votes turn out to be lies and his Bush/Cheney vote and his prior run for office as a Republican both turned out to be true and -- what's the deal I keep hearing about Kinky having served as some kind of spokesman for Ronald Reagan -- what's that about???).

[sonias]

11. Welcome to DU STxDem!

Sonia

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. Thank you

[Why Syzygy]

13. He's into Bush's foreign policy?

That is just sick-o. I honestly don't know what to make of Mr. Friedman. Strange spiritual journey.

[tanyev]

5. I was behind a car the other day (in Plano!) that had an Air America

bumper sticker, a couple other liberal stickers, and a Kinky bumper sticker. I wanted to smack them.

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

14. Disheartening, isn't it

In some of my blockwalking, I've gone to "Democratic" households and seen Kinky stickers on their cars.:banghead:
But he'll implode, just watch. His candidacy is built on a bunch of hot air.

[sonias]

12. Yahoo story this morning on legalizing pot

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/governor_kinky
Friedman says he'd legalize pot in Texas
Kinky Friedman says he favors legalizing marijuana to keep nonviolent users out of prison. If Texas elects him governor, he says, he'll try to get locked-up pot users released to make room for more violent criminals.

"I think that's long overdue," Friedman told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. "I think everybody knows what (U.S. Sen.) John McCain said is right: We've pretty well lost the war on drugs doing it the way we're doing it. Drugs are more available and cheaper than ever before. What we're doing is not working."

Well this will go over well won't it. I don't have a problem with decriminalizing pot, but this certainly won't go over well with the majority of Texans. It could get a few more voters out to the polls on that single issue.

Sonia

[MagickMuffin]

15. What a Pick Up Line!

Oh my GAWD, Now I have no choice but to vote for kinky! :sarcasm:

While I agree with his statement, there is no way in hell he could pull this off. Politicians have been using this ploy for decades to get the cannabis culture to vote them into office. I haven't been aware of any politician who won on that premise to do anything about it once they are officially in office. Just another way to garner votes.
Way to smart to fall for that tactic.

[NoPasaran]

16. Whether or not Kinky is in favor of legalizing pot

The governor doesn't have the power to do it. If he's serious about it he should explain where he'll get his majorities in the House and Senate to pass this legislation... or any legislation for that matter.

[sonias]

17. Yep that's the scam NoPasaran

How is stinky kinky going to change any legislation without working inside the Legislature? Oh and I can just see that group decriminalize pot, right? Hell we can't even pass a medical marijuana bill or a needle exchange bill in the House because of conservative republican control.

Sonia