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Citing inflammatory language while expressing his displeasure with President Barack Obama, the military has uninvited rock star and conservative political activist Ted Nugent from performing at Fort Knox in Kentucky, according to the U.S. Army posts Facebook page.
After learning of opening act Ted Nugents recent public comments about the president of the United States, Fort Knox leadership decided to cancel his performance on the installation," it's Facebook posting says.
So far, the June 23 concert remains on the Fort Knox schedule, with REO Speedwagon and Styx listed as co-headliners, but army personnel said they will grant requests for refunds in light of their decision to nix the opening act.
http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/21/11324499-military-cancels-ted-nugent-show-citing-anti-obama-comments?lite
Booster
(10,021 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Still, he needs to be gone. He's got enough money to keep going on sex tourist jaunts and doping, he'll get by. The moves to reduce the power of rightwingnuttery is growing slowly, but it's still happening.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)He does this crap to get attention and make money. He and Sarah Palin are two peas in a pod! He'll be the darling of groups like the Tea Party and the KKK and his creds with them will have an extended shelf life!
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)them,show the rest of the nation what scumbags they for supporting these terrible people. Good riddance.
spanone
(135,873 posts)proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Great news.
Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)n/t
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Reo speedwagon? Styx? Ted Nugent? Aren't our brave women and men in uniform worthy of an act that had a hit within their lifetimes? Domo arigato Mr. Roboto LOL
MH1
(17,600 posts)I wouldn't mind an REO and Styx show .... but I've been out of the Army for quite some time ...
Guy Montag
(126 posts)But I always have had a dread of Ted. The man is just not right in the head.
klook
(12,165 posts)were not available.
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EFerrari
(163,986 posts)It's not always easy to be a booker and keep your values together.
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)tell your friends!!:---
Ishoutandscream2
(6,663 posts)Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)we don't often see nowadays!
calimary
(81,466 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Most of the audience would be in the 18 - 25 age group. They would probably
tend to think if you've seen one aging rocker you've seen em all.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Fuck off, chickenhawk!
G_j
(40,370 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)They should have invited him into their vault...and shut the door behind him.
mojitojoe
(94 posts)...what with him being such a devoted chickenhawk and all. It never ceases to amaze me how many of these right-wing clods are willing to do anything for the military except serve in it.
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)have a heart first,but I am sure he is totally enraged at this. yeah!
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,448 posts)Keep taking out that trash!
jenmito
(37,326 posts)SemperEadem
(8,053 posts)the band with the least draw/experience is the opening act. ROFL!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Enough is enough with this garbage.
mwb970
(11,365 posts)I mean, Ted Nugent, REO Speedwagon, and Styx? What year is this show scheduled for? 1977?
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)i bet most american service members' parents were in jr. high or high school the last time anyone gave a s#@t about any of those acts.
IDemo
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spicegal
(758 posts)President Obama IS the Commander in Chief. Personally, I'm kind of sick of the level of disrespect from these right wing idiots. It's bad enough coming from the average yahoo, but when celebrities and elected officials are setting that kind of example, it's beyond offensive.
Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)At least they have a young fan base.
Ted has out lived his usefulness a long time ago.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Ted Nugent: Ted was a young boy, appearing to be a hippie but quite opposite in fact, working hard and playing hard, playing rock and roll like a deviant. People would question my sanity, I played so much. So I got my notice to be in the draft. Do you think I was gonna lay down my guitar and go play army? Give me a break! I was busy doin it to it. I had a career Jack. If I was walkin around, hippying down, getting loaded and pickin my ass like your common curs, Id say Hey yeah, go in the army. Beats the poop out of scuffin around in the gutters. But I wasnt a gutter dog. I was a hard workin, motherfuckin rock and roll musician.
I got my physical notice 30 days prior to. Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie. I had long hair, and it started gettin kinky, matted up. Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value. I just had chips, Pepsi, beer-stuff I never touched-buttered poop, little jars of Polish sausages, and Id drink the syrup, I was this side of death, Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.
See, I approached the whole thing like, Ted Nugent, cool hard-workin dude, is gonna wreak havoc on these imbeciles in the armed forces. Im gonna play their own game, and Im gonna destroy em. Now my whole body is crusted in poop and piss. I was ill. And three or four days before, I started stayin awake. I was close to death, but I was in control. I was extremely antidrug as Ive always been, but I snorted some crystal methedrine. Talk about one wounded motherf*cker. A guy put up four lines, and it was for all four of us, but I didnt know and Im vacuuming that poop right up. I was a walking, talking hunk of human poop. I was six-foot-three of sin. So the guys took me down to the physical, and my nerves, my emotions were distraught. I was not a good person. I was wounded. But as painful and nauseous as it was cause I was really into bein clean and on the ball I made gutter swine hippies look like football players. I was deviano.
So I went in, and those guys in uniform couldnt believe the smell. They were ridiculin me and pushin me around and I was cryin, but all the time I was laughin to myself. When they stuck the needle in my arm for the blood test I passed out, and when I came to they were kicking me into the wall. Then they made everybody take off their pants, and I did, and this sergeant says, Oh my God, put those back on! You f*cking swine you! Then they had a urine test and I couldnt piss, But my poop was just like ooze, man, so I poop in the cup and put it on the counter. I had poop on my hand and my arm. The guy almost puked. I was so proud. I knew I had these chumps beat. The last thing I remember was wakin up in the ear test booth and they were sweepin up. So I went home and cleaned up.
They took a putty knife to me. I got the street rats out of my hair, ate some good steaks, beans, potatoes, cottage cheese, milk. A couple of days and I was ready to kick ass. And in the mail I got this big juicy 4-F. Theyd call dead people before theyd call my ass. But you know the funny thing about it? Id make an incredible army man. Id be a colonel before you knew what hit you, and Id have the baddest bunch of motherf*ckin killers youd ever seen in my platoon. But I just wasnt into it. I was too busy doin my own thing, you know?
http://www.examiner.com/article/romney-supporter-ted-nugent-pedophile-and-draft-dodger-his-own-words
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)And people listen to him is the scary part!
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Go Army!
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)Sure, he doesn't have much to lose since he hasnt' really been famous for 30 years, but still we shoudl take away the small amount of glory he still has left.
Erose999
(5,624 posts)The local draft draft board were not impressed.