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Note to elected officials with any further political aspirations: Never book Ted Nugent to play your inauguration party. Witness the case of Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry whose term got off to an unfortunate start when he invited the fanatical right-wing rocker to help celbrate the start of his second term in office. Oops!
According to witnesses (apparently none of whom were savvy enough to get some video) Nugent’s presentation featured machine-gun props, a sleeveless Confederate flag t-shirt, and lots of “offensive remarks about non-English speakers.”
The performance has gotten less than rave reviews frm both Republicans AND liberals. ?I think it was a horrible choice,” said GOP strategist Royal Masset. Meanwhile, Gary Bledsoe, chairman of the Texas chapter of the NAACP blasted back at the gun-loving Motor City Madman (who is now George Bush?s neighbor in Crawford, TX). “Whenever someone sports the Confederate battle flag, many Texans will be offended, and rightly so, because of what it symbolizes - the enslavement of African-Amricans and more recently the symbol of hate groups and terrorists.”
The governor’s spokesman, Robert Black, has been buried in Def-Con damage control ever since. “Ted Nugent is a good friend of the governor’s,? Black admitted. ?He asked him if he would play at the inaugural. He didn’t put any stipulation of what he would play.”
You mean he didn’t ask him not to dress as a monster truck enthusiast and spout racist slurs while armed? Do you think Nugent went too far or that Texas is taking all thiz too seriously?
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