Photos from Kentucky Fried Politics

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- Early photo of musician Tommy Chong from his days as a guitarist for Bobby Taylor, who he would found the nightclub "The Blue Balls" with.

 

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- A Whataburger in located in Chicago, Illinois. The fast food franchise's 1,000th location, which first opened in 1989.

 

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- John Candy at the 2014 Academy Awards.

 

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- Actor and comedian Richard "Cheech" Marin (D/LRU) appearing in 1998 campaign ad for his bid for Governor, during which he criticized the drug policies of both Governor Richard P. Cheney and his Republican opponent John Dendahl.

 

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- Vice President William Scranton giving his speech accepting the Republican Nomination for President in 1972.

 

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- SNL cast member Phil Hartman portraying then Republican presidential candidate Lee Iacocca in a 1992 sketch about the Republican primary debates.

 

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- Former President Harland Sanders (R-KY) visiting post-Soviet Russia to promote goodwill and friendly relations between Russia and the US in 1987. It should be noted that Secret Service agents are out of frame in this picture with the Colonel's wheelchair on standby, should the elderly former President have difficulty standing.

 

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- Outgoing US Congressman Lee Moldaver (D-CA) [1], who was first elected to Congress in 2000, campaigning on behalf of Wendy Reed, who became the Democratic nominee for his congressional seat after he announced his retirement. Reed would win the seat in a landslide.

[1] Lee Moldaver was an activist who was something of a local legend in Santa Barbara. He sadly passed away in 2021 IOTL.

 

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- Fred Tuttle (R-VT) reacting to local news outlets calling the Vermont Senate race in his favor during the 2000 election.

 

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- Singer-songwriter Kinky Friedman (D-TX) giving his victory speech after winning the 2002 Texas gubernatorial race against Republican nominee Tom Loeffler.

 

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- Sir Roger Delgado (1918 - 2005) [1] giving an interview with the BBC in 1995 after receiving his knighthood.

[1] Similar to Trinidad Silva, Roger Delgado's death ended up being butterflied as the car crash that killed him came about due to random chance.

 

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Colonel Sanders only cameoed in 4 films IOTL, and I just found out that one of them, the Phynx, was finally uploaded to YouTube a few months ago.

He doesn't appear until the 1:12:08 mark and then leaves at the 1:13:14 mark. He shows up again at the 1:16:18 mark but doesn't have any lines and is pretty much just a part of a crowd of other celebrities for the next 4 minutes. He shows up one last time - hiding in a radish carriage with other cameos - from the 1:23:21 mark to the 1:23:26 mark. This movie isn't mentioned in the KFP TL because I figured they wouldn't be able to get the sitting President to appear in a movie about the federal government creating a fake boy band as part of a plan to liberate kidnapped celebrities from communist Albania.