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Right Wing Nutter? Agent Provocateur? Inveterate Crowd Pleaser Taking A Wrong Turn?

Ted's right wing Palinesque positions are the stuff of legend but this is possibly a step beyond run of the mill rock star stupidty ....

"There's a lot of white people in this crowd -- I like that! (Dubuque) is a white town."

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=291659

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=292821

Genuinely surprised (and appalled) by that.

Granted The Nuge has been cartooning his Stars N Stripes selling point for a good few decades now. He's as cartoon as KISS are in his bow-toting raw meat eating way.

But, at the heart of it appeared to be essentially, a gung-ho libertarian. He once claimed he'd "die" for the "right" for homosexuals to go about their business even if he didn't care for them as a sexual preference. And I've read that he extolled the virtues of black people and in fact proclaimed himself to be "black" in the sense of the roots of rock n roll.

I dunno, this sounds more like just a totally cretinous effort to still shock and outrage when he's playing clubs in some town to ever diminshing returns. Sad more than anything really. Silly old cunt.

He's cashing in on the USA's current atmosphere of rural white rebellion. I haven't paid any attention to him since I was 16.

Just been having a quick sniff about online* and it seems Nugent is getting mucho publicity from all this; chat shows and stuff. But then stating stuff like his "hero" is Martin Luther King, saying he's representing the "Boston Tea Party" spirit of America, he's reacting against the PC brigade etc etc....

In other words, backpeddling where he feels he needs to but using the spotlight anyway.

Silly Old Cunt.

*and from what I've seen on other forums, fucking hell, we should be proud and grateful of this place, not denigrating it. Some of the "debate" out there takes about 30 secs to get to the "Fuck you!" "No fuck YOU!" level. This is an oasis of calm in comparison.

Search around on line and you can find plenty of examples of the Nuge being a dick, one waving a couple of machine guns about and saying these are for Obama, the man knows his audience and is slipping into becomimg one of them.
Do I care? Not enough to stop me listening to his music, admittedly I don't think he's done anything worth listening to since about 1978 and on his present form I doubt that I would see him live if he played locally.
But I listen to plenty of music by people who are/were dicks of the highest order, and read books & see films etc. I don't care if entertainers have dodgy ideals, it's part of the remit to be outrageous.

from last night, pretty much his usual shtick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St5aex-t3Ag

He has a hunting website with an "Ask Ted" page so that his fellow carnivores can ply him for tips on huntin fishin shootin etc. After he had that accident on his Texas ranch in which he almost sawed his own leg off whilst preparing to cut down a tree, I sent him an e-mail asking the question "Dear Ted - I've always wanted to know what is your all-time favourite movie? Is it "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"?

Never got a reply. Funny, that.

From what I remember Ted may have revealed some less than flattering things about his behavior during interviews with Creem, Circus, etc.,

The guy's a nazi.

Whatever his 'reasons' for saying all that were, interesting that the organisers don't seem to find anything too upsetting about it, only concerned it seems with anything a bit 'pornographic'.

And he pointed out someone in the audience, who it seems wasn't white, to get even more approval I suppose.

Hmmm. Remember that 'comedian' off Seinfeld (Michael summat) did something similar to that?

With stronger language of course.

I'm sure any film of this would be equally as 'cringeworthy' to say the least.


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this is an interview from '87 where he pretty much says what he he says nowadays:

The ones from 70's are much more sexually salicious,

including something strange about having young girls tour with him ala Elvis

http://www.creemmagazine.com/_site/BeatGoesOn/TedNugent/CrimeAndPunishment001.html