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Fort Knox drops Ted Nugent from concert plans
The News Enterprise ^ | April 19, 2012

Posted on 04/19/2012 6:12:48 PM PDT by SLB

Following rocker Ted Nugent's recent comments about President Barack Obama, he has been dropped from a scheduled performance at Fort Knox, the post announced Thursday afternoon.

Nugent set off a controversy at last weekend's National Rifle Association convention when he criticized high-ranking members of Obama's administration and offered support for possible Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

In a video posted on YouTube by the NRA, Nugent said, "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. If you can't go home and get everybody in your lives to clean house in this vile, evil America hated administration, I don't even know what you're made out of."

He also suggested members of the Obama administration, including the vice president, attorney general and secretary of state were "criminals."

Army Entertainment and the Fort Knox Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation are committed to carrying out the concert, according to a news release. REO Speedwagon and Styx remain scheduled to perform as part of the post's annual summer concert June 23. The possibility exists that a replacement will be selected, post officials said.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: braking; fortknox; mittromney; nugent; tednugent
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To: SLB; All

Nugent should hold a concert off-site and see who gets the bigger gate.


21 posted on 04/19/2012 6:43:41 PM PDT by TheRobb7 (The Margin of GOP victory MUST exceed the margin of Democrat election theft!)
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To: SLB

He will be replaced by a Wiccan prayer and a gay sex orgy.


22 posted on 04/19/2012 6:45:47 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: SLB

What a bunch of pussies.


23 posted on 04/19/2012 6:45:54 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: Rome2000

He is wrong on this, but I am not writing off the whole man because of it.


24 posted on 04/19/2012 6:47:54 PM PDT by Psalm 144 ("I'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am." - Willard M Romney)
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To: SLB
Orders from that five sided building.
25 posted on 04/19/2012 6:48:06 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Unlike Mrs Obama,I've Been Proud Of This Country My *Entire* Life!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Bingo.


26 posted on 04/19/2012 6:48:46 PM PDT by Psalm 144 ("I'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am." - Willard M Romney)
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To: Rome2000
"KOLOBIAN". That's good, I like that.

Now if we could come up with some silly looking "special clothing" or uniform that Kolobians wear, we'd be all set.

You know, maybe something subtle, like underwear... but impregnated with special sauce that gives them magic powers or something...

Nah, nobody would believe that. :)

27 posted on 04/19/2012 6:50:41 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: SLB

Uncle Ted supporting the liberal media backed Romney. HMMMMM Somebody is disingenuous or someboy is eskeered and/or bought. At any rate..this is wrong on too many levels.


28 posted on 04/19/2012 6:52:28 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: vetvetdoug

Funny you say that....I’ve been wondering about the melantonin (sp) of those Secret Service guys who got into trouble...


29 posted on 04/19/2012 6:53:07 PM PDT by goodnesswins (2012..."We mutually pledge our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor")
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To: SLB
The New Black KKK offer a $10,000 reward for George Zimmerman "Dead or Alive" and not a peep is heard from the Feds.

But let a non-Eric Holder person say he probably won't survive a second Ubama term and the Feds pee all over themselves.

30 posted on 04/19/2012 6:58:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (For every black person murdered by a white, thirty-nine white people are murdered by blacks.)
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To: SLB

The price one pays for honesty. He probably needed the gig, too. All the more power to him if he doesn’t cave to any powers that be - that means he’s truly honest, everything he says is what he truly believes.


31 posted on 04/19/2012 7:10:29 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: vetvetdoug

I hear that :) Don’t even ask about the Equal Opportunity Office... makes one wonder ... Hmmmm


32 posted on 04/19/2012 7:15:26 PM PDT by USAFJeeper (Who Dat Nation - Loving the Manning Face!)
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To: SLB

Maybe they’ll replace Ted with the Dixie Chicks or some comedy from Bill Maher.


33 posted on 04/19/2012 7:15:51 PM PDT by doug from upland (Just in case, it has been reserved: www.TheBitchIsBack2012.com)
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To: ngat
6 posted on Thu Apr 19 2012 20:15:54 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by ngat: “Hmmm. Isn’t the Fort Knox Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation supposed to take steps to SUPPORT the morale of the troops?”

I agree, and if this were almost anyone other than the Department of Defense, I would have problems with canceling Nugent.

But let's change the situation a bit. What if the Dixie Chicks had been booked to perform at an Army post before they made disparaging comments about a Republican President? Would we not say that MWR needs to take a long hard look at the appropriateness of having a major performance by singers who have made recent disparaging comments about the Commander in Chief? Most of us would say the difference is Nugent is right and the Dixie Chicks were wrong, but unlike us, the Department of Defense can't get involved in politics.

My guess is Ted Nugent knew there would be consequences to his comments and made them with the full intention of using his national reputation to get widespread attention for his criticism of President Obama.

The old saying is often true in the entertainment world: “There's no such thing as bad publicity.” I'm guessing Nugent is quite happy to see that MWR’s cancellation of his appearance had resulted in his comments about Obama getting even more attention.

34 posted on 04/19/2012 7:18:24 PM PDT by darrellmaurina
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To: smalltownslick

I’m sure it put a dent in his revenue for the quarter, but Ted Nugent has been around for a long, long time, and he doesn’t drink or do drugs, so I”m guessing he’s... comfortable.


35 posted on 04/19/2012 7:22:10 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Cheney/Rumsfeld 2012)
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To: SLB

As much as I agree with what Ted said, it would be inappropriate to allow him to potentially act similarly on a US military base. Go ARMOR!


36 posted on 04/19/2012 7:25:25 PM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: Dogbert41

I wish he’d find some conservative farmer in the area who would let him use a few acres to put on a free concert in direct competition with the Ft. Knox show. hee hee


37 posted on 04/19/2012 7:29:07 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: SgtHooper

Armor is at Benning now.


38 posted on 04/19/2012 7:30:47 PM PDT by Liberty Ship ("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
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To: West Texas Chuck

Ditto that.


39 posted on 04/19/2012 7:32:50 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: SLB
Ted should book a venue down the Street and charge $1 for Military in Uniform to attend. Film it and sell the DVD.
40 posted on 04/19/2012 7:41:59 PM PDT by DAC21
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