03.13.14
Posted in Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 3:56 pm by George Smith
Poor Ted Nugent, propped up in bed or on the sofa, dosed with pain-killers so he can bend his new metal knees a little bit more everyday.
What comes into his mind?
Well, he drifts back to the halcyon time of 1955 America, when everyone knew their place, fondly recalling youthful work pumping gas and, today for WND, delivering newspapers on his Huffy bicycle.
No job was too menial for Ted to take, he rants. And that’s the problem with Americans, he continues in a screed exactly like the one yesterday.
Too damn lazy and entitled! Especially the other people — like in Detroit!
The old man does get-off-my-lawn and the bigot’s dog whistling, for the second time in 48 hours, showing that the prescription pain-killers are, certainly, having some kind of effect:
There was no hesitation then for me to get more jobs at the tender age of 11 or 12. I started delivering the Shopping News newspaper to my 100 or so customers from the elevated seat of my Huffy “StumpJumper??? bike …
I continued to increase my workload with a second paper route delivering the Detroit News to over 90 customers seven days a week, hunting big, fat, slimy night-crawlers in the middle of the night and selling them for fishing bait around the neighborhood …
If someone would have dared to claim back then that someday America would accept an official category of the American workforce as “those who have given up looking for a job,??? or worse yet, a list of “jobs Americans are not willing to do,??? you would have been laughed out of town …
Negotiate for sick days instead of better quality products, and continue to punish the producers while rewarding the bloodsuckers.
Bloodsuckers that won’t work, that’s the problem! Repeat it again and again because not enough are paying attention. Especially the two hundred or more lined up for two part-time jobs, one as a dishwasher and one as a meat-wrapper, at Whole Foods a week or so ago.
These bloodsuckers, dragging down the great nation Ted knew. It breaks his heart.
Next week, another column of Horatio Alger-like tenacity, Nugent writing about his days shoveling snow and chipping ice off the sidewalks before the sun came up so old folks wouldn’t slip and fall in the Motor City. And he took that ice and snow, put it on his wooden sledge, named Rosebud, carting it back to the house where it was melted for the sweetest free drinking water.
Tapped out on Ted’s tablet as he stomps around on his new knees, now the size of cantaloupes, blood leaking slowly into his boots but bulling through the pain, tending wild game, clearing brush and picking up the brass from the morning machine-gun firing at the ranch.
America! My America! Where have you gone!!!
Effin-ay, the man’s pathetic to the third power.
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03.12.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 11:33 am by George Smith
Ted Nugent’s Facebook page and Twitter feeds are run by staff, the former primarily for the purpose of peddling merchandise and hunting tourism. And since his double knee replacement surgery Nugent has been quieted, emerging lucid only once on Facebook to announce his ongoing recovery and that it involved a considerable amount of pain.
Today, at the right wing conspiracy theory news site, Newsmax:
Today I will write and record some more killer music, write more killer articles, review the artwork for my new CD, review the military logistics for my 2014 killer tour, edit my killer Spirit of the Wild TV show, check my trapline, train my dogs, conduct media interviews, work on my trucks, shoot my bow and some guns, do my post-double knee replacement surgery therapy, perform various chores on our ranch, and as always, do what I am driven to do in order to live my ultimate American dream of independence to the fullest.
Liar, liar, pants on fire. Nobody does this soon after double-knee replacement surgery.
The graph comes from a longer column, easily something canned, dictated or ghost-written, in which Nugent excoriates all the lazy Americans who won’t work and allegedly don’t want jobs.
It is delivered with the usual Republican Party bigot dog-whistle, the big city where African-American people live, in this case, Detroit.
Ted relates a story from his youth, perhaps apocryphal or exaggerated in some way. (Nugent regularly lies about everything, the most recent example being on CNN before he went into the hospital, delivering since refuted claims that he was a sheriff and often engaged in law enforcement activities with a variety of local agencies as well as the DEA and ATF.)
Nugent’s youthful morality tale has him outperforming two supposedly lazy rivals as a dollar-an-hour gas-pumping kid at a local service station. It’s a good old man’s get-off-my-lawn stem-winder, reminiscent of the kind of thing my grandfather used to love retelling at Thanksgiving get-togethers.
“I remember my first job paid 25 cents an hour … Why can’t young people etc …”
Nugent, excerpted:
Well there ya have it America, especially you lazy bums who so embarrassingly chose to give up looking for work or won’t work at jobs they consider beneath them. Have we become France?
Until America returns to the pride of excellence, productivity, and the pride of earned ownership, we will continue to spiral at high velocity down that suicidal death march of dependency that liberal democrats have brainwashed us into. I remember the real Detroit.
Entitled? Economic equality? Social justice? Are you kidding me? Those two jerks at the gas station sure would have loved to have a Barack Obama negotiate their wages for them …
And here’s an emergency alert for all you bloodsuckers — you are entitled to jack squat.
Yes, Nugent remembers the real Detroit before it was ruined by the blood-sucking other people.
It’s the Republican thing. One of the reasons there is high unemployment is the other people in cities.
Jesus of America, Paul Ryan, today:
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) previewed his upcoming legislative proposals for reforming America’s poverty programs during an appearance on Bill Bennett’s Morning in America Wednesday, hinting that he would focus on creating work requirements for men “in our inner cities??? and dealing with the “real culture problem??? in these communities. “We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with,??? he said.
One restores the learned value and culture of work in the mostly-working poor by taking away their food stamps and health care.
Emergency alert for all the blood-suckers.
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03.10.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 9:42 am by George Smith
No ranting about Nazis and Commies.
The report, on Facebook.
It’s a hard road. Read some of the fine print.
“You can still fight the good fight from your favorite chair,” writes a well-wisher.
Even when they obviously mean well, some people are just a little too stupid for words.
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03.05.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 3:04 pm by George Smith
Our pundits — stupid and lazy. They continue writing about America’s favorite racist as if he’s still in action and paying attention.
“Ted Nugent, the old rocker from the ’70s, is now just plain old — and off his rocker,” writes Jim Hightower for the Colorado Independent.
“Some years ago, ’70s-era rocker Ted Nugent reinvented himself as a professional rhetorical bomb-thrower on behalf of right-wing causes, especially gun supremacy,” writes Katy Burns, for a New England newspaper.
“He mostly blathered on the fringes, unnoticed by mainstream media but embraced by a collection of Republican candidates and conservative media figures … But even then, calling the duly elected and re-elected president of the United States a ‘subhuman mongrel’ seemed initially to be unremarked on by anyone but a few leftist bloggers,” she continued on Sunday.
Last week Ted Nugent went into the hospital for double knee replacement surgery. And as I predicted, the ranting stopped.
Most have missed it. And that’s because our six-figure explainers don’t really follow Ted Nugent. They just get their material from others — “leftist bloggers” — or the most inflammatory video segments at the top of the Google pile-up.
Here’s Ted Nugent’s Twitter feed.
Nugent’s medical problem and its solution are serious.
No “animal skulldancing” any time soon.
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02.27.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Ted Nugent at 10:53 am by George Smith
The Texas Niagara Falls of race-baiting slurs and misogyny will stop. For now. Ted Nugent is to the hospital for total knee replacement. He uses a cane, put aside when he takes the stage. Nugent was a candidate for a Rascal.
Nugent suffers from kidney stones. His knees are gone from bone grinding on bone and the resulting osteoarthritis. The mainstream media, despite its daily coverage of his colorful character for the past two years for the sake of clickbait, has declined to speak of this aspect of the man’s life. Nugent is not the iron man he likes to paint himself as. He’s 65. He has health problems.
And today in his column at WorldNetDaily, after a week or so of being at the center for a media maelstrom for calling the president a subhuman mongrel, Nugent announces he will be taking a break as he undergoes double knee replacement.
It is not a trivial procedure:
As you read this, yet another little Nuge update at WND.com on this lovely day of our Lord, Feb. 26, 2014, I am gone with the wind, out cold, bonkers, comfortably numb, zapped, schnookered, boogered, out of pocket, off the grid, anesthetized, beyond the zone, almost Ozzy-like.
No, really. I’m plugged in/out in the hospital right now, today, getting new wheels. My long overdue double knee replacement surgery could not be put off any longer …
And what, you may ask, is so positive about this painful procedure that knocks me flat on my 65-year-old a–? Well, beyond the truism that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and beyond the joyful thoughts of being back in the saddle of that legendary Ted Nugent athletic mobility, this rare down moment in time will force me to temporarily disengage from this putrid, tragic culture-war media debate that rages on across the land on a minute by minute, hour by hour, day after day nonstop basis.
“You see, not only will my legs become more powerful and reinforced for the rock ‘n’ roll and bowhunting adventures that lie ahead in my indefatigable American Dream, but after this brief respite and forced rehab, a certain electrifying soul cleansing and spirit re-invigoration will surely transpire, increasing the mental, physical and spiritual firepower of our favorite MotorCity Madman,” Nugent continues in one of his now bog standard run-on sentences.
Maybe. Maybe not.
Double knee replacement is tough surgery.
“Full recovery will take 3 months to a year,” informs the National Institute of Health. If Nugent wished to be even potentially ready for his summer tour this year, now was the drop dead last moment to have knee replacement done. He still might not make it back in time. Summer, I’m predicting, will be for a vacation.
Total knee replacement patients are put on their feet quite early after the procedure so that the joints do not stiffen.
Physical rehab takes a good deal of time. Pain is considerable so control of it is important.
On the replacement, one doctor comments: “It is not designed to make you younger or allow you to do activities that add stress to the joint or risk added injury.”
High impact in daily life, tennis playing, jumping off of even small guitar amplifiers, pretending you’re a young man, are pretty much out. The problem lies in the nature of the prosthetics. They can loosen or shift.
“Perhaps the most common long-term problem with both artificial knees and hips is loosening of the prosthetic and the wearing out of the joint surface,” advises a doctor. “[Maintaining] proper body weight and staying physically fit, while avoiding repetitive high-impact sports such as long distance running, will help preserve joint function and longevity.”
On CNN earlier this week, Nugent appeared to barely hanging onto composure. To me, anyway. This, as a very stressing future, may have had something to do with it.
Ted Nugent needs a break. So does everyone else, from him. Perhaps it will be positive.
For CNN, Nugent made idiotic claims about going along on law enforcement missions, raids, with the DEA, ATF, FBI and Texas Rangers. These are claims he has made before but it’s not worth looking them up. They’re obviously lies.
Politifact went to the trouble of calling the agencies.
It dubs Nugent a liar here. But we already knew that.
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02.24.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Psychopath & Sociopath, Ted Nugent at 7:59 pm by George Smith
Please proceed, Ted.
Either it’s a camera distortion or there’s something wrong with Ted Nugent’s mouth. One corner, his right, doesn’t work quite as it should.
Nugent starts coming apart at around six minutes, losing it when CNN’s Erin Burnett runs a tape in which he elliptically calls the President a chimpanzee.
“I have not a racist bone in my body … I’m a black guitar player from Detroit, get over it!” he rants.
“I never called the president a chimpanzee!”
Changes subject to “Benghazi!”
It gets worse here.
Credit a host who put someone, now nearly hysterical and visibly mentally ill, on the spot for about 13 minutes. The slurs come out of him too quickly now, he can’t stop himself.
CNN finally realizes it’s hosting a psychopath.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 1:53 pm by George Smith
Please proceed, Ted.
Bowing to reader request, more Ted Nugent!
Today, from Media Matters where they listen to all, and I do mean all, his radio broadcast appearances:
NUGENT: Well I got to tell you, Dennis, I just don’t agree at all. There was an incrementalism to what happened in Germany and other places historically, where they came in slowly. And they started, you know, the power struggle between the different races, and the power struggle between different elements of society. And they incrementally worked their way in. And I think that’s what Obamacare is, that’s what I think most of what he represents. The IRS — I really believe that what we see with the IRS can be compared accurately and historically to the early maneuvers of people like jack booted thugs, like the brownshirts. I really believe that and I think that you are being too soft on them, because —
DENNIS MILLER: No, we just disagree Teddy.
NUGENT: I think [Obama] really wants to destroy America. I think he wants to follow the Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals book, destroy our economy, have a — I can’t even think of the term right now — but the war between the haves and the have-nots, when the haves have because they try really hard and the have-nots don’t have because they don’t try as hard.
Give the poor, like me, access to health care they didn’t have before, or who paid out for years into useless junk policies, it’s just like Nazism. But still rather mild when put alongside the routine of comparing a couple famous Jewish people to Joseph Goebbels.
I doubt Ted Nugent has ever read the must cited Saul Alinsky. It’s something he learned about from watching Glenn Beck on Fox News a few years ago.
“He’s a little over the top but he’s funny,??? said Mitchell Creson of Nugent.
The above, from a North Carolina newspaper, today, on Nugent being given two handguns decorated with a custom decal process made by a local company.
In Texas, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, Greg Abbott, still has a significant polling lead over Democrat Wendy Davis. Despite Nugent, Texas will elect the Republican.
On Friday I asked a couple rock journalists who were in Michigan at Creem magazine in the early-70’s if Ted Nugent had actually always been like this, just without the media megaphone and people willing to reprint it.
No one seemed to know or be willing to comment directly although they did inform that he’d always been something of a fraud.
Also confirmed by a friend from Texas: In the context of state politics Nugent is not much of a liability because his presence brings people to rallies and, paradoxically, the base shares his “family values.??? Or they think they do. The distinction between what is reality and what’s imagined is not important.
Krugman, on the GOP and Obamacare, today:
Even supporters of health reform are somewhat surprised by the right’s apparent inability to come up with real cases of hardship. Surely there must be some people somewhere actually being hurt by a reform that affects millions of Americans. Why can’t the right find these people and exploit them?
The most likely answer is that the true losers from Obamacare generally aren’t very sympathetic. For the most part, they’re either very affluent people affected by the special taxes that help finance reform, or at least moderately well-off young men in very good health who can no longer buy cheap, minimalist plans. Neither group would play well in tear-jerker ads …
No, what the right wants are struggling average Americans, preferably women, facing financial devastation from health reform. So those are the tales they’re telling, even though they haven’t been able to come up with any real examples.
Hey, I have a suggestion: Why not have ads in which actors play Americans who have both lost their insurance thanks to Obamacare and lost the family farm to the death tax?
Comparison to Nazism apparently not working.
However, in California some agency has been working to convince seniors that signing up for Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, here it’s called Medi-Cal and it’s what I have as of January 1, may have their estates seized as part of the state’s attempt to recoup medical costs after the patient dies.
From the LA Times, over the weekend:
Despite government assurances that the vast majority of Medi-Cal patients needn’t worry about the state trying to claim their assets, growing numbers of new enrollees under Obamacare are voicing concerns after reading warnings on healthcare notices that after their deaths the state “must seek repayment of Medi-Cal benefits” for services provided once they turn 55 …
Established in 1993, the federal government’s estate recovery program was chiefly intended to recoup outlays for lengthy nursing home stays and skilled nursing care, which are among its biggest expenses.
But California and other states have exercised an option in limited instances to recover payment for medical services, from doctor visits and surgeries to managed care payments and drugs.
Norman Williams, a spokesman for the state Department of Health Care Services in Sacramento, says only a tiny fraction of the 9 million patients using Medi-Cal will be affected by cost recovery actions against their estates. Less than a quarter of a percent of the more than $600 billion the state spent on Medi-Cal over the past 20 years has been recovered, he said …
Doreena Wong, a project director for Asian Americans Advancing Justice – LA, an advocacy group, said that the estate collection program is “a barrier to our community” and discouraging many people from completing applications for coverage.
At the Chinatown branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, where Wong’s group has stationed a Chinese-speaking health educator to assist with enrollments, a quarter of potential Medi-Cal recipients are walking away instead of signing up, she said. Many, she added, cite worries about losing their estates.
The newspaper estimates that an additional 2 million people in California will be covered by Medi-Cal through the Medicaid expansion in Obamacare.
It also notes that some Medi-Cal eligible readers have written letters to the newspaper citing fear for their estates after they are die. Health care advocates tell the newspaper when the conflict between the state law and the new conditions of nationwide health care where not forseen. They believe the problem can be remedied by making only nursing home care potentially recoverable or extending exemptions because eligibility is now being determined by income, not including assets like homes and cars.
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02.21.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 12:42 pm by George Smith
It was all the usual good fun for Ted Nugent when he called the President a “subhuman mongrel” for his base of crazy and rotten middle-aged guys from WhiteManistan at a gun show last month. After all, this is a man who’s made a routine of comparing Jewish people to Joseph Goebbels in the last couple weeks.
But then Ted Nugent went on the campaign trail with Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbot. The media interest in the Texas race refocused on his history. And the “subhuman mongrel” bit, along with his other things, are exploding in his face.
Told ya so.
This, at images.google.com, is really bad juju.
The world Google-bombed Ted Nugent and he is now inextricably linked with calling the President a “subhuman mongrel.” Everyone knows what he really wanted to say.
At the LA Times, minutes ago:
“I did cross the line. I do apologize — not necessarily to the president — but on behalf of much better men than myself,??? Nugent said Friday in an interview with Ben Ferguson, a Dallas-based conservative talk radio host.
Nugent said he regretted “using the street-fighter terminology of ‘subhuman mongrel’ instead of just using more understandable language, such as ‘violator of… the Constitution…. the liar that he is.’???
As an apology, it’s small beer. As well as tortured.
Nugent has crossed the line many times. But this is the first instance in which he seems to be regretting it. If he he now feels some fear it’s only because he may realize what the media could do to him.
The mainstream media pretty much made Ted Nugent over the last two to three years. They considered him controversial, clickbait and good for views, a charismatic character.
But Ted Nugent’s soul is twisted and stained in ways most can’t imagine. He is as vile a figure as you can find in the public light in 2014 and he has never had any sense of self-control. The “subhuman mongrel” moment and his applauding audience of gun-nut riffraff are on video and it cannot be removed from the net.
The mainstream media can turn on people like Ted Nugent, as quickly as they hoisted them up. And no one will mourn the passing.
Other Republicans, famous ones, have been forced to confront Ted Nugent’s poison. Rick Perry, Rand Paul and John McCain are three who have denounced him for it, according to the Times.
Actually, this is what Rick Perry said:
“I’ve got a problem with someone calling the president a ‘mongrel.’ That is an inappropriate thing to say.”
So the subhuman part was OK, though.
This is your Republican Party. The people running the show are, as said in the lede, crazy and rotten men from WhiteManistan, the same demographic defined by Ted Nugent.
America’s favorite ranting racist is their guy!
Please proceed, Ted.
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02.20.14
Posted in Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 2:19 pm by George Smith
When Ted Nugent called the President a “subhuman mongrel” in January at a gun expo it cost him nothing. In fact, it got him cheers from his usual base of rotten and crazy dudes in WhiteManistan.
However, Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott’s choice to campaign with Nugent has taken both of them into the media spotlight, and not in a good way.
What had been generally ignored a month ago is no longer.
The consequences are read, provided by a political correspondent at a Houston newspaper:
Most political prognosticators, including yours truly, have been predicting that while state Sen. Wendy Davis will probably make the best showing by a statewide Democratic candidate in Texas in decades, she still is likely to come up short in beating Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott in November …
However, this week, Abbott may have made just the fatal mistake we did not expect. For reasons beyond comprehension, Abbott decided to campaign with rock star-turned-political wacko, Ted Nugent …
He has admitted that he frequently slept with under-age girls while on tour, a felony in Texas. Although he frequently invokes fallen American military servicemen in his political rants, he also admitted to an elaborate scheme to dodge the draft and the Vietnam War.
But what Abbott is going to really find problematic in his quest to become the next governor is that there is no governor on Nugent’s mouth. According to him, President Obama is a “subhuman mongrel” and a “piece of s—.” He referred to Hillary Clinton as a “bitch” and worse. He has said he would shoot those crossing the border illegally, that it might have been better if the South won the Civil War, that feminists are “fat pigs” and he sees nothing wrong with using the N-word.
The media have exploded with stories about the joint appearance, and each one has chronicled some of Nugent’s most despicable comments or positions. Now Abbott is stained with Nugent and has provided Davis with material for powerful negative campaign ads. The campaign event was a potentially catastrophic blunder …
“I think the GOP has grossly underestimated the depth of resentment the Nugent episode has engendered with women,” continues the Houston columnist. He adds that some Republican voting women have told him they will be quietly voting for Abbott’s challenger, Wendy Davis.
He also uses the word “despicable” in describing Nugent. It is one of the most honest pieces on Nugent that I’ve seen from the mainstream in a while. And it was published in Texas.
“Subhuman mongrel” in the Google News tab.
“Subhuman mongrel” — Google general search.
And most choice — “subhuman mongrel” — at images.google.
Slowly but surely, this one’s going to hurt America’s most public bigot.
However, I have my doubts whether being tarred with Nugent’s comments means much in Texas politics.
Nationally, though, a different story.
At WorldNetDaily, Ted makes no mention of this. Instead, today, he devotes his column to naming all the hunting gear companies that send him stuff.
Excerpted, it’s pathetically amusing:
We practiced diligently with our Mathews bows and Excalibur Matrix crossbow and headed out for afternoon number two …
Shemane [Nugent’s wife] settled into her Primos Double Bull blind with ace SpiritWild VidCamDude Kris Helms running the camera for her. The nonstop flutterfest of birdlife is always fascinating …
Shemane had her Matrix solidly on her Caldwell portable shooting bench when a handsome butterball forkhorn … She is a patient hunter and was committed to wait for a nice buck for her Queen of the Forest hunting segment on our “Spirit of the Wild??? TV show on Outdoor Channel.
Shemane smoothly squeezed the Excalibur trigger, and the glowing orange Lumenok …
You will see the moment of glory on high definition video when this Queen of the Forest episode of “Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild??? airs on Outdoor Channel later this year…
Kris and Shemane walked straight to the mighty buck that died within a few yards and a matter of seconds from the razor-sharp Muzzy Trocar three blade broadhead.
Muzzy!
And, Sarah Palin: “If [Greg Abbott] is good enough for Ted Nugent, he is good enough for me!???
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02.19.14
Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Psychopath & Sociopath, Ted Nugent at 11:07 am by George Smith
Overnight Ted Nugent was criticized by Wolf Blitzer of CNN for a comment, now about a month old, in which he called the President a “subhuman mongrel.”
The segment, in connection with Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott’s choice to use Nugent as a public campaign booster, immediately spawned a Twitter response from America’s most public bigot.
From Media Matters:
This is most ungenerous since it is the mainstream media that butters Ted’s bread. It has made made him enough of a national celebrity to guarantee he earns more money being WhiteManistan’s favorite racist than actually playing guitar to riffraff on the county fair and casino circuit.
In any case, blog readers know Nugent always calls his enemies Nazis. And (Mao-Tse Tung Fan Club) Commies, although the latter seems to have gone to into disuse over the last six months.
In January of this year Nugent compared movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who is Jewish, to Joseph Goebbels. And the parents of CNN’s Wolf Blitzer were Holocaust survivors.
And, writes Media Matters: “In March 2013, Nugent compared Obama to ‘a German in 1938 pretending to respect the Jews and then going home and putting on his brown shirt and forcing his neighbors onto a train to be burned to death.’ ”
Of course, it’s not news to readers that Nugent is both repugnant and a gold-plated idiot. If you’re going to repeatedly compare your enemies to Joseph Goebbels, perhaps you ought to be able to get the Nazi’s name right before blurting it out with whatever comes into your head.
In the future perhaps Himmler would be easier to spell.
Ted Nugent, as a psychopath, is certainly the best man for the Republican Party as well as another pretty good example of daily malice and indecency as American virtues.
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