tmh8286 Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Kinky Freidman, Texas eccentric, is running for governor. On his website he's got a series of commercials that show an action figure of himself in a news conference answering questions from the press. The commercials are pretty hilarious, and all are worth a look, but particularly the first and last. What prompted me to post about it was his response to a question about what should be done about border issues in the first one - you need to check it out: Kinky for Governor BTW, THIS IS IN NO WAY AN INDORSEMENT OF THIS CHARACTER - IT IS INTENDED ONLY TO PROVIDE A LITTLE HUMOR DURING AN OTHERWISE VERY DRY PERIOD ON THE BOARD! I do think I might try to get one of those action figures, though . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmh8286 Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 Amazingly, Kinky is polling as high as the Dems down there in Texas: RCP Texas Goveronr Race That's almost enough to make me like Texas. Almost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmh8286 Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 Even World Magazine is giving Kinky a little pub. Here's a quote from a recent World article: "Satirists practice the trickiest of balancing acts, striving as they do to inflict the pain without which there's no gain, while not evoking mere disgust. Kinky Friedman, whose satirical songs earned him ostracism from the mainstream country and singer-songwriter communities in the 1970s, is no exception, as the tribute album Why the Hell Not . . . The Songs of Kinky Friedman (Sustain) demonstrates. Partially recycled from 1999's Pearls in the Snow and released to coincide with his current Texas gubernatorial campaign, the album features the likes of Willie Nelson, Delbert McClinton, and Charlie Robison covering Friedman classics (the anti-bigotry "They Ain't Makin' Jews like Jesus Anymore," the anti-feminist "Get Your Biscuits in the Oven"). Admittedly, some of the hamburgers that Friedman makes of society's sacred cows taste better than others, and none suggest how he'd do as a policy maker. They do imply, however, that he'd waste no time issuing apologies to the oversensitive, which would at least make him refreshing. ? Kinky Friedman" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadAdder Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 The college kids sure love him though! On Facebook he leads Perry ® 69.29% to 16.04% (the same page shows Kay Bailey Hutchison leading her Democractic opponent by similar numbers). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmh8286 Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 He's no doubt a character. If you watch his commercials it's hard to tell if he's serious or completely spoofing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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