{"id":180235,"date":"2017-06-17T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/17\/i-dont-expect-this-to-last\/"},"modified":"2017-06-17T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T23:38:00","slug":"i-dont-expect-this-to-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/17\/i-dont-expect-this-to-last\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t  Expect This to Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the shooting of a Republican Congressman at a baseball practice in Arlington, Virginia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2017\/06\/ted-nugent-says-hes-seen-the-light-after-virginia-shooting-we-have-got-to-be-civil\/\">Ted Nugent is now saying that people should be more civil in discussing politics<\/a>, and he said that this would apply to him.<\/p>\n<p>I expect the aging rocker to break his promise before Labor Day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Singer Ted Nugent claims that he has seen the light and will stop using toxic rhetoric to attack Democrats. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/6020285-ted-nugent-accepts-responsibility-says-tone-down-rhetoric\">Thursday interview with 77WABC Radio<\/a>, Nugent swore that he has \u201creevaluated\u201d his language and would refrain from saying \u201canything that can be interpreted as condoning or referencing violence.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the tender age of 69, my wife has convinced me I just can\u2019t use those harsh terms,\u201d he admitted. \u201cI cannot and will not and I encourage even my friends\/enemies on the left, in the Democrat and liberal world, that we have got to be civil to each other.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Nugent is well known for attacking Democrats, particularly former Secretary Hillary Clinton, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2015\/06\/ted-nugent-thank-you-obama-for-giving-whites-the-go-ahead-to-say-nr\/\">former President Barack Obama<\/a> and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). He once referred to the former president as \u201ca piece of sh*t\u201d and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2014\/01\/ted-nugent-subhuman-mongrel-obama-should-get-just-due-punishment-for-treason\/\">\u201csub-human mongrel\u201d<\/a> and urged him to \u201csuck on my machine gun.\u201d He then went on to encourage Clinton to \u201cride one of these into the sunset, you worthless b*tch.\u201d<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone want to set up an office pool on when Nugent goes all assassination again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the shooting of a Republican Congressman at a baseball practice in Arlington, Virginia, Ted Nugent is now saying that people should be more civil in discussing politics, and he said that this would apply to him. I expect the aging rocker to break his promise before Labor Day: Singer Ted Nugent claims &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[674,385,374,406,403],"class_list":["post-180235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-celebrity","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}