Great White Elephant
By Mitch Berg
To: Ted Nugent
From: Mitch Berg
Re: NRA
Mr. Nugent:
Re the word that you are discussing Trunning for the presidency of the National Rifle Association…:
We hear that the Nuge is being urged to get into the race, and a key NRA insider tells us: “He does have a grass-roots following.” That’s for sure. The singer of “Cat Scratch Fever” fame and 23 albums is being promoted on Facebook. While Nugent is an NRA board member, he doesn’t have the type of top slot in the organization normally needed to springboard somebody into the presidency. Even Charlton Heston, who played Moses in Hollywood, worked his way up to the presidency.
Whatever your chops as a guitar player (formidable), talk show host (adequate) or grassroots advocate for shooters (stellar)…:
But Nugent tells Whispers he stands ready to battle the antigunners in Washington. “Clearly, the NRA is the ultimate ‘we the people,’ family, grass-roots organization for what is clearly Job 1 for free men everywhere: to guarantee our God-given right to keep and bear arms and defend ourselves,” he tells our Suzi Parker. “To be so honored to participate in any way, as an NRA board member or the ultimate honor of serving as president, would surely be a duty I would put my heart and soul into. I am genuinely moved that it is even being discussed. I am ready, willing, and able to serve if the good NRA members call upon me.”
…I gotta ask – can we really see you addressing Congress, the Supreme Court or anyone that isn’t already a gun-totin’ true believer?
That is all.
(Via AP)
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:33 am
I like Nugent as a humorous side show. As leader of the NRA? NO. He’d do far more harm than help.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:37 am
Well, I know at least two people who would be better choices: Joe Olson and David Gross. Not that they’re in contention, alas.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:54 am
Agree with nerdbert. As much as I like Ted, putting him in a leadership role would be like the Democrats putting someone like Al Franken in an elected position.
Ted Nugent, at Rockin Ribfest (“renewable protein”) in St Paul performed a song with these words:
Michael Moore, you can kiss my ass
Jesse Jackson, you can kiss my ass
France, you can kiss my ass
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:58 am
I understand the appeal of having a high-profile celebrity in charge of an organization; it’s certainly worked well for the Democrats. But compare and contrast:
Charlton Heston: Moses
Ted Nugent: Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
This isn’t complicated: the Nuge is a lot of fun, but he’s not a leader.
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:44 am
Well, Nuge is a leader, just not the kind NRA needs to advance their cause. It would be like using a sledhammer when a gentle tap would suffice.
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:46 am
sledgehammer that is.
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:31 am
Agreed.
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:38 am
If Terrible Ted gets the nod, I’m putting in my resume to be his press secretary.
He’ll need someone that he can trust to keep his message “pure”. heh..
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:50 am
Ted may be the only person in the world less PC than you, Swiftee…
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:58 am
Angryclown supports the right of gun owners to use aborted fetuses for skeet-shooting.
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:05 pm
If chain-yanking were woodworking, I can just see Angryclown in his workshop, slowly turning that last comment on a lathe, putting generations of old-world craftsmanship to work creating a perfectly-crafted table…
…where “table” equals “bit of chain-yankage”.
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:12 pm
AC, My Lord that was disgusting, even for you.
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:20 pm
I like Ted, I like most of what he has done for the NRA, we can use more Ted’s. However, I do not want him to be our President.
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:24 pm
If Ted suddenly “discovers” several years of unpaid taxes that he needs to catch up on, then we know he’s first in line for the job.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Charlatan Heston was NOT Moses. He was an actor.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I think that ‘bama needs to get AC in for an interview right away.
He’s distilled the liberal message down to it’s Ivory soap essense.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Just defending constitutional rights, jpmn.
2d Amendment + Roe v. Wade = fetal skeet-shooting.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:28 pm
I don’t think Ted would be the best choice. However I am thankful that he makes his voice heard. Maybe a nod to Tom Selleck, but I don’t know if he’d be the best candidate, or that he’d want the job.
The choices that joelr mentions would be fantastic champions for getting out the message of the NRA. You’d never find either holding someone’s coat in a fight!! I’d be proud to vote for either of these fine gentlemen.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Ted’s the guy you want if he toned down slightly after getting the job… a real Hal to King Henry style, if he wants it.
You can’t bet the farm that he’d do that. Probably best to keep him where he’s at and having keep doing what he’s doing.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Charlatan Heston was NOT Moses.
That’s “Charlton”.
He was an actor.
No, he was just a tad more than that. He was a civil rights activist back when Hollywood liked its negroes to be nice ‘n quiet and in the back of the shot. And he presided over the NRA turning gun control into a third rail that not even the mainstream Democrats want to touch anymore.
So he wasn’t Moses. He actually saw the promised land on the four big issues of his lifetime; beating back totalitarians and despots in WWII, the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement and the Gun Control debate.
Pretty good for “an actor”.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Y’know…porch monkeys or even nigger doesn’t come close to the pure unadulterated offensiveness of AC’s remark. And this is the first time in my life I have used that word (other than as a kid saying “catch a ____ by the toe”). What’s a sick and evil piece of crap like you doing calling anybody else on perceived bigotry or anything else clown?
I don’t know if anybody on here cares one whit, but this is the last time I visit SITD. If Mitch can let something like that post through then what the hell? This blog has always been my first stop in the morning (the Powerline, Lileks and Lucianne.). I guess I’ll have more time now for the others.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Pull!
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Colleen… Mitch isn’t responsible for AC. I suspect he leaves the Clown comments to stand as it says more about other folks than it says about SitD.
Obviously, AC is just using charged words for the sake of saying them. Remember Carlin… there’s a context he’s using. He’s merely being crass and vulgar, probably not being racist.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Colleen:
If Mitch can let something like that post through then what the hell?
OK, Colleen – what does it mean?
That I’m secretly pro-infanticide? Untrue.
What Badda said – plus Clown exists purely to get rises out of people. Which is why I meet his chain-yanking with the sort of derision one earns by being right about everything; I counter-yank.
It’s not like Clown knows which end of a skeet gun the shell comes out of.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Maybe Angryclown can clear this up. Angryclown respects your commitment to life, Colleen. He does not advocate using live fetuses for target practice. But as long as women will continue to excercize their Constitutional right to get abortions, doesn’t it make sense to ensure that those all-too-brief lives have meaning? And what’s more meaningful than helping improve the skills of responsible gun owners?
I’m sure you see Angryclown’s point.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Mitch challenged: “It’s not like Clown knows which end of a skeet gun the shell comes out of. ”
The fetus end, silly!
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:30 pm
BLAMMO!
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:35 pm
The problem with AssClown’s fantasy, of course, is that the unborn look like they’ve already been used for skeet practice after Dr. Fankenstein is done with them at Planned Infanticide.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Good point, swiftee. Also Angryclown isn’t a very good shot and needs a big target. Third trimester at least – maybe even partial-birth.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Blah, blah blah. What are you and Mrs. AssClown doing to do your part?
Hell, in fact why not just snatch AC Jr. up from his ‘shine box right now and give him a good heave skyward?
BLAM! *SHHH-CHINK* BLAMMO!
Hell, I could be convinced to show up for *that* kind of fun. Call all your assnozzle lefty friends and pitch that idea, will ya?
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:28 pm
swiftee, we prefer to call it “Klan Parenthood”. The most common cause of death amongst the African-American crowd is a visit to Klan Parenthood.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Don’t make the mistake of thinking AC is just trying to yank chains. He really believes that aborted fetuses should be used as target practice.
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:05 pm
“It’s not like Clown knows which end of a skeet gun the shell comes out of.”
And here’s hoping that he hollers pull just in time to find out!!!
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Hey AC –
How’s the Hope & Change comin?
Is Obama an incompetent fool for following Bush policies re Guantanamo & extraordinary rendition or are you now realizing Bush was a genius?
I don’t think that you have a third option.
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:57 pm
“I don’t think that you have a third option.”
You’ve misunderestimated AC’s capacity for living in denial, Terry…he’s a frickin’ moonbat fer chrssakes!
PULL!
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Swiftee, you just haven’t seen how hopey-changey Obama is. Those rendition flights will now be showing in-flight movies: they’ll be showing Waterworld and Ishtar in continuous loop mode.
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Let’s not forget that Reagan was just “an actor” too. The libs think that a liberal actor can be as achieved as a conservative one, and just don’t get it… let me try to see things their way, but my head won’t fit up my butt… wait a tic…
˙ʍǝıʌ ɟo ʇuıod lɐɹǝqıl ǝɥʇ ɯoɹɟ sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝs ʎllɐuıɟ ı
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:30 pm
WTF??
Alright. Spill it.