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Discovery Channel kicks Ted Nugent to the curb
By Stephen C. Webster
In addition to cancelling its popular American Guns reality show, The Discovery Channel confirmed to Raw Story on Tuesday that firearms enthusiast Ted Nugent will also not be returning to the channel in any form or fashion.
Speaking to Raw Story in remarks specified as not for attribution, a spokesperson admitted that Ted Nugents Gun Country didnt do very well when it aired in October, even with fellow firearms fashionistas. Nielsen Ratings placed the viewership at about 864,000 people in all. But the networks decision is not just about the numbers.
After Fridays devastating massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the spokesperson said that Nugent would definitely not be returning to the Discovery Channel.
Nugent and his allies at the National Rifle Association (NRA) repeatedly claimed that his hour-long Discovery Channel special was actually a planned series. The Detroit native and longtime southern rocker even told Armed America Radio listeners in October to expect that there will be at least a dozen shows a year. The channels spokesperson confirmed that this was never actually in the works.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/18/discovery-channel-kicks-ted-nugent-to-the-curb/
spanone
(135,898 posts)Response to spanone (Reply #1)
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6502
(249 posts)... step is do.
I mean, seeing Ted Nugent get kicked of Discovery Channel is real nice.
I'm enjoying, too.
But it feels like it's just one of those finger sandwiches...
... just a taste...
... not the same as a full size proper ham and mayo.
Now that I had a taste, I want the full size sandwich.
I want not just Ted Nugent feeling a little sting.
I want to see the NRA and NRA-toadies reduced to hiding in their home safe-rooms in fear of a million moms ripping the steel plates of the room on their way to "greet" them.
Now that's a good sandwich.
Hey, devilgrrl, the link in my sig might interest you.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)curiousdemo
(565 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)and Ancient Aliens and Doomsday Preppers?
These end of the world post apocalyptic and nutjob themed shows have got to go....
K/R
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)And get rid of the shows which follow all of those nutcase "Noah's Ark" hunters too. I mean, come on man!!!
mrdmk
(2,943 posts)Besides some people need to be reminded that we are only a species in a fragile shell and very prone to extinction by our own doing.
Now if mentioned the 144 dozen programs about Nostradamus that ran from station sign-on to station sign-off for weeks on end, I would be in complete agreement with you!
hodger
(11 posts)is found on Ancient Aliens. And if you think it is all bunk, you are simply in the dark.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Like a dog in heat. Fuck you Ted. May a deer kill you in your tracks one day.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)Nugent was such an * that he drove the lead vocalist out of the band. Like something in Spinal Tap or Joe Dirt.
patrice
(47,992 posts)their own responsibility for what happens, as an excuse to run out to buy more guns to fix us with.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)ellisonz
(27,711 posts)Sorry gunners, your boy is done on the Teevveee
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)DebJ
(7,699 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)oh, and TLC. We already know how to kill. (not forgetting the adults, but these two channels are/were supposedly for young folk.)
Let us hope and pray this is the beginning of a Tipping Point. While we're at it, can we make sure that idiot secessionists spouses and spawn (Palins) stay out of helicopters, off the TeeVee, and just go home and make snowpeople in their backyards. They can do target practice with them...with BB guns, if they need to.
Skittles
(153,214 posts)we know we are right but we been forced to listen to them as if they had credibility - UNTIL THE WORST HAPPENED - now we need to do the same with these climate change deniers - kick them to the curb NOW
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)cost of the social ailments and other costs they created really began to hit home...like lung cancer and liver disease, etc. They didn't go away, but they are severely regulated and given large penalties and the numbers of partakers are down every year. A DUI can cost up to $10,000 and really screw up someone's employment and life forever. MADD...Mother's Against Drunk Driving was hugely a part of that feat.
Maybe we are socially progressing just a bit to include the social ills of guns ... the comparison of the former pales as to the social costs of the latter. Who can remember the old "Winton tastes good...like a cigarette should." It's a relic, thankfully.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Skittles
(153,214 posts)smoking was tolerated long after it was known what a distaster it was, and DUI used to be treated like poor unfortunate incidents that "just happened"......people finally said, "ENOUGH ALREADY." FINALLY it is happening with the gun nut culture.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)around the nation. How many times have we collectively cringed at the political bullet we dodged when we re-elected him. Thank God.
spanone
(135,898 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Seems he had pretty much gone "beyond the pale" even for the RWers...concerts canceled, and think I remember a concert with some branch of the military got canceled. Haven't heard much from Hank, Jr. lately either as he felt the "boot" from prime time.
I see hopeful signs of the crumbling at the edges of the Right Wing Nuttery. I know a few and even though they may not have officially changed their views, the re-election of Obama was a mighty powerful social statement and many are at least re-thinking the Tea Party Koolaid.
Next, Rush and Sarah and the airwaves will be a bit cleaner.
bobclark86
(1,415 posts)and an embarrassment to law-abiding gun owners everywhere. I love when he gets arrested for hunting illegally (illegal guns, illegal baits, no licenses, etc.). He's a douche and should go hide in a hole somewhere far from me.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)rocktivity
(44,580 posts)I thought the whole point of spokespeople was to make remarks specifically FOR attribution!
rocktivity
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Said no one, ever.
losangeleslibker
(66 posts)Discovery channel and the history channel? Why was this show considered in the first place? I don't see the educational value in some of these new shows.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)went south a long time ago. There hasn't been anything real in years. I remember when they both had some interesting stuff. Not anymore. They had to jazz up history to get ratings thanks to the media machine.
All you learn from the alleged "learning" channel is how fucking insane the residents of this country are.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)WastedSaint
(53 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)Buck buck buckAWW!
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)He's too whacked out to even draw in a sizable chunk of the RW wacko viewership. Too funny!
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Southern rock has a bad enough image without putting that pedophile scumbag amongst actual Southern rockers.
Fucking morons in the media can't get shit right.
R. P. McMurphy
(837 posts)Ligyron
(7,639 posts)He was seen hanging around locally for awhile, that's it. The"King of Feedback" ... Eeeeeeek, screech!!!
He sucked then and now.
Allman bros were kickin it down there too back then, but they were a real talent
benld74
(9,911 posts)Science Geek
(161 posts)Any person such as Nugent having their own TV or radio show is a sign of a truly sick society.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)They'll never crawl out of the Nugent, Palin, conspiracy, RW cesspool they jumped into:
UPDATED: Discovery Channel To Cut Climate Change Episode From Groundbreaking Series
November 16, 2011 8:48 am ET by Jocelyn Fong
For the past few weeks, we've had to wait patiently while our friends across the Atlantic enjoy the BBC's seven-part Frozen Planet series on life at the poles, which won't air in the U.S. until the new year.
This sequel to Blue Planet and Planet Earth -- two of the greatest programs to have ever come through my television -- took four years, dozens of cameramen, 28 helicopters and 2 ice-breaking ships to make. The effort has been described by producer Vanessa Berlowitz as perhaps "our last chance to record these astonishing wildernesses that have existed untouched by humans for millennia and that, within a century, may change beyond recognition..."
But they changed their minds, huh?
UPDATE (12/6): AP reports that Discovery has decided to air the full climate change episode! The series will premiere in the U.S. on March 18. Set your DVRs.
http://newscorpwatch.org/blog/201111160005#
These cable networks have switched hands and are in the control of reactionary conservatives. Most of them stink. JMHO.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)"Armed America Radio " Is that for real ??
My god this country is worse off than I thought.
Uncle Joe
(58,453 posts)Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.
Berserker
(3,419 posts)is to shit his pants (Hey it worked last time) and they will give him the show back at least I hope he tries it.
atreides1
(16,094 posts)Now "Here comes Honey Boo Boo" won't have any competition...
Buns_of_Fire
(17,201 posts)"Honey Boo Boo: Zombie Hunter"
"HoneyBooBooBusters"
"Makin' Moonshine with Honey Boo Boo"
"The Honey Boo Boo Club"
Is there any doubt the apocalypse is nigh upon us?
kimbutgar
(21,223 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)TeamPooka
(24,264 posts)quinnox
(20,600 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)another_liberal
(8,821 posts)I was listening to the highly conservative Gary Noland (sp?) radio show one day when he had "Uncle Ted" as a guest. Nugent bragged about how, down on his West Texas ranch, he and his friends liked to hunt feral swine from a helicopter. He claimed to have used a fully automatic assault weapon to kill the fleeing pigs from the air. How very sportsman-like of him!
Has anybody here called Nugent a crazy asshole yet? They should have, because he is one.
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)Happy to oblige.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)The fewer skinheads on TV, the better.
Initech
(100,107 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts).... all the wonderful changes that are occurring:
1. NRA in America (gun regulation)
2. The Catholic Church in the Philippines (birth control for women)
3. Ted Nugent in America (kicked off Discover Channel)
Proceed!
loyalkydem
(1,678 posts)Mtndreamer
(35 posts)this is the same hero who in the 60's shyt his pants for a week before going before the draft board..
Later on while married he started to carry on with a younger Hawaiin girl, he could not marry her, so he "adopted" her.. but the whacked out right loves this dude.. Romney actively sought his endorsement.
bulloney
(4,113 posts)datasuspect
(26,591 posts)there was nothing ever really southern about his rock.
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)AAO
(3,300 posts)bbernardini
(9,938 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)UTUSN
(70,762 posts)TeamPooka
(24,264 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts):kick:
lastlib
(23,320 posts)"NRA spokesman and convicted child molester Ted Nugent"
"NRA spokesman and convicted child molester Ted Nugent"
"NRA spokesman and convicted child molester Ted Nugent"
"NRA spokesman and convicted child molester Ted Nugent"
"NRA spokesman and convicted child molester Ted Nugent"
"NRA spokesman and convicted child molester Ted Nugent"
"NRA spokesman and convicted child molester Ted Nugent"
"NRA spokesman and convicted child molester Ted Nugent"
we need to slap this tagline on him every time he's ever mentioned.
mrdmk
(2,943 posts)Animal Channel and The History Channel because of cheap reality programming. Our TV line-up seems to be flooded with formulated Jerry Springer T & A and lets see 'who gets thrown-off of the island', shows. Having that idiot Ted Nugent on the Discovery Channel was a new low for a science based station.
A Ted Nugent story, I was at a concert back in the 1980's and Ted came onto the PA system with a backstage interview. He started talking about being a hunter and blowing away animals for sport. People in the audience began to boo. Being at a concert and the audience giving a quarter of their attention to the announcements for this or that, the question started going around, 'Who is this asshole?'
Poor Ted, a day late and a dollar short just did not get his day in the sun with his God giving gun in hand...
Historic NY
(37,454 posts)Blue Owl
(50,529 posts)n/t
defacto7
(13,485 posts)that Discovery Channel is just riding coat tails? They are riding the coat tails of a mass killing of children. They were going to trash the show anyway, but now they are connecting it to the killings. How.... how... Murdock of them.
AllyCat
(16,235 posts)We have no cable and I always thought it would be nice to get some of the "educational" channels like A & E, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery...but after seeing most of these channels have crap like people hoarding $hit in storage lockers and a bounty hunter, I figured it's not worth it. This was supposed to be an educational show or was it just a ratings/money maker?
DissidentVoice
(813 posts)Even though he bogged off to Crawford, Texas to have his nose up GWB's arse, he trumpets his Michigan birth every chance he gets. At one time he threatened to run for Governor here. Thank God that didn't happen.
What's to say about a past-it guitar player (and in his day, he WAS good) who hasn't had an album worth mentioning since 1979 (Scream Dream; I don't count Damn Yankees) who spends his fewer and fewer live shows spouting insane bullshit from the stage as much as playing guitar? Hectoring politicians you don't like isn't "entertainment," Ted, and it's taken on an edge of true insanity when you make even vague allusions to harming them. Why do you think the Secret Service paid you a visit?
I served in the USAF/ANG and all your chickenshit ranting about how much you support the troops falls dead on my ears. Your father was a Drill Sergeant in the U.S. Army. How did he take it when you dodged Vietnam by pissing and shitting yourself and not bathing before going down to the draft board for your induction physical?
I cannot even stand to listen to your music anymore, and back in the day in the late '70s and early '80s I was a fan of your early albums. A couple of months ago I took them to FYE and traded them in because I cannot listen to them without hearing your omnipresent bullshit.
Chances are that I can shoot at least as well as you can, Ted, having fired everything from a BB gun to a .357 Magnum to an Uzi 9MM and done quite well at all of them.
I'd also be willing to do side-by-side trading licks with you with my little Ibanez and 15-watt Marshall amp up against your Byrdlands and Fender Twins. There's more to playing guitar than cranking it up to the point of pain and playing as many notes as you can.
Ted...retire, and get some mental health help while you're at it.
lexw
(804 posts)4bucksagallon
(975 posts)Ted "the diaper" Nugent and a cowardly draft dodging chicken hawk. But like someone else said the Republicans love him. Of course most of their heroes were cowardly draft dodging chicken hawks also. Right Mitt Robme???
Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)...dead or in prison by next year.
King_Klonopin
(1,307 posts)I bet he'd a shot that dude pow pow pow, just like that.
if he didn't poop his pants first.
Wild swine and deer don't shoot back with AR-15's.
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)thrown into the punchbowl of life, along with the Teabilly Kool-Aid. May he rest in piss!
The Discovery Channel, discovered what we already knew about Turd Nugent...he's a total POS!
Erose999
(5,624 posts)Island Blue
(5,819 posts)He is not a Southern rocker.