Sunday, April 15, 2007

Talkin Kinky !!

from here

COWARDS KICK AWAY ANOTHER PIECE OF AMERICA'S SOUL
By KINKY FRIEDMAN
April 15, 2007 -- Author, musician and former Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman has been friends with Don Imus since 1975, when they met on stage at The Bottom Line.

I MET Imus on the gangplank of Noah's Ark. He was then and remains today a truth-seeking missile with the best bull-meter in the business.

Far from being a bully, he was a spiritual chop-buster never afraid to go after the big guys with nothing but the slingshot of ragged integrity. I watched him over the years as he struggled with his demons and conquered them. This was not surprising to me.

Imus came from the Great Southwest, where the men are men and the emus are nervous. And he did it all with something that seems, indeed, to be a rather scarce commodity these days. A sense of humor.

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.

The Matt Lauers and Al Rokers of this world live by the cue-card and die by the cue-card; Imus is a rare bird, indeed - he works without a net. When you work without a net as long as Imus has, sometimes you make mistakes.

Wavy Gravy says he salutes mistakes. They're what makes us human, he claims. And humanity beyond doubt, is what appears to be missing from this equation. If we've lost the ability to laugh at ourselves, to laugh at each other, to laugh together, then the PC world has succeeded in diminishing us all.

Political correctness, a term first used by Joseph Stalin, has trivialized, sanitized and homogenized America, transforming us into a nation of chain establishments and chain people.

Take heart, Imus. You're merely joining a long and legendary laundry list of individuals who were summarily sacrificed in the name of society's sanctimonious soul: Socrates, Jesus, Galileo, Joan of Arc, Mozart and Mark Twain, who was decried as a racist until the day he died for using the N-word rather prolifically in "Huckleberry Finn."

Speaking of which, there will always be plenty of Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons around. There will be plenty of cowardly executives, plenty of fair-weather friends, and plenty of Jehovah's Bystanders, people who believe in God but just don't want to get involved. In this crowd, it could be argued that we need a Don Imus just to wake us up once in a while.

There probably isn't a single one of Imus' vocal critics who come anywhere close to matching his record of philanthropy or good acts on this earth.

Judge a man by the size of his enemies, my father used to say. A man who, year after year, has raised countless millions of dollars and has fought hand-to-hand to combat against childhood cancer, autism, and SIDS - well, you've got a rodeo clown who not only rescues the cowboy, but saves the children as well.

I believe New York will miss its crazy cowboy and America will miss the voice of a free-thinking independent-minded, rugged individualist. I believe MSNBC will lose many viewers and CBS radio many listeners.

Too bad for them. That's what happens when you get rid of the only guy you've got who knows how to ride, shoot straight and tell the truth.


comment: I aint an Imus Fan by no means and have only listened to bits and pieces of his show..

There are a lot of thangs I dont like in this world, but I damn sure dont thank that they should be banned or gotten rid of unless its a product of the Devil and even some of those I partake of myself..

Jackson, Sharpton, and the PC Crowd have opened a can of worms and released a Dark Cloud over us now.. As if we didnt have enuff stuff for us to be divided over already, now we have Free Speech and Censorship to add to Religion, Abortion, Global Warmin and Politics on a burner set on HIGH..

Time after time the liberals have created more grief for us and never seem to be able to come up with workable solutions to any of it and while they sit and bicker about the problems they create they just keep gettin bigger and bigger..

But these nappy-headed booger-eatin-mohrons dont realize that they are sawin off the very Constitutional limb they are sittin on the end of !! But, so are the people that support them and the rest of the Liberals..

It seems that its gettin to be a daily ritual for these sunzabitches to come up with somethin else that just re-inforces the belief that they are just to fuggin stupid to be able to vote !!

3 Comments:

Blogger Almtnman said...

When Al Sharpton instigated this latest charade, he seemed to have forgot about the Tawanna Brawley incident where he tried to convict some folks and it was later found out to all be a BIG HOAX. I never heard Shapton apology for that. I wonder why he wasn't fired or suffered some indignation from that crap? Then Jesse Jackson made a statement about Himies and never a word said about that. It looks like there's two sets of standards, one for them and something else for others.

Why I don't agree with what Imus said, I find it hard to believe that he apologized for those remarks and was then fired. Why does anyone need to apologize anymore if apologies are not accepted?

6:14 PM, April 15, 2007  
Blogger Wild Bill said...

Whether an apology is accepted or not is beside the point.. That you accepted that you did somethin wrong and are willin to take responsibility for it is the main drive behind an apology.. Its a matter of self-respect..

That the apology was refused is just a matter of small minds.. The Profiteers didnt want a quick resolution to the situation cause that would mean that they wouldnt get more free airtime to promote and campaign for funds to be sent to their organisations ..

Just like John Kerry-Heinz did in the elections.. He kept talkin bout a "plan" .. He didnt have a damn plan, but if he said he did then all the media would want to be the one that got him to announce what it was on their show.. So it was a race to see which one could "crack the egg".. We never got to hear of the plan, but, we did get to hear a good story bout a "magic hat" and he got all the free airtime he could fill..

The Media got played for SUCKERS then just as they were this time.. Looks like they would get tired of bein shit on like that, dont it ??

But these are also good examples of people that could give a hoot-in-hell less if their actions result in harm to our country and its people as long as there is a few bucks that get sent their way..

Other good examples of this opportunism and profiteerin is Sean Penn, Rosie "the Lez", Bill Maher, Al Franken, Harry "the bridge" Reid, Feinstein, Pelosi, and a list as long as your arm, but the media and the liberals are out to get the scalps of Rush, Hannity, and the conservative talkers who put out, at least, a near-respectable show..

Remember how the libs squeeled like a pig stuck under a gate when the FCC got hard-nosed about Janet Jackson showin her boob on the halftime show ?? Funny how they have gotten all Holier Than Thou now that a white guy is involved !!

But the Liberals have had this double-standard for a while now.. They can swindle and break laws at will, but the other folks are the ones that get labeled Culture of Corruption by them.. The Liberals get slaps on the wrist while the Republicans and others get the maximum punishment.. When there is a mass effort to stop the left from its liberal agenda then its called a Vast Right Wing Conspiricy, and when the left mounts opposisition then its called a Movement To Right A Wrong ..

Common sense, logic, and facts are just not used by the left today.. It gets in the way of the liberal agenda they are dead-set on implementin and any arguement against their agenda cuts into their donations of money, and they just wont have that..

If Global Warmin was proven, beyond a doubt, to be a hoax today, how much money do you thank those idiots would still send to Al Gore and the rest of the alarmists that will still thank there is a chance that it could be shown otherwise ??

Its just like the Duke Rape case.. There are still a bunch that insists that the woman was raped by the white guys !! Despite the DNA evidence that proves otherwise..

Society is gettin over-run with the idiots like that, and yes, they vote too !! But there is money in it..

9:02 PM, April 15, 2007  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm so damn fed up with liberals, leftists and PC jerkoffs that I am about ready to -- hell, I don't want to get in trouble! The Democrat/traitors are allowed free speech but those of us who truly love our country, who value our independence, and follow the laws that God set out (well, I don't think He did but I consider the Commandments a good road map!!) are the enemies of our country. Sharpton and Jackson are has beens and are hell bent on bringing the backs to a time that has passed. Educated, thinking, and successful blacks knows this.

I'm really getting involved with Gathering of Eagles. It's time America hears our voices, damn it. If it doesn't work, well at least I tried.

10:45 AM, April 16, 2007  

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