Ted Nugent: gun-loving American patriot?
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Ya’ll probably already know that Ted Nugent, the retired rocker, is an All-American gun nut. Nugent, whose greatest contribution to the arts was the Top 40 hit “Cat-Scratch Fever,” is on the board of the National Rifle Association. And he’s bragged that he’s got friends who’ll mount an armed insurrection if and when the feds come for their guns.
It was a younger and different Ted Nugent, however, who confronted the draft in the Vietnam war era. I know: You might think from his braggadocio that Ted was an eager commando, that he enlisted, and was awarded a bunch of medals — kind of like like Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.
But the facts are a bit different on that score. And some other aging rockers, like Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, have taken note.
From Raw Story:
Snider’s tale of Nugent’s draft dodging comes from Nugent himself, who relayed the story to High Times in 1977, telling them he got a 30-day notice ahead of a physical exam and launched into action.
“Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body,” Nugent said. “No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin’ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie. I had long hair, and it started gettin’ kinky, matted up. Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value. I just had chips, Pepsi, beer-stuff I never touched-buttered poop, little jars of Polish sausages, and I’d drink the syrup, I was this side of death. Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. Poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.”
Years later the National Rifle Association board member went on to tell Creem magazine that he also snorted a line of crystal meth before attending his physical examination, giving him a “big, juicy 4F,” meaning failure and rejection from service.
Or maybe those were all lies he told High Times and Creem, eh?
January 24, 2013 - 5:21 PM
Isn’t he supposed to be dead or in jail? How disappointing. Another big fat mouth with nothing to back him up.
I doubt he’s “cleansed his body” ( yo, Ted,out here in the post Biblical USA, we call that “showering”) since his draft dodging days.
And the screaming a*****e Looks like he still hasn’t had a bath
This should have come with a warning. Disgusting story ahead.
Kristen, I think when he made the dead or in jail statement, he said “by April” of something like that. That was before the Secret Service visit. He probably had to ‘cleanse’ his shorts after they left.
He was a chicken shi. in the Vietnam era and he still is today.
Wow, what a patriot!
…and his music sucks!!
“He was a chicken shi. in the Vietnam era and he still is today.”
Just like Bill Clinton and Joe Biden.
Newman lol.
Give him enough rope…
Henry, if you have any reputable proof — like, through their own words — that Bill Clinton and Joe Biden dodged the draft with the same grace and charm that Ted Nugent did, we would love to see that. The blog post is sourced. Your comment? Not at all.
My guess is that Nugent lied back then about the lengths he went to avoid the draft, just like he currently lies about how he’ll react to political life not going his way. He certainly did some stuff to avoid being drafted, just as he certainly does some stuff to play the patriot card. He certainly makes the occasional good point, and then balances it with the occasional idiotic rant.
One thing about it – Ted Nugent is either loved or hated, and I think he likes it both ways.
Amen, Bill Perdue!
Yo, Henry.
Journey to the Center of the Mind and Stranglehold (EPIC guitar riff here) were better songs. Nuts, but the guy could jam. Here’s Stranglehold: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c3d7QgZr7g
I knew he was a turd ball.
Does anyone else remember the documentary showing the American guy shooting his own foot to avoid service during Vietnam? I don’t recall the title but it’s on IFC and PBS every so often. By contrast to that guy, Nugent’s a chicken hawk gunhugger.
Two hugely overlooked features of American life that shape the way Americans under forty-five think about warfare, politics, military service, foreign policy, public service, jingoistic pop culture, and other issues is the lack of a draft or large numbers of POW’s since the end of Vietnam. The Bush war follies would have been vastly different with either a draft or large scale POW’s.
Just today, the President authorized women in U.S. forces to be given direct combat roles, for the first time ever. That’s partly a function of the same changes in the nature of combat that has so greatly reduced POW’s. (As I type this, PBS is airing a documentary on drones).
So POW’s may have become a tactic of asymmetric war only. But as for a draft, a public service draft could address many issues, including early adult unemployment, educational funding and national health. But no doubt some selfish Cheneys and Nugents would still try to shirk their duty while insulting those who did serve.
Nugent should become a liberal or gay and then he could be accepted for anything, draft dodger or not. That will get you into the good graces of any of these idiots that control the media.
Quite the gallant defense of your hero there, Kendra. So. How did your election predictions work out.
Yeah Kendra, it is a damnable shame that Nugent and his hysteria, like so many right wing nut jobs, cannot get any media exposure.
Nugent, wired differently than most and equally loathed by the right and left sides for his outrageous and inconsistent rants.Agree with @Gresham, those were his two best songs. His recent bashing of the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame will make him an unlikely inductee ever in they take him seriously which few should,,ever.
Henry’s on a real tear of posting made-up crap that he can’t and doesn’t even try to back up. Maybe suzie hired him to take over her spot while she’s “south.”
BTW, Henry, do you REALLY want us to post that long, long list of Repub chickenhawks and draft dodgers?
it doesnt matter HOW they dodged it dannyboy, they dodged it just the same…no difference at all !!!!
Twenty-three liberal rants that did/proved absolutely NOTHING. Very funny.
But, Pammala, that won`t penetrate the bubble that Dannie lives in.
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