Nuge's moment
by digby
I think it's fairly hilarious that everyone's up in arms about Ted Nugent now, when he's been saying this crap for years. This post is from December of 2009 -- not even a year after Obama was sworn in:
Toxoplasmosis
Gosh, it seems like only yesterday that American singers could get themselves in big trouble by going to a foreign country and criticizing the President of the United States. They had their records burned, were subjected to death threats and were blackballed from radio stations.
That was then and this is now. Here's Ted Nugent in England this week:
"I think that Barack Hussein Obama should be put in jail. It is clear that Barack Hussein Obama is a communist. Mao Tse Tung lives and his name is Barack Hussein Obama. This country should be ashamed. I wanna throw up."
It's a good thing he didn't say that he was ashamed of him. Them's fighting words.
I would suggest a boycott of his CDs but I don't think he's come out with anything new since about 1975, so we'd have to go down to the basement and dig out the old moldy vinyl. And I'm pretty sure the only radio stations that play "Cat Scratch Fever" these days do it as a retro joke, sort of like "Muskrat Love" by The Captain and Tenille. It's just not worth the trouble.