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Malia Litman

Malia Litman

Posted: May 5, 2010 03:35 PM

The May 10th 2010 edition of Time Magazine arrived in the mail with the cover story "The 100 Most Influential People in the World". I have to admit that given the publicity surrounding Sarah Palin, and the fact that people have been willing to pay her $100,000 for speeches, which of course they have heard before, I wasn't too surprised to find Sarah Palin's name on the list. I expected that the article would focus on the sheer number of people who have been taken in by Palin. Last time I checked she had over one million "fans" on Facebook. However to my amazement, the article was very complimentary of the person Sarah Palin purports to be. The author seemed to lack any understanding or appreciation for the hypocrisy of Palin. The article stated that Palin "...dedicates herself to make America better...represents the good, while exposing the bad and ugly" and has a "...herculean work ethic." I found each of these observations to be contrary of all that I knew about Palin, unless of course her resignation from the position of Governor of Alaska was her effort to "make America better". The only "herculean work ethic" I have heard about relates to the effort it must take to manage the wealth she has amassed. Certainly Levi Johnston didn't describe a "herculean" work ethic in his description of Sarah often coming home early and retiring to her bedroom to watch television for the rest of the evening.

As my disbelief was mounting, I reached the end of the short article, and realized that the author did not even purport to be objective about the "real" Sarah Palin. Rational thought was not something upon which this author puts a premium. The last sentence explained that "I'd be proud to share a moose-barbecue campfire with the Palin family anytime, so long as I can shoot the moose." The author of this article was Ted Nugent. Until that moment the only thing I knew about Ted was that he was older than me, and had been a rock-n-roll legend. Let me share what I have learned.

1. Mr. Nugent is personal friends with Glenn Beck. Of course Palin and Beck are buddies, as indicated by her authorship of the story of Glenn Beck in the same Time Magazine article.

2. Mr. Nugent has repeatedly served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association.

3. Mr. Nugent has had a very colorful personal life. He lacks a college education, so he, Todd Palin, Glen Beck, and Rush Limbaugh have a common bond. By his own account Nugent has urinated on a nun. He stopped all forms of personal hygiene for a month and showed up for his draft board physical in pants caked with his own urine and feces. In 1978, when Ted was 30, he was involved romantically with a 17 year old girl. (At that time he was about 13 years older than this teenager. That is about the same age disparity between him and Sarah Palin.) He has been married to two other females (both were older than the 17 years old when they married). Despite being married to Shemane Nugent, Ted fathered a child out of wedlock with a woman with whom he had a "brief relationship" in New Hampshire.

4. Famous quotes by Mr. Nugent include:

On Apartheid:

Apartheid isn't that cut and dry. All men are not created equal. The
preponderance of South Africa is a different breed of man. I mean that with
no disrespect. I say that with great respect. I love them because I'm one of
them. They are still people of the earth, but they are different. They still
put bones in their noses, they still walk around naked, they wipe their
butts with their hands. -- Detroit Free Press Magazine

On Hillary Clinton:


"Toxic cunt. This bitch is nothing but a two-bit whore for Fidel Castro."

--Westworld Newspaper

On Women:


"I met a couple guys in line yesterday who go, 'Write something to my girlfriend, she won't let me go hunting.' I wrote her something and I said, 'Drop dead, bitch.' What good is she, trade her in, and get a Dalmatian. Who needs the wench?"

--WRIF FM Radio, Detroit, Michigan

He also called Senator Dianne Feinstein a "worthless whore."

On Homosexuality:

A "despicable act" performed by "guys that have sex with each other's anal
cavities."

--Hannity and Colmes

On Animal Rights:
In a 1992 radio interview, Nugent referred to Heidi Prescott of the Fund for Animals as a "worthless whore" and a "shallow slut," asking "who needs to club a seal, when you can club Heidi?" Following this remark Mr. Nugent was sued and ordered by a court to pay $75,000.

On George Bush:
Mr. Nugent moved from his home in Michigan to Crawford Texas where he could hunt and be closer to George Bush. I know George and Laura bought a home in Dallas. I thought they just liked the Mavericks and the Cowboys, but now I understand that there may be security issues in Crawford.

On Barack Obama:
During a concert in 2007, while Barack Obama was campaigning for president, Nugent said to the audience "Obama, he's a piece of shit. I told him to suck on my machine gun." In the same interview, he said regarding Hillary Clinton," I was in NY and I said hey Hillary--you might want to ride one of these into the sunset you worthless bitch." In an interview with Royal Flush Magazine, Nugent was asked about his views of U.S. President Barack Obama, and he responded: "I think that Barack Hussein Obama should be put in jail. It is clear that Barack Hussein Obama is a communist. Mao Tse Tung lives and his name is Barack Hussein Obama. This country should be ashamed. I wanna throw up."

On Healthcare:
He also claims he is an expert on the healthcare bill, because "I kill pigs". He elaborated, saying that "communist, Mao, Che agenda of the communist, Mao, Che fans in the White House. They're pigs, Neil! We gotta kill the pig."

On Gun Control:
If these comments are not sufficient to convince you that Ted Nugent is unstable, watch this video, where he explains "I get to carry a gun nation-wide. I want warriors to have the tools necessary to stop evil."

I now have more insight into the person chosen to write such kind words about Sarah. I wonder if she considers him to be "MEAN SPIRITED". Two things perplexed me. First it was hard to reconcile Mr. Nugent's attitude regarding avoiding military service with Sarah Palin's praise of the military. The second disconnect for me was that Mr. Nugent has been an outspoken critic of alcohol, but of course Sarah gave the keynote address to the Wholesale Liquor Distributors convention in Las Vegas. Then I realized that I should stop trying to make logical sense of the choice of Ted Nugent as the author. The problem probably was not that she didn't know what God would say about her; but that Time Magazine probably wouldn't allow "God" to be the author. The real insight was that of Time Magazine's assistant managing editor Radhika Jones who curated the list and edited the issue. I bet Ms. Jones was worried about "God" being listed as the author. It seems as though she was able to identify the perfect person to lend his intuitive insight into Sarah Palin.

The most telling observation is who did NOT write the article about Palin for Time Magazine. It would seem to me that logical candidates for this honor might have included John McCain, Michael Steele, anyone from Fox News, anyone from the McCain Campaign staff, Sean Parnell (the person who took over for Palin when she resigned as Governor of Alaska), a hockey mom from Alaska, Lynn Vincent (the ghost writer of Going Rogue, who is now a right to life advocate, even though she herself admits to having an abortion), Pastor Muthee (the one who hunted witches in Alaska, and was Sarah's pastor), or a representative of "special needs kids" for whom she could have devoted herself, but has not. If Ted Nugent was the best person to grace us with his wisdom and insight into Sarah Palin, then the end of Sarah's celebrity status is close at hand. One valuable lesson for all of us is when reading anything about Sarah Palin, always consider the source.

 

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The May 10th 2010 edition of Time Magazine arrived in the mail with the cover story "The 100 Most Influential People in the World". I have to admit that given the publicity surrounding Sarah Palin, a...
The May 10th 2010 edition of Time Magazine arrived in the mail with the cover story "The 100 Most Influential People in the World". I have to admit that given the publicity surrounding Sarah Palin, a...
 
 
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deosil
09:11 PM on 05/10/2010
Yup...
$arah Palin-Tonya Harding 2012!
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southernblue
Liberal and lovin' it!
04:53 PM on 05/10/2010
I just wrote this in response to another Palin story -- I watched "Milk" the other night. They showed old clips of Anita Bryant. It was chilling. The hair, the affect, the rhetoric -- more of the same.
01:11 AM on 05/09/2010
Uncle Ted Nug, Is an ACT.
01:29 AM on 05/09/2010
Replying to myself here. Ted Nug, to me is about rock and roll...His act, although raunchy at times is what 70's rock was about.
I don't know much about the Palin/Beck/tie in, and frankly I don't get it.
I clicked on your bio and in one month you did handfuls of "hit" pieces on Palin. Why? Unfortunately, her voice is part of the political landscape, whether we like it or not.
Ramping up hard feelings, just makes for more anxiety.

Enjoy whats left of the weekend.
03:18 PM on 05/08/2010
Ted Nugent; another tough guy like Cheney and Limbaugh that got out of Vietnam. I'd bet if we had the draft now, he'd be calling anybody that didn't go a traitor or coward.
Talent - wise I think there was one song witht the Amboy dukes that was half way decent. Other than that he stinks (literally too, apparently).
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Lobo72
Dodging Sarah's bullets...
07:47 PM on 05/06/2010
Just how low can Time Magazine go? Nugent is a troglodyte. As for Palin: I think she'd accept a compliment from Charles Manson... probably because she'd never heard of him.
03:15 PM on 05/06/2010
Sarah Palin says drill baby drill so much because she has subconcious desires that she can't get satisfied. She can't talk to anyone about it because all her church lady friends would be shocked.

Lately she has changed her slogan to "'drill here, drill now'"

Clearly her subconscious needs and desires are becoming ever more desperate. Please. Someone help this woman.
08:58 AM on 05/06/2010
WANGOzeeTANGO!!!!

Ted is a lunatic. And the Ted-writes-about-Palin-writes-about-Beck triumvarite of ignorance makes me wish the liberal media bias existed.
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Malia Litman
01:00 PM on 05/06/2010
jcopsey9,
The truth hurts. The "liberal media" must, by definition, be what is factual, and conservative news is anything anyone on FOX says it is. malia
01:26 PM on 05/06/2010
Good point. Of course, for anyone that believes anything Beck or Palin says, liberal bias is anything FOX doesn't say.
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Barbie and Ken forever
05:33 AM on 05/06/2010
Nugent is a critic of alcohol? That can't be true. He sounds like he's drunk all the time
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Malia Litman
01:05 PM on 05/06/2010
I couldn't believe it either, as watching some of his interviews on you tube, it looked to me like he was intoxicated, or on drugs, or both. Yet it seems either he is a hypocrite like Palin, or he is just crazy. Malia

http://www.tednugent.com/news/newsDetails.aspx?PostID=989550
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Barbie and Ken forever
01:26 AM on 05/08/2010
How about both? lol. On a side note, I'm super excited that an HP Blogger replied to not one but two my posts. It's pretty cool! Thanks a lot :D
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Barbie and Ken forever
05:28 AM on 05/06/2010
Wow I didn't think there was a worse creature than Rush Limbaugh, but Ted Nugent is that creature. Rush is just slightly less repugnant. Of course Sarah Palin doesn't care. She's a hypocrite and a walking contradiction. Christopher Hitchens said that she's a disgraceful oppurtunist and a moral coward. That was spot on. If people will pay her and kiss her @ss, she doesn't care if they are contrary to what she spews. If the Communist Party of America paid her $100,000 to speak at one of their events, she'd gladly accept
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Malia Litman
01:11 PM on 05/06/2010
Barbie and Ken,
You are right! I have done a lot of research re Palin, and I originally made the mistake of assuming that there was some compelling reason for her actions other than money, but I quickly learned that was not true. Proof of her willingness to compromise her stated principles is her keynote address to the Liquor Wholesalers Convention in Las Vegas. Malia
03:42 PM on 05/07/2010
It's interesting that Sarah, the woman's woman that the republicans like to vaunt, is happy to hang out with someone who is so sexist. In fact, she hangs out with lots of sexists.

I'm not even on the world stage and having someone like Nugent or Beck or Rush or Cheney say good things about me would make my skin crawl. I can't see that nurturing relationships with these guys would bode well for a woman who cares about her reputation.

She reminds me of what we used to call Coke Whores. Good looking women who were passed around amongst certain groups of wealthy men so they could get "free" coke and party, party, party.

The men never respected them, but they sure liked the sex and arm candy.
09:01 PM on 05/05/2010
Gee, a candidate for being a misogynist, a bigot, a racist, and a liar - -

all in one person named Ted Nugent.

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09:29 PM on 05/05/2010
swanie, I couldn't have said it better, or more consisely. Malia
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Barbie and Ken forever
05:26 AM on 05/06/2010
Exactly!!!!!
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Freesia2
I'm nicer than I appear in print. :-)
07:47 PM on 05/05/2010
Terrific article Malia.

Willa Cather described this once in one of her books. I think it was "A Lost Lady" (how appropriate!) She described a man and a woman who'd coupled up because they'd met their match in tacky and tawdry. "He was a common man, who knew a common woman when he saw one" she wrote.

Ted Nugent is foul. He's an ignoramous with no standards. He knows another ignoramous with no standards when he sees one. Common as dirt the two of them. And that he was the one chosen to laud her, says all anyone needs to know about Sarah Palin.
09:31 PM on 05/05/2010
Freesia2,
Thanks for your support, and I will look for this book. I didn't know much about Nugent, until doing the research for this article, and now I agree...they deserve each other. Malia
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Freesia2
I'm nicer than I appear in print. :-)
10:08 PM on 05/05/2010
Oh he's just vile. Totally in love with being Ted. Just like Sarah has a serious crush on Sarah. Soul mates.

I was thinking about that book. The point of Mrs. Forester in it is that for all appearances she is a charming and magical woman. But after she's left alone, the narrator realizes that so much of that magic was just illusion. The only thing that grounded it was her husband. But after he died, left to her own devices and judgment, her true nature came out. And it was cheap. And in a need to be admired she moved toward someone who would admire her. Someone just as cheap. She didn't know the difference between real worth and faking it, genuine admiration and a leer.

There would be a difference with Palin though. Mrs. Forester had her appetites and needed them fed, but she would have been content with the money and the fame. It would never have occured to her to run for President.;-) (Oh and she was much more intelligent than Palin will ever be.)
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aview999
06:50 PM on 05/05/2010
Thank you Milia. You point out the obvious. Nugent is a racist bigot. And Palin is a LIAR:

"The Crazy Lady, of whom it was revealed has ties to Big Oil.
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/02/sarah-palin-doesnt-believe-in.html

"And of whom has ties with criminal elements in Giddings and Tyler Texas (along with Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity)
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/05/sarah-palin-and-glenn-beck-complain.html

"And of whom her PAC treasurer runs a shady political dirty tricks organization.
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/05/timothy-crawford-and-new-models-shady.html

"This SarahPAC treasurer's organization claims to be a non-profit 501(c)(4), but a nonprofit web identity, but "has not registered as a nonprofit, has no board of directors, and no paperwork on file with the IRS or the Federal Elections Commission".

'Alaska's 'First Dude' takes leave from BP job'
http://www.adn.com/2007/08/22/198124/alaskas-first-dude-takes-leave.html

'Palin urges 'yes' vote on TransCanada pipeline plan'
http://www.adn.com/2008/05/29/420067/palin-urges-yes-vote-on-transcanada.html#ixzz0n5m5s3i0
09:33 PM on 05/05/2010
aview999,
Thanks for the helpful information. I find palingates to be very helpful and informative, and I appreciate your help providing this information. Thanks for reading along. Malia
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Enjay 1
Enjay in E MT
06:19 PM on 05/05/2010
"One valuable lesson for all of us is when reading anything about Sarah Palin, always consider the source."

How very true - consider the source in all instances; be it the former half-term gov., a news commentator, or your neighbor down the street. When "stuff" starts flying, always consider the source. One (of the many) things I admire about Rachel Maddow is how she follows the financial supporters of a "cause" all the way up the chain, generally finding political or religious backers hidding behind 501(c) or PACs.

60+ yo Detroit born Red-Neck Guitarist Ted Nugent - well 'nuff said about him.
09:35 PM on 05/05/2010
Enjay1, I love Rachel Maddow too, and about Ted Nugent...I agree...nuff said. Malia
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TheRubberRoomHotel
06:09 PM on 05/05/2010
All you have to do is listen to Ted Nugents music to know all you need to know about what kind of person he is. His older music is very raunchy stuff, can't say that I have heard of him recording (and selling) anything new in like 25 years.
09:37 PM on 05/05/2010
That is the problem with people like this...they make enough money that they can get free publicity for their views...no matter how radical, extreme, offensive. Malia
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LibKitty
05:34 PM on 05/05/2010
Gee... A loud mouth, draft dodging, morally challenged, misogynist, coward writing in support of the grifter $arah. It sounds like they deserve each other.

On the other hand, it seems that "Time" is becoming a rag instead of a news magazine.
09:39 PM on 05/05/2010
I don't know, but wonder if the person with Time who picked Nugent, did so for a reason. If you worked for Time, and disliked everything about Palin, but were told she was chosen as one of the people you had to report on, who would you pick to write about her? Maybe someone at Time was sending a message? Malia