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cowards Kick Away Another Piece of America's Soul (Kinky Friedman on Imus)
NY Post ^ | Kinky Friedman

Posted on 04/15/2007 7:29:04 AM PDT by Jalapeno

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

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donimus
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To: Jalapeno
Thanks for posting, he is and remains a true friend to Imus....

the other side story or lesson of all of this is the shock of finding out who your true friends are....I wouldn't have believed Harold Ford would've turned his back on IMUS - he supported him so devotedly and Ford ran for cover. If anything it proves that you can't buy courage or leadership....and Ford is a great example of that in the end.

21 posted on 04/15/2007 8:48:28 AM PDT by SunnyUsa (No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.)
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To: Jalapeno
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.

Imus had no qualms about going after the Goliaths that were considered Politically Incorrect but he exposed his belly like a cowering bitch puppy to Al Sharpton when he offended the forces of Political Correctness.


22 posted on 04/15/2007 8:56:05 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: Jalapeno
The NY Post is on my list of favorite US newspapers.

Don Imus doesn’t like Hillary Clinton and has made that very clear in the past with various remarks. IMHO, I think it is telling that paid shills for the Democratic Party (Jackson, Sharpton) were instrumental in Imus’s demise. This in no way defends the content of Imus’s comments, but the punishment doesn’t fit the crime.

Also, Deirdre Imus’s book tour has been canceled for “Green This! Volume 1: Greening Your Cleaning”. Thanks Procter and Gamble (one of the first advertisers to cancel ads on the Imus show.)

23 posted on 04/15/2007 9:10:42 AM PDT by khnyny
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To: Jalapeno; leadpenny; Hydroshock; Brucifer; advertising guy


"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."

I can't disagree Kinky. Nice to see somebody actually stand by a friend during this nationally televised lynching. Thank you Kinkster!
24 posted on 04/15/2007 9:21:21 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Liberty Valance
Harold Ford where are you?


Don who?
25 posted on 04/15/2007 9:29:34 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Jalapeno

there’s something not kosher in America when one guy gets a Grammy and one gets fired for the same line.

Needs repeating.


26 posted on 04/15/2007 9:38:43 AM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: Liberty Valance

Kinky is goofier’n’ waltzin pissant but his jewels are brass.


27 posted on 04/15/2007 9:42:37 AM PDT by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: Jalapeno

Kinky is right on this one. An apology , maybe 2 weeks off the air ...thats about all that should have happened ...People forget there is an off button on the radio


28 posted on 04/15/2007 9:48:06 AM PDT by woofie
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To: Jalapeno

Kinky gets a little grandiose describing the wonders of Imus but his points are right on concerning the hypocrisy of free speech censored by the shallow, no guts MSM...
Free spirit cowboys like Kinky are skillful with long ropes whereas idiot liberals get tangled up in self applied knots.


29 posted on 04/15/2007 9:54:10 AM PDT by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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To: Jalapeno

Right on, Kinkster!


30 posted on 04/15/2007 9:59:45 AM PDT by sono (TITUS PVLLO in MMVIII - Endorsed by the 13th Legion.)
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To: Jalapeno

Imus...this is what liberal stalinists do to those scoundrels who upset their apple cart... Imus you may get another shot at radio in a different format...perhaps a different message....the chance to revile the hypocrisy of the media censoring liberal elitists....exposing the freedom-squashing gutless scum for who they are...


31 posted on 04/15/2007 10:07:44 AM PDT by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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To: Jalapeno

Well stated.


32 posted on 04/15/2007 10:09:00 AM PDT by Dante3
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Can't resist. In this matter Mr. Imus can truly state, I'm us.

Fight back and win, Mr. Imus, before "they" come for us -- and things get really ugly.

33 posted on 04/15/2007 10:15:04 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Jalapeno

Thanks Kinky.

Wathing McGlothlin Group this morning, Elanor Clift and Clarence Page were one side bashing Imus, and Tony Blankley and Pat Buchanan were on the other defending him.

I know I’m on the right side.


34 posted on 04/15/2007 10:34:25 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: leadpenny

Watching.


35 posted on 04/15/2007 10:35:07 AM PDT by leadpenny
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