Ted Nugent Fired From The Waco, TX Tribune-Herald for Criticizing President Obama

If a news paper terminates a writer for the specific reason of silencing the writer in pages, they have the right to do so.

Yet Ted is 100% correct in his statements above, he just needs to find an area where his free speech is appreciated.

America is borrowing 5 Billion dollars a day currently, and somone needs to say that they smell a dead rat, but I think we don't need Ted to tell us, ............... we all smell it.

Without freedom of the press there will be no freedom.

Sounds to me like he was fired for insubordination. Everyone has a boss, and if you don't want to do what your boss asks you to do... either quit or plan on being fired. Pretty simple really.

Oh, and saying 'no you'll have to fire me' is a great way to make sure that fired is the way you'll go.

Ted, there's no such thing as a free market.

If that doesn't deserve massive amount of criticism, what does?

Its not part of the agenda to have people criticize, Obuma and his elite are out for themselves, they expect all the sheep to fall in line and not question anything they say, they know what is best and that is what is pissing people off. Censorship is already starting with this newspaper whats next? When is enough going to be enough? 2012 will not come fast enough to vote them out, there wont be anything left to save.

maybe he was fired for being an idiot.
there is no one bill.. so no one has read that one bill.
once the house passes something and the senate they will negotiate a final bill.

But it is soooooo amazing that no one has read the bill but every republican knows that page 435 has a provision that ill kill your grandmother
you know yall have been saying that no one has read the bill for months(sounds sorta like the patriot act huh but they only had days)

how long you think it takes to read?

guys an idiot..and they got tired of giving an idiot a soap box.
Free speech has zip to do with this. Unless yall are claiming obama had him removed?

Sorry, I'm with Ted. He's correct in that a columnist has a primary duty to tell it like they see it, not the way the paper sees it. That's usually the reason for the little line that says "The opinions of the writer do not reflect the beliefs or politics of the paper". Get it? He is supposed to engender response. I guess if all of Texas is fine being just cows herded to slaughter by the government or anyone, let them walk into the death house of freedom. Hey, we have Obama sitting in the President's chair because of a fair system, are you now saying we shouldn't let Ted talk if he wants to? I haven't ever met him, he seems a bit harsh, but I honestly believe he loves this country and wants the very best for it, us and our future and if that takes a few wordy punches, so be it, let's debate whether the fool on the hill should be kicked out. We have done it before, heck let's do it again.

Shuddup and play yer geetar, Theodore.

Someone paid Ted for his insane opinions in the first place? I mean at one time he was a pretty decent guitar player, but his political opinions make me ashamed that I was raised in the Michigan countryside like he was. The man is insane, nuts, koo koo, batsh*it crazy and the amazing part is that he managed to go crazy even without doing drugs! He doesn't kill the deer he hunts with a rifle or bow, he scares them to death with what a whack job he is.

To quote a brilliant philosopher (Barney Fife), "He's a nut!"

He was fired by a newspaper not exactly known for being aligned with the left. That should tell you something.

Maybe he was hired to write light, entertaining pieces and simply started flying off the handle and going all runehead and stuff. His rant surely qualifies.

Don't worry about ol' Nuge, though.

He'll squeal loud enough that he'll get picked up by the National Review.

Well... maybe not. I was told they still have some standards left.

I think what the paper did was a huge step out of the dark side of the right.It sounds like to me all the paper asked Ted to do was instead of adding to the problem why don't you try adding to the solution.I mean I know for some of you far rights that your idea of good politics is acting like children and calling names and making childish and derogatory remarks about others which if you read Ted's work that pretty much covers it! Alll the paper did was ask him to act like a responsible adult and instead of name calling and making outrageous exaggerations about the lefts policy.To try and give a solution to the problem. which would require critical thinking and that is hard! Much easier to accuse Obama and the Dems of being Nazi's! His reaction to the the request is a perfect example of his tactics. He acts like he can work within the parameters of decency. Then he turns around and goes off on a rant and starts name calling and rapping himself in the constitution which he and his spinners only seem to support when it backs them but obviously the constitution is not important to them when the shoe is on the other foot. Things like the patriot act or life and liberty like not being tortured! If Ted could have acted like a mature adult this would not have been a issue. But as we all know maturity is not one of the attributes MR. Nugent is known for.

Hey, Ted how do you like the results of the "free" market? But I guess with your residuals, etc. you might not have noticed a CRASHING FREE MARKET last year.......

Ted will found an outlet for his diatribe, maybe Playboy will give a 25 year contract, without a ghosts of chance of being fired.