ColdTowne Theater
'Cokehead' Lowers Level of Political Discourse
RECEIVED Mon., Sept. 18, 2006
Michael King,
Thanks for elevating the level of political discourse with your gratuitous "cokehead" slam against Kinky Friedman ["Point Austin," News, Sept. 15]. No matter what you think about him, that's wading a little deep in the muck, isn't it? I wonder if you read the excellent Michael Ventura essay about good journalism in the very same issue ["Letters @ 3am," Sept. 15]. You should.
Can't wait to see what you write about Ann Richards. Or maybe not.
What a slime job.
Thanks for elevating the level of political discourse with your gratuitous "cokehead" slam against Kinky Friedman ["Point Austin," News, Sept. 15]. No matter what you think about him, that's wading a little deep in the muck, isn't it? I wonder if you read the excellent Michael Ventura essay about good journalism in the very same issue ["Letters @ 3am," Sept. 15]. You should.
Can't wait to see what you write about Ann Richards. Or maybe not.
What a slime job.
David Kendall
[Michael King responds: Wading, actually, no – just an offhand and unmoralistic reference to Friedman's own acknowledgment (as recently as last week) of his long-ago cocaine use. As he told the Houston Chronicle, "I'm not saying this moralistically. I know how I was. I know the effect cocaine and many of these drugs have on your willpower and your dreams. They distance you from your better angels." In context, my simple point being, much better a "cokehead" than a "Minuteman." QED.]
