I'm beginning to think he was sharp enough to keep his personal reality on the down low. At first I thought, "Crap Huck, don't join the crazy train. I might not have agreed with all your policy takes, but you're a solid individual who's not dogmatic." Now? I'm thinking he just pulled back the blinds a bit and wasn't catering at all.
While dissimilar, I'm reminded how you can think you know someone, only to be jolted later. I've told Kelly this story but it still bothers me, mainly because I lost a previously good friend over it. Someone I "thought" I knew pretty well.
Short and sweet...I'd had a friend I'd known pre-high school days who I felt was an all round good guy. Everyone sorta went their own way after graduation, but he stayed in that wheelhouse of remaining in touch throughout the years. We'd shoot the shit, catch up every 5 to 6 months or so throughout the years. I've always been political, but he was sorta the "eh" guy, so I'd just keep my liberal lean to myself...plenty of other smack in the world to mull over.
THEN, I remember the day he called me after the 2008 elections. Everything was pretty much standard in our convo, "how's tricks? doin alright? see that show the other night? blah, blah."...AND THEN..."Sooooo Chuck, who'd you vote for?" "Obama" "I can't believe that fuck'in nigger won!" "Excuse me?"...it got a lot worse after that. Me saying very little and him loosing his inner Klan with a vengeance and me finally saying..."Guess we don't need to talk anymore man, adios." That was that.
In ALL THE YEARS I've known him, him being racist wasn't even on the radar. At first I thought, "maybe he always was, but I just missed the signs, the comments", but I swear in all that time...not a hint, not even a drop that would set off the alarms.
Sometimes you truly just don't know.
I've said before (and in this thread).. I always liked him.. He was a regular on Bill Maher's show and he was always a god-warrior, but never an extremist.. he was like any other 'normal'(for lack of a better word) Christian when it came to his beliefs..
or so he pretended..
I wanted to believe this was the same as McCain's "I was never a Maverick" pandering.. even tho I don't know if that's really a 'better' excuse.. but this story just kind of dis-spells any hope of simple pandering and makes him just that much more nefarious IMO..
and it's really too bad, because again, I really liked the guy and spoke highly of him..
