Nugent to Piers Morgan: 'You're the Perfect Poster Boy to Stand Up for Things That Make No Sense'

Newsbusters.org ^ | February 04, 2013 | Noel Sheppard

[servo1969]

CNN's resident gun control advocate Piers Morgan faced off with Ted Nugent Monday, and as was expected, the bullets were flying.

By the end of the first segment, Nugent told his arrogant adversary, "You're the perfect poster boy to stand up for the things that make no sense at all to common sense people" (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):

PIERS MORGAN, HOST: I don't understand, and I want you to tell me, in the least inflammatory way possible, why outside of hog hunting, which I get is a problem in Texas, anybody needs one of those [an AR-15]? And if the answer isn't convincing, why the least we couldn't do to those poor families who lost people to that weapon is not just remove those from the equation?

TED NUGENT: Well, a number of things. First of all, I've been monitoring your gun debates. Go ahead and take it to the bank, you will never understand. I really don't believe you'll ever grasp…

MORGAN: What don't I understand?

NUGENT: You don’t understand that it's a simple inanimate tool that tens of millions of American families own that have never caused a problem, never had an accident, and will never commit a crime. You have these aberrations that are such a minute percentage. So my prayers are as strong as anyone…

MORGAN: 100,000 Americans get hit by gunfire, Ted. It’s not a minor aberration.

NUGENT: Let me stop you there, because I’ve been hearing you say this, and you are so full of crap. Listen to me, that statistic includes bad guys shot by cops and intruders shot by homeowners. So that figure is bogus. So you have to…

MORGAN: That’s the figure, 100,000.

NUGENT: Not, it's not an accurate figure.

MORGAN: 100,000 Americans get hit by gunfire a year.

NUGENT: Those include bad guys getting shot by cops, Piers.

MORGAN: 18,000 of those kill themselves with guns.

NUGENT: Japan has a higher suicide rate and they’re not allowed to get down wind of a gun. Your turn.

MORGAN: How many people got murdered by guns in Japan in the last two or three years each year?

NUGENT: We’re not talking about guns, we’re talking about the act of murder. Do you care about murders or do you only care about murders with guns?

MORGAN: I care about all deaths.

NUGENT: I don't think you do. I think you care about guns. I think you're obsessed with guns. 99.99 percent of the gun owners of America are wonderful people that you are hanging around with here today, perfectly safe, perfectly harmless, wonderful, loving, generous, giving, caring people. Would you leave us the hell alone? Go after the nut jobs, go after the murderers, because I don't know any. We need to lock up the bad guys, and when people show dangerous, murderous intent, which everyone one of these mass murderers showed, all their neighbors, their family, their teachers, their fellow students, they all knew they were crazy. But Piers, we didn't stop them because we're worried about hurting their feelings. We have a madman problem in America where they're running around. We have a felony recidivism problem in America. Let's focus on that together and leave the rest of us alone.

MORGAN: A, I won't leave you alone because this is a debate that has to be had in America.

NUGENT: And we appreciate that because you're the perfect poster boy to stand up for the things that make no sense at all to common sense people.

[AppyPappy]

He’s a bomb-thrower, nothing more. Journalism today is like professional wrestling of the 70’s. They say outrageous things to get people to tune in.

In the journalism world, Piers Morgan is Rowdy Roddy Piper.

[Mr Rogers]

Are you sure?

[binreadin]

Piers Morgan is purposefully stoking the flames of our outrage in order to advance his own CNN ratings, nothing more. He is willing to make himself deeply unpopular in order to be more notorious. This man has no beliefs in anything but his own popularity, and if he can’t have that, he’ll at least settle for rich and infamous. Turn him off. Don’t give him any more attention.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Those who beat their swords into plowshares will end up plowing at swordpoint for those who didn’t.

[dennisw]

you got it! But at the same time some solid pro-Second Amendment messages are getting out to the sheeple. So great if Piers Morgan continues this way to hype his ratings

[Dead Corpse]

Ted handled that a lot better than I would have. Good for him.

[hummingbird]

It's a FREE FOR ALL!

NUGENT:10 +

PIERS:Negative 500.

[hummingbird]

"One thing about Ted Nugent....he is very quick verbally and knows his subject matter which is a lethal combination. I like Ted taking on this posh Englishman, this effin idiot"

Absolutely!

[bk1000]

I think you may have the new record!

[Sans-Culotte]

One thing about Ted Nugent....he is very quick verbally and knows his subject matter which is a lethal combination. I like Ted taking on this posh Englishman, this effin idiot

Nuge did a great job with Piers "-how dare you?" Morgan. He stayed on point and did not let Piers distract him. It's important for conservatives to keep to the point they're trying to make, and not let the host steer them elsewhere. Nuge did that with Morgan better than anyone I've seen. How many times have we seen a conservative just about to drop the hammer on the libtard host when the host changes the subject and the point is lost? Great job, Nuge.

[MrB]

Nugent also kept on point that the left is totally anti-gun.

They do NOT want to allow you to keep your “hunting and sporting weapons”, even though they are doing their best to portray themselves that way (skeetgate).

[massgopguy]

“Would ya feel any bettah if they wuz pushed outta windows?” - Archie Bunker

[hummingbird]

"I don't know why else he would invite repeated ass kickings."

HA, HA, HA!

Piers is a loon - maybe he ENJOYS public ass kickings.

Twisted freak however you look at him.

[max americana]

I’m not even sure he has a green card.

My Canadian GF has a green card and took her 8 years just to be on the waiting list. This ass clown just showed up for the past 2 years, ergo, he has an entertainment visa and working in Hollywood, I deal with these foreign pricks everyday.

[Still Thinking]

MORGAN: A, I won't leave you alone because this is a debate that has to be had in America.

No we don't, not least because liberals don't debate fair. When sentiment swings the liberals' way for a bit and they get what they want, it instantly becomes "settled law". When common sense prevails and conservatives beat back the idiocy, it doesn't similarly become forevermore taboo to broach the subject, it's just a national conversation that hasn't been finished. So long as conservatives let liberals write the rules to the game, they shouldn't be surprised when they keep losing it.

[Milton Miteybad]

Ted Nugent handled Mr. Morgan quite adequately, I think. Morgan's position is intractably wrong, and it's obvious that he cannot be persuaded to another viewpoint, but Nugent did the best he could under the circumstances.

The venue from which last night's show originated is less than a mile from Milton Miteybad's abode, and Milton has been known to send a few rounds downrange at that facility from time to time. When you enter the front door of Tactical Firearms, you are greeted by a Browning M2 on a tripod, plus another .50 caliber of some type (make and vintage unknown to Milton.) Both are available for rental, if you have the money ($125.00/hour + $4.00/round, as I recall.)

The only reason I watched the show last night was to see if Mr. Morgan crapped his pants upon entering the building and confronting this heavy artillery. To Morgan's credit, he not only apparently managed to avoid soiling his drawers, but he ran a belt of rounds through the M2 just for the experience. He was flabbergasted that anyone would want such a thing, as though he were utterly unfamiliar with the concept of firearms as a store of value.

I'm not interested in watching Mr. Morgan's program again, because judging from the presentation last night, he is completely out of intellectual ammunition (heh, heh...) on this issue once he asks the vapid question, "What would you say to the parents of the poor children slaughtered in Newtown?" Very little else he had to say on this issue was of any real value.

But I will give him credit from not soiling his britches. ;-)

[Wisconsinlady]

I think you are right. How embarrassing. I need to be more patient when I post instead of pounding on my keys.

[beaversmom]

...he is very quick verbally and knows his subject matter which is a lethal combination.

Ted Nugent is about the only person I've ever heard out talk Dennis Miller. The interview wasn't really recent. Miller basically let Ted have the floor or realized he couldn't stop him and just sat back.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Uncle Ted takes Piers to the woodshed. LOL!!

[dennisw]

Go Ted!!!!