12.18.12
Noted spokesman for WhiteManistan …
“Leave us the hell alone,” tweets twit Ted Nugent. The angry blurt of the white super gun nut, another one of our ogres, who thinks he’s being victimized. Not a shred of human decency. (Keyword Twitter. Inspirational for new Twitter hoax user: DrunkTedNugent.)
Ted Nugent, last week — before the Newtown massacre, but just after a football player shot himself and his wife, and while another massacre with an AR-15 was going down in Portland:
2 million Americans use guns each year to defend themselves from punks and thugs. Access to guns saves an incalculable number of lives each year.
Over the last two years this blog has documented every wretched thing from Ted Nugent. Nugent epitomizes a bleak right wing ideology that encompasses a withering and merciless contempt for others, a mainstreaming of hate and its employment as good entertainment and valid political discourse. It became his career.
Readers may be very pleased to hear Nugent’s cable show on heavy weapons shoots at his Waco ranch, Ted Nugent’s Gun Country, was sacked by the Discovery channel today.
Reality tv for the Psychopath Vote. Or to paraphrase Paul Fussell, catering to the audience of shallow pocket that gets erections dreaming about shooting or shoving a bayonet into someone foreign or liberal, preferably smaller and not white.
The more indecent and infamous Nugent gets, the more atrocious television he makes. Like a perpetual motion machine of BAD — that which is puerile, odious or both, publicized as if it is the opposite, a defiantly burning example of freedom and liberty.
A show devoted to showing how tricked up semi-automatic long range assault rifles and machine guns to shoot antelope, pop mannequin heads and blow up vehicles. In case you’re attacked by zombies or, uh, real people. What a pitch that must have been.
As said previously, I grew up in a community of hunters. But there came a point where excess became celebrated simply because it was excessive. And now all the straining white flab in too-small camouflage clothes, all the paramilitary gear, the creepy obsession with private ownership of heavy weapons by men who rant about tyrannical government, just shows the rest of the world how psychotic much of this country has turned.
This is accidentally turning out quite well for a photo collage.