So just a week ago somebody said something "horrifically offensive" on TV during a debate on the Presidential Campaign and that person was roundly and properly pillared until - just a half day later - she finally apologized in sorrow and shame.
Blitzer: This is a wonderful woman. She's suffered with M.S. Breast Cancer. Look into the Camera, if Ann Romney is watching you right now - talk to her.
Rosen: I've been a stay at home mom, this isn't about being a stay at home mom.
Blitzer: I didn't hear an apology.
Ok, so now this week we've heard another person who said something
completely outrageous about the another Presidential Campaign. I'm sure we'll be hearing the apology soon. Won't we?
Via TPM
Nugent called President Obama a criminal and denounced his “vile, evil America-hating administration” which is “wiping its ass with the Constitution.” Taking it a step further, he said that “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” “If you can’t galvanize and promote and recruit people to vote for Mitt Romney, we’re done,” he continued. "We need to chop their heads off in November!"
Let's compare and contrast. Hilary Rosen is not part of the Obama Campaign, nor is she part of the DNC however Ted Nugent is someone whose endorsement Mitt Romney Lobbied For.
David Axelrod apologized for Hilary Rosen.
Hilary Rosen apologized for Hilary Rosen.
The Romney campaign not-so-secretly celebrated when they finally had a chance to take the attack to the Obama-adjacent Campaign.
Ann Romney: (Rosen's) attack on me was a "gift". I loved it
And now we have a big
poutrage about Bill Maher saying that Ann Romney may have been Mom, and that's a tough job
But she never got her ass out of the House
Which - like what Hillary Rosen said - is absolutely true.
In fact if you listen to her own Husband, he used to think that women who were stay-at-home moms, should get out of the house in order to partake in the dignity of work.
I mean, Maher was more blunt about it - but what's the difference between what he said and what Romney himself said 3 Months Ago?
Ok, so let's flash back a bit to when Fox News and the Right Wing were having a complete crap-fest in their pants about the Notorious Rapper Common going to the White House for their Poetry Night Reading. Oh my Fuck. Shock & Awe!!
When a Rapper said something about Cops, and Bush, and the N-word... OH MY! And Hannity would say the same thing about any artist who used such violent imagery, certainly he would. Yes sirree!
Hannity: This is not the guy you invite to the White House for a Poetry Reading. If this was the somebody who used the same type of rhetoric of violence against President Obama, I would be against it. If this was a heavy metal artist and he's talking about killing cops, I'd feel the same way. This is inappropriate for a President and he goes back to his radical roots again and again... Ayres, Wright, Flager...
Nugent (Oh Stage): Obama, you might want to suck on this (Holds up machine guns) ya punk! Obama, he's a piece of shit. I told him to suck on my machine gun. Hey, Hillary (Clinton) - you might want to ride one of these into the sunset.
(Clip Ends)
Hannity: That was friend and frequent guest of the program Ted Nugent, expressing his feelings toward Democratic Presidential contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Ted Nugent sings "Wang Dang Sweet Poon Tang", he shoots an arrow on stage, wears a loin cloth.. what's more offensive to you, what he said or Barack Obama saying that our troops killed innocent civilians, and air-raiding villages? What's more shocking?
Bob Beckel: Are you prepared to disavow this low-life or what?
Hannity: Hey, he's a friend of mine. Here's my point, if you don't like i Don't Go to the Concert!
Yeah, that's some
Balance right there.
And just for the record, Common isn't and never has been some type of Dangerous Gangsta-Rapper
He does ROM/COM movies with Queen Latifah for cryin' out loud. Double-Standard Much?
So is anyone, ANYONE, shocked or surprised that we have yet to hear an avalanche of calls for Mitt Romney to apologize or disavow Ted Nugent's comments?
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Are those crickets I hear?
Oh, wait - the Romney Campaign did say something about Ted - kinda, almost, sorta...
“Divisive language is offensive no matter what side of the political aisle it comes from,” Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul told TPM. “Mitt Romney believes everyone needs to be civil.”
Um, like, wow. That's some strong condemnation sauce right there. Almost makes my eyes water.
Obviously it's brought Terrible Ted to his knees in repentance, and the Blitzer of Wolf will be berating him to "Look into the Camera and Apologize to the President" ... or not.
“I spoke at the NRA and I will stand by my speech. It was 100 percent positive,” Nugent told the Dana Loesch radio show today. “It’s about we the people taking back our American dream from the corrupt monsters in the federal government under this administration and the communist czars he’s appointed.”
“See, I’m a black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally, and there are some power-abusing corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth to identify the violations of our government, particularly Eric Holder and the president and Tim Geithner, ad nauseum,” Nugent told Loesch.
“I have never in my life threatened anyone’s life. I’m incapable of threatening anyone’s life. Because I’m about positive change, my entire speech, all my articles,” he later added.
Yeah, it's so clear that Ted Nugent is about "positive change" as he's accusing Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Nancy Pelosi of being "Sub-human Vermint Mongrels" - there's lots of positivity in that.
Sad part is, Ted actually, seriously, thinks he's the heroic one here fighting against his own "victimization". He's a "black jew a a Nazi/Klan Rally"?
Does that mean he's Herman Cain or Alan Keyes? Just wondering.
The bulk of Ted's NRA speech actually seemed to be an extended whine over the losing dissenting opinions in the Heller decision where the five Conservative Justices on the court established gun ownership as a personal right independent of any requirement for membership in a "Militia" or any form of regulation. The dissenters, led by Justice Stevens simply said that position was Completely Unprecedented and violated Stare Decisis. Ted was calling the four dissenting Justices "Unamerican Criminals" for supporting the way the 2nd Amendment has been understood and interpreted for 200 Years.
In a dissenting opinion, Justice John Paul Stevens stated that the court's judgment was "a strained and unpersuasive reading" which overturned longstanding precedent, and that the court had "bestowed a dramatic upheaval in the law".[49] Stevens also stated that the amendment was notable for the "omission of any statement of purpose related to the right to use firearms for hunting or personal self-defense" which was present in the Declarations of Rights of Pennsylvania and Vermont.[49]
The Stevens dissent seems to rest on four main points of disagreement: that the Founders would have made the individual right aspect of the Second Amendment express if that was what was intended; that the "militia" preamble and exact phrase "to keep and bear arms" demands the conclusion that the Second Amendment touches on state militia service only; that many lower courts' later "collective-right" reading of the Miller decision constitutes stare decisis, which may only be overturned at great peril; and that the Court has not considered gun-control laws (e.g., the National Firearms Act) unconstitutional. The dissent concludes, "The Court would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons.... I could not possibly conclude that the Framers made such a choice."
That's what he's so upset about, that Washington D.C. might required hand-guns to have triggers locks sold with them. Now they
can't even require that.
Heller actually went the way that Ted would like it to go, but apparently winning the decision isn't good enough for him - he's got to dehumanize and threaten those who
dared to disagree. Which, as a matter of fact, doesn't include either President Obama or Attorney General Holder who've done absolutely
Nothing to roll back gun rights, or expressed any intention that they might.
But y'know they're both Black, and Black guys obviously (yet secretly) don't like guns because so many of them get killed by them, because like, so many Black guys HAVE GUNS and aren't afraid to use them - hide your kids, hide your wife & run for the hills the negroes got the guns - or some such.
People like Ted just LOVE their gun rights, until someone who looks like this starts to use them too - then they get all a-scared.
Yep, full-on nut-bag soup that is.
Also, have fun with your Secret Service Investigation Ted. Those guys have a "wonderful" sense of humor, especially these days.
I mean it's not like we've had a rash of violent murders of random black people (in Tulsa, OK), or pipe-bombs left by the side of the MLK Parade (in Seattle, WA), Congressional Offices Firebombed and Vandalized after "somebody" mapped them with a bunch of TARGETS, or somebody already tried to take a bunch of machine guns and shoot up the ACLU (in Oakland), or have already gone to jail for threatening Nancy Pelosi's Life (in San Francisco) or anything. It's not like we don't currently have a record number of active hate groups (according to the SPLC) operating in the nation in direct reaction and response to the election of President Obama.
Since 2000, the number of hate groups has increased by 54 percent. This surge has been fueled by fears of Latino immigration and, more recently, by the election of the country’s first African-American president and the economic crisis.
I mean, nobodies worried about what
Ted's going to do - he's a
pathological shit talker - they're more worried about what all his
brain-dead zombie nut-job cult followers have already done, and might continue to do. Ted's not the Black Guy at the Klan Rally, he's
cheerleading the rally.
Maybe I'm weird, but I think that emboldening that American Taliban is much more serious than a few stay-at-home-mom's feeling a little dissed. There's free speech, and then there's incitement to violence, Rosen was a wee bit rude, but Ted's dancing on the line between them as he always has.
Besides, It's not like Nugent's been musically relevant since he was a bit player in Damn Yankees (The Band) over 20 years ago, shit talk is all he's got. Tommy Shaw and Jack Blades were the real talent in that band anyway.
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