Apparently we’re not the only ones annoyed/exhausted by Ted Nugent’s unrelenting dickery. Folks in South Dakota also weren’t too happy when they were among the several hundred thousand people to catch Ted’s video outburst on stage at a recent concert, calling for the death and dismemberment of Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton via machine gun (to the mouth and genitals, respectively), and they asked him to turn it down before he wang-danged for the corndog-eaters at the state fair:
After profane outburst about Obama & Clinton, rocker Nugent asked to tone down in S.D.
Last week, Web video of rocker Ted Nugent profanely expressing his outrage about Democratic presidential contenders Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama got quite a bit of attention (the clip, which we warn you contains explicit language, has now been watched nearly 560,000 times — it’s posted here at LiveLeak.com).
Today, KSFY-TV in Sioux Falls reports that officials from the South Dakota State Fair heard about Nugent’s tirade and have asked him to tone things down when he appears at the fair on Sunday.
Susan Hayward, who manages the fair, tells the station that officials contacted Nugent’s representatives yesterday and reminded them that the fair is a family-oriented event. “They were very courteous in responding immediately in assuring us that that’s exactly what we would have,” Hayward says.
560,000 times! (We’ve done our part.) Christ, that’s got to be galling for Ted, though. If only he could somehow translate all those rubbernecking Internet viewers into actual record sales. Maybe he wouldn’t have to play state fairs. And pussy out on spouting his indefensible belief system when pressed by state fair officials.
Nugent Asked To Tone It Down For S.D. State Fair [Detroit Free Press via Blabbermouth]
Just yesterday I was talking to a friend of mine who had the dubious honor of opening for the Nuge at a “ribfest” somewhere. (They play an old time country blues music that goes well with BBQ.) Long story short, not only does Mr. Kill It and Grill It have sushi on his rider, but when he tried to pull a star trip was informed by a promoter of the event “the only reason you’re here is Dickie Betts canceled and don’t you forget that.”
Also, his sawed off tour manager tried to give my buddy some hassle and apparently he chased the dude back to there bus where he yelled outside for him and the Nuge to come out with their bow and arrows and he’d take ‘em both on.
Funny stuff.
STATE FAIR OFFICIALS! Not the police, not the CIA, not the FBI, not the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, not the Trilateral Commission or the Gnomes of Zurich or whatever — STATE FAIR OFFICIALS!
I hope “wang-dang” enters the lexicon permanently.
As in “The Wang-Dang Clan”?
The Nuge was on Glenn Beck’s show last night about this thing. Beck’s such a maniac that he made Ted look reasonable. The clip itself is kind of anti-climatic. Ted doesn’t fire the gun off. He doesn’t point it at anyone. He invites both candidates to “suck on my machine gun.” He calls them bitches and whores. Big deal. No actual threats, and you have to know that Nuge has been spewing swear-words onstage, his entire career.
I’d have to say that the Nuge is a questionable choice for a State Fair performer, but they asked him to tone it down, and evidently he’s agreed.