Farrahkan, you may recall, was the guy who was extremely angry that Obama had helped depose Moammar Khadaffy, and just a couple of weeks ago, spoke out at an all-black university saying that people were going to kill their rulers who had betrayed them. You think that wasn't a veiled threat about Obama?
And yet that gets no coverage at all!
The Politico: Blogs: Ted Nugent is Mitt Romney's Hilary Rosen
Progressive bloggers erupted in fury over controversial comments about President Barack Obama by rocker Ted Nugent and complained about a lack of media coverage, especially compared with the super-saturation reporting on Hilary Rosen’s remarks last week about stay-at-home moms.
Nugent, who has endorsed Mitt Romney, said over the weekend, “We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November … “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. … Our president, attorney general, our vice president, Hillary Clinton — they’re criminals, they’re criminals.”
“Ted Nugent might think twice before bragging about chopping off the heads of his political opponents,” reacted Alan Colmes at his blog, Liberaland.
Other liberal blogs rushed to comment on the issue as well, hoping to create a Rosen-style furor over the comments.
“Mitt Romney actively sought, and won, Ted Nugent’s endorsement in early March. According to a report in the Texas Tribune and Nugent himself, the two had a lengthy conversation about gun laws and the endorsement on March 2nd. Nugent made Romney pledge not to put any new restrictions on guns. Romney obliged,” wrote Josh Glasstetter on RightWingWatch, explaining the ties between the two.
“If the president, vice president, and everyone they know are asked to comment on Rosen’s comment last week, it’s hardly unreasonable to think Romney may want to respond to Nugent’s threatening language this week. The ties between the president and Rosen are tenuous at best, but Romney reached out directly to Nugent, hoping to pick up his support,” echoed MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on her blog.
But after the Romney campaign distanced himself from Nugent’s remarks - saying, “Divisive language is offensive no matter what side of the political aisle it comes from” - and when the rocker’s remarks failed to get what progressive writers believed was an appropriate level of attention, the blogs turned on the media itself.
“The mild remarks of Hilary Rosen get transformed into an icon of Democratic indifference to the needs of ‘real women’ while the vile, eliminationist rhetoric of Nugent, who claims he got a personal vow from Romney before giving his endorsement last month, goes mostly unmentioned,” wrote Meteor Blades at Daily Kos.
“So … how will the media manage to make this less of a story than “Rosen-gate”? Because you know it’s going to be a dead story in far fewer news cycles than the Hilary Rosen story was,” said Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog in a post sarcastically titled, “Hey, At Least He Didn’t Say Anything About Stay-At-Home Moms.”
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