{"id":6886,"date":"2012-04-16T20:57:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T03:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6886"},"modified":"2015-06-15T10:29:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T17:29:54","slug":"mitt-romney-surrogate-ted-nugents-anti-american-meltdown-at-the-nra-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6886","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney Surrogate Ted Nugent&#8217;s Anti-American Meltdown At The NRA Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend there was a media feasting on a few poorly chosen words by CNN commentator Hilary Rosen. Although Rosen is not a representative of President Obama&#8217;s administration or campaign, the President and his staff was hounded for reactions and responses to her comments. Republican operatives and media flacks spent countless hours falsely asserting that Obama was in some way responsible for Rosen&#8217;s opinions.<\/p>\n<p>OK then, let&#8217;s have some fairness and balance. This weekend another political partisan had a few things to say about the upcoming election. Washed-up, geriatric rocker, Ted Nugent appeared at the NRA conference in St. Louis and what he had to say ought to have similar repercussions for Romney. His unhinged rant was an onslaught of invective wherein he called the President and others in the administration <em>&#8220;evil&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;vile,&#8221;<\/em> and he spoke of his desire to oust <em>&#8220;the enemies in the White House.&#8221;<\/em> Here are a few more choice moments from his psychotic spewing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t know that our government is wiping its ass with the constitution, you&#8217;re living under a rock someplace.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got four Supreme Court justices who don&#8217;t believe in the constitution.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;If Barack Obama becomes the President in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Our President, Attorney General, our Vice-President, Hillary Clinton &#8211; they&#8217;re criminals.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We need to ride into the battlefield and chop their heads off in November.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s as Nazi Germany as it gets.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We need to become warriors on the streets of America.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These remarks run the gamut from merely disrespectful to hostile to treasonous. And this is not coming from an unassociated cable news talking head, Nugent is a Romney advocate whose endorsement Romney purposefully solicited. Last month <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TedNugent\/statuses\/175680421462425601\" target=\"_blank\">Nugent Tweeted<\/a> his support after a personal call from Romney:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;after a long heart&#038;soul conversation with MittRomney today I concluded this goodman will properly represent we the people &#038; I endorsed him&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=newscorpsecom-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B0009K762G&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"alignright\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAt the time I wondered whether the media would hold Romney accountable for actively seeking the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6566\" target=\"_blank\">endorsement of a psychopath<\/a> who has threatened the President and others with assassination. Apparently the media wasn&#8217;t interested. However, after the press&#8217; mobbing of Rosen you might think that they would expect similar responses from Romney for what his campaign surrogate says.<\/p>\n<p>The differences in the way that the press handle these situations should put an end to any talk of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0009K762G?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkCode=xm2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creativeASIN=B0009K762G\" target=\"_blank\">so-called liberal media<\/a>. Nugent&#8217;s violent and revolting rhetoric (which he means sincerely) far exceeds the comparatively tame opinions of Rosen (which were misconstrued). And Romney ought not to be allowed to evade questions on the matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update]<\/strong> New York Magazine contacted the Secret Service with regard to Nugent&#8217;s threats and they <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/04\/ted-nugent-threatened-to-kill-president-obama.html\" target=\"_blank\">confirm<\/a> that <em>&#8220;We are aware of it, and we&#8217;ll conduct an appropriate follow up.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is a highlight reel of Nugent&#8217;s remarks (and if you have the stomach for it, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/QL5zmqbuMxo\" target=\"_blank\">here is the whole thing<\/a> <em>[Note: The NRA has removed this video]<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/06XVt6zEr9E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend there was a media feasting on a few poorly chosen words by CNN commentator Hilary Rosen. Although Rosen is not a representative of President Obama&#8217;s administration or campaign, the President and his staff was hounded for reactions and responses to her comments. Republican operatives and media flacks spent countless hours falsely asserting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8,16],"tags":[991,260,1019,77],"class_list":["post-6886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-hilary-rosen","tag-mitt-romney","tag-nra","tag-ted-nugent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1N4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6566,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6566","url_meta":{"origin":6886,"position":0},"title":"Where&#8217;s The Outrage? 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With the recent\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7917,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7917","url_meta":{"origin":6886,"position":1},"title":"Motor City Jackass: Romney Surrogate Ted Nugent Threatens Obama Supporters","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/3\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Last March Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney personally solicited the endorsement of washed-up raunch-rocker, and demented pseudo-patriot Ted Nugent. At the time Nugent disclosed Romney had phoned him and that \"after a long heart&soul conversation with MittRomney...I endorsed him.\" Last week Nugent appeared at a senile rockers concert in Ft.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6866,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6866","url_meta":{"origin":6886,"position":2},"title":"Fox News Escalates The War On Women Out Of All Proportion","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/12\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Leave it to Fox News to leap on a political molehill and start shoveling feverishly in the hopes of building a mountain. Yesterday Hilary Rosen, who works for a democratic public relations firm, appeared on CNN and made the mistake of not parsing every single word she said before opening\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7508,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7508","url_meta":{"origin":6886,"position":3},"title":"Ted Nugent Says: It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/6\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"OK, I know. Ted Nugent is about as foul and depraved an individual as you're ever likely to encounter. He is the guy who raged through a profanity-laced tirade that threatened perverse assaults on Hillary Clinton and Diane Feinstein. He's the guy who implied that he would resort to violence,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8690,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8690","url_meta":{"origin":6886,"position":4},"title":"Ted Nugent&#8217;s &#8216;Culture of Contempt&#8217; Is Repsonsible For The Newtown Massacre","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/19\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Just when you thought you've heard it all, the sickening blather of the right-wing nuthouse crowd manages to scale to new heights of idiocy and hypocrisy. Following one of the most horrific mass murders in this nation's history, Republicans have rushed to the TV cameras and talk radio mics to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8102,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8102","url_meta":{"origin":6886,"position":5},"title":"Wake The F**K Up: Samuel L. Jackson vs. Ted Nugent","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/27\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"A new video is trending on the InterTubes that features Oscar-winning actor Samuel L. Jackson in a parody of the bestseller \"Go the F**k to Sleep\" by Adam Mansbach. The video follows Jackson and a young girl warning her family that this election is too important to become complacent. 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