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Ted Nugent Calls CNN “Planet Of The Apes” For Hiring Eliot Spitzer– On CNN

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In the dead zone of programming between the end of Larry King Live and the debut of Piers Morgan Tonight, Anderson Cooper has been charged with hosting the hour, and in periodic Larry King tradition of inexplicable political round tables united rocker Ted Nugent and comedienne Roseanne Barr with actual political strategist Cornell Belcher. It didn’t take long for Nugent to get inappropriate, comparing CNN to “planet of the apes” for hiring Eliot Spitzer.

The context: Spitzer’s program, Parker/Spitzer, has been showcasing an exclusive interview with actor Alec Baldwin, who has been hinting that running for office is something that is of intense interest to him, and that, while New York is a difficult place to start a political career, he would love to run there. Nugent could not contain his hearty laughter– nor could he distinguish what exactly he was laughing at– “Alec Baldwin running for office or Eliot Spitzer doing the interview.” “What is this, Planet of the Apes or CNN?” he mocked, to Belcher’s delight and a rather uncomfortable look from Barr.

The discussion survives the jeer, however, and Nugent explains why he hasn’t run for office himself after mocking Baldwin (“I’m old and I still love to tour”) and ultimately commends Baldwin for his desire to participate, after all– “let the people decide.” As for Barr, she’d vote for him just “because he’s so handsome,” which led Nugent to quip that she could sing the national anthem at his inauguration. “And you could shoot a little baby pig,” she shot back.

The lively, bizarre, sometimes awkward discussion via CNN below:

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  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Want to know what’s crazy? Not CNN hiring the former governor of New York who bagged a few hookers in an effort to spice up their programming and improve ratings, but the people of Louisiana RE-HIRING a guy who bought hookers in two cities and lied about it to try and enact legislation/represent the people of Louisiana honorably. I mean, how dumb is that? They know nobody can work too closely with him, since he’s politically toxic, since he’s, of course, a criminal.

    A private company can hire/fire as they please as far as I am concerned, but if you want a primo example of how stupid “We The People!!!!!!111″ have become, there’s a good one.

  • Kird

    Vitter won because of the oil spill and subsequent Obama moratorium. Without offshore drilling to support South Louisiana’s economy, the next hurricane to come would be a moot point. People were scared and voted Vitter back in based on his anti-Obama platform. What’s CNN’s excuse?

  • murf

    Publius219 said:
    but if you want a primo example of how stupid “We The People!!!!!!111″ have become, there’s a good one.

    No shit , so why is Bill Clinton so revered, and called upon to save the day by the Obama team and democrat campaigns?

    Afterall he is a liar and adulterer.

  • Rusty Shackelford

    Gotta love “uncle Ted,” shit,they are lucky he was’nt armed.

  • WildMan

    Ted is exactly right. Spitzer is an asshole of gigantic proportions!

  • Michael Charles

    I like Ted’s music, “Great White Buffalo” is some of the best…

  • Michael Charles

    I do get a little tired of rock guys putting on a political stance and getting preachy, Ted drops F-bombs at county fairs and the kids can hear that language. He comes off like a throwback, a neanderthal.

  • The Count

    AH AH AH AH AH !

  • BFD

    Hey, Ted…if this was a planet of the apes does that mean you would put out bait for those apes while you crouched behind a bush and shot them like you did those deer when you were “hunting”.

    Lowlife hypocritical scumbag.

  • BFD

    You are just as bad as Michael Vick only you are White, stupid and you can’t play football.

    And anyone with a lick of taste knows your music sucks donkey balls.

  • BFD

    “Spirit Of The WILD”

    California Department of Fish and Game spokesman Patrick Foy says game wardens saw Nugent kill an immature buck on a February episode of his Outdoor Channel TV show “Spirit of the Wild.”

    Investigators found that the deer had been eating bait called “C’mere Deer.” Baiting wildlife is illegal in California.

    Nugent originally faced 11 charges, including killing a deer too young to be hunted. In a deal with Yuba County prosecutors, Nugent’s attorney on Friday entered no contest pleas to the two misdemeanors.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: The count had the pre-knowledge of the liberal posters to come and put their post in perspective! AH AH AH AH …..

  • valkyrie101

    Publius219 said:
    Want to know what’s crazy? Not CNN hiring the former governor of New York who bagged a few hookers in an effort to spice up their programming and improve ratings, but the people of Louisiana RE-HIRING a guy who bought hookers in two cities and lied about it to try and enact legislation/represent the people of Louisiana honorably. I mean, how dumb is that? They know nobody can work too closely with him, since he’s politically toxic, since he’s, of course, a criminal. A private company can hire/fire as they please as far as I am concerned, but if you want a primo example of how stupid “We The People!!!!!!111″ have become, there’s a good one.

    Nugent is famous for his groupie orgies over the years so it is pretty funny hearing him on this. Dick Morris would have been a good quest to have on too.

  • TfT

    “It didn’t take long for Nugent to get inappropriate,”

    typical Frances – Ted’s comments were harly inappropriate, Roseanne on the other hand issued quite a few inappropriate comments, but you ignored that.

    Just becuase Ted was the conservative on-board a typial lefty show, he was the one who was inappropriate.

    What was inappropriate was CNN hiring the con and the faux con, as viewers have informed CNN of that over and over and over again.

  • Hugo Daun

    Yeah, Nugent is quite the “patriot”…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRxdZIGce4&feature=player_embedded#!

  • Just4thefax

    Hugo Daun said:
    Yeah, Nugent is quite the “patriot”… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRxdZIGce4&feature=player_embedded#!

    Fact: Yes he is! He is a Tea Party Backer!

  • got a grip

    More people agree with Nugent than the leftist media parade, but to the media he is the one that is inappropriate… gotta wonder why more in the media don’t adapt to the market (like Fox) and give the majority of fhe market what it wants?

  • Hugo Daun

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Yes he is! He is a Tea Party Backer!

    And a loud-mouthed swaggering draft dodger, too!

  • The Real Royal King

    got a grip said:
    More people agree with Nugent than the leftist media parade, but to the media he is the one that is inappropriate… gotta wonder why more in the media don’t adapt to the market (like Fox) and give the majority of fhe market what it wants?

    One seldom has the opportunity to enjoy genuine gibberish these days. I am indebted to you.

  • The Real Royal King

    Hugo Daun said:
    And a loud-mouthed swaggering draft dodger, too!

    I will confess I was a bit confused, thinking you might be writing of Basil Marceaux, I mean Gordon Blower.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    “It didn’t take long for Nugent to get inappropriate, comparing CNN to “planet of the apes” for hiring Eliot Spitzer.”

    What exactly is ‘inappropriate’ about that?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    “and a rather uncomfortable look from Barr.”

    Is this before or after she called Palin supports “stupid” and “the dumbest people in the country”? Oh wait, its another case of liberal ‘its ok when we do it’ syndrome?

  • tgk

    It’s interesting to me that THIS is what mediaite chose to pull from the entire segment of the debate between Nugent and Barr. There was after all, a much more interesting ideological conversation had between the two of them:

    http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2011/01/06/roseanne-barr-cheney-never-worked-honest-day-his-life-traitor-palin-s

    of couse, there is that whole “agenda” thing that seems to get in the way here at Mediaite.

  • BFD

    Dronetek said:
    What exactly is ‘inappropriate’ about that?

    You don’t go on a network to attack that network. CNN wasn’t attacking him, why the cheap shot?

    Everyone else seemed quite capable of having a discussion without the the off-topic potshots, but Nugent has always been a lowlife hypocritical scumbag.

    He wasn’t on Reliable Sources and he wasn’t being questioned about CNN’s hiring practices.

  • The Real Royal King

    Dronetek said:
    “and a rather uncomfortable look from Barr.”

    Is this before or after she called Palin supports “stupid” and “the dumbest people in the country”? Oh wait, its another case of liberal ‘its ok when we do it’ syndrome?

    I’m not sure what your problem is. La Familia Palin is just like La Familia Connor, except in the former the mother is thin and the daughter is — not, and in the latter the daughter is thin and the mother is fat.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

    Ted Nugent Calls CNN “Planet Of The Apes”

    I don’t agree. I would go more along with “Land of the Lost” CNN are dinosaurs, and its time for them to go away…. LOL

  • Penguin60

    Hugo Daun said:
    And a loud-mouthed swaggering draft dodger, too!

    Clinton? Biden?

  • Penguin60

    tgk said:
    of couse, there is that whole “agenda” thing that seems to get in the way here at Mediaite.

    Barr: “I think she’s a loon and I think she’s kind of a traitor to this country because she would love to erase the line between church and state, which I think this country was founded upon and should never, ever be trifled with in any way.”

    “She soon continued: “The people who like Sarah Palin are all on the government dole going out there and bitching about people wanting to get on the government dole. Please. Every one of them is on the government money.”

    “Yeah, she’s got that, her followers are the dumbest people on Earth. … No, but seriously, they can barely scare up a pulse. I’m serious. They’re not, they are really stupid. They’re stupid.”

    Nope nothing inappropriate here, move along…….

  • timzank

    Frances’s articles are soooooo predictable.

  • Hugo Daun

    Penguin60 said:
    Clinton? Biden?

    Yeah, what a couple of chicken-hawks…

    “… if I would have gone over there, I’d have been killed, or I’d have killed, or I’d kill all the hippies in the foxholes … I would have killed everybody,”-Ted Nugent, Detroit Free Press July 15, 1990

  • TrollJuice

    murf says:
    January 6, 2011 at 12:33 am murf(Quote)
    Thumb up 20 Thumb down 4

    Publius219 said:
    but if you want a primo example of how stupid “We The People!!!!!!111″ have become, there’s a good one.

    No shit , so why is Bill Clinton so revered, and called upon to save the day by the Obama team and democrat campaigns?

    Afterall he is a liar and adulterer.
    =========================

    Like most of the “moral” republicans in office!

  • Penguin60

    Hugo Daun said:
    Yeah, what a couple of chicken-hawks…

    Hugo Daun said:
    draft dodger

    Oh, I thought you said draft dodger.

  • Hugo Daun

    Penguin60 said:
    Oh, I thought you said draft dodger.

    I typed “loud-mouthed swaggering draft dodger”, to be exact…which rather precisely describes a “chicken-hawk” (Nugent).

  • Penguin60

    Hugo Daun said:
    typed “loud-mouthed swaggering draft dodger”,

    Also Biden and Clinton.

  • Hugo Daun

    Penguin60 said:
    Also Biden and Clinton.

    Then, why not add Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh, as well, as long as we are gonna bring up folks who AREN’T the subject of this article?

  • Penguin60

    Hugo Daun said:
    Then, why not add Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh, as well, as long as we are gonna bring up folks who AREN’T the subject of this article?

    Yes, you can. But initially it was a joke. Loud mouthed swaggering draft dodger, actually could probably fit many.

  • libra blue

    Although I agreed with some of what Nugent said, I am not a fan of his. He put down Boehner for being emotional and not acting “tough”. I agree that Boehner should cut back on the weeping, but someone should tell Nugent that killing animals doesn’t make a guy masculine, it makes him look like he questions his own masculinity and is desperate to prove he is masculine by killing defenseless animals.

    In fact, I think Anderson, who is quite emotionless himself, showed the clip to make fun of Boehner which doesn’t surprise me because when Hillary Clinton cried during the primaries Anderson and his cronies at CNN ripped her apart for it.

    Nugent was right about Alec Baldwin and Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer is a whoremonger and if Baldwin ran for office they would bring out that foul-mouthed lunatic phone call he made to his daughter. Who would vote for someone who would blow up like that at a little kid?

    I am glad Anderson finally allowed both sides to speak without being interrupted. He doesn’t do that very often. However, they are only celebrities and are unqualified to speak for the American people.

    Barr would like to make people believe that the Tea Party is only some kind of front for rich Republicans, but I do not agree. Some rich Republicans may have jumped on the Tea Party bandwagon, but it is mostly a grass roots movement. There are plenty of rich Democrats who have used the black and Latino communities in the same way, so should we discount those groups as well?

    Roseanne is right about Cheney and Nugent is right about Obama. Neither one of them knows what it is to do an honest days work.

    If CNN’s phony NYE “threat” had been in place last night both Nugent and Barr would have been pulled off the air, so much for worthless gimmicks.

  • Hugo Daun

    Penguin60 said:
    Loud mouthed swaggering draft dodger, actually could probably fit many.

    This is true…but, I seriously doubt that many have gone to the lengths that Nugent proclaims he did.

    He’s a twisted dude…

  • Just4thefax

    Hugo Daun said:
    And a loud-mouthed swaggering draft dodger, too!

    Fact: Wango Tango to you too!

  • Penguin60

    I have read some of the shit he pulled when he went to the draft board, but hey, Sen Byrd became a champion of Civil Rights and a darling of the left. Go figure.

  • bealzebubba

    Such words of wisdom from a guy who convinced a 17 year old’s parents to sign him into being a legal guardian even though he couldn’t marry her.

    The funny thing about Ted is that with the exception of gun rights, everything about him from his rock n roll lifestyle to his past just doesn’t scream conservative at all. He’s the guy you would say, “Ted? Really? A republican? Naawww.”

    But I’m still a fan regardless of weather or not l like what he stands for.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    BFD said:
    You don’t go on a network to attack that network. CNN wasn’t attacking him, why the cheap shot?

    Everyone else seemed quite capable of having a discussion without the the off-topic potshots, but Nugent has always been a lowlife hypocritical scumbag.

    He wasn’t on Reliable Sources and he wasn’t being questioned about CNN’s hiring practices

    The Real Royal King said:
    I’m not sure what your problem is. La Familia Palin is just like La Familia Connor, except in the former the mother is thin and the daughter is — not, and in the latter the daughter is thin and the mother is fat.

    Thanks guys! You just gave another great example of the liberal, “its only ok when we do it” syndrome.

  • libra blue

    Why are you guys placing my comments in moderation?

  • Knowledge_Is_Power

    @ BFD

    If you are so concerned about Nugent attacking CNN after they asked him to be on then where were you at when Jon Stewart was on with Larry King and tore CNN a new one? He said WAY worse about CNN than Ted did. But I guess since Jon is a flaming liberal he gets a pass right!?

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    murf said:
    No shit , so why is Bill Clinton so revered, and called upon to save the day by the Obama team and democrat campaigns?

    Afterall he is a liar and adulterer.

    Bill didn’t buy it. Buying it is illegal. That’s the difference.

  • RichS

    The Clinton Administration went after wall street executives for having sex with their secretaries and clerks because, according to the Clinton Administration, the inequity in power meant that the sex could never really be consentual. I guess, according to the Clinton Administrat, its also illegal for a CEO to have sex with a clerk or secretary. Unless, the CEO is the President of the United States and the one on her knees is and intern.

  • felixw

    WOW! Someone was actually able to get past the Thought Police and express a frank opinion on CNN. They really need to stop this stuff immediately. People might actually start watching CNN again, and you know that the execs there would have a coronary. Since they ALWAYS put ideological purity above serving their audience.

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