01.04.12
Hippy Howard
Ted Nugent Howard wasn’t always a raging libertarian/ GOP shoe-shiner who regularly spouts get-off-my-lawn black bile about kids, the president, unemployed people, way too many others and social safety-net programs.
For example, last week at the WaTimes, the bog standard Howard:
In the inescapable, common-sense world to which producers of America are hopelessly addicted and in which they proudly reside, compensation is determined by dreams, work ethic, skill, knowledge, ability, expertise, level of effort and, last but not least, results. Put that in your merciless pay pipe and suck on it till you drop, Occupiers.
Employees who lack these most basic of work characteristics are tossed out on their lame rears in short order, as it should be …
Then there’s this, from the television studio at Wayne State, in what looks like the late Sixties.
It’s part five of five where a young Ted reclines and chats, looking and sounding a lot like the “hippies” he regularly damns and condemns in his many political columns now.
During the interview Ted and the interviewer gently laugh about the Soupy Sales show, also done in the studio.
“I’m not deep into politics, mind you,” Ted says.
“It’s a groovy place we’re livin’ in here,” he adds, near the finish.
Groovy.
According to Chuck Eddy, the interviewer is “Dave Dixon, co-writer of Peter Paul and Mary’s ‘I Dig Rock and Roll Music‘, and a big deal on Detroit underground rock stations in the early ’70s.”
Peter Paul and Mary were a big part of the “stinky hippie” soundtrack of the times.
Getting old isn’t for weaklings.
Many are epic failures at it, covering their smallness with a bulwark that loudly and regularly insists they’re better now than they ever wuz.
We hear ya, Ted.
Nugent interviewed at Wayne State, part five. (Embedding was disabled.)