From Joy Reid: A Handy Reminder Of Why Ted Nugent Avoided The Draft (in his own words)

[kpete]

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[left-of-center2012]

1. And Trump just faked a bone spur

[TEB]

28. Birds of a feather

Cowards and traitors and ass and trash gop garbage

[Achilleaze]

2. NRA republican values (R) are beneath deplorable

disgusting.

republicans have Pantload Nugent on the board of the NRA, and five-time shirker Dirty Donny* at the top of the shitheap that is the KGOP republican regime.

What is it about Draft Dodgers that republicans so adore.

[spanone]

3. now he hides behind weapons of war and wraps himself in the flag.

i think the folks at the selection service office saw the real soul of mr shitstain.

my dog is more patriotic than this douche

he's the perfect 'man' to sit on the board of the nra

[Paladin]

4. Yet another public service from Joy Reid.

Many, many thanks, Ms. Reid.

[NNadir]

5. He still stinks. n/t

[oasis]

6. Turd Nugent thinks he he could have led a platoon of "killers".

Sorry America, Turd was "too busy doing my own thing, you know?"

[Major Nikon]

9. "his own thing" included raping children and writing a song about it

No surprise he's a hero of the wingnuts.

[oasis]

12. Turd Nugent, Roseanne & Trump. Making America Grimace in Agony.

Real America, that is.

[roamer65]

7. God Bless Joy Reid!

[workinclasszero]

8. Ted another republiKLAN chicken hawk

Yellow bastard is only good for insulting the child victims of mass murderers with military assault weapons!

Scurry back to your hole Teddy with your tail between your legs!

[FakeNoose]

10. I grew up in the same time period and I knew guys who did stuff like this

Well, maybe not this disgusting, Ted Nugent was probably the worst. But what I mean is, almost everyone knows someone who tried to beat the draft. However nobody is proud of it, and they certainly don't tell reporters and magazine writers so it can be published in the national media.

If Ted Nugent had any sense at all (clearly he doesn't) he would have kept this story to himself. This isn't a badge of honor, it's a display of disrespect for the 55,000 who lost their lives doing the "right thing" in Vietnam, while he stayed home and played in a rock 'n roll band.

Just sayin'

[BSdetect]

11. Is there a statute of limitations for such admissions?

He should be the poster boy of right wing liars.

[CentralMass]

13. Rush Limbaugh had a carbuncle on his butt.

[PatrickforO]

14. Wow. I never heard the whole story.

Ted's a pretty shallow guy, isn't he? I mean there was nothing, nothing about the morality of the Vietnam war. The futility of it. The innocents being killed. The atrocities.

Nope. Just this idea that he literally has a good gig as a rock star and doesn't want to give it up because he's better than people 'scuffin around in the gutter.'

I'm thinking sociopath here...like so many of these right wingers.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. The definition of self-centered narcissist. . . . nt

[Scurrilous]

16. Stinking POS then, stinking POS now.

[world wide wally]

17. I wonder which part of the story Spanky thinks is the "coolest"

[grumpyduck]

18. A draft dodger on that organization's board? What's wrong with this picture?

Okay, we can argue that a lot of people were opposed to that war, but this doesn't seem to have been the case with this guy: he had other motives. And maybe that's how his getting on the board was justified. But this post is about today, not back then.

If somebody really wants to use a gun, and especially an AR15, what better place than in the military? I served, and I can tell you that, as a kid back then, I thought firing an M16 on auto (three-rounds bursts) was really cool, especially when we were shooting at targets one or two hundred yards away that popped up at random for just a few seconds. And firing an M60, and being able to "walk" the stream of tracers onto the target (half a mile away, or more) was way beyond cool. And they gave us all the ammo.

But the downside, of course, is that serving in the military carries the risk of being sent where people are shooting back at you. Which is not something some people might care for.

So I guess there's something to preferring to shoot these weapons in a "safe" environment.

[smirkymonkey]

19. He is the worst kind of coward.

I hope some vet teaches him a lesson someday.

[milestogo]

20. What a truly vile human being.

When I was in college I had a job as an usher at concerts. There were some very cool ones, like Fleetwood Mac. Then there was Ted Nugent, who I had never heard of. He had the foulest mouth I had ever heard - I couldn't believe a performer could be so vulgar. And his music was shitty too.

[anneboleyn]

26. And according to Courtney Love he routinely had sex w/underage girls

[Angry Dragon]

21. That is what a republican patriot looks and smell like

A true poster boy that republicans salute

[customerserviceguy]

22. Whether it's Ted Nugent or Bill Clinton

I'm not going to fault anyone for figuring out a way to avoid being killed for nothing.

That said, I'm glad to see chicken hawks put down for trying to send other people's children to fight wars where they'll be killed for nothing.

[nolabels]

35. Some people were honest but also didn't like government or what they were doing

My brother-in-law wasn't going to wait around for a government that he wasn't endeared to send him a notice. He enlisted in the Marines and got unlucky enough to have to do two stints in Nam. Nam may not have been a good cause but sure woke a lot of people up to see how stupid our government can be. That part of the experience and equation is not replaceable. Even if you have been in military its really hard to blame anyone who felt the need to skip out on that one.

Our government was using its citizens lives in an effort to prove they were the protectors of the free (corporations) world. All along too afraid to admit they had made many mistakes and would not own up to it fully even decades after.

[Initech]

23. David Hogg is really getting to these assholes.

I have to say it's been fun watching their meltdown the last few weeks.

[TheBlackAdder]

24. David Hogg should retweet, only saying "I can't believe what I have just read about Ted Nugent!"

[anneboleyn]

25. Courtney Love said Nugent had sex with underaged girls including Love herself. Another aspect

of his lovely history. Love said she performed oral sex on Nugent when she was twelve years old — TWELVE YEARS OLD — at a concert, and that there were many underage girls there to “service” Nugent and that this was well known about him. She told this story to Howard Stern.

[Major Nikon]

32. Nobody should be surprised. He wrote a song about child rape.

[oberliner]

27. He has since said he made up that entire story

However, during a 2006 interview with the U.K.’s Independent, Nugent denied the whole story, saying, “You’ve got to realize that these interviewers would arrive with glazed eyes and I would make stories up. I never did crystal meth. And I never pooped my pants.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/dee-snider-reminds-republicans-ted-nugent-dodged-vietnam-draft_n_2544864.html

[SonofDonald]

30. I actually read the story in 1977

I always thought it was in a skin mag, found it in a bus stop on the way to Oakland from Washington.

Didn't have a cover so I just couldn't remember what mag it was in.

And I read high times during those days so that's prob why I picked it up.

I was listening to cat scratch fever in those days, as I was reporting to Tracen Alameda for USCG boot camp at the time it pissed me off and I never bought another of his records or listened to him again.

And now he's a poster boy for patriotism.

At least to the low IQ set.

[dchill]

29. Ted still has the kind of stink that just won't wash off.

The stink of a stunted coward.

[BSdetect]

31. k&r

[Cha]

33. Mahalo Joy!

[Blue Owl]

34. Turd Nugget's Fecal Follies

n/t