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Shortly after the 2012 elections, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) urged Republicans to "stop being the stupid party" and move away from "dumbed-down conservatism." It seemed like reasonably good advice, which some in the GOP have apparently chosen to ignore.
Ted Nugent, the gun-loving, bow-hunting rocker whose staunch defense of Second Amendment rights and inflammatory insults of President Obama have made him a hero with many conservatives, will attend the president's State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
Mr. Nugent, who is also a National Rifle Association board member, will be a guest of Representative Steve Stockman, a Texas Republican who recently made headlines by threatening to file articles of impeachment against Mr. Obama if the president issued executive orders that strengthened gun control laws.
For the record, I don't much care about Nugent's ridiculous antics. He's obviously a fringe extremist who uses vile language; he hasn't had a hit since the '70s; and he's generally better left ignored.
But Nugent has also gone after President Obama with rhetoric that was violent enough to get the attention of the Secret Service. Try to imagine the political world's reaction if a washed-up entertainer targeted a Republican president with violent rhetoric, and then a Democratic member of Congress invited him as a special guest to attend the State of the Union.
Of course, that's not happening. On the contrary, Nugent was invited by a House Republican as a way to counteract Democratic lawmakers welcoming victims of gun violence to the Capitol.
Regardless, there's a larger context to this that's worth keeping in mind as the day unfolds.
First, this is arguably an opportunity for Democrats and a problem for Republicans. Remember, Republicans had a very clear plan in mind for this evening -- allow their swing-state rising star to deliver a carefully-crafted speech, in English and Spanish, hitting the precise points GOP leaders want to emphasize at this critical point.
Instead, Republicans find themselves in the awkward position of having two GOP senators delivering post-SOTU speeches, and while they're speaking, a musician/right-wing clown will be hosting a press conference on Capitol Hill, which seems likely to become a distracting spectacle.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Democratic offices spent the day issuing press statements, demanding to know what John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and Marco Rubio think about Ted Nugent's record of ugly extremism, and whether they're comfortable with his presence in the chamber tonight.
Second, as Greg Sargent explained, let's also not overlook Steve Stockman's role in this burgeoning fiasco.
The problem lies in all the over-the-top stuff GOP lawmakers say regularly that isn't quite crazy enough to earn widespread condemnation, as Nugent's quotes have, but are still whacked out enough to encourage an atmosphere that helps keep millions of GOP base voters sealed off from reality. The problem is the perpetual winking and nodding to The Crazy that is deemed marginally acceptable -- the hints about creeping socialism, the claim that modest Obama executive actions amount to tyranny, the suggestions that Obama's values are vaguely un-American and that Obama is transforming the country and the economy into something no longer recognizably American, and so on -- more so than the glaringly awful stuff that gets the media refs to throw their flags. [...]
The problem isn't so much Ted Nugent as it is the Steve Stockmans of the world telling their constituents that Obama's sensible gun reforms rise to the level of impeachment.
Quite right. We talked last week about the new Republican effort to "marginalize" the "cranks, haters, and bigots," but as we're reminded regularly, it's extremely difficult for a political party to ostracize such a significant chunk of its own membership.
As the Stockman/Nugent story reminds us, the problem isn't that Republicans have some "cranks, haters, and bigots"; the problem is that Republicans are a radicalized party in which "cranks, haters, and bigots" routinely dominate.
If the GOP intends to stop being, in Bobby Jindal's words, the "stupid party," they have a long way to go.
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What are the odds that this deranged gun nut will have a Joe Wilson moment?
I'd like to see him dragged out of the chamber, kicking and screaming. And then after everyone gets quiet, the President can look directly behind him at John Boehner and ask, "Mr. Speaker, is this what your party has become?"
Maybe he can do a duet with Meatloaf ...compelling entertainment
Ted Nugent is self-proclaimed pedophile
http://www.examiner.com/article/romney-supporter-ted-nugent-pedophile-he-says-so-video
I have to admit that I, too, am hoping he's dragged off by Secret Service either for trying to bring a gun into the chamber or for being disruptive during the speech.
So... ole' Ted is to be the GOP visual counterpoint to Gabby Giffords and 20 dead six year olds. YIKES!
He's a coward. All mouth, no heart.
@Shea #1.4
I would like to see 20 invited Dem guests be asked to give up their seats so that 20 large pictures of those 20 dead kids could be placed on them.
He's also an admitted pedophile. Just ask 12 year old Courtney Love.
OK, Rep. Stockman. You just sky-rocketed the Republican image from cold sore to leprosy. Good job.
Ted Nugent, big bad bow hunter - he buys old defanged de-clawed retired circus animals to "hunt."
He was a draft dodging coward during Vietnam.
He is a talentless PoS who would be living in a cardboard box had he not found an audience moron stupid enough to think he's any good. Meatloaf at least has "Bat Out Of Hell."
Whoa whoa whoa, TCinLA. It takes courage to soil yourself for a week straight just to avoid military service. ;)
...wait, no, it doesn't. It just takes a complete lack of dignity, self-esteem and willingness to sacrifice for the country. Ted Nugent is someone to be pitied, not to be taken seriously.
Obiously with his draft dodging expertise I am expectantly waiting for the Republican party to insist Obama name him Secretary of Defense.
A leopard can't change it's spots. Stupid is as stupid does......and life is like a box of chocolates. ted is also a dud.
Security better should strip him before he enters.
I recommend a cavity search
Secret Service Agent: "I'll take a bullet for the President, man, but I'm not putting my hand in that!!"
Cavity search? He might enjoy it!
Cavity search? Ted's gonna hide a gun in his fillings?
/s/
If they perform a cavity search, they should begin with his brain. But, quite naturally, they'll find NOTHING.
I think Ted would require a vaginal probe!
Mick - Why the sexist slur?
Give him a cavity search with the wide end of a Louisville Slugger. Hard.
At some point we're going to have to consider Texas a failed state. There should be a limit to just how dumb your representatives can be before it runs afoul of some trigger mechanism, somewhere, after which all the people who voted for that particular moron are stripped from voting again until they satisfactorily re-complete the fourth grade—but one problem with that, I suppose, is that we'd end up with the most unstable, heavily armed group of mustachioed fourth graders to ever grace our poorly funded public schools, and nobody wants to see that.
Rep. Steve Stockman is one of those representatives. Put more simply, his reelection should be taken as a sign that certain areas of Texas are still bitter at Somalia's success, and even more bitter that they can't just elect outright crooks like Tom DeLay anymore. Mostly known for being a nutcase one-term Congressman back in the nineties, Stockman made a brief name for himself with Waco conspiracy theories, gun fetishism, gun fetishism about Waco conspiracy theories, and a relationship with the NRA and anti-government militias that even for the 1990's was fairly goddamn nuts.
How nuts? Oh, pretty nuts:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/11/1186366/-Meet-Rep-Steve-Stockman-the-moron-who-thinks-Ted-Nugent-is-a-patriot
Do any of you dumbasses know the real reason why Stockman said he (and other members of Congress) would resort to impeachment? It's because the biggest dumbass of all, Osama Obama (or today's Hitler) likes to pass Congress and issue executive orders. He is overstepping his position. Wake the eff up!
Mytye,
If you are awake, perhaps it it time for you to go to sleep.
And lay off the drugs and fox news for a bit.
Security tonight is really tight, right? This nut can't get in with a gun, can he?
The louder people like Nugent yell about their "gun rights", the crazier they sound and the more I think they shouldn't have ANY!
I agree, maphi. I was invited to go along to one of his concerts a couple of years ago. I had no idea at the time who Ted Nugent was, but I was told he was a rocker, so I figured why not broaden my horizons.
At any rate, the concert was held in Tacoma, WA, just down the road from blue Seattle, and it was packed with 20-somethings who treated him like a god. His vile political rants, which made me want to gag, brought wild cheers from the crowd. He may be washed up as a recording artist, but he has a tremendous following, and that was a particularly scary thing to witness. The bloody video that ran while he sang his "famous song" showed him shooting animal after animal, so many that he couldn't possibly consume them all. It was obviously just for the experience of killing them. (Now that I know he's on the board of the NRA, that makes more sense.)
But the hate and violence are what was truly frightening. That such destructive urges are being encouraged in a youthful generation is wrong on many levels.
What most folks don't seem to realize is that for all of Ted's bluster, he's a giant chickenhawk and not quite the patriot the Right imagine him as. This is the same gentleman who literally soiled himself over several days rather than, you know, serve his country. Long story short, he's a coward and won't do anything that might get him in real trouble.
The Nuge spent three weeks @!$%#ting and puking on himself during Vietnam so that when he went to the (I believe it was) Army center, they threw him out for being nuts.
Chickenhawk doesn't begin to cover this pussy-assed loudmouthed anti-American piece of @!$%#.
He is an insult to those of us who served honorably in Viet Nam
We've got too many draft dodgers calling themselves "patriots" these days.
Ted Nugent will be representing the Republican party. Any stunt he pulls will reflect badly on the very Republicans who apparently have no problem with Nugent attending tonight's State of the Union speech.
I hope Nugent does show his ass tonight. It will be yet another well deserved blow to the rapidly shrinking Republican party.
It really is fitting that Teddy Nutzgent represents the teapub party. There's not a damned one of them that would serve their country in uniform and would all fill their pants for a week to get out of serving if they didn't have daddys or friends to "fix" it for them. They all scream for the NRA and to carry machine guns if they want, anywhere they want. What patriots they are, but do everything they can to start wars and get out of serving themselves. Yeah. Real patriots these chicken@!$%# teapub members are.
It appears that the Republican Party is hell bent on bringing Mardi Gras to Washington.
But without any of the fun; just the scary moments.
The end result is just a continuation of dumbing crazy down, and making it seem as if true nuts like Stockman and the rest of the House GOTea aren't really as kooky as they are. By continually showcasing stark raving mad jerks like Nugent, the rest of the Republican crazies look tame in comparison.
Democrats need to put these extremists on display. They won't.
Over the last the GOP woo'd, courted, and "brung crazy & deranged to the dance", now they cannot abandon them because "moderates/independents" are starting to awaken & realize that the people/party they've been supporting are lunatics and won't vote for them...
Proverbial rock & a hard place - all of their own making! As for Nugent he's exhibit A for why mental health laws should be a part of mandatory back-ground check for a gun owner.
@Zora, Yeah, that's what I was thinking. How the hell can Ted N. own any guns at all? We all know he is a frickin' mental case and is crazy as hell. Take that @!$%#ers guns if you take anyone's!!!! An idiot like this draft dodger, mr. @!$%#ty pants shouldn't be allowed anywhere near our president...wtf?
The most disgusting aspect of Ted Nugent's presence at the SOTU is that everyone knows he doesn't belong there. He's "claiming space," as we say in the horse training world. It's like he's peeing on someone's lawn as they watch and saying, "What are you doing to do about it?" It's nothing but an obscene gesture. Shame on you, Mr. Stockman!
It's in-your-face punk-strutting. Because they can.
I can imagine him being so in love with his own voice that he'll continue talking to reporters even as Rubio's speech is set to start. So, will some networks stick with Nugent, instead of switching to Rubio?
You can sure bet that MSNBC will, There is no way they will want anyone to hear what Rubio has to say unfiltered by leftist writers for the network.
@inspector12-6837443: I take it you've never watched MSNBC coverage of SOTU speeches.
And because that's so obvious, I have to wonder why you're in this thread at all. Are you being paid?
Inspec: Do you have to go out of your way, or does the drivel just come out naturally...
@Inspector - we already know what Rubio's going to say (he'll peddle right-wing failed fiscal policies and tell a few gobsmacking, tone-deaf lies -- only in Spanish, too, this time), and further, we don't care! Do you really think we take Rubio seriously?
@June Day...my biggest question is whether Rubio will lie as much as Ryan did every time he spoke. That's what I am looking for. He doesn't have much in policy chops (no matter how many want to label him Savior...if he is the savior, the GOP is worse off then even I imagined), he's not too bright, and he is a religious, anti-science nut.
Some savior.
Will he or won't he (lie his ass off)? That is the question.
Let's just take an unbiased look at this particular piece, look closely at the wording used.
Mr. Nugent, who is also a National Rifle Association board member, will be a guest of Representative Steve Stockman, a Texas Republican who recently made headlines by threatening to file articles of impeachment against Mr. Obama if the president issued executive orders that strengthened gun control laws
Actual quote
“The President’s actions are an existential threat to this nation,” Stockman said in a statement. “The right of the people to keep and bear arms is what has kept this nation free and secure for over 200 years. The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.”
That is what I mean by filters. And you people eat it up because that is what you want to hear. Wording is everything. The right does the same thing with Obama knowing that very few people will dig further into what is really being said.
Here is another example of poor journalism from this blog:
Ted Nugent, the gun-loving, bow-hunting rocker whose staunch defense of Second Amendment rights and inflammatory insults of President Obama have made him a hero with many conservatives,
Just because someone likes firearms and hunts with a bow doesn't make them a nut.
What makes him a nut is his ideas on how to counteract what he sees as the lefts constant and unrelenting attack on the second amendment.
As for being "foul mouthed" Then most posters on this blog have no right to attend the SOTU address.
@inspector12-6837443 : So you are paid to post here.
How much?
Inspector Like every other loser with a small dick who needs an AR15 to bolster hismanhood , you are also "afwaid" of all those imagined attacks on the second amendment .
Pathetic not Patriotic
Tinfoil hats are cheap this time of year
Just John
A guy has to make a living somehow. LOL
Effin'
You have a comprehension problem don't you. Please read again this time do it like they taught you in government school,VEEEERRRRYYYY SSLLOOOOOOWWWWLLY
What makes him a nut is his ideas on how to counteract what HE sees as the lefts constant and unrelenting attack on the second amendment.
inspekkktor's comment translated:
"I am an idot troll who has absolutely no idea what I am talking about."
You're welcome.
Donna's comment translated
"My god I wish I could find a man like that"
Don't worry Donna you'll find someone who will appreciate you for what you are like I do and snap you up in a New York minute.
I disagree, inspector . . . I think the fact that Nugent actually sees a "constant and unrelenting attack on the second amendment" makes him a nut. When you see things that are not there, it's time to seek professional help.
I have no problem with Nugent saying whatever he wants to say - it's a free country, after all - but I do have a problem with him being in close proximity to my President, who he has previously threatened. Whether those threats were real or hyperbole makes no difference to me.
inspekkktor's post translated:
"I wish I could be a REAL man because the only dates I can get are with inflatable dolls."
Don't worry, inspekkktor, you'll find someone who won't deflate or is made of plastic. Sorry, I can't help you with that, because all of my friends aren't attracted to mealy mouthed conservatard trolls like you.
The Defective almost makes standard male chauvinist pigs seem benign.
Inspector - You are willfully ignoring the following statement from Stockman:
“I will seek to thwart this action by any means necessary, including but not limited to eliminating funding for implementation, defunding the White House, and even filing articles of impeachment.”
Just what filter are you claiming has been used? I would assert that it is you, not this blog, that is demonstrating bias. The quote can be found at http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/01/15/rep-steve-stockman-threatens-to-impeach-obama-over-guns/. Moreover, it can also be found on Stockman's own website.
Second, "this blog" is usually used in reference to the author of the original blog post. The author of the article, Steve Benen, nowhere uses the word "nut," neither in his own comments nor in those he quotes. You, OTOH, misleadingly imply that it is the author who is calling Nugent a nut, when in fact it is several of those posting comments who use that word. Further, where is there any indication that those posting who call Nugent a nut do so because he "likes firearms and hunts with a bow"?
You, sir, have no shame.
Damskippy
You didn't read my post either. Why do you people only see what you want to see? Isaid that just because Nugent likes guns and hunts with a bow doesn't make him a nut. I stand by that statement. I also said in the original post that I think that he is a nut for for what he percieves as the left's unrelenting attack on the second amendment. My point is that the writers of this blog seem to think that anyone that owns more than a pea shooter and also hunts deer is a "gun nut"
Christie
I did not willfully ignore any part of "this post" I only read what was here.
Steve Benen only took the clips from another story that he needed to back up a slanted piece where he could easily back the view that he and others on the left want to engrain in your thinking that anyone on the right is a fanatic. If you can't read into what these people are up to then that is your problem.
My point in all of this is that everyone has an agenda when writing a story.
As for Miss Donna
Anyone that goes to your profile and reads your replies to just about anything will see that you are a racist rabid man hater. Y ou very seldom have anything to say that is thoughtful or civil. To me you are more trollish than anyone on this blog.
Please try to "CHANGE" and be more constructive in the future.
All we can do is "HOPE"
LOL inspekkktor.
You don't see anything of the sort, unless you are an idiot conservatard with small d*ck insecurities. Wait: that is YOU. Which explains your mean case of projection.
LOL! Pot meet kettle! And let's add hypocrite to who you are as well.
You first, conservatard. You first. Unless you don't know what the word "change: means. Google it.
All you can do is "hope."
"Hope" that ignorant bigot angry white dudes do not become the minority, which is what they are fast becoming.
"Hope" that those minority folks are denied the opportunities that you seem so desperate to hold on to and keep for yourselves.
"Hope" that those "illegal immigrants" vote republican.
"Hope" that the conservatard tea tard party will rise again.
"Hope" that the south will rise again.
Yep, inspkkketor, you hope for alot of things.
So: "hope" in one hand and sh*t in the other. See which one fills up first.
My God woman, It's worse than I thought.
Yes, you are worse than you thought.
I think people who fail a psych evaluation when they get drafted to serve shouldn't be allowed to own guns. That would be Ted Nugent.
they don't call him the Motorcity madman for nothing...
the only thing he is missing from being a lone gunman is a clock tower and a note.
He is an embarrassment to the Motorcity and it's history of awesome music.
The Republican's ill-use of the language is reflective of his belief, and belief, no matter how deranged ever so slightly can trump the most evidence based reality anywhere, and at any time!
Stockman is an example of this, and his beliefs are anathema to a people bound by a social compact! His oxymoronic mind touts the Constitution in a most lawless way, and he is blind to his confusion - a most dangerous man sans the elected power!
Steve Stockman and his ilk will be the ruin of a free and liberty-minded people when their desire for gun totting anarchy is fulfilled! -Kevo
The silken sleeve of egomania will dress up these charmers for commercial redistribution .
Hey Texas, seriously. Wasn't George W. Bush enough?
The fallacy of Crazee Eddie being the model of a permanent majority
Crazy Eddie
Almost from the beginning, Crazy Eddie's management was engaged in various forms of fraud. The Antars deliberately falsified their books to reduce (or eliminate) their taxable income. They also paid employees off the books, and regularly skimmed thousands of dollars (in cash) earned at the stores. For every $5 Crazy Eddie reported as income, $1 was taken by the Antars. In 1979, the Antars began depositing much of this money (hundreds of thousands of dollars) in Israeli bank accounts. The Antar family skimmed an estimated $3 million to $4 million (US) per year at the height of their fraud. In one offshore bank account, the family deposited more than $6 million between 1980 and 1983.
So as you can see the Crazy from Crazy Eddie has not been reproduced as the model for the Republican Party . They are , like , way more kinky .
And I'm having an image of the President pausing in the middle of the speech while Nugent rants on. No comment, just a pause. The "are you finished yet, Mr. Nugent?" is implied.
I am continuing to fulminate over the -
"You Lie"
- outrage . On a par fantastic with political assassination , without the dreary life terms .
Yup, "You Lie!" part II.
And part of the "let him run on with the cameras on him" would be to give the Republicans seated around him time to shut him up -- which, I suspect, would not happen. If so, I hope that someone (hint, hint!) is prepared to ask why the Members of Congress whose guest Nuge was saw nothing wrong with his being disruptive.
Why is a man who said publically, and I quote
being allowed anywhere near the President?
They make a special exception for wusses who crap their pants to get out of the draft...
This could be Nugent's big chance to make that come true. The President will be safe, Nugent, not so much.
Actually, the real question is: why ISN'T he dead or in jail? At the very least, he should be coonfined to an asylum for the terminally irrelevant.
What bothers me more is that he literally invited Obama to "suck on" his gun. I don't care how much security they will have, are we really giving John Wilkes Booth-types seats of honor these days?
These false shows of humility and inclusion work only to add pressure to our nation's ideological divide. I'd appreciate it if in tonight's speech the president would ditch his usual genteel, pacifying approach and instead get down to brass tacks.
Maybe someone should remind Stockman the lengths that Nugent went to to avoid the draft. And then ask him what exactly makes this lunatic a 'patriot'.
He has also bragged about his involvement with underage girls....is this the kind of 'family values' the republicans want represented as their guest.
Think of this like Quantrill's Raiders...the GOP (and Stockman in specific) fancy themselves participants in a "Nobel Rebellion" and to that end are willing to associate themselves with almost anyone....Besides Nugent is a "Rock Star" and there is no other way Stockman would get to know anyone that famous.
oops
Of course the question comes up of why Stockman never served, either.
Ted Nugent's agenda is promoting Ted Nugent. I'm glad he will be there since it reinforces the free speech rights of all Americans. Presumably the Secret Service did its job when Nugent crossed the line. Obama will correctly completely ignore him tonight.
If Rubio is giving a speech in English and Spanish will be half as long? Will Rand Paul knot his tie properly and look directly into the camera?
Anything for a little attention. Ted is like the guy in high school who streaked the halls un-noticed so he went into the lab and doused himself with alcohol then lit it as he streaked the halls again! My belly hurt I laughed so hard.
You might want to shave first next time buzz.
> he hasn't had a hit since the '70s
Pedantic Fact Check Alert: As a member of the rock band Damn Yankees, Nugent had a few top 10 hits in the very early 90's.
You may now continue your regular blogging and blog commenting.
Believe it or not, I came into the comments to point out that very fact as well.
The first thing that came to my mind, as the conservatives and GOP sheep seem to perpetually suffer from what I call 'political amnesia,' was, "What would have happened if a Democratic legislator announced he/she was bringing the Dixie Chicks to a Bush State of the Union address?"
My thoughts exactly. It's utterly disrespectful.
I'm almost hoping that Ted Nugent will embarrass himself and the Republican party at this function. Almost.
Point, but the Dixie Chicks never threatened Bush with physical harm.
Is there no end to the disrespect the republicans give this President?
There won't be any end. They are devoid of conscience and incapable of shame.
What else is there to say, Stockman's from Texas right. These two would have to improve 100% just to be considered crazy.
they are neither smart nor capable
To be fair, Ted has had some success since the 1970's. Damn Yankees' first album in late 1989/1990 went DOUBLE PLATINUM and was quite good. Their followup in the early nineties went gold and then Ted went off on his own again. As a matter of fact, I believe, these were the biggest successes of his carreer.
I appreciated the band for the music, but he sort of makes me sick as a human. Sadly, there is a very real minority of folks that actually believes what Ted does. They really are that pathetic, prejudiced, narrow minded and pigheaded. In your average college town all you really have to do is find the local townie or redneck bar to locate a hub of folk spouting or whispering the same bombastic drivel as Ted.
The fear center of the brain is strong and folks that can not cope with the fear seem to gravitate to this mindset. It must be a horrible way to live, constantly in fear.
The small group you are talking bout are white supremicist skinheads who are into meth and guns. Bad combo there.
who gives a crap
I love the Maddow Blog, but I have to disagree with one thing. While the characterization of Ted Nugent as a fringe extremist best ignored is probably correct, I am a fan of Ted Nugent the musician. So I take issue with the fact he hasn't had a hit since the '70's. He hasn't had a SOLO hit, but his band Damn Yankees had a #3 hit with "High Enough" in 1990. It was the biggest hit of his career. Over 20 years ago still, but I didn't think Nugent's musical success, or lack thereof, mattered to the argument anyway.
Remember the horrible backlash the Dixie Chicks received, when they said they were embarrassed to be from the same state as George W? It pretty put their careers in the dumpster for a couple of years....... and they never got a visit from the Secret Service!!!
Loved the statement that "Cranks, haters, and bigots" are now controlling the party, and there are a few other labels I could attach. Laughed out loud at the idea of shedding "the stupid party" label. They cannot shed the label until they stop BEING the stupid party. Personally, hope they dumb-down instead of smarten-up so we can clean house and basically evict the Republican Party from Washington.
Just give the GOP enough rope, like Nugent, and they'll hang themselves. He and Palin and the rest of those nuts are only doing the Dems a favor by showing what they really are. I think they should give him a hidden mic ... let him talk. Lets see how smart (or dumb) he and the rest of them are.
This is America, where even Ted can speak his mind, and so can I. Ted, you are making yourself to come off as an extremist clown with inarticulate rants, you had your time in the 70's now its time just calm the fk down. Im trying to adhere to a WWMD (What Would Maddow Do) So Ill just end with... Really?!
Anyone expecting Nugent to act all bat sh*t will be sorely disappointed. He's an ass, but a cagey ass. He'll dine out later on the anecdote of how he almost bit his tongue clean off having to listen to the lies this terrorist we call the President uttered to the nation, but knew he couldn't say anything until after the fact lest "they" make him a dead martyr on national television.
I keep harkening back to the GOP outrage over comments made by the Dixie Chicks (http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/14/dixie.chicks.reut/) against President Bush in 2003. Brave women speaking out against an injust war brought the right's crazies out in droves, but they are embracing Nugent as the voice of reason?????? These people are insane!