Tag: Ted Nugent

Ted Nugent, Hating Freedom and the NRA

On By Norbert HauptIn Commentaries, Guns1 Comment

Ted Nugent keeps talking about people who hate America and hate freedom. This is an interesting twist of logic. If a person does not agree with the premise of a war that is viewed as illegitimate by most of the people of the world, as well as the people of the United States, and if a person does not agree with allowing assault rifles being openly available to anyone, including criminals, that person somehow HATES FREEDOM?

How does that logic work? We don’t all hate freedom just because we don’t agree with nuts like Ted Nugent.

Nugent is known for his sexist, homophobic,  racist, and anti-Latino comments.  Yet he is still one of the top directors of the NRA:

Some facts about NRA board member Nugent:

  • He thinks America might be better off had South won the Civil War.
  • Ted Nugent likes to use the n-word.
  • Ted Nugent has called President Obama “a piece of shit.”
  • Ted Nugent thinks Nancy Pelosi is “sub-human.”
  • He said that DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a “brain-dead idiot.”
  • Ted Nugent has called Hillary Clinton the c-word, a bitch and a whore.

What organization would tolerate a board member who is this offensive?

The NRA.

Now, let’s remind ourselves that this very Ted Nugent, this lover of freedom,  is also a person who dodged the draft for Vietnam in a most offensive way.

And this is the hero and celebrity board member of the NRA?

But I guess I hate freedom, so what do I know?

Ted Nugent on Wayne LaPierre

On By Norbert HauptIn Commentaries, Crack-Ups, Need to Know, PoliticalLeave a comment

LaPierre - Nugent

In Time Magazine of April 29, featuring the 100 most influential people, Ted Nugent described Wayne LaPierre. Above is the full piece, and the underlines in the article are mine.

Nugent claims the right to bear arms is God-given. Nugent may have a bigger megaphone than I do and better connections to his god, but let me claim right here that this right that he claims is God-given was revoked by the Easter Bunny yesterday when he appeared onto me and told me so. Trust me on that. It’s the truth.

The right to bear arms was given to us by a constitutional amendment as part of the Bill of Rights, adopted on December 15, 1791.

In District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment “codified a pre-existing right” and that it “protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home”but also stated that “the right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose”. They also clarified that many longstanding prohibitions and restrictions on firearms possession listed by the Court are consistent with the Second Amendment.

When the Second Amendment was adopted, the United States was an agrarian nation with 3,929,214 people. Its intended purpose was to allow us to protect our homes from thieves, bandits, Indians and slave uprisings. It says nothing about it being “sacred” as Nugent claims.

Nugent does and says whatever is good for him and him only, and values, convictions, character and integrity come later – if convenient to his current desired outcome. Nugent was a draft dodger who didn’t want to serve this “truly free and independent America” when it came calling on him. He lied and deceived grievously when it suited his objectives.

Yes, this is the guy holding up Wayne LaPierre and comparing him to Ben Franklin, George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

Draft Dodger Ted Nugent

On By Norbert HauptIn Commentaries1 Comment

Ted Nugent has built himself up to be a conservative icon, appealing to the gun-toting crowd. He is held up by a lot of conservatives in Congress as a conservative American hero. However, he was a draft dodger.

In in interview with High Times Magazine in 1977, Ted Nugent stated:

“I got my physical notice 30 days prior to. Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin’ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie. I had long hair, and it started gettin’ kinky, matted up. Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value. I just had chips, Pepsi, beer-stuff I never touched-buttered poop, little jars of Polish sausages, and I’d drink the syrup, I was this side of death, Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.”

Nugent himself later stated that he made this all up.

My conclusion: Nugent does whatever is good for him and him only, and values, convictions, character and integrity come later – if convenient to his current desired outcome.

Give me better heroes.