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 ...
Has Ted ever apologized for it? He always seems to be bragging about it.
The Allman Brothers with Duane and Berry Oakley was the band all those San Francisco bands dreamed of being, and none of them came close.
LOL, I’ve always enjoyed the title “My Love Is Like A Tire Iron”.
Maybe because he knows CL is a drug addled tart and no reasonable person would believe she was telling to truth.
Didn't Nugent talk about this on VH-1's "Behind the Music"?
Apparently his song "Jailbait" came from first-hand experience.
Apologise to whom? You? How do you know he hasn’t done it privately with the people who matter, and not with the busy-body fools who want to subjugate everyone else to their mores?
He forgot to mention fits, farts, and freckles too...
And right around that time most of the great Southern bands like Skynyrd were just starting up.
So?
No, he used a stack of Fender Supers and Vibroverbs. As punishingly loud as any Marshall stack.
I can play guitar better than Jimi... he’s dead.
Hmmm...perhaps. I don’t know.
ok, perhaps not ALL of the music emanating from San Francisco was soulless, but has anyone here ever attempted to actually listen to that crap that the Grateful Dead is so famous for?
“They got it coming — selfish narcissists.”
I see you had to jump in too. Feel better now?
That is true, however, Ted is the first to admit that his one vice/addiction has been women.
Not that it makes it “OK” but he’s not unaware of it, either, and his points are still correct.
QUESTION: So the high illegitimacy ratio that you saw in the black community in the early 1960s climbs enormously within the black community. But later it also climbs in the white community – to a point where it is higher than the so-called crisis that you originally pointed out. A few years go by, and it's not just out-of-wedlock births; it’s an increase in crime; it’s an increase in welfare. There's a lot of things going on. There's drug usage. And you write an essay called, “Defining Deviancy Down.”
SEN. MOYNIHAN: Yes.
QUESTION: It seems to me that there’s a linkage there as well. Could you describe to me what’s happening in the world, what’s happening in your mind as you see this evolution?
SEN. MOYNIHAN: [Let me] give you a little background. This is sort of academic, but it’s the real world too. In the 1964 Civil Rights Act, as it was going through a long process, a little clause was put in saying there should be a survey of equality of educational opportunity. We had to demonstrate how separate schools were inherently unequal. And that was before things progressed such that the law outlawed dual school systems. But the little provision was still in there.
And a friend of mine, James S. Coleman – a great sociologist – was asked to do this survey. And when he undertakes it, they said, “why are you doing this? Everybody knows these schools are unequal in their facilities and that’s why they're unequal in their outcomes.” He said, “Well, everybody knows it, but now we'll know it for once and all.”
And I'll tell you, early one evening, there's a reception at the Harvard Faculty Club, and Seymour Martin Lipset – the incomparable Marty Lipset – walks in, sees me, comes over and says, “You know what Coleman's finding, don't you?” And I said, “No.” He said, “It's all family.”
And, indeed what [Coleman] found [was that] the predictor of educational achievement was to be found in family setting, structure, and so forth.
QUESTION: Not in schools? Not principally?
SEN. MOYNIHAN: Not principally in schools. Now, and he was the sort of first major person in that difficult decade who found out things that he shouldn't have found out. Actually, there was an effort – not very serious, but an effort – to expel him from the American Sociological Association.
QUESTION: For telling the truth?
SEN. MOYNIHAN: Well, for finding out information that was unwelcome.
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/interviews/moynihan.htm
FWIW, Ted has also spoken out against illegal immigration at other times.
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