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March 2, 2003, Sunday, BC cycle
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 369 words
HEADLINE: Nugent talks hunting rights with Wisconsin bow hunters
DATELINE: APPLETON, Wis.
BODY:
Rocker and gun-rights advocate Ted Nugent spoke to a crowd of Wisconsin bow hunters and said people against hunting are waging a war on the American dream.
Nugent - who coined the hunting phrase "whack 'em and stack 'em" and co-wrote the cookbook "Kill It & Grill It" - was the featured speaker for the annual convention of the Wisconsin Bow Hunters Association Saturday.
The standing-room only crowd of about 560 spent two hours either laughing at Nugent's manic humor or nodding in agreement as he assaulted anti-hunters and what the Motor City Madman called their "cultural war on the best part of the American dream."
"There is nothing more perfect than hunting," he said.
Nugent said he started his personal crusade against animal-rights activists and politicians who seek to limit or deny the rights to hunt or bear arms in self defense after a 1975 Dan Rather news special, "The Guns of Autumn."
He said he waited in vain for the leaders of national hunting groups to come out fighting.
"I thought for sure someone would say something on that obscene, dismal, anti-hunting day," Nugent said. "They called us heathens. They called us cowards. They called us deviants. And no one counter-punched him."
Nugent ridiculed the idea that vegetarianism is an alternative to killing for food.
Even if you live on tofu, he said, someone has to clear a field of native vegetation to raise the beans. That field supports a complex ecosystem of plants and wild animals, Nugent said.
"If you are going to eat, something has to die," Nugent said.
Nugent, who looks fit and healthy at 54, said he doesn't drink or smoke, a message he also preaches to schoolchildren.
But some of Nugent's position's were a little more controversial. During the presentation, he insulted gays, "welfare brats," the unemployed and deer hunters who oppose the controversial practice of baiting.
Sue Rieder, a school board member from Monroe, said it is important not to take Nugent's more outrageous statements too seriously.
It is part of his act and how he gains a national audience, she said.
"He is a good proponent for hunting," she said. "He puts the pressure back on us locally to get involved."
SECTION: State and Regional
LENGTH: 369 words
HEADLINE: Nugent talks hunting rights with Wisconsin bow hunters
DATELINE: APPLETON, Wis.
BODY:
Rocker and gun-rights advocate Ted Nugent spoke to a crowd of Wisconsin bow hunters and said people against hunting are waging a war on the American dream.
Nugent - who coined the hunting phrase "whack 'em and stack 'em" and co-wrote the cookbook "Kill It & Grill It" - was the featured speaker for the annual convention of the Wisconsin Bow Hunters Association Saturday.
The standing-room only crowd of about 560 spent two hours either laughing at Nugent's manic humor or nodding in agreement as he assaulted anti-hunters and what the Motor City Madman called their "cultural war on the best part of the American dream."
"There is nothing more perfect than hunting," he said.
Nugent said he started his personal crusade against animal-rights activists and politicians who seek to limit or deny the rights to hunt or bear arms in self defense after a 1975 Dan Rather news special, "The Guns of Autumn."
He said he waited in vain for the leaders of national hunting groups to come out fighting.
"I thought for sure someone would say something on that obscene, dismal, anti-hunting day," Nugent said. "They called us heathens. They called us cowards. They called us deviants. And no one counter-punched him."
Nugent ridiculed the idea that vegetarianism is an alternative to killing for food.
Even if you live on tofu, he said, someone has to clear a field of native vegetation to raise the beans. That field supports a complex ecosystem of plants and wild animals, Nugent said.
"If you are going to eat, something has to die," Nugent said.
Nugent, who looks fit and healthy at 54, said he doesn't drink or smoke, a message he also preaches to schoolchildren.
But some of Nugent's position's were a little more controversial. During the presentation, he insulted gays, "welfare brats," the unemployed and deer hunters who oppose the controversial practice of baiting.
Sue Rieder, a school board member from Monroe, said it is important not to take Nugent's more outrageous statements too seriously.
It is part of his act and how he gains a national audience, she said.
"He is a good proponent for hunting," she said. "He puts the pressure back on us locally to get involved."
