Secret Service intends to ‘follow up’ on Ted Nugent’s comments about Obama
We told you this morning about the curious comment that rocker Ted Nugent, a Mitt Romney fan, made at an NRA convention in St. Louis:
”If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”
Here’s the context of Nugent’s remark, made in the midst of a tirade against the Obama administration and the U.S. Supreme Court:
The U.S. Secret Service, which is having problems of its own, pronounced itself curious by what exactly Nugent meant. From USA Today:
“We are aware of the situation and we’re conducting an appropriate follow up,” said Brian Leary, a Secret Service spokesman.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Liberals are pasies
April 18th, 2012
9:45 am
If you vote for Obama. You don’t have a brain in your head. He lies regularly. Any 10 year old with an internet can verify the facts.
Mary Elizabeth
April 18th, 2012
10:00 am
I hope that egalitarianism works because the foundation of our nation was built upon its premise, i.e. “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.”
Chief
April 18th, 2012
10:05 am
@PETER Your name is appropriate. We should blame Bush for your birth.
Ignorance
April 18th, 2012
10:09 am
“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solution. Nothing pains some people more than having to think” Rev. Martin Luther King Jr
Denise
April 18th, 2012
10:11 am
Hey…if you are looking for all the stupid people their in here.
robo
April 18th, 2012
10:13 am
This guy simply foments hate. Did Romney condemn this already? Very bad.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
10:16 am
I don’t know what it is that made the ALEC brigade feel they needed to spam this one, but it must worry them.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
10:17 am
Looks like 3 guys got drunk and decided to pretend to be a mob….
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
10:25 am
This thread is a testament to the stupidity of the people of this state. Of all the issues to get passionate about, they get MOST upset about some celebrity idiot who was foolish enough to say what they’re all thinking….
Old Dawg
April 18th, 2012
10:26 am
It doesn’t matter who the president or politician is, or what party they represent, making violent accusations and threats is unacceptable.
We can and should be critical of political leaders, those are rights as citizens. But to make violent comments and suggest harm to candidates – from either side – is like yelling fire in a theater, and a prescription for disaster!
yellowdog.
April 18th, 2012
10:29 am
talk about hate – ted nugent has nothing on you……..you have bile in your veins. nothing warm about any of you…….nugent is all about nugent; a has-been and dumb……….dumb being the operative word.
td
April 18th, 2012
10:30 am
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
10:25 am
If you do not understand then you are not very smart. Unlike yourself, the vast majority of not only this state but the nation feels the 2nd Amendment is being under constant attack for you socialist and we refuse to allow the attacks any longer.
Up in ATL
April 18th, 2012
10:33 am
I thought Ted Nuggent he was dead. That how important he is.
Angry? lol
April 18th, 2012
10:43 am
@ seeMe: CAUTION INTELLIGENT NEGROS IS AROUND!
I am sick of these irrelevant, has-been racists, posing as Republicans, using the most popular President in modern time (”rock star ” BARACK OBAMA) in their desperate effort to get attention. Michelle Bachman, Ted Nugent, Carl Rove, Buy-A-Heart Dick Cheney, Sean Hannity etc. have all observed Sarah Palin get book deals etc for talking-point bashing this great President. They refuse to acknowledge, or discuss intelligently, how their party’s greed and satanic behavior drove this country to the economic brink. They, and self-loathing racists like them, instead want to drown the country in anti-Obama hate because they hate to marinate in the fact that a Black man and his wife have out-performed them in a country that’s designed to give whites a head start. Oh well, nutty, self-hating, self-loathing prune/pale face, gun-worshipping Ted Nugent, and the underachieving racist whites like him, need to get OVER their insecurities and jealousy of President Obama (and other successful Blacks). And Ted, if you want to “die” or go to “jail” dummy keep asking God for it. You’ll get just what you ask for. If you wasn’t such a devil you’d know that! This country deserves a better shot than making a mysterious, greedy, chronically lying, and evil Mormon (who believed Blacks and people of color were “cursed” until he was in his thirties) like Mittens Romney a President. lol. Get a life and a less hateful imagination, Ted. You will die and destroy your musical legacy with your ignorance!!!!
Billy
April 18th, 2012
10:44 am
SeeMe…you must have been out of the country for the last 3 years. Every single thing you said about Obama is BS. We don’t need a Rock Star as President, we need someone that is going to do what is best for the country not what is best for his socialist liberal crazy party. Gas prices have gone up 112% under Obama (look it up), unemployment is at 8 or 9%, but really its more since we’re not counting the people who just gave up on getting jobs. You then brought up race, which makes it clear you are black. Obama has divided this country on race, gender and every other possible category. Blacks are going to vote for him because he is black (half), not on what he has done for them, which is absolutely nothing. Obama has done nothing to improve anyone’s life. You are probably a member of the New Black Panther Party, so it doesn’t matter what the hell you think. I personally hate all liberals because they are the one who voted for the worst President ever! There is nothing that can save him from losing that title. Also, he’s not a successful black man, but more of a opportunists with no professional background to stand on. God is looking down on all of those who voted for Obama and Obama with absolute disgrace. Even MLK is upset at what he has done. Ted Nugent is correct and I see absolutely nothing wrong with what he said. Watch the Bill Maher show for 5 minutes and you will 10 times worse things said about a Republican. F’U you horrible piece of crap!
The Truth
April 18th, 2012
10:47 am
Ted Nugent is a draft-dodger and a pervert who’s had judgments against him because he didn’t pay his child support. He married his wife after he became her legal guardian because she was underage! It’s funny how the wing-nuts and Fox News actually consider the arguments of this piece of human excrement.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
10:49 am
@Table, Diningroom – I’m a 2nd amendment supporter. So this ‘outrage’ is about supporting the 2nd amendment?
No its not. Its about defending a loud mouth idiot who threatened the President.
Just like the defense of Trayvon was about defending a racist moron who should never have been let out of a mental institution, NOT defending the 2nd amendment.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
10:50 am
Exhibit A: Billy.
Everything he says shows he, and the rest of you are racist contards.
This is NOT about the 2nd amendment. Its about neoconfederate morons.
woodrow
April 18th, 2012
10:56 am
I personally will not miss Ted Nugent when he dies in November.
Pizza
April 18th, 2012
10:59 am
At least he didn’t say something TERRIBLE like Barack had never worked a day in his life ! This was a soft ball. ( Right ! )
Jimi Hendrix
April 18th, 2012
11:04 am
I’m dead and this moron is still alive?!
Dr. Teeth
April 18th, 2012
11:06 am
The long term effects of Cat Scratch Fever are similar to syphillis.
JSH
April 18th, 2012
11:11 am
I thought he was a slime ball ambulance chaser who is from Atlanta, Columbus, Savannah, and Augusta.
ODUMBA
April 18th, 2012
11:17 am
WHY IS IT THAT SO MAY PEOPLE DISAGREED WITH BUSH AND NO ONE SAID A WORD. BUT IF ANYONE AGREES WITH ME, ODUMBA, THEY MUST BE RACIST?? WHY IS THAT????
ALSO, WHY IS IT THAT JAY LENO NEVER TELLS JOKES ABOUT ME, ODUMBA? WHY??? BECAUSE HE WOULD BE RACIST. BUT HE TOLD JOKES ABOUT BUSH NON STOP.. WHY IS THAT. IS IT JUST BECAUSE I AM BLACK OR DUMB?
JUST SAY RACIST ABOUT EVERYTHING AND WE WILL TAKE OVER THIS COUNTRY. BLACK SHOULD NO PAY TAXES BECAUSE ITS RACIST.
BLACKS SHOULD NOT HAVE TO WORK BECAUSE WORK IS RACIST.
BLACKS SHOULD GET FREE MONEY OR ITS RACIST.
BLACKS SHOULD GET FREE HEALTH CARE OR EVERYBODY IS RACIST.
SHOPLIFT AT WALMART AND IF THEY ARREST YOU SAY WALMART IS RACIST.
STAY AT A HOTEL AND DONT PAY. IF THEY ASK YOU FOR MONEY ITS BECAUSE THEY ARE RACIST
IF YOU ROB A STOE AND THEY CATCH YOU YOU ARE A VICTIM OF RACISTS.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
11:23 am
@ODUMBA – First, let me thank you for not having to mangle your name. You do that yourself. Seriously.
Second, thank you for providing more evidence that you and pretty much every right wing commentator on here are in fact, Racist.
To quote Shakespeare, “Me thinks he doth protest too much.”
Let me explain in your native tongue.
WHEN YOU USE CAPITAL LETTERS ALL THE TIME YOU SOUND LIKE A TOTAL CONTARD (that’s ‘liberal’ in your language or ‘people you don’t like’ to anyone else who understands english) YOU COME ACROSS AS AN IGNORANT IDIOT. OH AND LENO TELLS JOKES ABOUT OBAMA YOU JUST DON’T HEAR THEM. YOU ARE QUITE DUMB THOUGH. YOUR OBSESSION OVER THIS AND ALL OTHER RACE ISSUES SHOWS WHY SHERMAN HAD THE RIGHT IDEA AND YOU AND ALL YOUR KIN SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO THAT WHICH YOU MOST FEAR WHICH INCLUDES TAKING ALL OF YOUR PROPERTY, ROUNDING YOU UP INTO RESERVATIONS LIKE ON THE HUNGER GAMES AND PUTTING YOU TO WORK IN COAL MINES.
That is what you wanted to hear isn’t it Odumba? That is surely your fate.
Except that by and large liberals are wimps, and will at BEST simply give you a stern talking to instead of understanding the threat to civilization that you really are.
Ah well.
ODUMBA
April 18th, 2012
11:28 am
CALL SHARPTON OR JESSEE AND ALL WILL BE GOOD. THATS ALL YOU NEED. SAY RACIST.
Real Athens
April 18th, 2012
11:34 am
td:
“If you do not understand then you are not very smart. Unlike yourself, the vast majority of not only this state but the nation feels the 2nd Amendment is being under constant attack for you socialist and we refuse to allow the attacks any longer.”
This is the same argument the NRA cranks up every election. Name one piece of legislation passed since 2008 that has chipped away at Second Amendment rights.
It is simply not true.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
11:35 am
@Real Athens – Here, let me try and channel stupidity for you to answer your question.
“Ta DEFICIT! Ta DEFICIT WILL take munee frum hour kidz and so they wontz be able to buy gunz so they are trying to takz tem from uz! CALL SHARPTON OR JESSEE AND ALL WILL BE GOOD. THATS ALL YOU NEED. SAY RACIST.”
Real American
April 18th, 2012
11:40 am
The real question someone should ask Romney is why he wanted the endorsement of a self-proclaimed pedophile in the first place.
Samantha
April 18th, 2012
11:40 am
That’s a problem. So he would prefer to vote for a person that is NOT a Christian. Romney is not a Christian. Mormon’s are NOT Christians. At any rate this has been self proclaimed’rocker’ is going to either die or be in jail because he is planning on killing people? Wow…he is really a sick red-neck demonic person…so sad.
ODUMBA
April 18th, 2012
11:42 am
DID YOU SEE WHERE THE BLACK WOMAN KILLED THE WHITE WOMAN YESTERDAY AND STOLE HER BABY????
WHERE IS JESSEE AND SHARPTON????? THAT IS RACIST! BLACK ON WHITE RACIST!
WHERE IS THE TREYVON OUTRAGE ON TV???????
LOL—- THERE IS NONE… HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHA LOL LOL LOL
TOO BAD WHITE CRACKERS!!!!! I AM PRESIDENT AND HOLDER IS MY LAW ENFORCER!!!
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL… WE ONLY TALK ABOUT WHITE ON BLACK CRIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT SUCKS BEING A WHITE DOESNT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the voice
April 18th, 2012
11:44 am
well- obama has bill maher on his side and there is no more ignorant person on this planet that him.
Patrick Romano WAR DAMN EAGLE
April 18th, 2012
11:46 am
@ seeME and OTHER LEFT WING morons-Bury your head back in the sand-great Prez, my ass. HOPE & CHANGE has been replaced by SCARE/DARE.
You Can’t Fix Stupid and unfortunately, BHO will probably forgive ALL student loans for Affirmative Action recipients and those idiots will get his Elitist ass re-elected. This joke of a president has disrespected the office and Constitution. PERIOD!
USAF Veteran, Patrick Romano
Patrick Romano WAR DAMN EAGLE
April 18th, 2012
11:48 am
@ ODUMBA, This would be funny, if it were not true! SAD…pity
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
11:49 am
@Odumba – Did the police cover up the murder of the white woman?
And Holder is more concerned about busting Pot than enforcing justice. But you are a right wing Contard, so how could you know any better?
You are, after all, ignorant.
And yes I know what that means in the south.
@The Whisper – Oh. Bill Maher. Yeah. A talk show host on a pay per view channel. That’s earth shattering.
@Twinklenose – Real Christians don’t spend their time calling other people not christian and go out and help people. How many people could you have helped in the time you sat there being a tool for Satan? Do you feel special now like the church lady?
And as for no one more ignorant? Yeah….Maher is more ignorant than the guy that said the woman who was defending her friend’s medical need for birth control was a slut and should be a porn star.
YOU are ignorant friend.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
11:52 am
@War Durn Pidgeon – Don’t talk to me about the constitution when you dishonor your service by supporting ignorance. Right wingers only support veterans who talk like they do and smash liberal veterans. You don’t get to claim patriotism until you condemn the people like Zaxby Chicken who trashed liberal veterans like Kerry and Cleland.
But you don’t think you have an obligation to respect people of other view points.
This is why you are sub human. This is why liberals are foolish to reason with you. This is why they are likely to ultimately to lose.
You cannot compromise with evil.
Ronin
April 18th, 2012
12:04 pm
….. and I HOPE that the tooth fairy buys lunch today at Longhorns, but from a probability standpoint, it’s highly unlikely to happen. Egalitarianism is an interesting concept however in practical application is impossible to attain everyone being truly equal. When government becomes the equalizer of men, it’s at the expense of personal freedoms.
The rich have always been blanking the poor, always have and always will.
reader
April 18th, 2012
12:05 pm
for you, fake td:
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. – Bertrand Russell
ODUMBA
April 18th, 2012
12:08 pm
I AM OUT OF HERE GUYS.. I HAVE A COUNTRY TO RUIN.
It's understandable why the South lost!
April 18th, 2012
12:14 pm
As our country was spiraling down to economic depths most of us have never seen in our lifetime (2007-2008), I thought the Democrats were a shoe-in to win the Presidency. With anyone. But then the choices were a black man and a white woman and I thought oh no. To no surprise, I assumed electing a black President would actually set race relations back a few years – if not decades. Logging into the ajc.com and reading all the nasty rants and raves of the southern redneck population supports that. This country’s backbone is our auto industry. GM and Chrysler should be bending over backwards in support of the current administration. Lose them, along with Ford who didn’t need bailout money, and the snowball affect of losing jobs and income would have spread throughout the US. The Dow is at the highest levels it has ever been (up from around the 7000-8000 range near the end of Bush’s presidency) and jobs and new construction are increasing. Yet all anyone in the south sees is the color of his skin. How sad your people are.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
12:14 pm
@Odumba – Well you’ll be helping to ruin the country but it won’t be on the liberally cowardly side of things. It will be from trying to reason with the Million Moron March.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
April 18th, 2012
12:15 pm
@Its Understandable – Which is why Lincoln was wrong. EXPEL THE SOUTH!
Leaning left
April 18th, 2012
12:25 pm
That’s why Musicians should stick to music and leave politics to the “SANE”. I remember the Hell the Dixie Chicks caught when they went “left” on GWB….. But now we have lunitics like Hank Williams Jr. and Ted Nugent… Even Half high Half drunk Hank wouldn’t go there You don’t mix “death and Jail” in the same sentence as a sitting president without getting a secret service one-on-one.
Obama2012
gm
April 18th, 2012
12:36 pm
Another washed up over 50 white male, red neck, who hates the President, whats new?
When will America get tired of these jealous old white men (Rush, Hannity) who are jealous of the President of the United States accomplishment? most of these people are ex drugers, high school drop outs who are determine to keep America in the 20th century while the rest of the world moves forward.
Leaning left
April 18th, 2012
12:37 pm
I am still waiting on the GOP solution to the out of control cost of Health care?… Oh yeah…. that’s right….. the GOP adopted the Ted Nugent Healthcare plan…. Make a threat against the President of the United States and let the Secret Service put you out of your missery.
gm
April 18th, 2012
12:49 pm
I wonder will sucm bag Hannity asked the Attorney General to investigate this KKK member like he did for the Black Panther?
Its amazing how bold red necks white males are when there are no other races around them ”” there is no need to look for America terrorist we have found them, we have a President who is out here making this country safe for rednecks and idiots like this, during 911 we were all Americans, I would take the terrorist over this piece of garbage.
zeke
April 18th, 2012
1:01 pm
nugent was a draft dodging piece loudmouth; still is
jim
April 18th, 2012
1:03 pm
Nugent should stick to playing music. What an idiot!
Can't get no dumber
April 18th, 2012
1:05 pm
Nugent wanted no part of Vietnam. He claims that 30 days before his draft board physical, he stopped all forms of personal hygiene. The last 10 days, he ingested nothing but Vienna sausages and Pepsi; and a week before his physical, he stopped using bathrooms altogether, virtually living inside pants caked with his own excrement, stained by his urine.
Ohno
April 18th, 2012
1:13 pm
Love all this fake outrage.