Ted Nugent comments on the Dixie Chicks (March 2003)

[Buzz Clik]

From an interview with Jeb Wright entitled, "Locked Cocked and Ready to Fight"
http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/interviews03/TedNugent2003.htm

Jeb: I have been on your board several times. You work hard and you believe in what you are doing with TNUSA and then you get someone like the Dixie Chicks…

Ted: Let me tell you what has happened with the Dixie Chicks… First of all, I salute them. They are not only amazingly talented, they have a wonderful work ethic and they make wonderful music. Plus, they are fine ass women! I also salute them for standing up for what they believe in. Unfortunately, most of your celebrities are insulated. They literally create a wall of comfort around them.

This morning Uncle Ted got up with my sons Toby and Rocco…. We shoveled the dog kennels. I shoveled the crap out of the horse stalls. We do this everyday. We carry hay and straw and bring water and feed to our livestock and then we go out and cut wood. We plant trees this time of year. In other words, I am a hand’s on guy. I am a rugged individual. I don’t have ‘yes’ men around me. I don’t have people catering to me. I don’t have people servicing me. I stand up for myself and I do my own jobs. I change my own oil and I kill my own food. I gut it, I butcher it and I cook it. I take care of my own life.

The Dixie Chicks are insulated. They are prima donnas. They wouldn’t know the truth if it smacked them right between the eyes. So I would like to offer them the truth: If you do not kill evil under the terms of righteous, freedom loving people like American’s then we will have to face evil in America on the evil’s terms. That is unacceptable. So Dixie Chicks, I just recommend you shut up and sing and let the warriors take care of your freedom. You love to deny the truth and live in an insulated world of fantasy and then criticize the very system by which you can live free and brave. Suck me!

Well, Ted, given the events of the past week, it's pretty clear who sucks.

[BOSSHOG]

1. "If YOU do not kill evil"

Hey ted who ya talking about? Certainly not chickenshits like you. does rush kill evil? sean? ann? How come you fake patriots just don't get it?

[coco77]

2. Isn't he the one living in a ...

insulated and fantasy world out in the woods...

[Buzz Clik]

3. This is the part of the quote I found amazing:

"So Dixie Chicks, I just recommend you shut up and sing and let the warriors take care of your freedom."

Is there any aspect of that quote that he actually embraces?

• He never shuts up.
  
• He is not a warrior
  
• The people the Chicks were criticizing were not the warriors
  
• Neither Nugent nor those the Chicks were criticizing are "taking care of our freedom".

Thanks, Ted. If there was any previous doubt, none remains. You have defined yourself.

[tabasco]

4. "I am a rugged individual." LMAO.

Anybody who has to tell you how "rugged" they are is probably a phony.

In Nugent's case, a faux tough guy extraordinaire.

[Hobarticus]

5. Brave warriors...like yourself, shit-smeared and urine-soaked Ted?!?

Funny how when you had your chance to become a mighty warrior yourself, you instead shit yourself....literally. Go 'way, asshat. You're using up someone else's fifteen minutes.

[Buzz Clik]

6. I'm guessing that Nuge would welcome the opportunity to fight the Dixie Chicks.

Pillow fight? Purse slapping?

[Hobarticus]

7. Did you see "Shut Up And Sing"?

I for one would not mess with Natalie. She'd whup my ass up one way and down the other.