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Ted Nugent

Board Member

Ted Nugent

Board Member

Biography

Aging hard rocker Ted Nugent, born in Detroit, Michigan in 1948, is best known for his 1977 hit “Cat Scratch Fever.” Having toured since 1967, the “Motor City Madman” has produced over 30 albums.

Nugent is also well known for being a loud and aggressive supporter of gun rights in the United States. Serving on the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association since 1995, Nugent was second only to Oliver North in votes received in the 2010 NRA board elections. In 2008, Nugent was the recipient of $40,000 in fees from the National Rifle Association.

An avid supporter of hunting who frequently clashes with animal rights groups, “Uncle Ted” hunts game on his ranches in Texas and Michigan. Nugent has been outspoken on other political issues and has been a vocal opponent of entitlement programs and universal health care. He continues to maintain a rigorous touring schedule and is not shy about sharing his political beliefs on stage.


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  • Conspiracy Theory
    On July 14, 2016, Nugent appeared on a conservative talk radio program hosted by Joe Pags. While criticizing President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Nugent said, "Barack Obama is the ultimate scam artist. This man hates America. He hates freedom. He hates...everything that America is based upon."

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  • Republican Party (GOP)
    On July 14, 2016, Nugent appeared on a conservative talk radio program hosted by Joe Pags. While criticizing President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Nugent said, "Barack Obama is the ultimate scam artist. This man hates America. He hates freedom. He hates...everything that America is based upon."

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  • Political Violence
    On July 9, 2016, Nugent posted on Facebook about the controversial police shooting of Philando Castile and a mass shooting that had occurred two days before in Dallas, Texas. In Dallas, Micah Xavier Johnson, a Black Lives Matter activist wielding a Sig Sauer MCX rifle, killed five police officers and injured seven others. Nugent wrote on Facebook that President Barack Obama “wants a racewar” and that he “will go down in history as a maniac America hating freak with his fundemental (sic) transformation scam.” When a commenter implored him to respect President Barack Obama and help rather than criticize him, Nugent responded, "He is the enemy of America & it is our WE THE PEOPLE [sic] duty to oust his evil ass. wake the fkup [sic] sheep." Nugent later stated, "Blacks slaughtering blacks at an unprecedented rate. Blacks killed more blacks this week than the KKK has in 50yrs. braindead goofballs.” When another commenter asked Nugent why the NRA had not commented on the shooting of Philando Castile yet, given that he “was doing what any law abiding gun owners would do,” Nugent replied, "Not really. review the facts" and linked to an article at TheConservativeTreehouse.com that falsely reported that Castile was the suspect in an armed robbery case at the time of his death.

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  • Race
    On July 9, 2016, Nugent posted on Facebook about the controversial police shooting of Philando Castile and a mass shooting that had occurred two days before in Dallas, Texas. In Dallas, Micah Xavier Johnson, a Black Lives Matter activist wielding a Sig Sauer MCX rifle, killed five police officers and injured seven others. Nugent wrote on Facebook that President Barack Obama “wants a racewar” and that he “will go down in history as a maniac America hating freak with his fundemental (sic) transformation scam.” When a commenter implored him to respect President Barack Obama and help rather than criticize him, Nugent responded, "He is the enemy of America & it is our WE THE PEOPLE [sic] duty to oust his evil ass. wake the fkup [sic] sheep." Nugent later stated, "Blacks slaughtering blacks at an unprecedented rate. Blacks killed more blacks this week than the KKK has in 50yrs. braindead goofballs.” When another commenter asked Nugent why the NRA had not commented on the shooting of Philando Castile yet, given that he “was doing what any law abiding gun owners would do,” Nugent replied, "Not really. review the facts" and linked to an article at TheConservativeTreehouse.com that falsely reported that Castile was the suspect in an armed robbery case at the time of his death.

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  • Conspiracy Theory
    On July 9, 2016, Nugent posted on Facebook about the controversial police shooting of Philando Castile and a mass shooting that had occurred two days before in Dallas, Texas. In Dallas, Micah Xavier Johnson, a Black Lives Matter activist wielding a Sig Sauer MCX rifle, killed five police officers and injured seven others. Nugent wrote on Facebook that President Barack Obama “wants a racewar” and that he “will go down in history as a maniac America hating freak with his fundemental (sic) transformation scam.” When a commenter implored him to respect President Barack Obama and help rather than criticize him, Nugent responded, "He is the enemy of America & it is our WE THE PEOPLE [sic] duty to oust his evil ass. wake the fkup [sic] sheep." Nugent later stated, "Blacks slaughtering blacks at an unprecedented rate. Blacks killed more blacks this week than the KKK has in 50yrs. braindead goofballs.” When another commenter asked Nugent why the NRA had not commented on the shooting of Philando Castile yet, given that he “was doing what any law abiding gun owners would do,” Nugent replied, "Not really. review the facts" and linked to an article at TheConservativeTreehouse.com that falsely reported that Castile was the suspect in an armed robbery case at the time of his death.

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  • Republican Party (GOP)
    On July 9, 2016, Nugent posted on Facebook about the controversial police shooting of Philando Castile and a mass shooting that had occurred two days before in Dallas, Texas. In Dallas, Micah Xavier Johnson, a Black Lives Matter activist wielding a Sig Sauer MCX rifle, killed five police officers and injured seven others. Nugent wrote on Facebook that President Barack Obama “wants a racewar” and that he “will go down in history as a maniac America hating freak with his fundemental (sic) transformation scam.” When a commenter implored him to respect President Barack Obama and help rather than criticize him, Nugent responded, "He is the enemy of America & it is our WE THE PEOPLE [sic] duty to oust his evil ass. wake the fkup [sic] sheep." Nugent later stated, "Blacks slaughtering blacks at an unprecedented rate. Blacks killed more blacks this week than the KKK has in 50yrs. braindead goofballs.” When another commenter asked Nugent why the NRA had not commented on the shooting of Philando Castile yet, given that he “was doing what any law abiding gun owners would do,” Nugent replied, "Not really. review the facts" and linked to an article at TheConservativeTreehouse.com that falsely reported that Castile was the suspect in an armed robbery case at the time of his death.

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  • Immigration
    Speaking at an event titled "2016 Election: Do or Die for America & Freedom" at the NRA annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky on May 22, 2016, Nugent said, "[Republican presidential candidate] Donald Trump, when he said ban Muslims [from entering the United States], I gotta tell you, if there was a rash of dog bites in my neighborhood, and everyone of them was by Dalmatians, I would ban spotted dogs." Nugent went on to endorse Trump for President, calling President Barack Obama "the devil" and Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders "a freak." "Hey Bernie, eat s*** and die," he added. When asked by a member of his predominantly white audience about how to "stop the Islamification of America," Nugent responded, "I could make it cute by telling you I have eight wonderful children. So I am doing my part. Number one, breed like you mean it. We are not having enough American kids."

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  • Race
    Speaking at an event titled "2016 Election: Do or Die for America & Freedom" at the NRA annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky on May 22, 2016, Nugent said, "[Republican presidential candidate] Donald Trump, when he said ban Muslims [from entering the United States], I gotta tell you, if there was a rash of dog bites in my neighborhood, and everyone of them was by Dalmatians, I would ban spotted dogs." Nugent went on to endorse Trump for President, calling President Barack Obama "the devil" and Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders "a freak." "Hey Bernie, eat s*** and die," he added. When asked by a member of his predominantly white audience about how to "stop the Islamification of America," Nugent responded, "I could make it cute by telling you I have eight wonderful children. So I am doing my part. Number one, breed like you mean it. We are not having enough American kids."

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  • Religion
    Speaking at an event titled "2016 Election: Do or Die for America & Freedom" at the NRA annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky on May 22, 2016, Nugent said, "[Republican presidential candidate] Donald Trump, when he said ban Muslims [from entering the United States], I gotta tell you, if there was a rash of dog bites in my neighborhood, and everyone of them was by Dalmatians, I would ban spotted dogs." Nugent went on to endorse Trump for President, calling President Barack Obama "the devil" and Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders "a freak." "Hey Bernie, eat s*** and die," he added. When asked by a member of his predominantly white audience about how to "stop the Islamification of America," Nugent responded, "I could make it cute by telling you I have eight wonderful children. So I am doing my part. Number one, breed like you mean it. We are not having enough American kids."

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  • Republican Party (GOP)
    Speaking at an event titled "2016 Election: Do or Die for America & Freedom" at the NRA annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky on May 22, 2016, Nugent said, "[Republican presidential candidate] Donald Trump, when he said ban Muslims [from entering the United States], I gotta tell you, if there was a rash of dog bites in my neighborhood, and everyone of them was by Dalmatians, I would ban spotted dogs." Nugent went on to endorse Trump for President, calling President Barack Obama "the devil" and Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders "a freak." "Hey Bernie, eat s*** and die," he added. When asked by a member of his predominantly white audience about how to "stop the Islamification of America," Nugent responded, "I could make it cute by telling you I have eight wonderful children. So I am doing my part. Number one, breed like you mean it. We are not having enough American kids."

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  • Political Violence
    On May 10, 2016, Nugent shared a (fake) video on his Facebook page that depicted Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders shooting fellow candidate Hillary Clinton in the chest with a handgun. Nugent added the following comment: "I got your guncontrol right here bitch!"

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  • Women's Rights
    On May 10, 2016, Nugent shared a (fake) video on his Facebook page that depicted Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders shooting fellow candidate Hillary Clinton in the chest with a handgun. Nugent added the following comment: "I got your guncontrol right here bitch!"

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  • Republican Party (GOP)
    On May 10, 2016, Nugent shared a (fake) video on his Facebook page that depicted Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders shooting fellow candidate Hillary Clinton in the chest with a handgun. Nugent added the following comment: "I got your guncontrol right here bitch!"

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  • Race
    After posting on Facebook about the terror attack on Benghazi on March 10, 2016, Nugent responded to commenter Jorge Freixa, who told him, “Ted, stick to the music. I had way more respect for you before I heard your politics.” Nugent replied by telling Freixa, “FkU. ES&D beanochimp.”

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  • Race
    In a post on his Facebook page on March 31, 2016, Nugent shares a photograph of a white van with the following words stenciled on the side: “2 niggers and a stolen truck. We move your shit like it was our's.” The van also has a crude drawing of two dark-skinned, tribal spear-throwers.

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  • Vigilantism
    On February 8, 2016, Nugent posted a meme to his Facebook profile page entitled, “So who is really behind gun control?” The meme—which has been shared widely on White Nationalist and neo-Nazi websites—includes photos of Jewish-Americans leaders with the Israeli flag emblazoned over them and conspiratorial captions (i.e., the caption for former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg describes him as a “9/11 Israeli agent”). Nugent added his own message to the meme, which read: “Know these punks. They hate freedom, they hate good over evil, they would deny us the basic human right to self defense & to KEEP & BEAR ARMS while many of them have tax paid hired ARMED security! Know them well. Tell every1 you know how evil they are. Let us raise maximum hell to shut them down!” The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) responded within hours, describing Nugent’s post as “conspiratorial anti-Semitism.” “Regardless of one’s views on gun control, this kind of scapegoating of an entire religious group is completely unacceptable and completely divorced from reality,” wrote ADL president Jonathan Greenblatt. “Nugent should be ashamed for promoting anti-Semitic content, and we hope that good people on both sides of the gun control debate will reject his tactics and his message. We hope that Nugent will have the good sense to remove this share immediately so that it does not spread virally across the internet.” Nugent responded by posting twice more on the subject that day. In his second post, Nugent wrote “Jews for guncontrol are nazis in disguise” and described critics of his first post as “superFreaks” and “racist prejudiced POS.” “I adjust my yamika at my barmitzva playing my kosher guitar,” he added. In this third post, Nugent shared a meme with a photo of Nazis subjugating Jews during the time of the Holocaust. The text on the meme reads, “Back when I learned about the Holocaust in school, I remember thinking, 'How did Hitler get MILLIONS of people to follow along blindly and NOT fight back?' Then I realized I am watching my fellow Americans take the same path.” Nugent then added his own comment to the post: “Soulless sheep to slaughter. Not me.”

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  • Conspiracy Theory
    On February 8, 2016, Nugent posted a meme to his Facebook profile page entitled, “So who is really behind gun control?” The meme—which has been shared widely on White Nationalist and neo-Nazi websites—includes photos of Jewish-Americans leaders with the Israeli flag emblazoned over them and conspiratorial captions (i.e., the caption for former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg describes him as a “9/11 Israeli agent”). Nugent added his own message to the meme, which read: “Know these punks. They hate freedom, they hate good over evil, they would deny us the basic human right to self defense & to KEEP & BEAR ARMS while many of them have tax paid hired ARMED security! Know them well. Tell every1 you know how evil they are. Let us raise maximum hell to shut them down!” The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) responded within hours, describing Nugent’s post as “conspiratorial anti-Semitism.” “Regardless of one’s views on gun control, this kind of scapegoating of an entire religious group is completely unacceptable and completely divorced from reality,” wrote ADL president Jonathan Greenblatt. “Nugent should be ashamed for promoting anti-Semitic content, and we hope that good people on both sides of the gun control debate will reject his tactics and his message. We hope that Nugent will have the good sense to remove this share immediately so that it does not spread virally across the internet.” Nugent responded by posting twice more on the subject that day. In his second post, Nugent wrote “Jews for guncontrol are nazis in disguise” and described critics of his first post as “superFreaks” and “racist prejudiced POS.” “I adjust my yamika at my barmitzva playing my kosher guitar,” he added. In this third post, Nugent shared a meme with a photo of Nazis subjugating Jews during the time of the Holocaust. The text on the meme reads, “Back when I learned about the Holocaust in school, I remember thinking, 'How did Hitler get MILLIONS of people to follow along blindly and NOT fight back?' Then I realized I am watching my fellow Americans take the same path.” Nugent then added his own comment to the post: “Soulless sheep to slaughter. Not me.”

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  • Republican Party (GOP)
    Speaking on The Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV on January 20, 2016, Nugent declared that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is "as close to Ted Nugent as you're going to get." "I like Donald Trump because he's bold and he's treating the culture war as the culture war that it is," said Nugent.

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  • Animal Rights
    On September 9, 2015, Nugent called into Alex Jones’ Infowars program to discuss Verizon’s announcement that they would be dropping the Sportsman Channel from their Fios service “due to its low viewership.” Nugent appears on the “Wanted Ted or Alive” program on the channel. As Nugent explained, “When Verizon cancels Sportsmen’s Channel, it’s a direct result of the anti-gun, anti-freedom, anti-hunting, anti-wildlife, anti-science, anti-Americanism that has infested our media across this land.”

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  • Conspiracy Theory
    On September 9, 2015, Nugent called into Alex Jones’ Infowars program to discuss Verizon’s announcement that they would be dropping the Sportsman Channel from their Fios service “due to its low viewership.” Nugent appears on the “Wanted Ted or Alive” program on the channel. As Nugent explained, “When Verizon cancels Sportsmen’s Channel, it’s a direct result of the anti-gun, anti-freedom, anti-hunting, anti-wildlife, anti-science, anti-Americanism that has infested our media across this land.”

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  • Animal Rights

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  • Immigration
    In a July 8, 2015 appearance on the radio show “World Positive Thinkers,” Nugent asked, "If we burned every Confederate flag today, would they stop shooting each other in Chicago? If we burned every Confederate flag today, would we stop sanctuary cities from accommodating murderers and rapists and savage people?" By “sanctuary cities,” Nugent was referring to cities that have policies to shelter illegal immigrants. That same day, in response to a Facebook comment, Nugent wrote that it was “bullshit” that the flag was been taken down at the State House in South Carolina.

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  • Race
    In a July 8, 2015 appearance on the radio show “World Positive Thinkers,” Nugent asked, "If we burned every Confederate flag today, would they stop shooting each other in Chicago? If we burned every Confederate flag today, would we stop sanctuary cities from accommodating murderers and rapists and savage people?" By “sanctuary cities,” Nugent was referring to cities that have policies to shelter illegal immigrants. That same day, in response to a Facebook comment, Nugent wrote that it was “bullshit” that the flag was been taken down at the State House in South Carolina.

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  • Animal Rights
    Nugent published a column on June 3, 2015 at World Net Daily responding to the recent death of tourist Katherine Chappell, who was mauled to death two days earlier by a lioness while visiting South Africa’s Lion Park. Nugent wrote that the “real tragedy” was “how so many modern-day dumbed down, disconnected people fail to respect these creatures for the wild, dangerous beasts that they are, and such disrespectful, foolish people will keep getting themselves killed in the process.” Nugent then bragged about his own encounters with wildlife and how he dealt with them, writing, “I had an African lion cross my path in the Sudan back in 1978. He didn’t attack me because I killed him. A grizzly bear came very close to me once with no problem at all, because I killed it. An enraged wild boar charged me in the forest, so I shot it with my bow and arrow, killed it and ate it. One time in Alaska a very large black bear stood on its hind legs only 10 feet away, so I killed him with my .44 magnum, ate the meat and made a beautiful rug. A shark circled my in the Keys one time, so I put an arrow through its heart, ate it and had it mounted. In my 66 years as a natural hunter, I’ve had too many encounters with large, wild animals to count, but never had a problem with any of them. My encounters were natural, real-world encounters as predator and prey, hunter and hunted, the way God intended it. Chimps and lions, cheetahs and cougars, deer and other wild animals are not pets. If you disrespect wildlife enough to reduce them to pets, you are asking for trouble. And if you drive through a wild animal park with your windows rolled down in defiance of ubiquitous, common-sense rules and regulations, you have a very good chance of being attacked and dying. The dumbing down of mankind is painfully complete when vicious, dangerous animals can ever be thought of as innocent, cute creatures, ready to pose for family photo albums.”

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  • LGBT Rights
    On June 2, 2015 Nugent took to his Facebook page to comment on Caitlyn (formerly Bruce) Jenner’s transition from male to female. In response to a commenter who hoped the news about Caitlyn Jenner was a joke, Nugent replied, “[T]he whole thing is.” He then commented, “I don’t call it [Jenner] jackshit.” Jenner has made it clear that she wants to be referred to using female pronouns.

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  • Conspiracy Theory
    Nugent published a column on May 13, 2015 on World Net Daily detailing what he described as “The Big Lie about guns.” “The Big Lie about guns is that innocent kids are being gunned down or are accidentally shooting each other,” he explained, making reference to a term (“The Big Lie”) first used by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf and associated with Nazi propaganda. The Nazis’ idea was that the public was more likely to believe a big, bold lie as opposed to a small one. “According to the Centers for Disease Control, drowning is the leading cause of death for kids 1-4 years old and is the second-leading cause of unintentional deaths for kids 1-14 years old … Wow,” wrote Nugent in his column. “And Mr. Obama has worked overtime to convince Americans that kids are being slaughtered with guns.” A Mother Jones report about accidental shootings in 2013 found “84 fatal gun accidents involving children aged 12 and under, 64 of which involved a child pulling the trigger, killing themselves or someone else.” Another report estimated that the rate of accidental death by firearms among children is 17 times higher than in 25 other high-income nations combined.

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  • Political Violence
    During a speech at the NRA Annual Meeting in Nashville on April 12, 2015, Nugent said the following:
    • “Look at this audience. Couldn’t we end the War on Terror ourselves? And I’ll play Commander in Chief for a minute. Here’s rules of engagement. Kill ‘em all.”
    • We’re a little spoiled in Texas and Arizona and Wyoming and Vermont. Can you be spoiled in Vermont? And Kansas. We’re starting to get something that looks like the Second Amendment in some places, because it doesn’t exist anywhere yet.
    • That’s the Second Amendment. If you’re 18 and you’re not convicted of a felony or a violent crime you get to keep and you get to bear 24/7/365 anywhere you damn well please.
    • My name’s Ted Nugent. I’m 66 years old and I’ve never been in a gun-free zone.       Ever.
    • I cannot comprehend the soullessness of unarmed and helpless.
    • So the community scammer [President Barack Obama] didn’t get to be the Commander in Chief because he’s clever. [Democratic presidential candidate] Hillary Clinton, [National Security Advisor] Susan Rice and [IRS employee] Lois Lerner aren’t in jail yet because they’re sneaky. They commit their crimes in the wide open and We The People have failed to arrest them yet.
    • Whatever we want is always the right thing.
    • Here’s the only gun law we need: Don’t shoot the wrong guy.
    • Back when Richard Pryor’s afro caught on fire, I knew I was on the mountaintop of comedy … But thank God the liberal media has actually gotten funnier than Richard Pryor’s afro igniting.
    • Don’t back away from the storm. Look for the storm. Put your head down and walk proudly right into the storm. Let the wimps and the French back away. You just keep plowing forward, the higher the drifts, the worse the wind, the more wolves, kill ‘em all.
    • Go forth into that quiet night and let our government know we want separation of powers. Tell them to be the watchdogs our Founding Fathers wanted them to be, not to be a united force against the citizens. So take this good [guns] and use it against the bad and the ugly. It’s a target rich environment. If it was duck season, there’d be so many ducks, you could just close your eyes and shoot ‘em. Don’t close your eyes and don’t shoot just yet, but plow forward and demand accountability … So now let’s take all that good and crush the bad and the ugly, when we identify the gun-grabbers and freedom-haters.
    • If your child is dying, and there’s only one way to get to the doctor, would you get on [Senate Minority Leader] Harry Reid’s boat to get there? Then your child’s dead. I’d get on the boat, get there, and then I’d shoot him.
    • [When asked by an audience member how one should respond to law enforcement officers enforcing a law that would involve the seizure of firearms]: “You don’t need to get shot, you don’t need to start a firefight, yet.” (Vigilantism, Political Violence, Racism, GOP Ties, Conspiracy Theory]

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    During a speech at the NRA Annual Meeting in Nashville on April 12, 2015, Nugent said the following:
    • “Look at this audience. Couldn’t we end the War on Terror ourselves? And I’ll play Commander in Chief for a minute. Here’s rules of engagement. Kill ‘em all.”
    • We’re a little spoiled in Texas and Arizona and Wyoming and Vermont. Can you be spoiled in Vermont? And Kansas. We’re starting to get something that looks like the Second Amendment in some places, because it doesn’t exist anywhere yet.
    • That’s the Second Amendment. If you’re 18 and you’re not convicted of a felony or a violent crime you get to keep and you get to bear 24/7/365 anywhere you damn well please.
    • My name’s Ted Nugent. I’m 66 years old and I’ve never been in a gun-free zone.       Ever.
    • I cannot comprehend the soullessness of unarmed and helpless.
    • So the community scammer [President Barack Obama] didn’t get to be the Commander in Chief because he’s clever. [Democratic presidential candidate] Hillary Clinton, [National Security Advisor] Susan Rice and [IRS employee] Lois Lerner aren’t in jail yet because they’re sneaky. They commit their crimes in the wide open and We The People have failed to arrest them yet.
    • Whatever we want is always the right thing.
    • Here’s the only gun law we need: Don’t shoot the wrong guy.
    • Back when Richard Pryor’s afro caught on fire, I knew I was on the mountaintop of comedy … But thank God the liberal media has actually gotten funnier than Richard Pryor’s afro igniting.
    • Don’t back away from the storm. Look for the storm. Put your head down and walk proudly right into the storm. Let the wimps and the French back away. You just keep plowing forward, the higher the drifts, the worse the wind, the more wolves, kill ‘em all.
    • Go forth into that quiet night and let our government know we want separation of powers. Tell them to be the watchdogs our Founding Fathers wanted them to be, not to be a united force against the citizens. So take this good [guns] and use it against the bad and the ugly. It’s a target rich environment. If it was duck season, there’d be so many ducks, you could just close your eyes and shoot ‘em. Don’t close your eyes and don’t shoot just yet, but plow forward and demand accountability … So now let’s take all that good and crush the bad and the ugly, when we identify the gun-grabbers and freedom-haters.
    • If your child is dying, and there’s only one way to get to the doctor, would you get on [Senate Minority Leader] Harry Reid’s boat to get there? Then your child’s dead. I’d get on the boat, get there, and then I’d shoot him.
    • [When asked by an audience member how one should respond to law enforcement officers enforcing a law that would involve the seizure of firearms]: “You don’t need to get shot, you don’t need to start a firefight, yet.” (Vigilantism, Political Violence, Racism, GOP Ties, Conspiracy Theory]

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  • Vigilantism
    During a speech at the NRA Annual Meeting in Nashville on April 12, 2015, Nugent said the following:
    • “Look at this audience. Couldn’t we end the War on Terror ourselves? And I’ll play Commander in Chief for a minute. Here’s rules of engagement. Kill ‘em all.”
    • We’re a little spoiled in Texas and Arizona and Wyoming and Vermont. Can you be spoiled in Vermont? And Kansas. We’re starting to get something that looks like the Second Amendment in some places, because it doesn’t exist anywhere yet.
    • That’s the Second Amendment. If you’re 18 and you’re not convicted of a felony or a violent crime you get to keep and you get to bear 24/7/365 anywhere you damn well please.
    • My name’s Ted Nugent. I’m 66 years old and I’ve never been in a gun-free zone.       Ever.
    • I cannot comprehend the soullessness of unarmed and helpless.
    • So the community scammer [President Barack Obama] didn’t get to be the Commander in Chief because he’s clever. [Democratic presidential candidate] Hillary Clinton, [National Security Advisor] Susan Rice and [IRS employee] Lois Lerner aren’t in jail yet because they’re sneaky. They commit their crimes in the wide open and We The People have failed to arrest them yet.
    • Whatever we want is always the right thing.
    • Here’s the only gun law we need: Don’t shoot the wrong guy.
    • Back when Richard Pryor’s afro caught on fire, I knew I was on the mountaintop of comedy … But thank God the liberal media has actually gotten funnier than Richard Pryor’s afro igniting.
    • Don’t back away from the storm. Look for the storm. Put your head down and walk proudly right into the storm. Let the wimps and the French back away. You just keep plowing forward, the higher the drifts, the worse the wind, the more wolves, kill ‘em all.
    • Go forth into that quiet night and let our government know we want separation of powers. Tell them to be the watchdogs our Founding Fathers wanted them to be, not to be a united force against the citizens. So take this good [guns] and use it against the bad and the ugly. It’s a target rich environment. If it was duck season, there’d be so many ducks, you could just close your eyes and shoot ‘em. Don’t close your eyes and don’t shoot just yet, but plow forward and demand accountability … So now let’s take all that good and crush the bad and the ugly, when we identify the gun-grabbers and freedom-haters.
    • If your child is dying, and there’s only one way to get to the doctor, would you get on [Senate Minority Leader] Harry Reid’s boat to get there? Then your child’s dead. I’d get on the boat, get there, and then I’d shoot him.
    • [When asked by an audience member how one should respond to law enforcement officers enforcing a law that would involve the seizure of firearms]: “You don’t need to get shot, you don’t need to start a firefight, yet.” (Vigilantism, Political Violence, Racism, GOP Ties, Conspiracy Theory]

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  • Conspiracy Theory
    During a speech at the NRA Annual Meeting in Nashville on April 12, 2015, Nugent said the following:
    • “Look at this audience. Couldn’t we end the War on Terror ourselves? And I’ll play Commander in Chief for a minute. Here’s rules of engagement. Kill ‘em all.”
    • We’re a little spoiled in Texas and Arizona and Wyoming and Vermont. Can you be spoiled in Vermont? And Kansas. We’re starting to get something that looks like the Second Amendment in some places, because it doesn’t exist anywhere yet.
    • That’s the Second Amendment. If you’re 18 and you’re not convicted of a felony or a violent crime you get to keep and you get to bear 24/7/365 anywhere you damn well please.
    • My name’s Ted Nugent. I’m 66 years old and I’ve never been in a gun-free zone.       Ever.
    • I cannot comprehend the soullessness of unarmed and helpless.
    • So the community scammer [President Barack Obama] didn’t get to be the Commander in Chief because he’s clever. [Democratic presidential candidate] Hillary Clinton, [National Security Advisor] Susan Rice and [IRS employee] Lois Lerner aren’t in jail yet because they’re sneaky. They commit their crimes in the wide open and We The People have failed to arrest them yet.
    • Whatever we want is always the right thing.
    • Here’s the only gun law we need: Don’t shoot the wrong guy.
    • Back when Richard Pryor’s afro caught on fire, I knew I was on the mountaintop of comedy … But thank God the liberal media has actually gotten funnier than Richard Pryor’s afro igniting.
    • Don’t back away from the storm. Look for the storm. Put your head down and walk proudly right into the storm. Let the wimps and the French back away. You just keep plowing forward, the higher the drifts, the worse the wind, the more wolves, kill ‘em all.
    • Go forth into that quiet night and let our government know we want separation of powers. Tell them to be the watchdogs our Founding Fathers wanted them to be, not to be a united force against the citizens. So take this good [guns] and use it against the bad and the ugly. It’s a target rich environment. If it was duck season, there’d be so many ducks, you could just close your eyes and shoot ‘em. Don’t close your eyes and don’t shoot just yet, but plow forward and demand accountability … So now let’s take all that good and crush the bad and the ugly, when we identify the gun-grabbers and freedom-haters.
    • If your child is dying, and there’s only one way to get to the doctor, would you get on [Senate Minority Leader] Harry Reid’s boat to get there? Then your child’s dead. I’d get on the boat, get there, and then I’d shoot him.
    • [When asked by an audience member how one should respond to law enforcement officers enforcing a law that would involve the seizure of firearms]: “You don’t need to get shot, you don’t need to start a firefight, yet.” (Vigilantism, Political Violence, Racism, GOP Ties, Conspiracy Theory]

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  • Republican Party (GOP)
    During a speech at the NRA Annual Meeting in Nashville on April 12, 2015, Nugent said the following:
    • “Look at this audience. Couldn’t we end the War on Terror ourselves? And I’ll play Commander in Chief for a minute. Here’s rules of engagement. Kill ‘em all.”
    • We’re a little spoiled in Texas and Arizona and Wyoming and Vermont. Can you be spoiled in Vermont? And Kansas. We’re starting to get something that looks like the Second Amendment in some places, because it doesn’t exist anywhere yet.
    • That’s the Second Amendment. If you’re 18 and you’re not convicted of a felony or a violent crime you get to keep and you get to bear 24/7/365 anywhere you damn well please.
    • My name’s Ted Nugent. I’m 66 years old and I’ve never been in a gun-free zone.       Ever.
    • I cannot comprehend the soullessness of unarmed and helpless.
    • So the community scammer [President Barack Obama] didn’t get to be the Commander in Chief because he’s clever. [Democratic presidential candidate] Hillary Clinton, [National Security Advisor] Susan Rice and [IRS employee] Lois Lerner aren’t in jail yet because they’re sneaky. They commit their crimes in the wide open and We The People have failed to arrest them yet.
    • Whatever we want is always the right thing.
    • Here’s the only gun law we need: Don’t shoot the wrong guy.
    • Back when Richard Pryor’s afro caught on fire, I knew I was on the mountaintop of comedy … But thank God the liberal media has actually gotten funnier than Richard Pryor’s afro igniting.
    • Don’t back away from the storm. Look for the storm. Put your head down and walk proudly right into the storm. Let the wimps and the French back away. You just keep plowing forward, the higher the drifts, the worse the wind, the more wolves, kill ‘em all.
    • Go forth into that quiet night and let our government know we want separation of powers. Tell them to be the watchdogs our Founding Fathers wanted them to be, not to be a united force against the citizens. So take this good [guns] and use it against the bad and the ugly. It’s a target rich environment. If it was duck season, there’d be so many ducks, you could just close your eyes and shoot ‘em. Don’t close your eyes and don’t shoot just yet, but plow forward and demand accountability … So now let’s take all that good and crush the bad and the ugly, when we identify the gun-grabbers and freedom-haters.
    • If your child is dying, and there’s only one way to get to the doctor, would you get on [Senate Minority Leader] Harry Reid’s boat to get there? Then your child’s dead. I’d get on the boat, get there, and then I’d shoot him.
    • [When asked by an audience member how one should respond to law enforcement officers enforcing a law that would involve the seizure of firearms]: “You don’t need to get shot, you don’t need to start a firefight, yet.” (Vigilantism, Political Violence, Racism, GOP Ties, Conspiracy Theory]

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  • Foreign Policy
    On April 5, 2015, Nugent told members of the Republican Party in Maricopa County, Arizona that he knows why veterans commit suicide: “20-25 of those guys kill themselves every day, and they haven’t told you why, and they haven’t told anybody else why, but they told me why: because the Commander-in-Chief is the enemy.” Experts in military and veteran suicide responded to Nugent’s claim. “I don't know what he's talking about, it's a distorted view of the epidemiology, of the suicide epidemiology,” said Mark Kaplan, a UCLA professor who worked with a blue-ribbon panel on veterans suicide convened by the Veterans Administration under the George W. Bush administration in 2008. “It's politicizing the serious public health problem and it is a disservice to the men and women who serve this country. [President Barack Obama] has done more in the last few years than any other administration has done to try to understand and prevent suicide in the veteran population.” The executive director of the National Center for Veterans Studies at the University of Utah, Craig J. Bryan, added, "It's a pretty ridiculous comment … First off, there's absolutely no scientific evidence backing that up. Suicide is much more complex than simply being angry at a politician. We have been studying suicide for close to eight or nine years on military personnel and veterans and I've never heard a single military person use that as a reason they were suicidal or want to kill themselves … We're at a point where we are actually making progress, comments like this kind of demeans the suffering of service members and veterans. It belittles the suffering of family members."

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  • Health Care
    On April 5, 2015, Nugent told members of the Republican Party in Maricopa County, Arizona that he knows why veterans commit suicide: “20-25 of those guys kill themselves every day, and they haven’t told you why, and they haven’t told anybody else why, but they told me why: because the Commander-in-Chief is the enemy.” Experts in military and veteran suicide responded to Nugent’s claim. “I don't know what he's talking about, it's a distorted view of the epidemiology, of the suicide epidemiology,” said Mark Kaplan, a UCLA professor who worked with a blue-ribbon panel on veterans suicide convened by the Veterans Administration under the George W. Bush administration in 2008. “It's politicizing the serious public health problem and it is a disservice to the men and women who serve this country. [President Barack Obama] has done more in the last few years than any other administration has done to try to understand and prevent suicide in the veteran population.” The executive director of the National Center for Veterans Studies at the University of Utah, Craig J. Bryan, added, "It's a pretty ridiculous comment … First off, there's absolutely no scientific evidence backing that up. Suicide is much more complex than simply being angry at a politician. We have been studying suicide for close to eight or nine years on military personnel and veterans and I've never heard a single military person use that as a reason they were suicidal or want to kill themselves … We're at a point where we are actually making progress, comments like this kind of demeans the suffering of service members and veterans. It belittles the suffering of family members."

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  • Race
    On March 24, 2015, during a radio appearance on The Mike Broomhead Show on KYFI, Nugent called MSNBC host and civil rights activist Al Sharpton a "racist mongrel" and claimed that the only racism present in the United States is “coming out of the White House [of President Barack Obama].” Nugent went on to say that he was "shattered" to learn of racism against African-Americans as a young person, but that “by the late 60s, the 70s, I couldn't find racism. I never saw racism. I never heard of racism. I thought it was a thing of the past in isolated pockets of inbreeding and cannibalism and spiritlessness.

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  • Animal Rights
    In an interview with Newsmax on February 10, 2015, Nugent responded to criticism about his hunting of mountain lions. When he was asked, “Why did you have to kill the mountain lion? It wasn’t hurting you,” Nugent replied, “When was the last time sushi hurt you? You don’t use that silliness for a determining factor for balanced biodiversity.” Nugent then claimed “harvesting surplus mountain lions every year” saves tax dollars because “government shooters” do not have to do it. “Did you eat the mountain lion?” Berliner followed up. “The meat in a mountain lion, that’s the other white meat,” Nugent responded. Moving to a different topic, Nugent said that President Barack Obama had created a “goofy Planet of the Apes America.”

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  • Race
    In an interview with Newsmax on February 10, 2015, Nugent responded to criticism about his hunting of mountain lions. When he was asked, “Why did you have to kill the mountain lion? It wasn’t hurting you,” Nugent replied, “When was the last time sushi hurt you? You don’t use that silliness for a determining factor for balanced biodiversity.” Nugent then claimed “harvesting surplus mountain lions every year” saves tax dollars because “government shooters” do not have to do it. “Did you eat the mountain lion?” Berliner followed up. “The meat in a mountain lion, that’s the other white meat,” Nugent responded. Moving to a different topic, Nugent said that President Barack Obama had created a “goofy Planet of the Apes America.”

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  • Animal Rights

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  • Conspiracy Theory

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  • Animal Rights
    In a September 27, 2014 WND op-ed, Ted Nugent called animal rights activists, “the same lying scammers that allowed the Chicago community organizer [President Barack Obama] to weasel his way to the presidency, nearly neuter America’s defense system, [and] increase the national debt like a crack whore in an opium mall.”  President Obama inherited a global economic crisis and a $1.3 trillion dollar deficit.  Despite this, under President Obama’s leadership the national annual deficit has shrunk considerably and the United States has turned the corner on its years long recession, while the national debt has only modestly increased.

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  • Foreign Policy
    In a September 27, 2014 WND op-ed, Ted Nugent called animal rights activists, “the same lying scammers that allowed the Chicago community organizer [President Barack Obama] to weasel his way to the presidency, nearly neuter America’s defense system, [and] increase the national debt like a crack whore in an opium mall.”  President Obama inherited a global economic crisis and a $1.3 trillion dollar deficit.  Despite this, under President Obama’s leadership the national annual deficit has shrunk considerably and the United States has turned the corner on its years long recession, while the national debt has only modestly increased.

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  • Religion

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  • Vigilantism

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  • Religion

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  • Vigilantism

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  • Conspiracy Theory

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  • Foreign Policy
    In an interview published at Radio.com on August 29, 2014, Nugent made a series of provocative statements:  
    • “My haters are all wrong.  They’re all bad.  They’re all brain-dead.  They’re all soulless and they’re literally chimps, marching like Planet of the Apes, marching to Saul Alinsky and [Nazi Minister of Propaganda] Joseph Goebbels’ propaganda, to not just disagree with their enemies, but to destroy their enemies.”
    • “The post-traumatic stress syndrome and suicide rate [among military veterans] are at an all time high, and it hurts me to say this: it’s because their Commander-in-Chief is the enemy.  He violates the Constitution that [our service members] came home in a box, fighting for.”
    • “I come from Detroit, and you don’t say, ‘No thank you’ to someone who is trying to hurt or rob you: you shoot them between the eyes!  I suppose if you want to bend over and be a victim, shooting someone between the eyes comes off as really outrageous.”

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  • Vigilantism
    In an interview published at Radio.com on August 29, 2014, Nugent made a series of provocative statements:  
    • “My haters are all wrong.  They’re all bad.  They’re all brain-dead.  They’re all soulless and they’re literally chimps, marching like Planet of the Apes, marching to Saul Alinsky and [Nazi Minister of Propaganda] Joseph Goebbels’ propaganda, to not just disagree with their enemies, but to destroy their enemies.”
    • “The post-traumatic stress syndrome and suicide rate [among military veterans] are at an all time high, and it hurts me to say this: it’s because their Commander-in-Chief is the enemy.  He violates the Constitution that [our service members] came home in a box, fighting for.”
    • “I come from Detroit, and you don’t say, ‘No thank you’ to someone who is trying to hurt or rob you: you shoot them between the eyes!  I suppose if you want to bend over and be a victim, shooting someone between the eyes comes off as really outrageous.”

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  • Conspiracy Theory
    In an interview published at Radio.com on August 29, 2014, Nugent made a series of provocative statements:  
    • “My haters are all wrong.  They’re all bad.  They’re all brain-dead.  They’re all soulless and they’re literally chimps, marching like Planet of the Apes, marching to Saul Alinsky and [Nazi Minister of Propaganda] Joseph Goebbels’ propaganda, to not just disagree with their enemies, but to destroy their enemies.”
    • “The post-traumatic stress syndrome and suicide rate [among military veterans] are at an all time high, and it hurts me to say this: it’s because their Commander-in-Chief is the enemy.  He violates the Constitution that [our service members] came home in a box, fighting for.”
    • “I come from Detroit, and you don’t say, ‘No thank you’ to someone who is trying to hurt or rob you: you shoot them between the eyes!  I suppose if you want to bend over and be a victim, shooting someone between the eyes comes off as really outrageous.”

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  • Race

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  • Race
    On August 19, 2014, Nugent posted on his Facebook page a list of white people who were killed by African-American males, with the tag line “no national news” following each murder.  A 2008 study about racial stereotypes in the media by George Washington University, however, found that “Blacks and Latinos are more likely than whites to appear as lawbreakers in the news—particularly when the news is focusing on violent crime ... Whites are overrepresented as victims of violence and as law-enforcers, while blacks are underrepresented in these sympathetic roles … Black victims are less likely to be covered than white victims in newspaper coverage of crime.”

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  • Immigration
    On August 7, 2014 Nugent made the following remarks about Native Americans who protested at one of his concerts in a Facebook status:  “4 stinkyass unclean dipshit protestors that admitted they hate me AND ALL WHITE PEOPLE THAT STOLE THEIR LAND BULLSHIT!! See, it aint me they hate, they hate all Americans that produce & live the American Dream. Simply insane!”  In the comments section of the status, Nugent also described the children of Latino immigrants as “poor communication challenged liability babys (sic).”

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  • Race
    On August 7, 2014 Nugent made the following remarks about Native Americans who protested at one of his concerts in a Facebook status:  “4 stinkyass unclean dipshit protestors that admitted they hate me AND ALL WHITE PEOPLE THAT STOLE THEIR LAND BULLSHIT!! See, it aint me they hate, they hate all Americans that produce & live the American Dream. Simply insane!”  In the comments section of the status, Nugent also described the children of Latino immigrants as “poor communication challenged liability babys (sic).”

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  • Immigration

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  • Race
    On July 21, 2014, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe cancelled a concert by Nugent that was scheduled for August 4, 2014 at a casino in Worley, Idaho. The tribe cited Nugent’s racist and hate-filled remarks as the reason for the cancellation, saying they booked Nugent without realizing he espoused racist attitudes and views.” The following day, in an interview with Radio.com, Nugent blamed the cancellation on an army assigned to destroy Ted Nugent.” Nugent added, To call me a racist is a clear act of desperation because everybody knows I’m not a racist! My [former] bass player Johnny Gunnel happens to be a black guy. My [former] bass player Marco Mendoza was born in Mexico! Are you kiddin’ me? I pay tribute to Martin Luther King in my songs, I’ve always said my music is a direct result of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, and all the black musical heroes of my life.” Nugent also quoted the following lyrics to his song “Great White Buffalo” in an attempt to demonstrate that he is not racist towards Native Americans:But then came the white man/ With his thick and empty head/He couldn’t see past billfold/ He wanted all the buffalo dead.

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  • Race

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  • Other Statements
    Following a violent Fourth of July weekend in Chicago, Illinois when over 60 people were shot, Nugent took to twitter to blame Mayor Rahm Emanuel.  On July 9, 2014 Nugent tweeted, hows that gunfreezone engineered slaughter goin Rahm Emanuel numbnut followed by, yeah thats it the NRA supplied guns & killers to Chicago. denialFreaks.” Nugent was making reference in the latter tweet to a report released by the city of Chicago on May 27, 2014 that detailed where the city’s crime guns come from. The report cited Indiana, Mississippi, and Wisconsin as the top outside states that supply crime guns to Chicago, along with four specific firearms dealers (three in Illinois and one in Indiana) to which a large percentage of Chicago’s crime guns have been traced.

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  • Animal Rights

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  • Poverty
    In a July 2, 2014 article written by Nugent and published on WorldNetDaily, Nugent referred to President Barack Obama asa dictator without a hint of guilt or accountability to anyone, regardless of his campaign pledges to the contrary. With July 4th approaching, Nugent claimed that half of America—a group he referred to as “Camp Nuge”—would be celebrating Independence Day, while the other half would celebrate “Dependence Day” because ofrunaway fraud and deceit infesting the welfare scams, entitlement scams, unemployment benefit scams, food-stamp scams, fuel subsidy scams, transportation scams, child support scams, disability scams, the suicidal scams running amok here, there and everywhere.” 

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  • Republican Party (GOP)
    In a July 2, 2014 article written by Nugent and published on WorldNetDaily, Nugent referred to President Barack Obama asa dictator without a hint of guilt or accountability to anyone, regardless of his campaign pledges to the contrary. With July 4th approaching, Nugent claimed that half of America—a group he referred to as “Camp Nuge”—would be celebrating Independence Day, while the other half would celebrate “Dependence Day” because ofrunaway fraud and deceit infesting the welfare scams, entitlement scams, unemployment benefit scams, food-stamp scams, fuel subsidy scams, transportation scams, child support scams, disability scams, the suicidal scams running amok here, there and everywhere.” 

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  • Foreign Policy

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  • Animal Rights

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  • Immigration
    In a June 23, 2014 interview with “Gnarly Charlie” at KNAC.com, Nugent discussed Detroit and said, It’s turned into a lump of shit, thanks to clear and present liberal democrat policies. They designed this. Everything out of the liberal democrat mantra destroys everything it touches.” He also discussed the “Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (Dream Act),” arguing that it is encouraging millions of people around the world to invade us becausewe’re going to take care of you, even though you don’t earn it, even though you don’t deserve it, and even though you broke the law.”

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  • Republican Party (GOP)
    In a June 23, 2014 interview with “Gnarly Charlie” at KNAC.com, Nugent discussed Detroit and said, It’s turned into a lump of shit, thanks to clear and present liberal democrat policies. They designed this. Everything out of the liberal democrat mantra destroys everything it touches.” He also discussed the “Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (Dream Act),” arguing that it is encouraging millions of people around the world to invade us becausewe’re going to take care of you, even though you don’t earn it, even though you don’t deserve it, and even though you broke the law.”

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  • Foreign Policy
    In a June 12, 2014 posting on his Facebook page, Nugent shared a horrific photo on Facebook of a bearded [Islamic extremist], bloody knife in hand, squatting behind five gory heads.” The caption read, One of the subhuman mongrels our president set free.” Research by the website Snopes determined that Nugent’s claim had no validity.

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  • Conspiracy Theory
    In a June 12, 2014 posting on his Facebook page, Nugent shared a horrific photo on Facebook of a bearded [Islamic extremist], bloody knife in hand, squatting behind five gory heads.” The caption read, One of the subhuman mongrels our president set free.” Research by the website Snopes determined that Nugent’s claim had no validity.

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  • Religion
    In a June 11, 2014 article written by Nugent, published on WorldNetDaily, Nugent compared Virginia Representative Eric Cantor, who is Jewish, to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Nugent’s statement came after Cantor lost a Republican primary election to Tea Party candidate David Brat.

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  • Republican Party (GOP)
    In a June 11, 2014 article written by Nugent, published on WorldNetDaily, Nugent compared Virginia Representative Eric Cantor, who is Jewish, to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Nugent’s statement came after Cantor lost a Republican primary election to Tea Party candidate David Brat.

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  • Poverty
    In a May 21, 2014 article written for WorldNetDaily, Nugent questioned family values in Chicago, calling out the parents of Windy City gangsters and asking whether they have or are aware of any redeemable values to pass on to their children or have the faintest idea that it is their job to do so.” He continued: Reality time: Their kids would not be in gangs in the first place if parents had performed their most basic parenting responsibilities. The vast majority of gangsters have more than likely come from broken homes where fathers are as absent as a good report card. Roughly 70 percent of black kids are being raised by single parents. This is multi-generational cultural suicide, not a family value. The vast majority of gangsters who shoot and kill each other have dropped out of school. In some urban areas, over 50 percent of black kids drop out of high school, thereby condemning themselves to a life of poverty and dependence, a prison cell or an early grave. This is not a redeemable family value. Dependency on welfare breeds more dependency, which breeds more despair, hopelessness and anger. Too many gangsters have been raised in an environment where independence, a hard-core work ethic and rugged individualism are characteristics to be mocked and scorned instead of rewarded, encouraged and celebrated.” Attacking Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, Nugent claimed heisn’t honest. He’s cunning, manipulative and deceitful, straight out of his fellow Chicagoan pal [President Barack] Obama’s blame-game playbook. He falsely places the blame for the violence on guns instead of focusing on the ridiculously obvious problem for all the bloody mayhem and chaos in the Windy City and other cities: liberalism, which has created lost and dependent generations for decades.”

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  • Race
    In a May 21, 2014 article written for WorldNetDaily, Nugent questioned family values in Chicago, calling out the parents of Windy City gangsters and asking whether they have or are aware of any redeemable values to pass on to their children or have the faintest idea that it is their job to do so.” He continued: Reality time: Their kids would not be in gangs in the first place if parents had performed their most basic parenting responsibilities. The vast majority of gangsters have more than likely come from broken homes where fathers are as absent as a good report card. Roughly 70 percent of black kids are being raised by single parents. This is multi-generational cultural suicide, not a family value. The vast majority of gangsters who shoot and kill each other have dropped out of school. In some urban areas, over 50 percent of black kids drop out of high school, thereby condemning themselves to a life of poverty and dependence, a prison cell or an early grave. This is not a redeemable family value. Dependency on welfare breeds more dependency, which breeds more despair, hopelessness and anger. Too many gangsters have been raised in an environment where independence, a hard-core work ethic and rugged individualism are characteristics to be mocked and scorned instead of rewarded, encouraged and celebrated.” Attacking Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, Nugent claimed heisn’t honest. He’s cunning, manipulative and deceitful, straight out of his fellow Chicagoan pal [President Barack] Obama’s blame-game playbook. He falsely places the blame for the violence on guns instead of focusing on the ridiculously obvious problem for all the bloody mayhem and chaos in the Windy City and other cities: liberalism, which has created lost and dependent generations for decades.”

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  • Republican Party (GOP)
    In a May 21, 2014 article written for WorldNetDaily, Nugent questioned family values in Chicago, calling out the parents of Windy City gangsters and asking whether they have or are aware of any redeemable values to pass on to their children or have the faintest idea that it is their job to do so.” He continued: Reality time: Their kids would not be in gangs in the first place if parents had performed their most basic parenting responsibilities. The vast majority of gangsters have more than likely come from broken homes where fathers are as absent as a good report card. Roughly 70 percent of black kids are being raised by single parents. This is multi-generational cultural suicide, not a family value. The vast majority of gangsters who shoot and kill each other have dropped out of school. In some urban areas, over 50 percent of black kids drop out of high school, thereby condemning themselves to a life of poverty and dependence, a prison cell or an early grave. This is not a redeemable family value. Dependency on welfare breeds more dependency, which breeds more despair, hopelessness and anger. Too many gangsters have been raised in an environment where independence, a hard-core work ethic and rugged individualism are characteristics to be mocked and scorned instead of rewarded, encouraged and celebrated.” Attacking Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, Nugent claimed heisn’t honest. He’s cunning, manipulative and deceitful, straight out of his fellow Chicagoan pal [President Barack] Obama’s blame-game playbook. He falsely places the blame for the violence on guns instead of focusing on the ridiculously obvious problem for all the bloody mayhem and chaos in the Windy City and other cities: liberalism, which has created lost and dependent generations for decades.”

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  • Race
    In a May 7, 2014 article written for WorldNetDaily, Nugent attacked Attorney General Eric Holder, saying, If Attorney General Holder isn’t a racist, he sure acts like one.”

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    On March 23, 2014, Nugent told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that the real reason the city of Longview, Texas asked him not to perform at the town’s Fourth of July festival (after paying him to do so) is because Longview Mayor Jay Dean is “racist.” Nugent stated, “I hear from reliable sources that the mayor is a racist and was offended that my band performs mostly African-American-influenced music … We shall carry on. We are the good guys. Clueless, dishonest people like the mayor are the bad guys.” In an email obtained by the Tyler Morning Telegraph, Nugent wrote, “The lie that my concerts are inappropriate for any city anywhere is absurd … Those that hate me hate America, plain and simple.” When the invitation was revoked, Mayor Dean stated that Nugent’s concert “didn’t really fit what we [were] trying to put together, a family oriented program.”

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    In March 2014, the city of Longview, Texas paid Nugent $16,000 not to appear at the town's Fourth of July festival. The city had reached a verbal agreement with Nugent to perform as the headliner at the Maude Cobb Convention and Activity Center during the town's Independence Day celebration. To break that agreement, the town paid Nugent half of his guaranteed performance fee of $32,000 from Maude Cobb's annual budget. A city spokesman said Nugent was "not the right feel for this kind of community event."

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    At the NRA’s Great American Outdoor Show on February 5, 2014, Nugent proclaimed that President Barack Obama is “an avowed racist who claimed because Trayvon Martin was black…a gangster and an attacker and a doper, that he could have been his son." Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teenager, was killed by concealed handgun permit holder George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. Martin was returning home from a convenience store with snacks immediately prior to the shooting. Zimmerman was ultimately acquitted of murder charges under Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law.

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    On February 4, 2014, Politifact reported that Nugent has greatly exaggerated his law enforcement credentials. Nugent has claimed that he is "a cop in Lake County, Michigan" and that he "conduct[s] federal raids with the DEA and ATF and U.S. Marshals and the FBI and Texas Rangers." Sheriff Robert Hilts of Lake County, Michigan stated, [Nugent has] never joined us for any raids. Fortunately, we don’t have those sorts of problems up here.” Joe Moses, a 22-year veteran special agent at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), told Politifact that DEA has no record or recollection of Nugent participating in any of their operations. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) stated, "We are not aware of [Nugent] conducting any raids with us." Dave Oney, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals stated Nugent and a film crew "went on a ride-along with a U.S. Marshals-led task force in Waco, Texas, in 2005 … [Observers] cannot go with us into private residences. So, [Nugent] would have had to remain in the vehicle or on the sidewalk or some other public area." The FBI told Politifact that it could neither confirm nor deny Nugent’s participation in a raid. Politifact contacted the Texas Department of Public Safety and asked on what occasions Nugent had joined Texas Rangers on raids. Press secretary Tom Vinger said, "In regards to your question about the Texas Rangers, that did not occur."

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    As a guest on Denver’s KNUS 710-AM talk-radio show on February 3, 2014, Nugent likened the “media in this country [to] Joseph Goebbels' propaganda ministry.” Joseph Goebbels was the Reich Master of Propaganda for the Nazi regime.

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    During the NRA News show “Cam & Company” on January 16, 2014, Nugent compared Harvey Weinstein, a Jewish anti-NRA filmmaker, to Nazis. Nugent elaborated that “You have to be brain-dead to believe that the gun-free zones of Chicago and Nuremberg [Germany] in 1938 are a desirable condition” and claimed, "Harvey Weinstein is on the side of criminals. The NRA is on the side of innocent victims protecting themselves from criminals.” In truth, law-abiding residents of Chicago are allowed to purchase and own firearms.

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    In a January 14, 2014 op-ed for Newsmax, Nugent asserted, “The whole global warming lie is a giant, international environmental scam and hoax designed to control people by instigating fear and panic. There is no global warming, only hot-air from Al Gore and his gaggles of Woodstock rejects who have made many millions by perpetuating something that just isn’t so.” Contrary to Nugent’s statement, global climate change is a phenomenon that is well-supported by research conducted by agencies such as the National Academy of Sciences, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.”

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    In a December 11, 2013 op-ed for World Net Daily, Nugent wrote that unless the United States followed his policy recommendations—including arming teachers, eliminating "gun-free zones," and getting "deranged people off the streets,” “then those precious little 20 children and their six teachers and faculty members at Sandy Hook Elementary died for nothing." He also claimed, “The first lesson we should take away from the Sandy Hook massacre is that the self-inflicted scourge of political correctness has dumbed down America enough to allow the conditions to continue to exist that will facilitate another twisted individual capable of doing the same thing to flounder about our society. In fact, it already happened at the Washington Naval Yard. It is going to happen again. And again.” Nugent was making reference to mass shootings that occurred in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012 and in Washington, D.C. on September 16, 2013.

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    In an October 30, 2013 op-ed for World Net Daily, Nugent wrote, “Heavily armed with whatever media bully pulpit I can muster, I exercise my First Amendment rights like my hero Rosa Parks who refused to sit at the back of the bus when that numb-nut law existed. I’m Rosa Parks with a Gibson.” Rosa Parks, who died in 2005, was a civil rights activist best known for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white passenger.

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    In an October 14, 2013 interview on Gater 98.7, a Florida radio station, Nugent blamed President Obama for the record rate of veteran suicides, stating, “[W]hen you've got leadership that is the enemy of America, you've got the heroes of the U.S. military committing suicide at record numbers because their Commander-in-Chief is the enemy of the country. I mean it's so ugly right now, you got a bunch of pimps, whores and welfare brats running our government.” Nugent also spoke about the government shutdown, which began on October 1, 2013 when Congress failed to pass legislation funding government operations and agencies. Nugent made recommendations to fix the situation, stating, “I would love to see America run like the Nugent household. You get up early, you maximize your productivity, you be the best that you can be, you live within your means, you save for a rainy day and you don't be some gluttonous, slovenly, criminal, wasteful paycheck fire-torching bastard like most of the people in politics today … I celebrate that they're shut down because Fedzilla is a bloated monster. I would recommend and I think an honest review of the federal government would conclude the same that I have, and other thinking, caring people who understand the U.S. Constitution and how to run a household or how to run a business. That for every federal employee, let's put it this way, for every 5,000 federal employees, I could hire one person to do a better job. It is so wasteful. It's engineered obsolescence, it's engineered redundancy. The whole battle cry of the federal government is waste, corruption, fraud, abuse of power. So I'm glad it's shutdown … You can't run a family like that, you can't run a business like that. But Fedzilla is convinced they can operate with impunity. And I have a message for [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid and the President, ‘Eat me!’"

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    In an October 9, 2013 interview with the Associated Press, Nugent described President Barack Obama as a "monster in the White House" who "wouldn't qualify to drive my tour bus."

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    In an August 3, 2013 radio interview on a Maine radio station, Nugent discussed the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was prosecuted after shooting and killing unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. Nugent declared, “Trayvon got justice.” He continued, stating that Martin was a “gangsta wannabe” who had a “bloodthirst.” There is no evidence that Martin was ever a member of a gang, and he had no criminal record.

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    In an August 3, 2013 radio interview on a Maine radio station, Nugent discussed the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was prosecuted after shooting and killing unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. Nugent declared, “Trayvon got justice.” He continued, stating that Martin was a “gangsta wannabe” who had a “bloodthirst.” There is no evidence that Martin was ever a member of a gang, and he had no criminal record.

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    In a July 31, 2013 op-ed for World Net Daily, Nugent endorsed the conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a forgery, stating, “More of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media’s smoke and mirrors.” In July 2012, Joseph Arpaio, a controversial Arizona sheriff, announced that a "Cold Case Posse" under his direction determined that Obama's "long-form birth certificate was manufactured electronically and that it did not originate in a paper format as claimed by the White House." The "Cold Case Posse" reportedly attempted to uncover evidence that Obama was born in Kenya.

    In the same editorial, Nugent said to President Obama, “[W]ith all due respect, your holy phoniness, who can’t see the terminal phoniness of wasting more tax dollars with more phony charges against George Zimmerman in defiance of your own FBI investigation and the same exhaustive evidence that proved his obvious innocence to the jury of his peers and everyone paying attention who was not blinded by your phony racism?” On July 13, 2013, George Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter after shooting and killing unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. After the trial, the U.S. Justice Department began investigating whether to file civil rights charges against Zimmerman.

    Finally, Nugent suggested that Nidal Malik Hassan, the man responsible for a 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, is President Obama’s “Allah Ahkbar buddy.” Hassan allegedly yelled "Allahu akbar!” which means “God is Great” in Arabic, before opening fire.

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    In a July 28, 2013 column on the website Rare.us, Nugent discussed the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was tried after shooting and killing unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. Nugent wrote, “We are most offended that the president of the United States and the U.S. attorney general are clearly guilty of racism when they intentionally bring race to the fore when they make public judgments based on the color of someone's skin instead of the content of their character in total defiance of the findings of the FBI, Department of Justice, entire state's investigative resources and a jury verdict.” The Justice Department launched an investigation of Zimmerman in 2012, but stepped aside to allow the prosecution in Florida to move forward. The FBI and Justice Department released reports that do not draw conclusions about Zimmerman’s motivations or guilt/innocence.

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    In a July 24, 2013 op-ed for World Net Daily, Nugent spoke about the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was tried after shooting and killing unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. Nugent stated, “The first step toward genuine healing for the denial-riddled hysterical black community would be to admit that George Zimmerman was indeed getting his ‘a– whooped’ by an angry, violent, wildly overreacting young man, and that Trayvon Martin was not an innocent child … 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?” Nugent was referring to the testimony of prosecution witness Rachel Jeantel, who testified that shortly before George Zimmerman killed him, Martin told her on the phone that he was being followed by some “creepy a—cracker.”

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    In a July 24, 2013 op-ed for World Net Daily, Nugent spoke about the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was tried after shooting and killing unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. Nugent stated, “The first step toward genuine healing for the denial-riddled hysterical black community would be to admit that George Zimmerman was indeed getting his ‘a– whooped’ by an angry, violent, wildly overreacting young man, and that Trayvon Martin was not an innocent child … 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?” Nugent was referring to the testimony of prosecution witness Rachel Jeantel, who testified that shortly before George Zimmerman killed him, Martin told her on the phone that he was being followed by some “creepy a—cracker.”

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    On July 23, 2013, Nugent spoke on entertainer Nick Cannon’s podcast, discussing the acquittal of George Zimmerman, who was tried after shooting and killing unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. Nugent stated that a "little old white lady" who "clutches her purse tightly and shivers" when an African-American man joins her on an elevator has not wrongly "prejudged.” Nugent was referring to President Barack Obama’s July 19, 2013 speech on the Zimmerman trial verdict, in which he stated, “There are very few African Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often.” Nugent continued, stating, “I think when we see stormy clouds, and we've witnessed a number of storms that have destroyed homes, and threatened lives, and tipped over cars, I don't think we're prejudging those storm threats. I don't think we are prejudging. I think we are taking evidence, and going, 'Uh-oh black clouds coming in, wind is picking up, I think I better head for a shelter.’ … I think when you use the word ‘profile,’ if a Dalmatian has been biting the children in the neighborhood, I think we're going to look for a black and white dog. The gangs of blacks lately that have been just been going down the downtown streets and breaking windows on cars. 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. Twenty-nine shot, 29 blacks shot by 29 blacks. At some point, you've gotta be afraid of black and white dogs if the Dalmatian is doing the biting."

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    On July 22, 2013, Nugent tweeted, “Damn shame TavisSmiley Sharpton et al r blind drunk on terminal racism.” Nugent was referring to Tavis Smiley, a liberal political commentator and Reverend Al Sharpton, a civil rights activist and television/talk radio show host. Nugent also tweeted, “We sincerelypray for black America but enuf[sic] of the self indlictedracism[sic] already.”

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    In a July 16, 2013 interview on the Alex Jones Show, Nugent said "The Black Problem" needed to be addressed. Nugent explained: “The blacks have bought into this lie that somehow they're oppressed when the President is black, the Attorney General is black, governors are black, senators black, congressmen are black, mayors are black, Oprah Winfrey, the richest people in the world are black. It’s a dirty lie … If I could impress upon and inspire and beg everyone listening now, we got to reach out to every black person we know and encounter. We have to pray for black America and beg our fellow Americans who are black to admit to this suicidal, self-inflicted curse that you've bought into the big lie of Jesse Jackson and Eric Holder and Al Sharpton, that you're not helpless, you're not a slave, you're not worthless, you're not inept, you can do anything you want to do to get out of the self-inflicted shackles that have been brought upon the race baiters and the racist industry … The food stamp scam. The welfare scam. Blacks can fix the black problem tonight if they just admit they can do anything I can do, anything Alex Jones can do, anything Thomas Sowell can do, anything that any American can do if you put your heart and soul into being honest, law abiding, delivering excellence at every move in your life.” Finally, Nugent added, "Racism against blacks was gone by the time I started touring the nation in the late 60s. It was gone. I have black musicians, I see blacks ascending to whatever heights they wanted. There was no oppression … They might have run into racism occasionally like I did because I had long hair ... and by the 70s … Nothing of consequence existed to deter or compromise a black American’s dream if they got an alarm clock, if they set it, if they took good care of themselves, they remained clean and sober, if they spoke clearly, and they demanded excellence of themselves and provided excellence to their employers.

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    On July 14, 2013, in an interview with Newsmax, Nugent spoke about the acquittal of George Zimmerman. Zimmerman was charged with second degree murder for shooting and killing unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. Nugent stated, “The entire prosecutorial team should be ashamed of themselves and disbarred for kowtowing to the hateful anti-justice racist pressures.” Nugent praised the jury, saying, “Smart and honest America rejoices that the jury got it right. This was the purest case of self-defense you could have ever asked for.” Nugent added, “The ultimate lesson for anyone paying attention is ‘Be sure you educate your children to not attack people for no reason whatsoever.’”

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    In a July 14, 2013 column featured at the website Rare.us, Nugent called shooting victim Trayvon Martin a “17-year-old dope smoking, racist gangsta wannabe.” An unarmed Martin was shot and killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. According to Nugent, “Trayvon Martin was…responsible for his bad decisions and standard modus operendi [sic] of always taking the violent route … The only racism on that night was perpetrated by Trayvon Martin, and everybody knows it.” In fact, Martin had no violent criminal history. Zimmerman, on the other hand, did. He had previously been arrested for assaulting a police officer and had been the subject of a prior restraining order for domestic abuse. Furthermore, Zimmerman had been profiling and following young black men in his community for months.

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    In a July 2, 2013 interview in Washington Post Magazine, Nugent stated that it was at his suggestion that Texas Governor Rick Perry, dealing with feral hog populations that were destroying crops, signed a law allowing private hunters to shoot the animals from helicopters. During a paid appearance in San Antonio, Nugent repeated the story and stated, “Lots of places have a hog problem. In Texas, the hogs have a Ted problem … And now if they would just take me to South Central. Okay! I kid.” After the 1992 riots that broke out in South Central Los Angeles following the verdict in the Rodney King trial, the New York Times characterized the area as a "national symbol of rage in a poor black neighborhood." Rodney King was an African-American construction worker who was beaten by Los Angeles police officers during a traffic stop. Today, the area is mostly Latino and is officially known as South Los Angeles.

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    In June 27, 2013 radio interview on the Christian Nationalist radio show “Sons of Liberty,” Nugent called former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a “murderer” for her role in responding to the September 2012 Benghazi embassy attacks during which Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others State Department employees were killed. Nugent also called President Obama a “Chicago gangster” and “die-hard communist.” “It's gone tipsy turvy where we have a Chicago gangster, ACORN community organizer, scam artist and diehard Communist as the President of the United States, a gunrunning Attorney General, an absolute buffoon for a Vice President and a murderer as the Secretary of State who intentionally kept security away from American citizens so they can get blown to smithereens,” added Nugent. An investigation by the State Department Accountability Review Board found that mistakes were made in the response to the attacks, but that those decisions were not made at the level of Secretary of State. Nugent’s reference to the failed “Fast and Furious” operation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) similarly ignored the fact that Attorney General Eric Holder has always stated that he was unaware of the operation until it was concluded. Holder’s statement was supported by an extensive investigation by the Department of Justice Inspector General.

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    On May 8, 2013, in a column for World Net Daily, Nugent wrote that his "Nuge Immigration Plan" should be implemented because "We don't need any more bloodsuckers." He also suggested that America "apply Sherriff Joe Arpaio justice" to anyone who has been deported for committing a crime and caught trying to re-enter the country. According to Nugent, "The anchor baby scam should be immediately rescinded. You don't need to be a constitutional expert like our President to know that the original intent of the 14th Amendment was not to provide citizenship to illegal women or their babies who are born on American soil."

    The “Anchor Baby” narrative pushed by Nugent is largely a myth. Most families immigrate to the United States for simple economic reasons, not to have children. Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a sheriff working along the Arizona-Mexico border. In 2011 a Justice Department report found that Arpaio had committed wide ranging civil rights violations and instituted racial profiling. In May, 2013 a federal judge ruled that Arpaio had violated the rights of Latinos by targeting them during raids and police stops.

    Nugent also derided government efforts to communicate through Spanish language documents saying, “The most racist thing our government does is to print literature in Spanish, thereby encouraging people not to learn English and deny themselves all the American Dream has to offer.”

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    On May 8, 2013, in a column for World Net Daily, Nugent wrote that his "Nuge Immigration Plan" should be implemented because "We don't need any more bloodsuckers." He also suggested that America "apply Sherriff Joe Arpaio justice" to anyone who has been deported for committing a crime and caught trying to re-enter the country. According to Nugent, "The anchor baby scam should be immediately rescinded. You don't need to be a constitutional expert like our President to know that the original intent of the 14th Amendment was not to provide citizenship to illegal women or their babies who are born on American soil."

    The “Anchor Baby” narrative pushed by Nugent is largely a myth. Most families immigrate to the United States for simple economic reasons, not to have children. Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a sheriff working along the Arizona-Mexico border. In 2011 a Justice Department report found that Arpaio had committed wide ranging civil rights violations and instituted racial profiling. In May, 2013 a federal judge ruled that Arpaio had violated the rights of Latinos by targeting them during raids and police stops.

    Nugent also derided government efforts to communicate through Spanish language documents saying, “The most racist thing our government does is to print literature in Spanish, thereby encouraging people not to learn English and deny themselves all the American Dream has to offer.”

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    On March 26, 2013, Nugent appeared on right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ radio show. Jones has accused the U.S. government of being involved in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. On the show, Nugent compared a video in which actor/comedian Jim Carrey criticized the NRA to what the Nazis did during the Holocaust, stating, “In Nuremberg 1938, we got there late, but when we finally got there we made those subhuman, Nazi, brown-shirt punks walk through Auschwitz and look [at] what they caused. Look what they did and this Jim Carrey moment is a mirror that we can show somebody, hopefully soon, that these people enhance crime, they encourage crime, they facilitate and guarantee more innocent dead citizens.” (Religion)

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    In a March 2013 interview with Brett Winterble on Sirius XM radio, Nugent stated, “I took my machine gun in the helicopter—in the Texas hill country—me and my buddy ‘Pigman.' His name is ‘Pigman’; I’m the swine czar. I killed 455 hogs with my machine gun. I did it for Bill Maher and all those other animal rights freaks out there.” Bill Maher is a political commentator, host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and a board member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

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    In March 2013 Nugent spoke on conspiracy theorist Pete Santilli’s online radio show. On his website, Santilli has promoted a conspiracy theory that the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, in which 20 first-graders and six adults were killed, was a “satanic sacrifice.” Santilli also posted images that suggest the shooting was predicted by a map seen in the Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises.” Nugent told Santilli, “I know that if you believe animals have rights, I promise I will kill an extra hundred just for you … You see, I never poisoned my body. My parents taught me that my gift of life is embodied in the sacred temple. So no drugs, no alcohol, no tobacco and no fat chicks. Stuff will kill you, Pete, I'm telling you, it's deadly. But I have been known to chew on a Cuban, that's a cigar. I wouldn't chew on a Cuban, they haven't figured out personal hygiene yet.” Nugent also spoke about President Barack Obama, stating, “The President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama went to the Vietnam Memorial Wall. He did his smoke and mirrors scam. He pretended to show respect and honor, 58,000 American warriors who died fighting communism. And then he hired, appointed and associates with communists.” There is no evidence that President Obama has ever hired a communist. As for Nugent, he admitted evading the draft for the Vietnam War by taking controlled substances and smearing his body with feces before a fitness exam. Nugent continued in the interview, stating, “If you can't see through the dishonesty and the scamming of this president with that scenario fresh in your mind, then that's literally like, I guess that would be like, I don't know, a German in 1938 pretending to respect the Jews and then going home and putting on his brown shirt and forcing his neighbors onto a train to be burned to death. So we really have a rotten, rotten man in the White House who I am convinced hates America, hates individuality.”

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    In February 2013, Nugent appeared on right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ radio show. Jones has accused the U.S. government of being involved in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Nugent said, “Alex, you're doing God's work … What you're celebrating, and what you are sharing with the radio listeners out there is indisputable, it's irrefutable, and I got to thank you because it's so late in coming that those of us with the balls and the inside view of the criminality of this government right now, the unprecedented abuse of power and corruption and fraud and deceit by the Chicago gangster scammer ACORN-in-Chief [President Barack Obama] is so diabolical that I just wanted to say thank you from the trenches.” Nugent was making reference to ACORN, a community activist organization and its affiliate, Project Vote. After the 2008 election, the John McCain (R-AZ) campaign accused the group of perpetrating “massive voter fraud.” Neither ACORN nor its employees have ever been found guilty of—or even charged with—casting fraudulent votes. Several ACORN canvassers have been found guilty of faking registration forms. The evidence shows that the canvassers faked the forms to get paid for work they didn’t do, not to stuff ballot boxes. A report by the Congressional Research Service, the nonpartisan public policy research arm of the U.S. Congress, stated that there were no instances of individuals who were allegedly registered to vote improperly by ACORN or its employees and who were reported "attempting to vote at the polls."

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    In February 2013, Nugent appeared on right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ radio show. Jones has accused the U.S. government of being involved in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Nugent said, “Alex, you're doing God's work … What you're celebrating, and what you are sharing with the radio listeners out there is indisputable, it's irrefutable, and I got to thank you because it's so late in coming that those of us with the balls and the inside view of the criminality of this government right now, the unprecedented abuse of power and corruption and fraud and deceit by the Chicago gangster scammer ACORN-in-Chief [President Barack Obama] is so diabolical that I just wanted to say thank you from the trenches.” Nugent was making reference to ACORN, a community activist organization and its affiliate, Project Vote. After the 2008 election, the John McCain (R-AZ) campaign accused the group of perpetrating “massive voter fraud.” Neither ACORN nor its employees have ever been found guilty of—or even charged with—casting fraudulent votes. Several ACORN canvassers have been found guilty of faking registration forms. The evidence shows that the canvassers faked the forms to get paid for work they didn’t do, not to stuff ballot boxes. A report by the Congressional Research Service, the nonpartisan public policy research arm of the U.S. Congress, stated that there were no instances of individuals who were allegedly registered to vote improperly by ACORN or its employees and who were reported "attempting to vote at the polls."

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    On January 30, 2013, Nugent tweeted, “Animals hav rights to garlic & butter over mesquite coals.”

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    On January 22, 2013, Nugent tweeted, “Reed Exhibitions Harrisburg PA event blew it royal by banning America's #1 sporting competition self defense rifles. Braindead cannibals.” The Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show in Harrisburg, Pennysylvania was postponed and eventually cancelled in February 2013 when Reed Exhibitions, a British event organizing company, announced that assault rifles, and products associated with assault rifles, would not be allowed at the show.

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    In a January 18, 2013 interview with Noisecreep, a music news and media website, Nugent discussed proposed gun violence prevention legislation which arose in the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 first-graders and six adults were killed. When asked how universal background checks and firearms registration infringes on the Second Amendment, Nugent replied, “One would have to live under a giant boulder of denial to pretend registration has not and will not lead to confiscation. Whoever asked this question must be dangerously ignorant of history.” In fact, throughout U.S. history, federal and state laws have required registration of certain firearms, and such measures have never led to any confiscation of firearms from those in compliance with the law.

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    In a January 13, 2013 radio interview with conservative radio host Aaron Klein, Nugent addressed a gun violence prevention task force created by President Barack Obama in the wake of a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 first-graders and six adults were killed. Nugent stated, “Well, you’re asking for quite an adventure delving into the psychotic behavior of the President … A person who lives by logic and studies history and tries to implement the lessons learned by history cannot begin to rationally explain the conduct of this President or his attorney general or this administration … It is psychotic, it is crazy, it's illogical. I believe it's clearly and dangerously anti-American, anti-humanity … [President] Obama’s dream already exists, and those are called gun-free zones, and that is where the most innocent lives are lost. What kind of monster would want more of these? Because if you ask for more gun-free zones, if you further disarm innocent Americans, you are literally engineering slaughters.” Despite Nugent’s claims, one study found that only one-third of mass shootings (in which four or more innocents are killed) occurring between January 2009 and January 2013 occurred in “gun-free zones.”

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    In a January 8, 2013 interview on the Peter Schiff radio show, Nugent stated, “I drive the left batty. My mere existence causes them much and anguish so I couldn’t be more proud … We could go on and on about the virtual insanity of this Democrat, leftist, socialist liberal cult of denial … I’ve spent too much time with the heroes of the military, and especially the heart-wrenching moments where we salute flag-draped coffins, who have died because they sacrificed everything for the U.S. Constitution and what it stands for. It’s as simple as that. And we have a government so out of control, so corrupt, so abusive of power and so unjust and illogical and anti-American in their every thought and action that I am dedicated more and more patriots across this country to show respect for these heroes of the military that sacrificed everything for the Constitution while our government offends the Constitution that they’ve taken an oath and avowed to.” Nugent, by his own account, avoided being drafted for the Vietnam War in the 1970s by taking controlled substances and smearing his body with feces before a fitness exam. In the interview, Nugent added, “The importance of focusing on the right to keep and bear arms really is the deciding factor in America versus the rest of the world. If the people in power, [New York Mayor] Michael Bloomberg, [House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi, [Senator] Dianne Feinstein, [Attorney General] Eric Holder, when the people in power are dedicated to flagrantly, blatantly, unflinchingly, to force American citizens into unarmed helplessness and that’s their agenda, the Pelosis and the Eric Holders and the [President] Barack Obamas of the world, they don’t wanna save lives. They don’t care about reducing crime. They are absolutely obsessed with their hatred for firearms and the freedom that goes with it … It is gun-free zones, it is [Senator] Barbara Boxer’s dream, it is Dianne Feinstein’s and Barack Obama’s dream called the gun-free zone where the most innocent lives are slaughtered every time … Unarmed and helpless is an irresponsible and suicidal condition. If you believe that being unarmed and helpless is a desirable condition, then quite honestly, you have no soul. You must not respect the gift of life. You must not care about your family’s life.” Despite Nugent’s claims, one study found that only one-third of mass shootings (in which four or more innocents are killed) occurring between January 2009 and January 2013 occurred in “gun-free zones.”

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    In a January 4, 2013 radio interview on the Rusty Humphries show, Nugent spoke about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut in which 20 first-grade students and six adults were killed. Nugent stated, “We must all finally demand that we ban the environment where all these violent attacks and murders take place, and Rusty, they always take place in gun-free zones. What kind of mongrel would want more gun-free zones.” Humphries replied, “Well, it appears to be the entire Democratic Party.” Nugent then remarked, “That would be the mongrels, yes.” Despite Nugent’s claims, one study found that only one-third of mass shootings (in which four or more innocents are killed) occurring between January 2009 and January 2013 occurred in “gun-free zones.”

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    In a January 3, 2013 radio interview on KMOX, a St. Louis radio station, Nugent spoke about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in which 20 first-graders and 6 adults were killed. He stated, “Anyone who would think that by increasing the environment, increasing the circumstances by which these horrific slaughters have taken place, 100% of the time. Gun-free zones are where these slaughters occur. What kind of mongrel—[New York] Mayor [Mike] Bloomberg—what kind of subhuman punk—[California Senator] Dianne Feinstein—would dare request more gun-free zones?” Despite Nugent’s claims, one study found that only one-third of mass shootings (in which four or more innocents are killed) occurring between January 2009 and January 2013 occurred in “gun-free zones.” Radio host Mark Reardon asked Nugent to respond to claims that individuals do not need semi-automatic assault weapons to hunt. Nugent replied, “You’d literally have to have traded your soul and your brain in for a sunbaked turd to make that kind of statement.”

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  • Animal Rights

    In fan videos from Nugent’s “Black Power 2013” tour, he attacked President Barack Obama, calling him the "lying racist in the White House.” Nugent also attacked the "criminal pieces of sh-t in the IRS," "dirty cocksuckers in the government," "the jack boot Nazi motherf--kers in the Department of Justice," "f--king retarded mongrels" who support animal rights, and "well-fed motherf--ker food stamp cocksuckers." Nugent also stated, "When the British came to take our guns we met them at Concord Bridge and we blew their f--king brains out," and told the audience, "keep a f--king gun in your hand, boys." He was referring to the American Revolutionary Battle at Concord in which the militia defeated three companies of King George’s troops at North Bridge.

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  • Poverty

    In fan videos from Nugent’s “Black Power 2013” tour, he attacked President Barack Obama, calling him the "lying racist in the White House.” Nugent also attacked the "criminal pieces of sh-t in the IRS," "dirty cocksuckers in the government," "the jack boot Nazi motherf--kers in the Department of Justice," "f--king retarded mongrels" who support animal rights, and "well-fed motherf--ker food stamp cocksuckers." Nugent also stated, "When the British came to take our guns we met them at Concord Bridge and we blew their f--king brains out," and told the audience, "keep a f--king gun in your hand, boys." He was referring to the American Revolutionary Battle at Concord in which the militia defeated three companies of King George’s troops at North Bridge.

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  • Race

    In fan videos from Nugent’s “Black Power 2013” tour, he attacked President Barack Obama, calling him the "lying racist in the White House.” Nugent also attacked the "criminal pieces of sh-t in the IRS," "dirty cocksuckers in the government," "the jack boot Nazi motherf--kers in the Department of Justice," "f--king retarded mongrels" who support animal rights, and "well-fed motherf--ker food stamp cocksuckers." Nugent also stated, "When the British came to take our guns we met them at Concord Bridge and we blew their f--king brains out," and told the audience, "keep a f--king gun in your hand, boys." He was referring to the American Revolutionary Battle at Concord in which the militia defeated three companies of King George’s troops at North Bridge.

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  • Vigilantism

    In fan videos from Nugent’s “Black Power 2013” tour, he attacked President Barack Obama, calling him the "lying racist in the White House.” Nugent also attacked the "criminal pieces of sh-t in the IRS," "dirty cocksuckers in the government," "the jack boot Nazi motherf--kers in the Department of Justice," "f--king retarded mongrels" who support animal rights, and "well-fed motherf--ker food stamp cocksuckers." Nugent also stated, "When the British came to take our guns we met them at Concord Bridge and we blew their f--king brains out," and told the audience, "keep a f--king gun in your hand, boys." He was referring to the American Revolutionary Battle at Concord in which the militia defeated three companies of King George’s troops at North Bridge.

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  • Other Statements

    In a December 31, 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent offered Vice President Joe Biden his “services and a lifetime of expertise on guns” as Biden prepared to chair a Presidentially-appointed task force on gun violence prevention in the wake of a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut in which 20 first-grade students and six adults were killed. Nugent wrote, “Clearly, the focus on solving these mass murders must be on the mentally ill. In almost every instance of mass killing, there were ample red flags and warning alarms that either were avoided or were not acted upon by mental health professionals, family members, friends and acquaintances. While I deeply respect an individual’s privacy and civil liberties, the American people need basic awareness of what indicators to look for regarding potentially violent, psychotic people … You will find in your assessment that all of the massacres have occurred in gun-free zones. What gun-free zones create is an environment where good people are unarmed and virtually defenseless against an unstable person intent on committing mass murder. Gun-free zones are modern killing fields. I implore you to recommend that Congress pass a law to ban gun-free zones immediately … I encourage you also to keep this misnamed ‘gun violence’ in perspective. While all deaths are tragic, the vast majority of gun-related murders and violence are committed by gang members who do not use guns that look like—but do not perform like—military assault weapons.” Despite Nugent’s claims, one study found that only one-third of mass shootings (in which four or more innocents are killed) occurring between January 2009 and January 2013 occurred in “gun-free zones.” Additionally, the FBI Uniform Crime Report indicates that only approximately 10% of homicides annually in the United States are related to gang activity.

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    In a November 21, 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “In yet another never-ending series of terminal ding-dong moves, members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union went on strike and drove Hostess out of business, providing one more stinking example of how labor unions can no longer have their cake and it eat it, too … Labor unions are bad for business. With just these four short opening paragraphs, the allergic-to-logic, empty Twinkie heads of anti-capitalism liberals are surely spinning ‘round and ‘round. They will ignorantly shriek that big business is greedy and needs more government regulation, that businesses have all kinds of obligations to their employees, that labor unions are still needed and that liberals know what is best for the economy … Unemployed long enough, even liberals with noggins full of economic balderdash put there by comedians Jon Stewart and Bill Maher, and liberal college instructors who have never owned or managed a business will begin to understand that anti-business, pro-union liberalism doesn’t pay the rent. Ding-dong that.” Hostess, the maker of Twinkies and Ding-Dongs, filed for bankruptcy in January 2012. On November 9, 2012, Hostess employees went on strike after the company imposed a contract cutting worker’s wages by 8 percent and benefits by 27 percent to 32 percent. In mid-November 2012, the company began selling its factories and assets. Hostess also began laying off its 18,500 workers.

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    In the early hours of the morning following Election Day 2012, Nugent tweeted the following:

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    In an October 30, 2012 interview with the Washington Times, Nugent spoke about social welfare programs, stating, “We are all heartbroken that the Herculean work ethic that…made America The Last Best Place has dwindled considerably since the big lies of The New Deal and The Great Society succeeded in brainwashing a segment of our country to believe Fedzilla would provide for anyone who decided, for whatever reason, to not be productive.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal was responsible for creating the Social Security Administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Housing Administration, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society was responsible for the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, and a variety of other anti-poverty programs. These programs drastically reduced the rate of poverty nationally. Nugent also spoke about his hometown of Detroit, Michigan, stating, “It is so very true that my birth city of Detroit was the cleanest, most neighborly, positive-energy, work-ethic epicenter of planet earth when I was born there in 1948, right on through to the 1960s. Enter the liberal death wish of Mayor Coleman Young and a tsunami of negative, anti-productivity policies by liberal Democrats that put a voodoo curse on our beloved Motor City. When you train and reward people to scam, cheat and refuse to be productive, there is only one direction that society can go: straight down the toilet. It is truly a heartbreaker. Some wonderful people are still to be found back home, but they are outnumbered by the pimps, whores and welfare brats that have made bloodsucking a lifestyle. And now we have a president who is doing everything he can to take the whole country down that same path. Truly amazing.”

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    On October 26, 2012, Nugent tweeted, “The Obama gang turned their soulless slimy backs on Americans in Benghazi. Criminal corruption & abuse of power.” Nugent was referring to an attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya on September 11, 2012. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack. Congressional hearings revealed that the State Department was aware of, and rejected, several requests for increased security in Benghazi. In addition, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives reduced funding for embassy security. Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), chairman of the U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, when asked why Republicans took this step, stated, “Look, we have to make priorities and choices in this country. We have…15,000 contractors in Iraq. We have more than 6,000 contractors, a private army there, for President Obama, in Baghdad. And we’re talking about can we get two dozen or so people into Libya to help protect our forces. When you’re in tough economic times, you have to make difficult choices. You have to prioritize things.”

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    On October 16, 2012, Nugent tweeted, “ [President Barack] Obama is the ultimate Saul Alinsky & Cloward/Piven smoke&mirrors liar from hell. God help America.” Saul Alinsky was a community organizer and writer in the mid-20th century. In 1971, he wrote a book called “Rules for Radicals” which described his theory and methods of organizing. Richard Cloward and Frances Piven were sociologists and political activists. They outlined a political strategy in 1966 that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty." President Barack Obama has never publicly mentioned Saul Alinsky, Richard Cloward or Frances Piven nor, has he supported a guaranteed annual income in place of welfare.

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    On October 10, 2012, Nugent tweeted, “Yeah thats it-The FtHood massacre was a workplace act of violence Yeah, thats the ticket Goodcall gang Obama lying enemies of America. damnU.” Nugent was referring to a mass shooting at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009. In that shooting, Nidal Hassan, an Army psychiatrist, killed 12 people and wounded 30 others after legally purchasing a handgun and ammunition. The Department of Defense classified the shooting as “workplace violence.”

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    On October 10, 2012, Nugent tweeted, “How soulless must the [President Barack] Obama gang be to refuse basic security for Americans around the world on 9-11. Criminal complicity to murder treason.” Nugent was referring to an attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya on September 11, 2012. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack. Congressional hearings revealed that the State Department was aware of, and rejected, several requests for increased security in Benghazi. In addition, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives reduced funding for embassy security. Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), chairman of the U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, when asked why Republicans took this step, stated, “Look, we have to make priorities and choices in this country. We have…15,000 contractors in Iraq. We have more than 6,000 contractors, a private army there, for President Obama, in Baghdad. And we’re talking about can we get two dozen or so people into Libya to help protect our forces. When you’re in tough economic times, you have to make difficult choices. You have to prioritize things.”

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    In an October 9, 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “In a world strangled by the curse of politically correct denial, dopey liberals in media and academia have brainwashed a strange subspecies of beings into accepting and embracing the pathetic condition of being unarmed and helpless. The slaughter rages on in gun-free zones around the world. Shame. Here’s a lifesaving alert to the dependent masses: Unarmed and helpless is unarmed and helpless. The evil guys running amok here, there and everywhere appreciate you very much, for they are assured in your gun-free zones that you are incapable of doing a darned thing when they decide to eat you alive, beat you to death, rape, rob, assault, torture and do with you as they wish, for you, my poor pathetic sheep, have chosen to be unarmed and helpless. To bow before evil is as soulless as soulless gets. No thank you. Those of us who dearly appreciate the precious gift of life follow our powerful instincts for self-preservation and have made it a priority to be ready to defend ourselves. Those on the lunatic fringe can squawk and moan all they want; the rest of us need no interpretation of ‘keep and bear.’ ‘Keep’ means it’s mine, and you can’t have it, and ‘bear’ means one thing and one thing only: I have one or two on me, and they’re loaded. Drive safely … For the brainwashed cult of denial drooling in the shadow of a gun-hating media and White House: With all this unprecedented increase in guns and ammo in American citizens’ hands, the use of guns in crime is at an all-time low.”

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    In an October 8, 2012 radio interview with Rusty Humphries, Nugent stated, “You know why you love my greasy soulful black soul music? You know why you love it so much? Because on all my Gibson guitars, I have illegally imported Indian fretboads. That's one thing I demand from Gibson is that if they are going to make me a guitar they will use illegally imported wood so that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife has a conniption fit every time I play." Nugent was referring to several U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department raids on the guitar maker Gibson for importing endangered wood. Nugent told Humphries that one of his new songs was about how, “The whole word sucks, but America still sucks less and if we don’t get these gangsters out of the White House we’re gonna suck ourselves to death … [Government is] so out of control now, the new normal is offensive, vulgar, obscene, and anti-American at the hands of a community organizer who is intentionally dismantling the greatest quality of life in the history of mankind.” When asked what he thought of polls that showed President Barack Obama holding a slight lead over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Nugent replied, “Well, when you read those kind of manipulated and dishonest polls it actually does increase confidence [in Mitt Romney] because the leftist media is so addicted to dishonesty and misrepresentation and manipulation … I believe there’s more of us than the bloodsuckers that [President] Barack Obama and his gangsters have bought and paid for and if that offends somebody who is listening to Rusty Humphries and Ted Nugent, you need to get a clue because this president has bought his votes by offering something from the productive Americans to the non-productive Americans … If you look at the average voter for Barack Obama, he’s either receiving something from the taxpayer or he’s an elected official or government employee that is being overpaid.” Turning to the topic of his family, Nugent stated, “We shoot pretty much every day. I shoot every day … Unarmed citizens are slaves so we take our shooting very seriously.”

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  • Conspiracy Theory

    In an October 7, 2012 interview on Armed America Radio, Nugent stated, “Regardless of your ideology, this guy, this President Barack Obama clearly is intentionally dismantling the greatest quality of life in the history of the world. His policies are anti-American. His polices and his czars and his administration are anti-American, anti-quality of life, anti-freedom, anti-liberty, and anti-being the best that you can be. Every word, deed, and action by Obama is against the very spirit of rugged individualism, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution … This guy, this Barack Obama is a Mao Zedong wannabe. Everything he stands for, all of his policies, all of his smoke and mirrors, his mastery of deception and deceit and outright lying, is so Mao Zedong. In fact a lot of his czars, a lot of Barack Obama's czars, will look right in the camera and say, ‘Yeah, I'm a communist and I like it’ … The President of the United States, the Commander in Chief, which is supposed to be respected by the heroes of our U.S. military; Barack Obama goes to the Vietnam memorial wall in Washington where 58,000 American patriots and heroes and warriors gave their lives fighting communism. When he is not at the wall pretending to show tribute to these warriors, he's implementing communism. The very system that these warriors died fighting against … And for Americans to accept that the Commander in Chief is implementing communist policies while feigning respect for heroes who fought communism is one of the most vile, repugnant, obscene gestures in the history of American politics.” Nugent, by his own account, evaded being drafted for the Vietnam War in the 1970s by taking controlled substances and smearing his body with feces before a fitness exam.

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    In an October 7, 2012 interview on Armed America Radio, Nugent stated, “Regardless of your ideology, this guy, this President Barack Obama clearly is intentionally dismantling the greatest quality of life in the history of the world. His policies are anti-American. His polices and his czars and his administration are anti-American, anti-quality of life, anti-freedom, anti-liberty, and anti-being the best that you can be. Every word, deed, and action by Obama is against the very spirit of rugged individualism, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution … This guy, this Barack Obama is a Mao Zedong wannabe. Everything he stands for, all of his policies, all of his smoke and mirrors, his mastery of deception and deceit and outright lying, is so Mao Zedong. In fact a lot of his czars, a lot of Barack Obama's czars, will look right in the camera and say, ‘Yeah, I'm a communist and I like it’ … The President of the United States, the Commander in Chief, which is supposed to be respected by the heroes of our U.S. military; Barack Obama goes to the Vietnam memorial wall in Washington where 58,000 American patriots and heroes and warriors gave their lives fighting communism. When he is not at the wall pretending to show tribute to these warriors, he's implementing communism. The very system that these warriors died fighting against … And for Americans to accept that the Commander in Chief is implementing communist policies while feigning respect for heroes who fought communism is one of the most vile, repugnant, obscene gestures in the history of American politics.” Nugent, by his own account, evaded being drafted for the Vietnam War in the 1970s by taking controlled substances and smearing his body with feces before a fitness exam.

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    In an October 2, 2012 radio interview on 101 KXL, a Portland, Oregon news radio station, Nugent stated, “[Michigan] turned into a liberal cesspool of slovenliness and gluttony and just entrenched irresponsibility…the opposite of what I grew up in Michigan … Positive spirit and entrepreneurial work ethic…is still alive and well in Michigan, it’s just been overwhelmed by the pimps and the whores and the welfare brats.” Nugent continued, stating, “I couldn’t be more proud, in 2012, hippies and communists hate me. They hate me, which means I’m really really a good person.” When asked what he would do if President Barack Obama won the election in November 2012, Nugent replied, “I’ve saluted too many flag-draped coffins to give up. I’ve spent too much time with U.S. Marines with no legs and Army heroes with no arms and Navy and Air Force and Coast Guard and National Guard guys who have given up everything to give up … If Barack Obama gets back in, I’ll just turn up the heat and fight to demand the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and that ‘We the People’ get more engaged and take this country back from these criminals. Barack Obama and [U.S. Attorney General] Eric Holder and [U.S. Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton and [U.S. Treasury Secretary] Tim Geithner and other czars, they’re all America-hating punks. They hate this country. They hate freedom. They hate excellence. They hate entrepreneurialism. They hate genuine effort. They think there’s somehow some kind of fairness available where people who don’t try as hard somehow benefit the same way as people that try really hard. That’s just buffoonery. That’s just a Karl Marx [author of the ‘Communist Manifesto’], [Former Leader of Communist China] Mao Tse-tung insult.” Nugent, by his own account, evaded being drafted for the Vietnam War in the 1970s by taking controlled substances and smearing his body with feces before a fitness exam.

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  • Conspiracy Theory

    In an October 1, 2012 interview with Big Hollywood, Nugent stated, “[President] Barack Obama hates America. Barack Obama hates freedom. Barack Obama's voting record, his upbringing, his education, his words, his actions, his misdeeds, all reek of everything anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-Bill of Rights. The latter of which is most deviously manifested in his voting record against the individual right to keep and bear arms … America faces doom if we re-elect Barack Obama to the presidency. It is a dire, dangerous forecast for freedom … If he wins in November he won't have to kowtow, he won't have to placate anybody anymore. He will be able to go for the jugular, and that includes the jugular of the Second Amendment. He will begin again what he did in Illinois as a gangster politician and go against gun rights, he will tax ammunition, he will ban certain types of bullets, and he will ban certain types of firearms. His goal is Attorney General Eric Holder's goal: namely, to brainwash Americans into believing that guns are bad and that the Second Amendment does not mean individuals have the right to keep and bear arms. Barack Obama is a smoke-and-mirrors scam artist who has convinced people he believes one and one equals two, while he shoves three-and-a-half down your throat … In November 2012, we are voting for [Republican presidential candidate Mitt] Romney/[Republican vice presidential candidate Paul]Ryan because we are voting for the very soul of America. If Barack Obama is elected again, this country is done." Nugent was referring to a speech Eric Holder, then-U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, gave to the Woman’s National Democratic Club on gun violence in 1995. Holder stated, “We want to have…an informational campaign to change the hearts and minds of people in Washington, D.C. and particularly young people. They are saturated in the media and entertainment, or by the entertainment industry, with violence. And I think too many of our young people, in particular our young men, are fascinated with violence, and in particular fascinated with guns. What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that’s not cool, that it’s not acceptable, it’s not hip to carry a gun anymore, in the way in which we changed our attitudes about cigarettes. When I was growing up, people smoked all the time…but over time we changed the way people thought about smoking…and that’s what I think we need to do with guns, really change the way people think about them … This is not going to be something that’s very easy to do, because we are, quite frankly, fighting something that appears every day on television, on the radio, in our popular music, in movies that these kids are exposed to … We need to get really innovative, really creative things that are gonna grab the attention of these kids and change, as I said, the way in which they think about guns … I have asked the school board to make a part of every day some kind of anti-violence, anti-gun message. Every day, every school, at every level. One thing I think is clear with young people, and adults as well, is that we just have to be repetitive about this … We need to do this every day of the week and just really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”

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    In an October 1, 2012 interview with Big Hollywood, Nugent stated, “[President] Barack Obama hates America. Barack Obama hates freedom. Barack Obama's voting record, his upbringing, his education, his words, his actions, his misdeeds, all reek of everything anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-Bill of Rights. The latter of which is most deviously manifested in his voting record against the individual right to keep and bear arms … America faces doom if we re-elect Barack Obama to the presidency. It is a dire, dangerous forecast for freedom … If he wins in November he won't have to kowtow, he won't have to placate anybody anymore. He will be able to go for the jugular, and that includes the jugular of the Second Amendment. He will begin again what he did in Illinois as a gangster politician and go against gun rights, he will tax ammunition, he will ban certain types of bullets, and he will ban certain types of firearms. His goal is Attorney General Eric Holder's goal: namely, to brainwash Americans into believing that guns are bad and that the Second Amendment does not mean individuals have the right to keep and bear arms. Barack Obama is a smoke-and-mirrors scam artist who has convinced people he believes one and one equals two, while he shoves three-and-a-half down your throat … In November 2012, we are voting for [Republican presidential candidate Mitt] Romney/[Republican vice presidential candidate Paul]Ryan because we are voting for the very soul of America. If Barack Obama is elected again, this country is done." Nugent was referring to a speech Eric Holder, then-U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, gave to the Woman’s National Democratic Club on gun violence in 1995. Holder stated, “We want to have…an informational campaign to change the hearts and minds of people in Washington, D.C. and particularly young people. They are saturated in the media and entertainment, or by the entertainment industry, with violence. And I think too many of our young people, in particular our young men, are fascinated with violence, and in particular fascinated with guns. What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that’s not cool, that it’s not acceptable, it’s not hip to carry a gun anymore, in the way in which we changed our attitudes about cigarettes. When I was growing up, people smoked all the time…but over time we changed the way people thought about smoking…and that’s what I think we need to do with guns, really change the way people think about them … This is not going to be something that’s very easy to do, because we are, quite frankly, fighting something that appears every day on television, on the radio, in our popular music, in movies that these kids are exposed to … We need to get really innovative, really creative things that are gonna grab the attention of these kids and change, as I said, the way in which they think about guns … I have asked the school board to make a part of every day some kind of anti-violence, anti-gun message. Every day, every school, at every level. One thing I think is clear with young people, and adults as well, is that we just have to be repetitive about this … We need to do this every day of the week and just really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”

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    In an October 1, 2012 radio interview on KMOX, a St. Louis news radio station, Nugent spoke about the November 2012 presidential campaign, stating, “[Republican vice presidential candidate] Paul [Ryan] is a great man … He is really a keeper. He’s one of the best of the best and I really believe that what [Republican presidential candidate] Mitt Romney has learned over the years really makes him better than just a good man, he’s now a great man. He would be such a vast improvement over this current criminal administration and the policies that clearly are against the American way and against being the best that you can be. So, Mitt Romney picked the right guy. Paul Ryan’s a real blood-brother, man … Bow-hunting really is the most difficult thing in the world, as far as a self-imposed challenge goes … There’s a real higher level of awareness that one attains, that one has to aspire to and Paul Ryan has achieved that. He’s a dedicated, very successful bow-hunter. And that higher level of awareness that drives your higher level of awareness on every level of life is what has made [Paul Ryan] a great representative, a great U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights representative of ‘We the People’ of Wisconsin. So, what he can do in America, I think we have seen with [Wisconsin Governor] Scott Walker, Tommy Thompson, the past governor and hopefully U.S. Senate from Wisconsin and with Paul Ryan as Congressman. I mean, Wisconsin went from a suburb of the hash-bash hippie hell of Madison to being a really accountable, living within their means, balancing their budget, and getting rid of the fat and the waste in Wisconsin.” Governor Scott Walker did not balance Wisconsin’s budget. In a letter sent by Mike Huebsch, Walker’s Administration Secretary, to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services in December 2011, Huebsch stated that Wisconsin would have an “undisclosed deficit” from January, 2012 through June, 2013. Nugent then explained why he thought polls showed some swing states leaning towards President Barack Obama in the election, stating, “When you buy votes, when you buy entire societal blocks with handouts and with promises that clearly can’t be kept. But this president, President Obama and his gang, they have literally smoke and mirrored their way into this artificial reign of terror. Unfortunately, the terror isn’t artificial. And so the people that support Barack Obama and this current corruption, the current abuse in the U.S. government, it’s because they’re getting something out of it.” Nugent told the radio host, Mark Reardon, “There’s a bunch of us, like you and me and people that work really hard and get up early and put their heart and soul into being the most productive asset they can to their fellow man … Barack Obama’s voter block, either you’re a liability or you believe people can intentionally put themselves in the position of a liability. So, that’s why Mitt Romney’s 47 percent statement is statistically irrefutable.” Nugent referred to controversial comments Mitt Romney made at a private fundraiser earlier this year. Romney stated, “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it—that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." Nugent continued, stating, “This President [Barack Obama] has bought the gay vote, overall, just basically speaking, obviously there’s a bunch of smart gay people out there that ain’t buyin’ this crap. He’s bought the black vote, event though there’s a bunch of really smart, independent, rugged individuals in the black community. And the female vote with this lie that we’re somehow gonna take away their health care because we won’t buy them contraception. I mean, every aspect of Barack Obama’s campaign would be laughable if it was just a movie.” Nugent was referring to a January 2012 Obama Administration announcement that the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” requires employers to provide health insurance which covers contraception for women free of charge.

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    In an October 1, 2012 radio interview on KMOX, a St. Louis news radio station, Nugent spoke about the November 2012 presidential campaign, stating, “[Republican vice presidential candidate] Paul [Ryan] is a great man … He is really a keeper. He’s one of the best of the best and I really believe that what [Republican presidential candidate] Mitt Romney has learned over the years really makes him better than just a good man, he’s now a great man. He would be such a vast improvement over this current criminal administration and the policies that clearly are against the American way and against being the best that you can be. So, Mitt Romney picked the right guy. Paul Ryan’s a real blood-brother, man … Bow-hunting really is the most difficult thing in the world, as far as a self-imposed challenge goes … There’s a real higher level of awareness that one attains, that one has to aspire to and Paul Ryan has achieved that. He’s a dedicated, very successful bow-hunter. And that higher level of awareness that drives your higher level of awareness on every level of life is what has made [Paul Ryan] a great representative, a great U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights representative of ‘We the People’ of Wisconsin. So, what he can do in America, I think we have seen with [Wisconsin Governor] Scott Walker, Tommy Thompson, the past governor and hopefully U.S. Senate from Wisconsin and with Paul Ryan as Congressman. I mean, Wisconsin went from a suburb of the hash-bash hippie hell of Madison to being a really accountable, living within their means, balancing their budget, and getting rid of the fat and the waste in Wisconsin.” Governor Scott Walker did not balance Wisconsin’s budget. In a letter sent by Mike Huebsch, Walker’s Administration Secretary, to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services in December 2011, Huebsch stated that Wisconsin would have an “undisclosed deficit” from January, 2012 through June, 2013. Nugent then explained why he thought polls showed some swing states leaning towards President Barack Obama in the election, stating, “When you buy votes, when you buy entire societal blocks with handouts and with promises that clearly can’t be kept. But this president, President Obama and his gang, they have literally smoke and mirrored their way into this artificial reign of terror. Unfortunately, the terror isn’t artificial. And so the people that support Barack Obama and this current corruption, the current abuse in the U.S. government, it’s because they’re getting something out of it.” Nugent told the radio host, Mark Reardon, “There’s a bunch of us, like you and me and people that work really hard and get up early and put their heart and soul into being the most productive asset they can to their fellow man … Barack Obama’s voter block, either you’re a liability or you believe people can intentionally put themselves in the position of a liability. So, that’s why Mitt Romney’s 47 percent statement is statistically irrefutable.” Nugent referred to controversial comments Mitt Romney made at a private fundraiser earlier this year. Romney stated, “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it—that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." Nugent continued, stating, “This President [Barack Obama] has bought the gay vote, overall, just basically speaking, obviously there’s a bunch of smart gay people out there that ain’t buyin’ this crap. He’s bought the black vote, event though there’s a bunch of really smart, independent, rugged individuals in the black community. And the female vote with this lie that we’re somehow gonna take away their health care because we won’t buy them contraception. I mean, every aspect of Barack Obama’s campaign would be laughable if it was just a movie.” Nugent was referring to a January 2012 Obama Administration announcement that the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” requires employers to provide health insurance which covers contraception for women free of charge.

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    In a September 27, 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “[Republican presidential candidate]Mitt Romney hit the bull’s-eye with his comments regarding the 47 percent of Americans who do not have any skin in the game as it pertains to paying federal income tax. Facts are facts … As I’ve written before, for at least the past 50 years the Democratic Party has intentionally engineered a class of political ‘victims’ who have been bamboozled into being dependent on the federal government for their subsistence, including food, housing and now health care. They get this without paying any federal income taxes, and that’s wrong. Something for nothing is always a scam. This is how you buy votes, plain and simple … Alternatively, the majority of federal income taxes are paid by the top wage earners, the very group of individuals the Democrats and President Obama constantly demonize and want to punish by raising their taxes even higher. This is what’s called ‘fair’ in this bizzarro world. Those who pay nothing can continue to pay nothing, and those who pay all will pay more … The Democratic Party exists because it promotes the creation of dependence on Fedzilla. They have intentionally created the real political victims, many of whom have been victimized by the Democrats for decades … Through the creation of the Nanny State, the Democrats have destroyed lives, families and entire communities, and convinced some Americans that they can’t achieve anything without Fedzilla’s help. They have their own soulless Declaration of Dependence. That’s downright pathetic. While creating this voting bloc of handcrafted victims, the Democrats have also waged an artful campaign to paint Republicans as a group of arrogant, greedy rich people. Some Democrats like Vice President Joseph R. Biden take their venom-filled lies about the GOP even a step lower … He’s a race-baiting yarn-spinner. He should be made to wear a dunce hat and stand in the corner for the remainder of the campaign … No able-bodied American should get anything for free while doing nothing to earn it. Put a rake, shovel, paint brush or broom in their hands. That will instill some pride back in their lives that the Democrats have worked double-time to make extinct … What Fedzilla has done to individuals and businesses is not a victimless crime. It’s killing America.” Nugent was referring to controversial comments Mitt Romney made at a private fundraiser in May 2012. Romney stated, “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it –that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

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    In a September 3, 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “What a psychotic piece of subhuman debris [mentally ill mass shooter Jared Lee Loughner] did on Jan. 11, 2011, outside a Tucson Safeway store where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was holding a ‘meet and greet’ with constituents was an unfathomable act of barbarism … The obviously guilty mass murderer has pleaded guilty and has been spared the death penalty. Yet the death penalty is exactly what he deserves. For his crimes, he will spend the rest of his life in prison while six innocent Americans are dead and 13 more are struggling to recover from their wounds. Sparing the killer’s life is not justice, it’s legalized barbarism. Allowing him to live out his days in prison is our convoluted legal system allowing Lady Justice to be mugged again and again … If a killer is deemed to be psychotic, he is held to a different standard by our legal system than a killer who is deemed not to be crazy. That’s a legal system that is certifiably nuts … Locking up the terminal whack-job shooters in prison for the remainder of their lives will cost taxpayers many millions of wasted dollars when all that is required is a 25-cent bullet to the back of their deranged heads. But the do-gooders among us say we shouldn’t do that, that the state shouldn’t sanction ‘murder,’ especially of those who are deemed to be mentally incompetent. Do-gooders are more dangerous than a sow grizzly with cubs or a coiled rattlesnake, as do-gooders champion and sanction legalized barbarism … The McNaughton rule, which basically states that terminal whack jobs can’t be held responsible for their crimes, is the ultimate definition of nuts. It should be replaced with the McNugent rule, which states that regardless of your mental state, if you slaughter innocent people, expect a bullet to the back of the head, most preferably at the scene of the crime. So long as the American justice system is held hostage by mindless do-gooders who wish to enforce their toxic, brain-dead legalized barbarism on the rest of us, our only recourse is to be vigilant and ready to protect ourselves and our loved ones from these psychotic monsters. Shoot them. Punks deserve to pay for their crimes with their lives instead of living out their lives and attending group therapy sessions on the taxpayers’ dime and further burdening the society they already have hurt deeply.” The McNaughton Rule, which Nugent refers to, is a legal standard for insanity. Under the rule, there is a presumption of sanity. The defense must prove "at the time of committing the act, the accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing or, if he did know it, that he did not know what he was doing was wrong." In addition, studies show that it is typically less costly to imprison an individual for life than to sentence him/her to death.

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    In a September 1, 2012 interview with Patriot Update, Nugent stated, “The Fourth Amendment is trampled on all the time … Do you know that game wardens, who I adore and have great respect for, they’re heroes of law enforcement – most of them—law enforcement agents of Game Department can come into your house without a search warrant, without just cause. Maybe cause they don’t like you. Maybe you’re the wrong color. Maybe they don’t agree with your politics. Maybe they don’t like your music. It doesn’t matter the reason. A law enforcement official of Game Departments of the United States of America do not respect and are not limited by the Fourth Amendment … They don’t need just cause. They don’t need a search warrant. They can cut the lock on your gate–while you’re home or you’re not home. They can break into your freezer and examine the meat and see if it’s legal. On a hunch. On a rumor. Or just on a bad day … So that’s offensive on all levels but there’s also some other jack-booted Gestapo maneuvers going on these days like the Gibson raids … While we’re sitting here, my email’s going [noise] blowing up with stories of heartbreak: where a teenager, who’s never broke the law in his life, who’s never been in trouble with the law in his life, his family [is] law-abiding, their family has been bankrupted because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife thugs, the same ones that raided Gibson … Just the examples would gag you … When Governor [and Republican presidential nominee Mitt] Romney becomes Commander-in-Chief, I pray to God, along with a great Vice President, Paul Ryan … have got to look into these violations of civil rights and basic human rights at the hands of agencies gone mad … Vote Romney and Paul Ryan as president.” The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is subject to the requirements of the Fourth Amendment; however, some statutes give U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents authority to conduct warrantless searches. Nugent was referring to several U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department raids on the guitar maker Gibson for importing endangered wood.

    Turning to the topic of sexual assault of minors, Nugent stated, “We’ve got to create community review boards for judges who keep letting child rapists out, when that judge knows if that child rapist is let out on the streets, he will rape again. And our court systems answer to that is to register them? To know where they live? In a neighborhood instead of a cage, instead of jail?” In 1978, Nugent began a relationship with seventeen-year-old Hawaii native Pele Massa. Due to the age difference they could not marry so Nugent joined Massa’s parents in signing documents to make himself her legal guardian. In 1998 interview with VH1, Nugent spoke about his “weakness for young women.”

    In part two of the interview with Patriot Update, Nugent stated, “I hold the most important office on earth, ‘We the People.’ I am a we the people activist on behalf of my family, my neighborhood, my state, my country, and mostly that soldier in a box who died fighting for the U.S. Constitution. We all owe [that soldier] to make sure our elected officials abide by that document that he gave the ultimate sacrifice for.” Nugent evaded being drafted for the Vietnam War in the 1970s. Nugent then spoke about Kasim Reed, the Mayor of Atlanta, stating, “Me and old Kasim go way back. Kasim condemned me recently on one of the news shows … I love when the brown-shirts hate people saving Jews. Anyhow, the idiots and the America-haters hate me. That proves I’m doing God’s work because the devil is upset.” Regarding The Badger State, Nugent said, “Wisconsin is the guiding force and light for what America should be doing, between Scott Walker as Governor, Paul Ryan as Congressman, and now the Senator Tommy Thompson. America should go the way of Wisconsin because Wisconsin turned into a lump of liberal snot hair, just embarrassing. Everything was wrong with it and then come from the debris came Scott Walker.” Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, whom Nugent refers to, appeared on “Meet the Press” and was asked about a comment Vice President Joe Biden made to a crowd in Danville, Virginia. Biden stated, “Every Republican’s voted for [the House GOP budget]. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney…said in the first hundred days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, ‘unchain Wall Street.’ They’re going to put y’all back in chains.” Reed replied, “When Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan stands up to Rush Limbaugh…when they’re disparaging a Georgetown law student or stands up to Ted Nugent, really stands up to anybody or stands up to Donald Trump, then I’ll be willing to have a conversation about a comment that the vice president made.”

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    In an August 31, 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “[President Barack] Obama’s kamikaze borrow-and-spend policies, his addiction to job-killing regulations and his Marxist desire to punish producers with higher taxes have created the perfect job-killing storm. That plan is working out well for the president if you examine his real agenda.” He also offered advice, stating, “Fedzilla should do is to get out of the way of the free market as much as possible, but power-hungry bureaucrats rarely let that happen. These are the same clueless clowns who, if given the chance, would go down into the pits of a NASCAR race and tell the pit crew how to tune engines based on pompous presumptuousness. No thanks, clowns. Have you met my monkey wrench? Fedzillacrats should be forced to sign a pledge that they will spend 100 days studying the impact on the economy for every piece of proposed legislation. The Chamber of Commerce, Club for Growth, Americans for Prosperity, Americans for Tax Reform, and Steve Forbes should be consulted before any changes. The U.S. tax code needs to be tossed into a giant wood chipper. Then toss in every anti-business regulation, starting first with Obamacare. This will jump-start the economy.” The Chamber of Commerce, Club for Growth, Americans for Prosperity and Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) are conservative organizations. Fellow NRA board member Grover Norquist is the president of ATR. Steve Forbes is the editor-in-chief of the conservative Forbes magazine. He was also twice a Republican nominee for president.

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    In an August 29, 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “The root of evil is not the want of money, but rather a government that thinks it knows better than free-thinking individuals how best to provide for our well-being. Socialists like [President Barack Obama] use the law and courts to force their failed big-government ideas on those of us still helplessly drunk on freedom, rugged individualism and liberty. You know, the American way. Socialists argue that fairness is the goal. For their version of fairness to occur, socialists must take the earnings and wealth from one person who earned it and give it to another who has not. Karl Marx would be proud of Mr. Obama. We would be wise to remember when then-Sen. Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency and told Joe the Plumber, “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” Those are the words of a socialist who learned his lessons well from his socialist upbringing and on the streets of Chicago as a community organizer … Socialists are punks who think they are smarter than ordinary Americans and that ordinary Americans are so dumb they need to be managed by Fedzillacrats in Washington. These punks are smug, arrogant and wrong … Join me at the dead-end brick wall of freedom and liberty. Let’s ring the Liberty Bell once again. Educate and remind all the people you know every day that if they’re not registered to vote and they fail to vote Romney-Ryan, the socialists win. And the shining city upon a hill comes tumbling down.”

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    In an August 29, 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “The root of evil is not the want of money, but rather a government that thinks it knows better than free-thinking individuals how best to provide for our well-being. Socialists like [President Barack Obama] use the law and courts to force their failed big-government ideas on those of us still helplessly drunk on freedom, rugged individualism and liberty. You know, the American way. Socialists argue that fairness is the goal. For their version of fairness to occur, socialists must take the earnings and wealth from one person who earned it and give it to another who has not. Karl Marx would be proud of Mr. Obama. We would be wise to remember when then-Sen. Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency and told Joe the Plumber, “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” Those are the words of a socialist who learned his lessons well from his socialist upbringing and on the streets of Chicago as a community organizer … Socialists are punks who think they are smarter than ordinary Americans and that ordinary Americans are so dumb they need to be managed by Fedzillacrats in Washington. These punks are smug, arrogant and wrong … Join me at the dead-end brick wall of freedom and liberty. Let’s ring the Liberty Bell once again. Educate and remind all the people you know every day that if they’re not registered to vote and they fail to vote Romney-Ryan, the socialists win. And the shining city upon a hill comes tumbling down.”

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    In an August 24, 2012 interview with Newsmax, Nugent addressed a shooting that had occurred earlier that day at the Empire State Building in New York City. Gunman Jeffrey T. Johnson, a disgruntled former employee of a women’s clothing shop across the street from the Empire State Building, shot and killed a former co-worker. Nugent said, “The Empire State shooting is yet another gun free zone.” Officers posted at the front entrance of the Empire State Building shot and killed Mr. Johnson shortly after the shooting.

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    In an August 24, 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent addressed requests by President Barack Obama’s campaign that Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney release five additional years of his tax returns. Nugent wrote, “As usual, the Democrats have nothing worthy of their own to promote, so they are going after Mitt Romney to release more of his tax records. My advice to Mr. Romney is to tell the Democrats to pound sand … What the Democrats want to do is to play class warfare, pit rich against poor. Playing class warfare is all the proof you need to know that the Democratic Party despises successful people such as Mr. Romney. The Democrats abhor success. They would rather Americans be beholden to Fedzilla for food stamps and other government programs than go out and become tremendously successful on their own. The Democrats hate success because they know success ultimately breeds success. The more successful Americans are, the less power and influence the Democrats can have over them, which means the less political power the Democrats can wield. That’s not a good thing for socialists and other big-government addicts and dependents. The “man” keeping down the people is not a successful person such as Mr. Romney, but rather the Democratic Party, which buys their votes by enslaving its supporters with government programs and checks, funded with the tax dollars that people like Mr. Romney have paid … With the sizable and legal pile of money Mr. Romney is reported to have made and banked, my hope is that he has legally hid as much of it as possible from Fedzilla. I would much rather Mr. Romney have his money than surrender it to Uncle Sham, who burns through our hard-earned tax dollars with impunity … Should Mr. Romney release his records, let’s wait and see if [President Barack Obama] then releases all his academic records, complete health records and other documents. How about it, Mr. President?”

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    On August 10, 2012, in an interview with Newsmax, Nugent stated, “Everybody dead in Aurora was unarmed and helpless. Everybody dead in Milwaukee was unarmed and helpless. Everyone dead at Virginia Tech was unarmed and helpless. How dare President [Barack Obama] or [Congresswoman] Nancy Pelosi, or [New York City Mayor Michael] Bloomberg want more of that? [Republican presidential candidate] Mitt Romney made the terrible mistake of banning a certain type of firearm in the past — what they call assault weapons, which is not what they are. But he has seen the light. I spoke with him at length. I am convinced in my absolutist Second Amendment heart and soul that Mitt Romney will never even consider any more infringements on guns, ammo, fire power, access of guns ever again for Americans. He’s learned his lesson. Compared to Barack Obama and his team, Mitt Romney is indeed Michael the Archangel. He is a knight in shining armor for individual rights to self-defense.” Nugent also spoke about a proposed small arms treaty at the United Nations, stating, “When they talk about reducing unnecessary violence by eliminating small arms in the hands of citizens around the world, they’re talking about the same thing that Hitler talked about: Disarm the populace so you can control them at your every whim.” In reality, the treaty would set only international standards for the import/export of conventional weapons—leaving it to individual countries to “regulate internal transfers of arms and national ownership, including through national constitutional protections on private ownership.”

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    On August 10, 2012, in an interview with Newsmax, Nugent stated, “Everybody dead in Aurora was unarmed and helpless. Everybody dead in Milwaukee was unarmed and helpless. Everyone dead at Virginia Tech was unarmed and helpless. How dare President [Barack Obama] or [Congresswoman] Nancy Pelosi, or [New York City Mayor Michael] Bloomberg want more of that? [Republican presidential candidate] Mitt Romney made the terrible mistake of banning a certain type of firearm in the past — what they call assault weapons, which is not what they are. But he has seen the light. I spoke with him at length. I am convinced in my absolutist Second Amendment heart and soul that Mitt Romney will never even consider any more infringements on guns, ammo, fire power, access of guns ever again for Americans. He’s learned his lesson. Compared to Barack Obama and his team, Mitt Romney is indeed Michael the Archangel. He is a knight in shining armor for individual rights to self-defense.” Nugent also spoke about a proposed small arms treaty at the United Nations, stating, “When they talk about reducing unnecessary violence by eliminating small arms in the hands of citizens around the world, they’re talking about the same thing that Hitler talked about: Disarm the populace so you can control them at your every whim.” In reality, the treaty would set only international standards for the import/export of conventional weapons—leaving it to individual countries to “regulate internal transfers of arms and national ownership, including through national constitutional protections on private ownership.”

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    On August 7, 2012, at a concert in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Nugent told the crowd that he and his band members spend months each year performing. “The rest of the year, I just kill shit,” Nugent added. He also spoke about President Barack Obama, stating, "I wanna get rid of the dirty cocksuckers in the White House! If there's justice, Barack Obama will end up being a communal worker in Cuba!” Finally, Nugent stated, "The only thing missing in this world is more dead fucking assholes!"

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    On August 7, 2012, Nugent Tweeted, “what kind of subhuman demon would actually want more gunfreezones proven to be THE slaughterzones wasserman schultz holder lunatic fringers.” Nugent was making reference to U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D – FL) and Attorney General Eric Holder. There is no data to demonstrate that a majority—or even a significant minority—of the approximately 34 gun homicides that occur in the U.S. each day occur in “gun-free zones.”

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    In an August 2, 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote about proposed reforms in the wake of a mass shooting that occurred at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado on July 20, 2012. In that shooting, severely mentally ill gunman James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 58 others. Nugent commented, “According to the kind, caring and considerate left, you have every right to be a crazy druggie and roam the streets with no means of support. Heck, they even help nut-jobs occupy Wall Street and beyond. Surely, the unarmed and helpless will someday bring peace to the world, end world hunger and Rodney King’s dream of everyone getting along will become a reality. No wonder they call it dope. Years ago the left clamored that mental institutions violated the rights of those with mental illnesses. The American Civil Liberties Union even sued on their behalf. The result was the doors of the cuckoo nests were flung open and the patients stumbled out. Now they are everywhere. You can’t visit any city in America without encountering dirty people who are severely mentally impaired roaming the streets. Pushing shopping carts, mumbling to themselves, sleeping under bridges or in parks and basically being a nuisance, they ultimately endanger themselves. Most are not violent, just certifiably crazy by anyone’s standards. The real discussion that needs to occur in America is how we finally throw off the shackles of political correctness, quit worrying about ‘feelings’ and simply restrict the rights of psychotics by making it easier to lock them up for their safety and the safety of others. Advocating additional gun laws and gun-free zones is crazy. Crazy talk like that can get you killed.” Rodney King was an African-American construction worker who was beaten by Los Angeles police officers during a traffic stop in 1991. Four police officers from the LAPD who took part in the incident were later tried. Three of them were acquitted, and the jury failed to reach a verdict regarding the fourth. The acquittals are generally considered to have triggered the 1992 Los Angeles riots, in which 53 people were killed, and over 2,000 injured. During the riots, King appeared on television and asked, "Can we all get along?"

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    On July 28, 2012, Nugent Tweeted, “Dear UN Blue Helmut gangsta punks & all freedom hating people everywhere, I am the NRA. Eat shit & die. Sincerely, Ted Nugent.” Nugent was likely referring to a small arms treaty discussed at the United Nations in July. The treaty would set only international standards for the import/export of conventional weapons—leaving it to individual countries to “regulate internal transfers of arms and national ownership, including through national constitutional protections on private ownership.”

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  • Other Statements

    On July 26, 2012, Nugent Tweeted, “How much dope must one injest [sic] for how long to believe unarmed & helpless is a desirable condition? soulless is as soulless does to bait evil.” Nugent’s Tweet came six days after a mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, in which severely mentally ill gunman James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 58 others in a span of two minutes. Holmes wore full body armor during the attack.

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  • Lobbying Activity

    In a July 26, 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “Fedzilla is growing fatter, less accountable and less transparent by gorging itself on our tax dollars. Instead of tightening Fedzilla’s fiscal belt, government bureaucrats just buy him bigger belts and suspenders, and he gets fatter and smellier each day. The only good pig is a dead pig. Regrettably, there are way too many intellectually stunted Americans who support this gluttonous and irresponsible spending curse. They are called socialists. Socialists believe in Keynesian economics, which supports government control and meddling in our economy … It’s akin to Jerry Sandusky managing a little boys’ football team. Another, more accurate name for Keynesian economics is Kamikaze economics.” Keynesian economics are based on the ideas of 20th century economist John Maynard Keynes. Advocates of Keynesian economics argue that private sector decisions sometimes lead to inefficient macroeconomic outcomes which require active policy responses by the public sector. Nugent also made reference to Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach at Penn State University who was convicted of sexually abusing ten boys during a 15-year period. Finally, Nugent described fellow NRA board member Grover Norquist as “The Dirty Harry of tax and government reform.” “Dirty Harry Norquist, president of Americans For Tax Reform, has never seen a tax increase he supports,” wrote Nugent, “which should immediately put him at the head of the line for a Presidential Medal of Freedom once Mitt Romney is elected. If there was a Hall of Fame of Common Sense, a huge statue of Grover Norquist would at be the front door.” ATR’s “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” calls on lawmakers to swear to never vote for any legislation that would raises taxes, no matter how modestly.

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  • Other Statements

    In a July 26, 2012 interview with conservative radio host Glenn Beck, Nugent spoke about a mass shooting that had occurred at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado six days earlier. In that shooting, severely mentally ill gunman James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 58 others. Holmes wore full body armor during the attack. Nugent commented to Beck, “And remember, Glenn, this monster in Aurora took 20 minutes to do his evil. In 20 minutes you don't need an assault weapon, you don't need a machine gun, which he didn't have either of, but you could do more damage with a single shot or a bolt action because he had 20 minutes … His AR-15 Smith & Wesson rifle is now the most popular sporting rifle in America. It is the number one competition, number one in self-defense; it's the number one sporting rifle for big game and small game. And if they keep calling it an ‘assault weapon,’ I may have that aneurysm.” In fact, the shooting in Aurora lasted only two minutes, after which time Holmes was apprehended by police in the parking lot of the theater. Single shot rifles and bolt action rifles, which Nugent made reference to, must be reloaded manually after each shot is fired. A semiautomatic firearm reloads automatically and can keep firing until its magazine is emptied. Holmes had three semiautomatic firearms on the night of the Aurora shooting, including an AR-15 style rifle (the civilian version of the military’s M-16 rifle) equipped with a 100-round drum magazine. Paul A. Smith, outdoors editor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has stated that while AR-15s "have gained favor among some hunters and sport shooters in recent decades, they constitute a small fraction of deer hunting rifles in use today."

    Finally, Nugent compared target shooting to the scenario that an armed citizen might have encountered had he/she attempted to return fire against Holmes in the theater: “I know the hysteria about tear gas and it was dark in the theater. Glenn, I am not making this up. Last week my wife Shemane and I were filming a segment for our Spirit of the Wild show and we were shooting at watermelons surrounded by human silhouette targets just as kind of a competition and from 20 feet and from 20 yards and we were shooting from every imaginable angle, under cover, from sitting, from squatting, from prone position, from behind cover and from in the open, and we never hit an innocent and we never missed the watermelon. And I'm just a guitar player. If a guitar player can neutralize a watermelon from 20 feet—and this is with live fire, by the way. We would shoot while the other would take the target shots. So there was that tension of live fire. And this was done in a scenario—and I understand it wasn't real bullets coming at us and it wasn't people screaming, running around … But dear God in heaven, doing nothing is not an option. Training, having a firearm to neutralize an evil gun maniac is a way to go, and we train for that. And I wish I would have been in the theater that day.”

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    On July 25, 2012, Nugent Tweeted, “we pray for all victims&lovedones of demonshooter in CO& we SALUTE the brave warriors who saved lives IF only they would hav had a good gun.” He Tweeted again later that day, “there were no assault weapons used in the CO shooting only universally proven sporting & self defense firearms & 6k rounds aint squat. Lies.” Nugent was referring to a mass shooting that had occurred in Aurora, Colorado five days earlier. In that shooting, severely mentally ill gunman James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 58 others. Holmes wore full body armor during the attack and was armed with two handguns, a shotgun, and an AR-15 assault rifle with a 100-round drum magazine. In addition, he had purchased 6,000 rounds of ammunition online with no background check or screening. Paul A. Smith, outdoors editor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has stated that while AR-15s "have gained favor among some hunters and sport shooters in recent decades, they constitute a small fraction of deer hunting rifles in use today."

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    In a July 5, 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War.” Nugent’s editorial addressed the "traitor vote" of “turncoat” Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in the case of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius. Roberts wrote the majority opinion in a 5-4 ruling that upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Nugent claimed that “Chief Justice Roberts squandered the opportunity to restore judicial, financial and legislative sanity to a government that by any sane person’s standards is insane and addicted to centralized federal control of our lives … Our professional political punks in Washington can mandate any tax-penalty they choose. For example, if you don’t buy an Obama-approved green energy automobile, our Fedzillacrats could tax us for refusing to do so … Obamacare will now join Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as another unaffordable, unsustainable, runaway, unaccountable social program. Our entitlement programs have bankrupted America. We have dug a financial crater so deep that many doubt we can ever climb out of." He also suggested that President Barack Obama invite Roberts “over for dinner, give him a ride on Air Force One and apologize for not voting for him during his confirmation hearings. It’s the least the community-organizer- in-chief can do for the turncoat chief justice who saved the president’s socialist health care program.” Finally, Nugent wrote, “Limited government is dead. The smothering era of socialism is here.”

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    At a June 29, 2012 concert in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Nugent told the crowd, “The way that a--hole in the White House hates me, I must be perfect.” He also stated that if concert goers wanted to help out the military, this November they should “vote the constitution-violating pieces of s--t out of the White House … We’re either independent or dependent pieces of s--t.”

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    In a June 22, 2012 radio interview on KMOX, a St. Louis news radio station, Nugent told the host, Mark Reardon, “You notice, I just get up in the morning, I go to work, and idiots blow up. I don’t try to make idiots blow up. I just do the right thing, state the truth and celebrate logic and idiots go berserk. I’ve never been more proud of myself in my life.” When Reardon asked Nugent about threatening remarks he made against President Barack Obama and Democrats at the 2012 NRA Convention, Nugent replied, “Like I said, I just get up in the morning and I go to work and I make the national news because I dare to celebrate self-evident truths and, more importantly in 2012, more importantly now than ever, because remember there’ve been more criminals in our government right now, to spotlight the cockroaches. There are more cockroaches, more criminals, more corrupt power abusing punks in our government right now. And if you don’t get that, move to Canada. It’s just unbelievable. So I, as a ‘We the people’ guy, obligated by the heroes of the military who sacrificed so I can have these First Amendment freedoms, I’m gonna use my First Amendment freedoms and I’m gonna identify that the number one cop in this country is a felon … [U.S. Attorney General] Eric Holder is the enemy. Obama is the enemy. [Secretary of the Treasury Tim] Geithner is the enemy … I stand by every word I said.” Nugent also spoke about the “soulless, spineless weenies” at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, stating that he was charged with illegally shooting, killing and transporting a black bear for “dar[ing] to stand up for my Second Amendment rights.” He signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors and agreed to a $10,000 fine and a two-year probation. Nugent then turned his attention to female Democrats in the House of Representatives, stating, “The [U.S. Congresswoman Debbie] Wasserman-Schultz and the [U.S. Congresswoman] Sheila Jackson-Lees, by the way, have you ever watched all of my haters talk? Each and every one of my critics is an absolute subhuman buffoon. If you watch the way they speak and the little spittle forming in the corners of their mouths, these are entrenched, addicted haters of freedom. Which is why they hate me. They’re on record to quote and worship Mao Tse-tung.” In fact, neither Congresswoman has quoted Mao Tse-tung. Nugent also added, “I love killing game with guns. I have my own Ted Nugent ammo coming out so, I’m gonna do a lot more gun hunting.” When asked when the ammo was coming out, Nugent replied, “That should be on every vegetarian store’s shelf by mid-July.” When Reardon remarked on Nugent’s endorsement of the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, Nugent replied, “My conversation with Mitt Romney convinced me…he will get this Mao Tse-tung gang out of the destructo-derby suicide mission that Barack Obama’s steering this country.”

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    In a June 22, 2012 radio interview on KMOX, a St. Louis news radio station, Nugent told the host, Mark Reardon, “You notice, I just get up in the morning, I go to work, and idiots blow up. I don’t try to make idiots blow up. I just do the right thing, state the truth and celebrate logic and idiots go berserk. I’ve never been more proud of myself in my life.” When Reardon asked Nugent about threatening remarks he made against President Barack Obama and Democrats at the 2012 NRA Convention, Nugent replied, “Like I said, I just get up in the morning and I go to work and I make the national news because I dare to celebrate self-evident truths and, more importantly in 2012, more importantly now than ever, because remember there’ve been more criminals in our government right now, to spotlight the cockroaches. There are more cockroaches, more criminals, more corrupt power abusing punks in our government right now. And if you don’t get that, move to Canada. It’s just unbelievable. So I, as a ‘We the people’ guy, obligated by the heroes of the military who sacrificed so I can have these First Amendment freedoms, I’m gonna use my First Amendment freedoms and I’m gonna identify that the number one cop in this country is a felon … [U.S. Attorney General] Eric Holder is the enemy. Obama is the enemy. [Secretary of the Treasury Tim] Geithner is the enemy … I stand by every word I said.” Nugent also spoke about the “soulless, spineless weenies” at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, stating that he was charged with illegally shooting, killing and transporting a black bear for “dar[ing] to stand up for my Second Amendment rights.” He signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors and agreed to a $10,000 fine and a two-year probation. Nugent then turned his attention to female Democrats in the House of Representatives, stating, “The [U.S. Congresswoman Debbie] Wasserman-Schultz and the [U.S. Congresswoman] Sheila Jackson-Lees, by the way, have you ever watched all of my haters talk? Each and every one of my critics is an absolute subhuman buffoon. If you watch the way they speak and the little spittle forming in the corners of their mouths, these are entrenched, addicted haters of freedom. Which is why they hate me. They’re on record to quote and worship Mao Tse-tung.” In fact, neither Congresswoman has quoted Mao Tse-tung. Nugent also added, “I love killing game with guns. I have my own Ted Nugent ammo coming out so, I’m gonna do a lot more gun hunting.” When asked when the ammo was coming out, Nugent replied, “That should be on every vegetarian store’s shelf by mid-July.” When Reardon remarked on Nugent’s endorsement of the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, Nugent replied, “My conversation with Mitt Romney convinced me…he will get this Mao Tse-tung gang out of the destructo-derby suicide mission that Barack Obama’s steering this country.”

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  • Race

    In a June 15, 2012 op-ed for Newsmax, Nugent wrote, “America’s funny man, Bill Cosby, is dead wrong.” Nugent was referring to an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” aired on April 15, 2012, in which Cosby addressed the killing of Trayvon Martin by concealed carry permit holder George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. Cosby said that the race of Trayvon Martin was less important than the fact that the neighborhood watch volunteer who killed him was carrying a gun. In Cosby’s words: “When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing...will win arguments and straighten people out.” Nugent wrote, “Maybe that logic applies to drunks, dope heads and recidivistic gang bangers, but it doesn’t apply to the hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Americans with concealed carry permits such as George Zimmerman … Americans with concealed carry permits are tremendously responsible citizens, maybe the most responsible citizens of all.” In reality, at least 447 Americans were killed by concealed carry permit holders between May 2007 and June 2012. Nugent continued, stating, “Advocating that only the police should be armed in public is advocating a senseless and wrong-headed policy of the slaughter of innocent Americans. Mr. Cosby is dead wrong here. His unarmed son was murdered for God's sake.” Bill Cosby’s only son, Ennis, was shot and killed during a mugging along an interstate in Los Angeles while changing a tire in January 1997. Turning to the issue of race, Nugent wrote, “I do agree with Mr. Cosby that the Trayvon Martin shooting has nothing to do with race. Only empty-headed racists such as our black-panther loving Department of Justice believe otherwise. Race does, however, play a significant role in the percentage of black Americans who are killed and wounded every single day in America. The overwhelming majority of blacks are slaughtered by other black hoodlums, the overwhelming majority of whom are involved in gangs and drugs—you know, that ‘victimless crime’ thing.”

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  • Vigilantism

    In a June 15, 2012 op-ed for Newsmax, Nugent wrote, “America’s funny man, Bill Cosby, is dead wrong.” Nugent was referring to an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” aired on April 15, 2012, in which Cosby addressed the killing of Trayvon Martin by concealed carry permit holder George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. Cosby said that the race of Trayvon Martin was less important than the fact that the neighborhood watch volunteer who killed him was carrying a gun. In Cosby’s words: “When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing...will win arguments and straighten people out.” Nugent wrote, “Maybe that logic applies to drunks, dope heads and recidivistic gang bangers, but it doesn’t apply to the hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Americans with concealed carry permits such as George Zimmerman … Americans with concealed carry permits are tremendously responsible citizens, maybe the most responsible citizens of all.” In reality, at least 447 Americans were killed by concealed carry permit holders between May 2007 and June 2012. Nugent continued, stating, “Advocating that only the police should be armed in public is advocating a senseless and wrong-headed policy of the slaughter of innocent Americans. Mr. Cosby is dead wrong here. His unarmed son was murdered for God's sake.” Bill Cosby’s only son, Ennis, was shot and killed during a mugging along an interstate in Los Angeles while changing a tire in January 1997. Turning to the issue of race, Nugent wrote, “I do agree with Mr. Cosby that the Trayvon Martin shooting has nothing to do with race. Only empty-headed racists such as our black-panther loving Department of Justice believe otherwise. Race does, however, play a significant role in the percentage of black Americans who are killed and wounded every single day in America. The overwhelming majority of blacks are slaughtered by other black hoodlums, the overwhelming majority of whom are involved in gangs and drugs—you know, that ‘victimless crime’ thing.”

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  • Conspiracy Theory

    At a June 9, 2012 performance at the Republic of Texas Biker Rally in Austin, Texas, Nugent told the audience, “There's an American Dream. There's no French dream. There's no Cuban dream. There's no Spanish dream. Is there a Mexican dream, except 'Get the f--k out of Mexico?’ I can't blame you." He then asked the “Republic of Texas Motherf--kers" if they were "ready to dance with Uncle Ted." Nugent explained that his collection of Gibson guitars, which were displayed at the performance, was meant to be a message to the federal government, which is "infested with f--king criminals.” He continued, “Any pussies from the [U.S.] Fish and Wildlife out there, you want to take my guitars? F--k you!” Nugent was referring to several U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department raids on Gibson for importing endangered wood. Finally, Nugent gave a shout-out to the "NRA gun nut motherf--kers out there … Put a f--king gun in your hand, Texas, stormtroopers [are] coming … They, unfortunately, are the real enemies right now. We're gonna fix it in November, aren't we boys and girls?"

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    At a June 9, 2012 performance at the Republic of Texas Biker Rally in Austin, Texas, Nugent told the audience, “There's an American Dream. There's no French dream. There's no Cuban dream. There's no Spanish dream. Is there a Mexican dream, except 'Get the f--k out of Mexico?’ I can't blame you." He then asked the “Republic of Texas Motherf--kers" if they were "ready to dance with Uncle Ted." Nugent explained that his collection of Gibson guitars, which were displayed at the performance, was meant to be a message to the federal government, which is "infested with f--king criminals.” He continued, “Any pussies from the [U.S.] Fish and Wildlife out there, you want to take my guitars? F--k you!” Nugent was referring to several U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department raids on Gibson for importing endangered wood. Finally, Nugent gave a shout-out to the "NRA gun nut motherf--kers out there … Put a f--king gun in your hand, Texas, stormtroopers [are] coming … They, unfortunately, are the real enemies right now. We're gonna fix it in November, aren't we boys and girls?"

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  • Conspiracy Theory

    On May 7 2012, Christopher Hecker, whose last known address was in suburban Philadelphia, was charged with threatening to kill President Barack Obama after emailing the following threat: “I sent a bomb to the White House today and to several radio stations. Sooner or later I will grab someone, maybe in the woods, on the trail, and beat the life out of them.” Hecker also wrote, “[Obama] is the one that is destroying patriotism in the U.S.A. Ted Nugent is right. So, Obama is allowing me to be tortured to the point that I may murder someone, rather than deal with the mess he made. Your president is a coward.” Nugent had made national headlines just three weeks earlier after making threatening remarks toward the president and Democrats at the 2012 NRA convention in St. Louis. After being charged, Hecker pled no contest and asked to be sentenced to the death penalty immediately.

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  • Political Violence

    In a May 4, 2012 appearance on "CBS This Morning", Nugent steadfastly stood by threatening remarks he made about the Obama Administration and Democrats three weeks earlier. When interviewer Jeff Glor suggested that Nugent would have a difficult time attracting moderate voters for Mitt Romney, who he formally endorsed for president, Nugent responded by stating “ "I’m an extremely loving, passionate man, and people who investigate me honestly, without the baggage of political correctness, ascertain the conclusion that I’m a damned nice guy, and if you can find a screening process more powerful than that, I’ll suck your d--k. ” Nugent then turned to an off-camera female CBS producer and said to her, “"Or I’ll f--k you, how’s that sound?” At the urging of his wife, Nugent later apologized to the producer and explained his outburst by noting “"he was rushed to the emergency room and had a kidney stone removed ” immediately following the interview.

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  • Women's Rights

    In a May 4, 2012 appearance on "CBS This Morning", Nugent steadfastly stood by threatening remarks he made about the Obama Administration and Democrats three weeks earlier. When interviewer Jeff Glor suggested that Nugent would have a difficult time attracting moderate voters for Mitt Romney, who he formally endorsed for president, Nugent responded by stating “ "I’m an extremely loving, passionate man, and people who investigate me honestly, without the baggage of political correctness, ascertain the conclusion that I’m a damned nice guy, and if you can find a screening process more powerful than that, I’ll suck your d--k. ” Nugent then turned to an off-camera female CBS producer and said to her, “"Or I’ll f--k you, how’s that sound?” At the urging of his wife, Nugent later apologized to the producer and explained his outburst by noting “"he was rushed to the emergency room and had a kidney stone removed ” immediately following the interview.

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  • Republican Party (GOP)

    In an April 23, 2012 editorial for the Washington Times, Nugent made several observations about the “War on Poverty,” stating, “Poor people are poor because they make poor decisions. That’s the root cause of poverty … Poor people will quit being poor when our government quits enabling, bribing, training and rewarding them to be poor.” Nugent went on to claim that “condemn[ing]” Americans to a life of poverty “is one of the driving political platforms of the Democratic Party.”

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  • Other Statements

    In an April 19, 2012 editorial for the Washington Times, Nugent defended threats he made against President Barack Obama and Democrats at the 2012 NRA Convention in St. Louis, stating, “By no stretch of the imagination did I ever threaten anyone’s life, or hint of violence or mayhem.” In response to the national controversy his remarks have generated, Nugent said, “I personally have never been prouder … I stand by my statements. The line is drawn in the American sand.”

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  • Conspiracy Theory

    During an April 17, 2012 radio interview with Dana Loesch , a Tea Party activist and CNN contributor, Nugent stood by the threatening remarks against President Barack Obama and Democrats he had made three days earlier at the NRA Convention, calling his message “ 100 percent positive .” Nugent continued by calling the Obama Administration’s policies “ toxic ,” “ corrosive ,” and “ an abuse of power ” that are carried out by Obama’s “ czars and his henchmen .” Nugent added derogatory comments about Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, calling Wasserman-Schultz a “brain-dead, soulless, heartless idiot ” and Pelosi a “subhuman scoundrel ” and “ wicked witch .”

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    On April 14 2012, Ted Nugent signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, admitting that he had illegally shot, killed and transported a black bear in southeast Alaska in May 2009 and transported it in violation of the federal Lacey Act. Nugent agreed to a $10,000 fine and a two-year probation. He also agreed to pay Alaska $600 . After signing the agreement, Nugent advised fellow hunters, “ even when you are aghast at a maniac, inexplicable, illogical law, please abide by those laws at all costs .” According to Nugent, his prosecution for killing the black bear was the result of a “ witch hunt” inspired by his political activism. “ We are the people turning up the heat, and that’s why I’m being singled out by certain fish and game agencies and certain U.S. attorneys ,” he stated.

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  • Criminal Activity

    On April 14 2012, Ted Nugent signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, admitting that he had illegally shot, killed and transported a black bear in southeast Alaska in May 2009 and transported it in violation of the federal Lacey Act. Nugent agreed to a $10,000 fine and a two-year probation. He also agreed to pay Alaska $600 . After signing the agreement, Nugent advised fellow hunters, “ even when you are aghast at a maniac, inexplicable, illogical law, please abide by those laws at all costs .” According to Nugent, his prosecution for killing the black bear was the result of a “ witch hunt” inspired by his political activism. “ We are the people turning up the heat, and that’s why I’m being singled out by certain fish and game agencies and certain U.S. attorneys ,” he stated.

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  • Republican Party (GOP)

    During a live interview at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting on April 14, 2012, Nugent called the administration of President Barack Obama “vile,” “evil,” and “America-hating.” He also stated, “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” Continuing on the topic of the 2012 presidential elections, Nugent added, “We need to ride into that battlefield and chop [Democrats'] heads off in November. Any questions?” In the wake of Nugent’s comments, a spokesperson for the Secret Service confirmed that he had been placed under investigation. The campaign of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney—who sought and received Nugent’s endorsement—released a statement saying, “Divisive language is offensive no matter what side of the political aisle it comes from. Mitt Romney believes everyone needs to be civil.”

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  • Immigration

    On April 5, 2012, Nugent conducted a wide-ranging interview on KFYI’s “Mike Broomhead Show.” He made the following comments:

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  • Race

    On April 5, 2012, Nugent conducted a wide-ranging interview on KFYI’s “Mike Broomhead Show.” He made the following comments:

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  • Vigilantism

    On April 5, 2012, Nugent conducted a wide-ranging interview on KFYI’s “Mike Broomhead Show.” He made the following comments:

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  • Other Statements

    During an April 4, 2012 appearance on CNN’s "Piers Morgan Tonight," Nugent discussed the killing of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by concealed carry licensee and self-appointed neighborhood watch “captain” George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida. “Piers you have expressed that you don’t want to try this on television. I also do not want to try this on television. I think we both agree that there is a tragedy that it is being tried and that Zimmerman has been convicted across the media in many instances. So let’s not do this here. So let me propose to you a scenario that I think you can grasp and support. You must be aware, and if not ill inform you now, how many professional law enforcement heroes are killed every year with their own weapon. I’m not juxtaposing this with the Trayvon and the Zimmerman situation, but it does happen where an assaultant will start beating a person so badly that those of us that are armed, we have a responsibility to keep that new assault from taking our weapon. Because if the assault escalates to that degree, certainly the fist can go into a deadly situation if they get ahold of the gun bearer’s gun. So we have to be cognizant of that. If it wasn’t for backup guns in law enforcement and in civilian hands oftentimes, that the perpetrator and the person getting beat up is killed with his own gun. So let’s not dismiss that reality that is documented over and over again across this country,” stated Nugent. Morgan then asked him, “Do you believe that a neighborhood watch official acting in that capacity should be armed and using that firearm?” to which he responded, “Yes.” In a March 24-25, 2012 CNN poll, three-quarters of Americans said that neighborhood watch volunteers should not be armed.

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  • Conspiracy Theory

    On February 27, 2012, Nugent conducted a wide-ranging interview on KFYI’s “Mike Broomhead Show.” He made the following comments:

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    On February 20, 2012, Nugent wrote an op-ed for the Washington Times criticizing MSNBC for firing conservative pundit Pat Buchanan. Buchanan, who has a long history of bigoted statements against minorities, was suspended and then released from the network after he appeared on a white-nationalist radio program to promote his book (which featured a chapter entitled, “The End of White America”). In defending Buchanan, Nugent claimed he “was fired by MSNBC for doing nothing more than voicing his rock-solid conservative thoughts on the otherwise failing network.” He went on to write, “The real message of the left is intolerance, zealotry, bigotry and hate. The left has no use for the First Amendment or the rest of the Constitution unless it fits their multicultural, euro-socialist agenda, which is failing all across Europe and everywhere it is practiced.”

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    In a January 30, 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent praised Republican presidential contenders Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich, writing, “I am impressed with each of them for a variety of reasons and adamantly believe that any one of them would be monstrously superior to President Obama, who has charted a course for the destruction of America as we know it.”

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  • Environment

    In an op-ed entitled “God Bless BP” for the Washington Times published on January 13, 2012, Nugent wrote, “The [cleanup] results have been nothing short of amazing in such a short amount of time since the disaster. The Gulf’s economy has rebounded dramatically, and it appears the environment is well on its way to a healthy recovery. We owe a huge debt of gratitude for the herculean efforts of BP for this … Thanks, BP. Keep up the good work. The Gulf needs you. America needs you.” Nugent did not address the fact that marine oil spills can have effects on an ocean ecosystem decades after they are contained. Additionally, scientists have warned that the spill will have a negative health impact on the health of people living in the Gulf region “for generations.”

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  • Health Care

    In an op-ed entitled “God Bless BP” for the Washington Times published on January 13, 2012, Nugent wrote, “The [cleanup] results have been nothing short of amazing in such a short amount of time since the disaster. The Gulf’s economy has rebounded dramatically, and it appears the environment is well on its way to a healthy recovery. We owe a huge debt of gratitude for the herculean efforts of BP for this … Thanks, BP. Keep up the good work. The Gulf needs you. America needs you.” Nugent did not address the fact that marine oil spills can have effects on an ocean ecosystem decades after they are contained. Additionally, scientists have warned that the spill will have a negative health impact on the health of people living in the Gulf region “for generations.”

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  • Conspiracy Theory

    In a January 9, 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “Diversity is America’s greatest strength, according to the left and its socialist, Marxist, commie cohorts and co-conspirators running rampant across the country. If you listen carefully to these America-hating, social-engineering liberals, virtually all behavior, conduct, morals and beliefs make America stronger. This, of course, is toxic, brain-dead logic that leaves ordinary Americans shaking and scratching their heads in confusion and disgust. We recognize bull dung when we hear, see and smell it, and we have no desire whatsoever to embrace it … The left is forcing its version of diversity throughout our society and culture. According to the left and its acolytes, we are supposed to respect people who refuse to respect Old Glory or learn English, look for a job or put forth the effort to do an honest day’s work. We are supposed to respect all cultures, values, laws and religions—even when they have proved throughout history to be dangerous and diametrically opposed to our American way of life, customs, laws and traditions. It will be a cold day in hell before I embrace voodoolike religions and unclean stone-age cultures that retard progress instead of advancing it. The real issue is that by forcing diversity and multicultural nonsense in our workplaces, schools and government agencies on people who still cherish common sense and traditional American values, we’re ripping the nation apart.” Nugent went on to claim that Attorney General Eric Holder’s statement that some critics of President Obama are motivated by race is “the ultimate act of racism.” He continued, “I respect diverse people who respect and cherish basic American customs, traditions, goodwill and values. I have no respect for left-wingers who employ intimidation to make multiculturalism or diversity mandatory as the law of the land. The diversity punks believe in racial set-asides and preferences. You won’t ever solve discrimination by engaging in reverse discrimination. Maybe a racist like Jesse Jackson or Mr. Holder believes in reverse discrimination, but ordinary Americans do not. We are much too focused and intelligent to buy into such Jabberwocky. Real diversity, real change, real progress is accomplished by promoting and embracing Western culture, values and traditions, which is what made America great and created the greatest quality of life ever. Weakening this proven methodology under the artful guise of diversity, multiculturalism and political correctness is every bit as insidious a threat to America as are voodoo-inspired terrorist punks.”

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    In a January 9, 2012 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “Diversity is America’s greatest strength, according to the left and its socialist, Marxist, commie cohorts and co-conspirators running rampant across the country. If you listen carefully to these America-hating, social-engineering liberals, virtually all behavior, conduct, morals and beliefs make America stronger. This, of course, is toxic, brain-dead logic that leaves ordinary Americans shaking and scratching their heads in confusion and disgust. We recognize bull dung when we hear, see and smell it, and we have no desire whatsoever to embrace it … The left is forcing its version of diversity throughout our society and culture. According to the left and its acolytes, we are supposed to respect people who refuse to respect Old Glory or learn English, look for a job or put forth the effort to do an honest day’s work. We are supposed to respect all cultures, values, laws and religions—even when they have proved throughout history to be dangerous and diametrically opposed to our American way of life, customs, laws and traditions. It will be a cold day in hell before I embrace voodoolike religions and unclean stone-age cultures that retard progress instead of advancing it. The real issue is that by forcing diversity and multicultural nonsense in our workplaces, schools and government agencies on people who still cherish common sense and traditional American values, we’re ripping the nation apart.” Nugent went on to claim that Attorney General Eric Holder’s statement that some critics of President Obama are motivated by race is “the ultimate act of racism.” He continued, “I respect diverse people who respect and cherish basic American customs, traditions, goodwill and values. I have no respect for left-wingers who employ intimidation to make multiculturalism or diversity mandatory as the law of the land. The diversity punks believe in racial set-asides and preferences. You won’t ever solve discrimination by engaging in reverse discrimination. Maybe a racist like Jesse Jackson or Mr. Holder believes in reverse discrimination, but ordinary Americans do not. We are much too focused and intelligent to buy into such Jabberwocky. Real diversity, real change, real progress is accomplished by promoting and embracing Western culture, values and traditions, which is what made America great and created the greatest quality of life ever. Weakening this proven methodology under the artful guise of diversity, multiculturalism and political correctness is every bit as insidious a threat to America as are voodoo-inspired terrorist punks.”

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  • Republican Party (GOP)

    In a December 14, 2011 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “At least the Three Stooges were hilarious. The Occupy [Wall Street] stooges are much different, though they certainly qualify for classic numskull stooges nonetheless. They are dirty, political punks. I seriously doubt the majority of them could identify five reasons why they are protesting. No one else in the country can. You don’t need to search the Internet far to read story after story of the Occupy stooges committing crimes, fighting the cops, destroying personal property, stinking the place up and engaging in other noble expressions of First Amendment rights. I find that beautiful—priceless, actually. Only human cockroaches spotlight themselves … What America is witnessing is the Democratic Party on parade. I say let the parade of simple stooges continue. Let them continue to demand something for nothing, try and close down streets, fight with the cops, live in filth, dance like Timothy Leary zombies. It’s beautiful. It’s so Democratic Party. Let working hard, playing hard mom-and-pop America witness the Democratic Party in all its shameless, numskull and dirty glory. As the party clowns work tirelessly to falsely paint conservatives as heartless, cold, evil, sexist and racist, I say conservatives should do whatever we can to encourage the Occupy stooges to stay on course, painting themselves for what they are. While I don’t condone violence, watching the cops pounce on and pepper-spray a few Occupy stooges and then drag the dirtballs off to jail in shackles is good for my conservative soul and gold for my sense of humor. Everyone needs at least one hearty laugh every day … What America is witnessing by watching the Occupy clown brigades is the future of America if the Democratic Party is in control.”

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  • Conspiracy Theory

    During a September 15, 2011 appearance on NRA News radio, Nugent referred to federal law enforcement agents as “jack-booted thugs” and stated, “The curse of apathy has a name, and it’s ‘we the people.’ We have bent over so far as a citizenry in this country that we have allowed a communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-trained—a churchgoer to the hate America church—we have allowed him to become the president of the United States of America because we bent over that far.” The term “jack-booted thugs” dates back to 1995, when NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre used the phrase to describe law enforcement agents in the wake of federal sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge. LaPierre’s comments were widely criticized, and former President George H.W. Bush publicly resigned his lifetime NRA membership because of them.

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  • Other Statements

    During an August 27, 2011 concert in Peoria, Illinois, Nugent “invited his audience to storm down to [the Illinois state capitol in] Springfield and take it over.”

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    During an August 25, 2011 concert in Houston, Texas, Nugent told the crowd, “I cause Liberals to shit themselves. I make music for those assholes to kill themselves to.”

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  • Other Statements

    In an August 23, 2011 interview with the Houston Press, Nugent described his musical inspirations by saying the following: “So many other maniac, black animals continue to drive me and my band and my music wild.”

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  • Conspiracy Theory

    In an August 18, 2011 interview with conservative talk radio host Vicki McKenna, Nugent said the following:

    • Nugent called himself the “funniest black man in America.”
    • “You have a warrior [in Wisconsin] now. Scott Walker, the [Republican] governor of Wisconsin, is a warrior. He is a great man. He is upgrading the quality of life in Wisconsin—bringing accountability, pragmatism, and rugged individualism back to the forefront of a great state.”
    • “There’s a lunatic fringe. There’s always been a lunatic fringe. Unfortunately and heartbreakingly, the lunatic fringe now has a president. The lunatic fringe has given the green light to corruption, fraud, deceit, lying, the abuse of power the likes of which I’ve never seen… Let’s be perfectly honest—we have a president of the United States of America who was raised by communists that hate America. Went to a church regularly—well, they call it a church, I call it a voodoo cave. They went to a voodoo church where they preached hate for America, where it was racist worse than the Ku Klux Klan. Are you kidding me? This guy is the president of the United States?”
    • “America has the dumbest, fattest, most disconnected, slovenly children in the world thanks to the [National Education Association (NEA)]. NEA, unions, no thank you. Move to Canada. They already have policies that reward slovenliness up there.”
    • “Let me tell you who the goons are, who the lunatic fringe is: Eric Holder, Tim Geithner, Hillary Clinton, who side with the goons, the savages, the rapists, the murderers of the U.N.”
    • “By voting in [Republican] Scott Walker as Governor of Wisconsin you just said thank you to the family of a dead soldier.”

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    In an August 18, 2011 interview with conservative talk radio host Vicki McKenna, Nugent said the following:

    • Nugent called himself the “funniest black man in America.”
    • “You have a warrior [in Wisconsin] now. Scott Walker, the [Republican] governor of Wisconsin, is a warrior. He is a great man. He is upgrading the quality of life in Wisconsin—bringing accountability, pragmatism, and rugged individualism back to the forefront of a great state.”
    • “There’s a lunatic fringe. There’s always been a lunatic fringe. Unfortunately and heartbreakingly, the lunatic fringe now has a president. The lunatic fringe has given the green light to corruption, fraud, deceit, lying, the abuse of power the likes of which I’ve never seen… Let’s be perfectly honest—we have a president of the United States of America who was raised by communists that hate America. Went to a church regularly—well, they call it a church, I call it a voodoo cave. They went to a voodoo church where they preached hate for America, where it was racist worse than the Ku Klux Klan. Are you kidding me? This guy is the president of the United States?”
    • “America has the dumbest, fattest, most disconnected, slovenly children in the world thanks to the [National Education Association (NEA)]. NEA, unions, no thank you. Move to Canada. They already have policies that reward slovenliness up there.”
    • “Let me tell you who the goons are, who the lunatic fringe is: Eric Holder, Tim Geithner, Hillary Clinton, who side with the goons, the savages, the rapists, the murderers of the U.N.”
    • “By voting in [Republican] Scott Walker as Governor of Wisconsin you just said thank you to the family of a dead soldier.”

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    In an August 5, 2011 op-ed for the Washington Times entitled “Hiroshima’s Lesson Remembered: Ending War with Overwhelming Force is Quickest Path to Peace,” Nugent wrote, “We face new enemies today, many of whom belong to voodoo terror cells that will use any weapon or means to kill as many Americans as possible. Let us pray that we have a plan to kill every one of these voodoo maggots before they kill another American.”

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  • Education

    In a July 28, 2011 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent commented on the National Educational Association (NEA), the nation’s largest union, writing, “It’s not that our children are dumb, but rather that they are tossed into a dumb, antiquated system that is controlled by one of the largest and most powerful unions in the nation, the National Education Association.”

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  • Labor

    In a July 28, 2011 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent commented on the National Educational Association (NEA), the nation’s largest union, writing, “It’s not that our children are dumb, but rather that they are tossed into a dumb, antiquated system that is controlled by one of the largest and most powerful unions in the nation, the National Education Association.”

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  • Other Statements

    Nugent, who was rejected by a draft board during the Vietnam War, claimed in a July 25, 2011 interview with Military.com that he has trained with the Navy Seals, Green Berets and Army Rangers in both an official and unofficial capacity since the late 1970s. Nugent claimed his military experience included “sniper work and some various combat type-training.” Referring to the administration of President Barack Obama, Nugent said, “over my dead body will I let this current regime continue in their abuse of power.”

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  • Other Statements

    On July 21, 2011, Nugent tweeted, “HumaneSocietyOfUnitedStates is vile criminal scam liars.”

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  • Republican Party (GOP)

    In a July 18, 2011 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote that the Democratic Party is the “modern-day slave master” of low-income Americans, and the Republican Party “wants to liberate them.”

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  • Other Statements

    Asked on July 10, 2011 why he was wearing a Confederate flag shirt, Nugent said, “It’s cool.

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  • Animal Rights

    In a July 7, 2011 interview with The Spokesman-Review, Nugent suggested that the United States “wipe out” anyone who lived within 1,000 square miles of a terrorist. Nugent also said that if he had one week to live he would spend it “crushing liberals, destroying animal rights people, eating backstraps, and doing charity work.”

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  • Religion

    In a July 7, 2011 interview with The Spokesman-Review, Nugent suggested that the United States “wipe out” anyone who lived within 1,000 square miles of a terrorist. Nugent also said that if he had one week to live he would spend it “crushing liberals, destroying animal rights people, eating backstraps, and doing charity work.”

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  • Other Statements

    In a July 6, 2011 Washington Times op-ed about the economy entitled “Obama punks America,” Nugent made an allusion to the lynching of the President by writing, “Blame George W. Bush if you want for all this bad news, but it is Mr. Obama’s political neck in the economic noose.”

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  • Animal Rights

    In an interview with Michael Butler of “The Rock and Roll Geek Show” on July 5, 2011 Nugent made the following comments:

    • “I’m only semi-Caucasian tonight so I might dance on your skull.”
    • “I was in a helicopter in Northern Texas in April with my M4 machinegun killing 169 pigs and 11 coyotes in one morning.”
    • Nugent complained about a perceived liberal slant in the music press by comparing himself to “a black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally.”
    • Throughout the interview, Nugent burped President Barack Obama’s name saying, “That’s the only decent use of toxic gas by the way. Stating the President’s name.”
    • “It’s almost like 1776 again. We have the enemies of America in charge.”

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  • Political Violence

    In an interview with Michael Butler of “The Rock and Roll Geek Show” on July 5, 2011 Nugent made the following comments:

    • “I’m only semi-Caucasian tonight so I might dance on your skull.”
    • “I was in a helicopter in Northern Texas in April with my M4 machinegun killing 169 pigs and 11 coyotes in one morning.”
    • Nugent complained about a perceived liberal slant in the music press by comparing himself to “a black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally.”
    • Throughout the interview, Nugent burped President Barack Obama’s name saying, “That’s the only decent use of toxic gas by the way. Stating the President’s name.”
    • “It’s almost like 1776 again. We have the enemies of America in charge.”

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  • Race

    In an interview with Michael Butler of “The Rock and Roll Geek Show” on July 5, 2011 Nugent made the following comments:

    • “I’m only semi-Caucasian tonight so I might dance on your skull.”
    • “I was in a helicopter in Northern Texas in April with my M4 machinegun killing 169 pigs and 11 coyotes in one morning.”
    • Nugent complained about a perceived liberal slant in the music press by comparing himself to “a black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally.”
    • Throughout the interview, Nugent burped President Barack Obama’s name saying, “That’s the only decent use of toxic gas by the way. Stating the President’s name.”
    • “It’s almost like 1776 again. We have the enemies of America in charge.”

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  • Other Statements

    During a July 5, 2011 concert, Nugent told the crowd, “Everyone in the White House...can suck my tiger dick.”

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  • Education

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  • Animal Rights

    In June 2011, during an interview with the Philip Friedman Outdoors radio program, Nugent said the following:

    • He referred to people of Japanese descent as “Japs.”
    • “So when you’re on these kind of mind-altering drugs and you’re mentally ill to think that animals can have rights like human beings do, you can also succumb to the criminal urges and the subhuman anti-life urges of murderers.”
    • “If a person can think that an animal has rights, then they can think that a human doesn’t have any rights. And we have to watch out for these people and if necessary neutralize them.”
    • Nugent called President Barack Obama “a community organizer gangster from Chicago” and his administration the “Mao Zedong Fan Club.”
    • “There are plenty of whales … Tell [environmental activist] Paul [Watson] that I’m gonna’ go whale hunting this year. And I’m going to kill an extra 20 of them just for him. What a punk. I’ll tell you what. Hey Paul, bring your “Whale Wars” [cable television program] to the Ted Nugent concert and I’ll show you how we handle threats.”

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  • Environment

    In June 2011, during an interview with the Philip Friedman Outdoors radio program, Nugent said the following:

    • He referred to people of Japanese descent as “Japs.”
    • “So when you’re on these kind of mind-altering drugs and you’re mentally ill to think that animals can have rights like human beings do, you can also succumb to the criminal urges and the subhuman anti-life urges of murderers.”
    • “If a person can think that an animal has rights, then they can think that a human doesn’t have any rights. And we have to watch out for these people and if necessary neutralize them.”
    • Nugent called President Barack Obama “a community organizer gangster from Chicago” and his administration the “Mao Zedong Fan Club.”
    • “There are plenty of whales … Tell [environmental activist] Paul [Watson] that I’m gonna’ go whale hunting this year. And I’m going to kill an extra 20 of them just for him. What a punk. I’ll tell you what. Hey Paul, bring your “Whale Wars” [cable television program] to the Ted Nugent concert and I’ll show you how we handle threats.”

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  • Political Violence

    In June 2011, during an interview with the Philip Friedman Outdoors radio program, Nugent said the following:

    • He referred to people of Japanese descent as “Japs.”
    • “So when you’re on these kind of mind-altering drugs and you’re mentally ill to think that animals can have rights like human beings do, you can also succumb to the criminal urges and the subhuman anti-life urges of murderers.”
    • “If a person can think that an animal has rights, then they can think that a human doesn’t have any rights. And we have to watch out for these people and if necessary neutralize them.”
    • Nugent called President Barack Obama “a community organizer gangster from Chicago” and his administration the “Mao Zedong Fan Club.”
    • “There are plenty of whales … Tell [environmental activist] Paul [Watson] that I’m gonna’ go whale hunting this year. And I’m going to kill an extra 20 of them just for him. What a punk. I’ll tell you what. Hey Paul, bring your “Whale Wars” [cable television program] to the Ted Nugent concert and I’ll show you how we handle threats.”

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  • Race

    In June 2011, during an interview with the Philip Friedman Outdoors radio program, Nugent said the following:

    • He referred to people of Japanese descent as “Japs.”
    • “So when you’re on these kind of mind-altering drugs and you’re mentally ill to think that animals can have rights like human beings do, you can also succumb to the criminal urges and the subhuman anti-life urges of murderers.”
    • “If a person can think that an animal has rights, then they can think that a human doesn’t have any rights. And we have to watch out for these people and if necessary neutralize them.”
    • Nugent called President Barack Obama “a community organizer gangster from Chicago” and his administration the “Mao Zedong Fan Club.”
    • “There are plenty of whales … Tell [environmental activist] Paul [Watson] that I’m gonna’ go whale hunting this year. And I’m going to kill an extra 20 of them just for him. What a punk. I’ll tell you what. Hey Paul, bring your “Whale Wars” [cable television program] to the Ted Nugent concert and I’ll show you how we handle threats.”

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    In an April 2011 Washington Times op-ed, Nugent defended Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant’s use of an anti-gay slur against a referee during a basketball game. Nugent sarcastically suggested that the NBA host a "Homosexual Night" where gays would come onto the court and “prance” to the music of the Village People before being awarded pink basketballs.

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  • Other Statements

    In a March 24, 2011 op-ed for the Washington Times entitled “Multicultural Rot in the Melting Pot,” Nugent wrote, “While Europe and America, to some extent, were embracing multiculturalism, Muslims were murdering Christians and burning down their churches in Muslim countries...The definition of Islam is subjugation.” The editorial was accompanied by an image of a man wearing a mosque as a dunce cap.

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  • Other Statements

    In a March 21, 2011 op-ed published by the Washington Times, Nugent wrote that “Africa isn’t called the Dark Continent for no reason,” opining that “genocide is a way of life” on the “international scab” continent.

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  • Other Statements

    In an op-ed published in the Washington Times on March 14, 2011, Nugent called Attorney General Eric Holder a “racist punk.” Nugent also claimed that Holder gave the New Black Panthers organization free reign to “legally intimidate white citizens without fear of reprisal.”

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    During a featured speech at the 2011 NRA Convention, Nugent told the audience, "If it was up to me, if you uttered the word 'gun control,' we'd put you in jail."

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    Five days after a January 8, 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona left six dead and thirteen wounded (including Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords), Nugent authored a Washington Times op-ed stating, “I say conservatives should turn up the rhetoric … Political debate has always been spirited, hot and sometimes nasty.” He added, “In order to defeat liberals on the political-ideology battlefield, conservatives must be clear in purpose and then get after it by targeting (yes, I said targeting) and attacking Democratic nostrums that have weakened America.”

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    On September 10, 2010, the Washington Times published an op-ed written by Nugent entitled “A Salute to Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, et al.” In the piece Nugent praised the entire Fox News team for their “sensible, courageous and reasonable voices.”

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  • Criminal Activity

    In August 2010, Nugent pled no contest to 11 misdemeanor charges and was fined $1,750 for illegally baiting and killing an undersized deer. California game wardens reported the incident after observing Nugent using illegal hunting techniques on his television program “Spirit of the Wild.”

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    In a June 11, 2010 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent compared the spirit of his upcoming “Trample the Weak Hurdle the Dead” tour to “the world’s bravest men when they charged up those inflamed stairways on Sept. 11, 2001, to try to save as many innocent lives as they could.”

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  • Education

    During a March 2010 interview with Fox New’s Neil Cavuto, Nugent condemned supporters of health care reform and stated, “They’re pigs, Neil. We gotta’ kill the pig.” When Cavuto asked Nugent if he was speaking humorously, he responded “not really.”

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  • Health Care

    During a March 2010 interview with Fox New’s Neil Cavuto, Nugent condemned supporters of health care reform and stated, “They’re pigs, Neil. We gotta’ kill the pig.” When Cavuto asked Nugent if he was speaking humorously, he responded “not really.”

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  • Political Violence

    During a March 2010 interview with Fox New’s Neil Cavuto, Nugent condemned supporters of health care reform and stated, “They’re pigs, Neil. We gotta’ kill the pig.” When Cavuto asked Nugent if he was speaking humorously, he responded “not really.”

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  • Immigration

    In an October 2008 interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Nugent spoke about undocumented immigrants, stating, “In an unauthorized entry, armed like they are right now, invading our country, I’d like to shoot ‘em dead.”

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  • Vigilantism

    In an October 2008 interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Nugent spoke about undocumented immigrants, stating, “In an unauthorized entry, armed like they are right now, invading our country, I’d like to shoot ‘em dead.”

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  • Animal Rights

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  • Education

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  • Health Care

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  • Political Violence

    During a concert on August 22, 2007, Nugent called then-Senator Barack Obama a “piece of shit” and then-Senator Hillary Clinton as a “worthless bitch.” Wielding an assault rifle in each hand, he suggested that Senators Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein “suck on” his guns.

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  • Women's Rights

    During a concert on August 22, 2007, Nugent called then-Senator Barack Obama a “piece of shit” and then-Senator Hillary Clinton as a “worthless bitch.” Wielding an assault rifle in each hand, he suggested that Senators Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein “suck on” his guns.

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  • Immigration

    During a June 2007 appearance on Fox News, Nugent compared the illegal immigration issue to the Battle of the Alamo, saying, “Davy Crockett had to shoot Santa Anna’s men. It was the right thing to do. Everybody knows that Davy Crockett was doing the right thing. But he wouldn’t get the Hispanic vote.”

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  • Political Violence

    During a June 2007 appearance on Fox News, Nugent compared the illegal immigration issue to the Battle of the Alamo, saying, “Davy Crockett had to shoot Santa Anna’s men. It was the right thing to do. Everybody knows that Davy Crockett was doing the right thing. But he wouldn’t get the Hispanic vote.”

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  • Race

    During a June 2007 appearance on Fox News, Nugent compared the illegal immigration issue to the Battle of the Alamo, saying, “Davy Crockett had to shoot Santa Anna’s men. It was the right thing to do. Everybody knows that Davy Crockett was doing the right thing. But he wouldn’t get the Hispanic vote.”

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  • Other Statements

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  • Race

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  • Other Statements

    The pre-release cover for Nugent’s 2007 “Love Grenade” album featured a photo of a nude woman on a platter. The woman is bound with rope and has a hand grenade in her mouth.

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  • Gun Accidents

    In a wide-ranging interview with The Independent in May 2006, Nugent—who shared that both he and his teenage son have experienced accidental firearm discharges—fired a handgun out of window of the truck he was driving and made the following comments:

    • “I say if somebody robs you, shoot 'em. I'd like all thieves killed. And all rapists. And carjackers. No more graffiti. No
      more...”
    • Speaking on the Iraq War: “Our failure has been not to Nagasaki them.”
    • “How do you get peace, love and understanding? First of all you have to find all the bad people. Then you kill them.”
    • When asked if his fellow NRA board members think that he goes too far in his public comments, Nugent said, “Most of them. I say that I want the rape victim to shoot the rapist. They agree with me privately. They think stating this publicly is bad PR. They're wrong.”

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  • Political Violence

    During a 2006 performance of his song “Kiss My Glock,” Nugent called both gun control advocate Sarah Brady (whose husband Jim Brady was seriously injured in an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan) and former Attorney General Janet Reno “a dirty whore” and civil rights activist Jesse Jackson “a piece of shit.” Nugent also shot a crossbow at an effigy of Reno, causing its pants to fall off and reveal a giant phallus.

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  • Women's Rights

    During a 2006 performance of his song “Kiss My Glock,” Nugent called both gun control advocate Sarah Brady (whose husband Jim Brady was seriously injured in an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan) and former Attorney General Janet Reno “a dirty whore” and civil rights activist Jesse Jackson “a piece of shit.” Nugent also shot a crossbow at an effigy of Reno, causing its pants to fall off and reveal a giant phallus.

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  • Other Statements

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  • Property Rights
    In an August 20, 2014 op-ed in World Net Daily, Nugent wrote about the shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014. Nugent blamed the death of Brown on President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party stating, “The ugly truth is that liberals are complicit in Michael Brown’s death and the deaths of thousands of other young black guys who have been encouraged to become thugs … President Obama continues to beat the race drum in a feeble attempt to reduce the nonstop gangland gangbanger warfare in Chi-raq and other urban warzones in Baltimore, Oakland, New Orleans, Detroit, St. Louis, etc., repeating the nonsense that more ‘reasonable’ gun control laws will stop street savages from getting their hands on guns and killing each other.” Nugent also spoke about President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” stating, “The underlying reason for 70 percent of black youth being raised in single-parent households is the 50-year war on blacks by our federal government that has constantly perpetuated abandonment of personal responsibility. The problem has gotten much worse after spending over $16 trillion since 1965 on so-called poverty programs.” President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” initiative was responsible for the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, and a variety of other anti-poverty programs. These programs, according to a 2012 study published by Brookings Institute, helped reduced the poverty by 26.4% from 1960 to 2000.

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  • Race
    In an August 20, 2014 op-ed in World Net Daily, Nugent wrote about the shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014. Nugent blamed the death of Brown on President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party stating, “The ugly truth is that liberals are complicit in Michael Brown’s death and the deaths of thousands of other young black guys who have been encouraged to become thugs … President Obama continues to beat the race drum in a feeble attempt to reduce the nonstop gangland gangbanger warfare in Chi-raq and other urban warzones in Baltimore, Oakland, New Orleans, Detroit, St. Louis, etc., repeating the nonsense that more ‘reasonable’ gun control laws will stop street savages from getting their hands on guns and killing each other.” Nugent also spoke about President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” stating, “The underlying reason for 70 percent of black youth being raised in single-parent households is the 50-year war on blacks by our federal government that has constantly perpetuated abandonment of personal responsibility. The problem has gotten much worse after spending over $16 trillion since 1965 on so-called poverty programs.” President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” initiative was responsible for the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, and a variety of other anti-poverty programs. These programs, according to a 2012 study published by Brookings Institute, helped reduced the poverty by 26.4% from 1960 to 2000.

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  • Republican Party (GOP)
    In an August 20, 2014 op-ed in World Net Daily, Nugent wrote about the shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014. Nugent blamed the death of Brown on President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party stating, “The ugly truth is that liberals are complicit in Michael Brown’s death and the deaths of thousands of other young black guys who have been encouraged to become thugs … President Obama continues to beat the race drum in a feeble attempt to reduce the nonstop gangland gangbanger warfare in Chi-raq and other urban warzones in Baltimore, Oakland, New Orleans, Detroit, St. Louis, etc., repeating the nonsense that more ‘reasonable’ gun control laws will stop street savages from getting their hands on guns and killing each other.” Nugent also spoke about President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” stating, “The underlying reason for 70 percent of black youth being raised in single-parent households is the 50-year war on blacks by our federal government that has constantly perpetuated abandonment of personal responsibility. The problem has gotten much worse after spending over $16 trillion since 1965 on so-called poverty programs.” President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” initiative was responsible for the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, and a variety of other anti-poverty programs. These programs, according to a 2012 study published by Brookings Institute, helped reduced the poverty by 26.4% from 1960 to 2000.

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  • Sexual Scandals

    On March 22, 2004, rock star/musician Courtney Love appeared on the “Howard Stern Show” and stated that she performed oral sex on Nugent when she was 12 years old.

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  • Sexual Scandals

    In 2004, Nugent was sued for child support by a woman he fathered a child with while married to his current wife. During the proceedings, the woman’s lawyer accused Nugent of “trying to intimidate his client into withdrawing questions about Nugent's finances.” In 2005, Nugent was ordered to pay $3,500 a month in child support.

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  • Immigration

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  • Race

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  • Other Statements

    During a 2000 concert in Greenville, South Carolina, Nugent addressed an ongoing controversy concerning the flying of the Confederate flag at South Carolina’s statehouse by telling the audience, “Those politically correct motherfuckers can take the flag down but I am going to wear it forever.”

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  • Other Statements

    During an appearance on the Fox News show Hannity and Colmes in 2000, Nugent described homosexuality as a “despicable act” performed by “guys that have sex with each other's anal cavities.”

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  • Other Statements

    In a 1995 interview with Bob Mack for Grand Royal magazine, Nugent suggested that “real America” is populated by “working hard, playing hard white mother fuckin’ shit kickers who are independent” and challenged the host to name a similar black American. Nugent later used the N-word and said, “The black guys with this rap, electronic, make-believe, talentless music makes me want to throw up.”

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  • Immigration

    In a 1994 interview with Westword newspaper, Nugent called then-First Lady Hillary Clinton a “toxic cunt” and a “two-bit whore for Fidel Castro.” Commenting on the immigration issue, he said, “We should put razor wire around our borders and give the finger to any piece of shit who wants to come here.” Finally, Nugent offered that LSD users should be caned and “go to prison in an overcrowded cell where a huge, unclean black man will fuck [them] in the ass every night.”

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  • LGBT Rights

    In a 1994 interview with Westword newspaper, Nugent called then-First Lady Hillary Clinton a “toxic cunt” and a “two-bit whore for Fidel Castro.” Commenting on the immigration issue, he said, “We should put razor wire around our borders and give the finger to any piece of shit who wants to come here.” Finally, Nugent offered that LSD users should be caned and “go to prison in an overcrowded cell where a huge, unclean black man will fuck [them] in the ass every night.”

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  • Women's Rights

    In a 1994 interview with Westword newspaper, Nugent called then-First Lady Hillary Clinton a “toxic cunt” and a “two-bit whore for Fidel Castro.” Commenting on the immigration issue, he said, “We should put razor wire around our borders and give the finger to any piece of shit who wants to come here.” Finally, Nugent offered that LSD users should be caned and “go to prison in an overcrowded cell where a huge, unclean black man will fuck [them] in the ass every night.”

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  • Other Statements

    On November 19, 1992 Nugent said the following on WRIF-FM in Detroit, Michigan: “Foreigners are assholes, foreigners are scum. I don't like 'em. I don't want 'em in this country.”

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  • Other Statements

    While guest DJing for WRIF in Detroit, Michigan, in 1992, commented about a previous encounter with a Hare Krishna, saying, “In my mind, I'm going, ‘Why can't I just shoot this guy in the spine right now, shoot him in the spine, explain the facts of life to him?’”

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  • Animal Rights

    Interviewed in late 1992 on WRIF-FM in Detroit, Michigan, Nugent referred to animal rights activist Heidi Prescott as a “worthless whore” and “shallow slut” before asking, “Who needs to club a seal, when you could club Heidi?”

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  • Women's Rights

    Interviewed in late 1992 on WRIF-FM in Detroit, Michigan, Nugent referred to animal rights activist Heidi Prescott as a “worthless whore” and “shallow slut” before asking, “Who needs to club a seal, when you could club Heidi?”

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  • Religion

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  • Sexual Scandals

    In 1978, Nugent began dating a 17 year old girl when he was 30 years old. To avoid any legal repercussions, Nugent convinced the girl’s parents to sign over legal guardianship rights to him. The move was ranked #63 in a Spinmagazine list entitled, “The 100 Sleaziest Moments in Rock.”

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  • Other Statements

    In an interview with High Times in October 1977, Nugent explained how he avoided being drafted for the Vietnam War: “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 got my physical notice thirty 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 … 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. I’m gonna’ play their own game, and I’m 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 anti-drug as I’ve always been, but I snorted some crystal methedrine. Talk about one wounded mother *****. A guy put up four lines, and it was for all four of us, but I didn’t know and I’m 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 … So I went in, and those guys in uniform couldn’t 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 *****’ swine, you!’ Then they had a urine test and I couldn’t 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. They’d call dead people before they’d call my ass. But you know the funny thing about it? I’d make an incredible army man. I’d be a colonel before you knew what hit you, and I’d have the baddest bunch of motherfuckin’ killers you’d ever seen in my platoon. But I just wasn’t into it. I was too busy doin’ my own thing, you know?” A Selective Service form that chronicles Nugent’s draft history can be viewed here.

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