The Secret Service is keeping tabs on gun-loving '70s rocker Ted Nugent after he made an apparent threat against President Obama over the weekend.
At a convention for the National Rifle Association in St. Louis, the Romney-endorser declared, "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.'' Always the outspoken one, he also told the gun enthusiasts "our government is wiping its ass with the Constitution" and denounced the "criminal" Obama's "vile, evil America-hating administration."
The Nuge concluded his rant by encouraging Republicans to get all "Braveheart" on Dems. He advised Romney supporters "to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November. Any questions?"
Um, yes (many hands raise).
The Secret Service is so already on it. A spokesman for organization told New York Magazine, "We are aware of it, and we'll conduct an appropriate follow up."
DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz criticized the incendiary remarks in an email, also dropping the Romney connection. "Threatening violence — or whatever it is that Nugent's threatening — is clearly beyond the pale, but Nugent's not the one running for president,'' said Wasserman Schultz. "The question is: Does Romney agree with him? Right now, we don't know.''
Team Romney responded to the Nugent flap, but didn’t exactly condemn his comments either. "Divisive language is offensive no matter what side of the political aisle it comes from. Mitt Romney believes everyone needs to be civil,'' said Andrea Saul, Romney's spokeswoman.
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yes may i add the committee to reelect obama said their goal was to kill romney in nov. any questions?
a group says their going to kill romney in nov and obama has no comment? the secret service has no investigation?
google huffington post kill romney.
mika: source please.
Nugent ... threatened to kill Obama and Hilary Clinton ... (click here).
He should be locked up in the looney bin like John Hinkley.
commie,
is your source for your statement in #1 from fox news? democrats are not perfect, but i doubt if you read anywhere that they want to "kill" romney. if by chance you did hear something in that regard, this is not something that democrats do 24/7 like the repubs/conservatives/baggers do. unfortunately, nugent sounds like many of the repubs in washington, allen west being one of them.
i will say this much however. i don't think a person's religion should play a role in politics, but mormonism is a SCAREY religion. i don't believe that mitt romney can seperate his religion from governing.
C.A.: I just checked out your link. "Dirty,stoned,stinking hippies" Funny!!!
Nugent really must be stupid - who does he think ever listened to his tripe?
Addendum to my above post: I just watched him strutting back & forth on an NRA conf stage. Look at that nasty, stringy, outdated hair. The guy is a complete cretin.
During his time in the Senate and while running for president, Obama received a total of $77,051 from the oil giant and is the top recipient of BP PAC and individual money over the past 20 years, according to financial disclosure records
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36783.html#ixzz1sTlPIQPm
No....they didn't.
Next!
The voices in Ruskie's head are hollering "They did too! They did too!"
Nice comment by Eugene Robinson on the Ed Show, "These people are followers; they don't know how to think for themselves."
Hey Mika, trot down to the supermarket. There's one of the tabloids, the Globe I think, that has a headline "Clinton Has Proof Obama is Not a U.S. Citizen!"
No doubt he used it to blackmail the president into appointing his wife as Secretary of State...
sorry ca b . it was reported by political 1st then nbc fox cnn abc comfirmed it. the committes response was "we never meant any physical harm to gov. romney" bol saying youre going to kill someone isnt harming them. by the way isee the obama admin gsa scandal has congress saying criminal charges will be filed. sentences could be 30 years in fed. prison.
Google up Ken Lay and the Enron scandal, Etch-a-Sketch guy...
Eight hundred and thirty thousand dollars? Compared to Kenny Boy, Neely was a wuss... And this story is disappearing faster than Ann Romney's phony outrage over being pegged as SAHM....
Cabdriver wisdom: Making a manure pile out of mouse turds is a particularly tough job...
And honest, if the Obama Administration had wanted Romney taken out, they would've sent the Navy Seals...
very good, Cabbie, your last sentence.
Let's see, if ANY Democrat or President Obama supporter happens to say anything incendiary, (insert Hillary Rosen) then the entire GOP~Tea Party~Fox News organization become enraged, but if you are a republican and threaten to kill the President or incite violence, then that is just fine. Typical....
b ruce only people inciting violence against gz was the black panthers
Violence from Ted Nugent a person who claimed he could not kill any Vietnamese is really just funny. The man is a coward when it comes to patriotism. He would kill an unarmed president but he was not valiant enough to go fight someone that would be equally armed. Too much mouth no action. Romney is another coward. They are violent in the same way Manson is, inciting others to violence but too much coward to do it themselves not even in the name of patriotism. Rob Me would wants the working poor and the middle class kids to go to war but he would not instill in his children the courage to fight for the country. I do not think they wealthy has the courage to send their children to war. I say that is there is a war let no one enlist and see what happens. I would really love to see Rob Meys kids trying to save their pocket books because they would not do it for the country.
ted is letting his humming bird mind over load his alligator ass.
secret service to ted,,, you better hope no cars backfire with in three blocks of the President.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Ronald Reagan
How well will Rob Me perform that duty when he already communicated to the elite of his contributors his agenda of making the poor poorer. I wonder how, may be concentration camps and gassing those who can not work. For the poor women he wonder to work "because there is no dignity in housework". When someone made a comment about his wife not working a day in her life, the outrage was heard even by the deaf. So, if you are wealthy, and you stay home is dignified, but if your are poor, well the only way to have dignity is to leave your children with baby sitters and go to work. Gee, that really protects the poor doesn't it.
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan
And the working poor and middle class who work the hardest gets paid less but pay more in taxes by tax rate.
afrommi,
if you haven't already, do some research on the mormon religion. the romney's are out of touch because their religion has "molded" them to be this way.
they really believe that it is mitt romney's TURN to be president, as apparently it fulfills a prophecy from the book of mormon, from joseph smith(?). they believe that this is part of their journey to becoming "gods", and the woman who is married to the god becomes a godess to rule over another planet together.
omigod.
As we all know, IOKIYAR.*
(* It's OK If You're A Republican)
goggle huffingon post kill romney
I just did, Pinocchio, and the only thing that came back was Axelrod noting that a Politico story was "nonsense."
Axelrod also said it was off-limits to call Mitt Romney "weird," but I don't work for the administration, so I'll suggest that one works, or even "creepy," one a friend of mine is fond of (and as experts on Mormonism, neither of us has a problem characterizing that sect/corporation as "weird"). Romney right now is also showing the underlying ruthlessness that made him a successful vulture capitalist. He created a lot of wealth, well actually cannibalized it from other companies and received support/subsidies from local governments to boot, but no actual economic growth. There's an obvious "feudal mindset" at work...
Must suck to be permanently assigned to damage control, no?
lol of course axelrod said its nonsense. duh seems its ok for dems to say kill romney
once again i am proven right. i will await apoligies. let your heart not trouble you.
Okay, here's my apology: I'm sorry, but it's time to go back to the charge nurse and take your meds again...
The "kill Romney" strategy was invented by the Romney campaign (dang, I knew I smelled that old "persecution complex," even through cyberspace).
It was a fund-raising tactic from the Mitt crowd...
//www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/mitt-romney-ad-barack-obama_n_1310316.html
The clip insinuates that Obama's reelection campaign put large sums of money behind anti-Romney efforts. (While affiliated groups did, the Obama campaign was not involved.)
And the original story, which, as I noted, appeared in Politico and not HuffPo, used the term "destroy"; more Republican "weasel word" operations, naturally.
And the source is a single "Democratic strategist."
Ethical news stories by ethical journalists always have two sources...
Another apology: I'm sorry you've been caught in another of your pathological lies. Tell me, were you born that way or are you a self-made individual?
thanks, Cabbie for that clarification.
you posted it, so i don't have to.
Holy crap! What a whack job Ted Nugent is.
Lie, Lie, Lie, like the republicans always do. You lie so much that you believe your own lies! No one in the Obama campaign ever said anything about killing anyone, that's the republicans motto: Hatred and kill and Lie! Just please stop quoting scriptures and acting like you love Jesus; that's bologna! Jesus has nothing to do with your hatred or violent opinions and behavior or lies! That's antithetical to what he taught.
play google huffington post kill romney.
mika,
is fox news paying you to troll here?
you sound just like fox news.
It's too bad mika can't find another way to supplement his minimal wage income, other than come on line and respond to every post with his ridiculous faux news paid for comments. Obviously, just another folower and not a thinker.
if ted had said he wants to rip out obamas heart dems would go ballistic demanding the ss investigate. ted never said that. ed schultz said he wanted to rip out cheneys heart. lol where is the outrage? its obvious what ed said is far worse than what ted said. cheney still has ss protection as hes recieved threats. why does obamas ss refuse to talk to ed?
oh come on mika that was a trick post by you. Everyone knows Cheney never had a heart.
Lies, lies, and more lies. No one on the Obama campaign said anything about killing Romney. The republicans lie so much until they believe their own lies. However, they think others believe it as well. The republican motto: Hate, Kill and Lie! The only thing I wish the repubs would stop doing is prostituting the gospel to get what they want. Stop using the name of Jesus. Your motto is antithetical to what He taught: Love, life and truth!
The footage of Nugent with a gun (supposedly automatic gun) shooting in the air last year was replayed many times...the question is where the F--- is the secret service and why have the not hauled this piece of garbage in for questioning at the least?
Outrageous behavior and as witnessed when Glen Beck incited the crazies and many went off with guns to shoot people...this is the same with Nugent..anyone supporting Nugent going to a concert etc is suspect...
Oh..like he is sooooo influential and sooooo dangerous that he is on the top of the govt's hit list..so lame.. he will however be shamed and ridiculed further into oblivion soon enough..I mean even more than a crazy, washed up one hit wonder from the 70's..I am talking black hole type oblivion. Also I thought his whole cache of weapons would protect him from what he is hand wringing and fretting over.
Nugent should be charged with treason..."Dead or in jail"...Either one works!!! The Platzner Post Facebook/Twitter
Ted Nugent went far off the ranch today as we all saw but, what is even worse is the people were really listening to him and applauding is comments...I am not a gun owner but, after seeing his audience with a look of excitment over what he was saying...might be time to arm ourself...
Ted Nugent...
The Obama campaign's news BFF...
"Ignorance is a bully."
Nugent is the poster boy for stricter gun laws.I hope they arrest him and take his guns away before he hurts himself.
He's a self absorbed dick, that doesn't know how to act.
has anyone pointed out Ted Nugent's music career has been over for a long time?
yes but the royalty checks come in 4 times a year
Royalty checks? The last time I saw anything by Nugent it was in the $3.99 bin at KMart 12 years ago!
It is also pretty well known that Russia is no longer "commie."
I think maybe you should go crawl back under your rock for another long snooze.
lori ted got 3.4 million$ in royalty checks last year. ted wrote many songs for other musicians. as anyone in music industry know the real money is in songwriting. his estimated worth is 65 to 70 million $. if you look youll see many other singers in the 3.99$ bin at kmart including the beatles,, rolling stones, journey, the who, prince, and many many others. lennon and mcartney of the beatles made far more money in songwriting credits than in sales of albums and cds. whitneys houstons biggest selling song was "i will always love you" . it was written by dolly parton. dolly made more money by writing the song than whitney did in singing it. dolly did give 100% of the money she made by whitney singing it to charity. which is 1 reason ive never heard anyone say anything bad about her. the lesson i just taught you is if you bring up a subject do some research before you comment. no offense intended,
"ted wrote many songs for other musicians."
can you name ONE or maybe TWO?
mika, his songs had little to no lyrics and very little melody and are of a style that no one but old fogies (like me) would ever listen to or buy. so you should cite for whom he has written songs if it is so true. i think most of his income now comes from hate talk to his republican followers (like rush). and it was a cassette tape, one step up from an 8-track. I didn't see any of the artists you referred to in that bin, most were obscure, like Nugent.
Mika, Please get off your high horse. You aren't teaching anyone any real lessons, and I'm being nice here. Dolly performed the song you cite long before Whitney did and, no offense to Whitney, but Dolly is the one who made it popular. Your posts are bogus.
If people want to get drugs legalized they should keep ted Nugent off of the air, This is a perfect example of your brain on drugs.
nugent is a rapid anti drug advocate. he brags hes probably the only 1 in rock and roll thats never done illegal drugs. unlike obama who admitted he was involved with illegal drugs as an adult in college. maybe his subpar performance is cause of flashbacks.
Mika, I just have to ask: how much are they paying you to come here to try to defend the indefensible? Have you no shame? Have you no self-respect? For God's sake.....!
You might be on to something there, Jammer. Take a look at those occasional "lone b's" in his posts that look like typos. Those are the tactics the "paid Koch sucker" crowd uses to "tally" their troll posts. If it keeps happening, it'll be pretty diagnostic.
commie,
when i lived in minnesota and was working as a waitress at a 24 hour truck stop/restaurant the night shift, Nugent and his band stopped at the restaurant in their bus because minnesota was having a snow storm, a blizzard. they stopped because they couldn't see to drive.
they spent several hours there until the storm stopped. i can tell you there were drugs on the bus, and ted nugent did his share.
you don't know what you are talking about, commie.
lol another 1 saying they saw ted do drugs. of course you have no proof.
SL Cabbie
good call on the little b`s just seen a few in the past few post i read from him.
When did Nugent say anything about killing the president? You left wing f@cktards have almost gone too far. What a piece of sh!t O'Donnell is followed closely by Ed and muff diver Maddow. Atleast you have Alex Wagner, bet she is pretty good in bed. (may have to put a gag on her though)
floposhi why don't you stick with Fox,you have their mentality and foul mouth.
Connie you if study history you will see that we really got in trouble when women were allowed to vote. Make me a sandwich you C U Next Tuesday. And iron my shirt before you go have your bastard child aborted.
LOL now that was funny!
Connie give it no attention just a simple re0reg attention wh()ore seeking to bate people.
but they are good for a laugh.
nugent said if Obama is re-elected that he will probably be in jail or dead. the implication is clear.
don't you people know how to read between the lines, or make a deduction from what someone says?
Nugent is such a manly guy that when he went bird hunting here a number of years ago he bravely shot birds that were nesting or sitting on the ground.
If people want to get drugs legalized they should keep Ted Nugent off of the air. This a perfect example of your brain on drugs .
My concern is not whether or not Ted Nugent was serious about his threat, but rather the impact his vile words have on some fanatical people who do not need any further "inspiration" to try what Nugent suggested.
irs do you have a problem with a dem committee saying to killromney in nov? google huffington post kill romney i will await your response.
Nugent rocks...all u left wing pussys are weak.
"all u left wing pussys are weak."
LMAO>>at you very hard>>> well there seems to be way many more of us so called pussy`s who didn't @!$%# on them self's to get out of our duty to the COUNTRY!!!!
it seems you have the wrong view of what that slang word means in context.
In my view it is just free speech. Ignorant speech. But protected.
I think the SS involvement and investigation is a real stretch and an abuse.
BTW Ted Nugent does not use drugs.
Yeah... neither do. I or you .. Because I said its true... It is!!! honestly!!!!
We need to build more ships and point them back to Africa. Maybe they will float for 3 or 4 hundred miles. If you are not Caucasian or Asian, you are subhuman.
I imagine that you do not believe in evolution. Please refrain from partaking of modern medicine from now on. Practice your beliefs.
Oh but I do. Blacks are the link from apes to humans.
flop you are a racist punk. now will you dems comment on larrys racist remark to michael steele? i dount it
Lawrence's "racist" remark to Michael Steele involved essentially a slip of the tongue when he used the word "masters" in references to Steele's kowtowing to the monied interests in the Republican party.
Lawrence apologized and complimented Steele on his graciousness...
That do for a comment? Head on back to Operation Mouseturd, okay?
flop,
are you a mormon?
i see cabbie has no problem with larry making a racist remark. why am i not suprised. btw how can it be a slip of the tongue when larry was reading a teleprompter? nice try cab, no cigar
Lawrence apologized and complimented Steele on his graciousness...
and he did it the correct way and not like the republicans who had to say things like if this offended anyone. etc...
Lawrence, I don't know how you can say that Nugent didn't mean it. Anyway this should so clearly show people who Mittbot really is. All Repubs should be expressing their disdain for this kind of violent dialog, but then again they wouldn't want to rustle any of the RW 'shot em' up' freaks because they need all the support they can get now that Americans have found out what the extreme right really stands for, and that Mr "Can't decide who he really is." is such a wuz he can't even chastise the evil deeds of his supporters.
do you have a problem with a dem committe saying kill romney in nov. google huffington post kill romney
Mitt i see is trying to also get out form having the Kobach KS AG (racist punk ab1070 guy) as a supporter now and not adviser, LOL but racist man said noway i am a adviser. OOPS
and now we see another great endorsement for the one and only sweaty teddy crap my pants coward nugent
mitt the plastic man robme. all suit>>no substance.
25/1
i did waste the few seconds and google that and like i knew i was wasting time NOTHING came up other then what we have been talking about.
what Dem committe?