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If you’re not following Ted Nugent’s twitter feed, you’re missing out. The last forty six tweets have been “are words more offensive than _random made -up Obama scandal_”.

But this has to be my favorite:

Yeah, yeah, we shouldn’t pay attention to the freak show. Well, Ted may as well be on the DNC pay roll at this point.

And, yes “Joseph Goebbells Saul Alinsky propaganda ministry mongrels” will soon be a rotating tag.

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  1. 1.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    I bet Obama’s pretty busted up about being called names by a pedophile.

  5. 5.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I’m wondering how long it will be before Nugent grabs one of his many metallic dick substitutes and expresses himself by shooting at random passerby.

  8. 8.

    J.D. Rhoades

    The Nuge is suddenly receiving attention from people outside the right wing bubble who don’t get all tingly down in their nethers at the sight and sound of some someone being a racist misogynist asshole, and it’s got him so rattled he’s just spewing buzzwords and tootling dogwhistles at random.

  13. 13.

    max

    CNN Joseph Goebbells Saul Alinsky propaganda ministry mongrels

    {guitar chord}
    “They give me bat shit fever
    Bat shit fever
    I got a bug fuck fever
    The bat shit fever

    It’s nothin’ dangerous
    I feel no pain
    I’ve got the choo-choo train
    You know you got it when you
    you’re going insane
    It makes a grown man cry
    cry, oh won’t you make my bed”

    max
    [‘I think that explains a lot of things, actually.’]

  15. 15.

    NonyNony

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    I’m wondering how long it will be before Nugent grabs one of his many metallic dick substitutes and expresses himself by shooting at random passerby.

    Ted Nugent takes his feelings of inadequacy out of animals on his own personal well-stocked “hunting” ground where the animals are kept fat and lazy to make it easier for him to unload a clip into them.

    He wouldn’t shoot at a person – he might miss and they might fight back!

  17. 17.

    BGinCHI

    At least there is something in the world Palin and Crazy Eyes can read and think, “Well, at least I’m not that stupid.”

  19. 19.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Aside from “Journey to the Center of the Mind” and “Cat Scratch Fever,” has Nuge had any music that anyone might notice?

  22. 22.

    Howard Beale IV

    Nugent is a sideshow clown whose 15 minutes of fame expired back in the Ambody Dukes era. Why anyone pays any attention to that mentally-addled Texas transplant (He’s just another carpetbagging Yankee from Michigan, you Texas Cowboys!) makes you really wonder.

  24. 24.

    raven

    Ted Nugent revealed himself to be a “gay pirate from Cuba” during a tirade in which he compared CNN to Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels and identified network anchor Wolf Blitzer as a journalist.

  25. 25.

    Anoniminous

    If you’re not following Ted Nugent’s twitter feed, you’re missing out.

    No I’m not.

    For reals & truly!

  31. 31.

    ? Martin

    @Laertes: I think the reference is to Courtney Love’s claim of giving him a hummer when she was 12. Not that I particularly believe her claim, but then I wouldn’t believe anything out of Nugent either. So who the fuck knows.

  32. 32.

    Laertes

    @Howard Beale IV:

    (That’s in response to something I deleted: “Unfair. The girl was 17 and he was 30. That’s sleazy and wrong, but it’s not pedophilia.”)

    I get where you’re going, and I guess where we differ is the idea that statutory rape always == pedophilia. Maybe you’re right and I’ve got the unusual understanding of that word? When I hear the word “pedophile” I think of someone who’s sexually attracted to children.

    Way I see it, there’s miles of daylight between the guy who looks at a 17-year-old and says “Man, I wish she was 18” and the guy who looks at a 12-year-old and says “I want some of that.” They’re both wrong, but one is way wronger, and it seems unfair to call that first guy a pedophile when he’s really just kind of a creep.

  33. 33.

    Jebediah, RBG

    @raven:

    But he did say he would have made a great army man!

    (BTW, who the fuck over the age of eight says “army man?”)

  34. 34.

    Laertes

    @? Martin:

    I think the reference is to Courtney Love’s claim of giving him a hummer when she was 12.

    WHOA holy shit I had not heard about that one. I thought we were talking about the 17-year-old girl. Okay, that’s pedophilia. I stand corrected. (And disgusted.)

  36. 36.

    JPL

    So I clicked to the twitter feed and Ted is on a roll…..all his tweets are leading with are words more offensive than..Below is a copy and paste of one example. Does Ted not know how many Americans died under Bush?

    Are words really more offensivethan 5 dead Americans on Obamaswatch

  37. 37.

    max

    @Omnes Omnibus: Aside from “Journey to the Center of the Mind” and “Cat Scratch Fever,” has Nuge had any music that anyone might notice?

    I feel like I missed out – what the hell is ‘Journey to the Center of the Mind’? Wait. Never mind. Skip it. I should count my blessings.

    max
    [‘I was entirely disconnected from the Peter Frampton thing too, but then he’s not on Fox News.’]

  39. 39.

    Laertes

    @JPL:

    Also: WTF? “5 dead Americans on Obamaswatch”? Haven’t there been hundreds? Maybe thousands? Do these guys think that only Americans who die in Libya count?

  46. 46.

    max

    @Omnes Omnibus: Second or third tier psychedelica.

    He’s finally got on to the first tier psychedelia now!

    max
    [‘He said he was gay Cuban pirate. and he kind of looks like a gay Cuban pirate… meth dealer.’]

  50. 50.

    JPL

    @Laertes: Hey, don’t ask me, I’m just the copy and paste person. He has dozens of tweets trying to justify his words.

    also, Ted fears that his fifteen minutes is up and it’s that nazi, commie, socialist blitzer who called him out for his comments

  51. 51.

    geg6

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Nah, can’t afford that. A nice 2012 with notes of pear and, maybe, apricot? It was what is called a Chairman’s Selection in our state controlled wine and spirit stores. A (usually) very good wine at a discount and in limited quantity and for only a limited period, usually a month. This was a bottle that should retail at about $20-30 and I paid $11. We get great wines at great price by buying just those wines every month if we can. It just sucks that once they’re gone, they’re gone.

  52. 52.

    ? Martin

    @Laertes: I’d also note that my daughter had a classmate that easily passed for 18 when she was 11 – 5th grade. She was about 5′ 10″, could carry herself like an adult when she chose, and was very pretty – and then one of her friends would come up to her and they’d go scamper off like 11 year olds. She made all of the parents nervous because nobody was prepared to protect someone that age from that kind of attention.

    Not a defense, but not all 12 year olds are so easy to spot as 12 year olds. Of course when you’re 30, you should be LONG past running the risk of picking 18 year-olds out of the field. But the claim is a bit hard to believe. It’s pretty hard for a 12 year old to even get in that situation, want to get in that situation, etc.

  56. 56.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Laertes:
    They’re using a special but only mildly deranged definition of ‘on Obama’s watch’ where they mean deaths that Obama is personally responsible for due to laziness, incompetence, spite, or Islamist sympathies. It also implies 5 deaths in this one incident, and does not rule out other incidents.

    Oh, and somehow no deaths during Bush’s presidency can reflect badly on Bush in any way. Assuming Bush is anything but a figment of desperate, hate-filled liberal imaginations.

  58. 58.

    Jebediah, RBG

    @? Martin:

    It’s pretty hard for a 12 year old to even get in that situation, want to get in that situation, etc.

    Courtney Love had a remarkably fucked up childhood.

    ETA: When I was teaching, one of the fifth grade girls was exactly as you describe… also very pretty, very smart, spoke fluent Italian, had traveled – could very easily have passed for eighteen. I imagine it must have been rather nerve-wracking for her parents.

  59. 59.

    ? Martin

    @Laertes:

    Do these guys think that only Americans who die in Libya count?

    Well, yeah. They’ve always been selective about who counts. How many people die each year for lack of healthcare? They don’t count. None of the kids killed by handguns count. Trayvon Martin doesn’t count. People that make Obama look bad count.

  60. 60.

    Laertes

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    I just find it puzzling that 2,000 or so dead in Iraq and Afghanistan since President Obama took office is a yawn to these people, but five dead in a dangerous part of Libya is WHAARGAAARBL.

    There’ve been days when we lost seven times that many. Their capacity for cognitive dissonance never ceases to amaze.

  61. 61.

    JPL

    @Baud: Hey, I’m just the copy and paste person. He seems to think that the President killed Brian Terry, so maybe it is him. There are at least forty of these tweets that start with are words more important than….
    I think Ted is losing whatever sanity he had left. He didn’t have much more to lose.

  65. 65.

    Mnemosyne

    @Laertes:

    IIRC, the distinction that’s sometimes made is between pedophilia (pre-pubertal kids) and hebephilia (post-pubertal kids). I tend to agree that it’s two different things with two different levels of creepiness.

  66. 66.

    ? Martin

    @Jebediah, RBG: Don’t really know anything about her childhood, but I’m not surprised. I will say that I think Nugent is more depraved than Love is desperate for attention, but that’s about as much of defense for the claim as I can muster.

  67. 67.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @raven:

    Hold it…misty eyed about an ATF agent? I thought the ATF was nothing but jackbooted thugs? Didn’t the ATF burn down the Branch Davidian compound? Gun down Randy Weaver’s kids?

  69. 69.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Laertes:
    They are exhibiting cognitive dissonance perfectly. Because they echoed one complaint about Obama, they have rearranged their entire belief structure to support it when under all other circumstances they don’t give a damn about Americans dying in conflicts overseas. Now they’ve thrown in, and they think they do.

  74. 74.

    max

    Perry with glasses denounces Nugent.

    “I have a problem calling the president a ‘subhuman mongrel,'” Perry said Thursday afternoon during an interview with Wolf Blitzer. “That’s an inappropriate thing to say. Again, people were saying that all the time.”

    1) Perry has fully dumped the secession thing & is now going for the Jeb! thing.
    2) Someone should get Perry to denounce ‘CNN Joseph Goebbells Saul Alinsky propaganda ministry mongrels’.

    max
    [‘There’s a Top Ten list of Nugent’s tweets coming. Or there should be.’]

  77. 77.

    raven

    Motherfucker doesn’t give a rats as what, you, me, Rand Fucking Paul or anyone else thinks. His cash register is ringin.

  80. 80.

    schrodinger's cat

    I had never heard of Nugent till I saw him in one of the Anthony Bourdain shows, I think it was, No Reservations. I don’t think he is relevant, he is a has-been from another era.

  81. 81.

    trollhattan

    @Jebediah, RBG:

    I was thinking Obama Swatch: a bright, plastic wristwatch with the hour hand a pudgy 1%er and the minute hand a blah president running away with a bag o’ cash.

  82. 82.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @schrodinger’s cat: I suspect that like Trump and Birtherism, Nugent feeds off the attention these things get him, though I think in Nugent’s case the rage and the racism and the paranoia are more genuine.

  84. 84.

    Brian R.

    Man, I can’t wait to see what intern they blame these tweets on once The Nuge comes down from his ether bender.

  86. 86.

    Kay

    Battleground Texas is registering a lot of voters, and it looks like the members of the national conservative grifter network are getting a little nervous:

    Conservative activist James O’Keefe has released another covert video of Battleground Texas volunteers. In this one, a voter registration coordinator collects phone numbers as part of the registration process, something that the office of Secretary of State Nandita Berry tells the Tribune’s Alana Rocha and Jay Root could be a “potential level of offense.”
    “Whether Battleground did anything wrong in the process comes down to how the law is interpreted,” wrote Rocha and Root. “Section 13.004 of the Texas Election Code says, in part, that county registration officials may not ‘transcribe, copy or otherwise record a telephone number furnished on a registration application.’”
    Opinion was split among authorities queried by the reporters. A Berry spokesman suggested that Battleground Texas’ volunteer deputy registrars would have the same liability that applies to county officials. That view was not shared by election law expert Buck Wood, who said the statutory language makes it clear that these volunteer registrars are not county officials.

    In the video of the Texas even I saw on CNN, Ted Nugent is babbling about ACORN.

    Someone should tell him we just call ACORN “Battleground Texas” now :)

  87. 87.

    cckids

    @BGinCHI:

    At least there is something in the world Palin and Crazy Eyes can read and think, “Well, at least I’m not that stupid.”

    Actually, Sarah endorses Abbot because Nugent did. “If he’s good enough for Ted Nugent, that’s good enough for me”.

    I shit you not. I’d link, but it goes to her FB page . . . ’nuff said.

  88. 88.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @cckids: I think Josh Marshall has that up too. I’m sure whichever Sunday host is gazing admirably at John McCain this week as he calls for an invasion of Ukraine will ask him if he’s still proud of Governor Palin.

  90. 90.

    dance around in your bones

    You know, I don’t hate on Ted Nugent for doing the ‘crap in your pants/I am insane’ bit to get out of the Vietnam war. A lot of guys I knew did anything they could to get out of what was obviously a clusterfuck by the late 60’s/early 70’s.

    What I DO hate on him for is the mindless war/gun hard-on stance he has adopted since. And he was never a very good musician, either. Why does anybody listen to what he has to “say”? FIDO.

  91. 91.

    JPL

    Sometimes Nugent is deep..

    Are words really more offensivethan engineered recidivism

    somehow when you start forty tweets with are words really… you might be on to something

  93. 93.

    SuperHrefna

    @? Martin: I looked 18 when I was twelve. It was awful. People are way more superficial than my hippy upbringing had led me to believe and since I looked grown up people treated me as a grown up even though I was just a little kid. I have a lot of emotional scars from back then. I have absolutely no problem imagining a twelve year old getting into a nasty situation backstage at some concert or another.

  95. 95.

    lamh36

    @JPL: wait, but if you really want to laugh read the RT from people who are mad at Rand Paul for saying Cruz should apologize.

    Love the smell of RWNJ eating their own!

  97. 97.

    Zam

    If Nugent’s claims of sobriety are in fact true he may in fact be the greatest example of why drugs and alcohol are in fact good for you.

  98. 98.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @Zam:

    If Nugent’s claims of sobriety are in fact true he may in fact be the greatest example of why drugs and alcohol are in fact good for you.

    Aw, c’mon. Look how hilarious Chevy Chase was after he quit using.

  100. 100.

    SFAW

    @Baud:

    Who’s the fifth? I thought four people died in Benghazi.

    Actually, I imagine that, according to the Nuge, it’s more like 3,000, because 9/11 and Katrina happened on Obama’s Watch.

    @BGinCHI:

    At least there is something in the world Palin and Crazy Eyes can read and think, “Well, at least I’m not that stupid.”

    Well, they’re certainly welcome to think that, but they’d be wrong.

  107. 107.

    Kay

    @lamh36:

    He’s such a phony. It’s so typical, his fake-principled stand.

    They’re not asking Nugent to apologize. No one cares about him. They’re asking the candidate for Texas governor to apologize, because he invited Nugent and then called Nugent a “blood brother”, whatever the hell that means.

  110. 110.

    dmsilev

    @Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader: If you have a copy of Emacs handy, run M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead. It’s arguably more coherent than Nugent’s tweets.

    (pipes a Zippy-the-pinhead generator into the old ELIZA ‘psychologist’ routine. Gets very weird very fast.)

  111. 111.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Kay:

    All that guy is doing right now is campaigning for Wendy Davis. Although he’s too stupid to realize it.

  116. 116.

    MikeJ

    @randomworker:

    “Stranglehold” was only tolerable if you were blind drunk.

    Oh, and 16.

    When I was 16 I was sneaking into bars to see Alex Chilton. I had much better taste even at that age.

  119. 119.

    SFAW

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Stupid has a nadir not a peak.

    Cyril Kornbluth might disagree with you on that one.

    And, frankly, considering that the Wingtards exalt stupidity and ignorance, I might also disagree.

  120. 120.

    BGinCHI

    @MikeJ: You need to get the latest Oxford American for a great article on Chilton and Big Star (and one of Chilton’s girlfriends). Really fascinating.

    And if you are from Memphis it’s a must.

  123. 123.

    BGinCHI

    @Omnes Omnibus: The writing is really fucking good. Even if some of the stuff coming from the South makes you crazy (which it does for me), the OA will renew your faith in your fellow Southern men and women. A trip to Athens will do this too but the magazine is cheaper.

  127. 127.

    Kay

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Well, they haven’t even had their primary yet. The LT Gov primary is crazy. They’re trying to outdo each other on how much they hate immigrants:

    Migrant blasts lieutenant governor candidate Patrick on immigration…
    Dan Patrick went along with a decision to hire unauthorized immigrants at his sports bar in the 1980s, according to a man who says he was one of them.

  129. 129.

    Allan

    Rand Paul just threw Ted under the bus on Twitter. His mentions are a shambles. The Benghazi Ribbon Brigade can scarcely contain their disappointment that Paul’s just another RINO.

  137. 137.

    BGinCHI

    @raven: No, sorry. Will check it out. Teaching a Southern Lit course right now and it’s going great. Just finished Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition. Anyone who wants to see how White Supremacy works and how little things have changed in this country needs to read that book.

  138. 138.

    ruemara

    @Laertes: 1. His song “Jail Bait”. Go read the lyrics. 2. His own words, where he admits to his attraction to underage girls. 3. That 17 year old was adopted by him, at the consent of her parents (WTF?!), where he was both her father and her lover. The adoption was to facilitate his access to her. He claims the parents (of more than one girl) always gave their blessings to him, um, being with their girls because “better him than some young punk”.

    The man is a pedophile who has gotten away with it for years in plain sight, because he’s a marginally famous guy. Disgusting.

  145. 145.

    SFAW

    @ruemara:

    Not often I wish I hadn’t read something, but that was one of those times.

    I’m not especially tough, but reading that makes me want to get my shit together in that regard, in the hope that I run into him someday (when he’s not carrying, of course).

    And he’s calling ANYONE else “subhuman”?

  158. 158.

    SFAW

    @raven:

    Do you hit the rack at 10?

    Yeah, Pacific time. Of course, I’m on the East Coast.

    But on the plus side, I’ll be up before 5 AM.

    Eastern time.

  159. 159.

    Svensker

    It’s a meme. A wingnut relative put up something on FB about Obama=Goebbels today. Guess it went out in the e-mail blast to all the propaganda outfits, or something.

  160. 160.

    Suffern ACE

    @Svensker: yeah. I believe those Navigators are brown shirts providing government propaganda about Obamacare, hiding the fact that 3.5 million citizens have been melted for their fillings.

  161. 161.

    Violet

    Every time Ted Nugent’s name comes up I’m reminded of this tweet from Tagg Romney during the 2012 campaign:

    Tagg Romney ‏@tromney

    Ted Nugent endorsed my Dad today. Ted Nugent? How cool is that?! He joins Kid Rock as great Detroit musicians on team Mitt!

    2:09 PM – 2 Mar 2012

    Yes, indeed. How cool is that. Let’s never forget that being endorsed by Ted Nugent in 2012 was not only acceptable and welcome, it was cool.

  162. 162.

    qwerty42

    @Baud:

    It’s been said before, but Obama’s enemies are the best enemies. Pure good v. evil stuff here.

    True. I thought Bill then Hillary (even more) brought out the worst, but BHO brings out a kind of insane ranting. Still, I feel for him. I don’t think I could handle the ugliness he does with such calm and decency. Which probably only makes them more angry.

  163. 163.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Violet: some guy made a movie about how much the Romneys like each other, so we’ve all forgotten about his vicious, race-baiting campaign. Oh wait, none of us noticed to begin with!

  164. 164.

    Cassidy

    I don’t know…not all that different from the chorus of “Drooonnneezzz! NSA Metadata bully pulpit if he’d just lead police state” that we get from the yahoos around here. Dipshit minds think alike.

  165. 165.

    Randy P

    Why is mongrel an insult? I use that to describe myself all the time. Plus I’ve always personally felt that mongrel dogs tended to be a lot smarter and well-adjusted than most of the “pure” breeds.

  166. 166.

    jl

    @Randy P: Mongrel is an age-old racist slur used to expand the group that is to be deemed inferior. Being a mixed race person was worse than being of a different race, based on some BS about adulteration and degeneration of pure blood lines. The mongrel slur was picked up by U.S. slave owners to justify all sorts of discrimination, and used it to justify the ‘one-drop’ (of supposedly inferior race blood) theory of being not-white, and so, perfectly OK to discriminate against all sorts of people.

    Then the Nazi’s used it to justify their treatment of Jews, and then extended it to justify their treatment of any group they decided should be killed or oppressed or excluded from genuine humanhood.

    So, when discussing race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, and more, ‘mongrel’ is a very dangerous word, and liable to alarm many types of people.

  167. 167.

    SFAW

    @Randy P:

    I use that to describe myself all the time.

    Using a word, normally used in reference to animals, to describe yourself, is your business, I guess. But referring to someone else that way, without their prior consent, is not really considered good/nice, etc.

    And not everyone has the same view as you (i.e. smarter, etc.)

    ETA: jl discussed this far better than I.

  170. 170.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    And, yes “Joseph Goebbells Saul Alinsky propaganda ministry mongrels” will soon be a rotating tag.

    As long as you add “expialidocious” at the end, which that is just crying out for.

  171. 171.

    jl

    Mongrel was a favorite slur to denigrate and justify discrimination and killing of Native Americans who were trying to assimilate to European ways, and had allied themselves with Europeans. Especially if they owned something or were on land that neighboring European communities wanted.

    Gee, too bad, ain’t it? These poor dupes played the game we told them too, but now we can spread nonsense about how they are even worse than Native American’s themselves. They are mongrels, half-breeds, really degenerate and dangerous people, neither one race nor another.

    Words like ‘mongrel’ and ‘half-breed’ are, or IMHO, should, raise alarm bells when some one uses them like Nugent did.

    If somebody wants to call themselves a mongrel or a mutt jokingly, that is their business. But otherwise it is considered a very loaded word, and I can see why.

    Blitzer and his guest on the CNN broadcast took it seriously, and it doesn’t look like they are going to put up with any whining about liberal PC about it. And I hope that is the case, because I think that they very definitely should not.

  175. 175.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    So Christie is now running against FEMA? Watching O’Donnell it looks like he spent a lot of his town hall badmouthing the feds and blaming them for the delays in Sandy relief. He’s a brazen fuck.

  176. 176.

    SFAW

    @Amir Khalid:

    It says something about Tagg Romney that he thinks Kid Rock and Ted Nugent are great musicians.

    Well, that’s only because Snooky Lanson is gone, and Pat Boone doesn’t sing too much any more.

    But he’s really hoping Air Supply and Starland Vocal Band have reunion tours. (He was also hoping for The Monkees, but with Davy gone, well, you know …)

  179. 179.

    jl

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    ” So Christie is now running against FEMA? ”

    This guy is going to wear well on the campaign trail, isn’t he? Maybe it will work for the primaries, since it’s the GOP base. But not after that.

    Mitt might wear better a second time. Maybe we need to add Mitt to the list with Jeb of possible second tier threats after the current favorites flame out due to scandals, crimes, political thuggishness, emerging signs of insanity, and general nastiness.

  181. 181.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @dance around in your bones: Kind of a toss up where anything would go, if you ask me.

    Joseph Goebbels Saul Alinksy expialidocious
    “propaganda ministry mongrels” is really quite atrocious
    but if you Tweet it loud enough you think you sound ferocious!
    blah blah blah blah BLAH blah blah blah…

    etc,

  182. 182.

    MikeJ

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Are you originally a Memphian?

    Yep. When I was 16 he was playing solo shows and also now and then with Panther Burns. The Antenna is the bar I grew up in

  185. 185.

    RaflW

    I love that immediately below one of two Geobbells Alinsky tweets, the Tedster twats:

    @TedNugent Feb 18
    Proudly campaigning for the great TX AG Greg Abbott for TX governor

    And I bet Greg Abbott is proud to have him. Er, umm, yeah.

  186. 186.

    dance around in your bones

    @Bill E Pilgrim:Hmm – not bad!

    I don’t tweet, though I have an account. Twitter is always bugging me to pay attention to those I quasi-follow. Gawd, haven’t we given up enough of our privacy!?!?

  190. 190.

    Kay

    @RaflW:

    Oh, good. Rogue spokesperson! They have to run away from him now.

    Rick Perry wants to talk about “jobs” all of a sudden. We’d all be better off if we talked about “jobs” he says. We are talking about jobs. The Texas governor. That’s a job.

  191. 191.

    Amir Khalid

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    I’m two weeks older than Barack Obama. I’ve seen the Fiddler On The Roof movie. As a kid I knew the first names of all the Osmond Brothers, those painfully white-bread Jackson 5 imitators, although even then I knew their music was bland rubbish (except maybe Crazy Horses). Maybe in the Mormon world the Osmonds are still the pop-culture giants they were in the 1970s. But that video … God, it’s just completely mental.

    Kid Rock is dim and Ted Nugent is nuts; but you go to campaign with the celebrity endorsers you have, not the ones you wish you had.

  193. 193.

    Liberty60

    @cckids:

    Sarah endorses Abbot because Nugent did. “If he’s good enough for Ted Nugent, that’s good enough for me”.

    Its like Poe’s Law on acid with a meth shooter. I don’t know if there is anything crazy enough with them to make me think you are shitting me.

  195. 195.

    Kay

    The bully gets bullied:

    When Chris Christie started to talk over a complaining questioner, a signature tactic of the bellicose, pre-scandal governor, the audience here briefly turned on him.
    “Answer the question,” some shouted.
    When he took a microphone from a long-winded speaker, the man startled Mr. Christie by snatching it right back.
    And when he singled out a young woman as his inspiration for repairing the Hurricane Sandy-battered coastline, he failed to grasp that the girl’s mother — sitting just a few feet from Mr. Christie — was angry with him for not doing enough.
    “He’s full of it,” she said.

  196. 196.

    MikeJ

    @MikeJ: ok, still watching, Think I saw the back of my head in one shot and there are flyers for shows that I was at. Hell, I may still have copies of some of those flyers in the attic.

    Funny though they start talking about the all ages shows that started after I was already of age. It’s not like they ever checked an ID before they had all ages shows.

    There’s a show calendar on there with TSOL, Scruffy the Cat, Meat Puppets, Psychic Plowboys, Voodoo Village People, Widespread Panic, Human Radio, and the Chromatics. I was probably at every one of those.

  197. 197.

    StringOnAStick

    Tbogg got after Ted for his tweetstorm, so if you’d like to see a selected compendium without getting Ted’s twitter juice on you, go have a look there.

    Quite frankly, Ted’s tweetstorm reminded me of Jack Nicholson “writing” his book in The Shining. If you see him with an axe, run!

  198. 198.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Amir Khalid: As a kid I knew the first names of all the Osmond Brothers,

    Zounds! I probably could too back then, because of the cartoon. In my minds eye I picture a horrified Zero Mostel watching that video and trying not to have a stroke.

    @Kay: Have your read the New Republic article by McGillis? I had no idea that Jersey was so old-school boss territory. That fucking Norcross is like something out of a movie where Gregory Peck takes on a corrupt political outfit. You gotta wonder if that’s all of what WIllard’s people saw, then you think that this is what could be sourced and fact-checked.

  199. 199.

    Another_Bob

    Nugent has a song called “Girl Scout Cookies” with lyrics like this:

    I like to eat my girl scout cookies
    I like to eat them all night long
    That coconut just drives me wild
    I get my cookies fresh from a child
    That peanut butter gets stuck to the roof of my mouth
    I like my girls scouts east north west and south

    One of his fans on youtube earnestly defends his honor, saying, “It’s an innocent song about Girl Scout Cookies. Anyone who reads more into that is the perverted one.”

  200. 200.

    Amir Khalid

    @Kay:
    Hard to read that without feeling a big hit of Schadenfreude. That’s the risk, isn’t it, when your operating philosophy is “Let them hate me, so long as they fear me”: make them hate you enough, and they will overcome their fear of you.

  201. 201.

    The Thin Black Duke

    This huge tsunami of public outrage is so odd. I mean, Ted Nugent has said vile offensive disgusting hateful things before. What’s so different this time? Not that I’m complaining, mind you.

  202. 202.

    divF

    @jl:

    Blitzer is Jewish, and his parents were Holocaust survivors. This collection of slurs (both mongrel and Goebbels) would definitely be hot buttons for him.

  204. 204.

    The Other Chuck

    @dmsilev: Unfortunately, yow and by extension psychoanalyze-pinhead are crippled. Bill Griffith’s lawyers did what lawyers do, so now the entire yow database has been reduced to a single phrase:

    YOW! Legally mandated culture reduction is CABBAGE BRAINED!

    You can download the quotes database as a fortune file, but nobody’s going to do that. Yow is probably getting dropped entirely in emacs 25.

  207. 207.

    Kay

    @The Thin Black Duke:

    I watched the clip of Wolf Blitzer and he was authentically angry, in my opinion. I don’t know why there’s a tipping point, but there is, and he reached it.

    Nugent looked terrible at the Texas event. He has huge bags under his eyes and he looks too old and worn to be so angry and unhinged, like he should be calmer and wiser by now. It’s disconcerting to watch. You expect a younger man’s face.

  208. 208.

    SFAW

    @Amir Khalid:

    As a kid I knew the first names of all the Osmond Brothers

    Michael, Marlon, Tito, Jermaine, and Izzy?

    or was it Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Snicklefritz, and Dingleberry?

    I can never remember.

  209. 209.

    trollhattan

    @The Thin Black Duke:

    Hard to say, exactly, since he’s not one for…self-filtering. I guess the setup is Texas Republicans saw fit to plop him into direct sunlight for some unknowable beneficial end, and he did his Ted thing and in this rare case, decent folks were listening.

    I’ll liken it to Rush commenting on Sandra Fluke. And commenting, and commenting and….. Decent people were forced to listen to the actual words and sentences. There was no rationalizing it away, the fact that he’s a sociopath paid considerable money to speak in that fashion, in this case about somebody’s daughter, was right there in their faces and impossible to ignore. Long enough to at least give them pause.

  211. 211.

    SFAW

    @trollhattan:

    At least one has to be Duffel. Pretty sure another is Bong.

    I think you’re confusing them with either the other Romney brothers, or perhaps the Palin offspring of unknown sex.

  212. 212.

    Amir Khalid

    @SFAW:
    Of the performing brothers, I can still remember Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Donny, and Jimmy (the youngest) but I’ve forgotten the sixth one. Or was that Marie?

  214. 214.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @SFAW: I think you got it: Bong Romney, the Jack Mormon they don’t talk about, and Duffel Palin, conceived in the baggage claim of of Juneau Greyhound bus terminal.

  215. 215.

    Cervantes

    @Amir Khalid:

    Of the performing brothers, I can still remember Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Donny, and Jimmy (the youngest) but I’ve forgotten the sixth one. Or was that Marie?

    You forgot Jay.

    (Don’t ask.)

  218. 218.

    Cervantes

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I think you got it: Bong Romney, the Jack Mormon they don’t talk about, and Duffel Palin, conceived in the baggage claim of of Juneau Greyhound bus terminal.

    Not only does Greyhound not serve Alaska, there is no bus terminal in, or interstate highway through, Juneau.

    (Again, don’t ask.)

    Anyhow, is Duffel one of Sarah’s, or one of one of Sarah’s? And as for Bong, if he doesn’t exist, he ought to.

  219. 219.

    mclaren

    Spectacularly, he misspelled Joseph Goebbells’ name.

    It’s Joseph Goebbels.

    Proof once again that the world is run by `D’ students.

  220. 220.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @SFAW:

    Actually, the Monkees had some musical chops, and rebelled against the straightjacket that Don Kirschner tried to put them in. So much so that the next time Kirschner produced a show with music, it was The Archies, an animated show with utterly disposable studio musicians doing the singing, giving him total control. Ingrate musicians, anyways.

    Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork were actual skilled musicians when they auditioned for the Monkees.

  222. 222.

    SFAW

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Yeah, I knew/know re: Tork and Nesmith. But they were still a marketing creation first and foremost. (Doesn’t mean I hated them, by the way – I didn’t.)

    But, yeah, the Archies were pretty vile.

  223. 223.

    SFAW

    @Amir Khalid:

    Good thing he didn’t make the cut.

    Nice.

    You are one sick bastard, you know that?

    A man after my own heart. (In a purely platonic, manly sort of way, of course, as Gen. J.C. Christian might say.)

  224. 224.

    Bill D.

    @<a href="#[email protected]SFAW:

    Or were they faves of yours, and I (inadvertently) insulted you?

    Air Supply and Starland F****ing Vocal Band faves of mine? [rends garments and shrieks in absolute horror]

    [Gathering myself back together here]

    No, the only inadvertent insult was in imagining that they could be my faves. But then, obviously a lot of people *did* buy their music, so it’s admittedly plausible that a stranger might actually [gulp] like them.

    Afternoon Delight has the dual evilness of being both an unbearably saccharine song and also an irresistible earbug. It was a cause of much agony on my part back in the mid-1970s, given its abundant airplay then and my status at times as a captive audience to a parent’s radio.

    My reference to cold was in your suggesting that Romney likes these two… um… former musical groups.

  231. 231.

    Bruce K

    Just reading that tweet, it looks like Mr. Nugent may have suffered some sort of head or brain injury, and should seek medical assistance.

    Does anyone have the number of a good proctologist in their contact list?

  232. 232.

    Bruce K

    Actually, logorrhea (the technical term for verbal diarrhea) and aphasia can both be signs of mental illness or brain damage, which indicate that perhaps Mr. Nugent should seek medical attention.

    An Obamacare-compliant health insurance policy should cover a lower-abdominal MRI scan, right?

  234. 234.

    SFAW

    @Amir Khalid:

    I swear, I didn’t realise I’d said that until you pointed it out.

    Amir, my friend, if you weren’t one o’ them heathen-types, I’d tell you to do 10 Ave Marias and 10 Paternosters.

    But, given the tenor of some of your comments, I guess I’m a little surprised amazed that it wasn’t intentional. (I mean that in the nicest possible way. Really!)

  235. 235.

    Jamey

    “Joseph Goebbells Saul Alinsky propaganda ministry mongrels”

    My GOD, this reads like a rightwingo version of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”

  238. 238.

    Mr_Gravity

    @Laertes: I see absolutely nothing wrong with wishing a seventeen-year-old was a year older. Many times as a seventeen-year-old I wished that I myself was a year older.

    But I get your point.

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