Nugent Blames Liberals, "Political Street-Corner Dope-Pusher" Obama For "Gangland Rioting"
August 14, 2011 12:37 pm ET by Media Matters staff
In an August 12 Washington Times column, Ted Nugent accused "boneheaded liberals" and "political-street-corner dope-pusher" Obama for creating "a shattered social system [of] lawlessness and irresponsibility" which led to "gangland rioting." From the Washington Times:
Did you really expect anything different? From London to Philadelphia to Milwaukee, goons are rioting in the streets. And guess what? I don't believe it is the fundamental fault of the goon squads that they're rioting, although there's no excuse for beating people and destroying property.
Societies, especially America's, have created a shattered social system in which lawlessness and irresponsibility are excused by boneheaded liberals because they don't think government has provided enough for these supposedly disadvantaged and downtrodden people.
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If the goons had an ounce of brains among them, they would come to the conclusion that the reason they are dumb, unskilled mouth-breathers unprepared for the future is because of bloated, runaway government, not because there has been too little of it or that the rich do not pay enough in taxes.
These idiots are useful political pawns for the very political punks who have manipulated these morons into believing that Uncle Sham is their sugar daddy instead of what Uncle Sham really is - a political-street-corner dope-pusher, a community organizer who has gotten them strung out on the most powerful drug of all: dependency.
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Now we are a nation of wussies and stupid goons who have suckled on the teat of Aunt Sugar Momma for so long that many Americans know nothing different. When the teat runs dry, gangland rioting follows. Kicking the habit of dependency is an obviously painful process.
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I sense he's being slightly more than disingenuous there.
I don't need evidence. Like the "journalists" at FOXPAC, I'm merely stating my opinion based on my observations. However, unlike the "journalists" at FOXPAC I am not paid a six figure salary to express said opinions. So I don't get paid enough to put up with HitSheads like you. But since this is a public domain site where any troll can disrupt discussion I suppose I have no choice but to ignore you.
it's a well known fact that ted never had a concert on the sabbath either!
He was tweeked out on something and it wasn't just the bottle of Jack he brought on stage with him.
More to the point is him indicating there have been riots in Philadelphia and Milwaukee. Did I miss something? I don't remember any rioting in either place. Or perhaps he is referring to American's Constitutional right to Freedom of Assembly.
If that's the case, he's even less credible than he was to begin with regardless of whether or not he's using.
Nugent has been sober since the 70's...he doesn't have time for the BS. Libs on the other hand want to legalize dope so they can escape reality without the fear of getting nabbed. Sucks to be Progressive, doesn't it MM buffoons....?
No, progressives want to legalize "dope" because America can no longer afford to wage a multi-million dollar a year "War on Drugs" when we haven't made a lick of headway since the first person took a hit.
So legalizing pot will
1) create a new source of tax revenue
2) hamstring the cartels by making the supply more accessible therefor dropping the price. Possibly creating jobs as marijuana harvesters in this country.
3) empty out a lot of prison cells that are currently occupied by those convicted on "Possession" charges
2) hamstring the cartels by making the supply more accessible therefor dropping the price. Possibly creating jobs as marijuana harvesters in this country.
3) empty out a lot of prison cells that are currently occupied by those convicted on "Possession" charges
1: No tax increase on a product that can be grown by any individual and not required to be bought at tax revenue creating store. The government provided stuff will end up being more expensive than what would be offered privately. Creating an illegal black-market. Wrong on point 1.
2: How will you prove this? This theory has been around for years, and yet even in California where it is decriminalized, there is no drop in price and no drop in prison population and heavy cartel presence in known drug growing areas such as Humboldt county. Bring some factual stats to back up this claim NOT your hallucinogenic theories. Wrong on point 2.
3: It won't affect prison population. How will criminals suddenly be set free? Wrong on point 3.
So your 'legalize pot' rant is completely off-track and without any facts to support your theory.
Theres a demand. Just like for alcohol. And so there is a supply. Since that supply is already there, why dont we get the money, however small that may be, that is right now going solely into a black market?
And gcorrect me if im wrong, but isnt the food at stores ultra cheap? You know, something like lettuce that meets each and every point you complain about pot? Same deal. And yet there it is, cheap as hell.
Why is it that you cant even follow the ideology you claim is so important and essential to the american way of life? Its almost like you dont care and just want to hate us.
Ah well. Thats the trouble with anti-intellectual movements. They're incredibly stupid and incredibly shameless.
I do love capitalism. What makes you think I don't? I'm simply saying it won't work. And I'm not making stupid comparisons with "lettuce". How does lettuce equate to selling pot? How does the Mexican cartel affect the growing of lettuce?
Of course I realize there are some who can function ok while on pot, however, there are some who will abuse it even more when/if it is legalized. Since there is no testing procedure (like breathalyzer for alcohol) how would you control it's use during every day operations? Such as driving? Using at work? And differentiating between use for pleasure v. use during controlled hours (work/driving)? Since pot can stay in your system for up to 4 weeks, the current testing will not be able to tell if you used on Saturday but are now working on Wednesday ... it will show up as you still using. When they come up with a reliable testing procedure that shows you are 'on' pot as opposed to 'used' it within the past month, one of my complaints will have been addressed. But you would still have the personal dangers of legalizing another substance that decreases your ability to drive and control motor vehicles. Increasing the dangers to everyone else in the way of you. Are YOU willing to pay the additional medical costs for legalized pot and the consequences that would cause?
How about prescription drugs, genius? Does everyone "function ok" while on those? Should we outlaw any chemical compound that Traveller thinks might affect his weak consitution? Get a clue.
No. That is quite obvious.
BTW, I don't know where you get the idea I'm arguing in favor of "prohibition". Just because I explain the difficulties of legalizing pot you call me a "simpleton". I guess I kind of expect that from your type. However, prescription drugs are called "controlled substances" for a reason. Me get a clue? I think you need to read what is written and quit your far-left immediate bashing of anyone who doesn't toe your drug induced line (that's what I mean by "your type").
Maybe instead of whining about someone's opinion, you could comment on the dangers that ARE present with the use of alcohol and gambling. You seem to be denying that there are any dangers inherent in the partaking of either one. I'll bet there are a lot of wheelchair bound folks who would tend to disagree with your assumption that alcohol is perfectly safe and no one has ever been injured by those using. Put your pipe down for a couple days and let your head clear out before you post again. You aren't very good at this.
2. Decriminalization isn't legalization. One involves being legally allowed to produce, distribute and use a product. The other means you don't go to jail for the same things.
3. It will at least lead to a decrease in new prison sentences. There may be mass-pardoning included.
It took about 30 seconds to refute you. You may want to learn a bit more on the topic.
You just hamstrung your own argument there, traveller, since tomatoes are legal
2. For medical purposes. 'Nuff said. That isn't legalizing it for the general populace.
3. I do. Read a book every now and then. There are hundreds, literally hundreds, on the topic. All of them argue that the prison population would decrease. Or you can read an overview. Check the table where it shows the main reasons for incarceration and the percentages from 2000 and 2009.
1. Tomatoes =/= marijuana. Tomatoes = tomatoes. The point is that people can grow tomatoes easily, but they still go to the supermarket to buy them because of convenience.
2. Again, marijuana possession, distribution, and use are NOT LEGAL in California. You keep missing this point and inserting your narrative instead.
3. Lets say 100 people a day go to prison for marijuana use. If it were legal, would those 100 people go to prison for marijuana use? Holy crap, am i really walking you through this?
1. People can grow tobacco at home too. You know why they don't? Because its too inconvienent. The same thing will happen with marijuana.
2. Marijuana possession, distribution, and use is not legal in California. They recently had a vote and it did not pass. You are a liar.
3. No, criminals will not be suddenly set free - that is absurd and for you to try to paint that as his argument is a classic strawman. He is saying that the population will decrease due to a lack of incoming population.
Stop being so...you.
I can grow tobacco. I do not have the time to grow tobacco especially when i can buy it.
Source
Or do you honestly think people will never abuse pot like they do .. say .. alcohol?
Did it ever occur to you that driving while high is as dangerous as driving while drunk? Why don't you look up the stats for medical costs related to alcohol related injuries in ANY given year. Specifically, check those stats out for high school aged kids.
Hmm, $100 BILLION because of alcohol abuse/dangers. I wonder if the taxes collected for all the sales of alcohol equalled this amount. Here's one site that gives an opinion on that.
Exactly why tomatoes are never sold at the store anymore. Get a clue, simpleton.
ON MILITARY SERVICE
He claims that 30 days before his draft board physical, he stopped all forms of personal hygiene. The last 10 days, he ingested nothing but Vienna sausages and Pepsi; and a week before his physical, he stopped using bathrooms altogether, virtually living inside pants caked with his own excrement, stained by his urine. That spectacle won Nugent a deferment, he says. "... but if I would have gone over there, I'd have been killed, or I'd have killed, or I'd killed all the hippies in the foxholes...I would have killed everybody." - Detroit Free Press Magazine , July 15, 1990
More gems can be found here:
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This guy,Laura Ingrahm,Lush Limbaugh,Ann Coulter,Glenn Beck,Michelle Malkin are the "thinkers" of the Republican Party driving the policies pushed by Michelle Bachmann,Ryan,Bohner(sp) and the rest who chickenfried finds appealing. Is it any wonder we are in the present mess?
He admits it on his own website! God you take being a FOXPAC fascist teabagging zealot to the Nth degree
"Oh, the irony" would be an appropriate response to pretty much everything you've ever posted, but this really takes the cake.
On... Ted... Nugent's... website... he... says... in... his... bio... that... from... 1965... to... the... mid... 1970's... he... was... touring... with... his... band... the... Amboy... Dukes...
ON WOMEN
"Anybody that doesn't think it is better to blow someones brains out than to be raped, deserves to be raped! If you don't think your life is worth it then please go out there, don't wear any underpants and get RAPED!! Cuz you deserve it ..." - WRIF-FM, Detroit, Ted Nugent as guest D.J., September 23, 1991
"When other guys were getting high, I would grab a couple babes, go squirrel hunting and see just how mini mini-skirts could get." - Detroit Free Press Magazine , July 15, 1990
I am soo sorry for you. lol.
Nugent has based his career on his pathological obsession with guns and his angry rants about killing anyone who doesn't agree with his warped vision of what he thinks America should be.
"I never went to college."
"Nugent was classified 1Y because he was a student in college. Just as Clinton claimed." - Traveller
"Nugent was NEVER a student in college. He was enrolled, BUT never attended.
"I never went to college."' - raddave
"So?" - Traveller
Take this exchange to your mental health professional, Traveller. It is a wonderful starting point to understand your inability to think for yourself.
Y'know like womens' bodies or what gay adults do behind closed doors.
Oops struck a nerve didn't I?
I saw Nugent on a TV show not too long ago drinking a beer. That ain't being sober. Sorry, wrong again.
Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. Show on Texas. He met Ted to get some BBQ, and they were drinking Shiner Bock in Texas.
Sorry, wrong again.
Same as the lie magnolialover told about Ted Nugent. No proof, only her saying so makes you believe it is true.
If you have any honor at all you will apologize right now. You do not have to agree that this video somehow shows Nugent is not as sobre as he claims, and i would totally agree with you, but if you are calling magnolia a liar because this video does not exist, then you are wrong.
It does exist just as magnolia claimed and he is clearly drinking a Shinr Bock.
Apologize now.
Nugent drinking beer = not sober. Sober = no alcohol/drugs at all.
Would I say he has a problem? Nah, probably not, but he's certainly swilling a beer, and if he's with Bourdain, he ain't gonna stop at one.
Reminds me of Shakespeare. "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
What was so important about eating Bar-B-Que with Anthony Bourdain that he would break some kind of personal code about drinking alcohol anyway? Could have been a bottle of IBC rootbeer and no one would have been the wiser.
Seriously Traveller, that has to be the worst effort at saving face I have ever seen.
You are busted and you know it. It's not surprising though that you have no honor.
Are you now suggesting that Anthony Burdine doctored a video to make it appear as if Ted Nugent was drinking a beer when he really wasn't?
If that were the case, don't you think Ted Nugent would be screaming from the heavens about it?
Why is it so hard for you just to admit that you were wrong in this case?
Ask yourself... seriously. What would Jesus do?
chickensh!t, you are an idiot.
Cripes, does your ilk even understand the concept of critical thought?
It's no fun unless everyone gets in on the action.
I think "The Nuge" has always been clean? I know he's a spokesman for DARE, and I remember way back in school hearing that he was clean. This doesn't mean he low-crawled through the gutters but he seems to be an example in this case.
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Why does Ted Nugent hate America?
http://www.nocompromise.org/news/000731c.html
Yes, I know it's a blog, but the quotes do have source attribution. Yikes, Teddy.
I wonder how many taxpayer funded venues Nugent has played in.
Probably as many as the grateful dead have.
Um, the item you're commenting on is about a newspaper column Nugent wrote.
Was that on purpose? You suffer from selective reading comprehension when replying to comments.
I did see you ask how many tax-payer venues Nugent had played in. But I saw NO "editorials" in your statement at all. Please repost one that actually uses the word you whine about me not commenting on.
This is a complete farce. Bloated runaway government is NOT the reason we have a plethora of 'dumb, unskilled mouth-breathers unprepared for the future'. That any of our populace is in any way prepared for the future is thanks to the Department of Education, something knuckledraggers like Ted want to do away with to make room for even more wealth for the rich.
Too bad for the likes of you, Ted, that SOME government is in fact necessary. Not everyone can get out of serving their country by crapping their pants, Ted, but when I hear you speak in such condescending tones about people who chose service to their country, it makes me want to puke. You had your chance to be a star spangled boy, Ted, and you quite literally crapped on it. So spare me the sanctimonious bile you spew in the name of loving your country. You're a talentless punk, and that's giving you more credit than you deserve.
Personally I think anyone as STUPID as you should voluntarily give up their right to vote. Then maybe we can make some headway into cleaning up the catastrophes Bush left us with
Another chapter in the wingnuts' MIssing Cognitive Dissonance Filter book - these self-described anti-Nanny Staters, the Motor City Diaper-Load and chickenfried, are whining about lawlessness, and people who don't want the government to tell people what drugs they can use.
Self awareness ain't their strong suit.
Too bad Ted tried to cover his yellow streak with his own droppings. The cowardice still shows through the fecal matter.
He could redeem himself. He should be locked in a cage with a grizzly bear. He can have a couple of knives, I have no problem with that. He should have a sporting chance.
Better yet, he could swim in a pool with a great white. Again, he can keep his knives.
I'd like to see any of your tests for the NUge, but somehow I think his machismo only goes as far as writing moronic editorials for right wing tabloids.
ps: "Sergeant Stool"... c'est si bon!
And I thought that nothing could be worse than the GW Bush administration...
You are a LIAR! Nothing you said is true, you LIAR! Try talking about something ON-TOPIC next time you post, like Ted Nugent. But quit LYING!
Dang if that ain't a recipe for FAIL
Except in showing the rest of the world we just don't give a damn anymore.
Thanks a lot.
probably one of those damned union, socialist, public school teachers from one of those socialist public schools.
For 90 percent of the population, their wages are declining. 68.3 million Americans struggle to get enough food to eat because there is no source of income available to them other than Government.
Ted is paid to write his junk to deflect from this point:
A highly complex and largely discrete set of laws and exemptions from laws has been put in place by those in the uppermost reaches of the US financial system. It allows them to protect and increase their wealth and significantly affect the US political and legislative processes.
Nugent is a hoe who willing sells control of his handle to a few in the Top 0.01 percent of the population that believe in the values of Social Darwinism.
Here is how this liberal-caused-crime was created ...
1) It's the liberals who are the self proclaimed owners of compulsory schooling and the teachers unions.They parade themselves as the "intellects" and "the-compassionate-ones" of society.
2) But these bastards intentionally refuse to educate Greek virtues or Christian moralities to school children.
3) Aristotle said: “The entire purpose of education is to inculcate the basic virtues in children so that they can live happy successful lives when they grow up”. Aristotle determined: “Only The Good Can Be Happy And Succeed – And Only The Virtuous Can Be Good”. Here are the seven virtues that Aristotle educated in the years 400 BC:
Integrity;
Honesty;
Compassion;
Friendship
Responsibility;
Kindness;
Gentleness.
There wouldn't be any mass-mob-hate-crimes if past generations of school-children were inculcated in these virtues! ARE FUKKING LIBERALZ educating "customers" for lawyers, judges, court-house systems, prisons , bail-bondsmen, and parole officers?
And when hundreds of thousands of Americans are murdered and/or attacked each year, that's the price to pay for liberal-mis-education?
Where is your fukking compassion in this you phony bastards????
YOU LIBERAL CRIMINALS AT THE DEPT OF EDUCATION SHOULD BE ARRESTED FOR THIS!
So... Ted's a 'boneheaded liberal' now?? - cuz he just made up excuses.
Oh wait, it's a Murdoch owned newspaper.
Congrats to the FCC for allowing this monster to infect American media.
I was thinking Wall Street Journal when I wrote that.
(Speaking of stupid, it's kind of adorable how you can't tell when you're being mocked.)
Are they trying to spark a race war? An "us against them" horror? They keep bad mouthing "liberals" so much that I am starting to wonder if they are starting to keep track of names and addresses so they can "round them up" when they get back to POWER that they so desperately crave! It didn't seem so long ago that this kind of talk was actually frowned upon in a civilized society, not encouraged by almost everyone on the right(hate)wing side.
(I hate to bring up the obvious "dog whistle" of bringing up Obamas name once again with "gangland", "drug pushers" etc. rhetoric)
The Nuge clearly thinks that packing in "powerful" words and using 3rd grade techniques such as alliteration constitutes insightful thought on the page.
Instead, we get inciteful, redundant gibberish that always has the same exact point and no no relation whatsoever to reality. The people rioting were largely not poor people on the dole - that's who got rioted on and I'm sick to death of the right wing scapegoating the victims.
Which is more than I can say for most of the educated responses here.
In fact the left are the same as the Lee Harvey Oswald's of amerika.
One thing I can agree on is the left wing anarchists are the new world order facists.
Left wing hardliners - what a fun bunch of haters!
These are the ones that will be coming soon to a city near you...
Is that the pot calling the kettle black? What prime examples do you have in YOUR life where anyone can take out of context and claim you are not very Christian? Oh ... you are perfect? My bad