Tag Archives: Kinky Friedman

Rick Perry’s first celebrity endorsement

Singer, songwriter, mystery novelist, and sometime failed politician Kinky Friedman says he would vote for Charlie Sheen over Obamalot (“Obama has done for the economy what pantyhose did for foreplay.”)

But, all in all, the famed leader of the Texas Jew Boys band of the 1970s, and continuing iconoclastic Hill Country celebrity, prefers Perry:

“So would I support Rick Perry for president? Hell, yes! As the last nail that hasn’t been hammered down in this country, I agree with Rick that there are already too damn many laws, taxes, regulations, panels, committees, and bureaucrats. While Obama is busy putting the hyphen between ‘anal’ and ‘retentive’ Rick will be rolling up his sleeves and getting to work.”

Worth a read in full, here.

Hypocrisy on a skateboard

I never heard Imus on the radio or anywhere else, and I didn’t vote for Kinky Friedman in his largely joking run for governor of Texas, and this is the last post on the former subject, but the mustached one in the black hat with silver conchos sums it up so well:

"There’s no excusing Imus’ recent ridiculous remark, but there’s something not kosher in America when one guy gets a Grammy and one gets fired for the same line."

It was all about skin color, obviously, the last thing anyone would admit.