Ted Nugent said Wednesday that he had been contacted by the Secret Service following his comments about President Barack Obama. The rock musician strongly criticized the president last week while at the National Rifle Association convention. The secret service arranged to meet with him.
Last week, Nugent made a comment to the NRA that he would be in either jail or dead, in 2013 if Obama were reelected in November. On the Glenn Beck show Wednesday evening, Nugent said the secret service contacted him due to the duty they have to protect the president. He said he saluted them for that, he supports them and was looking forward to meeting with them on Thursday.
Nugent said he was to meet the secret service backstage at a concert in Oklahoma. The musician, who is 63, is scheduled to perform Thursday in Ardmore. He is famous for his 1970s songs Motor City Madhouse and Cat Scratch Fever and is a longtime supporter of guns rights. Recently he has done campaigning for conservative causes or politicians.
Nugent did not reserve all of his comments for Obama. He also attacked other Obama administration officials. At the NRA convention, he said they have to ride in and chop of the heads of all of them in November.
On the conservative Beck’s talk show Wednesday night, Nugent said he was not calling on people to be violent. He told back that no matter what comment he has made he always ends it with “in November at the voter booth.”
