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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 Love’s anniversary parade. In an article from today’s 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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This is almost a month old, but I just stumbled on it and thought this might make some good debate among the FReepers...
1 posted on 07/30/2007 8:10:23 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
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“The Summer of Drugs”

By Ted Nugent

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118342613870356143.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries


2 posted on 07/30/2007 8:11:01 AM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

I love Ted, but considering his track record of infidelity, it seems a bit hypocritical coming from him.


3 posted on 07/30/2007 8:12:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: DogByte6RER

While I’m only 21 and admire the Nuge for his clean lifestyle, I have no problem having a few drinks with friends every now and then. I’ll never touch any drugs, though.

Drugs are for losers.


4 posted on 07/30/2007 8:12:52 AM PDT by wastedyears (Freedom is the right of all sentient beings - Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime)
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To: DogByte6RER

Hippies were just another symptom, not the cause.


5 posted on 07/30/2007 8:13:14 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: DogByte6RER

While I agree with most everything Ted said, I must say the music wasn’t all soulless.


6 posted on 07/30/2007 8:14:22 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: DogByte6RER
Has Nugent ever responded to allegations from Courtney Love that she "serviced" him back stage at one his concerts when she was something like 12 or 13-years-old?
7 posted on 07/30/2007 8:14:24 AM PDT by gdani (The average speed of a house fly is 4.5 miles an hour)
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To: dfwgator
I love Ted, but considering his track record of infidelity, it seems a bit hypocritical coming from him.

It's a Boolean thing.

Ted is opposed to sex and drugs. Not sex OR drugs.

8 posted on 07/30/2007 8:15:26 AM PDT by dirtboy (Impeach Chertoff and Gonzales. We can't wait until 2009 for them to be gone.)
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To: dirtboy

I remember hearing Ted boasting about the fact that he would do other guys’ girlfriends while the guys were too stoned out to “perform.”


9 posted on 07/30/2007 8:17:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: gdani

Oooohhh..Courtney Love. Always the voice of piety there.


10 posted on 07/30/2007 8:17:03 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Divorce? Abortion? Drugs? Crime? Yeah! Right on, man!
11 posted on 07/30/2007 8:17:17 AM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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Oooohhh..Courtney Love. Always the voice of piety there

If it's not true, I can't imagine why Nugent hasn't sued her.

12 posted on 07/30/2007 8:18:08 AM PDT by gdani (The average speed of a house fly is 4.5 miles an hour)
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To: DogByte6RER

This from a guy that penned such classy songs as “Cat Scratch Fever” and “Wango Tango”?


13 posted on 07/30/2007 8:18:10 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Some people blame all those things on Poverty.


14 posted on 07/30/2007 8:19:06 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: dfwgator
I love Ted, but considering his track record of infidelity, it seems a bit hypocritical coming from him.

C'mon, you can't really hold someone responsible for acts committed when they were suffering from Cat Scratch Fever, can you?

15 posted on 07/30/2007 8:19:22 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG (Apparently my former party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
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To: gdani

Never, never, NEVER sue a nut.


16 posted on 07/30/2007 8:19:28 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: DogByte6RER

He left off illegal immigration, and massive legal third world immigration which are existential threats to this country. And, yes, I blame it on the sixties counter-culture.


17 posted on 07/30/2007 8:19:42 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Bestowing kindness on the evil visits cruelty on the good.)
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To: gdani

Courtney Love or not, Ted liked ‘em young. He had the parents of one minor he was diddling sign over guardianship to him.


18 posted on 07/30/2007 8:20:08 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: DogByte6RER

Once again Eric Cartman nails it (regarding hippies).


19 posted on 07/30/2007 8:20:29 AM PDT by mrmargaritaville
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To: DogByte6RER

I like the Nuge.

This article of his goes along with all the boomer bashing threads here on FR. We are overun with boomer bashing lately.


20 posted on 07/30/2007 8:20:30 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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