Ted Nugent's Jailbait Problem

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Another campaign appearance, another Ted Nugent controversy. Mainstream Republicans and everyone to their left are appalled. But no one is surprised. Nugent's incendiary rhetoric (read: infamous idiocy) is, at this point, expected and tiresome. It has become difficult to muster the outrage.

More unfortunate is that these incidents have had the unintended side effect of protecting Nugent from a far bigger character issue. In fact, in the case of Nugent, we have even come to see alleged child sexual abuse as some sort of eccentricity or harmless vice. Can you imagine anyone else who had been accused of having sex with a 12-year-old, written a song about raping a 13-year-old and adopted a 17-year-old so that he could have sex with her going on to campaign alongside all the most conservative "family values" candidates?

When Ted Nugent was 32 years old, he released the song "Jailbait." Here's a taste of the lyrics (written by him):
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1. Poacher, pedophile, predator, draft dodger, family values LOL

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2. Tell me who your friends are,

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Tell me who your friends are, and this will tell me who you are:

Turd Nugent>
Stockman
Palin
Perry
Gohmert
Abbott
Breitbart
O'Keefe
NRA Board (I hate to post this one)

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4. All warmongers, who are against our Veterans. That means they are against America.

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7. I thought he was foaming in the pic, but it's just his soul patch

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18. I think to have a soul patch you should first be required to have a soul.

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13. You forgot Poopy Butt and Mister Pee Pee Pants! That "Nugent Method" paid off for him....

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27. You forgot...

Poacher, pedophile, predator, draft dodger, family values LOL

These ARE Republican family values.

[Hoyt]

3. Your typical racist NRA Board Member.

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14. At least he's not an elected official. Yet...

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5. It's too bad none of the now women

Aren't suing this piece of shit. That would shed more light on this.

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6. Another chicken hawk Republican hero

Ptooey on Republicans in their so-called values

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8. Greg Abbott is running a bad campaign

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15. Unfortunately, it also appeals to racist misogynists. n/t

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16. In prior years, this strategy worked for Goodhair

First, Greg is not Goodhair. Goodhair may be an idiot but he can give a good speech. Greg is not a good speaker and is running a bad campaign.

Second, this was before Battleground Texas. We never had a ground game in Texas and now we can target the GOTV and voter registration efforts.

Third, Wendy has a strong appeal to suburban single women and Greg is doing his best to alienate this segment of the voting population. Greg and his allies are pushing the name #abortionbarbie on Twitter and some of the attacks on Wendy Davis are pretty sick.

Finally, Greg is making unforced errors like Ted Nugent and equal pay.

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9. For conservatives that kind of behavior is a feature, not a bug.

Conservatives are all about the Christian White Male Patriarchy. Rape, underage sex, and other such creepy shit are totally at home there.

So, no, I don't find it at all surprising that mainstream Republicans would cheerfully campaigning with Nugent. I guarantee you that they all share plenty of laughs about underage sex and rape. But it's all in good fun, you see. Where's your sense of humor?

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10. Don't Make False Equivalencies!

Don't make false Equivalencies here! Ted Nugent's "Jailbait" lyrics aren't one bit like "thank Heaven For Little Girls"!

"jail bait" is written with a narrative from some ( censored ) well past his majority hitting on a 13 year old girl.

I was surprised that someone in Deep Red East Texas Long view took notice of Nugent's lyrics and canceled his show.

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11. if his activities had been publicized and with little boys,

The reaction would be different. Guaranteed.

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12. IOKIYAR doncha know !!

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17. +1

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19. She thinks he is awesome...

So does Rick...


So does Abbott...


So does Gov. Engler...

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20. Here is there creed for the RWE party

Yep he was addicted to jail bait

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21. There Was A Wonderful Old Blues Tune To The Same Name

There was a wonderful old blues tune titled "Jailbait," written from the viewpoint of a fellow in the slammer for messing around with a 17 1/2 year old girl. He was bemoaning his decision (his friends had warned him to stay away), he was in cell number 8, and the authorities weren't the least bit sympathetic. For the life of me, I couldn't tell you who wrote the song or who performed it.

A pity nobody is likely to use the older blues tune as a sound track for an attack piece on one of Ted Nugent's right-wing fan-boy politicians.

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22. Here

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23. bigot

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24. Thank You For Your Kind Efforts And Your Link, BUT

Thank you for your kind efforts and your link, but Ted-person's song and the tune and lyrics I heard last night while channel surfing don't match. The tune I heard last night was a recording performed by Afro-American bluesman on a local station. (100.1 FM, an Austin, Texas area station).


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A little more research, and I discovered that the tune was Andre Williams' Jail Bait.

The advice in the song is still worth heeding to.

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25. Thanks

I was just trying to get Nugent history out there. Interesting lyrics. I will look at you information.

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26. Even in 1956 it was unacceptable

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28. Juanita Jean is having fun mocking this town

http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/03/24/oh-so-it-does-indeed-take-one-to-know-one/

So, Longview, Texas, (oh yeah that’s in East Texas) hired Ted Nugent and His All Racist Sidekicks to play at their big ole 4th of July picnic.

Apparently, they did not know who Ted Nugent is. Because now they have changed their minds.

Faced with a guaranteed performance fee of $32,000, the City of Longview instead agreed to pay Nugent $16,000 out of the Maude Cobb annual budget to not appear

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So that’s the going rate? You have to pay Ted Nugent $16,000 to stay from your city.

Hell, that’s a bargain at any price.

So he’ll take the money away from the city budget and stay home in his palatial doublewide shooting off his gun and drinkin’ beer. So who’s the ‘subhuman mongrel’ now?

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29. Blast From The Past: The Worst Ted Nugent Interview Of All Time

In a 1990 interview now available online for the first time, National Rifle Association board member and Outdoor Channel spokesperson Ted Nugent defended apartheid in South Africa, said that he uses racial expletives because he "hang[s] around with a lot of niggers," and described the bizarre efforts he claims to have taken to avoid military service during the Vietnam War.

Snippets from "Ted Nugent Grows Up? Older, Bolder, Cruder, Ruder -- And More Unprintable Than Ever," published in Detroit Free Press Magazine on July 15, 1990, have been floating around on the Internet for years. Media Matters requested a copy of the interview from the Detroit Public Library, which archives the Free Press, to authenticate the statements.

Nugent has recently been the subject of widespread controversy after calling President Obama a "subhuman mongrel" during an appearance at a January gun industry trade show. That comment resurfaced the next month when Republican Texas governor hopeful Greg Abbott invited Nugent to campaign with him. Abbott's decision created a firestorm of controversy around Nugent that only dissipated after he offered a disingenuous apology for his remark. Fallout continues from that controversy, as a Texas music festival recently announced it would pay Nugent not to show up for a planned performance.
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