Posted on 03/23/2014 9:54:31 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
The town of Longview, Texas has reportedly paid conservative rocker Ted Nugent $16,000 to make sure he does not play at their annual 4th of July concert this summer. That figure represents half of the amount Nugent would have been guaranteed if the performance happened as scheduled.
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“I’m sad the City of Longview has done this. I think it was done by a great deal of political correctness, political pressure,” Gregg County Republican Party Chair Keith Rothra told KLTV. “We have various performers who have made all kinds of statements that rattled people’s conscience and yet they are still slated as performers.”
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[M]eanwhile, Ted Nugent just made $16,000 for doing absolutely nothing.
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There are “Christian rockers” who don’t get scatological. I’m disappointed to hear Nugent is now more like the “old gent.”
I was born and raised in Michigan, and I remember when Ted had his own radio station in the Detroit area in the 90’s. I don’t recall him ever dropping “F” bombs, or any other profanity for that matter. What I do remember is that he had a serious axe to grind with clinton and reno, and the majority of his audience had the same view. This wreaks of a concern troll incursion.
It’s fair enough to want documentation. Though, to be fair, to call someone a subhuman mongrel apparently riles the left worse than calling him (in coarse words) a parent raping child of a female dog.
I have a feeling Longview is going to regret this.
It’s actually standard practice, 50 percent deposit upfront. It exists for this very purpose, to prevent willful cancellations. The story is written more dramatically, but they have really forfeited their deposit by cancelling a lefitimate booking.
LOL. The Dixie Chicks were like a fart in the wind, but Ted keeps rolling along...
“Easiest $16K Ted ever made. “.........Buy more guns Ted, the day is coming when we will all need more.
If Ted was really into entertaining, he would come up with a gig in the outlying area of Longview and draw some of the crowd away to HIS concert. Probably make even more $$$$$.
Poetic justice!
Don’t mess with Texas, Ted.
Everybody knows that the only reason to go to Longview is to visit the whores along both sides of Highway 80.
Perhaps, but that's not much of a factor in Longview. It's way up in the northeast corner of the state, along the I-20 corridor near the Louisiana border. The city's woes can probably be traced more to Shreveport than Laredo.
There aren’t any prohibitions on Ted Nugent impersonators showing up.
To be expected at a rock concert. LOL
Being a 'Conservative' doesn't necessarily make one an angel.
Longview is the armpit of east Texas. It sucks there.
“I am so old I remember when Calfronia had a guy named Reagan as Governor.”
I’m so old, I remember when Texas had a a strong post-Civil war democratic party. Many of its members and officials were card carrying KKK party members. Republicans were far and few and used to mind their own business.
The dead democrats of Texas (see Box 13, Duval County, 1948) voted and elected Lyndon Johnson senator and sent him up to Washington to show the big boys how it’s done in Texas. Lyndon overcame the strong political influences of the Senate, J. Edgar Hoover, and JFK and “did good” by Texas standards back then. As a result, Texans know a thing or two about the “art” of politics and corruption.
“Like Ca Tejas will be blue soon.”
Texas was blue after the Civil War and remained so until recent times. Now its red and I think the red will get brighter. The liberal democratic party is spreading the lie “Texas is turning blue”. The reality lies in the economy. If the Texas economy (oil, cattle, agriculture, construction) remains good, it will remain red. If liberals outside Texas can kill the economy with over-regulation, more taxation, more welfare, gun control, etc.) they will start to go down the tubes as witnessed in Californica.
“Millions of illegal Catholics have a way of changing the politics of a place.”
Those millions of illegal Catholics (and a few Protestants too) have been swimming the Rio Grande for generations. They come to Texas to prosper and when they prosper they turn conservative. Watch what is happening now and you’ll see the democrats are losing some of the Hispanic and Latino vote everyday. The Tejano generation is getting older and more conservative. These people are honorable and pro-family. Their children born in Texas are true Texans and are not tied to the old country by birth. Governor wannabe, Wendy Davis, was disappointed in her results in the Texas primary.
As for the older blacks, they remember the old KKK days well. They didn’t get too much R-E-S-P-E-C-T back then. they got a cussing, cross burning, ass-kicking, or hanging depending on the mood of the local KKK and its members.
I just wish liberals would acknowledge and accept the fact that it was the Republican congress that passed the Civil Rights act. The democrats in congress voted against it.
Violence has dwindled down to the occasional cross burning or “truck drag” by the KKK wannabes. The “ass-kicking” still survives as normal etiquette in Texas but is no longer based on racial preferences.
Unfortunately murders still “happen”. We still convict and execute murderers more efficiently in Texas than other states. And we don’t discriminate against foreign citizens on death row either (the UN can go f**k itself).
We carry guns because you never know when some rabid varmit will attack while you are out jogging or shopping. They are also useful to have around the house for problem resolution just in case the LEO officials are on break when you call 911.
Texans have come a long way but I doubt they will ever be as “civilized” as Californicans. Texas is Texas, the spirit and heritage are what we are.
Texas Independence Day is March 2nd. Longview has the event scheduled on the wrong day anyway!
Spoken like a true Texan. :)
I guess they think that is what audience wants...went to see Drew Carey act a couple months ago...foul mouthed also
President Obama has called people "mongrel" before. This is a tempest is a teapot.
Obama calls African Americans "sort of a mongrel people" but "true for White America as well" (Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 7-29-2010 | Lynn Sweet)
I won't qualify Obama as a "subhuman" but he is a liar by evidenced career profession, a bastard by happenstance of unmarried coitus, and he calls fetuses somehow subhuman unworthy of the defense of basic human rights.
Longview used to be one of the most conservative of the Texas mid-sized cities: was already mostly Republicans by the 1960s. What happened?
Way misleading; the majority of both parties voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. All Democrat opponents were from the South (possibly Robert Byrd too), but only one Republican, John Tower, who later "repented". Strom Thurmond, who voted no and also "repented", switched parties some two months later.
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