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January 18, 2007
What were they thinking?
Texas Governor Rick Perry called on rocker Ted Nugent to provide the entertainment at a black-tie event after being sworn into office. Not surprisingly, chaos ensued.
According to the AP report, Nugent wore a T-shirt with the Confederate flag, used maching guns as props and yelled offensive things about people who don't speak English. That might go over at one of his concerts, played to a crowd of other yahoos, but at an inauguration ball?
Nugent, 58, is far removed from his "Cat Scratch Fever" heyday, so why on Earth would a politician go out of his way to book the Motor City Madman for his inauguration ball?
Perry’s spokesman, Robert Black, said that “Ted Nugent is a good friend of the governor’s" and that Perry "didn’t put any stipulation on what he would play," AP reported.
Maybe he should have. The NAACP isn't happy with Nugent's antics and neither was political strategist Royal Masset, who, like Perry, is a Republican.
“I think it was a horrible choice,� AP quoted Masset as saying.
I could have told him that before the event.
Posted by Sean on January 18, 2007 6:47 PM
