Ted Nugent - true Bush-American
By Libby
The WSJ laughably bills Ted Nugent as "a rock star releasing his 35th album" in the ID notes under this intellectually stunted tirade against dirty stinking hippies. Rock star? Quick, name 3 songs he's famous for without googling. The guy is, and always was, a second rate guitar hack who can barely hide his bitterness for his less than legendary status. His jealously couldn't be more palpable. Read the whole thing if you must, but here's just the opening grafs. It doesn't get better.
Translation: He's a loudmouthed, fat-headed jerk that couldn't even get laid in the 60s and no serious musician respected his pedestrian guitar grinding. For reasons I'll never be able to fathom, he got lucky enough to get picked up on the Top 40 stations but the only reason he's still even selling albums is because he was an early adopter of the Malkin/Coulter style of hysterical hatemongering and he made a canny move in endearing himself to gun nuts, who are nothing if not loyal to one of their own.
Nugent is a a hypocrite and a crass opportunist. Small wonder that Bush is a big fan but if the WSJ is going to give such a talentless hack a forum, they might as well give up the pretenses and just let Rupert buy them out. It's obvious they've sold out on reasonable discourse already.
The WSJ laughably bills Ted Nugent as "a rock star releasing his 35th album" in the ID notes under this intellectually stunted tirade against dirty stinking hippies. Rock star? Quick, name 3 songs he's famous for without googling. The guy is, and always was, a second rate guitar hack who can barely hide his bitterness for his less than legendary status. His jealously couldn't be more palpable. Read the whole thing if you must, but here's just the opening grafs. It doesn't get better.
This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the so-called Summer of Love. Honest and intelligent people will remember it for what it really was: the Summer of Drugs.
Forty years ago hordes of stoned, dirty, stinky hippies converged on San Francisco to "turn on, tune in, and drop out," which was the calling card of LSD proponent Timothy Leary. Turned off by the work ethic and productive American Dream values of their parents, hippies instead opted for a cowardly, irresponsible lifestyle of random sex, life-destroying drugs and mostly soulless rock music that flourished in San Francisco.
Translation: He's a loudmouthed, fat-headed jerk that couldn't even get laid in the 60s and no serious musician respected his pedestrian guitar grinding. For reasons I'll never be able to fathom, he got lucky enough to get picked up on the Top 40 stations but the only reason he's still even selling albums is because he was an early adopter of the Malkin/Coulter style of hysterical hatemongering and he made a canny move in endearing himself to gun nuts, who are nothing if not loyal to one of their own.
Nugent is a a hypocrite and a crass opportunist. Small wonder that Bush is a big fan but if the WSJ is going to give such a talentless hack a forum, they might as well give up the pretenses and just let Rupert buy them out. It's obvious they've sold out on reasonable discourse already.
Labels: Media, punditry, Republicans
posted by Libby Spencer at 3:50 PM
14 Comments:
And here's the biggest bitter truth about Nugent - if he hadn't been joined by Meat Loaf for a while, nobody would know who the hell he was. Meat Loaf was the vocal star of his most popular music.
I didn't know that P. I'm surprised Meat Loaf took up with him. You would think he would have been embarrassed to share a stage with such a talentless hack.
I'm linking to you over at The Democratic Daily.
Nugent evidently destroyed more brain cells than he thought by not using drugs. (Was it the alcohol?) Because his 'interpretation' requires borderline psychotic hallucination to prop up his central thesis.
Thanks Ed.
A fucking second-rate Rush Limbaugh, Ted is.
If the mediocre, mush-brained "motor city madman" could still make a living from rock 'n' roll, he would, but he can't, so he don't. As Mr. Shakes said, "Jealousy is the green-eyed monster that mocks the meat it feeds on."
'nuff said.
DR - He would have a long climb to get as low as Limbaugh.
It's a sad day for America when the WSJ would publish such hateful tripe on freaking Independence Day.
If the Republicans want to claim Nugent, they can have him. He's not even a has-been, he's a never-was.
I think the Dems are pretty happy with Springsteen.
Amen pug
You know, I can't think of a single song he did. But I did go to the link you provided. So now I know where all the posers have gone; to Ted Nugent's world. Now, where are all the "stinky hippies?" I miss y'all. Peace!
Well I'm still here Rocky.
Yea, I know where to find you, but where is ev eryone else? Wouldn't it be grand if all those who remember what it is to be hip were to converge on SF, line up all together and, under a banner that reads "Ted Nugent, this for you from all the stinky hippies", we all moon him as one. With peace signs painted on our butt cheeks! For that I might even chime in with a lusty FAR OUT! All of his hate speak aside, he seems to have missed the fact that we have equality under the law, we have the FOI act, a little concert called Woodstock happened without a single injury being caused by another person. He seems to think our generation invented divorce and drug use was popular in this country long before the 60s generation called for a revolution. I guess he doesn't know where the Coke in Coca Cola originally came from. Obviously, here I'm preaching to the choir, but I hate when these fanatics start spouting "facts" and "stats" without the citations to back them up. If he had REALLY been a part of the scene, who would remember peace and love and caring, GOOD music, great times and nice highs.
Oops, I see a few syntax errors in my last post. Under the influence of pain meds for a headache, excuse me. :)
I thought the divorce was especially hypocritical since his first marriage ended in divorce within seven years or something.
I find the cowardly crack pretty irritiating too. It was dangerous to be a hippie back then. I know a few people who got beat up by meatheads like Nugent for having long hair.
You wussies! Ted Nugent may not be Hendrix or Clapton, but he has had a good career for a musician. He can still bring in over 100K for a gig. How about your job? Can you do that? I think he is known more for being an outspoken conservative. He's on the Board of Directors for the NRA. He has helped children with his Kamp for Kids, which taught them archery, firearms and the responsibility that goes along with both of them. He spends a bunch of time in the woods hunting, bringing home food not just for his family, but donating it to charities that feed the homeless. If you want to know, he's planted more trees than any tree hugger! He started planting over 1,000 trees a year back in the 60's! How's that for you!! Chumps!! You can think I'm signing this as anonymous becuase I don't want to argue back, but this is the first time I've come across this waste of information!
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