people to reject you and not to listen to what you have to say. abbott was up by a pretty high margin in the poll before bringing on nugent to campaign with him on the campaign trail. it makes you wonder what kind of risk assessment was done, if any was done. if somebody had come to you and said, i m thinking of doing this, what would you have suggested. i would say if you re going to use this person, don t use them in an official capacity. i would say, i understand the importance of these relationships on these issues. i would say, look, you can t have this kind of thing associated with you. you need to understand right now the sim bombs associated with your party and what you are trying to accomplish. i understand it is important to popularity. it is not going to do you any favors in the long run. what we are seeing in the debate in this country is that we don t want negativity. we don t want mud-slinging, positive plans for the future, optimism. we don t want mud-slinging unless
channels. rocker and activist ted nugent has apologized for comments he made about president obama. he told ben ferguson today he was sorry for describing the president as a, quote, subhuman mongrel. several republican politicians had called on nugent to apologize. nugent has been campaigning for texas republican gubernatorial candidate greg abbott. the federal communications commission, the fcc, is backing off its plan to question news professionals about how they make their editorial decisions. word of the perspective study has outraged journalists, civil libertarians and many others. the fcc put out a release stating media owners and journalists will no longer be asked to participate, and the study will be redesigned. up next, president obama and putden talk to each other about the troubles in ukraine, but first, here s what some of our fox affiliates across the country are covering tonight.
country. so the man who called our president a subhuman mongrel is a fighter for freedom. too many republicans are embracing it. nugent was also a prominent backup of current texas governor rick perry. in fact, nugent even performed at the governor s inaugural ball wearing a confederate flag t shirt. even mitt romney sought on nugent s endorsement. he wanted support from a man who went on to say this. if barack obama becomes the president in november again i will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. the secret service paid nugent a visit after that to see if he posed a threat of any kind. t that didn t stop a republican