Category: Kwame Kilpatrick
Posted by Joel Kurth (The Detroit News) on Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:15 PMFormer mayor name-checks bygone post-punk rockers
Kwame Kilpatrick's interview with The Final Call may be the talk of the town today, but it covered a line of reasoning he's perfected for years: (1) Don't call Christine Beatty a "whore," you sexist pig. (2) The media are out to get me.(3) People don't like me because I am a strong man who wears dapper suits and doesn't kowtow. (4) Still, it's all good.
But what intrigued the Insider is the former mayor, who quoted R&B lyrics in his racy text-messages also appeared to name-check the obscure and under-appreciated 1980s post-punk band Theatre of Hate.
Kilpatrick bemoaned that critics who couldn't attack his record criticized his perceived arrogance and created a "theater of hatred" that drove him from office.
Was that merely clever word play from the silver-tongued former mayor or is he a closet fan of the band whose guitarist went onto greater glory with dunderhead rockers The Cult?
The Insider is intrigued and wonders whether Kilpatrick is grooving in Texas to an early '80s soundtrack of could-shoulda-woulda classics, from GBH and Big Country to Radio Birdmanand the Celibate Rifles.
Probably not. But the Insider dares to dream. In keeping with the mood of the day, here's Theatre of Hate with "Propaganda."
