{"id":7680,"date":"2014-02-25T09:01:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T14:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=7680"},"modified":"2014-02-25T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T16:59:00","slug":"subhuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/7680","title":{"rendered":"Subhuman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This came across my Twitter stream the other day&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinchronicle.com\/daily\/news\/2014-02-23\/no-nugent-is-good-nugent\/\"><strong>No Nugent Is Good Nugent<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGOP weeps over Nugent comments, but are these crocodile tears?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been hand-wringing and eye-rolling among the Texas GOP this week over <b>Ted Nugent<\/b> calling <b>President Obama<\/b> a &#8220;subhuman mongrel.&#8221; The real question is, why now?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because the rest of the country started taking notice, that&#8217;s why. \u00a0 But as usual the corporate news media only looks at it superficially, lambasting republicans for hitching Ted Nugent to their wagon while focusing almost exclusively on his &#8220;subhuman mongrel&#8221; crack at the president. \u00a0 Yes, yes, it&#8217;s telling in its in-your-face racism. \u00a0 They&#8217;re not even dog whistling at the base anymore. \u00a0 But that was hardly all there is to find in the catalog of Nugent&#8217;s wit and wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>Christ almighty you&#8217;d think the Family Values party never bothered to listen to his music, hear the lyrics, or even just glance a second or two at the album cover for &#8220;Love Grenade&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/images\/love_grenade_sticker_large.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s this lovely little ditty&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Well, I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re just 13<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You look too good to be true<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I just know that you&#8217;re probably clean&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jailbait you look fine, fine, fine&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It&#8217;s quite alright, I asked your mama<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Wait a minute, officer<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Don&#8217;t put those handcuffs on me<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Put them on her, and I&#8217;ll share her with you<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now get back to me about how you&#8217;re all against the gay agenda because homosexuals prey on children.<\/p>\n<p>What were they thinking you ask? \u00a0 Oh I know what they were thinking. \u00a0 They were thinking inside that comfortable cocoon that Fox News and Talk Radio and their right wing billionaire money teats built for them. \u00a0 That gentleman&#8217;s club at the edge of town where they can let the masks come off and say all the things they really mean without decency and humanity getting a word in edgewise. \u00a0 Sometimes they forget the cocoon they live in is not the world they live in, and then the rest of the country sees them hugging the likes of Ted Nugent like he&#8217;s their soul brother. \u00a0 But that&#8217;s only because he <em>Is<\/em> their soul brother.<\/p>\n<p>Take advantage of a 13 year old girl for her body&#8230;take the food out of her mouth because you wanted another yacht&#8230;the difference between the Wall Street men and the duck dynasty boys is the cost of their toys&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This came across my Twitter stream the other day&#8230; No Nugent Is Good Nugent GOP weeps over Nugent comments, but are these crocodile tears? There&#8217;s been hand-wringing and eye-rolling among the Texas GOP this week over Ted Nugent calling President Obama a &#8220;subhuman mongrel.&#8221; The real question is, why now? Because the rest of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,65],"tags":[118,90],"class_list":["post-7680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-republican-america","tag-the-human-gutter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}