Ann Coulter Lashes Out At Republicans And Latinos Over Immigration Reform
Updated: 02/21/2013 11:57 pm EST
Ann Coulter has given up on the Latino vote.
In an opinion piece riddled with errors and unattributed statistics, the conservative columnist lashed out at Republicans working to pass comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship, saying that Latinos will never vote for the GOP because they are too poor and government-dependent.
Coulter begins her article by grossly overestimating the undocumented population, asking “why do Republicans want to create up to 20 million more Democratic voters, especially if it involves flouting the law?”
In fact, the total undocumented population stands at about 11.1 million, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
There's also no reason to assume that undocumented Latinos would automatically vote Democrat if they gained citizenship. Not all U.S. Hispanic citizens vote and some 27 percent of them voted for Mitt Romney in last year’s presidential election.
Repeating a line routinely offered by the Mitt Romney presidential campaign last year, Coulter notes that polls indicate that immigration is not the number one concern for most Hispanics.
But that doesn’t mean it’s a non-issue for Latino voters, as Coulter claims when she says “Trying to appeal to Hispanics with amnesty would be like trying to win over baseball fans by shouting ‘Go Yankees!’ at a Mets game.”
In fact, the overwhelming majority of Latino voters favor both a pathway to citizenship (85 percent) and the DREAM Act (90 percent), according to a Fox News Latino poll released last year.
While the issue doesn’t trump the economy and jobs, the biggest concerns for most Hispanic voters, immigration remains an important and often personal issue for most Latinos. More than eight in 10 undocumented immigrants are Hispanic, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. Supporting a path to citizenship may not guarantee that Latinos will flock to the GOP, but taking hardline on immigration tends to alienate Hispanic voters.
Perhaps an even greater turn off for Latinos is being portrayed by conservative commentators like Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly as lazy and government-dependent -- a characterization based on stereotype rather than evidence.
Coulter takes this approach in Wednesday’s column:
So why do Hispanics vote Democratic? Like most legal immigrants since Teddy Kennedy's 1965 Immigration Act, Hispanic immigrants are poor. The poverty rate of second-generation Hispanics is lower than the first -- but the third generation's poverty rate is higher than the second. Coulter offers no evidence to support the claim. In fact, each generation of Latinos tends to become better off socioeconomically than the one before it, according to a 2011 study by the Migration Policy Institute.
“If Republicans think we can have mass amnesty for millions of government-dependent immigrants and become a more libertarian country, they're crazy,” Coulter continues.
In fact, Latinos use less than their fair share of government benefits. According to a study released this year by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 64 percent of the population in 2010 and received 69 percent of the entitlement benefits. In contrast, Hispanics made up 16 percent of the population but received 12 percent of the benefits, less than their proportionate share -- likely because they are a younger population and also because immigrants, including many legal immigrants, are ineligible for various benefits. Coulter correctly notes that Latino voters tend to lean liberal, both on the size of government and on many social issues. But that doesn’t mean Republicans can’t fare better among Latinos.
George W. Bush, himself a champion of comprehensive immigration reform, won 40 percent of the Latino vote in 2004. Ronald Reagan won 37 percent two decades earlier.
Observers generally agree that Mitt Romney’s dismal 27 percent of the Hispanic vote was owed to the hardline immigration positions he staked out during the hard-fought GOP primary. Doubling down on those positions, as Coulter advocates, isn’t likely to boost Latino support for the Republican Party.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that 27 percent of undocumented immigrants, rather than U.S. Hispanic citizens, voted for Mitt Romney last year's presidential election. The story was corrected at 4:10 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/ann-coulter-lashes-out-republicans-latinos-immigration-reform_n_2733266.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics
Rush Limbaugh: 'For The First Time In My Life, I Am Ashamed Of My Country' (AUDIO) Posted: 02/22/2013 8:31 am EST | Updated: 02/22/2013 8:38 am EST
Rush Limbaugh is officially ashamed of America for "the first time," he announced Thursday.
The reason? The so-called budget sequestration, which President Obama and Democrats say could do serious danger to the economy if Congress can't do a deal before March 1st. Limbaugh wasn't buying it.
The radio host said that "to have our common sense and intelligence insulted the way it's being, it just makes me ashamed."
"Here they come -- sucking us in, roping us in, panic here, fear there, crisis, destruction, no meat inspection, no cops, no teachers, no firefighters, no air traffic control," he said. "I'm sorry, my days of getting roped into all of this are over. We have the media play along with all of this, the ruling class of both parties play along all of this -- it's insulting. I don't know how else to describe it!"
So, you're on notice, America: Rush Limbaugh is embarrassed to be seen with you.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/22/rush-limbaugh-ashamed-america_n_2740899.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics
Ted Nugent: I Honor Blacks Every Day, Barack Obama Engineers Destruction Of Black America The Huffington Post | By Meredith Bennett-Smith Posted: 02/21/2013 8:03 pm EST
Ted Nugent clearly does not shy away from broaching potentially inflammatory racial topics.
In a Feb. 20 column written for ultra-conservative WorldNetDaily, the controversial conservative activist and proud National Rifle Association board member claims that, while he himself "honors blacks" every day, President Obama and his Democratic party are engineering the destruction of black America:
With February being Black History Month, historians looking back at this timeframe studying black Americans will judge it as a complete and total disaster. And they won’t blame President Bush. Barack Obama, the guy who received roughly 93 percent of black American votes, is the clear and present engineer of the destruction of black America.
Black Americans, Nugent also writes, need to realize that "dirty Democrat politicians are their true enemy, not their salvation."
Nugent backs up his argument with a series of statistics on what he insists are the president's destructive "economic and social policies": The unemployment rate for adult black Americans, he writes, is twice that of white Americans; teenage black unemployment is 40 percent; the high school dropout rate for black Americans in some inner cities is above 50 percent. He also cites the "epidemic" of black-on-black violence and claims that "75 percent of black kids are now raised in a single-parent household."
As Nugent does not provide sources for his facts, its difficult to evaluate some of them. The stats about unemployment are correct, according to 2011 figures from the Labor Department. But sources differ on single-parent numbers, with The Annie E. Casey Foundation citing 69 percent. While Nugent does not state which cities' dropout rates he's referring to, the U.S. Department of Education claimed that 40 percent of black students dropped out nationwide during the 2010-2011 academic year.
MSNBC's Morgan Whitaker points out that, although Nugent may have at least some of his facts straight, "there’s ample evidence" to support the idea that President Obama has helped black America, rather than hurt it.
"The president has recently announced a series of proposals designed to help minority communities, including expanding access to pre-school and making higher education more affordable," writes Whitaker. "He’s also pushing to increase pay for those earning a minimum wage, of which African-Americans are a disproportionately large group. Don’t forget Obama’s support for the Voting Rights Act, which Republicans are actively trying to dismantle."
Nugent has recently been on something of a tear, in terms of offending the African-American community. Last April, he described himself as a "black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally." A few months later, he mused whether the South should have won the Civil War after all. Then, in January, he compared gun owners to Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks.
Apparently not yet ready or willing to curb his offensive, racially charged statements, the musician ends his Feb. 20 op-ed by promoting his new tour, bewilderingly named "Ted Nugent Black Power 2013." He had also teased this name last week for his more than 162,000 Twitter followers:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/ted-nugent-honor-blacks-barack-obama-black-america_n_2736101.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics
Ted Nugent Remarks On Obama Draw Secret Service Scrutiny Posted: 04/17/2012 2:25 pm Updated: 04/17/2012 2:46 pm
Rocker Ted Nugent has reportedly earned himself the scrutiny of the Secret Service after saying over the weekend that he would be "dead or in jail by this time next year" if President Barack Obama is re-elected.
Nugent made the comments during an interview at the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis, comparing Obama and his administration to "coyotes" that needed to be shot and encouraging voters to "chop [Democrats'] heads off in November."
(Videos above, via Right Wing Watch)
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who Nugent has endorsed, also spoke at the NRA convention.
The Secret Service is now aware of Nugents remarks and is taking the appropriate action, Dan Amira of New York Magazine reports. It is customary for the Secret Service to investigate any threatening comments made against the president.
While vitriolic claims about "vile," "evil," "America-hating" Obama aren't new territory for Nugent, they have sparked backlash from various Democrats and Democratically-aligned groups, who are calling on Romney to distance himself from the entertainer.
"We don't expect moderation from Ted Nugent," said Michael Keegan, president of People For the American Way. "But we do expect a major presidential candidate like Mitt Romney to rebuke a prominent supporter for spewing hate-filled and violent rhetoric against the President of the United States."
DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz also weighed in on the controversy.
"Romney surrogate Ted Nugent's comments about Pres. Obama are vile & beyond the pale -- and the Romney campaign should denounce them immediately," the Florida congresswoman tweeted.
UPDATE -- 2:40 p.m.:
The DNC followed up with an online petition encouraging people to tell Romney to denounce "Nugent's hateful speech." They also released a web video hammering Nugent's position as a "surrogate for Mitt Romney."
Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul has also weighed in the matter.
"Divisive language is offensive no matter what side of the political aisle it comes from," she said, according to Talking Points Memo. "Mitt Romney believes everyone needs to be civil."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/ted-nugent-obama-secret-service_n_1432009.html
The World According to Ted Nugent the one hit wonder
Quotes and Stories from Ted's Writings and Interviews
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
http://www.nocompromise.org/news/000731c.html
a true republican, with true republican values and morals the XXX interview, be warned. ...
Courtney Love said on The Howard Stern Show on Monday that one of the first times she had oral sex was with Ted Nugent. She said she was young and she didn’t want to say exactly how old she was, but eventually confessed she was 12-year-old – which would have made Nugent approximately 28 years old at the time.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/1503/the-hypocritical-summer-of-ted-nugent/
http://www.artistfacts.com/detail.php?id=44
http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/index.php?topic=91577.0
CELEBRITIES
TED NUGENT
Out of all the people I will list here, I will feel the least sorry about picking on Ted Nugent, since Ted Nugent recent went on a rant about "killing pedophiles." It is ironic coming from a man who admitted on VH1's "Behind the Music" that he was a "serial pedophile" and two of his relationships (one with his wife and one with “muse” Pele Massa, who was 17 when they started dating) were ended due to Ted’s infidelity while on the road, often with underage women. Courtney Love had even stated she gave Nugent oral sex when she was 12 years old. I guess we know what he meant about young Pele being his "muse." When TeD Nugent got "Cat Scratch Fever," we can safely assume the cat wasn't old enough to drive, much less drink.
http://www.oncefallen.com/retroactivity.html
Ted Nugent the racist
1995 interview with Bob Mack for Grand Royal Magazine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1e4L_ghwjU
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/malia-litman/the-common-bond-between-d_b_564288.html
Ted Nugent commends Dubuque, Iowa for being White
August 20, 2010
It was bad enough that rock musician Ted Nugent made racially insensitive remarks on stage last week in Dubuque. What made it worse was that audience members cheered. [O, the horror! -Ed.]
Anybody who thinks racism is in Dubuque’s past had better think again.
Nugent commented approvingly that he saw so many white people in the audience. He commended Dubuque for being a “white town.” The crowd — not just a few fans here and there — cheered. (That is not to say that everyone in the audience was a Dubuque resident and that everyone cheered. But no expression of disapproval was heard, either; hopefully, some were too shocked to respond.)
People who attend performances, whether they are stand-up comics or musicians or the like, might expect some political comments to be interjected during a show. But Nugent’s remarks crossed the line.
This wasn’t a first for Nugent. For example, there was the Texas governor’s inaugural ball in 2007. A newspaper reported that Nugent, whose conservative politics and pro-gun beliefs are well known, “appeared on stage wearing a cut-off T-shirt emblazoned with a Confederate flag and shouting unflattering remarks about undocumented immigrants, including kicking them out of the country.”
Enter Ted Nugent’s name in Google and you’ll be treated to many racist and sexist gems. Here’s a Nugent rant delivered at a National Rifle Association conference : “Remember the Alamo! Shoot ‘em! To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want ‘em dead. Get a gun, and when they attack you, shoot ‘em.”
Officials at the Diamond Jo Casino, who booked Nugent here, said they won’t censor a performer. Other venues who book talent, also asked about it by the TH, said much the same. We get it: Freedom of speech and all that. But venues also have the freedom to not book acts, especially ones whose on-stage comments are known to include hate speech.
Certainly, there are comedians who play local stages who might offend some audience members with crude humor and explicit language. But Nugent’s comments went beyond a question of taste. It’s fodder for career-crippling YouTube videos and audiotapes.
That type of talk, delivered to audience members who have been drinking, could spark a confrontation between audience members. Does the venue have a plan for how to handle that? What about a venue’s employees — should they be expected to work in that environment?
And then for the local crowd to cheer Nugent’s remarks? It is an outrage and embarrassment.
Editorials reflect the consensus of the Telegraph Herald Editorial Board.
Source: Telegraph Herald.
http://reasonradionetwork.com/20100820/ted-nugent-commends-dubuque-iowa-for-being-white
Updated: 02/21/2013 11:57 pm EST
Ann Coulter has given up on the Latino vote.
In an opinion piece riddled with errors and unattributed statistics, the conservative columnist lashed out at Republicans working to pass comprehensive immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship, saying that Latinos will never vote for the GOP because they are too poor and government-dependent.
Coulter begins her article by grossly overestimating the undocumented population, asking “why do Republicans want to create up to 20 million more Democratic voters, especially if it involves flouting the law?”
In fact, the total undocumented population stands at about 11.1 million, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
There's also no reason to assume that undocumented Latinos would automatically vote Democrat if they gained citizenship. Not all U.S. Hispanic citizens vote and some 27 percent of them voted for Mitt Romney in last year’s presidential election.
Repeating a line routinely offered by the Mitt Romney presidential campaign last year, Coulter notes that polls indicate that immigration is not the number one concern for most Hispanics.
But that doesn’t mean it’s a non-issue for Latino voters, as Coulter claims when she says “Trying to appeal to Hispanics with amnesty would be like trying to win over baseball fans by shouting ‘Go Yankees!’ at a Mets game.”
In fact, the overwhelming majority of Latino voters favor both a pathway to citizenship (85 percent) and the DREAM Act (90 percent), according to a Fox News Latino poll released last year.
While the issue doesn’t trump the economy and jobs, the biggest concerns for most Hispanic voters, immigration remains an important and often personal issue for most Latinos. More than eight in 10 undocumented immigrants are Hispanic, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. Supporting a path to citizenship may not guarantee that Latinos will flock to the GOP, but taking hardline on immigration tends to alienate Hispanic voters.
Perhaps an even greater turn off for Latinos is being portrayed by conservative commentators like Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly as lazy and government-dependent -- a characterization based on stereotype rather than evidence.
Coulter takes this approach in Wednesday’s column:
So why do Hispanics vote Democratic? Like most legal immigrants since Teddy Kennedy's 1965 Immigration Act, Hispanic immigrants are poor. The poverty rate of second-generation Hispanics is lower than the first -- but the third generation's poverty rate is higher than the second. Coulter offers no evidence to support the claim. In fact, each generation of Latinos tends to become better off socioeconomically than the one before it, according to a 2011 study by the Migration Policy Institute.
“If Republicans think we can have mass amnesty for millions of government-dependent immigrants and become a more libertarian country, they're crazy,” Coulter continues.
In fact, Latinos use less than their fair share of government benefits. According to a study released this year by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 64 percent of the population in 2010 and received 69 percent of the entitlement benefits. In contrast, Hispanics made up 16 percent of the population but received 12 percent of the benefits, less than their proportionate share -- likely because they are a younger population and also because immigrants, including many legal immigrants, are ineligible for various benefits. Coulter correctly notes that Latino voters tend to lean liberal, both on the size of government and on many social issues. But that doesn’t mean Republicans can’t fare better among Latinos.
George W. Bush, himself a champion of comprehensive immigration reform, won 40 percent of the Latino vote in 2004. Ronald Reagan won 37 percent two decades earlier.
Observers generally agree that Mitt Romney’s dismal 27 percent of the Hispanic vote was owed to the hardline immigration positions he staked out during the hard-fought GOP primary. Doubling down on those positions, as Coulter advocates, isn’t likely to boost Latino support for the Republican Party.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that 27 percent of undocumented immigrants, rather than U.S. Hispanic citizens, voted for Mitt Romney last year's presidential election. The story was corrected at 4:10 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/ann-coulter-lashes-out-republicans-latinos-immigration-reform_n_2733266.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics
Rush Limbaugh: 'For The First Time In My Life, I Am Ashamed Of My Country' (AUDIO) Posted: 02/22/2013 8:31 am EST | Updated: 02/22/2013 8:38 am EST
Rush Limbaugh is officially ashamed of America for "the first time," he announced Thursday.
The reason? The so-called budget sequestration, which President Obama and Democrats say could do serious danger to the economy if Congress can't do a deal before March 1st. Limbaugh wasn't buying it.
The radio host said that "to have our common sense and intelligence insulted the way it's being, it just makes me ashamed."
"Here they come -- sucking us in, roping us in, panic here, fear there, crisis, destruction, no meat inspection, no cops, no teachers, no firefighters, no air traffic control," he said. "I'm sorry, my days of getting roped into all of this are over. We have the media play along with all of this, the ruling class of both parties play along all of this -- it's insulting. I don't know how else to describe it!"
So, you're on notice, America: Rush Limbaugh is embarrassed to be seen with you.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/22/rush-limbaugh-ashamed-america_n_2740899.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics
Ted Nugent: I Honor Blacks Every Day, Barack Obama Engineers Destruction Of Black America The Huffington Post | By Meredith Bennett-Smith Posted: 02/21/2013 8:03 pm EST
Ted Nugent clearly does not shy away from broaching potentially inflammatory racial topics.
In a Feb. 20 column written for ultra-conservative WorldNetDaily, the controversial conservative activist and proud National Rifle Association board member claims that, while he himself "honors blacks" every day, President Obama and his Democratic party are engineering the destruction of black America:
With February being Black History Month, historians looking back at this timeframe studying black Americans will judge it as a complete and total disaster. And they won’t blame President Bush. Barack Obama, the guy who received roughly 93 percent of black American votes, is the clear and present engineer of the destruction of black America.
Black Americans, Nugent also writes, need to realize that "dirty Democrat politicians are their true enemy, not their salvation."
Nugent backs up his argument with a series of statistics on what he insists are the president's destructive "economic and social policies": The unemployment rate for adult black Americans, he writes, is twice that of white Americans; teenage black unemployment is 40 percent; the high school dropout rate for black Americans in some inner cities is above 50 percent. He also cites the "epidemic" of black-on-black violence and claims that "75 percent of black kids are now raised in a single-parent household."
As Nugent does not provide sources for his facts, its difficult to evaluate some of them. The stats about unemployment are correct, according to 2011 figures from the Labor Department. But sources differ on single-parent numbers, with The Annie E. Casey Foundation citing 69 percent. While Nugent does not state which cities' dropout rates he's referring to, the U.S. Department of Education claimed that 40 percent of black students dropped out nationwide during the 2010-2011 academic year.
MSNBC's Morgan Whitaker points out that, although Nugent may have at least some of his facts straight, "there’s ample evidence" to support the idea that President Obama has helped black America, rather than hurt it.
"The president has recently announced a series of proposals designed to help minority communities, including expanding access to pre-school and making higher education more affordable," writes Whitaker. "He’s also pushing to increase pay for those earning a minimum wage, of which African-Americans are a disproportionately large group. Don’t forget Obama’s support for the Voting Rights Act, which Republicans are actively trying to dismantle."
Nugent has recently been on something of a tear, in terms of offending the African-American community. Last April, he described himself as a "black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally." A few months later, he mused whether the South should have won the Civil War after all. Then, in January, he compared gun owners to Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks.
Apparently not yet ready or willing to curb his offensive, racially charged statements, the musician ends his Feb. 20 op-ed by promoting his new tour, bewilderingly named "Ted Nugent Black Power 2013." He had also teased this name last week for his more than 162,000 Twitter followers:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/ted-nugent-honor-blacks-barack-obama-black-america_n_2736101.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics
Ted Nugent Remarks On Obama Draw Secret Service Scrutiny Posted: 04/17/2012 2:25 pm Updated: 04/17/2012 2:46 pm
Rocker Ted Nugent has reportedly earned himself the scrutiny of the Secret Service after saying over the weekend that he would be "dead or in jail by this time next year" if President Barack Obama is re-elected.
Nugent made the comments during an interview at the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis, comparing Obama and his administration to "coyotes" that needed to be shot and encouraging voters to "chop [Democrats'] heads off in November."
(Videos above, via Right Wing Watch)
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who Nugent has endorsed, also spoke at the NRA convention.
The Secret Service is now aware of Nugents remarks and is taking the appropriate action, Dan Amira of New York Magazine reports. It is customary for the Secret Service to investigate any threatening comments made against the president.
While vitriolic claims about "vile," "evil," "America-hating" Obama aren't new territory for Nugent, they have sparked backlash from various Democrats and Democratically-aligned groups, who are calling on Romney to distance himself from the entertainer.
"We don't expect moderation from Ted Nugent," said Michael Keegan, president of People For the American Way. "But we do expect a major presidential candidate like Mitt Romney to rebuke a prominent supporter for spewing hate-filled and violent rhetoric against the President of the United States."
DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz also weighed in on the controversy.
"Romney surrogate Ted Nugent's comments about Pres. Obama are vile & beyond the pale -- and the Romney campaign should denounce them immediately," the Florida congresswoman tweeted.
UPDATE -- 2:40 p.m.:
The DNC followed up with an online petition encouraging people to tell Romney to denounce "Nugent's hateful speech." They also released a web video hammering Nugent's position as a "surrogate for Mitt Romney."
Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul has also weighed in the matter.
"Divisive language is offensive no matter what side of the political aisle it comes from," she said, according to Talking Points Memo. "Mitt Romney believes everyone needs to be civil."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/ted-nugent-obama-secret-service_n_1432009.html
The World According to Ted Nugent the one hit wonder
Quotes and Stories from Ted's Writings and Interviews
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
http://www.nocompromise.org/news/000731c.html
a true republican, with true republican values and morals the XXX interview, be warned. ...
Courtney Love said on The Howard Stern Show on Monday that one of the first times she had oral sex was with Ted Nugent. She said she was young and she didn’t want to say exactly how old she was, but eventually confessed she was 12-year-old – which would have made Nugent approximately 28 years old at the time.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/1503/the-hypocritical-summer-of-ted-nugent/
http://www.artistfacts.com/detail.php?id=44
http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/index.php?topic=91577.0
CELEBRITIES
TED NUGENT
Out of all the people I will list here, I will feel the least sorry about picking on Ted Nugent, since Ted Nugent recent went on a rant about "killing pedophiles." It is ironic coming from a man who admitted on VH1's "Behind the Music" that he was a "serial pedophile" and two of his relationships (one with his wife and one with “muse” Pele Massa, who was 17 when they started dating) were ended due to Ted’s infidelity while on the road, often with underage women. Courtney Love had even stated she gave Nugent oral sex when she was 12 years old. I guess we know what he meant about young Pele being his "muse." When TeD Nugent got "Cat Scratch Fever," we can safely assume the cat wasn't old enough to drive, much less drink.
http://www.oncefallen.com/retroactivity.html
Ted Nugent the racist
1995 interview with Bob Mack for Grand Royal Magazine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1e4L_ghwjU
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/malia-litman/the-common-bond-between-d_b_564288.html
Ted Nugent commends Dubuque, Iowa for being White
August 20, 2010
It was bad enough that rock musician Ted Nugent made racially insensitive remarks on stage last week in Dubuque. What made it worse was that audience members cheered. [O, the horror! -Ed.]
Anybody who thinks racism is in Dubuque’s past had better think again.
Nugent commented approvingly that he saw so many white people in the audience. He commended Dubuque for being a “white town.” The crowd — not just a few fans here and there — cheered. (That is not to say that everyone in the audience was a Dubuque resident and that everyone cheered. But no expression of disapproval was heard, either; hopefully, some were too shocked to respond.)
People who attend performances, whether they are stand-up comics or musicians or the like, might expect some political comments to be interjected during a show. But Nugent’s remarks crossed the line.
This wasn’t a first for Nugent. For example, there was the Texas governor’s inaugural ball in 2007. A newspaper reported that Nugent, whose conservative politics and pro-gun beliefs are well known, “appeared on stage wearing a cut-off T-shirt emblazoned with a Confederate flag and shouting unflattering remarks about undocumented immigrants, including kicking them out of the country.”
Enter Ted Nugent’s name in Google and you’ll be treated to many racist and sexist gems. Here’s a Nugent rant delivered at a National Rifle Association conference : “Remember the Alamo! Shoot ‘em! To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want ‘em dead. Get a gun, and when they attack you, shoot ‘em.”
Officials at the Diamond Jo Casino, who booked Nugent here, said they won’t censor a performer. Other venues who book talent, also asked about it by the TH, said much the same. We get it: Freedom of speech and all that. But venues also have the freedom to not book acts, especially ones whose on-stage comments are known to include hate speech.
Certainly, there are comedians who play local stages who might offend some audience members with crude humor and explicit language. But Nugent’s comments went beyond a question of taste. It’s fodder for career-crippling YouTube videos and audiotapes.
That type of talk, delivered to audience members who have been drinking, could spark a confrontation between audience members. Does the venue have a plan for how to handle that? What about a venue’s employees — should they be expected to work in that environment?
And then for the local crowd to cheer Nugent’s remarks? It is an outrage and embarrassment.
Editorials reflect the consensus of the Telegraph Herald Editorial Board.
Source: Telegraph Herald.
http://reasonradionetwork.com/20100820/ted-nugent-commends-dubuque-iowa-for-being-white