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The guy is the scum of the earth and while I've been trying to encourage my short-haired democratic friends to grow their hair long they seem hesitant and to think that some see long-haired guys in a negative light and often when I ask them why, they reference this scumbag!
Catscratch Fever, my ass! this guy sucks as a musician and as a person!
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Yeah, he is a right wing nut case and a waste of skin and long hair. Try not to let him get under your skin too much. If you do, he has won. I just ignore him.
Scott
Ahem, I beg to differ with you as that piece of video does nothing to convince me that Ted Nugent is what you claim him to be.Obviously scripted by someone who has a grudge against him from what I can conclude.They mention his pro gun stance and frankly I too support gun rights for law abiding citizens.How his enemies would love to take that right away.Anyway nice try as I don't believe that clip.
Mârk
Have you not read what the other longhairs posted about Romney here?
The Ted Nugent Draft Dodger Story
Ted Nugent endorsed Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney's oldest son, Tagg, got very excited about this and posted the following via Twitter: "Ted Nugent endorsed my Dad today. Ted Nugent? How cool is that?! He joins Kid Rock as great Detroit musicians on team Mitt!"
Nugent has, of course, been the center of quite a bit of attention recently for what he said about Barack Obama and Democrats at the recent NRA convention. This has been well publicized and I won't repeat that story here.
Before Nugent's eruption at the NRA convention, candidate Mitt Romney had this to say: "It's been fun getting to know Ted Nugent."
All Mitt Romney could say when told what Nugent had said at the NRA convention was this: "Divisive language is offensive no matter what side of the political aisle it comes from. Mitt Romney believes everyone needs to be civil." How weak! How Romneyesque!
But what's interesting is that Mitt Romney sought Ted Nugent's endorsement even before the NRA convention craziness. After all, Ted Nugent is a self-confessed draft dodger. Oh, sure, he denied that he was telling the truth back in 1977 when interviewed by High Times. But his Selective Service records are consistent with what Nugent said himself.
Here is the relevant portion of the interview from the October, 1977, edition of High Times as provided by a reporter who still had a copy in his archives:
"High Times: How did you get out of the draft?
Ted Nugent: Ted was a young boy, appearing to be a hippie but quite opposite in fact, working hard and playing hard, playing rock and roll like a deviant. People would question my sanity, I played so much. So I got my notice to be in the draft. Do you think I was gonna lay down my guitar and go play army? Give me a break! I was busy doin’ it to it. I had a career Jack. If I was walkin’ around, hippying down, getting’ loaded and pickin’ my ass like your common curs, I’d say “Hey yeah, go in the army. Beats the poop out of scuffin’ around in the gutters.” But I wasn’t a gutter dog. I was a hard workin’, motherf***n’ rock and roll musician.
I got my physical notice 30 days prior to. Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavinÂ’ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie. I had long hair, and it started gettinÂ’ 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 IÂ’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, pi** the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.
See, I approached the whole thing like, Ted Nugent, cool hard-workin’ dude, is gonna wreak havoc on these imbeciles in the armed forces. I’m gonna play their own game, and I’m gonna destroy ‘em. Now my whole body is crusted in poop and pi**. I was ill. And three or four days before, I started stayin’ awake. I was close to death, but I was in control. I was extremely antidrug as I’ve always been, but I snorted some crystal methedrine. Talk about one wounded motherf****r. A guy put up four lines, and it was for all four of us, but I didn’t know and I’m vacuuming that poop right up. I was a walking, talking hunk of human poop. I was six-foot-three of sin. So the guys took me down to the physical, and my nerves, my emotions were distraught. I was not a good person. I was wounded. But as painful and nauseous as it was – ‘cause I was really into bein’ clean and on the ball – I made gutter swine hippies look like football players. I was deviano.
So I went in, and those guys in uniform couldn’t believe the smell. They were ridiculin’ me and pushin’ me around and I was cryin’, but all the time I was laughin’ to myself. When they stuck the needle in my arm for the blood test I passed out, and when I came to they were kicking me into the wall. Then they made everybody take off their pants, and I did, and this sergeant says, “Oh my God, put those back on! You f*****g swine you!” Then they had a urine test and I couldn’t pi**, but my poop was just like ooze, man, so I poop in the cup and put it on the counter. I had poop on my hand and my arm. The guy almost puked. I was so proud. I knew I had these chumps beat. The last thing I remember was wakin’ up in the ear test booth and they were sweepin’ up. So I went home and cleaned up.
They took a putty knife to me. I got the street rats out of my hair, ate some good steaks, beans, potatoes, cottage cheese, milk. A couple of days and I was ready to kick ass. And in the mail I got this big juicy 4-F. TheyÂ’d call dead people before theyÂ’d call my ass. But you know the funny thing about it? IÂ’d make an incredible army man. IÂ’d be a colonel before you knew what hit you, and IÂ’d have the baddest bunch of motherf****nÂ’ killers youÂ’d ever seen in my platoon. But I just wasnÂ’t into it. I was too busy doinÂ’ my own thing, you know."
That's the man the likely GOP nominee for president sought out for an endorsement. That's the man whose endorsement of said candidate put said candidate's oddly-named son into a public swoon. That's the man who says ugly things about people he does not agree with politically. That's the man who, when his country called, just "wasn't into it."
Hmmm, interesting read but who knows how much of it is really true or not.Frankly I don't care what Ted said that many years ago and after all what office is he running for in this coming election anyway? None, from what I know.These candidates get endorsements from all sorts of people who may have sketchy backgrounds so what else is new.If Ted didn't want to be drafted during that era you can just add him to the list of all the other draft dodgers then.At least he showed up when called...right? So he may have come up with a little strategy to get rejected;)Thankfully today's armed forces are all volunteers so they go in because they want to.Good for them and you have to credit those for making that sacrifice so the rest of us can lead "normal" lives.So nice try but I'll still keep my Nugent records:)
Mârk