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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 03:50 PM
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Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) 'wowed' by Ted Nugent
This says a whole lot. :D

http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-the-know/36-news/5479-shimkus-wowed-by-ted-nugent-

Shimkus 'wowed' by Ted Nugent
August 9, 2010, 9:05 am by Christina Wilkie

Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) was wowed on Friday by rocker Ted Nugent, who joined the lawmaker for a roundtable discussion in St. Louis, Mo.


Shimkus (center left) tweeted this photo of himself at KMOX-FM, with Nugent (center right), radio talk show host Mark Reardon (right) and St. Louis Alderman Antonio French (left).

Nugent is an outspoken conservative whose political activism has won him plenty of friends on the right, but equal numbers of enemies on the left.

Nugent has considered running for political office in the past, saying in 2005 that he was "getting real close to deciding to run" for governor of Michigan, before deciding against a run.

Shimkus, a four-term representative from Springfield, Ill., was amazed by Nugent's big personality, tweeting "Ted Nugent's personality fills the room..wow."



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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 03:51 PM
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1. I'm "wowed" by Nugent, too.
Just not for the same reason.

And it's not exactly a "wow" but a "yecch".

--d!
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 03:52 PM
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2. K&R for hilarious headline
Has anyone ever been "wowed" by Ted Nugent, ever?
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Atticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 03:54 PM
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3. This douche-nozzle is MY congress-critter! My neighbors all think he is a "fine American".
My gag reflex gets a daily workout.
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 04:02 PM
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7. Mine too.
He's a national embarrassment. I wan to get Quinn and others on the record that they won't draw Shimkus another incumbent protection district.
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 03:58 PM
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4. Oh, to be "wowed" by a racist bigot pig
Edited on Mon Aug-09-10 03:59 PM by texastoast
Nugent.

:puke:

On edit: By a racist bigot NO TALENT pig

On edited edit: With HUGE apologies to pigs.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 03:59 PM
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5. So speaks the brain-idle and easily amused...
I've known plenty of personalities that "fill the room" but that's no indication of anything positive.
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MajorChode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 04:01 PM
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6. A great American who shit his pants to keep from going to Vietnam
Then sits on the sidelines and cheers others on as they go to war.

A fuckstick of the 1st degree if there ever was one.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 04:05 PM
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8. I think that's been debunked already
Nugent himself says he did try a few things to avoid the draft, but never anything as extreme as that. He now has guilt pangs over his actions, which led him to volunteer for stuff like the USO and other services.

Not exactly a Nugent fan, myself, but if he's able to hang with Anthony Bourdain, that's gotta count for something.
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MajorChode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 04:10 PM
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9. So long as you take Nugent's word for it, that's true
Even Nugent doesn't deny he said those things during an interview back in the 70's. The only question is was he lying then or is he lying now.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 04:13 PM
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11. You've got a point there (n/t)
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MajorChode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 04:29 PM
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14. Even if he told the truth recently, he's still a fuckstick
He doesn't deny he got a deferment from a community college as he thumbed his nose at the troops going to Vietnam. Now he claims he's a cheerleader for war so he can make amends for all his past transgressions. So even if you believe his 2nd story, he's no less of a complete waste of flesh and bone.
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Atticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 04:18 PM
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12. "Nugent 'HIMSELF' " debunked this, huh?
Here's what the arrogant unpatriotic punk told "High Times" in an interview:

High Times: How did you get out of the draft?

Nugent: Ted was a young boy, appearing to be a hippie but quite opposite in fact, working hard and playing hard, playing rock and roll like a deviant. People would question my sanity, I played so much. So I got my notice to be in the draft. Do you think I was gonna lay down my guitar and go play army? Give me a break! I was busy doin' it to it. I had a career, Jack. If I was walkin' around, hippying down, gettin' loaded and pickin' my ass like your common curs, I'd say "Hey yeah, go in the army. Beats the s**t out of scuffin' around in the gutters." But I wasn't a gutter dog. I was a hard workin', mo********in' rock and roll musician.

I got my physical notice 30 days prior to. Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin' and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie. I had long hair, and it started getting kinky, matted up. Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value. I just had chips, Pepsi, beer-stuff I never touched-buttered s**t, little jars of Polish sausages, and I'd drink the syrup. I was this side of death. Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. S**t, piss, the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.

See, I approached the whole thing like, Ted Nugent, cool hard-workin' dude, is gonna wreak havoc on these imbeciles in the armed forces. I'm gonna play their own game and I'm gonna destroy 'em. Now my whole body is crusted in s**t and piss. I was ill. And three or four days before, I started stayin' awake. I was close to death, but I was in control. I was extremely antidrug as I've always been, but I snorted some crystal Methedrine. Talk about one wounded mo********er. A guy put up like four lines, and it was for all four of us, but I didn't know and I'm vacuuming that s**t right up. I was a walking, talking hunk of human s**t. I was six-foot-three of sin. So the guys took me down to the physical, and my nerves, my emotions were distraught. I was not a good person. I was wounded. But as painful and nauseous as it was-'cause I was really into bein' clean and on the ball-I made gutter swine hippies look like football players. I was deviano.

So I went in, and these guys in uniform couldn't believe the smell. They were ridiculin' me and pushin' me around and I was cryin', but all the time I was laughin' to myself. When they stuck the needle in my arm for the blood test I passed out, and when I came to they were kicking me into the wall. Then they made everybody take off my pants, and I did, and this sergeant says, "Oh my God, put those back on! You f***in' swine you!" Then they had a urine test and I couldn't piss. But my s**t was like ooze, man, so I s**t in the cup and put it on the counter. I had s**t on my hand and my arm. The guy almost puked. I was so proud. I knew I had these chumps beat. The last thing I remember was wakin' up in the ear test booth and they were sweepin' up. So I went home and cleaned up.

They took a putty knife to me. I got the street rats out of my hair, ate some good steaks, beans, potatoes, cottage cheese, milk. A couple of days and I was ready to kick ass. And in the mail I got this big juicy 4-F. They'd call dead people before they'd call my ass. But you know the funny thing about it? I'd make an incredible army man. I'd be a colonel before you knew what hit you, and I'd have the baddest bunch of mo********in' killers you'd ever seen in my platoon. But I just wasn't into it. I was too busy doin' my own thing, you know?

PLEASE tell me you were kidding! I don't care who he hangs with, he's a walking pus pocket.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 04:12 PM
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10. Ha!
That's a pretty backhanded compliment.

It's like listening to some blabbering zealot and then declaring they were "interesting."
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Atticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 04:20 PM
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13. Shimkus would find dog shit "interesting". nt
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