twitter the pictures that came out of syria that are documented to be accurate, the horrific pictures of these people who were slaughtered by bashar assad, and this president does not do anything of any effect. and it s shameful. i want to move what has been a big contentious story this week, which is ted nugent who normally wouldn t i guess be that relevant politically but has made himself relevant by attaching himself to a political situation. when he called president obama you ve had your issues with the president himself when he called him a sub human mongrel, what was your reaction to that? it s a free country, but that kind of language really doesn t have any place in out political dialogue. it harms the republican party. i m sure that it harmed that candidate there. and it should be obviously repudiated. from time to time as you know,
radio talk show host, ben ferguson, just a short time ago. sub human mongrel is a derogatory term. most people agree with that. did you cross the line by calling the president of the united states of america that, and if you saw barack obama, would you apologize to him for saying that about him? yes, i would. i did cross the line. i do apologize. not necessarily to the president. but on behalf of much better men than myself, like the best governor in america, governor rick perry, the best attorney general in america just think if america had an attorney general as great as greg abbott like here in texas. so on behalf of those pro preshl politicians and those who put their heart and soul of representing us so accurately, like the gentleman i just mentioned, i apologize for using the street fighter terminology of sub human mongrel, instead of
problem for the abbott campaign. on the one hand, nugent is very, very popular with the republican base in texas. he lives here in texas. his ranch is adjacent to george w. bush s ranch near waco. he s a fixture at the national rifle association. so he s popular among the kind of base voters that abbott is trying to appeal to. the problem here is when you call the president a sub human mongrel, which has not only a disparaging reference, but also an historic racial reference in some places, and then when you call feminine women politicians fat pigs, then abbott has to make a decision. and he had to say, do i keep ted nugent on the stage with me, or not? he has chosen to do so. and that s what happened today. i mean, do they know the history of that phrase, sub human mongrel? that s what the nazis called
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abbott. this despite nugent s recent characterization of president obama as a, quote, sub human mongrel. abbott, state attorney general, invited nugent to appear with him at two events today to motivate the republican base to vote early. nugent s president let a sour note with a lot of people. they say texans deserve someone better who would align themselves with someone like nugent, who offered hate-filled assessments of the president. listen to this. obviously failed to galvanize and prod and not shame enough americans to be ever vigilant not to let a chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured, sub human mongrel like the akorn community organizer, barack hussein obama,