{"id":10209,"date":"2013-07-24T10:56:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T17:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10209"},"modified":"2013-07-24T10:56:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T17:56:17","slug":"fox-nation-hypes-ted-nugents-unhinged-promotion-of-a-chicago-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10209","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation Hypes Ted Nugent’s Unhinged Promotion Of A Chicago Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cognitive dysfunction at Fox News sometimes gets so severe that it’s hard to believe they aren’t satirizing themselves. The latest example is an article on their community web site, the lie-riddled Fox Nation<\/a>, that features Ted Nugent retching up another of his repugnant rants.<\/p>\n

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In order to advance the argument that it is somehow improper for celebrities to take a principled stance against the “kill at will”<\/em> law (aka stand your ground), the Fox Nationalists recruited their version of a celebrity, the washed-up schlock-rocker, Ted Nugent. True to form, Nugent, who is also a board member of the National Rifle Association, let loose a tirade that was filled with his signature bombast and ignorance. His tantrum was centered on his apparent disgust for free speech and civil activism.<\/p>\n

“[Y]ou can pretend by boycotting a single city with a stand your ground law that somehow you don\u2019t have to boycott Chicago, where 700 people are slaughtered every year because they\u2019re not standing their ground.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s surprising how much idiocy can be drawn from that brief statement. Let’s start with the observation that Nugent doesn’t know what a boycott is. Those who are not intellectually impaired know that a boycott is an organized effort to influence policy or behavior that is objectionable. Therefore, a boycott of Florida aimed at persuading the state’s legislators to amend a law that is racist and exacerbates violence, could be an appropriate course of action that might achieve the desired result. But who is it that Nugent is proposing to boycott in Chicago? The behavior that he objects to is that of criminals who are not very likely to be swayed by tourists refusing to visit the city.<\/p>\n

Then Nugent takes note of the high murder rate in Chicago and seems to be utterly unaware of situation on the ground. He thinks that the victims generally were harmed as result of their not being well enough armed to defend themselves. However, a majority of the shooting deaths in Chicago are gang-related. That means that in most circumstances both the shooter and the victim had access to lethal weaponry. Any sane observer knows that the problem in Chicago is not an absence of firepower, it’s an obvious over-abundance.<\/p>\n

In many ways Chicago is a model of the NRA-theist utopia where everyone has a gun and the streets are rife with old west style shootouts. In effect, everybody is standing their ground and the result is a landscape of corpses. That’s what Nugent and his NRA cronies lust for, and Florida is seeking to become. Trayvon Martin, whom the nauseating Nugent called a “dope-peddling, gangsta wannabe,”<\/em> is the tragic progenitor of this dystopian worldview. Nugent would do us all a favor if he would keep the promise he made over a year ago when he said that he would be either “dead or in jail”<\/em> by now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cognitive dysfunction at Fox News sometimes gets so severe that it’s hard to believe they aren’t satirizing themselves. The latest example is an article on their community web site, the lie-riddled Fox Nation, that features Ted Nugent retching up another of his repugnant rants. 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