Polarizing musician Ted Nugent says he doesn’t understand why people hate him and that believes that his “”beliefs are so positive and so uplifting that they would work for everybody.”
According to blabbermout.net, Nugent, who is a supporter of gun rights and anti President Barack Obama, was critized this past weekend by former Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum for his love of hunting, after he found a photo of Nugent with a small game kill.
Nugent, who is a board member of the National Rifle Association and the owner of a large hunting ranch in Jackson, Michigan, tells Metal Assault, “People that hate me, I don’t understand them. I mean, I understand that hate comes from ignorance and a negative life, but you know what I do, I pray for my haters.”
He continues, “What a terrible thing. Why would you hate someone who has done benefits for children’s and military charity? I do this every day. You’ve really got to have a dark, dark heart and sad, dilapidated soul to live to hate like that. So I wish them well and godspeed, and I hope they come out of that terrible dark place they’re living in, because I’m a happy, fulfilled man and do everything for my fellow man. I’ve done more for clean air, soil and water than all my haters combined. I’ve made mistakes in life but I don’t make them twice in a row, I promise you that.
I feel honored and humbled. I don’t have all the answers but I got most of them, and the manifestation of my policies and beliefs are so positive and so uplifting that they would work for everybody.”
Nugent apologized in February for referring to President Barack Obama as a “subhuman mongrel,” calling that word grouping “street-fighter terminology” and saying he wished he used “more understandable language,” such as “violator of his oath to the Constitution.”
Ted Nugent’s new album SHUTUP&JAM! was released on July 8th on Frontiers Records. Nugent has streamed two songs from the album online. One featuring singer Sammy Hagar called She’s Gone and the other, about his love of grilling, called I Love My BBQ.
Nugent began his North American tour on July 3rd in Wichita Falls, Texas where it will wind down on August 16th in Fort Worth, Texas. See tour dates below.
Ted Nugent’s SHUTUP&JAM! tour dates:
17 Council Bluffs, IA Mid-America Center*
18 Merrillville, IN Star Plaza Theatre
19 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
21 Huntington, NY The Paramount
22 Montclair, NJ The Wellmont Theater
23 Jim Thorpe, PA Penn’s Peak
24 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
25 Morgantown, WV MountainFest at Mylan Park
26 Oshkosh, WI Leach Amphitheater at Riverside Park
27 Medina, MN Medina Entertainment Center
29 Kansas City, MO Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
30 Englewood, CO Gothic Theatre
31 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot
August:
1 Sheridan, WY Trails End Concert Park
2 Tacoma, WA Emerald Queen Casino
3 Tacoma, WA Emerald Queen Casino
6 Sturgis, SD Full Throttle Saloon
8 Maumee, OH NW Ohio Rib-Off at Lucas County Fairgrounds
9 Oxford, OH Indian Creek Amphitheatre
11 North Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues
12 Lake Buena Vista, FL House of Blues
14 Houston, TX House of Blues
15 Biloxi, MS Hard Rock Live
16 Fort Worth, TX Billy Bob’s Texas
*denotes opening for Hank Williams Jr.
I love Ted and I agree 100% with his beliefs and policies. I don’t agree with him apologizing for his absolutely spot on description of that pig Obama. I love metal music, I love the camaraderie, and brotherhood it creates. But the Democratic view is that they hate anyone who disagrees with them. And they are some of the most intolerant people in this country. When did America lose it’s balls? It all started on that on day of infamy, November 2008. Wake up people it’s time to cut with the liberal horses shit and get back to being the greatest country and government this world has ever seen. Ted shoes say some pretty outrageous things, but it’s always about America and why we’ve neutered ourselves. Rock on metal heads, love you all but half our country is asleep and sadly misguided, and unfortunately we are watching our country follow the way of the Romans. And we all know how that ended, right…….? Up the irons \m/
‘the Democratic view is that they hate anyone who disagrees with them’. Are you suggesting Conservatives aren’t the same? Do you watch Fox News at all?
The world has changed dramatically since those days of yore. My goodness, this model that Ted keeps espousing is based on a post WWII outline. Immigration is the new paradigm and it is not even the real problem with this country, that is another political tool, a red herring, if you will. The real problem is the new pull economy in which the costs of manufacturing are based on what the item is sold for on the retail end. This dramatically drives down wages, and forces companies to move their operations overseas. The corporations are acting in collusion, forcing smaller companies to join them, the big co.s have all the leverage: Wal-Mart essentially forced a Fortune 500 company, Rubbermaid, to go out of business because of this. A byproduct of this is the horrific working conditions of overseas workers: Foxconn, one of China’s largest employers treats their workers so appallingly bad, they house them 15-20 in a tiny room, it is so bad they have even put up suicide nets on the compound. That is why your ipads, computers, etc…are so cheap. We are all connected here.
….Ted was the best thing about Damn Yankees, those songs: it isn’t clever if you sound like you are trying to be clever. Take a song like Guiffria’s “Close to your Heart,” that chorus just sneaks up on you, and sticks like super glue, with Tommy and Jack, I can practically see them waving their hands, yelling “OK, here comes the chorus, are you ready?” and, none of them stuck in my head….:)
“Call To Your Heart,” that’s the one.
We used to make things in the U.S. now we just buy ’em.
This may seem like a rude question, but here ‘ goes….. What cult do you belong to?
Fine, while your head is jammed up your ass, this is really happening, funny how the media doesn’t report these severe abuses in China, fueled by our rampant consumerism, but you can laugh and say, “ha, I really told that clown, didn’t I?”
Try match.com. You need an outlet.
Lol…dream on buddy.
This is an easy one. Whenever you characterize anyone who disagrees with you as stupid, people are going to hate you. It’s really not that complicated. You’re welcome to your opinions, but don’t act like anyone who disagrees with you is less intelligent. By the way, Ted had the parents of an under aged girl sign custody over to him so he could “date” her. I wonder if he would allow that to be done with one of his daughters? (And he can’t even blame drugs or alcohol, just plain old deviant behavior from self righteous uncle Ted). Having said that, I’ve always loved the song “Stranglehold”.
Hate? NO! I’m confounded by his actions and comments. I was raised to never degrade another person especially just because they don’t agree with you. Talking about killing someone because you don’t agree with his political views is insane! That said I’ve been a fan of “Uncle Teds” since I was a kid and first heard “cat scratch fever”! He just need to learn some tolerance!!
I totally agree with Ted’s politics…. he is a big mouth though.
I can’t wait for obama to get out of office ,the sense of entitlement he has perpetuated in this country is a disgrace.
I loves me some wang dang sweet poontang