Ted Nugent: I'm Done With Hate

TED NUGENT IS ACTUALLY ARGUING THAT HE NEEDS TO STOP
ENGAGING IN HATEFUL RHETORIC AND HE BELIEVES THAT WE NEED TO
HAVE CIVILIZED DISCOURSE IN THIS COUNTRY.
KEEP IN MIND THAT TED NUGENT IS THE SAME PERSON WHO HELD UP
A ASSAULT WEAPONS AND SAID THAT OBAMA SHOULD SUCK ON IT.
I THINK THAT IS WHAT HE SAID.
HAVE HIS EXACT QUOTE AND ADJUST THE SECOND BUT HERE'S WHAT
HE JUST RECENTLY SAID ABOUT HIS RHETORIC THAT I HAVE
REEVALUATED MY APPROACH.
THIS WAS DURING AN INTERVIEW ON ABC RADIO IN NEW YORK.
HE ALSO SAID, HE WAS A STREET FIGHTER WHO USED A CERTAIN HARSH
TERMS THAT YOU WEREN'T A STREET FARM FIGHTER.
YOU SHAFT ON YOURSELF TO AVOID THE DRAFT.
YOU ARE NOT A STREET FIGHTER, YOU ARE CAUGHT BUT
NONETHELESS, IT IS INTERESTING THAT HE IS COMING AT THIS FROM A
SOFTER ANGLE SO I WANT TO MAYBE POSSIBLY GIVE HIM SOME CREDIT.
HE SAYS AT THE TENDER AGE OF 69, MY WIFE HAS CONVINCED ME
THAT I JUST CAN'T USE THOSE HARSH TERMS.
I CANNOT AND I WILL NOT THAT I ENCOURAGE EVEN MY FRIENDS
OR ENEMIES ON THE LEFT IN THE DEMOCRAT AND LIBERAL WORLD
THAT WE HAVE GOT TO BE CIVIL TO EACH OTHER, THAT THE WHOLE
WORLD IS WATCHING AMERICA, WE HAVE THE GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO
LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, AND WE'VE GOT TO
BE MORE RESPECTFUL TO THE OTHER SIDE.
BECAUSE I SAID THAT I WOULD GIVE YOU EXAMPLES OF WHAT HE
SAID IN THE PAST, LET'S GO TO GRAPHIC 15.
HE HAS CALLED PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA A SUBHUMAN MONGOL AND
FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON A WORTHLESS
PITCH.
DURING THE 2007 PERFORMANCE, NUGENT HELD UP WHAT APPEARED TO
BE TO MACHINE GUNS AND SAID THAT OBAMA COULD SUCK ON MY MACHINE
GUN AND THAT CLINTON COULD RIDE ONE OF THESE INTO THE SUNSET.
HE ALSO DREW THE ATTENTION TO THE SECRET SERVICE BACK IN
2012 WHEN HE SAID HE WOULD BE DEAD OR IN JAIL BY THIS
TIME NEXT YEAR IF OBAMA GOT REELECTED.
BUT NOW HE REALIZES OR ALLEGES TO REALIZE THAT HE SHOULDN'T
SPEAK THAT WAY IF HE REALLY WANTS TO SWITCH UP THE RHETORIC.
I THINK IT IS INTERESTING THAT HIS WIFE CONVINCED HIM
TO CHANGE AND NOT HIS CONSCIENCE.
AFTER TALKING TO MY WIFE, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IS INTERESTING?
I LOVE TO HEAR PEOPLE, I AM FROM AN AREA WHERE THERE WAS A
LOT OF VIOLENCE THAT I LOVE TO HEAR PEOPLE START CHANGING
UP, FLIPPING THE SCRIPT WHEN PEOPLE START GETTING SHOT
THAT THERE LIKE I WANTED TO DO IT ANYMORE.
ONE OF THEIR OWN GETS SHOT.
WHEN THEY REALIZE HOW MORTAL AND HOW VULNERABLE AND
ACCESSIBLE ANYBODY CAN BE AT ANY MOMENT, THEN YOU START
THINKING LET ME STOP PUSHING ALL THIS HATE BECAUSE THAT
COULD BE ME ON THE OTHER END OF THAT GUNS ARE
BECAUSE THERE ARE A TON OF UNHINGED INDIVIDUALS WHO
COULD BE ENCOURAGED BY THE TYPE OF HATEFUL RHETORIC THAT IS
BEING SPEWED.
I AGREE WITH THAT NOTION.
I THINK WE NEED TO BE MORE CIVIL WITH ONE ANOTHER ESPECIALLY
THOSE THAT WE DISAGREE WITH.
THINGS HAVE GOTTEN CRAZY, ESPECIALLY AFTER THIS PAST
ELECTION.
YOU SEE A CHANGE OF RHETORIC AMONG THOSE WHO WERE ALWAYS
HELD TO A HIGHER STANDARD.
I BELIEVE IT WAS DARRELL ISA BUT RECENTLY A REPORTER
APPROACHED AN ELECTED OFFICIAL UNJUSTLY ASKED THE QUESTION
IN HIS RESPONSE WAS TO GIVE HER THE MIDDLE FINGER.
THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE.
BUT IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE WAY TO HANDLE A QUESTION FROM A
REPORTER.
IT'S ALSO NOT APPROPRIATE TO ASSAULT REPORTED BUT THAT
WOULD BE ELECTED.
WERE NOT GOING TO GET TO THIS POINT OF BAFFLE CIVIL DISCOURSE
WHEN ONE SIDE, NOT EVERYBODY ON THE SIDE AND I HAVE GROWN THE
RESPECT I HAVE DEVELOPED FOR THE FEW REPUBLICANS WHO HAVE BEEN
ADAMANT AND CONSISTENT IN THEIR CRITICISM OF ALL THAT KIND OF
BEHAVIOR, OF CONGRESSMAN BODY SLAMMING A REPORTER,
FLIPPING A REPORTER OFTEN ARE CONSISTENTLY CRITICAL OF
EVERYTHING IN THE TRUMPET MINISTRATION DOES BECAUSE THEY
KNOW THAT IT IS NOT CONSERVATIVE AND IT IS MOSTLY NOT AMERICAN.
THERE'S A PRETTY BIG LIST.
I FOLLOW MANY OF THEM ON TWITTER.
WHERE I HAVE TO CHANGE IS WHEN THIS ADMINISTRATION IS OVER, I
HOPE MAYBE I WILL LISTEN TO THOSE GUYS BECAUSE I WILL THINK
OKAY, WE DISAGREE BUT YOU GUYS ARE NOT INSANE AND YOU
STOOD UP WHEN IT WAS CLEARLY DIFFICULT TO STAND UP
BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE IS STANDING UP.
THAT SAID, WE HAVE MILLIONS, TENS OF MILLIONS OF
AMERICANS WHO DON'T OPERATE FROM THE SAME FACT SHEET THAT WE
DO AND IT IS NOT TO INTERPRETATION.
IT IS A FACT SHEET.
IT IS A SHEET OF FACTS AND I THINK IT IS NOT THERE AND I
THINK IT IS THERE AND IN SO WE CAN SORT OF GET TO A POINT WERE
WE CAN BASICALLY AGREE, CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL AND AN
ARGUMENT COULD BE I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD DESTROY JOBS, IT
IS GOING TO GO TO SLOW AND I THINK WE SHOULD TAKE A VERY
CAUTIOUS, SLOW APPROACH TO IT.
OKAY, BUT AT LEAST WE ARE GETTING ARGUING OF THE SAME
SET OF SHEETS.
AT LEAST THE CONVERSATION STARTS WITH THE KNOWLEDGE
THAT THE FACTS ARE
AND THEN WE DEBATE HOW TO FIX IT YOU WOULD WANT TO FIX IT
IN A LESS AGGRESSIVE WAY THAN I AND OTHERS ON THE LEFT
WOULD WANT TO FIX IT, BUT OKAY.
THOSE ARE CONVERSATIONS, NOT THAT IT IS MADE UP IN CHINA
DID IT TO DESTROY OUR ECONOMY.
RATE?
THAT'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF COURSE OF THOUSANDS BUT
EVERY DAY, TRUMP TELLS THESE CRAZY LIES.
THIS WEEKEND AND I KIND OF RECOMMEND IT, IT WON'T LAST
FOREVER BUT I FOUND, THE FOLLOWING THINGS ON TWITTER, TWO
LOOPY CONSERVATIVES TO FOLLOW BECAUSE I THOUGHT I WANT TO KNOW
EVERY DAY, THESE ARE NON-FAMOUS PEOPLE AND I AM NOT EVEN SURE
THEYíRE REAL PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LOT OF FOLLOWERS AND THEY
HAVE NO SHOW, SO I AM CURIOUS.
THEY ALSO REALLY GOOD-LOOKING.
I KNOW THIS IS WEIRD, BUT I WAS LIKE WHAT IS THIS?
EVERYDAY, BECAUSE I'M GOING TO DO MY
TWITTER FEED IíM LIKE WHAT IS THE STUFF?
OH, I FOLLOWED HER YESTERDAY.
I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE A WOMAN, BY THE WAY.
NO QUESTION THAT PROMPTED IT.
IíM LIKE, WHY IS THIS PERSON AND I LOOKED AND I LOOKED MORE
AND I'M TOTALLY CURIOUS.
THEY DON'T FOLLOW ME.
IT'S CRAZY, THE THINGS THAT THEY SAY.
THE CRAZY INTERPRETATION OF THE NEWS AND SO MANY FAKE
STORIES FROM WEBSITES THAT I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF.
STORIES THAT YOU CAN TELL BY THE HEADLINE AREN'T TRUE, BUT I'M
CURIOUS WHAT THEY ARE READING AND WHAT THEY ARE BELIEVING AND
FIRST OF ALL REAL QUICK, THIS WHOLE WORLD OF VIDEOS AND
STORIES ABOUT HOW JEFF SESSIONS CRUSHED IT IN THE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE THAT CRUSHED IT AND PUT AN END
TO ANY NOTION OF COLLUSION BETWEEN TRUMP AND RUSSIA.
BUT YOU ARE LIKE WHAT?
THAT'S AT LEAST INTERPRETATION.
THAT IS AT LEAST NOT, I GUESS YOU COULD THINK THAT BUT IT
IS SUPER INTERESTING TO FOLLOW.
THERE IS SOMETHING TO WHAT TED NUGENT SAYS.
I'LL TAKE WHATEVER NUMBER YOU SAID BEFORE HE SAYS
SOMETHING HATEFUL OR AWFUL, I WILL TAKE THE UNDERDOG
I THINK ALSO THAT THIS CALL FOR DIPLOMACY BECAUSE NOW
PEOPLE STARTED TO GET HURT IS REALLY INTERESTING, BUT YOU
CAN ONLY PUSH THE PEOPLE SO FAR.
PEOPLE HAVE REACHED, YOU THINK ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE
ECONOMY AND PEOPLE'S JOBS IN HEALTHCARE.
THE PEOPLE CAN ONLY TAKE SO MUCH AND YOU ARE GOING TO KEEP
PUSHING THEM AND PUSHING THEM.
YOU WANT US TO BE DIPLOMATIC?
OUR ELDERS ARE NOT BEING CARED FOR, THE THINGS THAT ARE
HAPPENING IN THIS COUNTRY THAT ARE UNBELIEVABLE AND YOUR
PRESIDENT IS ON TWITTER.
THIS YOUNG GIRL JUST GIVEN TO THE OTHER DAY AND WAS LIKE DO
YOU KNOW HOW MANY SHARES ON IN TWITTER TROMBONES THAT
DON'T THINK IT'S INTERESTING THAT EVERYTHING, HE GOES TO
TWITTER 4.
DON'T YOU THINK HE OWNS THE ICE WHEN I TALK TO THE YOUNG
TURKS, I'M GOING TO TELL THEM TO GET ON THIS BECAUSE I THINK
IT IS REALLY INTERESTING THAT HE ALWAYS TAKES THINGS TO TWITTER.
YOU HAVE PRESIDENTS AND POLITICIANS DOING TWITTER
BEEF LIKE WRAPPERS IN THE 90S.
IT'S GOTTEN TO A POINT, WE LIKE LORD OF THE FLIES.
AND EVEN THAT I FEEL LIKE IS UP TO, UP FOR INTERPRETATION
BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE THINK OH, HE IS MORE ACCESSIBLE BECAUSE
HE IS ON TWITTER SO THERE'S MORE TRANSPARENCY, BUT NO.
HE USES TWITTER IN MY OPINION AS A WAY OF ESCAPING ANY REAL,
ELABORATING ON HIS POLICIES.
ACTUALLY TALKING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN A DETAILED WAY.
AND 40 CHARACTERS OF NONSENSE, ANYONE CAN DO THAT.
I FEEL LIKE THAT IS HIS WAY OF ESCAPING ANY REAL
RESPONSIBILITY THAT HE HAS AS PRESIDENT ARE
IT'S A WASTE TO HIS BASE UNFILTERED IMMEDIATELY.
IS EFFECTIVE.
AND THEY BELIEVE HIM.
AS EVIDENCED BY THIS NEW LITTLE TRICK I'VE GOT WHICH I'M
SURE OTHER PEOPLE CAME UP WITH FIRST BUT IT IS TOUGH TO READ.
AS LONG AS WE HAVE 99%
OF THE PEOPLE EARNING NONE OF THE MONEY.
I AM USING THAT AS A SYMBOL OF THE ECONOMIC DISPARITY BUT
AS LONG AS THAT CONTINUES TO HAPPEN, AS LONG AS WE
CONTINUE TO BE A COUNTRY WHERE THE HAVE AND HAVE-NOTS
DIVISION IS GLARING.
WE'VE HAD IT BEFORE, WE'VE ALWAYS HAD IT.
WE WILL ACCEPT SOME OF IT.
WE GET IT, THIS IS AMERICA.
SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DO A LOT BETTER THAN OTHER PEOPLE.
I DON'T THINK REASONABLE AMERICANS, NOBODY WANTS TO
STOP RICH PEOPLE FROM BEING RICH.
BUT WE'VE CROSSED SOME DANGEROUS POINTS AND THAT FRUSTRATION THAT
WE SAW IN WASHINGTON AND THAT'S OBVIOUSLY A CRAZY PERSON JUST
LIKE IT WAS WITH GABBY GIFFORDS, BUT THAT ANGER IS REAL THAT WE
SAW IN NOVEMBER AND THE IDEA THAT WE CAN HUG IT OUT IS A
GIGANTIC MISTAKE.

Ted Nugent: I'm Done With Hate

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