It’s not every day you find Ted Nugent thanking Obama, as he did recently after the president used the “n-word” during his appearance on an episode of the WTF podcast with comedian Marc Maron.
In a WorldNetDaily column–entitled Don’t Be Niggardly With Language–Nugent wrote, “Welcome to the Honest Society, be it ever so briefly, Mr. President.”
“The Honest Society is a rather large and growing club, clan if you will, that is not afraid of speaking honestly without fear of politically correct word nazi’s [sic] going berserk.”
During the podcast, Obama had talked about race relations, saying “The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives — that casts a long shadow…We’re not cured of it. Racism we are not cured of.”
“It’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say ‘n—-r’ in public,” Obama said.
“The president’s use of the word as stated was honest and useful,” Nugent declared. “His statement, this time, should be respected and learned from.”
Nugent called censoring the n-word “dishonest” and racist:
It is foolish and dishonest to discuss a given word, or language overall for that matter, by not saying the word and sheepishly referencing it by a letter.
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What sort of goofball could possibly believe that certain words are OK for one group of people but forbidden by others?
That, by the way, is the definition of racism.
(h/t Mediaite)
