National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent is in the news again. This time the Trump-backing loudmouth took a wallow in the anti-Semitic swamp, where he seemed perfectly at home. This racist, neo-Confederate “rock star” has bathed there previously, having once compared film producer Harvey Weinstein to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister.
In case you’ve forgotten, a couple of years back Nugent called President Obama a “subhuman mongrel” who should be convicted of treason. He later eased back a bit, but his so-called apology sounded like a combination of a chant at a Ku Klux Klan rally and a Nazi theory-of-race document. And then there was his wacked-out comment three years ago that gun-owners would soon imitate Rosa Parks and “sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed.”
There was also his braggart claim four years ago that "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year." That comment was taken by some to be an assassination threat, and garnered Ted a little talk from the Secret Service.
And then there is the steady stream of misogynist comments and profane attacks on Muslims, Latinos, and African Americans.
His fans love this psycho garbage, so there’s no reason to believe they don’t also love his latest foray into the indefensible. As noted by Mark Howard at News Corpse Monday, Nugent dropped the poster to the right onto his Facebook page asking, “Who is really behind gun control?” along with the comment urging his FB fans to “Know these punks.” More than 6,500 of those fans shared his post.
As you can see, the unifying element here is that all his targets are Jewish, a point emphasized by putting the flag of Israel in each thumbnail mugshot, strongly implying via the dual-loyalty canard that they are disloyal Americans.
Not Nugent’s invention, to be sure. He is, as always, utterly derivative, even in his litany of hatreds.
As Howard points out:
The image itself has been floating around the InterTubes for years. Another version of it included even more of what they called “Gun Grabbing Traitor Jews.” Neo-Nazi organizations like Stormfront have used it to advance their hate-speech. [...]
Setting aside the obviously disgusting nature of Nugent’s post, it also happens to be ridiculously untrue. While there are some gun safety advocates who happen to be Jewish, there are also Jewish proponents of the NRA.
The Anti-Defamation League issued a statement after Nugent’s Facebook post appeared:
It should go without saying that anti-Semitism has no place in the gun control debate. Nugent should be ashamed for promoting anti-Semitic content, and we hope that good people on both sides of the gun control debate will reject his tactics and his message. We hope that Nugent will have the good sense to remove this share immediately so that it does not spread virally across the internet.
Too late to stop that. It’s already everywhere. And it prompted Nugent to attempt some ill-advised damage control Wednesday when he posted the following faux-macho screed on his Facebook page:
How tragic that the self inflicted scourge of political correctness can blind so many otherwise intelligent people! Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership founder Aaron Zelman was a dear friend who often referred to me as his "2nd Amendment hero". Here are my sincere words for the great man's memorial.
No more powerful words exist better defining the battlecry for freedom than a Jew proclaiming, loud and proud, "NEVER AGAIN!" And no more powerful statement could be made for such self evident truth than a group called Jews For the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. My hero, my American BloodBrother and an American Warrior legend, the great Aaron Zelman perfectly represented all free men who refuse to be controlled by others or denied our God given right to keep and bear arms. We stand repulsed by the ugly soullessness of unarmed helplessness.
If Aaron and I were together in Nuremberg Germany in 1938, I am confident that we would have led the charge to disarm Nazis and kill them with their own Lugers, refusing to board the trains or be told what to do. Many Americans will take the mighty spirit of defiance so forcefully guided by Aaron in his lifelong dedication to crushing the enemies of freedom, by keeping his dream alive to crush any and all demonic attempts to disarm free men in our beloved America.
In our hearts, and in the winds of liberty, I feel the spirit of Aaron Zelman forever. In the wind, he is still alive. God rest his warrior soul, Godspeed his defiant spirit.
Freedom BloodBrothers, Ted Nugent & family
Truly amazing to see this chickenhawk waving his dick about the glory of warriors, and invoking fantasies of taking down the Third Reich with a Luger and a snarl.