Keepin An Eye On Kinky

Sometimes being considered a little nuts provides a lot of cover from criticism. But because I don't consider Kinky Friedman to be all that nuts I want to get his comments recorded here the best I can so at least the next time he spouts off there will be another example of a pattern that shouldn't be ignored. First if you don't know already Kinky is a country singer who once ran for Governor in the State of Texas. He's a flamboyant Texas size character who has a history of making edgy remarks and gets away with it because, well, it's just that ole Kinky at it again. Believe me, if his comments were not of the offensive variety I'd probably be a big fan. He has all those iconoclastic qualities I like to see in a man. After all he's a personal friend of Bob Dylan who I admire to such an extent that just meeting him would pretty much make my life but only if I got to ask him a bunch of questions.
Anyway back to Kinky. On Joe Scarboroughs show on MSNBC he recently talked to Kinky Friedman about Senator Obama. Well it's obvious that Kinky's no fan of Senator Obama which is all right by me. What I object to is the means by which he expressed his objections. Kinky's got a clever way of saying things and this thing went pretty fast and I'm doing this from memory but I'm seeing an unsavory little performance here. He said things like, I don't know enough about Obama, I don't know if he's a JFK or Jimmy Carter or the Anti-Christ? He made a comparative point about being let down by realizing that the OJ Simpson jurors were never going to vote to convict and went on to say he once believed in in Fidel Castro only to be let down. He also used his crips and bloods line in place of Democrats and Republicans but you had to know it in advance and I still don't quite understand his point..
So what do I take from all this? I'm not going to go into his past but there is enough there to think that a reasonable person would steer way clear of new cow pies. But not Kinky, he keeps living dangerously and fortunately moving himself closer to complete irrelevancy. Of course Joe Scarborough just laughed and let Kinky slide.