From ABC News:
Rocker Ted Nugent may have emerged unscathed from a Secret Service investigation, but his verbal attack of President Obama is now affecting his musical career.
Commanders at the Fort Knox Army base in Kentucky cut Nugent from their annual summer concert after the controversial rocker told the National Rifle Association he will “either be dead or in jail by this time next year” if Obama is re-elected and blasted members of the administration, saying conservatives should “chop their heads off.”
“After learning of opening act Ted Nugent’s recent public comments about the president of the United States, Fort Knox leadership decided to cancel his performance on the installation,” Army officials posted on the base’s Facebook page.
Nugent said the concert cancellation was an “insult” and maintained that he was merely exercising his First Amendment rights when he toldthe NRA convention that Obama was running a “vile, evil, America-hating administration.”
“To think that there’s a bureaucrat in the United States Army that would consider the use or abuse of First Amendment rights in determining who is going to perform at an Army base is an insult and defiles the sacrifices of those heroes who fought for the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights,” Nugent told the Associated Press.
So here is what actually occurred:
You can bet that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Army General Martin Dempsey, received a “message” from the White House, via a direct phone call, e-mail or text.
From there, the Chairman’s office sent another “message” to the Army Chief of Staff (Ft Knox is under US Army control) General Raymond T. Odierno.
More phone calls or e-mails down the food chain.
And from there Ted Nugent was severed from the annual summer concert by US Army administrative decree.
And this in turn reveals more than you would care to know. To wit:
There clearly isn’t anyone, now, in major military administrative positions, who will willingly stand against the PC world we now inhabit. Instead — and no shock here — our senior military administrators would much rather fellate civilian cock for a paycheck and benefits than even remotely upset their own personally-secure retirement boat. Their careers supported or demolished by Barack HUSSEIN Obama. No balls. No testosterone. Only estrogen.
And so I say to Mr Nugent: apparently you’re doing something right, because of these results.
Keep on keeping on, sir.
You are Right, and they are wrong.
BZ
P.S.
That said, one thing you may not know is this:
After the 1986 reorganization of the military undertaken by the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the Joint Chiefs of Staff does not have operational command of U.S. military forces.
Responsibility for conducting military operations goes from the President to the Secretary of Defense directly to the commanders of the Unified Combatant Commands and thus bypasses the Joint Chiefs of Staff completely.
“No balls?” Hardly the case. Members of the military don’t have the luxury of deciding which orders they would like to follow, with the obvious exception of unlawful orders. I believe, however, that your guess is correct as to where this garbage originated.
I disagree. I mean no balls from the higher ups who had a choice. One phone call does not an order make. Or the phone call did NOT come from the WH and someone — with no balls — made that decision himself. Same thing.
Those lower on the food charts took those orders, as you say. But I believe the individual who got the rock rolling had a choice to make.
BZ
And by the way, I thank you for your service to our country.
BZ
They probably heard him play guitar.
A simple arpeggio challenges this lamer.
And so please, Ducky, list for me YOUR accomplishments on any Fender or Gibson Les Paul guitars.
Your videos, your albums, your music lists, your playlists on radio, your music made public.
Right.
Thought not.
BZ
Post anything about Ted and the idiots chime in. Ducky is case and point. Does Duckfuk know that Ted does more for our military/returning vets than any other celebrity BAR NONE! Does Ducky know that Ted KILLS shit and feeds the hungry? Does Ducky know anything other than what he’s told to spout by his masters in the state run media?
Ted handled this “Made up” incident like a pro. He NEVER APOLOGIZED. Matter of fact he’s continued to say the exact same thing since. And he’s right.
Any normal person realizes that his statement was a message of control. He stated that he would be locked up for speaking TRUTH to power. OR KILLED. Only liberal logic can twist that to a threat against the POTUS.
As far as your “Theory” it’s highly probable, but from inside sources and available info from a few folks at Ft Knox (One high up) Duh Won didn’t order this. However; there was some communication between “High Ups” in O’s campaign and Locals in the Ft Knox area who flooded the “High Ups” with requests to deny.
Nobody is sitting idly by on this and there’s a small chance it will be reversed.
Bushwack:
So there you go. There were military individuals who made their OWN choices and their OWN orders — NOT having been ordered there by POTUS, but having made decrees via their own COWARDICE.
Sorry, Just John, but I tend to believe Bushwack. The PC nature of career survival extends not just to government but to, clearly, the military as well.
And dumps down onto some rocker just trying to play for the troops.
And gets screwed. Just like the troops.
BZ