09.19.10
Nugent’s Muslim Thing
Ted Nugent suggested torching the Muslim world with more precision munitions a couple weeks ago in the WaTimes. It was part of the general extremist GOP reaction to park51.
The jump-out graf was:
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 …
Nugent picked up the thread again today at Human Events, with a column that will probably be republished in the WaTimes.
It reads:
While our legal system is far from perfect, it is vastly superior to the Muslim religious court system that ignores justice. I assume that makes Allah giddy with joy. Order up more virgins
Facts are facts. Muslims in the Middle East have zero respect for other religions.
The entirety is here, entitled Muslim Hate Crimes.
The essay begins with the statement that Ted doesn’t support burning the Koran. After this superficial pleasantry, Nugent delivers the meat implying the opposite: Muslims are subhuman.
It is another example of profound failure afoot in our country.
Very bad times have made that which should have no place at the table acceptable.
Nugent, after a mediocre tour of the US heartland’s fairgrounds and casinos, has been labelled a redneck racist bigot by even his staunchest fans. (And it was a complimentary review!) He has been noticeably condemned in red state USA.
He is startlingly often too rude and extreme for the mass of old white cranks who believe the US government — and western progressive civilization in general — to be an abomination.
That Nugent is popular on any TV network (even Fox) is a disgrace another sign of the times.
That he has a readership at all — and he has a significant one — is discouraging. It’s an admission you believe your audience deserves shit sandwiches because a steroidally inflammatory attitude trumps everything.
Here is an example of Nugent’s prose:
The real insult is that President Obama and others spent more time and energy on the Florida pastor than they have actually condemning Muslims for their numerous condemnable and criminal acts against Christians and people of other faiths living in the Middle East.
This religious-inspired Neanderthal behavior is much more disgusting and condemnable than the pastor who wants to burn the Koran or the Christian creeps who show up at the funerals of military heroes with signs that say “God Hates Fags.”
Excluding the weird non-sequitur at the end, copy editors must surely be in tears over the repetitive misuse of the root word, condemn.
Yeah, we get it, Ted. You hate Muslims. And you can’t write.
It is a mystery to DD why not one music journalist has taken Ted Nugent to the mat over his public record. Nugent is an easy target, like many in the Tea Party and the GOP.
And it explains part of the failure of the Democratic Party’s argument, defined by the gut realization that many in the party are just too scared to take on the extremists. They lack spine.
All of the music journalists I know are liberal. Privately, they are appalled by such beliefs. But when they’re needed in the clutch, required to call a spade a spade, they’re just not there.
Don’t ask us about Nugent, they say, shrugging their shoulders.
Ted Nugent lost most of his Michigan audience and fled to Waco, TX, for very clear reasons. He despises the middle class despite insincerely professing the opposite — particularly in Detroit because of the auto industry and the demography of the inner city, chisels his bottom-out-of-sight fans for autographs, likes sucking up to celebrities on Fox and is an Ayn Randian kook by way of proxy admiration for nuts GOP pols who have read Atlas Shrugged and adored Gary Cooper in The Fountainhead.
I’m the only one who’s explained it.
bonze blayk said,
September 20, 2010 at 4:09 am
Dear Mr. Destiny:
I am hoping that, perhaps, as Mr. Nugent’s publicity agent, you could forward my recent FacePalm “Interests” update to him for use in his columnar exploits, which I would be happy to license for a modest fee:
“Books: I like books which burn brightly, with a merry cherry flame!”