Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» "The children have no souls". Per Ted Nugent. To whom did he refer? Which children and how would a soulless person like him RECOGNIZE soul?
There is nothing wonderful about Ted Nugent. If he played some guitar strings when he was an adolescent, so did thousands of talented musicians who did not turn into raving IDIOTS and criminals to boot.
Remember that he was screwing 15 year olds on stage when he was too old to brag about it, and yet he did both. He wrote Cat Scratch Fever about screwing 15- year- olds and listening to their pussies purring. I think he mentioned a 10 year old too. No wonder Republicans everywhere defended Senator Roy What's-his-name.
And Mike Huckabee played on stage right along with him. This is where you are living. In clueless land. You see, when you have a VIDEO of someone, they cannot deny it. But those idiots in the White House do it every day. That is where you seem to wish to live. I mean really. Journey to the Center of your Mind is where it is at to you? LOL
Why the Hell Are We Listening to Ted Nugent? His behavior has been subhuman, and his music bad, for decades By Peter Gerstenzang Feb 21, 2014
Have you heard any remarks about the U.S. president from Sammy Hagar lately? Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon? Eddie Money? How about Kansas? Have you noticed any of them taking time out of their touring schedules of state fairs and rib festivals to speak unkindly about our commander-in-chief? I didn't think so. I use these well-meaning saps as examples for a reason. They were all gigantic in 1978. Playing to stadiums full of beered-up stooges who yelled, "Take off your top" to anything remotely female. And they're all as vital and relevant now as songs about CB radios and Disco Ducks. But one of the kings of these stadium roofie fests who sadly is still relevant is Ted Effing Nugent. He was huge 35 years ago, too. Even at his peak (the year of Elvis Costello and Blondie), many of us still thought he stunk like a loincloth that hadn't been washed since the Paleolithic Age. Yet somehow, this sexist, lyrically challenged musician has grabbed the ear of the press. He recently referred to our president as a "subhuman mongrel." He probably says kinder things about the animals he slaughters. But what all the outrage about Ted Nugent's comments in the past couple days misses is that Nugent never deserved our attention. Why does he have it now of all times?
I don't know what's scarier. That a washed-up troglodyte is using the language of the KKK about President Obama and it's become news. Or that Greg Abbott, the Texas attorney general, running for governor, is happily bracketing himself with Nugent, letting him campaign for him and referring to this Fred Flintstone as "My blood brother" and "A fighter for freedom in this country."
Aside from the fact that Abbott seems to have learned his political lingo from 100 viewings of Red Dawn, The Nuge's words are particularly hurtful and ugly, coming, as they do, at this time in history. We've just had a jury in Florida not convict a trigger-happy racist Michael Dunn on a murder charge. Fellow bigot George Zimmerman was even luckier. He killed an unarmed Trayvon Martin and was set free. So even as the country appears to be loosening up about gay marriage and marijuana, a certain segment of it seems to want to make up for this open-mindedness by declaring open season on African-Americans. Nugent's remarks would be ugly as sin about anyone of color. But the president of the United States? It's pathetic enough that would-be politicians are using washed-up rockers to campaign for them. But what some of us are really lamenting here is the end of civil discourse. Sad, right? Abbott, clearly, has not distanced himself from Nugent's remarks. And I think it will come back to bite him on the ass. But those words of this reeking rocker simply cannot go unchallenged.
Nugent is a well-documented perv and fake patriot and has managed to do something stomach-churningly evil in almost every decade. In the '60s, this gat-lovin', elk-killing flag waver, by his own account, managed to take enough drugs to cover his legs with so much shit that he got out of going to Vietnam. In the '70s, aside from the fact that he pounded the unremarkable "Cat Scratch Fever" into the ground, he made a stadium sport of having sex with underage girls. As the Dallas Morning News reminded us on February 17, "Nugent admitted having affairs with several underage girls." "I was addicted to girls. It was hopeless," he said.
Even waxworks classic rock stations don't play Nugent's work. So, like many a failed entertainer before him, the only option left was to try and drum up some attention in another arena: politics. What can we do about this hateful attention seeker? You can certainly protest his appearances. You can write him a letter and tell him if he's a real American, he'll stop making hateful remarks about the president. And that if he must speak, he should leave out words like "mongrel" when he spews his essentially unintelligible jive. When he said in 2012, "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year," he got a visit from the Secret Service. How he walked out of that one, I'll never know. Something tells me, these days, that if Trayvon Martin had said such a thing about a white politician, he'd have been lynched.
Finally, we and (hopefully) other reasonably moral, relatively unbiased Americans can do something very simple. Just ignore the bastard. Like Octomom or Joe the Plumber, this is just a freak show. Outrageous stuff that gets the public's attention for a while but soon becomes a flaming bore. A bit like dropping your pants in public. Although in Ted's case it's a bit more complicated. If he hasn't changed his since the '60s, his look and stench may be a little harder to ignore.
You LIKE him bh? Go crazy listening to him. Listen to him 24/7 even when you're sleeping. If he is YOUR THING by all means cleave unto him...support him...agree with him..embrace him...praise him. It takes all kinds. Different strokes. Birds of a feather. Thank you for your reply which is not in response to my question at all but for some reason you felt a very strong need to say it and have a slap hap happy snappy happy day. Listening to teddy boy. Day and night. Night and day. Endlessly. Ceaselessly. Foreverly.
This post was edited by RosieG at April 2, 2018 2:09 AM MDT
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