Discovery Channel kicks Ted Nugent to the curb

[sasha031]

In addition to cancelling its popular “American Guns” reality show, The Discovery Channel confirmed to Raw Story on Tuesday that firearms enthusiast Ted Nugent will also not be returning to the channel in any form or fashion.

Speaking to Raw Story in remarks specified as “not for attribution,” a spokesperson admitted that “Ted Nugent’s Gun Country” didn’t do very well when it aired in October, even with fellow firearms fashionistas. Nielsen Ratings placed the viewership at about 864,000 people in all. But the network’s decision is not just about the numbers.

After Friday’s devastating massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the spokesperson said that Nugent would definitely not be returning to the Discovery Channel.


Raw Story (http://s.tt/1xjGL)

[AldoLeopold]

1. I also believe that the company that manufactures Bushmaster

or whacker or whatever it is has been sold today by the investment firm that owns it.

[libdem4life]

10. This information would warm up my hands and my heart a bit.

[AldoLeopold]

11. Well warm up

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50237379/ns/business-us_business/t/cerberus-sell-bushmaster-maker-after-shootings/#.UNE3uXevN1M

[libdem4life]

12. Hot Damn...pun intended. A Two-fer. My old CalPERS leads the way.

[muntrv]

2. No one wants to see ted nugent? How shocking!

[Fearless]

3. Good!

[Bjorn Against]

4. The Discover Channel should explain why they gave him a platform to begin with

Nugent has advocated Obama's assassination on at least three seperate occasions.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021996110

The Discovery Channel needs to answer for why they gave an assassination advocate his own show to begin with.

[sasha031]

7. It was totally disgraceful

Discovery was supposed to be meant for children.

[bmbmd]

5. Now, if the OUTDOOR CHANNEL

would ban this asshat, I'd start watching again.

[sasha031]

6. We should start a Twitter campaign to get him kicked off.

[Cha]

8. It kinda dumb to

have a show like that to begin with.. with someone as ugly spirited as Ted Nugent.

[libdem4life]

9. So which network still has the Wasilla Nutcases on? Just curious...don't have TV.

Have they connected cold-blooded shooting to kill from helicopters insanity yet?