I loathe even mentioning the name
Ted Nugent at this point, but given that both the NRA and the Republican Party seem to have adopted him as their gun-toting mascot and closest thing they can muster to a celebrity endorser, we seem to have to plug onward with this thing. Not because
we have to take him seriously, but because it's important to recognize the special rabidity with which the Party conducts itself these days, and the sorts of things that pass for deep-thinking sufficient to have some tea party-coddling member of the Party cuddle up to you on a regular basis for nice big ideological bear hug. Why Ted Nugent passes for an influential voice of conservatism I couldn't begin to tell you, but the fact that Ted Nugent passes for an influential voice in conservatism is indicative of just the sort of voice you need to bend the movement's ear. And that's just—well, let's just say Ted Nugent figures prominently in the End Times. He's in there, trust me.
So what's Ted Nugent been up to of late? Mainly the same thing that the rest of the movement is up to, which is imagining all the various reasons why it was a random black teenager's own damn fault that the nice gun-toting vigilante shot him. When a stranger follows you down the street in the middle of the night and then confronts you, why did the young man not know how to be properly submissive to his perceived stalker? It is probably because black people have a "mindless tendency to violence."
Why wasn't Trayvon [Martin] educated and raised to simply approach someone he wasn't sure about and politely ask what was going on and explain he was headed home? Had he, I am confident that Zimmerman would have called off the authorities and everything would have been fine.
Why the nasty "creepy a-- cracker" racism and impulse to attack? Where does this come from? Is it the same mindless tendency to violence we see in black communities across America, most heartbreakingly in Chicago pretty much every day of the week?
And therefore, it's perfectly reasonable to assume young black men walking down your sidewalks
are up to no good:
"Over and over again I watch the news and here's a rape and here's a burglary and here's a murder in Chicago. 29 shot. 29 blacks shot by 29 blacks. At some point you got to be afraid of black and white dogs if the Dalmatian's doing the biting."
More on racist asshat Ted Nugent below the fold.
He found the testimony of prosecution witness Rachel Jeantel to be especially unpersuasive, because she was fat and did not talk good like Ted Nugent does:
"Did you happen to mention that the misguided, I believe racist prosecution team's prime witness, one Rachel Jeantel, displayed pretty much every self-inflicted bad choice that really oppresses blacks?
Obesity is also a major cause of death for blacks. That no one disciplined Rachel to get the most basic education to be able to read or speak clearly is the root of unemployment for blacks."
And singer Stevie Wonder, who announced that he would no longer be playing in Florida until Stand Your Ground is repealed, is
clearly just addled from drug addiction:
“When you live in a fog of denial, usually inspired by substance abuse — you know with all the lies about dope being a victimless crime, I think you’re listening to the victims of this dopey crime, because their brains are fried,” Nugent said. “They’re either fried on substance abuse, and all of them know who I’m talking about.”
Ted Nugent is quite famously not a racist: He says so with great regularity. He just believes that you can't trust black teenagers, fat black people, black people who talk with certain accents or famous black entertainers. For this he will get yet another invitation to appear at yet another conservative political rally or NRA-backed event on good and proper gun-totin', an event at which he will be feted as a national representative of the movement, and there will be not one damn person in the crowd who has a problem with any of it. The company you keep, fellas. The company you keep.