In the Tea Party debate. He mocks Romney's book:
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Huntsman name drops Nirvana in GOP debate; bassist responds
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Huntsman at Monday's debate. (Getty Images)
Former Utah Gov. John Huntsman has been criticized for being too wonky and too mainstream to get the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
He probably didn’t help his reputation with a hardcore Republican crowd at a Monday night debate when he referenced Kurt Cobain, the late Nirvana frontman, when taking a jab at rival Mitt Romney.
Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry were trading jabs over Social Security.
As USA Today notes, “Huntsman mocked the plan Romney put forth in his book, No Apology. “I don’t know if that was written by Kurt Cobain or not,” said the former Utah governor, in what’s been interpreted as an allusion to the Nirvana song All Apologies.”
I hope no one has posted this yet.
It was tweeted by Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, who also makes a pun considering all the bass tossing that goes on in Seattle, the grunge city, and the fact Krist was hit by his own bass at the MTV Video Awards
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Krist Novoselic, Nivrana’s bassist, responded via Twitter.
Kurt Cobain Lives in the GOP presidential debate! Kurt supported Jerry Brown for president in 1992.
He continued:
I’ll campaign for @JonHuntsman and if elected, he’ll nominate me for Dept. Of Bass Tossers. I will go down in flames in Senate confirmation.
His “Bass Tossers” reference is about a famous incident at the 1992 MTV Music Videos Awards, when he threw his instrument into the air, and then was conked on the head when he failed to catch it. (See it for yourself).
Sorry for being redundant.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepoliti ... -responds/
if you want to read the entire article.
13 Sep 2011, 5:41 pm
