Ted Nugent booted from Fort Knox concert
Ponsdorf wrote the other day about Ted Nugent’s troubles with the Secret Service, who are apparently more concerned with the rocker’s rants than paying for their hookers (ladies of the evening, there’s a reason hookers have been getting payment up front for centuries). For those of you might have missed it, at an NRA convention, Nugent said;
If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year.
Nugent also recommends decapitating Democrats: “We need to ride onto that battlefield and chop their heads off in November.”
Of course, Nugent threatening to “chop off their heads in November” is worse than Muslims threatening to do the same. But, anyway, Fort Knox has decided that Nugent’s fairly tame rant is too political for them to allow him at a concert there;
Because the concert is taking place on a military installation, it “would be a conflict of interest since the military has the obligation to be apolitical,” he said.
Brus said they don‘t look at political or social views when booking performers but that Nugent’s comments about the commander in chief crossed the line.
Yeah, whatever. Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Military issues
I think this was the right call by the CG. This man-child has a history of spouting off such intellectual gems such as “Obama, he’s a piece of shit. I told him to suck on my machine gun.” and “Hey Hillary, you might want to ride one of these into the sunset, you worthless bitch.”
If DoD has a policy of uniformed members not publicly disparaging the CinC, why should it promote on post events by those that do? Blood vessels would rightly be bursting were the ideological roles and positions reversed.
But the Blaze comments section is always entertaining….apparently, this heralds the “death of liberty”….
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@1: “Blood vessels would rightly be bursting were the ideological roles and positions reversed.”
Not exactly. The singer for Disturbed, Robin Williams, and several other entertainers have lambasted Bush while he was President, yet they were still good enough to entertain the troops while Bush was still President.
I know you have a hard on for Nugent, but be a little more objective. So yes, there is a liberty angle in there, or just plain old gutless bias.
Believe me…….I’m completely flaccid for Nugent. Depending on what rhetoric came from the others you mentioned, they possibly shouldn’t have performed either. I’d be surprised if their remarks rose to the level of Nugent’s.
Sometimes, the Army is less concerned about politics.
If we’re going to worry about “what he said”, how about Hoffa and his “Take the sons of bitches out” rant?
Bring it on, mother fucker.
Yet another slightly off topic posting, but back in the late 1990’s, the Foster PX on Okinawa had a shitload of Roger Clinton CD’s in the clearance bin. What idiot in the Exchange purchasing department thought Marines would want to listen to music from Bill Clinton’s coke dealing half-brother?
Looks like no entertainer will be allowed on any military installation if they really are going to use this as the standard of a forbidden expressed opinion.
Oh, well.
You can count the entertainers that lean right on one hand. I can take political discourse in moderate doses, but a singer or actor has to be really out there politically for me to decide to ignore them all together.That would include but not be limited to Michael Moore, Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon. Pretty much anyone a member of FAG (Film Actors Guild).
“Believe me…….I’m completely flaccid for Nugent”
Seriously CI?
“This man-child has a history of spouting off such intellectual gems……”
“I’d be surprised if their remarks rose to the level of Nugent’s.”
Doesn’t sound very ‘flaccid’ to me. 🙂
Like OWB said, if your going to make the absence of expressed political views a litmus test for whether or not an entertainer can perform on base, the troops are gonna wind up going without live entertainment altogether.
Not letting Nugent perform is a pretty transparent personal/political slap at the man on the part of the current administration. A pretty stupid one to.
@10 – Yep, flaccid. Nugent’s antics write their own script. But it’s good to know that the next time an entertainer tells a CinC [perhaps of a different party] to suck on a gun barrel, some of you will be just as accommodating. You don’t seriuously believe that there is any daylight between what Nugent says….and mere ‘political views’?
““I’d be surprised if their remarks rose to the level of Nugent’s.”
You thought this was having a ‘hard-on’?
His pedophilia did not influence the Army’s decision… How sad is that?
So making not-so-veiled threats against the President is Republican’s definition of “fairly tame”. My guess is that you can’t find anything Bill Maher or Robin Williams said that is even vaguely comparable.
I don’t know…I’d say “worthless bitch” and “cunt” are pretty comparable.
As usual, the liberals’ failure to understand the use of the English language is somehow the fault of the person who supports the Bill of Rights? No wonder they categorize so many words and phrases as “code.” It’s soooo much easier than using a dictionary.
Oh, how funny. Terribly sad, but finny.
I enjoy it when you stop by Insipid. It seems like whenever you do its just to reaffirm the level of your ignorance. Pretty sure I remember something about Maher calling Laura Bush “Hitler’s dog”, which of course could be taken to mean he was calling Bush a nazi.
@13: I guess having an effigy Of G.H.W Bush swinging from a rope during your show and then running by and hitting it as you’re singing a song doesn’t count, either. That was Tom Petty in 1991 at the old Met Center in Bloomington Minnesota. That was just free speech, eh? Let’s talk about the movie involving assassinating G.W. Bush; shall we? There are plenty more examples that can come to the fore about the leftists use of violent means to not only attack republican Presidents, but statements to do violence to conservatives as well.
So, fuck off with your feigned indignation ya butt pirate.
Me thinks the Old Trooper sums it purdy frahking well, insipid. Hows life on the bottom of that scum pond you inhabit?
@CI
“some of you will be just as accommodating.”
Yep, I always have been, don’t see any reason to change now.
I wouldn’t whisper a word about the Dixie Chicks, Ronstadt, Streisand, or Williams performing on a military base, for me it’s about the soldiers, and if there are those that would enjoy the show I wouldn’t allow politics to get in the way of that. I don’t think anyone else should either.
As for Nugent’s manner of speech and his ‘reckless’ use of metaphor, we can argue till we’re blue in the face whether or not it’s excusable I suppose, but anyone prepared to try and discredit him for saying the things he says or has said should also be prepared to discredit Obama for statements such as:
“They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun” (directed at Republican opponents at a Philadelphia fundraiser in 2008)
” I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face!” (to a group of supporters on the campaign trail in 2008)
“A Republican majority in Congress would mean “hand-to-hand combat” on Capitol Hill for the next two years” (in the LA Times 2010)
There’s lots more where those came from.
@Insipid
Back under the rock with ya, the light of day’s gonna shrivel yer ass as usual.
@Jacobite – No argument to most of that, except I think there are certainly actions and statements that should exclude the military from promoting or sponsoring personalities. The disagreement will surely be where to draw that line.
I am fully on board with Nugent’s stand on the 2nd Amendment [I;m a card carrying certified gun nut]…..I just think that arguments worth making are worth making rationally.
Compare and contrast The Nuge and Major Nidal Hasan.
@21 – Why?
Really CI? I think Rurik’s point is pretty obvious.
Then consider me slow and break it down for me.
Lets see, ‘the powers that be’ can take notice of an entertainer’s off color remarks and decide to deny him the opportunity to entertain the troops on base despite the fact that he’s not a true threat to anyone, yet ‘the powers that be’ completely drop the ball on denying a lunatic who displayed every sign of being a genuine threat, access to troops and in fact even actively maneuvered him to a position where he could do untold harm, lack of intent not withstanding.
An inappropriate analogy given the level at which both cases were known generally. Nugent’s not a threat to anyone, but he displays a behavior that the DoD and subordinates have every right to deny their sponsorship and relationship with.
The comments section at the Blaze is never as entertaining as the comment sections at DU or Kos.
The day that a Bill Maher or Robin Williams comment necessitates a visit from the Secret Service is the day you can make a comparison.
And you know that they have NOT received such visits because…….???
Because they never said anything even vaguely threatening. While calling someone a “cunt” is certainly borish it’s not the same as telling someone to suck on an AK47, or intimating that you might kill them should they be re-elected.
@27 – I consider them on par….the slack jawed, vacant eyed, mouth breathers from both ends of the spectrum.
Dang! It must be nice to have such vast knowledge of who the SS has and has not talked with!! Sure, I believe that they give you frequent briefings about that sort of thing. Uh-huh. And if you haven;t “heard” about it, it didn’t happen.
Yeah. Right.
According to Yahoo news, Ludicris was allowed to perform at Knox after calling Hillery Clinton a bitch, calling Bush “mentally handicapped”, and saying McCain “don’t belong in any chair unless he’s paralyzed”. Sounds like double standards again to me.
But Ludacris never threatened to do it himself.
Also, if Nugent was talking in “metaphors” what the hell is “suck on my AK-47” a metaphor for? I mean i know what it would be a metaphor for if I said it, but i’m not so sure with “the nuge”.
Again we disagree, I think it’s a great analogy.
Insipid…I’m still waiting for the Secret Service to have a chat with Alec Baldwin or Randi Rhodes. Something about stoning to death or taking GWB out in a boat and being shot like Fredo from The Godfather…but what do I know.
Don’t you have a slapfight or something in Dupont Circle to go to?
Actually I think it’s a great analogy too. It shows without question that the real issue is that you LOVE guns, not constitutional rights. The fact that Nugent refers to it as an extension of his penis illustrates that to him- and most of you- it’s about feeling manly and powerful, not really about any reverence for the law.
The CG is a cowardly piece of shit. He doesn’t care what Nugent said and I doubt anyone going to the concert cares more about that statement then they do about listening to some music. The CG just doesn’t want his career dumped in the toilet by a vengeful White House.
There’s something I’ve never been accused of until today – guns make me manly.
Hmmm.
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