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Ted Nugent Blames Hippies for Divorce, Abortion, Drugs and Crime
The Rolling Stone ^
| July 3, 2007
| Zachary Weiss
Posted on 07/30/2007 8:10:20 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Ted Nugent Blames Hippies for Divorce, Abortion, Drugs and Crime
7/3/07, 2:22 pm EST
It was only a matter of time before Ted Nugent decided to rain on the Summer of Loves anniversary parade. In an article from todays Wall Street Journal titled The * Summer of Drugs, the notoriously opinionated guitar god took some time off his busy hunting schedule to blame stoned, dirty, stinky hippies for rising rates of divorce, high school drop-outs, drug use, abortion, sexual diseases and crime, not to mention the exponential expansion of government and taxes.
* Highlights (including some choice words for Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin) after the jump:
* On the Summer Of Love: Honest and intelligent people will remember it for what it really was: the Summer of Drugs.
* On Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Mama Cass: I often wonder what musical peaks they could have climbed had they not gagged to death on their own vomit.
* On the hippie movement: Turned off by the work ethic and productive American Dream values of their parents, hippies instead opted for a cowardly, irresponsible lifestyle of random sex, life-destroying drugs and mostly soulless rock music that flourished in San Francisco.
* On life as the Nuge: Clean and sober for 59 years, I am still rocking my brains out and approaching my 6,000th concert. Clean and sober is the real party.
-- Zachary Weiss
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 1960s; abortion; babyboomers; boomers; catscratchfever; counterculture; crime; culturewar; declineofwesternciv; dirtyliberals; divorce; dopefiends; drugs; ericcartman; genx; hippies; pigs; ratbastards; summeroflove; tednugent
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To: stuartcr
This from a guy that penned such classy songs as Cat Scratch Fever and Wango Tango?You left out his tender, love ballad, "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang."
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:20:54 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: DogByte6RER
Hendrix was a far better guitarist than Nugent.
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:21:15 AM PDT
by
zencat
(The universe is not what it appears, nor is it something else.)
To: DogByte6RER
What’s there to debate? The title says it all. :)
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:21:56 AM PDT
by
RushCrush
(Rush bot. Just waiting for instructions.)
To: dfwgator
We all have our vices...when a brick falls from Century Tower let me know ;-)
To: RightWhale
“Hippies were just another symptom, not the cause.
You mean to say, that given human nature, if a highly affluent, generous, and orderly society happens to have large numbers of children, this sort of thing is likely to happen?
To: zencat
Hendrix was a far better guitarist than Nugent. No doubt Ted would agree, but Ted's still here and Jimi is not.
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:23:22 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:23:33 AM PDT
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
Damn dirty hippies! I hate 'em,I hate 'em!
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:23:35 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
To: zencat
“was” being the past tense.
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:23:48 AM PDT
by
flashbunny
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:24:21 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: dfwgator
You’re right, he is an accomplished lyricist.
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:26:42 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: DogByte6RER
The Truth is never Politically Correct.
Pray for W and Our Troops
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:26:48 AM PDT
by
bray
(Member of the FR President Bush underground)
To: DogByte6RER
"The Summer of Drugs"
Ahhh, but it was fun. I think, I'm not quite sure.
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:26:52 AM PDT
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: BallyBill
If you remember it, you weren’t there.
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:28:16 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: DogByte6RER
Yeah, that’s who I’d blame too.
To: dfwgator
No doubt Ted would agree, but Ted's still here and Jimi is not.
True, but we're all not going to be here at some point. Just saying, drug use doesn't automatically make one a talentless loser or socialist.
Ted's just getting a little preachy for my taste. Shut up and play, Ted.
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:29:26 AM PDT
by
zencat
(The universe is not what it appears, nor is it something else.)
To: zencat
I often wonder what musical peaks they could have climbed....”
Seems to me here Ted is admitting they had tremendous talent, but just that they pissed it away on drugs.
And I too wonder what Hendrix could have done had he lived, I still consider him the most amazing guitarist ever.
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:31:48 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: caver
We are overun with boomer bashing lately.
They got it coming -- selfish narcissists.
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:38:41 AM PDT
by
Beckwith
(dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
To: Beckwith
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posted on
07/30/2007 8:39:07 AM PDT
by
Beckwith
(dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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