04.16.12
Ted sez he’ll be dead if Prez wins
I’ve slowed the pace of posting on Howard, not because he’s not around but because it’s all the same now. Ted Nugent is nuts and repellent but repetitive. His shtick is a shallow one and for a man enamored of using insults as weapons he has very little in the armory. All his enemies are are either subhuman, punks or hippies — sometimes all three at the same time.
He was a guest at the NRA Convention in St. Louis this weekend. I’ve embedded a video of him being interviewed. While the hall is filled with gun owners walking by, the response to Ted is tepid.
Ted bores young people who don’t know him. And for people not out on the most extreme edge with those musing daily about going to Washington to shoot people, Ted is just too unpalatable. However, there’s always value in showing readers overseas just how throwback and extreme some of us are in the declining superpower.
Here, in the big convention for gun promotion, even the NRA’s host is taken a little aback by Ted’s fountain of virulent angry crazy. He notices it’s killing most of the interest, at one point remarking: “What a silent crowd.”
But I listened to the entire thing so you don’t have to.
Here are Ted’s high moments. He’s always at his “best” when coming off like some paranoid old white guy from the country in the Sixties, the air whistling between his teeth while he rants about fluoride in the water as government tyranny:
If Barack Obama becomes the President in November again I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. [A couple of nervous laughs from the crowd. Is Ted joking? They can’t tell.] Why are you laughing? You think that’s funny!? That’s not funny at all! I’m serious as a heart attack!
If you can’t galvanize … people to vote for Mitt Romney, we’re done. We’ll be a suburb of Indonesia next year. Our president, attorney journal, our vice president, Hillary Clinton — they’re criminals.
This is a Ted riff on the current administration, now couched as a fable on what should be done about the “coyote” …
If the coyote’s in your living room pissing on your couch, it’s not the coyote’s fault, it’s your fault for not shooting him.
“I know Mitt Romney has made terrible mistakes in the past up there in the Massachusetts zone…”
[Mitt Romney] vowed to me … he will help gut Fedzilla… if you haven’t got a job, how can there be unemployment benefits … We’ve got a bloodsucker nation, this President is buying their votes, Mitt Romney is going to attack all these violations…
At one point Ted launches into a personal tale about his “three-legged oryx” — a non-native antelope on his ranch in Texas — and not being able to mercy kill it, allegedly because of government regulation.
He rants, likening this, somehow, to Nazi Germany when “the Jews” were being herded onto trains by the SS. It’s an offensive comparison and Ted is oblivious to everything but his personal animus. He tells the crowd it’s time to take the gun off the “brown shirt” and shoot it up his ass. The crowd is quiet. Even the gun-owners are nervous about cheering him too much on it.
I can’t make this stuff up. Thanks, Ted.
Anwar said,
May 7, 2012 at 3:10 am
The only gun control I’ve heard of from MITT FANS is over a hudenrd years old. Get the folks from the local church to collect all the weapons from unsuspecting families . Tell them they will get their arms back a day or so later .Then send a group of savage indians in on them,kill everyone including women and children .Then try to hide the facts from the event for the next 125 years or so. I despize Mitt Romney. He went beserk on a fella a few days ago when he pointed out blatant lies and third truths Ole Mitt was trying to pass of on unsuspecting folks including innocent women and children.