09.03.10
Posted in Extremism, Ted Nugent at 8:12 am by George Smith
The summer’s been hard on Ted Nugent.
Although you might not know it from the official press, they didn’t care for him in Kennewick, WA. Outside of House of Blues dates in the big coastal metropolises, he played only small clubs, casinos and rural fairgrounds. He was rebuked in Dubuque. And he managed to soil his reputation in his beloved sport of hunting.
On Labor Day, Nugent comes back to his former home — Detroit — to play a theatre gig where he recorded a 2008 live album.
Just in time, he’s also written a column for the WaTimes where he hates on unions:
Unionized public employees with their sweetheart deals at taxpayer expense are one significant reason why some cities and states are in such dire financial condition.
Unionized public employees have better deals than the taxpayers who are funding them. Federal employees make twice as much as their private-sector peers. This is all beyond bizarro.
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Unionized public employees with their sweetheart deals at taxpayer expense are one significant reason why some cities and states are in such dire financial condition.
Notice that in this piece he says “unionized public employees.” That would seem to preclude the auto industry.
Ted also kind of tries to separate federal government workers from state public sector employees, before slamming the latter, too. However, all are solidly middle class. And these are the same people who’s jobs the federal government has been endeavoring to save this summer by sending funding to the states in the face of total opposition from the GOP.
So Ted is actually hating on school teachers and policemen in Michigan, too. And if the FBI, or any government agency has offices in Michigan — which they do, all of them.
And he implies that compensation for unionized middle class labor is unfair without commenting on the pay for corporate American bosses. Or getting across the point that one of the reasons non-unionized middle class jobs pay more poorly than unionized has been the profoundly anti-labor climate that has been born in corporate America over the past few decades.
In the past, Ted has also been quite specific in his contempt for Detroit auto-workers and his wishes for their industry. He wanted it to die. It was wasteful and deserved to end.
Here’s Ted at the extreme right website Human Events in 2008, when the president was saving the US auto industry with a bail-out:
Taxpayers should not be held accountable to bailout the automobile industry or any other industry for that matter. There is constitutional authority for the decades of poor management decisions, forecasting and labor deals that have put GM, the U.S.’s largest automobile maker, perilously close to going belly up.
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While the [United Auto Workers] may believe GM, Ford and Chrysler are in business to provide automotive workers a salary and other costly benefits, the reality is that car companies are in business to make a profit. Period. Write that down.
The UAW’s costly benefit demands over the years coupled with weak automotive management who historically caved into the UAW’s demands put the automotive bolts, so to speak, to the shareholders and, to a certain degree, has put the Big Three on the path to possible extinction.
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Bailing out GM with billions of taxpayer dollars is the wrong approach. GM is not too big to fail. What GM may be is too unprofitable to stay in business.
The most singular paradox in Ted Nugent’s life may be that his steady decline in popularity mirrors the destruction of manufacturing jobs for the middle class in the US. His music, muscled and steely, was the sound of Detroit and his audience was the middle class. And now, in his older years, the man — shriveled from what he once was — rails against the very interests of the people who filled the stadiums he played in.
It’s tragic.
The final nail in the coffin in Michigan may have come when Ted was thrown off the bill of the Muskegon [Michigan] Summer Celebration a few years ago for being his usual mean old self. This was a big thing.
The show was an $80,000 gig and while Nugent was eventually paid in a breach of contract suit, the fallout from it hurt him. (DD has discussed that case here.)
Nugent eventually left Michigan for Waco, Texas. And while assorted cream puff music journalists have asked Ted this summer whether he might run for political office, given his views, he’s unelectable wherever there is still an informed middle class. Even in this toxic climate. And that rules out almost his entire old home state. Ted knows it, too.
Ted Nugent, elected to represent places like Detroit, Flint, Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor or Lansing? Surely you must be joking.
Now, as for Waco or Crawford, Texas? Maybe.
Ted’s return to Michigan for a Labor Day gig has generated local advance press. Typically, no one brings up the very bad odor of Ted’s attitudes and politics toward Detroit.
The only significant item appeared in the Royal Oak newspaper, a reprint of a trivial Gary Graff wire news piece which was published at Billboard a few days ago.
And did Graff ask Nugent about what he thought of the auto unions now, for a Labor Day gig? Nope. That would be possibly rife with unpleasantness.
Again, consider the pure Dickensian character — Ted Nugent — writing an anti-labor Labor Day column while preparing for his show in Detroit:
It’s a piece in which he superficially laments mass unemployment (and taking the standard GOP shot at those too discouraged to look for work) while simultaneously denigrating middle class unionized workers, blaming them for the economic catastrophe.
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09.02.10
Posted in Extremism, Ted Nugent at 9:44 am by George Smith
Ted Nugent’s appearance at the Benton Franklin fair in Kennewick, WA, brought on fear and loathing in the locals. Shocked, they were just shocked — by Ted’s foul language, heard for miles around, courtesy of the rock ‘n’ roll megawatt PA.
Ironically, the fairgoers were probably politically more to the side of the views expressed in the Nuge’s extremist WaTimes columns. Than, for example, the politics here.
The paradox: When you see the demographic, it’s these people in a video from the Beck rally and featured at Digby.
They’re rural white know-nothings. But they’re really nice know-nothings and they believe their children ought not to be exposed to the unwholesome.
And then they’re force-fed a dose of what Ted Nugent is really like.
Ted’s been held up, the entire summer, as someone who defiantly stands for free speech, liberty and family values. And this is usually done in entertainment sections and on opinion pages run by the stupid and disingenuous. With very few exceptions, he’s praised as a prince of a fellow in possession of strong opinions, delivered with amusing and/or charming idiosyncrasy.
And then reality occasionally rudely interrupts. The extremist comes to town. And he’s too strong a cup of tea, even more off the hook than the local more polite extremists.
Inevitably they wonder how did it get to be so mainstream? They need to look in a mirror.
Here are some excerpts from the letters page at the Kennewick paper (note the absence of what generally shouts his obscenities in connection with — the president, other Dem politicians — it’s just the profanity they noticed):
I understand that Mr. Nugent is a hard rocker, but his performance was vulgar and inappropriate for the setting. He said the foulest of vulgarities many times, and even put the word mother in front of it once before I left during the third song. There were children of all ages in the main stage area … Read more…
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What rock did they find Ted Nugent under? I am very angry at the choice of words used during his concert. I understand that Ted Nugent is like this — but at a fair with children? Were they so desperate to have Ted that they couldn’t put a few rules in place and remember their own mission statement. More …
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I have never been so astonished and mad as I was on the evening of Aug. 26 when my wife and I attended the Benton Franklin County Fair.
Ted Nugent was performing (?) onstage, cursing, shouting obcenities, screaming at the top of his voice, etc. All while in the presence of many young children.
This is an insult to our society … More…
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Ted Nugent stands for freedom and liberty! I must say, if the f-bomb is all you heard, then maybe it was all you were choosing to hear. Because I heard him thanking the men and women of the military who fight for this country and defend our freedom with their lives! I also heard him stand up for the American people and this great country!
Didn’t Joe Biden whisper in President Obama’s ear for all to hear on TV, “This is a big f-ing deal!” More …
And here is the newspaper’s summation along with a long list of comments.
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08.28.10
Posted in Extremism, Ted Nugent at 8:49 am by George Smith
So noted, from the Kennewick, WA, fairgrounds:
Ted Nugent did more than rock the Benton Franklin Fair on Thursday night.
He rankled family fairgoers who could hear him dropping repeated F-bombs and other coarse words over the loudspeaker throughout the fairgrounds.
Known for his hard rocking and big mouth, the Motor City Madman didn’t disappoint his fans. But dozens of others have been calling and e-mailing fair organizers and commenting on the Herald’s website, upset about his rowdy language.
The first letter to the editor complaining about the show came in at 9:12 p.m. Thursday — while Nugent still was on stage.
“Nugent needs his mouth washed out with soap — that green pine stuff my mother used — and the fair board needs to tune up its entertainment practices,” said another letter writer, Kirk Williamson of Kennewick.
Jennifer L. Mangum commented Friday on the Herald’s Facebook page: “What rock did they find Ted Nugent under. I am very angry at (the) choice of words used during his concert. … Were they so desperate to have Ted that they couldn’t put a few rules in place and remember their own Mission Statement.”
Fair Manager Lori Lancaster said Friday, “He went way beyond what was appropriate. … We are not happy about it.”
She said fair officials checked on his performances at other fairs and were told there were no problems.
Yeah, right. F-bomb intermezzos from Ted’s casino and fairs tour have been on YouTube all summer.
Also, about half the profanity, sometimes more, is used in conjunction with hates on various politicians, including the president.
“On Friday, [an official] said the fair board will be talking about the issue at its next meeting,” reported the newspaper.
Many small-city reporters have ‘interviewed’ Ted this summer. Since they do no research, they are easily gulled into allowing the rocker to do an e-mailer with them. Ted is now notorious for using the same stock answers, cut-and-pasted into his editing software, then sent off for the local rube.
The result has been that observers see the same Nugent phrases and sentences over and over, like this one:
Hunting, fishing and trapping are the last perfect natural environmental positives available to mankind, and my ultra-intense soulful American music is the soundtrack of defiance against the brain-dead denial of political correctness against my hunting lifestyle.
“So how do his love of music and hunting get along?” asked the Spokane Spokesman’s reporter. Naturally, no mention of his latest misadventure.
That would be impolite, impertinent and harder work, too. It’s always better to mainstream the extremist, to make him seem like a reasonable fellow, albeit with slightly colorful and entertaining quirks. And then Ted surprises folks at places like the Benton Fair, or in Dubuque, where they’re startled by what he’s really like.
“How could this have happened?” ask the local burgomeisters.
And finally, the Detroit News runs Ted’s bomb Iran column from the Washington Times, but with the really good part about bombing Iran left out.
Which was this:
In the event that Hitler No. 2 launches a military strike against Israel because of the economic sanctions or for any other reason, let’s hope our military has plans to destroy every critical power-generation station, its communication and electronics grids, key bridges and other critical infrastructure. Iran will need to be reduced to the pre-Stone Age. Let’s make it so AA batteries don’t even work in Iran.
How’d they do that? How do you have a bomb Iran column, complete with Hitler and Poland metaphors, without having the nitty-gritty in it about actually bombing Iran?
It’s too much for my simple mind.
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08.25.10
Posted in Extremism, Ted Nugent at 8:39 am by George Smith
I’ve often stated that music journalists are largely creampuffs.
They can’t be counted upon to do anything difficult, to lance even the easiest boils. It’s not all their fault. When your job security and opportunities demand you be a creampuff, you do what you gotta do.
Take today’s Billboard. Years ago, Billboard had no trouble reporting that Ted Nugent had been tossed off a radio show for remarks that were thought to be bigoted.
That evidence is here. DD posted it recently.
Today, however, Billboard published a brief interview with Nugent. It was remarkable for actually asking Ted about his recent run-in with the law over his hunting faux pas. No other journalist on his summer tour, or any sports section wildlife journalist has chosen, so far, to pin him on it.
However, Billboard allows Nugent his usual deceptions. On his website last week, Nugent copped to his crime. And in news from California, it’s perfectly clear that Nugent’s legal team negotiated the charges against him downward:
Nugent, to use his love of hunting as a framing piece, presents a target rich environment.
From a couple weeks ago:
Nugent was originally facing a charge of killing a “spike??? — an immature buck — on the program but the charge was dropped during negotiations between his attorney and the Yuba County District Attorney’s Office, said Foy.
A spike is a deer with two antlers that have not yet “forked,??? Foy said.
A Department of Fish and Game warden saw the show in March and “just about fell out of his chair??? when he saw Nugent with the buck, according to Foy.
A subsequent investigation led to the baiting charge.
Furthermore:
Nugent originally faced 11 charges, including killing a deer too young to be hunted. In a deal with Yuba County prosecutors, attorney Jack Kopp entered no contest pleas Friday to the two misdemeanors on behalf of Nugent, who did not appear in court.
A Nugent spokeswoman did not immediately return messages left late Tuesday.
All of this is easy to find if you have access to Lex-Nex, or even more easily, Google.
But this is what you get from Gary Graff, writing for Billboard:
With his tour wrapping up on Sept. 5 in his home town of Detroit, Nugent plans to spend the late summer and early fall hunting bear and moose in Canada and deer in Wisconsin before hitting the studio in December with his band — bassist Greg Smith and drummer Mick Brown — at producer David Zaijcek’s studio in the same Texas village where Nugent now resides. “I love the convenience,” he explains. “I love being able to hunt in the morning, then go rock my balls off the rest of the day. It’s called balance. My spirit has never been more positive or energized.”
Nugent’s hunting did get him in a bit of trouble recently when he plead no contest to misdemeanor charges of killing an immature and baited buck during a taping of his Outdoor Channel show “Spirit of the Wild” in February. Nugent, who did not bait the deer but rather killed it in too close proximity to a baited area, paid a $1,750 fine for violating California hunting laws.
“I did not use bait, I didn’t see any bait and nobody in our group used any bait,” says Nugent, who was hunting with others during the trip. “We were only 100 yards from an apple orchard. Is that bait? I don’t know … I thought about fighting it and we probably could have won, but they were putting a lot of pressure on me and I pled no contest pretty much to save my buddies, who did nothing wrong, either.”
A good reporter might have asked Nugent for the original indictment before publishing the self-serving quote. Someone responsible might have even gone to PACER and spent an entire fifteen minutes looking for Nugent’s case file.
A proper journalist might have brought up the issue that Nugent’s own cable show, Spirit of the Wild, was the original evidence which inspired the charges levied against him. And that it had been discussed in hunting circles in February. With Nugent generally coming out as the loser.
A real journalist, as opposed to a creampuff, might have even tarried to ask Nugent about the race-baiting columns he’s had published all summer long in the Washington Times or the incident in Dubuque which caused the town newspaper’s editorial page to condemn him.
Someone with guts might have chosen to make Nugent actually look at himself in a mirror, for a change.
Good job, Billboard and Gary Graff! Get that news on Nugent’s next album, supposedly featuring “‘ stone cold motherf***king songs’ ready to go when he takes his band into the studio later this year … ”
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08.24.10
Posted in Ted Nugent at 6:37 am by George Smith
Ted Nugent must have had a day off on the casino tour.
Second WaTimes column in two days, on Iran and the bomb. All one needs to know but could have guessed:
In the event that Hitler No. 2 launches a military strike against Israel because of the economic sanctions or for any other reason, let’s hope our military has plans to destroy every critical power-generation station, its communication and electronics grids, key bridges and other critical infrastructure. Iran will need to be reduced to the pre-Stone Age. Let’s make it so AA batteries don’t even work in Iran.
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08.23.10
Posted in Ted Nugent at 1:38 pm by George Smith
Readers have come to expect nothing less than stellar exhibitions of flawed character from Ted Nugent.
His latest, today’s column at the Washington Times, celebrating Nugent’s hunting lifestyle. But making no mention of his recent misdemeanor conviction for deer-bating.
Ssssh! Make it go away, Ted wishes.
“Clearly, hunters stand on the good side of the line drawn in the sand,” Ted writes. “I couldn’t be more proud.”
“I hunt because I am a hunter,” he also informs.
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08.20.10
Posted in Extremism, Ted Nugent at 7:10 am by George Smith
Given his twice weekly WaTimes column, the Nuge still takes no time to explain his deer-baiting fiasco, one that’s generated more news in a week than his tour the entire summer.
Instead, there is work to be done — like Muslim baiting:
There are no words to express the outrage Americans would have expressed if the Japanese government had proposed to build a memorial to their fallen soldiers at Pearl Harbor immediately following World War II. We can only hope President Truman would have ordered our military to carpet-bomb and firebomb the Japanese again for being so rude and stupid.
Slice it any way you want, but the Muslim community is being tremendously rude and stupid for wanting to build a mosque so close to Ground Zero in New York City. Instead of using the $100 million for their proposed mosque, I recommend that the Muslims donate the cash to the U.S. military so we can build more smart bombs to kill more radical, voodoo Muslims.
“Not all Muslims are religious whacks who deserve a bullet,” though, the Nuge adds.
By now, it’s obvious Ted Nugent simply cannot write a column that isn’t reprehensible. It’s why the WaTimes opinion page loves him. It gives the newspaper’s editorial art department an opportunity to monster someone in cartoon form twice a week.
So the cant is always standard crazy and depressing Ted. And a machine could have predicted he would recommend we carpet bomb Islam for having such bad manners as to start this mosque affair.
Remarkably, Nugent has spent the entire summer race-baiting and spreading intolerance from the stage and in his columns. And only one journalist — a woman at the Dubuque newspaper — called him on it. In every other interview — he does them all by e-mail — and concert review, Nugent has been passed off as mostly a colorful wacky fellow, an amusing guy, with controversial right-wing views. He has been part of the mainstreaming of ignorance and extremism as the new normals.
Here’s another example of the stenography Nugent gets. Asking him about hunting, the reporter doesn’t bring up Nugent’s latest travail. And Nugent does not take the opportunity to enlighten:
“Hunting, fishing and trapping are the last perfect natural environmental positives available to mankind, and my ultra-intense soulful American music is the soundtrack of defiance against the brain-dead denial of political correctness against my hunting lifestyle.”
The rest is here. But there’s no point in going to it.
While Nugent’s deer-baiting news generated quite a few short stories, not a single sportswriter on the hunting beat in American newspapers chose to call him up mid-tour and quiz him on it.
All the more remarkable because it had been on television as part of his cable show, Spirit of the Wild, in February.
It illuminates another part of Nugent’s career and audience.
I’ve referred to them regularly as bottom-out-of-sighters, a term pulled from Paul Fussell. In the book Class, Fussell described bottom-out-of-sighters as uneducated white people of such shallow pocket, no advertisers were interested in them. They were, he said, those who watched roller derby and old pro-wrestling on Saturday morning. Or people who traded videotaped highlights of the best hockey brawls.
Nugent’s cable TV audience is the same. Hunters knew about Nugent’s screw up in February. It’s how he was caught and prosecuted. But Nugent’s audience is so small and isolated from the rest of the mainstream, an audience so undesirable — the likes of power-drinkers and fans of ultimate fighting or crush video — by the money-makers in mass media, the news didn’t leak out. (Paradoxically, Nugent knew all this was coming down for months. He had time to get ahead of it, to prepare some statement.)
The news didn’t even carry in the outsdoorsman community, which gave Nugent some award for being the most admired celebrity hunter about a month ago. In the real world, this would be like Sports Illustrated honoring Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens for clean lifestyle.
As Nugent has traveled the country and given his e-mail interviews this summer, it’s become obvious that has a standard set of answers — a script for recitation. In interview, he uses the cut-and-paste function of his e-mailer.
He relies on stock phrases and stories, repeating them without variation. He is the soul man. He plays soul music, all his heroes are black. And another of his favored riffs has been on the ‘drooling, puking and dying hippies’ of those olden days.
A form of this appeared in a number of newspapers this summer:
“I give enormous credit to my hunting and outdoor lifestyle for fortifying me to make smart choices in life. Not only was I forbidden to indulge in any substance abuse growing up, but once I witnessed the pathetic, stinky, drooling, puking, dying hippies.”
He was on George Lopez last night.
Watch him, if you can, repeat the same shtick.
Droolin’, pukin’ and dyin’ — X 3.
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08.18.10
Posted in Extremism, Ted Nugent at 3:47 pm by George Smith
Finally, on his website:
Uncharacteristically terse, for Ted.
It’s a mark of the stupid times we live in when Ted Nugent is forced into a statement of regret, not for regularly cursing the president and over half the country on a regular basis, but for the bad publicity over misdemeanor charges from screwing up at one of his greatest loves — hunting.
Charges that the strict law-and-order throw-the-book-at-em man had his lawyers plead downward.
And no, I’m not smirking. It’s too sad and pathetic.
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Posted in Ted Nugent at 7:54 am by George Smith
From AP:
Rocker and celebrity hunter Ted Nugent is facing a $1,750 fine after pleading no contest in Northern California to baiting a deer and not having a properly signed hunting tag.
California Department of Fish and Game spokesman Patrick Foy said game wardens saw Nugent kill an immature buck on a February episode of his Outdoor Channel TV show “Spirit of the Wild.”
Investigators found that the deer had been eating bait called “C’mere Deer.” Baiting wildlife is illegal in California.
Nugent originally faced 11 charges, including killing a deer too young to be hunted. In a deal with Yuba County prosecutors, attorney Jack Kopp entered no contest pleas Friday to the two misdemeanors on behalf of Nugent, who did not appear in court.
A Nugent spokeswoman did not immediately return messages left late Tuesday.
Actually, Ted’s been silent about this since televising it almost half a year ago.
Sorry, Uncle Ted, You Screwed Up — from West Virginia.
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08.17.10
Posted in Ted Nugent at 9:08 am by George Smith
Perhaps distracted over the news story of his fine for taking a spike buck baiting, Ted Nugent’s most recent column in the WaTimes is a letdown.
No run-on sentences, just a standard GOP/Tea Party script on the Fair Tax.
The Fair Tax is a rich man’s idea, one most famously pushed by Mike Huckabee.
It would, naturally, destroy Social Security, Medicare, and most government agencies and services.
It was taken apart well over a year ago by an expert here.
It’s a no-brainer why Ted Nugent likes it. But the focus on it left his column bereft of its usual quotient of slurs.
This was the best and, by Nugent standards, you’ll agree it’s pretty weak:
If you are a soulless bloodsucker and actually like Fedzilla in all its glowing inefficiency, then you ought to feed the beast with your tax dollars and not expect others to pay your fair share. If not, do America a favor and set sail for Cuba where you can join other commies on their commie colony of hopeless dependency.
Words from man, again emphasizing soul, his surplus of it and the deficiency of same in bloodsucking enemies.
A brief aside: Have you noticed how Nugent adopts little verbal tics like General Jack Ripper in Dr. Strangelove?
With Ripper it was fluoridation as a commie plot, sapping and impurifying his precious bodily fluids.
With Nugent, his vitality is sapped by soulless bloodsuckers.
In Strangelove, Ripper told Mandrake women naturally craved his sexual essence, which he denied to them.
As for Nugent, he believes women crave him, too. And while he did not formerly deny them, now that he rapturously praises his spouse, and given that he has been caught in poor situations more than once, he may be more circumspect.
Over the weekend, the California news of Nugent’s fine lit up a few hunting boards. One example is here at ArcheryTalk.
However, more interesting was talk from when Nugent had actually broadcast the bag on his cable show in February.
Some excerpts from another board, where the fans could not determine exactly what Nugent had done in the footage:
Looks like the Internet is lighting up with criticism of him and the episode. I suggest the vocal Nugent-Nazi’s criticizing me here for pointing out the obvious, ought to watch the show first. The other forums don’t seem to have unleashed any Nugent loyal attack-dogs.
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“Last night I watched Ted Nugent hunting blacktails in California. I hate to be negative about someone who stands up for hunters and gun owners but that show really rubbed me the wrong way. First,he takes a broadside shot at a spike and hits it in the neck. It could happen to anyone but he proclaims it was a heart shot and that the buck was mature. Either later that day or the next day,he shoots a huge blactail square in the hindquarter. The buck was walking away at a fairly steep angle when he shot.Just a stupid shot to take in my book. To make matter worse,he gut shoots another buck at 20 yards but manages to get another arrow in the deer as it’s standing 40 yards away. Unfortunately,that arrow hits the deer just above the back legs.”
The other forums are about 99% critical of him and the episode. Guess they watched the show first.
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We all make bad shots on occasion, but he made four and should have never aired it. Shooting a buck in the arse while it’s walking away, another in front of the shoulder, the other in the lower gut, then the rear leg, while surrounded by houses, and arguing with the neighbor to go retrieve the deer, then airing it all on TV will do a lot of harm to our sport.
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To see someone come in and take a “sitting duck” out of someone’s backyard garden does nothing to excite me… might as well go to the butcher shop IMHO.
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I thought it was a spike he shot as well. If you listen to what he says, he calls it a forked horn. I went through it frame by frame and thought it may have been a tiny fork on the deer’s left antler. Sure didn’t look like it though and only found a couple frames where it looked like there MIGHT be a fork. Don’t know why he would call it a fork if it wasn’t and why he would put it on TV if it was illegal. Who knows though?
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Ted is a great entertainer but by no means a great hunter. He is a great proponent of gun and hunting rights and freedom. I saw the episode and was embarrassed for Ted. I like the fact that he shows his mistakes and love the way he is as excited as a kid getting his first deer no matter how big or how easy or hard it was. That is what hunting is about. I’m sure Ted would say anyone who does not like the fact that he shoots over bait when it is legal can KMA. I think hunters should all hunt legally and not help anti-hunters by wanting more laws against things like baiting and high fences or anything else other than good conservation and the best use of animals as a renewable resource. And for sure do not condemn people for shooting backyard bucks or missing shots.
Lede from a review of a California casino gig, in the Palm Desert Sun, over the weekend:
Let’s get one thing straight: If you go to a Ted Nugent you’d better be prepared to ingest a strong dose of his political proclivities.
He gave a good idea of his ideology with the stage set — a bank of 20 humongus amps (that he purposely overdrove so that everything sounded a bit distorted all night) decorated with an M-16 sniper rifle, a 50-caliber machine gun, giant hand grenade, a couple of buffalo skulls and a caricature Uncle Ted, dual machine guns blazing, plowing down the likes of Michael Moore, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, along with Osama bin Ladin and Adolf Hitler, in an Abrams tank.
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