Don't play Ted Nugent's music on the show

Email Print posted by chip 01/23/2007 10:31:26 AM EST

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Ordinarily I love the music you guys play.  I get a kick out of the old rock and roll and also all the cool new stuff like Gorillaz.  But after Nugent played at Gov. Rick (goodhair or mofo as we call him here) Perry's inauguration in a confederate t-shirt and went on an anti-immigrant tirade, it's kinda putting me off hearing Stranglehold on my favorite liberal talk show today as I type this letter out to y'all.

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by chip on 01/23/2007 10:33:37 AM EST

Good advice chip (none / 0)
I grew up in mich...so Nugent's antics are nothing new to me.. 

The fact that he was invited  speaks volumes as to what sort of person  that gov is.. Ive only been living in Houston for about 4 months and am moving on to Cali soon.. its just odd that  Nugent pops up here.. He must be following me :)

by Stay Tuned on 01/23/2007 05:07:04 PM EST

They (you know who) Can Boycott the Dixie Chicks.. (none / 0)
We should be able to boycott Nugent! A righty rocker is ten times worse than lefty country singers.

by MountainMan on 01/23/2007 05:42:50 PM EST

Nugent music sux to begin with (none / 0)
Lets see .. Ted Nugent.. Righty Rocker

Dixie Chicks..  Lefty Country

Ill pick the Dixie Chicks any day

Cat scratch feaver?  Nugent sucks to begin with 

by Stay Tuned on 01/23/2007 05:49:39 PM EST

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Boycott music altogether (none / 0)

Are you part of the generation that grew up believing that rock musicians actually make MONEY at their trade?   The sooner that myth is buried, the sooner the music industry will have to stop promoting no-talent acts.

Boycotting a musician might coax their label to drop them, but the publicity generated by that will just persuade another label to snatch them right up, and then you're back where you started:  With a politically-opinionated rockstar riding high on the precarious illusion of wealth...just the way his record company wants him.

by OneHitKill on 01/30/2007 09:02:08 PM EST

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Please don't play Ted Nugent's music on TYT Show (none / 0)
Damn, I'm glad that I wasn't the only one who heard the Nooj this morning and said, "What the F@*K!?"

I am in complete agreement with the others who posted on this topic.  Please scratch that wacko, draft dodging pant pisser off your playlist!

Think of it this way... would you air a Hannity ad on TYTs?  Of course not. 

Ted is to the right of GWB.  Hell, I heard he even bought a place in Crawford, Texas so that he can clear brush and grow switch grass with the Decider!

Boycott Ted Nugent

by detroiter on 01/23/2007 07:13:46 PM EST

hunting (none / 0)
"Hell, I heard he even bought a place in Crawford, Texas so that he can clear brush and grow switch grass with the Decider!"

Maybe he is hoping to hunt some shrubs.  If we're lucky maybe he'll bag himself a jack ass!



by alphasigmookie on 01/23/2007 07:25:37 PM EST

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You guys are morons. (none / 0)
If it makes you feel better, Ted neither wrote nor sang Stranglehold. Is it okay to go back to thinking it's one of the greatest kick ass Rock songs of all time, now?

I don't like Nugent's politics and musically it's been a loooooong time since he's done anything worthwhile, but calm the f**k down. What you people are saying here is as bad as anything O'Reilly spits out.

You don't like something musically, fine: I understand. You don't like a piece of music because of the message it conveys; again, fine. You don't like some-one's music simply because of their politics no matter how good the music is? You're a whack job. Don't be stupid.

My only concern when I heard it start was knowing it was an 11 minute song and the break was no more than 8 minutes. I knew it was going to be cut off. Aesthetically, I hate that...

by MedfordTim on 01/24/2007 03:10:32 AM EST

Nugents music is easy to ignore as it sucks (none / 0)
Bill O'Reily and every one of those country stations that wouldnt play the Dixie Chicks.



I can't stand Ted Nugent and never liked his music, so its easy for me not to listen to him.

by Stay Tuned on 01/24/2007 09:30:59 AM EST

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BOYCOTTING TED KENNEDY'S MUSIC (none / 0)
<h4><h4>So let me see if I’m reading this blog right: We want to run Ted Nugent for president and discourage the Young Turks from playing Ted Kennedy’s music?   I’m so confused. OK maybe it’s the dyslexia.</h4><h4><h4>Not that anyone asked, but I actually AM a little conflicted on this. I also think boycotting artists for political beliefs is the proverbial slippery slope, that more than likely works against the leftward leaning talent in all the arts (OK, in the Nugent scenario "arts" is probably too strong a word). Hell, I still haven’t gotten over what they did to that SOB Ezra Pound.</h4><h4><h4>On the other hand, being from the Dixie Chicks home city of Dallas, it bothers me that setting a good example by "not" boycotting rw airplay would cause bubba boycotts to go away.  Sometimes the moral high ground does help.  If more Americans are becoming aware of something like global warming, it’s partly because they’ve noticed gas prices and the fact that a glacier just fell on one of them. But seeing all those Prius’s on the road has also got to have a subliminal effect. And the artistic freedom issue also at least allows a person some consistency in belief. </h4>
An airplay boycott isn’t going to hurt Ted Nugent. What? It’s gonna lead to fewer liberals buying Ted Nugent CDs?? RW Nugent fans wouldn’t be able to hear his music during ALL THE TIME they spend listening to Air America???


Now on the other hand, I understand that fear of public reaction is likely the source of many major advertisers choosing not to advertise on Air America (there’s a long list somewhere).

Now I’m not for a massive liberal consumer protest against companies that advertise on Limbaugh, etc. as a quid pro quo. But I think a fair thing would be to say to these companies "We do object to your sponsoring these rw lunatics, but we wouldn’t have a problem if you ALSO advertise on AAR and its affiliated stations." Lets have a level playing field and if someone complains you’re on AAR, well just tell them that’s why.


As we recently saw in Santa Cruz (and I’m guessing Medford, MA where I believe the Boston station had a tower – if that’s the Medford you’re in Tim?) its not listenership but a "why look for trouble?" dearth of sales that is causing some stations to flip back out of the AAR format. AAR needs the advertising more than its rw counterparts would be hurt by losing advertising.


There. I feel so much better now.


Oh wait, now that Toby Keith, well that’s a whole ‘nother story. The main thing that bothers me about his music is the occasional low standard – but not necessarily what you might thing.

Here in Texas every other TV commercial is Toby Keith singing his homage to Ford Trucks, "I am a Working Man." The lyrics go something like "You got to get up early. You got to get to work on time." And then he says to us, something like "If you’re a person who believes in giving that extra effort, you’re a Ford Trucks kind of man…."

And I’m thinking. Well isn’t that setting the bar kinda LOW? I mean getting up early and being at work on time. Isn’t that pretty much what’s MINIMALLY expected? How is that EXTRA? Hey, but that’s just moi thinking out loud.


Adios.

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by Roger Burke on 01/30/2007 10:27:04 AM EST

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boycotting Ted Nugent's music (none / 0)
Your point about boycotting artists for political beliefs being a dangerous slippery slope is well taken.  The Chicks came to mind almost the instant my finger hit the send key for the original message.

by chip on 01/30/2007 01:34:09 PM EST

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Nope, Oregon (none / 0)
...where NONE of the local radio talk is liberal (I don't count anything on NPR as "talk radio"). Thank goodness for Internet streams!

As to the part of your post regarding AAR stations "flipping" - it seems very odd to me (having worked in Radio) that stations would change formats when they are at the TOP of the ratings (as was the case in Madison, Wis - dunno specifics about the Mass. situation). You do a bit of a disservice labeling it all AAR, btw. These stations also carry the Jones Network programming - Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz, et al.

Stephanie has the fastest growing listenership of ANY talk radio show - it does not make any sense to me to drop her. It is analogous to TV stations not showing American Idol because it's too popular.

Why would advertisers "fear" advertising on Progressive stations when the mood of the country is obviously (Finally!!) turning away from RW rhetoric? Advertisers advertise based on numbers. They RARELY care about the content of what surrounds their ads, as long as a lot of people hear the ads. It doesn't surprise me that they would stay away from a new network, no matter what the content. Not enough bang for their buck.

No, there is more to the "flipping" than meets the eye.

That said, the owners of a station can program however they want to. If local residents have a problem with it, they can do the same thing the Right did back in the 80's - BUY the station whose programming you don't like and change it.

by MedfordTim on 01/30/2007 02:11:58 PM EST

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Don't play Ted Nugent's music on the show (none / 0)
"If it makes you feel better, Ted neither wrote nor sang Stranglehold. Is it okay to go back to thinking it's one of the greatest kick ass Rock songs of all time, now?" [MedfordTim]

Nope.  It doesn't make me feel better... and I certainly never thought that, 'it's one of the greatest kick ass Rock songs of all time.' 

Well, maybe once when I was twelve, but than I didn't know squat about Rock N Roll.

Excuse me!?   " ;You don't like some-one's music simply because of their politics no matter how good the music is?" [MedfordTim]

The song sucks. It sucked when Derek St. Holmes sang it, sucks when Ted sings it and it sucks having to hear it; and thats all have to say about that.

I'll stop myself short before I call someome stupid... but I'm better than that.  

by detroiter on 01/24/2007 06:31:41 AM EST

That would fall under ... (none / 0)
"You don't like something musically, fine: I understand."

by MedfordTim on 01/24/2007 07:15:29 AM EST

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Personally, my post was tongue-in-cheek..... (none / 0)
But thanks for the moron comment anyway. I don't think I've ever been called worse (see above).

by MountainMan on 01/24/2007 10:42:02 AM EST

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Um... (none / 0)
You're welcome?

by MedfordTim on 01/24/2007 02:06:25 PM EST

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