Ted Nugent uses terms "mediocrity and slovenliness" about Obama White House [View All]

[madfloridian]

How did our country get to this place where so many are just totally tasteless, inane, and ignorant about things? I guess the dumbing down has been going on for years.

I guess when the right wing lost the sense of control they felt when everyone was giving Bush all the power he wanted...that they have just grasped at anything no matter how crass.

Florida Progressive Coalition blog: Nugent disses Obama


“Nugent who said, during an August 2007 concert, — as he was holding what appeared to be two assault rifles — “Obama, he’s a piece of sh**, and I told him to suck on my machine gun.”

“With a liberal in the White House, it’s sad to see the celebration of mediocrity and slovenliness and the cult of denial expand. That’s heartbreaking to see this once-great nation abandon the drive of excellence and the new squawking mantra of whining and excuse-making, which is why we have the president we have, and for him and his administration to defy the Constitution and Fedzilla exploding into the private sector and controlling corporations, it’s shocking.”

“I believe that we the people will eventually see the criminality of the Obama administration and eventually stop them one way or another, so I have eternal faith in my fellow man. I can’t believe this experiment in self-government is over. I can’t believe the documents our founding fathers clearly articulated and wrote are going to be abandoned for tyranny and slavery, and that’s really what Obama represents. He represents that ‘you people are so stupid and inept, I’ll have to cover you.’ I just don’t believe that’s true.”

There is more about Nugent at the Down With Tyranny blog from July 2007.

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The most right wing of the quasi-respectible, neo-fascist propaganda sheets, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, has decided to celebrate Independence Day by inviting the washed up rocker to pen a story about dirty, stinky hippies. Before I go through Nugent's latest raging insanity with you, let me make a disclaimer. When I was part of senior management at Warner Bros-- a divisional president-- many of my colleagues were repulsed by Nugent's bombastic music, bad attitude and reactionary politics. By then he was part of a latter-day hair band called Damn Yankees. There was always a drumbeat of people who wanted to drop them. I wasn't among them. Well, I was among those who found his music, etc. beneath contempt, but my feeling was always that our duty to the company's shareholders, the owners, had to transcend our own sense of taste. Damn Yankees had two commercially successful albums, the 1990 eponymous debut and the less successful Don't Tread. They both sucked but there is always a market for music that sucks and Warner Bros was more famous for music that didn't suck.

Here is more from DWT about Nugent in 2007:

Nugent is a voice of ultra-reaction, something like Ann Coulter, with the craziest corner of modern day Republicanism. Like the Germans who blamed their predicament on everyone but themselves after World War I and constantly agitated for fascism, Nugent is incapable of learning anything from history.

.."Nugent's next masterpiece, Love Grenade is about to hit the stores, where it is widely expected to flop, like all of his recent output. But he does have fans, although they're not likely to be people you would invite into your home. He was well-received when he spoke at the NRA's 2005 convention in Houston when he advocated killing suspects pulled over by the police. "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." Gee, I even want Bush and Cheney to have fair trials first.

When did this kind of talk start being okay? How long has it taken us to get to the "birther" stage in this country...where the more you tell those people about Obama's birth certificate, the less they believe it. Chris Matthews held it up for a congressman tonight, right in his face, and the guy never acted like it was there.