Ted Nugent: Bearing Arms, Cranking Up the Controversy
Editor's note: Because the subject of this story is Ted Nugent, some language may not be appropriate for the faint of heart. Consider yourself warned.
HIDALGO — If controversy could be rolled up and smoked, Ted Nugent would be on oxygen by now.
The rock guitarist wore a Confederate flag T-shirt to Gov. Rick Perry's 2007 inaugural ball and said critics could "drop dead" if they didn't like it. He has called Hillary Clinton a "bitch” and worse. And ahead of the 2008 presidential election, Nugent referred to then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama as a “piece of shit ...
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Frank Carrejo via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Someone should ask him about sh*tting his pants so he wouldn't fight in the war after his deferments ran out. Oops, that wouldn't be "badass" though.
Ken Collier via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Nugent's rants don't merit this kind of coverage by any serious news outlet.
David O
Just another washed up, self-absorbed musician. I'll take Willie any day.
Roger L. Hooker via Texas Tribune on Facebook
While his idiot is on stage spewing his hate-speech, I will never be there.
Jamie Coultas via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Frank - Can we ask you? Never heard the story and would like to know. I remember losing my II-D and becoming I-A without losing my bowels. How about you?
Samdavis
This is the face of gun rights and the NRA - a washed-up loudmouth.
Tony Carver via Texas Tribune on Facebook
@jamie, frank is correct, check out VH 1's Behind The Music with Ted Nugent and hear for youself straight from Teds own mouth in his own words how he was a pants shitting draft dodger and also how he's a pedophile with a thing for 16 year old girls.
Jack Suggs via Texas Tribune on Facebook
May be time to disconnect from Texas Trib... again.
Mike Snavely via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Not sure why the media is covering someone who hasn't mattered since Cat Scratch Fever.
Randall Spradley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Nugent is not worth any ink. Even in the slowest of news weeks, why give this jackass any press?
Dan Westemeier via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Someone tell the jackass the along with our right to free speech is that fact that YOU are responsible for what YOU say. If you say racist things, vague threats and all around obnoxious blathering you don't act "shocked" when you get told no thank you, we don't want you playing here"! You go OK that's America. I am responsible what what I say. But nooo, not this guy. If you don't agree 100% with him you attacking him or your a commie, pink-o, liberal. Go away Mr. Nugent.
Debbie Mason via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Let them give him press, then more people will see what kind of person he really is. He seems to forget anytime you make statements like he did the SS will investigate it, no matter who the President is or was. My daughter worked for a congressman and she had to deal with this type of thing, if you make a threat the SS show up at your house. Sorry Nugent your not special, just another hate monger. He says what he says to get the press, to get the base riled up and the big one MONEY. Notice he has a TV show and he sells bows and arrows and I think he has a magazine so he has to talk crap to make the money. He does it in his concerts also. And then he wonders why the military would not let him perform to our troops. They don't want to hear his hate and crap. Nugent is a very ignorant man who loves to spew hate and racism. Let him keep spewing it, and more people will stop buying his products and going to his concerts. Don't you love this line from his comments " “Those people hate me because I am — and I don’t mean to brag — I am the No. 1 voice on planet Earth to effectively promote Second Amendment rights,’’ he said." Wow he thinks he is so special. No Nugent your not, your a hate filled egotistic person. I wont even call you a man because real men are not full of hate nor do they threaten a President.
Alexandra Richmond via Texas Tribune on Facebook
...and no one will think him intelligent
Kirk Holden
There is an old hobo at the bus terminal that really cracks me up with incomprehensible ravings. When are we going to see a headline about him?
Kathi Thomas via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Stupid meglomaniac
Pun Nio via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He's like his music, bad
Leo Tynan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Yawn. Coward. Fool. But a fairly representative spokesman for the American right wing gaggle.
poryorick
I don't have a problem with Nugent being given column inches; his appearances raise him to the level of spokesman for mindless conservative partisans in a way that b-roll of Tea Partiers never could. It does diminish the brand of the Tribune to wallow in the substance-less muck, though.
Jim Arnold
The solution to Nugent is the 2nd Amendment.
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Adele Roberson
In the increasingly distant past, the National Rifle Association (NRA) largely advocated for policies related to hunting and marksmanship, but today its leaders are defined by unsavory conduct and the advancement of extreme, anti-government ideology.
While the NRA innocuously describes itself as the “nation’s oldest civil rights organization,” this portrayal serves only as a smokescreen to mask the fact that the organization is a rogues gallery of the most odious voices in the contemporary Conservative Movement.
One only has to look to the NRA’s leadership to discover that the organization is operated by a group of individuals who promote racism, misogyny, homophobia, anti-immigrant animus, religious bigotry, anti-environmentalism, and insurrectionism. Some active NRA board members have even had close relationships with brutal dictators in outside nations. Put simply, members of the NRA leadership no longer make for polite company.
Moreover, while superficially bipartisan, the NRA is closely aligned with the most extreme elements in the Republican Party and has brought a number of the GOP’s most influential operatives into positions of power within the organization.
The GOP and NRA are now locked in a symbiotic relationship where Republican legislators advance the NRA’s extreme agenda while the NRA musters its hardcore supporters to serve as attack dogs for a wide range of conservative causes.
The folks at the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence have put together a directory of the NRA's board titled Meet the NRA Directors. It's a fascinating site, one that well rewards scrolling through and reading.
This websie shines a light on the background of members of NRA leadership, in large part by allowing them to comment on the issues of the day in their own words. It is intended as a resource for those who cherish moderation, civility and principled advocacy in American politics.