The Washington Post did everyone a favor in publishing Jeff Nugent’s break with his famous brother on guns and the culture of the National Rifle Association over the weekend.
By dint of the Post’s publication it has been republished in many smaller newspapers around the country this morning.
Ted Nugent’s comeback was published by one of WhiteManistan’s many crank news sites, Newsmax.
At Newsmax, only the converts read Ted. But small newspaper publications guarantee many more Americans, from all sides, will see the opinion of his brother.
And that has to sting. Because Jeffrey Nugent’s opinion was gentlemanly and well-reasoned. Ted Nugent, on the other hand, rests his entire career on extremism and incivility. He’s very well known for regularly metaphorically recommending violent ends for enemies.
Why would responsible gun owners want to protect people who threaten not only our safety but our gun rights?
People that leave guns unsecured in their house with their children.
Or buy a dangerous weapon dangerous weapon as a gift for a five year old.
Another problem associated with Nugent’s incivility is his inability in getting anyone interested in bankrolling a record for his art.
Ted Nugent built his old rockstar career on writing tunes about what he knew. That was mostly about screwing young women when he was still attractive enough to do it, and somewhat less about hunting and the call of the wild.
He can’t do that anymore. Hard rock music about lusting for women and having one’s way with them, when you look like this, is merely ludicrous. (Go ahead, click that link!)
And an album, with songs all about hunting, shooting and eating venison, has no chance, even in the oldies circuit.
To be a songwriter, it’s good to go with what you know.
What does Ted Nugent know well now? Hating on African Americans, Hispanics, gays, “hippies,” the president, liberals, moochers, the list goes on and on.
Overflowing with piss and venom, it would be a compelling collection. But no one would touch it with a ten foot pole.
I figured it all out for Ted a year or two ago. I saw where he was going if he played his pundit career to the maximum.
I believe strongly that expanding and improving mandatory background checks will keep a lot of people who aren’t entitled to Second Amendment rights from having easy access to guns. As of today, a convicted felon can find a gun show or a private seller and buy a firearm without a background check. That loophole should be closed. Every gun transaction must include a thorough background check. Why would responsible gun owners want to protect people who threaten not only our safety but our gun rights?
The NRA has it wrong: Irresponsible gun owners are bad for everyone. If you shouldn’t have access to a gun, then there should be no way for you to access a gun! Can anyone argue with that?
Let’s see if the NRA and its new leaders step up and do what is right. If not, it will get done without them. We all have a role here, especially to protect our children. Who is going to be the voice for them?
This requires nothing less than a major culture shift. It’s been done before. We just have to do it again.
The Nuge Immigration Plan (NIP) takes five years for even illegal immigrants to become Americans. Until then, they should be treated like indentured servants, meaning that they have to earn their citizenship.
The NIP is not an amnesty program. Amnesty is for left-wing mollycoddlers, losers, bureaucrats and hippies. Occupy that.
We need a real full-length, undefeatable border fence built. All illegal men in America should be required to work on building the fence,
to be completed in one year. We would pay them minimum wage, provide food and shelter, and provide them English and
American history classes at night. Everyone wins.
“The most racist thing our government does is to print literature in Spanish,” he adds.
Like 99 percent of WhiteManistan, Nugent apparently believes illegal immigrants in the US do nothing but soak up government benefits. As someone who’s lived in southern California — no longer any part of WhiteManistan — for over two decades, I find this simultaneously stupefying and hilarious. It is precisely why the GOP is dead here.
[Pablo Pantoja] has a long, impressive political resume, but most recently he was the State Director of Florida Hispanic Outreach for the Republican National Committee. Not any more. Pantoja is now a Democrat.
In his own words (shared with permission):
From: Pablo Pantoja
Subject: From Republican to Democrat
Date: May 13, 2013 5:57:11 PM EDT
Friend,
Yes, I have changed my political affiliation to the Democratic Party.
It doesn’t take much to see the culture of intolerance surrounding the Republican Party today. I have wondered before about the seemingly harsh undertones about immigrants and others. Look no further; a well-known organization recently confirms the intolerance of that which seems different or strange to them.
Studies geared towards making – human beings – viewed as less because of their immigrant status to outright unacceptable claims, are at the center of the immigration debate. Without going too deep on everything surrounding immigration today, the more resounding example this past week was reported by several media outlets.
A researcher included as part of a past dissertation his theory that “the totality of the evidence suggests a genetic component to group differences in IQ.” The researcher reinforces these views by saying “No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-IQ children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against.”
Although the organization distanced themselves from those assertions, other immigration-related research is still padded with the same racist and eugenics-based innuendo. Some Republican leaders have blandly (if at all) denied and distanced themselves from this but it doesn’t take away from the culture within the ranks of intolerance. The pseudo-apologies appear to be a quick fix to deep-rooted issues in the Republican Party in hopes that it will soon pass and be forgotten.
The complete disregard of those who are in disadvantage is also palpable. We are not looking at an isolated incident of rhetoric or research. Others subscribe to motivating people to action by stating, “In California, a majority of all Hispanic births are illegitimate. That’s a lot of Democratic voters coming.” The discourse that moves the Republican Party is filled with this anti-immigrant movement and overall radicalization that is far removed from reality. Another quick example beyond the immigration debate happened during CPAC this year when a supporter shouted ““For giving him shelter and food for all those years?” while a moderator explained how Frederick Douglass had written a letter to his slave master saying that he forgave him for “all the things you did to me.” I think you get the idea …
The current Republican Party, the living heart of WhiteManistan, makes idols out of psychopaths like Ted Nugent. And the national media environment rewards him for it.
But there are costs to continually hating on everyone unlike you.
Q: You say on your website “Styx and REO deserve me.” What does that mean?
A: Make no mistake, those incredible virtuosos in both Styx and REO were and continue to be inspired by the same black American musical heroes that my band and I are inspired by. I guarantee you that each member of all three bands was lured into the world of music by Chuck Berry, Bo Diddly, Little Richard and of course the Stones and Beatles who were inspired by Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters, Lightning Hopkins and all the original black soul music masters. Even the sweetest music moments by those bands are delivered with real all-American gung-ho soulfulness and we couldn’t be more proud to bring our Ted Nugent Black Power Tour 2013 to the same music-loving fun gluttons that love all three bands. We deserve each other!
Q: About a year ago, you said “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either dead or in jail by this time next year.” Neither has happened. Please explain.
A: This president and his administration are so out of control that they are creating an America that does not resemble the America of our founders, and good people like me are their enemy.
Q: Because of some of your comments, you were visited by the Secret Service and were disinvited from performing at Fort Knox. Can you comment on this?
A: We indeed had a wonderful, professional meeting of mutual respect, and they left knowing what they arrived knowing: that I did nothing wrong and that they wasted their time responding to dishonest liberal Democrats who lied through their teeth.
Q: America is, I think, at its most divisive. What is the solution to bringing the country back together and can you find any common ground with the other side?
A: We the people are fighting back stronger than ever and I still believe that the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, the American Way, will prevail and return soon. We need to show unity in we the people having a dream of nonviolence upgrade for our beloved America …
The reporter asked good questions. But this doesn’t work with Ted Nugent as he responds only through e-mail.
You’ll have to admit “nonviolence upgrade,” coming from Nugent, adds to the already long list of howlers.
Does this look like someone who could destroy anything?
Nugent called President Barack Obama a “bad, bad man” and Attorney General Eric Holder a “gun runner” … “[If] if you dare attempt to argue with me about my right to self-defense, I will just have to destroy you,” he said as the NRA crowd cheered again.
He’s taking the stage at today’s NRA convention. It was at the same even last year when Nugent exploded and earned himself a visit from the US Secret Service. Most people manage to get through life without having one of those chalked up on their record.
Anyway, today’s headline for a picture display of Nugent at the Houston Chronicle is pure unintentional hilarity:
Hardly a day goes by without some kid being expelled from an NEA-controlled social engineering indoctrination camp for wearing a pro-gun T-shirt or simply drawing a picture of a gun.
While liberals proclaim they are the vanguards of free speech and tolerance, that protection only applies to their leftist, dope-inspired agenda that destroys everything it touches.
The purpose of kicking little Billy out of school for drawing a picture of a gun or wearing a pro-gun T-shirt or eating a locked and loaded pop-tart is to simply vilify guns, or in the words of Eric “Fast & Furious” Holder, to “brainwash” Americans against the Second Amendment. Achtung, baby!
Our social engineering indoctrination camps are intentionally sending the message to kids and parents alike that guns are evil. Commie community organizer Saul Alinsky would be proud. It takes a very special person to dedicate his book to the devil, which must be why Hillary “No security for you” Clinton was so enamored with old Saul.
Of course, if a kid showed up wearing a shirt with a picture of the president’s mug on it and the words “Like President Obama, I support abortion,” that would be just fine as that message fits the “fundamental transformation” agenda even though abortion, not guns, is what’s eliminating the inner-city population …
And I’m sure the leftist blogs are going to attack me, misquote me, but I’ll tell you why more and more warrior heroes of the military are killing themselves: Because they are in absolute frustration and heartbreak that their boss, their Commander-In-Chief violates the Constitution that he has made an oath to while their hero warrior blood brothers are being blown to smithereens and blown up while executing their oath to the same Constitution that the president, the vice president, and the attorney general violate.
Nightclubbing: Old guys in dungarees, one with a white beard and a cowboy hat, doing “My Girl,” make the skin crawl.
Nominated to replace the bald eagle as national symbol. C’mon, you know it’s just right.
The reason Ted Nugent has a career is because hate is profit. Not a week expires in which Nugent doesn’t recommend very bad things — extreme punishments, metaphorical shootings and slayings, for some individual or a group. In this Nugent is unstinting, an inexhaustible source of oil of vitriol for throwing in the eyes of others.
Week upon week upon week of it, a big show usually republished or rebroadcast everywhere. A surprisingly large number of people applaud and even pay money for it.
A cuddly Uncle Ted made only one joking reference to his wish that he could mow down South Central Los Angeles with an M-4 rifle; only dropped about 10 f-bombs in 50 minutes; paid tribute to the comedy stylings of the late Richard Pryor by laughing deliriously at the thought of Pryor’s “Afro on fire” as the comedian ran from his home in 1980 with his body engulfed in flames; and showed great restraint by only once referring to President Barack Obama as a “Chicago gangster.”
Over a decade ago this wouldn’t have worked. The country had not quite yet made pop-eyed rage, casual cruelty at the expense of others and the irrational mainstream and acceptable. But the real national spirit now, earned through years and years of dedicated toil, is one in which vindictiveness and malice toward all are virtuous.
Nugent, 64, was the most polarizing figure on the bill, thanks to his outspoken views on politics, hunting and guns. But it seems like it’s been at least 30 years since Nugent cared what anyone else thought about him, and he carried that cocksure attitude over to his performance. Basically, it was one long guitar solo, punctuated by an obscene amount of swearing and some “USA! USA!” patriotism tossed in for good measure.
The dates with REO and Styx make up over half his schedule. Without them it’s all dates in front of power drunks and topers at casinos and dive bars like the Flag Staff (now renamed as Penn’s Peak) in Jim Thorpe, PA, a place I wrote about decades ago in Nightclubbing.
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No one will make a record with Ted Nugent anymore.
Today, Nugent excoriates his home state.
From the Detroit Freep:
Michigan-born rocker Ted Nugent ripped the Pure Michigan tourism advertising campaign during a radio appearance this morning, saying his home state is becoming “a suburb of Illinois and San Francisco” due to liberalism and political correctness …
Nugent, a rock star of the 1970s who is known as the “Motor City Madman” and has hits that include “Cat Scratch Fever,” is a hunting enthusiast who has become increasingly politically active with conservative views. In 2012, he received a visit from the Secret Service after comparing President Barack Obama to coyotes that needed to be shot.
In today’s interview, Nugent complained about state laws and regulations that he said prohibit carrying loaded weapons on a motorized vehicle such as a four-wheeler used for hunting and require residents to trap, rather than shoot, beavers that become a nuisance around a resident.
And from right wing conspiracy website WND, an excerpt from Ted’s Weekly column:
Ninety-nine weeks of unemployment is social and economic suicide. I say you get nine weeks of unemployment. If you need assistance after that, contact a church. Hunger is a great motivator …
I say we burn the existing U.S. tax code, which is the single biggest, most bombastic and ambiguous document in the history of the world, and replace it with a flat tax.
This is his audience, where one headline story of the day is
“School forces all girls to ask for lesbian kiss.”
The students were introduced to terms such as “pansexual” and “genderqueer.”
Some of the young female students said they were told it was common for 14-year-old girls to have sex and their parents couldn’t stop them.
Mandy Coon, a mother of an eighth-grade student said, “I am furious. I am her parent. Where does anyone get the right to tell her that it’s OK for her to have sex?”
[Ted Nugent is] someone who has advocated the killing of all pedophiles, yet by his own admission had countless sexual encounters with underage girls, allegedly including a 12-year-old Courtney Love.
From a Minneapolis newspaper, on the REO/Styx/Nugent oldies tour:
Nugent, 64, was the most polarizing figure on the bill, thanks to his outspoken views on politics, hunting and guns. But it seems like it’s been at least 30 years since Nugent cared what anyone else thought about him, and he carried that cocksure attitude over to his performance. Basically, it was one long guitar solo, punctuated by an obscene amount of swearing and some “USA! USA!” patriotism tossed in for good measure.
From the Toledo Blade, an article on the same tour explaining the Midwestern love of “classic rock” — or, as readers of this blog might call it now — WhiteManistan rock:
[Toledo venue manager] Miller refers to classic rock and country music as the arena’s “bread and butter,” attracting “a traditional and loyal audience” who identify with the songs about the Midwest experience — see Styx’s “Blue Collar Man,” for example.
Cronin also noted similarities in the two fan bases, and said that REO Speedwagon keyboardist and co-founder Neal Doughty has a theory that classic rock is really the new country.
“Not musically, but just in as much as it’s long lasting,” he said. “It’s the music of heartland, and it’s another alternative” …
The music of heartland for some, of stomach-turning for others. Modern country became the refuge of classic rock in the last twenty years. Neal Doughty of REO has it a little bit sideways.
The musicians in modern country play light classic rock with banjo and fiddles glued on for seasoning.
See the most recent comment on Brad Paisley, here. After bombing with “Accidental Racist,” his record company launched another weird dud, “Beat This Summer.”
Now I ask you, who thought conjuring the spirit of a slightly older Jon Benet Ramsey by putting the song to a video in which a very little boy and little girl have a puppy summer affair on the Santa Monica pier was a great idea? Wistful, I don’t think so. It made my skin crawl.
God save us from the clueless in WhiteManistan and heartland music.
Nugent, the motor-mouthed madman of the American conservative movement, brought his self-touted business expertise to downtown San Antonio when he delivered the keynote address at a convention hosted by the Entrepreneurs’ Organization, a network designed to help business owners learn from each other.
A cuddly Uncle Ted made only one joking reference to his wish that he could mow down South Central Los Angeles with an M-4 rifle; only dropped about 10 f-bombs in 50 minutes; paid tribute to the comedy stylings of the late Richard Pryor by laughing deliriously at the thought of Pryor’s “Afro on fire” as the comedian ran from his home in 1980 with his body engulfed in flames; and showed great restraint by only once referring to President Barack Obama as a “Chicago gangster.”
