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Ted Nugent Meeting With Secret Service Today

'I'll be thoroughly polite,' he tells Glenn Beck

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 18, 2012 11:26 PM CDT | Updated Apr 19, 2012 7:15 AM CDT

(Newser) – As if the Secret Service didn't have enough to deal with just now, agents are meeting today with shoot-from-the-lip rocker Ted Nugent. They're concerned about his comments that he'll be "dead or in jail" if President Obama wins reelection, apparently indicating some kind of violence. During the meeting he intends to be as "polite and supportive as I possibly can be, which will be thoroughly," Nugent told Glenn Beck yesterday. "The bottom line is I've never threatened anybody's life in my life," Nugent added. "I don't threaten, I don't waste breath threatening. I just conduct myself as a dedicated 'We the people' activist."

Nugent hasn't apologized for the apparently threatening comments, made at a National Rifle Association rally. But he is taking the Secret Service concern seriously. "I'm not trying to diminish the seriousness of this, because if the Secret Service are doing it they are serious," he said.

Musician and NRA member Ted Nugent addresses a seminar at a National Rifle Association last year.
Musician and NRA member Ted Nugent addresses a seminar at a National Rifle Association last year.   (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Nugent is taking Secret Service concerns seriously, he tells Glenn Beck.
Nugent is taking Secret Service concerns seriously, he tells Glenn Beck.   (Getty Images)
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COMMENTS
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Winston_Smith
Apr 19, 2012 10:34 PM CDT
Don't get what the fuss is about here. Nugent's politics are delusional and ridiculous, but I can't see any threat to the president, explicit or implicit, in the "dead or in jail" quote.
Jespersen
Apr 19, 2012 6:22 PM CDT
Ted Nugent is a loser and a big mouthed bigot.
George-Jetson
Apr 19, 2012 5:48 PM CDT
Ted can give them great advise on handling hookers.
 

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