Ted Nugent on CNBC’s the Big Idea
November 26th, 2005 David King - King's Outdoor World
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.
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6 Comments Add your own
1. Luke | December 8th, 2005 at 7:35 pm
Ted’s interview was awesome! I wish I would have recorded it…anyone know how I can get ahold of a copy??
2. Douglas | December 28th, 2005 at 9:35 am
Ted and his beautiful wife are model American citizens in my opinion. They did an excellent job defending our natural rights against the almost Orwellian views of Deutch. Deutch is all spin. He seems to have no great moral guide but the almighty dollar. Quite contrary to the Nugent family.
3. Marie Sheafers | February 10th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
I am a full blooded Indian and was adopted by a white family from Olathe KS. Iwas 2years old when they adopted me from Canada.
I am 48 now and have 3 grown chrildren and 7 grandchrildren.
My ex husband and I have had hard times and when we live in Arkansas it would’nt care if it was deer season or not if a deer would be in our backyard we would kill it just to put food on the table. As for kids getting at our parents guns, yes we should teach them right from wrong but not everyone is raised a little country,
4. Marie Sheafer | February 10th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Please let Ted and his wife read what I just wrote.
5. Marie Sheafer | February 10th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Please respond and least let me know what you think before 06-6-06
6. Marie Sheafer | February 11th, 2006 at 12:19 am
Damed if we do damed if we don’t.
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