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Ted Nugent Blames Hippies for Divorce, Abortion, Drugs and Crime
The Rolling Stone ^ | July 3, 2007 | Zachary Weiss

Posted on 07/30/2007 8:10:20 AM PDT by DogByte6RER

Ted Nugent Blames Hippies for Divorce, Abortion, Drugs and Crime

7/3/07, 2:22 pm EST

It was only a matter of time before Ted Nugent decided to rain on the Summer of Love’s anniversary parade. In an article from today’s Wall Street Journal titled “The * Summer of Drugs,” the notoriously opinionated guitar god took some time off his busy hunting schedule to blame “stoned, dirty, stinky hippies” for “rising rates of divorce, high school drop-outs, drug use, abortion, sexual diseases and crime, not to mention the exponential expansion of government and taxes.”

* Highlights (including some choice words for Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin) after the jump:

* On the Summer Of Love: “Honest and intelligent people will remember it for what it really was: the Summer of Drugs.”

* On Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Mama Cass: “I often wonder what musical peaks they could have climbed had they not gagged to death on their own vomit.”

* On the hippie movement: “Turned off by the work ethic and productive American Dream values of their parents, hippies instead opted for a cowardly, irresponsible lifestyle of random sex, life-destroying drugs and mostly soulless rock music that flourished in San Francisco.”

* On life as the Nuge: “Clean and sober for 59 years, I am still rocking my brains out and approaching my 6,000th concert. Clean and sober is the real party.”

-- Zachary Weiss

(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 1960s; abortion; babyboomers; boomers; catscratchfever; counterculture; crime; culturewar; declineofwesternciv; dirtyliberals; divorce; dopefiends; drugs; ericcartman; genx; hippies; pigs; ratbastards; summeroflove; tednugent
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To: DogByte6RER

I applaud ted for his pro 2A stance, but google the lyrics to “Wango Tango” before people turn him into a Father Knows Best figure.


41 posted on 07/30/2007 8:40:28 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: DogByte6RER

Is this the same Ted who once made an album with about 30 hash pipes on the cover art? Just what kind of journey to the center of the mind is this guy on?


42 posted on 07/30/2007 8:41:34 AM PDT by shuckmaster (The only purpose of the news is to fill the space around the advertisements.)
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To: Beckwith

Hmmm. So there was no sex or drugs or high school dropouts or abortions before the hippies?


43 posted on 07/30/2007 8:42:58 AM PDT by ObadiahLynch
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To: dfwgator
And I too wonder what Hendrix could have done had he lived, I still consider him the most amazing guitarist ever.

I have to disagree; I think Stevie Ray Vaughan beat Hendrix out, and he didn't need a stack of Marshalls to do it. That said, I DID admire Hendrix a LOT!


44 posted on 07/30/2007 8:43:04 AM PDT by NRA1995 (To Congress and Mr. President: This is OUR country, and don't you forget it!)
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To: shuckmaster
Is this the same Ted who once made an album with about 30 hash pipes on the cover art? Just what kind of journey to the center of the mind is this guy on?

That was the "Amboy Dukes," not Ted. Ted got his anti-drug views from seeing what they did to his fellow bandmates. He was only 17 when that album came out, and he admits he was naive about the cover, as well as to the lyrics of "Journey to the Center of the Mind."

45 posted on 07/30/2007 8:44:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: DogByte6RER
The Summer of Love is long gone.
All that's left is Sex, Drugs and Geritol.

46 posted on 07/30/2007 8:44:25 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: NRA1995

But I say, no Hendrix, there would have been no SRV. But I definately would put SRV, if not #2, in the Top 5 easily.


47 posted on 07/30/2007 8:45:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: zencat
Hendrix was a far better guitarist than Nugent.

Not after 1970 he wasn't. I think that's Ted's point.

48 posted on 07/30/2007 8:46:30 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Doctor Raoul
We Are The Old
49 posted on 07/30/2007 8:46:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: dfwgator

We all have our opinions.....


50 posted on 07/30/2007 8:47:46 AM PDT by NRA1995 (To Congress and Mr. President: This is OUR country, and don't you forget it!)
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To: Wolfie

I think that was Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler.


51 posted on 07/30/2007 8:48:21 AM PDT by jnygrl (A big mouth coupled with a small mind is a dangerous combination)
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To: dashing doofus

I’ve heard Ted Nugent speak at a YAF/FreedomFest Convention a few years ago.

He definitely comes from a libertarian perspective.

And I agree, the lyrics to some of his songs (like Wango Tango) will not get him selected as a “Father Knows Best” role model.

Despite some of Nugent’s foibles, I can respect many of his libertarian roots.


52 posted on 07/30/2007 8:49:30 AM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER
"mostly soulless rock music that flourished in San Francisco"

He's got that one right! Jefferson what, Dreadful that!

53 posted on 07/30/2007 8:51:28 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: DogByte6RER
Ted sees a mouse, but misses the elephant in the room:

LBJ's Great Society: 40 Years Later

In the fifties, although blacks were still struggling for equal opportunities and were on the low end of the economic ladder, the black family was for the most part strong and stable. Two parent families were the rule, not the exception. They attended church together, had strong moral values, and did not comprise a majority of the prison population.

Compare that to the present state of the black community after 40 years of Liberal Socialism. Our prisons are disproportionately black, unwed mothers and single parent families are the rule, black youths without a strong male role model other than rap stars and basketball players, roam the streets and are drawn into a culture of drugs and crime.

The following statistics are provided by Star Parker's Coalition of Urban Renewal, (CURE).

*60 percent of black children grow up in fatherless homes.

*800,000 black men are in jail or prison.

*70 percent of black babies are born to unwed mothers.

*Over 300,000 black babies are aborted annually.

*50 percent of new AIDS cases are in the black community.

*Almost half of young black men in America's cities are neither working nor in school. What we have here is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.

What was the message of the social programs that came out of LBJ's Great Society? One of the most devastating to the family was that if an unwed woman became pregnant, moved out of the home of her parents, did not name or know who the father was, then Big Daddy in Washington would provide for all her essential needs.

Ergo she no longer needed a husband or the support of her family. In fact, the more children she had out of wedlock, the more money she would receive from the government. This program was the death knell for many families, especially in the black community.

Unfortunately many black men saw this as the best of all possible worlds. They could father as many children as they wanted, from multiple women, without ever having to accept the responsibility of fatherhood. Many women rejected marriage in favor of a boyfriend who could slip in the back door and not jeopardize her government check.

-end excerpt-

54 posted on 07/30/2007 8:52:10 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: dfwgator

has Ted ever apologized for his using young women to please himself? I like what he is saying but without the admission of his own bad behavior, it is hypocritical.


55 posted on 07/30/2007 8:57:14 AM PDT by fabian
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To: mtbopfuyn
Almost everything coming out of San Francisco in the late sixties was soulless. To find a modicum of soul anywhere in California you had to find a band coming from a blues viewpoint, such as The Steve Miller Band (and when he attempted to go psychedelic he fell on his face) or head for Oakland (Sly And The Family Stone) and LA. Paul Butterfield didn't even make the cut for the Woodstock Movie and his band tore that stage up...but they were a blues band. Blues bands could find no favor in San Francisco.

The Grateful Dead, Quicksilver, Country Joe And The Fish, The Jefferson Airplane...they all were rotten, no-playing, pretentious, poorly produced bands. Although the Airplane can be forgiven a little because they sounded like they wanted to actually make statements, inane as they were.

If you want to hear really great music from the era, look toward Detroit, Memphis, New York and England.

56 posted on 07/30/2007 8:57:41 AM PDT by Chunga (Conservatives Don't Let Democrats Win Elections. They Vote Republican.)
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To: Beckwith
They got it coming -- selfish narcissists.

Pretty broad brush stroke there becky

57 posted on 07/30/2007 8:57:45 AM PDT by tx_eggman (ManBearPig '08)
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To: zencat

Maybe, but only very briefly. Most of the time I thought Hendrix was grinding out noise for those who were as stoned as he.


58 posted on 07/30/2007 8:58:45 AM PDT by em2vn
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To: dfwgator
I love Ted, but considering his track record of infidelity, it seems a bit hypocritical coming from him.

Infifdelity is wrong right. Who better to preach about it than somebody that has lived through the probelms of it.

59 posted on 07/30/2007 8:59:31 AM PDT by Ajnin (Neca Eos Omnes. Deus Suos Agnoset.)
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To: Chunga
If you want to hear really great music from the era, look towards Detroit, Memphis, New York and England

Or the South, the Allman Brothers could kick any of those San Francisco bands off the stage.

60 posted on 07/30/2007 8:59:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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