Ted Nugent: 'Live and let live' foreign idea to Left

wacotrib.com ^ | June 17, 2007 | Ted Nugent

[Fawn]

WHo really cares if it’s true or not anyway. McCartney——like any company can fire you because you dyed your hair blond if they want to. Big deal.

[Calvin Locke]

My girlfriend...wearing a "No Landmines" tee shirt.

Next time, ask to see the certificate guaranteeing that the the bass player's tee shirt was not made by child or slave labor.

[Manic_Episode]

If I took as much LSD as Paul McCartney then I couldn’t eat anything with a face either.

[Huck]

Supposedly he only took LSD once and didn’t like it. I think John and George probably dabbled more heavily in that stuff. Paul is, by Beatles standards anyway, pretty conservative, because he has a happy disposition. He’s not trying to escape anything.

[plain talk]

You must be reading a different article. Nugent doesn’t state that McCartney doesn’t have the right to fire whoever he wants.

What Nugent says is “Neither I, nor any hunter or meat eater on the planet, has any desire whatsoever to influence any vegetarian’s choice of diet or to force them to eat meat. We are the friendly, tolerant Americans.
This is but one of many issues that represent the line drawn in the sand between liberals and conservatives.”

So Nugent is pointing out the hypocrisy of the left and how intolerant they are.

[SupplySider]

I like and respect Ted Nugent and I despise PETA, but I do think he's intruding into the privacy of Paul McCartney. If Paul doesn't want his payroll lbs going to someone who spends it on meat, whose business is that? I think conservatives should stand for private property and personal freedom.

His points about liberal intolerance are mostly good ones, but I think by butting into somone's private matters this way, not to mention boasting about his food preferences and ridiculing someone elses, he's doing just what he's complaining about.

[plain talk]

I don’t understand your point. He is expressing his opinion which is that veggies are intolerant. He doesn’t impose his meat eating preferences on others but militant veggies like McCartney do.

[headsonpikes]

Contemporary “Vegism” is merely one manifestation of the totalitarian impulse that is the root of today’s social disorders.

Nugent is right - “Live and let live” is antipathetic to “progress”, “equality”, “animal rights”, and suchlike lefty delusions.

[SupplySider]

I don’t understand your point. He is expressing his opinion which is that veggies are intolerant. He doesn’t impose his meat eating preferences on others but militant veggies like McCartney do.

My point is that he's being intolerant of Paul McCartney's choices. Paul has every right to hire and fire anyone he likes based on personal and other criteria.

Some veggies are intolerant, and so are some meat-eaters. I don't feel a lot of respect for other diets coming from Mr. Nugent. Would he fire someone for it? I have no idea, but I'd be surprised if a tofu head on his staff would admit to it.

[SupplySider]

Contemporary “Vegism” is merely one manifestation of the totalitarian impulse that is the root of today’s social disorders. Nugent is right - “Live and let live” is antipathetic to “progress”, “equality”, “animal rights”, and suchlike lefty delusions.

I agree 100% if you're talking about militant political veggie activism, but vegism per se is no different than meatism in my opinion.

[SupplySider]

If Paul would have held a press conference announcing the firing of this guy and urging other employers to follow suit, I’d get the Ted Nugent’s point. But he dredged up a private transaction and made a public issue of it. That’s liberal busybodyism to me.

[SupplySider]

If Paul would have held a press conference announcing the firing of this guy and urging other employers to follow suit, I’d get the Ted Nugent’s point. But he dredged up a private transaction and made a public issue of it. That’s liberal busybodyism to me.

[SupplySider]

Sorry about double post.

[plain talk]

My point is that he's being intolerant of Paul McCartney's choices

So what? He is not allowed to point out someone's intolerance without being branded "intolerant" as well? That's silly.

Nugent didn't say McCartney has no right to do what he did. That's a straw man argument. McCartney can do what he wants and people are free to point out how absurd it is to fire someone for eating meat. Free speech.

[SupplySider]

Well, maybe we can agree to disagree. I know Ted isn’t saying Paul didn’t have the right. I just don’t see it as some kind of cultural indicator for someone to hire and fire by his preferences, and I think it’s rude to publicize someone’s private life like that.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I thought I was going to learn what actually happened to the McCartney employee.

I think he got, like, you know, fired. So, technically, he's no longer McCartney's employee.

[glymers]

I saw Ted on Cavuto last week. What he said about the illegals and our border made me stand up and cheer. We need more celebreties like him standing up and telling it like it is. I was very impressed with his comment on the state of our Govt.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WjFiHENNf9Q
Ted for Prez.

[Huck]

I think he got, like, you know, fired

You think. But you don't know.

[Wolfie]

I’d says it anathema to both sides.

[plain talk]

Well I suppose. You are intolerant of Nugent’s intolerance of McCartney’s intolerance. :-) Of course the Nugent’s intolerance or yours did not result in anyone getting fired over a silly bias.