Secret Service closes case on Ted Nugent’s remarks

Thursday, April 19, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — After meeting with rocker Ted Nugent on Thursday, the Secret Service says its probe into what he had to say about President Barack Obama is over.

Last weekend during a National Rifle Association meeting in St. Louis, Nugent rallied support for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and said of the Obama administration: “We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November.” He also said he would be “dead or in jail by this time next year” if Obama is re-elected.

That drew the attention of the Secret Service. Nugent said he discussed the matter with two agents on Thursday while in Oklahoma.

“The issue has been resolved,” agency spokesman Brian Leary said in a statement. “The Secret Service does not anticipate any further action.”

In a statement on his website, Nugent called it a “good, solid, professional meeting concluding that I have never made any threats of violence towards anyone.”

“The meeting could not have gone better,” he said. “I thanked them for their service, we shook hands and went about our business. Godbless the good federal agents wherever they may be.”

Nugent said he was just speaking figuratively when he made what some perceived to be threats against Obama and that he didn’t threaten anyone’s life or advocate violence.

“Metaphors needn’t be explained to educated people,” he said.

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wow 1 year, 1 month ago

Ted Nugent is s coward. When he had a chance to go face and actually engage an enemy of the United States in a to the death battle. The Motor City Motor Mouth was scared. To understand what I'm talking about...ask Mr. Wang Dang Sweet Poone Tang to tell us about his lack of service during the Viet-Nam War. Yeah that's right Old Mean Mouth Teddy wussied his self out of servivng this nation his professes to love so much.he was afraid to face the Viet Cong, yet he some how finds it really easy to shoot all those defenseless animals. Yeah Old Teddy is a real Bad@(&&^&*^&()_()!! Not...Ted Nugent is a joke and a loud mouth Coward! Thing is...if it really came down to it...I really believe the President...if confronted by Old Ted Nugent...I think the President would stomp the gut's out of this big nowboy hat wearing, loud mouth, cowardly Wussie-Boy!

linoge 1 year, 1 month ago

The Drama.

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