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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOP’s Real Ted Nugent Problem
James PoulosIf conservatives want to be media stars tomorrow, theyve got to get to work today.
Ted Nugent played my dads high school in 1968. As he plowed through what was then a terrifying, alluring setlist, the kids did something unthinkable. In fact, it was unprecedented, and strictly against the rules: They got up out of their seats, and ran down to the foot of the stage.
The Nuge paused, approvingly, between songs. But the air was pierced by an even more dangerous and unsettling soundthe sound of counter-revolution. In the rear of the auditorium stood the vice principal, an older woman possessed of commanding authority and not a compunction about using it. Boys and girls! she shouted. (She never shouted.) You get back in your seats right! Now!
Was it panic in her voice? The kids heads snapped around in an instant, then back to the Nuge, who glowered out from above. The SixtiesTM were happening right there in front of them. Stifling convention versus crude rebellion. What was the Nuge going to do?
Hey, he said into the microphone. Somebody tell that bitch to shut the fuck up.
Somethingit was hard to say exactly whathappened to the vice principals face. Nobody ever spoke to her like that; not at school, certainly, and probably not once in her life. Shattered completely, she crumbled toward the exit and disappeared.
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The GOP’s Real Ted Nugent Problem (Original Post)
DonViejo
Feb 2014
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struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)1. I don't think I believe that story
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)2. I Wouldn't Doubt It
Once a psychopath always a psychopath.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)3. Don't know if Nugent really said that then,
but we all ought to be saying it to him right now.