{"id":8815,"date":"2015-04-04T03:25:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T03:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8815"},"modified":"2015-04-04T03:25:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T03:25:38","slug":"nugent-has-right-to-expose-his-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8815","title":{"rendered":"Nugent has right to expose his ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken great pleasure criticizing the blathering of the Motor City Madman, one-time rocker Ted Nugent.<\/p>\n<p>Nugent is a profane loudmouth.\u00a0Many of his\u00a0utterances border on sedition.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/ted-nugent-obama-is-causing-veteran-suicides\/ar-AAankZq<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also an American citizen who has the same rights the rest of us enjoy under the U.S. Constitution&#8217;s First Amendment. He has the right to make an ass of himself. He does it regularly and he does it well.<\/p>\n<p>The French writer, historian and philosopher Voltaire said it better than most when he wrote: &#8220;I do not agree with what you say but I&#8217;ll defend to the death your right to say it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nugent said recently that the rash of veterans&#8217; suicide is a result of President Obama&#8217;s policies. Yep, he blamed the president of the United States for those tragic deaths. He said &#8220;the commander in chief is the enemy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s referred to the president as a &#8220;subhuman mongrel&#8221; and added an assortment of disgraceful, disgusting statements to make whatever point he seeks to make.<\/p>\n<p>I disagree with every single political statement that flies out of this guy&#8217;s mouth.<\/p>\n<p>However, he&#8217;s entitled to say these things. He&#8217;s as American as anyone else, which just goes to show how diverse our national family has become.<\/p>\n<p>Voltaire&#8217;s understanding of the right of free speech is unparalleled.<\/p>\n<p>Even nut jobs like Ted Nugent are entitled to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings up another famous quote from another notable statesman.<\/p>\n<p>This, from President Abraham Lincoln: &#8220;Better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"copy-paste-block\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taken great pleasure criticizing the blathering of the Motor City Madman, one-time rocker Ted Nugent. Nugent is a profane loudmouth.\u00a0Many of his\u00a0utterances border on sedition. http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/ted-nugent-obama-is-causing-veteran-suicides\/ar-AAankZq He&#8217;s also an American citizen who has the same rights the rest of us enjoy under the U.S. Constitution&#8217;s First Amendment. He has the right to make an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8815\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nugent has right to expose his ignorance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[124,540,1738,4181,4539,5101,5128],"class_list":["post-8815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-barack-obama","tag-first-amendment","tag-sedition","tag-ted-nugent","tag-veterans-suicides","tag-voltaire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}