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An amusing video from Maine, satirizing Ted Nugent’s opposition to a referendum to disallow bear-baiting during season in that state.
And still no takers for the $7,000 red, white and blue acoustic guitar signed by Ted Nugent to raise money for his support bear-baiting in Maine cause.
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We have all seen the roving reporter man-on-the-street interviews. I’m sure we all have some friends, acquaintances, even family members and others who have uttered the painful statement. I don’t know about anyone else, but when I first heard people say that they voted for Barack Obama because he was black, or that it was “time??? for a black president, my skin crawled.
I am well aware that that statement of mine will be isolated and made out to be “racist??? by the dishonest media and the maniacally boneheaded Saul Alinsky gang over at the Huff-n-Puff Post and beyond, but the real horror is that the worst case of racism I have ever witnessed in my lifetime was the indecent choice en mass by millions of Americans who defiled the sacrifices and vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and spat on his grave when they actually admitted that they voted for this president based on the color of his skin instead of the content of his character.
“When haters have no substance whatsoever for debate, they always plummet to the accusations of racism …” he adds.
As usual, part of it is the fault of a dead guy, Saul Alinsky.
Another paragraph sticks out by virtue of it being one inredibly long run-on sentence fragment encapsulating all the rantings and conspiracy theories of the extreme right.
See if you can recite it without coming up for air:
From the cloak of secrecy of so much of his past, his mad scramble to hide an entire segment of his youth, to his association with communist leaders like Frank Marshall Davis and Van Jones and Valerie Jarrett, his Chicago community organizer scams, his association with known terrorists like Bill Ayers, long-term relationships with racists like Rev. Wright and the Black Panthers, his very un-presidential “police acting stupidly??? remarks, the Rose Garden make-up beer party, the apology tours, his clear disdain for capitalism and the entrepreneurial spirit, his blatant Marxist “redistribution??? beliefs, his Fast and Furious gunrunning crimes, his outright racism and meddling in the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman fiasco, his defiance of SCOTUS rulings, his dangerous rookie moves in Iraq and Afghanistan, Syria, Israel, the ever escalating insane fiasco on our southern border, the insanity of declaring the Fort Hood terrorist attack a case of workplace violence, the insanity of Obamacare, his failed pledge to upgrade the VA, his IRS scandals and numerous acts of abuse of power, his nonstop campaigning on the taxpayers’ dime, his indecent tax-wasting Air Force One jaunts, the childish arrogance of using his “pen and phone??? and stating “I am the president, I can do anything I want to do,??? his propensity to play golf while the world burns, and pretty much everything this man does in total defiance of the U.S. Constitution’s direction for the greatest quality of life ever in the world.
Boy howdy!
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Like being asked, “Is it safe?”.
Ted Nugent, on steel knees and in front of his people in a Braunfels, TX, bar on Saturday. Rant about the president at 5:00 to 5:56, followed be eight minutes of Wang Dang Sweet Poontang.
Extra points for enduring the blues workout, here.
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Three people who most have never heard of, two of which are dead, are responsible for everything gone wrong.
From the irrefutably logical Ted Nugent, who has mentioned them twice in two 4th of July columns, one for WND and one at Newsmax:
The blatant despicable fraud of Obamacare scams, entitlement scams, welfare scams, foodstamp scams, fuel subsidy scams, child-support scams, unemployment benefit scams, so called disability scams and the entire Saul Alinsky and Cloward-Piven dismantling of the greatest quality of life ever known to mankind is a tragedy of untold proportions, and the liberal democrat scammasters are treading on us like jackboots gone mad.
Click the link to plumb the depths of the conspiracy. It affords hours of reading.
In Maine, there is a referendum to ban the using of bait to bag bears during season. Nugent has come out against it because he baits bears. And a couple of years ago he was convicted of illegally bagging and transporting a black bear in Alaska while on an expedition to baiting stations.
A person wrote to the Bangor Daily News:
[Ted Nugent] is the poster child for cruel and unsporting — and just plain lazy — methods of killing our black bears.
Sportsmen don’t use dogs, jelly doughnuts or leg-hold traps to hunt bears; they use fair chase still-hunting or stalk-and-shoot methods. Mainers don’t use these cruel methods on any other game species in Maine. Why treat our iconic bears with so much less respect than our deer or moose?
I didn’t know jelly donuts were used to attract bears, thinking it was only something from old Yogi cartoons. But, yes, there is an entire product line of jelly donut bear-bait.
Nugent has put an autographed acoustic guitar on eBay, selling for $7,000, to help raise money to defeat the anti-bear bait referendum in Maine.
So far, after a few weeks, no takers. That’s a lot of money for a red, white and blue novelty acoustic guitar marred by a Ted Nugent signature. Probably not quite worth even $400 after it got the treatment.
“Freedom is not free,” writes Nugent near the end of his July 4th Newsmax piece.
No, certainly not. Freedom is not free is cut-and-paste, a favorite of people who have little to say but a great desire to say it, everywhere in the US over the weekend. Click the link before it expires.
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Billboard magazine and other music outlets have started promoting Ted Nugent’s new album, ShutUp&Jam!
The features news includes embeds to two new Nugent songs, one of which is entitled “Never Stop Believing.” The articles do not mention a word about the most interesting part of Nugent’s new music.
In the second verse of “Never Stop Believing,” WhiteManistan’s most popular bigot, the man who called the president a “subhuman mongrel,” sings:
And I got a dream
Like Martin Luther King
In my heart, I hear that man sing
So I climb up his mountain
And I shout it out loud
Because I got a dream and I thank God
There’s really nothing more to say about with regards to Nugent’s crazy world. Last year, you’ll recall, Nugent called his summer series of shows the Black Power tour.
No link, it’s easy enough to find.
Ted Nugent, in his own words, at WND. A routine sample.
And, the web.
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Steel Knees is a happy man today. A relatively small number of really angry WhiteManistanis in Virginia booted famous House Republican Eric Cantor for, essentially, not hating on illegals, “bloodsuckers” and “the takers” enough.
Now Virginia has lighted the way. Eric Cantor is now the revolutionary verb, and it is time to go Eric Cantor on the whole bunch of them. No more compromise. No more BS freebees. No more getting anything you don’t earn. No more spending like maniacs flying over the cuckoo’s nest. No more criminal invaders and no more bloodsuckers.
Charles Blow at the NYT sums it up:
While the beltway chatter grows over the political death of Eric Cantor, the first House leader to be unseated in a primary, it would be easy to lose sight of just how unsettling his demise is for our politics in general.
On one level, it is a glaring example — and condemnation — of the staggering levels of voter apathy that exist the further an election race is from presidential politics. Only about 65,000 people voted in the Republican primary in Virginia’s Seventh District on Tuesday. This is in a district of nearly 760,000 people …
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… Ted Nugent, sounding not very good, at the NRA convention in Indianapolis. His appearance was embargoed. And the fact that it was made off limits to the press is some indication that Nugent’s public speech and his now regular association with the words “racist” and “bigot” in mainstream news has started to have consequences for his business as a rock n roller.
In the last two months, he’s lost two dates on his summer tour, one on July 4th in Longview, Texas, and one on August 5th at the Clark County Fair in Washington. Both came as a result of his calling the president a “subhuman mongrel.”
To avoid having to pay Nugent, the Clark County Fair used an interesting tactic — an option to cancel a show if the performer was playing somewhere else close-by in the same general time frame.
Writes a newspaper opinion columnist:
[A MoveOn petition protesting the show] got the attention of fair organizers, who promptly canceled Nugent’s appearance. Something about a Radius Protection clause and the fact that Nugent is playing shows Aug. 2 and 3 in Tacoma. Good explanation — except that it rings hollow because the group Night Ranger is playing the fair one night after appearing in Albany, Ore.
Cliven Bundy and Co., well done by Mark Fiore as a folk tune set to “Home on the Range.”
Wonderful stuff and done before Bundy’s outburst about how African-Americans might have had it better back when they still knew how to pick cotton.
True to form, WhiteManistan’s favorite bigots never know how to shut it. Today, this — excerpted — from a Cliven Bundy official explanation:
I am trying to keep Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream alive …
I am standing up against their bad and unconstitutional laws, just like Rosa Parks did when she refused to sit in the back of the bus.
In this he borrows a chapter from the book of old Steel Knees, Ted Nugent.
About once a year, sometimes more, Nugent regularly calls Rosa Parks and MLK his personal heroes or calls himself a rock and roll son of African Americans. Then he calls the president a subhuman mongrel or a chimpanzee, which is OK.
On Thursday, Nugent devoted his latest column to his standard script: African-Americans in the inner cities are responsible for all the gun violence in America, responsible gun owners need more guns to protect themselves and it’s all the fault of the liberal Democrat government that gives people stuff they don’t deserve, thereby corrupting them.
All of it as a preface to an NRA convention in Indianapolis next week, which Nugent — I assume — will be attending via teleconference. Since he’s either on crutches or in a wheel chair.
(Update: From an Indianapolis news bit: “Rock legend Ted Nugent will be present Sunday to address 2nd Amendment issues and sign his latest book.” We’ll see. Good photos or video will tell something about his condition.)
Nugent’s column did not make news this week, eclipsed as it was by the spectacle of WhiteManistan’s new most public bigot.
Home, home on the range deep inna heart of WhiteManistan.
From Ted Nugent’s column at World Net Daily, today:
As the November election looms, the Democratic political hit machine and RINOs will do their best to malign the tea party as racists, bigots, homophobes, jingoists, anti-government zealots who are composed of Timothy McVeigh-types.
Meanwhile, there is a gathering storm of Americans who are raising their political pitchforks and don’t even know what the tea party is or what it believes …
These Americans are mad as hell and they aren’t going to take this anymore. No amount of spinning, bobbing and weaving, or smoke-and-mirrors political tricks are going keep these frustrated Americans from the polls.
A political storm is brewing. Good. It’s about time.
Old Steel Knees is WhiteManistan’s most popular and public bigot and, unconsciously, he describes himself very well.
But sometimes he’s too much for parts of it, even in Texas.
A couple of weeks ago the town of Longview canceled a Nugent show scheduled for the 4th of July. To do it they had to eat 16 thousand dollars, paying off Nugent not to show.
And this is because Nugent has a history of suing venues that drop him for shooting off his mouth. One you begin making open negotiations with the devil, you’re on the hook. (More on this a little further on.)
From the Dallas Morning News, in late March:
The city of Longview paid $16,250 to end contract negotiations with controversial rocker Ted Nugent, who was under consideration as the headliner for its Fourth of July celebration in East Texas.
Longview’s payoff last month came after Nugent’s earlier comments and song lyrics became an issue during a campaign swing with Texas gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott.
In January, Nugent called President Barack Obama a “subhuman mongrel??? …
City spokesman Shawn Hara said the controversy surrounding Nugent was just one factor that led the city to call off negotiations. The amount paid was about half Nugent’s performance fee.
There were “a variety of reasons: cost, structure, is it the right musical act for this type of event — a city-sponsored, family-oriented overall event,??? he said. “They decided no, we don’t want to move forward, it is not the right act for this. At that point we decided to end discussions.???
Mayor Jay Dean said Nugent’s act didn’t fit with the family-oriented program the city wanted.
Nugent promptly exploded, this in addition to chiseling the town out of 16 thousand:
If city officials are saying Ted Nugent’s shows are not family friendly, the rocker said Tuesday, “Somebody has bamboozled the good citizens of Longview.???
“The lie that my concerts are inappropriate for any city anywhere is absurd,??? Nugent said in an email response to questions. “My family friendly concerts are legendary and will continue to be all summer long in 2014.???
“Those that hate me are following the Saul Alinsky playbook on how to dismantle, fundamentally transform the greatest nation and quality of life the world has ever known,??? he said. “Those that hate me hate America, plain and simple.???
Nugent did not respond Tuesday to questions about published comments he made last week that Longview Mayor Jay Dean is racist and dishonest.
“I hear from reliable sources that the mayor is a racist and was offended that my band performs mostly African-American-influenced music,??? Nugent was quoted as saying in a column that appeared Saturday in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “Everyone knows ol’ Uncle Ted is the ultimate Independence Day rockout with the ultimate all-American, soul music, rockin’ soundtrack of defiance, liberty and freedom. We shall carry on. We are the good guys. Clueless, dishonest people like the mayor are the bad guys.???
This week Longview was able to cover Nugent’s hostage fee with a donation drive:
A fundraising group led by Mayor Jay Dean has recouped the $16,250 the city paid to end negotiations with rocker Ted Nugent as a potential headliner for Longview’s Independence Day show …
City officials have said they pulled the plug after learning of the talks in March, a few weeks after Nugent was drawing increasingly negative attention for comments he made about the president and his own background.
To get out of negotiations with Nugent’s booking agency, the city had to pay a portion of his contract fee — $16,250 …
On Wednesday, [a Longview representative] said numerous companies including Longview Regional Medical Center and Good Shepherd Medical Center, as well as many individuals, had contributed to the effort.
Readers get a good horselaugh from Nugent describing himself as a family-oriented act. YouTube is rife with video of Steel Knees, on television and on tour, using profanity to condemn his enemies from the president to random women producers on network television.
From this blog’s unrivaled archives (the originals may be gone at America’s dailies, but we keep ’em:)
Ted Nugent’s appearance at the Benton Franklin fair in Kennewick, WA, [in the summer of 2010] 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 …
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):
“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?”
“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 [sic], screaming at the top of his voice, etc. All while in the presence of many young children.
“This is an insult to our society … ”
And, delightfully, here.
Oooh, still more, from 2011 (excerpting from media coverage):
From a Peoria newspaper: “When [Ted Nugent] shares his political views? That’s entertaining, too, in a borderline frightening way.
“He railed on government in general and the president in particular. He invited his audience to storm down to Springfield and take it over. Right after an f-bomb-laced barrage, he remarked that it was nice to see children in the audience …”
From a Niagara Falls newspaper: “Nugent is ranting at a furious pace, cramming in more obscenities in three minutes than a roomful of cursing sailors, and undoubtedly saying something shockingly funny, or just shocking.
“On Tuesday, many of Nugent’s rants were directed at Canadian visitors. Standing in front of a huge backdrop of the Stars and Stripes, Nugent invited Canadian visitors to “taste freedom.??? Nugent later quipped, “I love you Canadians, it’s your government that is (fucked) up.??? I am paraphrasing of course, but you get the picture.”
Steel Knees has something of an encapsulated mentally ill mind. The part of his brain that believes himself a family-oriented entertainer is completely isolated from that part that spews curses every four or five words. One begins to wonder if he even hears himself or if part of his cognitive function edits out the f-bombs somewhere in the tangle of ganglia between and behind the mouth and ears.
As for suing people who drop him for being ugly in public, one of the most famous cases, well prior to Nugent’s American fame as a public bigot, came in Michigan in 2003.
Again, from the unsurpassed archives of this blog:
In mid 2003 Nugent had a big gig lined up at the Muskegon Summer Celebration in Michigan. He then went on a radio show in Denver to do his inimitably Ted thing. The radio hosts pulled the plug on him.
The result — Nugent summarily dropped by the concert. Billboard, at the time:
“Derogatory racial remarks made by veteran rocker Ted Nugent have cost him a gig at the Muskegon Summer Celebration. Festival officials canceled his concert following an interview last week with two Denver disc jockeys in which the DJs said he used slurs for Asians and blacks.???
Three months later Nugent sued the Muskegon concert officials for defamation. In his complaint, it was linked to a tortured argument about violation of his 14th Amendment rights and breach of contract, which had deprived him of an $80,000 guarantee.
The Billboard image/article is here in a parcel of articles and comes from the case files entered by Nugent’s legal team. (DD has more and may get to them in a future post.)
The lawsuit became a celebrity trial in Michigan during the course of which Nugent’s defamation claim was tossed out. Nugent eventually took the stand, saying the DJs had misinterpreted his use of the n-word in a conversation. Nugent said he had related a story about how an African American had told him, after watching him in performance: “If you keep playing … like that, you’re going to be an ‘n word’ when you grow up.???
Whether this was all Nugent said during the course of the radio appearance was not determined. No tape of it existed, apparently.
“Unmentioned at the trial were news accounts of Nugent’s use of the other [derogatory] words [for Asians],??? reported the Muskegon Chronicle in 2005.
Nugent was successful in his breach of contract suit with the Muskegon festival and was eventually paid his guarantee.
Internet technology has improved some things. Because of it Ted Nugent will never again be able to mount a defamation suit against anyone.
Media Matters notes The Toledo Blade newspaper showing regret over booking Ted Nugent this summer:
The director of a summer event sponsored by the The Blade of Toledo, OH, says the scheduled appearance of Ted Nugent is sparking a backlash from members of the community who take issue with the conservative commentator and musician’s virulent commentary.
“All things being equal I wouldn’t bring in a guy who is aggravating people, that is not my intention,” said Mike Mori, The Blade’s sales director, who is also event director for the Northwest Ohio Rib-Off, a four-day food and music event the newspaper has been running for four years. “It seems like this thing has kind of ballooned in the last couple months. I will probably think long and hard about inviting him next year.”
But Mori told Media Matters if he cancels Nugent’s appearance this year, he still has to pay him the full fee, which he declined to reveal but said is more than $50,000.
“I have to pay him that even if it rains,” Mori said. “I wish the guy would just not say the things he does, he brings a big audience, he’s from Michigan, he packs the place. If everyone hated him, nobody would come. He does have a following, it’s a tough situation. I try to have a diverse type of a line-up.”
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Three columns running, Ted Nugent still fixates on the great pure America he once knew. That’s the place unencumbered by the “bloodsuckers,” where WhiteManistan labored in united harmony, enjoying the fruits of shared upright Christian values and the money and success that comes from such piety.
And now, like last week, his heart is breaking. There’s his WhiteManistan, and everyone else.
“Can the ‘2 Americas’ ever unite?” he cries:
On my side of America are a–-kicking, hard-working, indefatigable, dedicated producers who cannot imagine taking possession of something we did not earn ourselves. And the proof of generosity and love from the producers is irrefutable and legendary, how we take care of our families, neighbors and truly needy fellow Americans and even strangers around the globe in time of need. We provide way more hands-up than we do hand-outs, for we know that able-bodied souls understand deep inside their responsibility to being assets instead of liabilities, and given a prod, will indeed get humping once back on their feet.
Heartbreakingly, as has occurred wherever the desouling scams of socialism and communism have been successfully implemented, weak, herds of uncaring people cut in line to take far more than the truly needy might have coming to them … The scammers’ war on poverty creates more poverty, the Great Society goes bust, the New Deal is a raw deal, and Social Security is antisocial …
“What will it take to wake up the takers to admit that they are destroying this once great, proud, ultra productive last best nation on earth?” Nugent asks.
It eludes Ted Nugent that FDR, World War II and the New Deal were responsible for much of the expansionary economy he so misses from his youth. And that nobody, except the Republican Party, considers Social Security “anti-social.”
Reading the rest, Ted sings the praises of the new tribe of WhiteManistan purity, the Tea Party. Of course he has it right. They hate Social Security, just as long as their checks keep coming. It’s everyone else who might get it coming afterwards that works them up so.
I had hoped Ted would deliver another rousing story of his Horatio Alger-like upbringing and personal tenacity. Perhaps a minder read this column and steered him clear of more anecdotes of chopping firewood, shooting varmints and stomping around the Spirit Wild ranch in Texas on his new surgical stainless steel knees, ignoring the pain and the stretching sutures to get the day’s work done.
Give it another seven days and I’ll be here to tell you the result.
In the mean time, Paul Krugman, explained the song of WhiteManistan in a Monday column:
Or we’re told that conservatives, the Tea Party in particular, oppose handouts because they believe in personal responsibility, in a society in which people must bear the consequences of their actions. Yet it’s hard to find angry Tea Party denunciations of huge Wall Street bailouts, of huge bonuses paid to executives who were saved from disaster by government backing and guarantees. Instead, all the movement’s passion, starting with Rick Santelli’s famous rant on CNBC, has been directed against any hint of financial relief for low-income borrowers. And what is it about these borrowers that makes them such targets of ire? You know the answer.
One odd consequence of our still-racialized politics is that conservatives are still, in effect, mobilizing against the bums on welfare even though both the bums and the welfare are long gone or never existed. Mr. Santelli’s fury was directed against mortgage relief that never actually happened. Right-wingers rage against tales of food stamp abuse that almost always turn out to be false or at least greatly exaggerated. And Mr. Ryan’s black-men-don’t-want-to-work theory of poverty is decades out of date.
“And as economic opportunity has shriveled for half the population, many behaviors that used to be held up as demonstrations of black cultural breakdown,” Krugman concludes.
Sing it, Ted, sing it loud.
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