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I love it ... someone finally tells them like it is but gets critized by all the lame a--es who can not stand hearing the truth .... I praise Ted for having the B-lls TO STAND UP TO THE GOVERNMENT....These people have no idea what he is talking about when he went off.... Hunters and sportsmen have a heart and we give when given needs given .... I am all in with the nut case Uncle Ted !!!!!!!
He dodged the draft during Vietnam, and now he is apparently a patriot. A draft-dodging patriot. Now that's an oxymoron if I've every heard one.
I've done things when I was younger, before I knew better. Has he made up for it by his actions in the last 20 years? I think so. We as hunters need to stick together.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/nugent.asp
That's actually a little disturbing to find out. I've enjoyed his brashness towards the media, support of the 2nd Amendment, and his disdain of our President. But, finding out what he did to stay out f the service sheds a whole new light on him for me. It does seem like Uncle Ted is a bit of a hypocrite.
Quote from: pianoman9701 on July 03, 2012, 07:51:56 AMThat's actually a little disturbing to find out. I've enjoyed his brashness towards the media, support of the 2nd Amendment, and his disdain of our President. But, finding out what he did to stay out f the service sheds a whole new light on him for me. It does seem like Uncle Ted is a bit of a hypocrite. Check the snopes page. It is not as conclusive, and ultimately the military rejected him for service.
thank you pianoman your google is stronger than mine only thing I could find kept referencing that article which was never confirmed, you the man
Who really believes snopes, they are known to be biased and snopes is not even conclusive on what Nugent did. I can confirm that teenagers do stupid things they later would have done differently if faced with the same scenario later in life, so even if he did avoid the draft, I would not hold it against him decades later, especially given all that he has done for hunting and the 2nd Amendment.
He's being strait and telling you what he did. How many others enrolled in college or fled to Canada or elsewhere to avoid it. He stayed right here and they chose not to enlist him. Maybe a little excessively dirty on his part.He has a voice and gives the liberals a beating when he can and stands up for the second amendment. I am not going to dislike the like the guy because of that or because the liberals comb through his hunting videos to see that he has ran across a game violation.I know some of you would rather have the likes of Michael Moore, Tom Cruise, Barbara Steisand, Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda, Alec Baldwin, Dustin Hoffman, Sean Penn and Jerry Springer on your side because these are stand up quality liberals with no dirt. Maybe a little Ted is good. He gets people fired up on both sides.
Uncle Ted doesn't really gain the hunting community much in terms of public support due to how brash he is. He's off putting to non hunters. That brashness is one of the reasons I like him and think he's funny, but i already support hunting.
