{"id":6796,"date":"2003-05-07T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-07T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/07\/6796\/"},"modified":"2017-11-02T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T19:37:09","slug":"6796","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/07\/6796\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Nugent Trivia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And another thing, why does the AP article bear this line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nugent is <b>past president of the National Rifle Association<\/b> and is known for his outspokenness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No kidding!  I think it would be more relevant, considering that he was on the phone with a <i>rock and roll music station<\/i>, apparently discussing <i>rock and roll music<\/i>, to mention:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nugent is a former member of the Damn Yankees, who charted with the song <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesonglyrics.com\/d_song_lyrics\/damnyankees_lyric2.html\" target=\"new\">&#8220;High Enough&#8221;<\/a>, which sounds like a Rave song, but given Nugent&#8217;s eternally anti-drug stance is not about drug usage.\n<li>Nugent&#8217;s solo career was built on musical hits designed composed to celebrate the human condition, particularly Procreative Drills, featuring several colloquial representations of male and female genitalia in the titles.\n<li>Nugent is the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnkfk.com\/\" target=\"new\">Ted Nugent Kamp for Kids<\/a>, an organization designed to train kids in safe hunting.<\/a>\n<li>Nugent is the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnugent.com\/about_tnusa\/hunters_hungry.shtml\" target=\"new\">Hunters for the Hungry<\/a> an organization dedicated to providing meat harvested in hunts to homeless shelters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, but no.  Nugent is the <i>past president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nra.org\" target=\"new\">National Rifle Association<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the point is a free-association of racial slurs, and those who would use them to denigrate <i><b>(author insensitivity alert!)<\/b><\/i> other races, with the National Rifle Association, whose stance on the Second Amendment runs counter to that of the author of the piece, the Associated Press in general, and &#8220;enlightened&#8221; people everywhere.  The sooner those louts are tarred with the same pot of pitch, the better to round them up and pelt them with animal entrials&#8211;no, wait, they might like that.<\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s not let the facts step in front of an onrushing good Nexis-Lexis search phrase.  Nugent&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnugent.com\/tnbio\/index.shtml\" target=\"new\">own biography<\/a> does not list him as a former president, but he does sit on the board of directors at the NRA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And another thing, why does the AP article bear this line: Nugent is past president of the National Rifle Association and is known for his outspokenness. No kidding! I think it would be more relevant, considering that he was on the phone with a rock and roll music station, apparently discussing rock and roll music, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17197,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions\/17197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}