01.15.11
Ted and MLK
The insulting spectacle of Tea Partiers self-validating by claiming common cause with Martin Luther King, Jr. is a regular event. Bizarre and inappropriate, the phenomenon reached its high water mark last year when Glenn Beck tried to cast himself as a modern day MLK.
That sure worked.
Anyway, now you can go on YouTube and easily find video in which miscellaneous Tea Party bigots drape themselves in MLK, just in time for the government-they-despise-so-much-instituted holiday. Like this marginal piece here.
Today, Ted Nugent has written a new WaTimes column celebrating the memory of MLK and going so far as to imagine, from his point of view, what the man might recommend were he alive today.
But Nugent has virtually nothing to say when he isn’t doing his usual shtick.
Since MLK Day remembrance doesn’t afford and opportunity to demonize Democrats or curse the ‘Mao Tse Tung fan club’ said to be in the White House, there’s nothing in the column a high school salutatorian couldn’t come up with.
Here’s the high point, I guess:
The time is always right to do the right thing.
That would seem inarguable.
However, it’s more educating to sample from Ted’s actual daily thoughts from last year. Just to see how they might compare with the spirit of MLK.
And so, from this old DD post, random excerpts from Nugent’s appearance on the Alex Jones radio show on 7-9-10:
“[much deleted] while we crush the bad and the ugly of Barack Hussein Obama and his legions of pimps, whores and welfare brats.”
This, from an extended riff on the conspiracy mania — a joke in and of itself — that the Obama administration was going to take away the right to own guns:
“Sonia Sotomayor, you racist punk …”
“When and if these Mao Tse Tung fan-clubbers in the White House dare
continue down the road they are going and all hell breaks loose, I
am convinced that the majority of law enforcement and the majority
of military personnel will be on the side of we the people …”
After the last inflammatory bit flirting with the subject of armed revolt, Nugent hastily added a bit about going to the voting booth to enact a “turbo-charged awakening” of political change.
Yeah, MLK and Ted Nugent really go good together.