The reference to it I’ve seen is awful, so I’m hoping someone else has a different reference.
I have never heard him make this claim but if he’s posing then he’s toast in my book.
Google it. The quote I saw was where he said something about what “the Marine Corps taught me.” He was probably referencing something he learned from the Marines during a benefit event of some kind.
Here’tis. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295157,00.html
(For some reason they accidently label him as Nelson in this response.)
KASICH: Well, Ted, I know rock ‘n’ roll. You know that I know rock ‘n’ roll. But frankly, I mean, that was, like, such a crude thing. You know, like some kind of fourth grade stuff, like you know, these things you said were — they just weren’t right.
I mean, why — did you ever think these people — what about Obama’s kid hearing that? What do we tell him? “Well, it’s just rock ‘n’ roll?”
NELSON: I don’t know. What do you tell the children of soldiers who have sacrificed their lives when Obama claims that their daddies are raiding innocent civilians over there?
Come on, John. Let’s get our priorities straight. With all due respect, unless you’ve been to a Ted Nugent concert lately, you don’t know the intensity.
By the way, we’re selling out every concert on this “Love Grenade” tour. And I do exactly what the good Marine Corps taught me every night. And I do PG-13 concerts for the state fairs and the county fairs and all these different family events that I’ve been selling out. Because I want to make sure I do the right thing.
An outrageous, over the top rock ‘n’ roll event like the House of Blues, John, as long as no laws are broken and no one gets hurt. Nothing is sacred.
I don’t have a final opinion. I just present this article as a starting point for research.
http://arts.independent.co.uk/music/features/article571538.ece
>>In Iraq, he says, he was allowed the opportunity to man automatic weapons. “Our failure,” he tells me, “has been not to Nagasaki them.”
“Is that opinion shared by your friends in the Republican Party?”
“Most of them feel that way.”<<
>>His father Warren was a drill sergeant who went on to become a steel executive. Ted has an older brother Jeff who is “a great guy - he served in the United States Army”. The musician pronounces this last phrase as though it’s the highest praise imaginable. “As a boy,” he adds, “I was inundated with discipline.”<<
>>In the late 1960s he lived with the MC5, a group which was the prototype, musically and pharmaceutically, for acts including Iggy Pop, The Clash and The Sex Pistols. “I shared a house with those dope fiends. I was moved by their music.”
“In February 1977, People magazine reported you as saying that you’d smoked ‘50 joints in the 1960s’ and tried ‘two lines of cocaine’.” “What I actually said to People was that on an average night at the MC5 house I’d turn down 50 joints and refuse cocaine.”<<
>>He has the rage, but he doesn’t have the war record. At 18, he was called up to serve in Vietnam. “In 1977 you gave an interview to High Times [the cannabis user’s journal of record] where you claimed you defecated in your clothes to avoid the draft.”
(”I got 30 days’ notice of the physical,” Nugent told them. “I ceased cleansing my body. Two weeks before the test I stopped eating food with nutritional value. A week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. My pants got crusted up.”)
“I never shit my pants to get out of the draft,” says Nugent, good-naturedly.<<
The USMC taught me a lot, too, though I was never a Marine (entry level seperation and all).
http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Nugent,_Ted/Biography/
Nothing in there indicates he’s a veteran, and there don’t really appear to be gaps in his career where he could have served. Just more of the same old Nugent bullshit.
No Marine ever makes an occasional claim of being a Marine: they are eaten up with it. Like you, for instance....
But he's spent a lot of time with them done a lot to support them.
In looking for marine stuff. I found this video from earlier this month.
He’s pretty nutty for somebody running for governor.
>>I was in Chicago last week I said, “Hey Obama, you might want to suck on one of these, you punk?” Obama, he’s a piece of shit and I told him to suck on one of my machine guns. Let’s hear it for them. I was in New York and I said, “Hey Hillary, you might want to ride one of these into the sunset you worthless bitch.” Since I’m in California, I’m gonna find Barbara Boxer she might wanna suck on my machine guns. Hey, Dianne Feinstein, ride one of these you worthless whore.<<
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=757_1187963465&p=1
Occurs @ ~ the 2:46 remaining mark of the clip. Nothing on the web indicates that he ever served in any branch. Perhaps his dad was a Marine since his biography states "while his disciplinarian father passed his beliefs down to Nugent."
My Marine Corps taught me a lot too!
Breath Release Aim Sight Squeeze, ugh, um,, 12th military order and no farting in the LP! that’s it for memory lane for the moment! (I’m old, stay tuned) :-)
Semper Fi
I’ve just listened through the mandatory commercial to see the whole Fox interview. He says he learned from the Marines - that’s not enough to say he falsely claimed to be a Marine.
He makes the point that this is stage outrage - and that Alice Cooper didn’t really cut his head off with a guillotine and that Mick Jagger didn’t have to explain when he rode a 40 foot inflatable penis.
I don’t see a problem here other than his stage show is getting a lot of press and its pretty outrageous. That will turn off some people.
I don’t believe Ted Nugent would lie about this now and it doesn’t look like he did. It just sounds like some idiot is trying to light a fire where there is none.
Can’t find anything on it .
I did find a funny quote from Nugent though; his response to a French journalist asking him about hunting.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/nugent.asp
I guess if Bill Clinton can be “America’s first black President” then Don Knots could be a Marine(?)
Looks like Clinton’s thugs are after Ted Nugent. Should be interesting.
I don’t like poseurs and this reeks of one.
However, I’d rather have a hundred wannabees like Nugent that believes in our cause than a former marine like John Murtha who spits on and back stabs his currently serving brothers.
Still, Nuge needs to watch his mouth.
Didn’t the Nuge visit the troops in Iraq? Maybe that’s what he was referring to.
Nugent was referring to what he learned from the time he spent entertaining and visiting with the US Marines in Iraq.
Sheeeesh!