I was going to hold “Jesus of America,” a satirical tune for tomorrow when I had a video ready. But vignettes from the wire today so captured an insane meanness of American spirit there seemed no point in waiting.
Reducing government deficits Mitt Romney’s way would mean less money for health care for the poor and disabled and big cuts to nuts-and-bolts functions such as food inspection, border security and education.
Romney also promises budget increases for the Pentagon, above those sought by some GOP defense hawks, meaning that the rest of the government would have to shrink even more
[Other cuts] include food stamps, school lunches, crop subsidies, Supplemental Security Income for very poor seniors and disabled people, unemployment insurance, veterans’ pensions and refundable tax credits to the working poor.
Based on the Romney materials, it’s impossible to project the size of the cuts to such programs. Suffice it to say, they would be controversial.
“There’s good reason why Ryan’s budget and the Romney budget don’t have details,” said Jim Horney, a budget analyst with the liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy priorities think tank. “If people knew what it would actually have to be done to accomplish what they’re saying should be done, it’s hard to imagine there would be widespread support for it.”
Ted Nugent has been a more interesting study. The Secret Service has not shut him up but he’s fairly obviously been crippled by it. In compensation he’s pumped out two columns, one on demonizing the poor at the Washington Times, the other attacking the Lacey Act at Human Events.
Last week, Nugent accepted a plea deal in Alaska on a Lacey Act violation, transporting an illegally taken black bear over state borders.
Here’s another blazing statement of the obvious: Poor people will quit being poor when our government quits enabling, bribing, training and rewarding them to be poor. Write that down.
People can and will do amazing things when Fedzilla removes its heavy bureaucratic boot off of their throats …
The very first thing that needs to be done to eliminate poverty is to stop punishing the producers and expand economic freedom …
While we desperately need to eliminate the vast controls over economic freedom on the wealthy, we also need to eliminate the government poverty programs that enable and encourage people to be poor instead of encouraging them to be free, independent, self-reliant people.
Government causes poverty because it enables poor people to continue to make poor decisions. If we want to win the war on poverty, we’ve first got to win the war against Fedzilla, which intentionally causes poverty …
Since President Obama took office, Gibson has been raided twice by federal US Fish and Wildlife agents with guns drawn over suspicious wood. That’s right, guns drawn over wood …
Federal agents seized $500,000 worth of precious musical wood from India that is used to make Gibson guitars. The feds claim the wood was imported illegally from India, a violation of a heavy-handed law known as the Lacey Act.
Gibson has not been charged with a crime in either the 2009 or the 2012 raid, yet the special wood remains in Fedzillas clutches.
Good friend and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz fears Gibson may lose market share due to the loss of this very specialized wood.
This is the result of President Obama’s Department of Injustice run amok …
Had Gibson Guitars donated money to the Democratic Party or were members of the New Black Panther Party we can be sure that there would have been no raids with guns drawn and no wood confiscated …
The column, old news on Gibson, is meaningless unless you know that last week Nugent’s lawyers accepted a plea deal on a conviction under the Lacey Act. Nugent must be apoplectic over being tagged as serial hunting scofflaw — two convictions in two years, both stemming from hunts staged for his tv show. One might imagine his reputation to be trash among reasonable hunters, people who manage to stay out of trouble — a ten k fine’s worth — and the news.
The plea agreement says Nugent illegally shot and killed the bear in May 2009 on Sukkwan Island in southeast Alaska days after he wounded a bear in a bow hunt, which counted toward a state seasonal limit of one bear for that location. The agreement says Nugent knowingly possessed and transported the bear in misdemeanor violation of the Lacey Act …
“It’s kind of embarrassing for him because he practices ethical hunting and advocated ethical hunting and gets caught up in a crazy law that none of us have heard about,??? [Nugent’s attorney] said.
Nugent’s loss of that deer hunting license through June 2012 allows 34 other states to revoke the same privilege under the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact. Each state, however, can interpret and enforce the agreement differently.
“Now if we can just blow the head clean off the Fedzilla beast in November, this sort of government abuse will come to an end, of that I am certain,” he concludes.
Paradoxically, the investigation of Gibson was started under the Bush administration.
Jesus fed the poor with loaves and fishes
He really liked the lepers, too
Then he found the land of liberty
And America taught him what to do
Jesus of America said don’t feed the poor…
If you do they’ll come right to your door
They’ll end up like stray cats, shedding on the floor.
That’s what Jesus said.
Wealthiness, just like Godliness
That’s what Jesus taught
Jesus of America sez guns, not butter
The rest just goes all for naught
Jesus of America said don’t feed the poor
They are just too lazy, they’ll never work at all
Jesus of America sez tax the weak and sick
They’re always gonna be that way, never worth a lick
Sing for Jesus Lord
Jesus of America, sing praise for the best
You know our faith informs us, nothing for the rest
Wealthiness leads to Godliness
That’s what Jesus taught
Republican Jesus, he’s our favorite guy
He believes in markets, sing praises to the sky
If Jesus said it, you know it must be true
So now it’s time to whip the poor, you know what to do!
We’ve bought into the morality of the market completely. Economic success is a matter of morality, of working hard and doing all the right things. If you fail, you deserve all the hardships, degradation and shame you’ll get. If you don’t have any money, you are a loser. Watch CNBC personality Rick Santelli’s infamous rant about losers.
Whatever the rich have, they deserve to keep because they worked for it. Poor people don’t deserve help because it only makes them weaker. If we lend a hand to those who stumble during the race, it belittles the efforts of those who kept running …
This is the guiding governing philosophy in the House of Representatives. Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, has argued that his budget plan is guided by his Catholic faith …
In other words, budget cuts in programs such as food stamps, unemployment benefits, housing assistance and health care aren’t just a fiscal necessity; they are a moral mandate, Ryan says.
While US Catholic bishops are hardly ever good for anything, at least they couldn’t stomach Ryan’s rationalizations. Jesus didn’t suddenly transmute into Republican Jesus, scourge of the lepers and poor.
Blessed are the job creators/They can always hire way more waiters.
Fined $10,000 and 2 years probation for illegally bagging a black bear in Alaska. That makes two convictions in two years, making someone who constantly brags about being a great hunter, a hunting scofflaw in practice.
Rocker and wildlife hunter Ted Nugent has agreed to plead guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed in southeast Alaska.
Nugent made the admission in signing a plea agreement with federal prosecutors that was filed Friday in U.S. District Court.
The plea agreement says Nugent illegally shot and killed the bear in May 2009 on Sukkwan Island days after wounding a bear in a bow hunt, which counted toward a state seasonal limit of one bear.
According to the agreement, first reported by the Anchorage Daily News, the six-day hunt was filmed for his Outdoor Channel television show, “Spirit of the Wild.” In the hunt, Nugent used a number of bear-baiting sites on U.S. Forest Service property, according to the agreement.
The document says Nugent knowingly possessed and transported the bear in misdemeanor violation of the federal Lacey Act.
Nugent, identified in the agreement as Theodore A. Nugent, agreed to pay a $10,000 fine, according to the agreement, which says he also agreed with a two-year probation, including a special condition that he not hunt or fish in Alaska or Forest Service properties for one year. He also agreed to create a public service announcement that would be broadcast on his show every second week for one year, the document states.
“This PSA will discuss the importance of a hunter’s responsibility in knowing the rules and regulations …”
Ted went spastic the last time he was convicted, in California for illegal baiting.
In about a month he’ll be on some obscure good ol’ boy hunting show raving about the tyrannical government and how he was framed.
This one will be tough to blame on the enemy within, commies, Mao ZeDongs and Saul Alinsky’s, though. But there’s always PETA.
Ted often brags about playing for the US armed forces. In the last five years, part of his shtick has been portraying it as part of a noble obligation to support our warriors.
Citing inflammatory language while expressing his displeasure with President Barack Obama, the military has uninvited rock star and conservative political activist Ted Nugent from performing at Fort Knox in Kentucky, according to the U.S. Army post’s Facebook page.
“After learning of opening act Ted Nugent’s recent public comments about the president of the United States, Fort Knox leadership decided to cancel his performance on the installation,” it’s Facebook posting says.
Nugent, whose performance at Fort Knox has been canceled, blamed Obama. “I really believe that it was the President. I believe that the President said that when he went to the Memorial for these heroes, that Ted Nugent wouldn’t be allowed in the same area.”
This blog predicted the NRA rant would hurt Ted — business-wise — if it made big enough news. And it did. Try as he might, Ted just can’t call a visit from the US Secret Service a barbecue social.
Mitt Romney’s enthusiasm over endorsement weeks ago by Ted Nugent was only more proof that he’ll never be president of the United States. As I wrote earlier this week, it’s just another in a seemingly endless chain of weird gaffes, like getting stoked over a recommendation from flesh-eating bacteria or a deer tick.
Throughout the campaign season, Republicans have been fending off accusations of being more misogynistic than Archie Bunker meets Ralph Kramden. And yet Romney practically went all weak in the knees over Nugent throwing his 16th century support in his general direction.
Even odder, apparently Romney courted Nugent’s endorsement, which has to be a bit like seeking the nod of Pete Rose to get into Cooperstown.
Women are running away in droves from the GOP, yet Romney and his giddy sons thought the squeal of approval from the rocker was way cool.
Ted Nugent has a First Amendment right to stay whatever ditsy stuff he wants, including referring to many elected female Democrats as either b——, criminals, communists or “varmints.” Varmints? In a free country you’re free to be a bore.
For his part, all Romney could muster when he was informed he had just been endorsed by a guy who makes Ike Turner look like Phil Donahue was to issue a call for greater civility. It’s a little late for that, Willard …
Perhaps Romney is of the opinion the critical Nugent blessing will help with that rootin’-tootin’, gun-toting, good ol’ boy crowd. Maybe in Nugent, the uptight, pinched Romney can vicariously live out his inner Bubba yearning to keep women in the kitchen whipping up roadkill …
As for Deliverance’s answer to Cole Porter, for all the faux bravado and delusions of persecution, don’t you suspect when the Secret Service badges showed up, Ted Nugent turned into a whimpering, apologetic … well, let’s go with varmint?
From the Washington Times, Ted explains how he was being a true patriot and it’s all those Mao ZeDongs, Che Guevaras and Saul Alinsky’s, the enemies within, who are responsible:
By no stretch of the imagination did I ever threaten anyone’s life, or hint of violence or mayhem. Metaphors needn’t be explained to educated people.
I passionately rallied the American civilian troops to stand up for what is right and demand that the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights be once again the measure of all laws and policies in America.
Then in their ever-desperate scramble to divert attention from the crimes of their communist leaders, the Saul Alinsky “Rules for Radicals??? left-wing media and terminally liberal Democrats circled their battlewagons of deceit and hate and unleashed their tsunami of lies about me and everything I said.
To me, my family and thinking America, the dysfunctional left-wing hate hysteria was laughable. I became the No. 1 global tweet entity, while every newspaper and America-hating television and radio gang literally tripped over themselves in a feeble attempt to out-lie each other.
I personally have never been prouder …
Tell it to the Secret Service. And we’ve noticed you’ve left out the metaphor about shooting the coyote urinating on the couch.
“Those who despise me blindly chant Mao Zedong and Che Guevara rants, and the difference between our good and their bad is glaring,” Nugent finishes. “Choose your side carefully, America. The shining city on the hill is under attack from within.”
Yep, we all know the writings of Mao Zedong and Che Guevara by heart. It’s a conspiracy. You saw through it, too. We, the Americommies — guilty as charged.
And he did. Off the hook. On the other hand, perhaps not feeling real good about the sentiments exposed in its controversial video of the Nugent interview, the NRA removed it from YouTube today.)
Rocker Ted Nugent has been summoned to meet with Secret Service officials after making threatening statements aimed at President Barack Obama at a National Rifle Association convention in Missouri over the weekend.
The staunch conservative, who endorsed Obama’s leading rival, Mitt Romney, for the presidency last month, will meet with agents on Thursday to discuss what he said …
Confirming the news that he’ll be speaking to Secret Service agents during a radio interview with broadcaster Glenn Beck on Wednesday morning, Nugent said, “We actually have heard from the Secret Service and they have a duty. I support them. I salute them. And I look forward to our meeting tomorrow. We’re going to have a little barbecue get-together.
“I’m not trying to diminish the seriousness of this, because if the Secret Service are doing it, they are serious. They are dedicated and I will be as polite and supportive as I possibly can be, which will be thoroughly.”
The Secret Service won’t be having barbecue with Ted Nugent, no matter how he dresses it up. He won’t be laughing it off.
Perhaps nothing will come of it. (Eventually, so it was. Ted Nugent off the hook, from the LA Times. On the other hand, the NRA — perhaps not feeling so strongly about the great sentiment expressed in the interview, removed it from YouTube the same day as the Secret Service interview. )
But the Secret Service is not chatting with Ted because they wanna be his pals and pin a medal on him for being a swell free speech-exercising American. They will be trying to make a determination on whether he was threatening the president or contributing to the creation of a threat environment.
Ted is being probed for a potential crime and while it may make him popular with other right wing radicals it’s not something for you resume.
Average Americans get a big case of worry and anxiety if they’ve done something that has triggered the Secret Service to come calling.
The mainstream news has done kind of an iffy job on the story, reporting only Ted’s most attention getting lines from the NRA show.
But I’ll bet you the Secret Service has looked at the video carefully, beginning to end. And they’re going to ask Ted what he meant, right at the conclusion, when he told the crowd: “Keep your eyes peeled, I may need you soon.”
I bet the Secret Service will ask something like, “What exactly did you mean, Mr. Nugent, and what are you planning to need these men for?
It would be interesting to hear this interview. Is Ted going to have his lawyer present? He might think about it. Given the context of his appearance and calling for war against criminals said to be infesting the government. At a big gun show. In a country which has a history of presidents and politicians getting shot.
I’d bet the Secret Service is also interested in plumbing how much may constitute rhetorical incitement of an audience to commit violence against the president. And the intent.
I’ve emphasized before that Ted’s speech is functionally indistinguishable from the words of the right wing extremists, put into FBI affidavits when they’re banged up — at the rate of a couple times a year — for domestic terror plots.
These people don’t view themselves as terrorists. Like Ted, they invariably speak of themselves as patriots. They are defending the Constitution against violations, coming to the decision that a violent solution is necessary to correct the wrongs. They exhort each other in this.
And that’s just what Ted Nugent has been doing for the last few years. He’s a panderer and this part of his career, which has nothing to do with his music or rock and roll legacy, is all about goading an audience of right wing extremists, all armed. He knows exactly what he’s doing. He knows what they want. He regularly plays to their worst instincts.
They want to hear Ted walk up to the line and call for violence against the opposition while he hides behind linguistic tricks that don’t work for those who do the same thing everyday, but who aren’t public figures, some of whom become targets of FBI investigations for it.
And here it has backfired on him. If you have read this blog, it’s not like Ted acted differently at the gun show than he normally does. Finally, perhaps out of coincidence and the luck of the draw, some started looking at his words a little more intently.
Watch that video. I know it’s tough to bear. It’s horrid, twenty pounds of excrement in a ten pound bag.
But you tell me if the crowd is really up for Ted Nugent while he goes on in his way. Why is the NRA host looking just a tad uncomfortable, adding “What a silent crowd.”
“If we stopped it all right now we’d get rich a whole lot quicker.”
To preserve the gigantic Pentagon budget, House Republicans want to cut, cut, cut — anything that has to do with keeping the working poor afloat. This as part of the fight for the most important cause — easing the rich man’s burden.
From food stamps to child tax credits and Social Service block grants, House Republicans began rolling out a new wave of domestic budget cuts Monday but less for debt reduction — and more to sustain future Pentagon spending without relying on new taxes …
Nothing better illustrates this perhaps than the renewed focus on food stamps — now titled SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). And the estimated $33.2 billion in 10-year savings there could have an immediate impact on the farm bill debate and come November, the 2012 elections.
An average family of four would face an 11 percent cut in monthly benefits after Sept. 1 and, even more important, tighter enforcement of rules would require that households exhaust most of their liquid assets before qualifying for help. This hits hardest among the long-term unemployed, who would be forced off the rolls until they have spent down their savings to less than $2,000 in many cases.
Indeed, food stamp enrollment and costs have exploded since the financial collapse four years ago, making SNAP a target for the right — but also a far bigger political issue in swing states like Florida, Nevada and Ohio.
National enrollment reached 46.4 million people in January 2012, a nearly two-thirds increase from the average monthly participation in fiscal 2008. The annual costs — now running in excess of $80 billion — have more than doubled in the same period. And even the most ardent food stamp proponents will sometimes say SNAP is a program “asked to do too much.???
The White House deliberately increased monthly benefits in 2009 by about $20 per person as a way to pump stimulus dollars into the economy. And in this post welfare-reform crisis, strapped governors have sought to maximize food stamp dollars as a cheap way to help families without tapping state funds.
No surprise. Republicans have always hated food stamps and fighting hunger.
A week ago or so ago, the New York Times ran a front page story on how food stamp usage had surged in the response to the poor being tossed out of social welfare programs during the economic collapse.
Sadly, yes, poor people must eat. It’s a damn nuisance. We need to pay for more Predator drones and things.
The US national security machine and its army of private sector warning robots disguised as human beings whirs and buzzes, scanning the world for menaces as the country rots from the inside out. Triumphant that it’s greased some fleabags in Yemen or added another one hundred unmanned flying or crawling machines to its mighty arsenal, it’s missed all the serious indicators of danger, those nasty internal signs, like the 44-45 million people on food stamps …
Food stamp usage in the US is a symbol of national economic failure so systemic it takes your breath away. It is rock solid proof the US economy does not provide jobs which earn a fair living for a polyglot cohort that dwarfs entire western nations.
And the great and powerful Oz’s of our national defense structure are really on the stick, aren’t they? While they were getting the lion’s share of national swag during the last decade, a Biblical mass of their countrymen were applying for food assistance.
If you add up the populations of the 50 states, starting with the least, the number of people on food stamps in the US is a number that roughly includes the summed populations of:
Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, Idaho, Nebraska, West Virginia, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, Iowa, Connecticut, Oregon, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Kentucky.
This shows a country where the economy and business have so depressed wages the US government must take up the slack so hunger doesn’t stalk the land.
The proposed House Republican budget cuts, which probably have no hope of passing (although one cannot always be certain) seek to preserve defense spending.
But that means mostly money for arms manufacturing.
Lately a lot of complaints have been made about the food stamp program. Let’s take a look a one group that gets food stamps — 14,000 military families were on food stamps in 2000.
The Pentagon does not keep track of any military families that are on food stamps. President Bush in 2001 decided to authorize a $500 subsistence pay increase that was taxable in order to help military families get off food stamps. It did not work. Military families increased on food stamps because food stamps are non-taxable.
From 2008 to 2009 military families were using food stamps at twice the rate as civilians, 25 percent to 13 percent. About $31 million of food stamps were used in nationwide commissaries.
From July 2009 to March 2011 in Oklahoma, where there are four military bases — Fort Sill, Tinker AFB, Vance AFB, Altus AFB — $1.8 million in food stamps was spent.
There’s a deep national immorality entrenched here. And you’re not a decent human being if you can’t see it. What does that make those who would slash money for food so the Pentagon gets to keep everything it’s grown comfortable with in the last decade?
Good news, lads! Good news! Of course this isn’t a current photo of Howard. Nugent’s new look scares children.
It took about 24 hours for the fountain of angry crazy Ted delivered at the the NRA convention in St. Louis to flow outward and soak the news agencies. Here at DD blog, I figure it’s because most of the journalists at the dailies were way too lazy and above-it-all to consider immediately listening to the horrid 25 minute interview I embedded yesterday.
Been there, done that, they all think. Yeah, Ted, he once threatened Obama onstage and added Hillary should suck on his machine gun. Boring.
Ted’s been that way for a long time. And he counts on being ignored by the people who could do him the most harm, those who write news articles which could land, via the wires, in the small dailies of the dump towns he’s getting ready to tour this summer.
If what Ted said, in its entirety, were printed in the papers, he’d lose some business.
And that’s because Ted’s mindset and jabber are almost exactly like that of the old coots in the Georgia Ricin Beans Gang, destined to be banged up for years as domestic terrorists.
The main difference between Ted and the cranks in the Georgia Ricin Beans Gang: Ted’s famous, they’re not. And Ted doesn’t have an FBI informant hanging around him undercover, seeing if he can be egged into getting into something he shouldn’t.
“If you can’t galvanize and promote and recruit people to vote for Mitt Romney, we’re done,” Nugent said. “We’ll be a suburb of Indonesia next year. Our president, attorney general, our vice president, Hillary Clinton — they’re criminals, they’re criminals.”
New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog reports that a Secret Service spokesman told them, “We are aware of it and we’ll conduct an appropriate follow up” regarding Nugent’s comments.
Nugent also ripped into four of the Supreme Court justices for what he says is their stance against Americans’ “right to keep and bear arms.” He concluded with a call to cut off the heads of Democrats in November: “We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November. Any questions?”
Of course, there’s still no mention of Ted’s nut rant about the government preventing him from mercy killing his “three-legged oryx” and how that was like Nazi Germany putting the Jews onto trains. And that it was time for us to take the gun off “the brown shirt” and shoot it up his ass.
Words have consequences, particularly here where there’s a good history of presidents and politicians being shot by the unhinged.
Most sensible people with critical facilities have a good idea what Nugent is playing with. His is the language of the white extreme right-wing armed radical, the kind — a few of which, the FBI and ATF jail every year. To emphasize again: The main difference is Ted’s famous as an inflammatory celebrity entertainer and in that role he views himself as a leader for crystallizing thought and inspiration.
Skim through it again, if you will. You tell me if the NRA host looks real pleased with the direction it took.
Many in the hall are filing by, ignoring Nugent.
At one point, the host puts a little girl on stage next to the Nuge to ask him who’s his favorite president. Nugent is so nuts he can’t even act appropriately around a very small, very young child. Instead of giving a straight answer, he says “Charlton Heston.”
If enough people saw these vignettes even the majority of the hardcore right fools would want to have nothing to do with Ted Nugent. There is something profoundly wrong with him and it is only a symptom of the dark times in which we live that he wields it as a career asset.
Nevertheless, most of Ted’s audience at the NRA interview — which isn’t big — did not give him any serious huzzahs. They saw inappropriate behavior too unhooked even for them.
A couple weeks ago Nugent endorsed Mitt Romney. Romney, who is totally without principles, a person who will seemingly do anything convenient to be President, made a noise about talking to Ted and accepting that endorsement.
Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign called for civility on Tuesday after aging rock star Ted Nugent made an apparent threat against President Barack Obama before an audience of U.S. gun lobbyists …
Andrea Saul, Romney’s spokeswoman, did not condemn Nugent in an email on Tuesday but said Romney wants to promote civility.
“Divisive language is offensive no matter what side of the political aisle it comes from. Mitt Romney believes everyone needs to be civil,” she said.
For many many reasons, this being yet another, Mitt Romney will never be president of the United States. Mitt Romney, the epitome of the 1 percenter, and Ted Nugent, the Motor City Madman now more well known as a true blue reactionary Texas wacko — it’s to laugh. It was just another clueless Romney gaffe, similar to accepting an endorsement from something like flesh-eating bacteria or a deer tick.
It was never going to be an asset. And his staff must be incompetent if they didn’t tell him.
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.
