06.02.11
Nugent abandons Palin
For a long time, Ted Nugent was Sarah Palin’s best toady.
I published this joke and the silly mugl shot that made him look old and beamish so many times it’s remotely possible it got around to him.
Now Ted shaves once again. Or it just could be he’d rather look more like he used to for the fans on his summer tour of rib shacks, casinos and ag fairs.
Anyway, Sarah was the jazz. Ted was even her official hagiographer for TIME magazine. She was pretty much a natural for the ex-Motor City Madman, being a rootin’-tootin’ gal into hunting and shooting and chainsawing and grizzly-bearing.
But that was in 2010. This year, Nugent quit his job as ambassador-at-large for Palin.
Earlier in the year he entertained the idea of endorsing Donald Trump.
That has not been fruitful, either.
Today, in the WaTimes, Nugent is all in for the governor of his home state Texas, Rick Perry.
Sadly, once again a copy editor had to be cruelly humiliated:
The lede in to Ted’s essay:
Good friend and Texas Gov. Rick Perry should remember that now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
Now is that time, Rick. Run for president.
Ted is not pleased with the overall quality of GOP presidential material.
Interestingly, while other famous right wingers have lobbied vigorously for Chris Christie to jump into the fray, Nugent has been silent on the matter.
I know why. Ted was never going to get into the Christie mania.
Christie does have the same temperament and outlook as Ted Nugent.
But, and it’s one big but —[cough], a Ted thing is to hector Americans for being too zaftig.
Ted isn’t into those who find it quite the hardship to push themselves away from the dinner table.
To Nugent, Christie would appear as a hippopotamus, more generously a musk ox or wild Russian boar, things Nugent would prefer to hunt.
Speaking of wild pigs, Nugent again got some bad press in Michigan this week.
The Kalamazoo newspaper published on article mentioning Nugent’s lobbying to have a law that will declare exotic swine illegal invasives in Michigan overturned.
The law has been enacted to curb disease and destruction to the environment caused by the animals when they escape their pens.
Nugent has a ranch in Michigan where he sells tickets to big game hunts. Wild boar shoots had been one of Nugent’s attractions.
So Nugent’s interest is profit-motivated.
A national wild-life expert advocating Michigan’s ban commented for the Kalamazoo paper:
The report also cited an opposing view from Jack Mayer, a national swine expert, who said the ban is needed because swine easily escape enclosure and are able to survive and reproduce in Michigan.
“Every one of the states that has one of these commercial fenced shooting operations is leaking hogs,” said Mayer, according to the MIRS report. “You can’t fence wild pigs, I’m sorry.”