{"id":4114,"date":"2005-09-27T22:03:06","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T02:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/09\/27\/kinkytoon-1-i-looove-texas\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:33","slug":"kinkytoon-1-i-looove-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/09\/27\/kinkytoon-1-i-looove-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"kinkytoon #1: “I Looove Texas”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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first online animated campaign <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>commercial in Kinky Friedman’s <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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2006 independent <\/FONT>race to be <\/FONT><\/A>governor<\/FONT><\/A> of Texas<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>.  It’s called <\/FONT>I Looove Texas<\/A><\/FONT><\/EM>,<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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As the weblog <\/FONT>post<\/FONT><\/A> launching the ad explains: <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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\"KinkyLoveTXg\" Narrated by Friedman, “I Looove Texas” features <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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endangered <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>cowboys, sexy cheerleaders, and stereotypical politicians <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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proclaiming their love for Jesus.   It shows Texas through the <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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unconventional eyes of Kinky and reminds Texans they have another <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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choice for governor next year-a true Texas independent.  <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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novels in Texas, and I have traveled the world, but Texas is my home,” <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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so that it spreads like a bad rumor.”   It left me smilin’, so pass it on.<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Political and humor junkies better head right over to catch the first online animated campaign commercial in Kinky Friedman’s 2006 independent race to be governor of Texas.  It’s called I Looove Texas,   As the weblog post launching the ad explains: Narrated by Friedman, “I Looove Texas” features endangered cowboys, sexy cheerleaders, and stereotypical politicians proclaiming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-14m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13008,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions\/13008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}