Discovery Says Ted Nugent Won't Appear On Channel Again

From Media Matters for America:

Following the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, the cable network Discovery told Fox News that it has canceled its reality series American Guns. In October, Discovery aired a one-hour special called Ted Nugent's Gun Country starring NRA board member and Washington Times columnist Ted Nugent, despite his history of inflammatory rhetoric.

While Discovery has described Ted Nugent's Gun Country as a "one-hour special," Nugent claimed that Discovery "want[s] to do it as a regular feature." Nugent has also said the show would help him advance his view in the "culture war."

The episode of Ted Nugent's Gun Country that aired in October showed Nugent shooting a scimitar-horned oryx, an animal extinct in the wild, and using a .50-caliber Browning armor-piercing machine gun to blow holes in a steel door used by a team of "preppers" to protect their armory.

More here.

Silver lining, albeit given the loss of life, a small one.

Ted Nugent is a scumbag.  He is only a minor entry in the classic rock cannon, and one of his best known songs, "Cat Scratch Fever," is a thinly veiled ripoff of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water."  At this point in history, what small amount of talent he once had has dried up, and he uses his celebrity status to do nothing but piss off liberals, which means the right wing has found him to be a useful tool.

How could such a narcissistic fascist asshole have ever been thought of as cool?

At any rate, this is some good news.  Nugent's psycho right-wing stardom may be drawing to a close.  While he never really contributed much to the public discourse, he did influence working class types to embrace their own inner conservative assholes and get in your face about it.  And he was exceedingly good at pissing off liberals.

Really, this development is much better than the time he was banned from that music venue in the Woodlands for being a racist.

Fuck him.

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