Occasionally, The Drudge Report does come up with something rather interesting. Today's contribution is certainly interesting...and also potentially disturbing.
Rock guitarist and avowed Republican Ted Nugent was filmed in concert. Nugent, a longtime 2nd Amendment advocate, came to the stage with what appears to be a pair of machine guns.
What he does then raises some very interesting questions. Follow me below the fold for the gist of it.
The link to the video is here. Advance warning--the language is pretty coarse, and as such, you might not want to check it out at work at full volume.
Brandishing a pair of what he identifies as machine guns, he says that he has toured the country, asking a variety of politicians (all of them Democrats save for Arnold Schwarzenegger) to "suck on his machine gun."
For those of you scoring at home he also...
- Refers to Barack Obama as "a piece of shit."
- Refers to Hillary Clinton as a "worthless bitch."
- Refers to Dianne Feinstein as a "worthless whore."
At the end, he holds the machine gun aloft and does his best William Wallace "freedom" imitation.
On the whole, awfully disturbing. Two things in particular disturbed me. One was the drummer imitating a gunfire cadence in particular during Nugent's comments about Obama. The other was the crowd reaction--total ecstasy.
But here is my question, and for someone who knows the law better than I do (which would be...well...lots of you).
Does this qualify as a threat? I think it could be construed as a threat. I think it could also be construed as an extended sexual metaphor. I am not sure. Nugent is an extremely outspoken guy, but I don't think he would actually threaten to kill a bunch of politicians, especially in such a public setting.
Also, haven't I seen him on Fox News? Is that just as a guest, or does he have a semi-regular role there? I also thought he might be a radio host. Anyone with better knowledge might clue us in on the comments. All I remember is that his brief tenure with Damn Yankees in the early 90s (I was too young to appreciate his career in the '70s).