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The Nuge vs. The Waco Trib (Ted Nugent Fired)
Texas Monthly ^ | August 16, 2009 | Evan Smith

Posted on 08/17/2009 7:21:16 AM PDT by abb

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To: RichInOC
Telling Nuge to tone it down is like telling Rosie O'Donnell to stop being fat.
41 posted on 08/17/2009 8:50:29 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: abb

The new owners are going to look pretty silly canceling a column written by the future Secretary of the Interior...


42 posted on 08/17/2009 8:52:17 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: GeronL

Does he write a column every week, on a regular day, or just when the spirit moves him? The syndicates require regular copy on a specific schedule. I think he would have had syndication offers by now, probably from a syndicate like Creators, which syndicates Michelle Malkin. Perhaps he didn’t want to to be tied to a weekly deadline.


43 posted on 08/17/2009 8:57:40 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

That could be it too. Maybe a regular reader would know.


44 posted on 08/17/2009 8:58:33 AM PDT by GeronL (bookmark my new FR back-up site - http://unitedcitizen.proboards.com)
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To: Tribune7
That's my opinion too <(That Obama is a good guy.). Obama's problem is that he has been badly miseducated.

You and Ted Nugent must be talking about personality rather than character. Would a "good guy" conceal his past to the extent that Obama has, even refusing to prove he is qualified for the office he holds? Would a good guy be a Community Organizer teaching and encouraging people to round up and register fraudulent and non-existent voters? Could a Good Guy attend Harvard and Columbia Universities and few, if any, of his fellow students remember he had even been there? Would a Good Guy continually lie to the public, saying one thing then doing another? Would a Good Guy hire so many people with nefarious backgrounds and bypass the approval process by naming them Czars over the Constitutional heads of government departments? Would a Good Guy fire the Inspectors General of several agencies because they had uncovered wrong doing?

The list is endless.

Obama is NOT a Good Guy! He is a lying despicable Communist! Can a Communist be a Good Guy? Perhaps a few Useful Idiots but they only stay Communists until they discover what is really going on within the party. A party or philosophy which encourages lying, stealth, deception, false imprisonment, rationing healthcare, and all other Socialist?Communist values and practices cannot be good according to our history and culture. They are amoralists!

45 posted on 08/17/2009 8:59:28 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: La Lydia

Looks pretty regular.

http://www.wacotrib.com/opin/content/news/opinion/nugent.html

Those are his column archives there


46 posted on 08/17/2009 9:01:03 AM PDT by GeronL (bookmark my new FR back-up site - http://unitedcitizen.proboards.com)
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To: Richard Kimball
OOPS! Sorry. My knee jerked...

You can write columns that are agreeable with management’s position, or you can find another place to write. There may be negotiation on what’s acceptable, but in the end, you print what’s acceptable to management or you pick up your dolly and dishes and go find another media outlet.

I get your point. If the editor doesn't want to print what you write, you can certainly print it for yourself and accept the consequences with respect to your working relationship, heheh.

That's freedom of the press. It's the 21st century. The bar to entry is very very low now.

47 posted on 08/17/2009 9:02:05 AM PDT by no-s (B.L.O.A.T. everyday...because someday soon they won't be making any more...for you.)
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To: GeronL

You’re right. Maybe someone should ask Ted.


48 posted on 08/17/2009 9:05:06 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: McLynnan
The irony is the Robinson’s said they would take the paper in a more conservative direction.

They are. Conservative in their minds means "totally politically correct".

49 posted on 08/17/2009 9:06:31 AM PDT by jimt
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To: abb; Fiddlstix; Squantos; Clinger; GeronL; Billie; Slyfox; San Jacinto; SpookBrat; DainBramage; ...
Excerpt:

Nugent’s email to me:

Just been fired from Waco Trib. Now they will have to rely on their other New York Times Best Sellers, and array of clever and diverse journalists to convey their diverse & tolerant point(s) of view. Here’s my Teditorial after being told to not criticize in my Sunday features that they chose to not run.

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I’ll Take Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press for $100, Alex by Ted Nugent

When the Nazis had the Americans surrounded in the town of Bastogne, they demanded American General McAuliffe surrender or they would level the city. General McAuliffe’s reply: Nuts!

The new editor of the Waco Trib recently told me that I could only write nice things about people, that I could not be critical. Basically, that I need to tone it down. I can not, nor will not, comply with this Romper Room request. My reply: Nuts!

The editor is wrong to try and muzzle my opinions.

As a columnist, I express my opinions. That’s what columnists do. That’s also the charge of an independent and free press.

[snip]

In the words of another famous American military man, William Barrett Travis, commander of the Alamo: God & Texas. Victory or death.

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Pingin' my Texas and General Interest Lists here cuz I thought you'd wanna know! :)

Ping! Ping! Ping!

50 posted on 08/17/2009 9:06:52 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Thanks for the ping!


51 posted on 08/17/2009 9:09:29 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Richard Kimball

Nuge agrees with you he just said that he would not play the wimp and only do nice pieces. As he said, nuts.

He pointed out part of why much of the newspaper industry is having problems. They are to much of a fan club of big government


52 posted on 08/17/2009 9:15:53 AM PDT by Ratman83
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BTTT


53 posted on 08/17/2009 9:26:33 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: abb

Please tell the Nuge that he’s badly missed in Tokyo and his fans will pay for him to visit for a spell.


54 posted on 08/17/2009 9:27:52 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/)
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To: La Lydia

Did you check his archive at that paper? He has written a lot of columns


55 posted on 08/17/2009 9:33:24 AM PDT by GeronL (bookmark my new FR back-up site - http://unitedcitizen.proboards.com)
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To: GeronL

Yes, I looked at the archive. He writes once a week. That’s why I said perhaps someone needs to ask him.


56 posted on 08/17/2009 9:35:28 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: MeekOneGOP; Kaslin; JohnHuang2

If anyone knows anyone who knows anyone.... tell them to tell Ted to write for them. Whether thats the WashTimes, CFP, Townhall or where-ever.


57 posted on 08/17/2009 9:38:01 AM PDT by GeronL (bookmark my new FR back-up site - http://unitedcitizen.proboards.com)
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To: lefty-lie-spy; AmericanInTokyo

Really?

That would interesting to read about. Maybe he’ll write a column for them? lol


58 posted on 08/17/2009 9:39:14 AM PDT by GeronL (bookmark my new FR back-up site - http://unitedcitizen.proboards.com)
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To: GeronL

I dunno anyone ...

:)


59 posted on 08/17/2009 9:40:59 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: abb
He supports a health care bill that he hasn’t even read, nor have those in congress who support it.

This seems sorta like "The Patriot Act". Nobody read it but everyone signed it.

So, who wrote the bill? One person? The staff of several Representatives and/or Senators?

60 posted on 08/17/2009 9:41:07 AM PDT by carenot (We'd rather hold on to the myth than fight for the reality)
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