Nuge shoots off his mouthNY Daily News
January 7, 2006
'I go for walks late at night in high-crime districts, and just hope," says Ted Nugent, gun nut, guitar legend and would-be Michigan governor.
He's also a budding reality-show star, which is why he was in town last week, reminding pinko journalists like me why we live in NYC.
"I first started coming here the summer of '67," he said on a sofa at the Ritz-Carlton. "Nothing has changed. Still garbage on the streets, still scaffolding and construction everywhere."
But apparently New York is just nuts for The Nuge. "I love it, and they love me. The painters and the doormen and the three-piece-suit guys and the cops and the undercover guys - I mean all the undercover guys just blow it for me. They wave and show me their guns. I consider us blood brothers."
Nugent - a four-term NRA director who's a Michigan sheriff and a Texas constable - says he wants to take another shot at the Lansing governor's mansion in 2010.
"I could have won in '06," he said of the election, won by Democrat Jennifer Granholm ("She is not doing an ugly job, but as the perfect woman, she is scrotumless.")
So why did he pull out? "I figured the last thing I need with my multiple TV shows, my children's charity, my activism, my board of directors on all kinds of organizations, was the governor responsibility in a scrambling cleanup, damage-control situation, as Michigan is."
Apart from the sexism and homophobia (gays get likened to drug addicts and devil worshipers), there's also plenty of stuff that wouldn't pass Al Sharpton's smell test. Nuge doesn't like "the pimps and whores and welfare brats" who think they've "got the right to my [money] because Jesse Jackson represents [them]."
"The average person who qualifies under the poverty level in America has [bleep]ing cell phones!" he continues. "And Tommy Hilfiger clothes! And bling-bling! I've seen them ... gold and jewelry and crack and meth! This is poverty?
"A topless grandmother in a sofa surrounded by dog feces? If you're poor, you can't have a dog! You start by eating the [bleep]ing pets! Am I out of my mind?"
Survey says?
(Season two of "Wanted: Ted or Alive" premieres tonight on cable network OLN.)
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