08.17.10
Tuesday Morning Nugent
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.