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Army dumps Nugent from concert after Obama remarks
(Reuters) - The U.S. Army cut rock musician and gun-rights advocate Ted Nugent from a summer concert program at Fort Knox, Kentucky, on the same day he met with two U.S. Secret Service agents over recent comments he made about President Barack Obama.
- Scott • North Berwick, Maine •
"the singer and guitarist would not be in the lineup with co-headliners REO Speedwagon and Styx."
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Looks like all the *old* dudes in charge the bill won't be able to ... carry the Nuge ... at least that's how I heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another that Ted was messing around ...
"It was the latest twist for the Michigan-born conservative entertainer"
Yeah, he's a "conservative" as long as your dictionary reads, after the word, "n. see *jackass*", and in its usage examples decides to airbrush out of the picture all those from Burke to Kirk who once gave the term a bit more humanist luster than in our age of rancid cultural populism it can be said to merit.- JoeS • Albuquerque, New Mexico • Report Abuse
Do you mean Kenneth Burke? I'm picking through "A Rhetoric of Motives" now. Not sure what he wrote that applies here, I'm a newbie to this stuff.
- Scott • North Berwick, Maine •
No, the C18 Irish-English Whig, politician and philosopher who inspired two centuries of conservatives. Kenneth Burke is quite a reference in his own right, 'specially in these here parts, whar a li'l book-larnin' be a right (or Right) dange'rus thang ...
- JoeS • Albuquerque, New Mexico • Report Abuse
I thought that was a little to coincidental. Thanks. I figure Kenneth is going to be more helpful to my present research. ;-)
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