The first order of business for Mr. Romney should be to let Latinos know that the GOP wants all people to succeed to the very best of their abilities, unencumbered by the heavy and draconian foot of Fedzillacrats who believe they know what is best for people …
Mr. Romney should continue to press for education reform, and remind Latino voters that education is vital to success. He should illustrate the importance that Americans of Asia-Pacific descent place on education and how fast their children move into the middle class. It doesn’t have to be an Asian thing …
Mr. Romney should continue to remind Latinos that the GOP is not anti-immigration or racist …
Unintentionally hilarious, the Republican Party has stopped beating the wife, sez Ted. Straighten up and fly right like the “Asia-Pacifics”.
The president is a radically racial polarizing person. As I recall, he was supposed to be the great uniter when instead he has been the worst racial divider ever in the White House.
I don’t believe in government redistribution of citizen’s earnings. Like Mao, the president does, as he told Joe the Plumber. I believe in wealth creation through individual hard work and sacrifice, and that government should simply stay out of the way of job-creating, entrepreneurial free-market addicts. The president believes just the opposite. His class warfare tactics are anti-free market, anti-success and anti-American … Welfare advocates Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven taught you well, Mr. President.
Ted Nugent watches Glenn Beck. Like the rest of the Tea Party, it’s only reason he knows the name of an old lady, Frances Fox Piven, who Beck regularly demonized on Fox News for an article she wrote with her husband, now dead, when Nugent was about 18 and playing “Journey to the Center of the Mind” in the Amboy Dukes.
Beck regularly cast her as a person with a plan to collapse the economy of the United States and the perversity of that is well-described here at an article in the New York Times.
From the Times:
Her name has become a kind of shorthand for “enemy??? on Mr. Beck’s Fox News Channel program, which is watched by more than 2 million people, and on one of his Web sites, The Blaze. This week, Mr. Beck suggested on television that she was an enemy of the Constitution.
Never mind that Ms. Piven’s radical plan to help poor people was published 45 years ago, when Mr. Beck was a toddler …
Two years ago, from a Nugent column, on how he’s been menaced by the alleged plots of an old lady:
[I] previously have been the target of [the Democratic Party’s] vicious personal lying attacks and smear campaigns straight out of the playbook of Richard Andrew Cloward, Frances Fox Piven and Saul Alinsky.
So, once again, for those who think I’m too mean and unfair …
Let’s put it this way: Ron Paul is the Libyan air force of presidential candidates. He’s the Washington Generals of the ballot box. He’s the John Carter of the electoral process.
Dud. Bupkes. Zippo. Nada.
Yet the tea party can’t quite seem to take the rejection of the Paul campaign by the body politic. Republican voters would have rather shoved shards of glass up their noses than see Mr. Dithers on the ballot against President Barack Obama this fall.
Thus the tea party has started whining that the Republican National Committee is interfering with their plans for a three-day celebration of all things Ron Paul …
One can only imagine the excitement of a Ron Paul-Unchained event at the fairgrounds.
Day One: Don’t miss a robust taunting of the uninsured terminally ill, followed by the Ben Bernanke dunk tank. Entertainment: Florida Panther scavenger hunt.
Day Two: Revelers gather in the specially built survivalist bunker to exchange conspiracy theories. Be sure to sign up for the Heckling of the Homeless People bus trip. And don’t be left behind for special speaker, End Times beefcake Tim LaHaye. The evening ends with the Black Helicopter Cotillion. Entertainment: Bobbing for bald eagles.
And I had a song for it.
The question remains: How are the Romney people going to keep the rest of the hate crazies in line? It’s not like Paul supporters are the only nuts loudmouthed uncles coming to the party.
Case in point, people like this …
Nugent borrows from North American Indian imagery to communicate with his audience. Just as the Ghost Dance ritual was believed to have the power to lead the Plains Indians out of their dire circumstances in the late 19th century, so too, Nugent declares, will the Great White Buffalo lead us out of our dire economic-political straights …
Nugent performed this song as his encore in a full Indian feather head-dress.
“You and me are the great white buffalo, we are the spirit of the buffalo??? he told the crowd. “I feel the spirit of the buffalo inside of me and we are going to take back the White House this fall.???
Throughout the concert Nugent projected a mythic image of his imagined America. On two separate occasions he told the crowd: “You can’t do this in France, baby. You can only play this kind of music if you’ve got freedom, baby.???
The final act on stage was Nugent and all the members of his band donning WWII G.I. helmets and re-enacting the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima …
This self-proclaimed defender of conservative family values went on to dedicate his “Wang Dang Sweet Poontang??? as a “love song for all the girls??? in which he says: Wang dang, what a sweet poontang/A shakin’ my thang as a rang-a-dang-dang in the bell/Down on the street you know she can’t be beat/She’s so sweet when she yanks on my meat/What the hell …
Concertgoers who tried to reconcile the vacillating value system of Nugent left with a serious case of whip-lash …
From here. Best concert review I’ve read in a good long time.
Estimated median household (2 – 3 people) income in Sangamon County, IL: $53,000.
Price of Ted Nugent to speak at GOP Party dinner in Sangamon Country recently: $25,000, 10 thousand of which was for a special air flight from Waco to deliver the speaker.
Meanwhile, another significant bit of information has surfaced about the Springfield appearance of rocker and conservative activist TED NUGENT at the Sangamon County GOP’s Lincoln Day dinner Feb 10.
A large-donation report filed by the party with the State Board of Elections on May 24 listed a $10,000 in-kind contribution from Brandt Consolidated, a Springfield-based farm supply business.
The description of the donation is “Airflight,??? and it turns out that the passenger on that flight was Nugent.
Nugent’s appearance — which became controversial because of comments Nugent made about President BARACK OBAMA, such as calling the President an “America-hating punk??? — took place before
e Long became the party chair. She said Kent Gray made the connection with Brandt Consolidated.
Large donations are supposed to be reported in a matter of days after they are made, not three months later.
“We had a horrible time trying to reach someone to get the cost,??? Long said when asked about the delay.
RICK BRANDT, a Tampa, Fla., resident and president and CEO of the company, said he personally owns the jet, and there could have been a delay in billing from the company that manages the aircraft for him. He said he provided a one-way trip for Nugent from Texas.
“Being a child of the ’80s, I didn’t want to miss that,??? he said of the flight with Nugent. “It was neat to meet him.???
The party also paid a $15,000 appearance fee for Nugent.
Cheapest one-way flight from Waco to Springfield: $300, coach, from ExPedia.
“We have a guy in the White House who is an absolute, America-hating punk,??? Nugent said. “And it isn’t really the punk’s fault. It’s we the people for bending over and letting the punk in the door.???
“How about a welfare program … (where) for every kid who gets a sandwich from the welfare program, there’s about 10,000 pigs buying bling-bling, dope and meth with my welfare money,???
“If we don’t fix the United States government this November, we will get exactly what we asked for,??? Nugent said, “and it won’t be the rabid coyote’s fault for getting into our living room – it will be our fault for not shooting him.???
Today Ted Nugent did a radio interview with an Illinois station, WJBC, in advance of his show in Peoria. Ted informed the hosts that apparently the only reason there is unemployment is because people are lazy sods who want a handout. There are help wanted signs everywhere, according to Ted. And his many business friends tell him Americans don’t want to work, they just want to know how many sick days that get.
Hosted by R. C. McBride and Jim Fitzpatrick, the chat was mostly politics. It gave the rocker a chance to expound on all the people who hate him, the President, and his peculiar but very Tea Party views.
If you listen to the entire thing here — I admit it’s a hard slog — even the hosts become audibly uneasy with the direction Nugent’s philosophies take
But I did the heavy lifting so you don’t have to. The most paranoid and weird bits:
We are living in dangerous times. we have a corrupt government … We have a president who will quote the founder of communism … Then he’ll visit the Vietnam Memorial Wall and lie claiming that he wants to thank 58,000 dead American soldiers and Airmen and Marines and Seamen while he quotes the man they fought against.
No one has ever been as corrupt and dared to quote Mao Tse Tung as the President of the United States does right now … No one has raped the economy and destroyed the economy as quickly and efficiently as Barack Obama and his czars have done in such a short period of time because that was his goal. He wanted to fundamentally transform the greatest quality of life in the history of mankind into some kind of Detroit canker sore of dependency.
Because I’m a hunter, people hate me. People who hate me because
I hunt defines the left …
People who hate me believe you don’t have to get up early and work hard because you can get money from people who do get up early and work hard.
I’m a producer, I’m an asset to you, I benefit the American economy … If you look at the Occupiers, they hate me for that. I couldn’t be more proud that those who think Barack Obama and the Mao Tse Tung chant of redistributing earnings is good. I don’t want them to like me because that’s evil.
For every person that gets some form of welfare there are thousands
who don’t deserve it.
[One of the hosts gets audibly nervous at this saying “I don’t know if I’m qualified to [say] that …” He adds his family received some government benefit in the past when he was growing up. Nugent replies that he is because he’s done the “research.”]
Then Nugent comments on those on welfare — he means African Americans:
They get their hair done. They have cell phones. They have all the newest clothes they possibly want …
Ted, on the economy and unemployment:
An able bodied person in United States of America has no excuse to
not have a job. I drive up and down the streets of this country every day and there are help wanted signs everywhere. And I have hundreds of entrepreneurial friends who are trying to hire people and 99 out of 100 people who come in claiming to want to find a job, the first thing they ask is “How many sick days do I get?” Are you kidding me? Maybe you need to communicate more with people who are actually in touch with direct human touch with the people that are causing the problems in America … There is an actual category that is acceptable, there is an actual authorized category of people in the United States of America … people who have quit looking for work. That’s a category of Americans? That’s unbelievable!
The asset to the US economy, playing the Star Spangled Banner and cursing out women and the elites for morning television.
Ted’s outbursts this year — the gift that keeps on giving.
He has been noticeably off on the pages of the WaTimes, embarrassed into relative silence over the matters of being visited by the Secret Service, snapping out on network television and being banned from hunting in Alaska over an illegal black bear bagging.
Plus the US Army gave him the boot from a regular gig.
There’s been some opposition, to the booking of Ted Nugent to play a couple county fairs in Wisconsin this summer. “The Nuge??? is scheduled to play at the Racine and Dodge County Fairs. Jeri Bonavia with Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort says some members contacted her with concerns. “They didn’t think that Ted Nugent was the kinds of performer who should be at family friendly events like county fairs. Given his track record recently of incredibly violent and threatening rhetoric, we agreed with our members completely and started an effort of contacting the county fair officials,??? says Bonanvia. “When we didn’t get any response from them, we are now turning to the sponsors.???
Bonavia says it seems fair to ask whether Nugent belongs at the fairs. “In Racine County they have him scheduled for children’s day,??? Bonavia notes. “I can’t imagine that there are too many families who would want to oppose their kids to that kind of hate speech.???
Nugent plays the Racine County Fair on July 26th, and the Dodge County Fair on August 15th. “They have a contract with him and they are going to honor that contract,??? Bonavia says. “Even though the U.S. Army canceled his performance at Fort Knox, in the wake of some of his particularly violent speech directed at President Obama.???
County fair businesses have reason to be wary of Nugent. He has a history of suing when kicked from a state sage, most infamously the Muskegon (Michigan) Summer Celebration.
However, Nugent cannot sue Fort Knox and the US Army, where he was just dumped. It would be way too much bad publicity. Even for someone who often uses it to advance the career, anyway.
In any case, this quote begs repetition:
“In Racine County they have him scheduled for children’s day … I can’t imagine that there are too many families who would want to oppose their kids to that kind of hate speech.”
Well, whatever would make one think Ted’s not quite the guy for ‘children’s day’?
Yes, DD blog is devoted to chronicling the many ways Ted Nugent has made himself a public disgrace this year. It’s easy work.
Ted Nugent, self-proclaimed tough guy and warrior for freedom, dodged the Viet Nam war when he had his chance. At the time of his eligibility, he took a student deferment (a 2- S in ’68) at Oakland Community College in Michigan. Nugent also later held a medical deferment (a 1-Y in ’69). [Both are shown in his selective service paperwork. For an enlargeable version click here.)
The student deferment carries a little extra irony due to the fact that Nugent regularly bags on the worth of any college education.
Every year, now that he has a pundit’s career at the Washington Times, Nugent works off his guilt with a column on Memorial Day, covering himself in glory in fealty to the troops.
Freedom isn’t free. Never has been, never will be. Very special warriors have provided freedom at supreme sacrifice since time immemorial. Good people will never forget, and we celebrate Memorial Day with a hard-charging spirit in appreciation for hard-charging warriors.
With his lifeblood pouring out of him from a mortal RPG wound to center mass, Pvt. 1st Class Todd Balding from Texas was, on the surface, but a bundle of red gauze and bandages, a jumble of tubes and numerous electronic apparatus beeping away. He was surrounded by a dedicated team of U.S. military medical experts at the Landstuhl hospital in Germany doing everything in their power to save the young American’s life.
Toby Keith and I literally stood in the young hero’s blood and said a very solemn prayer. Moments later, Pvt. 1st Class Todd Balding died. He was 21 years-old. He died fighting for freedom. That was one of many defining moments that struck me deep inside during my USO tour in 2004, and a defining moment in my life …
Toby and I were humbled beyond words to be allowed to join a presentation guard of warriors on the tarmac of the Iraq air base as we saluted a procession of flag-draped coffins being loaded onto a massive C-130 aircraft. Like our tears, the coffins just kept coming – and coming and coming and coming.
When I received the call, I immediately sent out an all-points bulletin to my management, staff and family to clear my schedule of all events. Within an hour, I had arranged a private plane, guitars and various electronic sound equipment. I had been requested to perform the national anthem …
Readers will note this is mostly all about Ted and his playing of the national anthem at all his shows, louder and more vigorously on Memorial Day weekends.
Nugent’s big difference with the general American attitude toward war — the troops are the greatest as long as I don’t have to serve and I promise to make appreciative mouth noises or go to parades on key days of memorial — is that there’s even more hypocrisy in him.
The honest approach, and mine, is to admit you don’t give a rat’s ass about Memorial Day. I don’t buy the argument that anyone’s fought for my freedoms in the last ten years.
The military, our political leadership, and the people all wanted a fighting force that was unrepresentative of the nation and only a sliver of the population. One that would insulate the country from Viet Nam-style war protest because the sacrifice is not shared.
“Tonight, I will play a blistering version of our national anthem as my family gathers to remember … I will play it like never before …” writes Nugent.
If it were not for this crazy out of control corrupt government, my life would literally be perfect. Even my agonizingly painful battered knees are livable, but the enemies of America infesting our government have got to go …
In fact, as the greatest most enjoyable rock-n-roll tour of my life throttles intensely all across America on through the end of the summer 2012, I am doing more media interviews all the time and finally feel that America is slowly but surely waking up to the level of criminal abuse of power and corruption in the Obama administration and so prevalent across this otherwise great country …
Me, I get up as early every day as my weary old rock-n-roll bones allow me to, share a cup of Nuge Java … hit the laptop to answer my tsunami of Emails [sic] and send out my recent interviews and writings to all my editors …
There is always a little repair work to perform here and there, maybe a limb or branches to chainsaw off the fence or off the trails, a little Hang Em High feeder or water-crossing touch-up, and I usually fire-up the Challenger tractor and groom the lanes with my Road Boss grader …
Through our Sunrize Safaris, I guide hundreds of hunters each fall and winter at our Texas and Michigan hunting grounds, plus my annual adventures at the YO Ranch, Kenedy Ranch and Stasney’s Cook Ranchas well …
Live to fight, fight to live. Live free or die to buy Nuge Java and book my hunt at Stasney’s Cook Ranch or die.
I’ve never actually seen so many endorsements one’s businesses and the products of others disguised as a 700 word opinion column. It’s eye-watering.
Although Ted uses chainsaws, sadly, no official endorsement yet. I am told that Ted is in negotiations for having his likeness used with the definition for “oaf” in the next edition of the Webster’s Dictionary.
The world is full of cheats, liars, lazy bloodsuckers and people who cut corners. If their house gets in your way, burn it down.
While you scale your mountain of success, lend a hand to the person behind you and pull them up with you. Atlas doesn’t shrug in my book. Atlas commends, constructively criticizes, encourages and challenges those following him. Be an Atlas.
Burn down the houses of people who get in your way. But lend a hand. The logic, scintillating, as usual.
The views shot up this mornin’. Someone, either inflamed or amused, has pointed it out.
And this might have something to do with it. Bravo!
In addition to business-killing taxes and regulations, California has the third-highest state income tax in the nation, the nation’s highest sales tax and the highest gas taxes in America.
Get this: Roughly half of California’s income taxes are paid by just 1 percent of California’s residents. It’s no wonder the most productive people are leaving the state each year as more bloodsuckers move in …
The way out of this mess would be painful. Massive cuts would be required, services slashed, and agencies gutted and eliminated …
Liberalism has failed around the world, and it has failed here, too.
Yes, its a state of bloodsuckers of the classic type described by Ayn Rand, pulling down the powerful job creators and intellects. And I am one of them. As you can plainly see I leech on the work of the producers, like Ted Nugent in the above video, to get views and laughs on YouTube.
Ted knows the Republican Party is dogfood in California. The demographics of the state, where the majority of the people live — on the coasts and in the cities, do not support it. Much of this can be laid at the feet of the party’s antipathy to the Hispanic population.
It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door …
Most of Schwarzenegger’s editorial was devoted to lamenting how the GOP has turned into a party of extremists, opposed to getting anything done while rooting out everyone who doesn’t possess a Tea Party far right purity.
It’s marginalized the party in California. However, through state law which requires a two-thirds majority to pass any budget legislation, its members have effectively stymied all attempts to rectify California’s monetary crisis, much as the filibuster has been used in the Senate to halt national government.
Schwarzenegger faced this all through his tenure as governor. His own party ruined any attempt at government, in effect ruining his run and reputation as a politician and public servant of any merit.
Schwarzenegger, again writing only non-specifically about his problems with the party:
I bumped up against that rigidity many times as governor. Not surprisingly, the party wasn’t always too happy with me. But I had taken an oath to serve the people, not my party. Some advisors whose opinions I respect urged me to consider leaving the party and instead identify myself as a “decline to state” voter …
An inclusive party would welcome the party’s most conservative activists right alongside its most liberal activists. There is room for those whose views, I think, make them sound like cavemen. And there is also room for us in the center, with views the traditionalists probably think make us sound like progressive softies.
Note the waffle through insertion of the “I think” bit. It’s only my opinion guys. Please don’t kill me, Ted-like folks.
