The Motor City Madman, Ted Nugent, proclaims that he is proud to be an American. Me, too.
But this week, at a political rally near Houston — which featured ex-Gov. Sarah Palin’s rousing pep talk endorsing Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s bid for re-election — ol’ Nuge committed a bit of a patriotic faux pas.
He started playing the National Anthem on his guitar — a la Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock in 1969 — prompting the crowd to stand. Oh, but the old boy forgot to take off his cowboy hat.
Protocol says men should doff their caps when the anthem is played.
But, hey, the star-spangled licks sounded pretty good. They would have made Jimi proud.