The NRA is doing "duck and cover" over Ted Nugent...

[Archae]

And Pants Crap Fever's anti-Semitic Facebook posts, which BTW, are still there!

NRA Dodges Accountability: "Individual Board Members Do Not Speak For The NRA." After declining to comment to several news outlets, the NRA told The Washington Post on February 10 that "individual board members do not speak for the NRA." [The Washington Post, 2/10/16]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/02/10/gun-rights-advocates-urge-nra-to-remove-ted-nugent-from-board-over-anti-semitic-outburst/?tid=sm_tw

[hack89]

1. Nugent is an all round embarrassment to humanity. nt

[Human101948]

2. His "celebrity" status is why he's on their board, they should embrace the publicity...

They should stand up for what their membership believes.

[friendly_iconoclast]

3. Do you apply that standard universally?

https://www.google.com/search?q=bloomberg+%22third-party%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

If so, that's welcome news!

[Human101948]

10. Is Bloomberg an anti-semite?

Your message is somewhat cryptic.

[friendly_iconoclast]

11. No, but he's not too keen about persons of color, or Muslims:

He also has/had more power, and quite willing to use it in un-Constitutional ways:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027596858#op

https://www.google.com/search?q=bloomberg+stop+and+frisk&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com

https://www.google.com/search?q=bloomberg+demographics+unit&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com

Nugent is indeed scum, Bloomie's thuggery is simply more polished

[saturnsring]

4. theyre doing the rubio-roboto thing

"individual board members do not speak for the NRA."

"individual board members do not speak for the NRA."

"individual board members do not speak for the NRA."

"individual board members do not speak for the NRA."

"individual board members do not speak for the NRA."

"individual board members do not speak for the NRA."

"individual board members do not speak for the NRA."
"individual board members do not speak for the NRA."

[icymist]

5. This part of the article sums the whole thing up for me:

Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, took aim at Nugent as well after being featured in the Facebook post.

“Ted Nugent’s latest comments go beyond being anti-Semitic — they are ignorant and do nothing but fuel hate,” Gross said in a statement. “Personally, I am repulsed — my brother was shot and seriously wounded in a religiously-motivated mass shooting on the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Reasonable people on both sides of the debate recognize Mr. Nugent’s comments for what they are: hate speech and nothing more.”

Gross added that Nugent’s posts were “yet another clear sign of how out of touch NRA’s leadership and Board” are with the group’s members.

[UTUSN]

6. So many questions:

Why does the article label some others as anti-Semitic/neo-Nazi but not NUGENT? So the NRA only semi- tosses NUGENT under the bus, but will the fair-haired/lovely-smiling governor of Texas Greg ABBOTT? Is the current praise of TRUMP/DRUMPF for not being "politically correct" code for liberating racism out of its Silent Majority closet?

[spanone]

7. if any human being deserves to have the shit slapped out of them.......

a national embarrassment....

[Hoyt]

8. The predominantly racist gun loving members will reelect him to the Board, bet on it.

[gratuitous]

9. Maybe the NRA should reconsider its close ties to Nugent?

But, since they don't, I think it's quite reasonable for people to think that that violent, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, xenophobic, and just plain ignorant public rantings of their board member to be the violent, anti-Semitic, misogynistic, xenophobic, and just plain ignorant public rantings of the NRA.

You don't get to profit from your association with this dubious grandstanding individual and then disavow him when his antics draw unwelcome attention. He's your board member, NRA; he speaks for you and your membership. Don't like it? Get him off the board and revoke his membership.