The GOP is out of its goddamn mind:
“We know that the president will have the state of the union stacked and jammed with props, children, and victims of violent crime, ” Nugent said. “And my friends wanted me to attend to counter that the way that I do: with facts, statistics and common sense and logic and a celebration of self-evident truths. So I will be taking on the media orgy following the State of the Union Address.”
Nugent said the media does not realize he is a “force to be reckoned with” and therefore he will “dominate them.”
Nugent added that he would be outspoken after the event but “remain respectful to the office of the presidency and the event itself.”
Democrats have invited residents of the Newtown tragedy to attend the State of Union address. The GOP has invited noted misogynist asshole Ted Nugent — who runs around telling everyone to suck on his machine gun, who has made veiled threats against President Obama’s life and called him “a piece of shit,” and who called Hillary Clinton “worthless bitch” — to attend the State of the Union address:
Renegade right-winger Ted Nugent recently went on a vicious onstage rant in which he threatened the lives of Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Decked out in full-on camouflage hunting gear, Nugent wielded two machine guns while raging, “Obama, he’s a piece of shit. I told him to suck on my machine gun. Hey Hillary,” he continued. “You might want to ride one of these into the sunset, you worthless bitch.” Nugent summed up his eloquent speech by screaming “freedom!”
Who wants to talk about both sides do it?
[cross-posted at ABLC]
Forum Transmitted Disease
Ted had to go right-wing. He has a long track record of fucking young teenage girls, it started catching up with him, and it turns out taking the right turn has been a pretty good way to get the heat off.
He’s an opportunist, not an ideologue.
some guy
Gun nuts and foaming at the mouth extremists are the new face of the GOP. Make Boehner and Senator Huckleberry and Marco Illegal Immigrant Child own them.
Yutsano
@Forum Transmitted Disease: Hey it worked for Rush and Dominican rent boys. Not to mention once you’re of the Tribe any sin will be excused.
PsiFighter37
My secret hope is that Ted Nugent is stupid enough to bring firearms into DC and get his sorry ass arrested. It’ll be a win-win – he fulfills his prophecy of being in jail within a year after Obama is reelected, and no one has to hear from that hateful nutbag piece of shit ever again.
It’s kind of a shame that people don’t vote for presidential candidates based on the coolness of their musical supporters. Democrats would win by a landslide every time. And I’m not just saying that because Beyonce is jaw-droppingly gorgeous.
Carolinus
Here’s the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlw5HYmCMCg
Yutsano
@PsiFighter37: The prophecy is in jail or dead. Y U STILL SUCKING OXYGEN TED??
Ted & Hellen
Well…I DID say a lot of things like that about W during the dark years.
Carolinus
Nugent on the Civil War:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/07/06/nras-nugent-im-beginning-to-wonder-if-it-would/186972
RosiesDad
There’s always a good possibility that they won’t let the d-bag into the building.
And if they do, he’s liable to be surprised when the media ignores him. Because as dumb as they are, he will be of no fascination to the VSP.
danielx
But a goodly portion of the 27% will eat his bullshit up with a spoon, so there’s that.
GxB
You’re leaving out known statutory rapist, pants shitting chickenhawk, and just plain sick fuck. Have the GoPers ever actually read some of the lyrics this ‘patriot’ wrote?
Christ… What an Asshole.
WereBear
Keep pouring it on, GOP. Let us know what you really think.
Villago Delenda Est
It is so like the Rethuglican party to embrace a draft dodging literal shitstain like Ted Nugent.
The GOP shits on Vietnam vets by inviting this trash.
Par for the course. Dick Cheney ls a draft dodging chickenhawk coward too. Like Mitt Romney.
Gex
They are petulant children with oppositional defiance disorder. And a healthy dose of “you can’t tell us what to do!”
There’s something seriously wrong with the American right. It’s sociopathic.
PsiFighter37
Someone enterprising reporter (if any such thing exists anymore) should ask Ted Nugent why he’s got such a small penis. I bet that would shut him up good for a couple seconds, and the guilty look of confusion would be totally worth it.
PsiFighter37
Really? A reference to pen15 gets me thrown in the moderation queue? Lame…
Citizen_X
Oh, what, he plays rock music? Because I thought he was just a loudmouth rightwing asshole who was famous for being famous. Just Paris Hilton with an AR-15.
(Yes, I know he used to make music. Used to.)
Jerzy Russian
A semiserious question here: Are any of Mr. Nugent’s songs any good? Does he make money off of being a musician, or by just being a dick?
General Stuck
Good thing wingnuts are learning lessons from their second electoral walloping by Obama and democrats. It’s just a message problem, and what says moderation like making your guest of honor at the nationally televised SOTU, the Motor City Madman and his Secret Service tail. I mean it ain’t transvag wands of freedom, but should get the message across.
Omnes Omnibus
@Citizen_X: That is unfair to Paris Hilton.
Davis X. Machina
@PsiFighter37: It’s not the pen15 per se, it’s the spam for pen15 enhancement ‘drugs’, that’s the problem.
You — and the pen15 — are just bycatch.
max
The GOP has invited noted misogynist asshole Ted Nugent — who runs around telling everyone to suck on his machine gun
He could maybe yell, and then the GOP can be all aghast that Obama black helicoptered Ted, which is completely different from Code Pink tactics which are obviously terrorism.
Anyways, this is totally an opportunity… for Obama to work in a riff about how he hopes that the cat-scratch fever has passed and we can get down to fixing things.
max
[‘He’s going to do it anyways, so the joke may as well be funny.’]
LeftCoastTom
ABL, I’m disappointed. Ted Nugent is on the board of the NRA, and while holding that position has twice been convicted of poaching, and yet the word “poaching” is nowhere to be found in your post.
If NRA Board Members are going to commit firearm-related crimes, then why wouldn’t the rest of us point at those crimes every time their names are mentioned in public?
Omnes Omnibus
@Jerzy Russian:
This is what originally made him famous. Ted is playing lead guitar.
Jewish Steel
@Jerzy Russian: He had a corner of shirtless guitar heroism to himself in the mid to late 70s. I can remember liking him right about the time I might’ve liked professional wrestling or other some absurd display of hyper-masculinity if I wasn’t into music.
Judge for yourself.
Some nice slide work.
Gin & Tonic
@Carolinus: I thought it was highly illegal for individuals to own automatic weapons (“machine guns.”) What’s up with that?
Todd
@Jerzy Russian:
If you’re a 13 year old boy, and think that ham handed string thrashing and poorly considered accompaniment and lyrics about young pussy are awesome, then I suppose so.
shortstop
@Jewish Steel:
That is a nice piece of prose.
Jewish Steel
@shortstop: Bows deeply.
It’s a total bitch that one’s aesthetic sense in no way correlates with one’s morals. That is, you can be a right POS and still make something beautiful. Life would be simpler if ugly souls made only ugly things.
Steeplejack
@Jerzy Russian:
His group the Amboy Dukes had a second-tier hit with “Journey to the Center of the Mind” in 1968, and “Catch Scratch Fever” was an even lesser hit in about 1977. They were okay for their time, but he was never a superstar.
TenguPhule
If that POS Nugent tries anything with a firearm during the State of Union, he and the entire GOP Congress Crew should be executed on the spot.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Go-go dancers!
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: I have my priorities straight.
Morbo
I encourage Republicans to let Ted Nugent be their voice against gun control.
Omnes Omnibus
@Morbo: Ted and Wayne do seem to be doing a very good job.
jl
Is there a security check for members of the general public who attend? If so, the poor guard who has to pat down ol’ Ted had better be careful and delicate about it. Could be messy. If history is any guide.
WereBear
Gee, when I think of the Motor City Madman, I don’t think of any of those things.
Must be my funnee liberal branezzzz.
J.D. Rhoades
There is a significant segment of the Republican Party that only belongs because the “I got mine, so fuck you” ethos of the modern GOP gives them political and philosophical cover for being completely sociopathic dickheads. These are the people who chortle about how Rand Paul “schooled” Hillary Clinton at the Benghazi hearings and who think it’s ALL KINDS OF AWESOME that he’s delivering the rebuttal to the rebuttal after the SOTU. What they don’t realize is that HRC came out of that with a 61 percent favorability rating, making her the most popular politician in America today, and Paul’s down around 39.
They’re so excited at the prospect that Nugent will yell something at the POTUS that they’re about ready to soil their Depends.
GxB
@Jerzy Russian: No.
Then again I grew up wondering how the hell bands like Europe and Poison had any sort of following. The answer there seems that tastes vary greatly and apparently having none whatsoever doesn’t stop you from making enough money to support crap music.
Ashbury Dukes, I’ll give him a pass, but his solo stuff is tepid at best technically; and outright offensive hate filled, bitter, Rambo-chest thumping dreck more often than not. That said, Ted’s probably pulling down a hell of a lot more scratch now than pretty much any of his contemporaries, and it ain’t because of his killer cologne business.
Omnes Omnibus
@GxB: Hey, at least he wasn’t in Creed.
He was a pretty good guitarist for about a decade. Not particularly original or groundbreaking. No one would remember him as much more than a footnote if he weren’t a right wing asshole.
Jay
Also, Nugent was speaking to a talkshow host with the surname “Broomhead.”
That CANNOT be his real surname.
Jerzy Russian
@GxB: Thanks for al of the replies. The evidence shows that he is more famous for being a dick than any of his artistic efforts. I hope he gets on the Tee Vee tomorrow night, and that people everywhere think to themselves, “Christ, what an asshole!”
Chris
@Forum Transmitted Disease:
I don’t think there’s any such thing as a crime that won’t be forgiven by close to half of the population if you publicly embrace right wing rhetoric and claim that anyone trying to hold you accountable is just a liberal elitist persecuting you because he hates your freedoms.
Xenos
I would compare Nugent to John Wilkes Booth, except that Booth had talent, charisma, and guts, while Nugent has none of these.
Cain
Ted Nugent had one good song “Take Me Higher” when he was with “Damn Yankees”. I thought that was a pretty decent hit. Ted’s politics is a piece of shit, but he did have some chops with the guitar.
GxB
@Omnes Omnibus:
Oh Christ – don’t get me started…
numfar
Nugent does a cover of Hey Baby that is outta this world, but that does nothing to make up for his asshattery.
Omnes Omnibus
@GxB: I like the Christ reference. Well played. So… Creed or Nickelback? Limp Bizkit? Stapp or Durst?
I now sincerely apologize. This was uncalled for.
gnomedad
I was trying to come up with some snark along the lines of “what, (vile person) wasn’t available?” but I got nuthin’.
handy
@Omnes Omnibus:
Dood, Creed shreds!
Jager
@Todd: Rush has made a big bag of money appealing to that same 13 year old that lives inside old white men’s heads.
GxB
@Omnes Omnibus: Boy, you really know how to hurt a guy don’t you?
Once you hit the era of auto-tune though, I’m totally immune. I recall Kid Crock’s drippy slow hit around the time of “Baw-wit-tha-baw” (or whatever) and my ears revolted. Have had minimal exposure since and I honestly couldn’t tell you Katy Gaga from Lady Perry. Beyonce, Usher, Beiber… I can honestly say “Who?” when they come on the radio. It’s beautiful.
I do know Nickleback sux though – thanks to brother TBogg.
mouse tolliver
@Forum Transmitted Disease:
Seriously. I do not understand this. Ted Nugent could easily be neutralized as a GOP spokesman, and the GOP would be soundly humiliated if Democrats would only call him out on his taste for chicken.
Ted Nugent is a statutory rapist. He admitted it. It’s in a VH1 documentary that anyone could find by doing a simple search using the terms “ted + nugent + underage + girls.”
Omnes Omnibus
@GxB: Sadly, Justin Timberlake is actually quite talented – and musically aware. And this is just awesome.
opie_jeanne
@Omnes Omnibus: I’ve never seen that. I was 18 in 1968 and yes, I looked just like those girls and had a dress very much like that.
Schlemizel
THE MEDIA NEEDS TO REMIND TEDDY OF THE PROMISE HE MADE ALMOST 1 YEAR AGO – A PROMISE HE STILL NEEDS TO KEEP – A PROMISE I HAVE A COUNTDOWN CLOCK FOR:
http://countingdownto.com/countdown/176293
opie_jeanne
@GxB: I own a Poison album solely because I was looking for music for a tap number for my kids.
Then I really heard the lyrics to Unskinny Bop and decided to find something else. Po’Boy Blues works, though.
GxB
@Schlemizel: I got that as a widget on my desktop. Both options are a total win, but the jail one means he’d possibly live to see a female (gasp) president. You think he’s lost his shit now…
@opie_jeanne:
Pray, if it was stomped on to make a surface sufficiently scratchy for a soft-shoe, I’ll let it pass; otherwise I’m afraid I’m going to have to alert child protection services.
Mike in NC
I long to piss on this fucker’s corpse.
Scamp Dog
@Jerzy Russian: I still love “Journey to the Center of the Mind”, from 1968. He was then a part of the Amboy Dukes. His solo on that song is good, but not something that changed rock & roll. Look up the YouTube video, it’s fun.
Don’t know if he’s done anything worthwhile in the past…what, 40 years or so?
ETA: and I’ve been beaten to the punch, several tines. Didn’t know that Cat Scratch Fever was Nugent. A fun song, good but not great.
Ruckus
@gnomedad:
Hard to come up with a more evil, useless asshole when you are already scraping the bottom of the barrel. And little teddie is that burnt to the crisp crap that has to be scraped off the bottom.
Ruckus
@Mike in NC:
Wouldn’t waste the urine. Pissing on little teddie would devalue it too much.
FlipYrWhig
So in 30 years is Kid Rock going to be showing up to Pres. Chelsea Clinton’s State of the Union to protest against stricter phaser regulations?
Mr Furious
@Cain: Nugent’s fellow Damn Yankee Jack Blades played during the RNC in Tampa. Does that mean Tommy Shaw was also a right-wing asshole and that’s what this trio of also-rand had in common when they formed their “supergroup?”
@RosiesDad:
magurakurin
@Omnes Omnibus:
Holy Phony Psychedelia, Batman. That is awful. It’s like a scene from Spinal Tap: The Early Years. Ted Nugent was pretty popular among the gear heads and heavy metal crew when I was in high school…76-80. I always thought he was shit, though. I never knew about that band. I’d heard the name, but never actual heard a song until just now.
Makes me hate that wanker even more.
AxelFoley
Never understood how some of these headbangers from the 80s turned out to be rightwing scum. I do remember the right demonizing these fuckers back in the day, and now they join them.
SMH
Christopher Wing
I was in the market for a new watch, and I really like Luminox watches – then I went to their Facebook page, and there was a pic of the owner with Nugent.
I’m buying a Traser watch now.
Gunga Dean
Ted Who?
Paul in KY
@FlipYrWhig: Kid Rock will be dead in 30 years (I hope).
Cassidy
@Gin & Tonic: It’s legal as long as the dealer is licensed to sell Class III weapons and the buyer has to pay a very steep Class III stamp, maintain the paperwork for life, subject to random audits, etc.
sherparick
Grifters got to grift. From Ted and Congressman Nutjob Stockman from Texas, this is all win-win. It means bigger speaker fees and more hits on their web sites as they “fund raise” to defend “FREEEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM” from the Kenyan Usurper and the “Lib-tards.” As David Frum has accurately described it, the “Conservative Entertainment Complex” now runs the movement and the Republican Party, and winning elections is somewhat besides the point for these people.
In sense, both we and the MSM are being “trolled” by these people. From Obama and Nancy Pelosi’s point of view Ted Nugent and all his baggage is a perfect spokesman for the Republican Party as Ted does what he thinks will help him get his “reality” show on TLC or Discovery next to “Honey Boo-boo.”
Bobby Thomson
@AxelFoley:
My high school was full of them. Simple, really. They idolize guns, have contempt for women (and learning), and hate the browns.
Tone in DC
This evening’s GOP “response” ought to be worthy of the Globe or National fucking Enquirer. Complete with Graham’s histrionics, McConnell transforming into an actual tortoise, and the Nuge being arrested by one of DC’s 17 police forces for public lewdness.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Bob h
Anyone like to bet the Republicans show up with “Obamasequester” signs or buttons? The only question is whether their buffoonery rises to junior high school level.
Bob h
@Villago Delenda Est: iIf he does disrupt the address, I hope the Capitol police throw him off the balcony.
g
Great stunt, Nuge. You just assured that no one is going to pay any attention to Marco Rubio or Rand Paul.
I’m sure the GOP is going to be very pleased with that.
smith
Yep, this is really going to help with the RNC’s outreach efforts. A guy who is an open racist and all-around awful human being being your spokesperson. Good job Republicans.
Let’s review:
-Noted racist
-Declared Bankruptcy a few times
-Openly threatened the lives of elected politicians
-Refused to serve in Vietnam and pretended to act mentally ill and crapped his parents when brought in front of the draft board
-Has cheated on his wife and has several illegitimate children (a couple of the women even had to bring him to court to make sure he paid his child support)
-Is a pedophile who has a penchant for underage girls
I welcome Ted Nugent as RNC spokesman – get all of this out there and let Republicans embrace his douchebaggery and be humiliated in more elections.
Fred
Back in the ’60s I liked the Amboy Dukes OK but then I liked Iron Butterfly too so…
Enyways, at some point I saw a magazine spread about Nugent and his hunting fetish. Now I have nothing against hunting per se but the dude was decked out in a skimpy leather vest, all kindsa raw hide straps, shorts of some strange loincloth sort and holding a crossbow. At that point I knew the man had some real issues.
No doubt there’s a lot of hype in it all but if he want’s to get attention he could just eat dog shit and bite the heads off of chickens for the cameras and that would get him talked about too.
Nobody seems to lose money by being a raving rightwing loone.
gbear
@PsiFighter37: I hope that if Ted does anything stupid enough to get him arrested, they let him out one day before the deadline of when he said he’d be dead or in jail. Leave him standing on the front steps with only one option left.
ottercliff
Remind me again please. Was it the last century or the one before when Ted Nugent was slightly relevant?
General Stuck
@ottercliff:
He is relevant now. Just not for music. But for the GOP choosing him as their ambassador for the crazy. Another whacky brick in the wingnut wall.
Pococurante
See? Professional wrestling *is* real.
smith
@Pococurante:
No way he allows himself to be interviewed by anyone other than a media hack, FOX News, or a right-wing talk show host. Someone with actual chops would ask him about why he had to be dragged into court a few years ago because he was behind on his child support; someone with actual chops would ask him about his self-professed love for chasing underage girls around.
smith
@Pococurante:
No way he allows himself to be interviewed by anyone other than a media hack, FOX News, or a right-wing talk show host. Someone with actual chops would ask him about why he had to be dragged into court a few years ago because he was behind on his child support; someone with actual chops would ask him about his self-professed love for chasing underage girls around.
Pococurante
@Jerzy Russian:
When they strap me into the couch to watch yellow daisies as the soylent green drugs kick in, I will be listening to Stranglehold.
The long version.
smith
@Pococurante:
No way he allows himself to be interviewed by anyone other than a media hack, FOX News, or a right-wing talk show host. Someone with actual chops would ask him about why he had to be dragged into court a few years ago because he was behind on his child support; someone with actual chops would ask him about his self-professed love for chasing underage girls around.
Jeff
Nugent is also a huge, documented racist. Can’t forget that. When is the deadline for him to be dead or in jail?
Patricia Kayden
@Villago Delenda Est: Shrub was a draft dodger too. Seems like they’re all chicken hawks except when it comes to sending other people’s children into unnecessary wars.
Had to laugh when I heard that Cheney called Hagel and Kerry “second rate”, as if he is in any place to call anything second rate.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/dick-cheney-slams-obama-for-nominating-second-rate-people-for-key-national-security-posts/
Plantsmantx
I have two words for anyone who doesn’t (or pretends not to) understand the concept of white privilege:
1. Ted
2. Neugent
blueneck
@Jeff:
The Nooj’s countdown clock.
BethanyAnne
@Omnes Omnibus: Damn, that’s awesome!