Talking to the Klan about Obama - "Isn't Jesus Mixed-Race?"
June 05, 2010
Many people will never forget where they were, the night Barack Obama was elected President. Comedian Abie Philbin Bowman certainly won’t… He was interviewing the Ku Klux Klan, live on radio.
Bowman was hosting the election coverage on a small, Irish radio station. “We had one researcher, no budget and we were competing with CNN, MSNBC and Fox”.
Following a moving interview with a Civil Rights veteran, Bowman began wondering about the people who had opposed desegregation.
“I realised that the Ku Klux Klan had been fighting racial integration for over 100 years. So the election of President Obama was the most comprehensive defeat in the Klan’s history. I wondered how they were taking it.”
The son of a historian, Bowman felt obliged to record the KKK’s reaction. “I hate Nazism. But I wish someone had interviewed Hitler, as the Allied tanks rolled into Be...
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A performer at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival claims that Al Qaeda reduces carbon emissions.
Irish comedian Abie Philbin Bowman is the writer and performer of three Fringe shows, including Eco-Friendly Jihad. He argues that Bin Laden’s terrorists fight global warming.
Performing at the UK’s Brighton Fringe in May, Bowman told audiences: “The major causes of climate change are airlines, oil companies and overpopulation. Al Qaeda is tackling all three.”
Earlier this year, Eco-Friendly Jihad received an unofficial endorsement from Osama Bin Laden. Al Jazeera reported that a new audiotape from the Al Qaeda leader blamed the US for climate change.*
