Ted Nugent on CNBC’s the Big Idea
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I was at my in-laws house for Thanksgiving and that evening we were downstairs watching the NBA game on TNT. My wife was upstairs with her sister watching something else when she yelled down to turn the channel. Sure enough, there was Ted Nugent on CNBC. The show was called The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. I’ll have to admit, I have never watched this show before, but Donny was interviewing Ted. It was a great interview. Of course the interviewer really put the heat on gun control, hunting, safety, etc.
However, just like Ted does best he really put together some great arguments and it was very intertaining. Ted’s wife also was with Ted during the interview and can really hold her own. They are quite the couple. It was brought up that the Nuge may run for governor of Michigan in 2010?
One question that was brought up that I thought was very interesting was when the interviewer was talking about gun safety and all of the deaths that occur each year to young kids. Ted noted that gun locks are fine, but the best safety for guns is education. He also said that he believed that probably 90% of the kids that are killed each year due to firearms is mostly attributed to crime, drugs, gangs, etc. Not all of the others reason that everyone would like to blame it on.
Ted writes for our Hunting Illustrated Magazine in the Nuge Factor column and is one of our more popular columns in the mag. The reason for this, and the reason we get so much feedback about the Nuge Factor, is because people do appreciate Ted’s honesty, but also the knowledge and the way he can handle the anti-hunting groups with good combacks and facts to back it up. Many people know what they believe in, but have a difficult time putting it in words. That is why so many of us appreciate what Ted does to help the cause. He is a great abassador not only to hunting, gun rights, and our freedom in general, but for families and parental responsibility in teaching our kids.
I hope some of you had a chance to watch the program as well.
6 comments November 26th, 2005
