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Ted Nugent’s ‘Gun Country’ Show Cancelled Following Shooting Massacre — Agree or Disagree?

Dec. 22, 2012 6:17pm Billy Hallowell

Almost as quickly as Ted Nugent’s show launched on the Discovery Channel this past October, it has ended. The network, in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, announced that the program, titled, “Ted Nugent’s Gun Country,” will be discontinued. Considering sensitivities surrounding the horrific rampage and renewed calls among some leaders for increased gun control, Discovery’s decision is not entirely surprising.

But this isn’t the only show the network has canned following the shooting. “American Guns,” another Discovery series, was also cancelled, with executives declining to give definitive reasons for the removal of either show from its scheduled programming.

Discovery was purportedly pushed heavily on social media to take action on programs involving firearms, thus many assume that their inevitable decision was rooted in pressures following the horrific event that left 20 schoolchildren dead (and eight adults, including Adam Lanza, the shooter).

Discovery Cancels Ted Nugents Gun Country Following Sandy Hook Massacre

Motor City Madman Ted Nugent performs before a large crowd at the LaPorte County Fair Saturday July 14, 2012 in LaPorte, IN. Credit: AP

Nugent, for one, has been anything but silent in the wake of the tragedy. On Tuesday, he penned an open letter in the Washington Times, addressing the Sandy Hook shooting. In it, he was candid about his views on the matter, noting that he believes that more laws and regulations will do little to solve the problem.

Rather that legislative action, the rocker recommended looking at culture as the main contributing factor leading to societal chaos. Read a portion of his comments, below:

The heart of the matter is that our Humpty Dumpty culture has taken a great fall.

Like an iceberg, we only periodically see the psychotic manifestation, the tip of our shattered culture, but what lies just beneath the surface is a gigantic cultural cancer that is rotting America from within.

The ugly and dangerous truth is that we live in an embarrassing, politically correct culture that exalts and rejoices in the bizarre; aggressively promotes an “anything goes” value system; and vilifies, condemns and mocks traditional societal values and customs at every opportunity.

We’ve embraced a culture of contempt that attacks the very institutions that make for a healthy and strong society, and then we’re shocked when it spirals out of control. The only thing I’m shocked about is that anybody is shocked.

Watch the musician chat about gun control, below:

As for Nugent’s show, the ratings were apparently not very strong to begin with, giving the network more than one potential reason not to continue with “Gun Country.” However, “American Guns” was said to be much more popular, leading to increased speculation surrounding the motivation for removing the shows.

What do you think about Discovery’s alleged decision to separate itself from shows surrounding firearms? Is it smart and sensible — or do you find it unpalatable?

Take the poll, below:

(H/T: Inquisitr.com)

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Comments (110)

Xiccarph
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:41pm
…And it happens again, another quivering American institution waddles onto the Sacred Beach of Denial, finds an unoccupied spot, positions their ass skywards, and plunges their heads deep into the blinding Sands of Avoidance.

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- Twinspeedr
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 8:04pm
  Dude, we are talking about the Discovery Channel. They are all about leftist agenda, but apparently just not beneath ditching their principles every once in awhile to make a buck off the tooth-less, inbred yokels that I’m sure they picture as Ted’s target audience. This CYA move is very predictable in my mind, definitely less of a surprise than giving Ted a show in the first place?!
  
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- Ballot_Box_Revolution
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 10:14pm
  They (the commie left) are organized…..I’m sure it is easy for them to get 1,000 people on a social network campaign. And when you are getting 1,000 tweets an hour you will feel like the world is against you, or your activity (putting on certain shows).
  
  Unfortunately the decent people of the world have been cast in an outcast sort of light, and we are ashamed to click that “like” button for what ever reason….
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 10:56pm
  Xiccarph, nice imagery and metaphorical language.
  
  Actually this story is a week old. The Blaze was – somehow! – was a little slow on this news item. If by now anyone is surprised by this they ought to just go look into their bathroom mirror and then slap themselves for being so stupid.
  
  The majority of Americans are offended by the language of people like Nugent and some other TV hosts. Nugent would probably have the audience to support a gun show if he’d stayed out of politics. But America is a capitalistic country and money is king. His audience, which was never that large, fell like a rock with every political statement he made. Plus, Discovery saw that he was tarnishing their brand with the majority of Americans. Discovery, like every company in this capitalistic country of ours, is in the business of making money. Nugent was losing them business with his political statements, rather than gaining them business. So he’s gone. That’s just business, nothing personal. This is about money not politics.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 11:07pm
  Hey Ted… Any time you want to shoot a hog and have BBQ ribs….you let banjarmon know! see ya soon!!
  
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- mecanic
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 12:15pm
  @SendTheMeteors….you do not speak for the majority of Americans. just another lie from the left.
  
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- Techcon
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 1:53pm
  No more guns on Mythbusters!
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:06pm
  NRA has estimated 4.3 million members – guess a good NRA campaign would be to start boycotting discovery, dicks, cheap, and any other company or channel that caves in.
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:51am
  Over the years The Discovery Channel has started to suck.
  
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- NeoFan
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 3:31am
  People are stupid so they will keep watching the lib channels and assist in the downfall of our country.
  
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- RedHarley
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 11:56am
  @Sendthemeteors
  
  I wish there was another way to express this, but there isn’t.
  YOU are a MORON.
  In your little make believe world, The Discovery Channel had never apparently never heard of Ted Nugent before giving him a show. They had never heard that Ted Nugent spoke in the political realm. They couldn’t have known what his politics were and only found out after he made some statements (all true, by the way) about the Sandy Hook shootings.
  The only kind of capitalism that The Discovery Channel practices is CRONY capitalism.
  The bow down to the alter of political correctness every time.
  Look at their record on global warming programming…….
  
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- FoxholeAtheist
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 4:56pm
  But his “Pedocountry” show is a hit among Glenn Beck fans.
  
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- henryKnox
  Posted on December 26, 2012 at 10:03am
  @sendthemeteors Contrary to your claim that it was business and not political you already admitted that the pressure came from people that disagreed with Nugent politically. Therefore, it was political. I loved the show and was one of the very few reasons for me to watch their programming. So ironically it appears that Nugent was correct in saying that part of the problem is political correctness in our society.
  
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mbean
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:23pm
So no more Rifleman reruns then. More important than TV shows, the Danbury Conn gun show in January was cancelled. http://newcanaan.dailyvoice.com/news/danbury-gun-show-canceled-following-newtown-tragedy

This is what The One has wanted since 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTxXUufI3jA

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Lordchamp
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:18pm
I DID watch Discovery a lot of the time but not any more. How many more things can people overreact to.

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- IWILLBEFREE
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:48am
  Well, I can say that, as a white man, there are still some words out there that I can say without being sued or prosecuted for a hate crime. Ol’ Chrissy Mathews says I can’t say monkeying, watermelon (even if I want to eat one myself), shuck and jive, urban, angry, Chicago, Founding Father, kitchen, privileged, professor, food stamp, or use a dog whistle (for some reason) without being racist. And of course there’s still n!gg3r, you people, black, *****, boy, and darky. Of course the most racist thing anyone can say today is, “I’m a conservative.”
  
  Oh! And sexist too.
  
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MisterSarcastic
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:15pm
Glenn should run those shows on Saturday.

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- Polarized America
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 9:13pm
  ya maybe “Ted Nugent’s Gun Country,” is good entertainment i guess, blowing stuff up is always fun to watch, & i’m sure it will sell more Guns, but the reason for having them is for protection like everyone says ( and hunting )…i would like to see experts giving lessons on the proper use & real life scenarios of Good guys / Bad guys and when to shoot, i’m not sure if Nugent qualifys .
  Even Cops have been known to takeout off duty cops as an example. But they have things like City appointed Lawyers & City insurance. If a civilian kills or wounds a person they are “LIABLE”
  Think about it…if you takeout a Bad Guy and stand there with your Gun out and everyone else has a Gun …..ugh *!*
  
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- Harvey
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 7:13am
  Glenn Beck has gave into political correctness,he wont admit that Obama is not an American citizen even though the evidence is aganist him being.I will not watch Beck again,he has proven he dosent have a backbone.
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 7:59am
  Hang in there, Ted. We’re with ya, Buddy! On a much brighter note, I saw Real News on my Dish network last night! The triumphant return of Glenn & Crew to the airwaves! GO TEAM BLAZE!! WOO-HOO!!!!
  
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right field
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:05pm
The Discovery Channel should “discover” what “no audience” will do for its ratings. Turn off this network and never go back. Let’s hope Discovery goes the way of Oprah’s network!

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- Publius
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 5:26pm
  I believe, The Discovery Channel is owned by the BBC.
  
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AmericanLass
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:02pm
Take away his show, take away all real violent shows off also if they were so hypocritical. Hollywood thinks they are ok, because they are in bed with Obama, they are making a huge mistake. He will go after them and those in sports also, guaranteed.

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Redhawke
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:00pm
The gun shows were the only shows that I watched on Discovery.

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- SandboxSoldier
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 8:37pm
  Same here, that and deadliest catch has crews firing guns…..in honor of those who have died in the field.
  
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mdy616
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:59pm
Another example of political correctness gone crazy. I agree 100% with Teds letter. It is the same thing with God. The left wants God out of everything and when something happens they are the first to say “how could God let this happen?” They are shocked when God complies with their demands. I blame this stuff on the person that does the killings. But if the left is looking to blame someone, they should look in the mirror and then read teds letter.

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:52pm
Obama doesn’t give a crap about the Sandy Hook shooting victims. He’s just using the tragedy to get gun control passed.
He and his family are on vacation in Hawaii, enjoying that new multi-million dollar home they just purchased.

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- Dustoff
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:16pm
  You said it. Not one single law could have stopped what happened. Yet, just one armed person may have.
  
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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:21pm
  Makes me sick just thinking about it especially when the working folks can’t manage one but have to pay for thiers.I’m dying for another cruise but insurance on everything is killing us.
  
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Joss
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:51pm
This society wallows in false suffering. Ribbons define what we are supposed to feel. The pragmatists among stand no chance of being understood for the meta-truths that exist in our religions and philosophies. We’re doomed as surely as we draw breath.

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gyro
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:50pm
this is to bad wonder if he will join glenns network ?

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piper60
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:49pm
Discovery Channel is so P.C., and their website is purposely set-up to make it damn near impossible to get any information out of it. They don’t answer emails, so if you have a question about a show, you are SOL.

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bikerr
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:47pm
If discovery channel receives any government money,then no they shouldn’t be allowed to cancel. But if not, being a free United States they have every right to cancel’. Let’s not lose our heads over some Liberal agenda.

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- steelpanther
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:56pm
  It’s not about weather they can or can’t, it’s about weather they should. And I don’t think they should. I don’t think most here would argue about the can or can’t.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:47pm
The Government will ban guns, God, Jesus, Christmas, Easter, and the Bible.
The beginning of the end, for the United States of America.

This is what happens to a great country, when the antichrist is in the White House.

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- catty
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 12:10pm
  Yes, let us know when that happens….
  
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DadRocked
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:43pm
Tough crap for them…
Viewership would have been really high… LO$T advertising dollars…
Oh well… They won’t be able to keep the Nuge silent with or without the show…
Nuge is smart enough that the contract probably had clauses included, just in case.

Ted has always prepared for the unexpected and surely is no rookie to these types of situations.
Cash wise – Ted gets paid… Discovery gets NOTHING !

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- progressiveslayers
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:02pm
  The discover channel execs suffer from extremely high levels of progesterone resulting in candyass decisions like this.
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:56am
  Now they’ve gone too far. Mess with The Nuge and you’re gonna get . . . you’re gonna get . . . something . . . what is it . . . INSULTED! Go get ‘em, Uncle Ted! He, I got an idea. How about we all crap in our pants for a week straight, you know, just like he did to avoid serving in the military. I’ll go first . . . hnnnnnggggggnnnnngggggggg . . . ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
  
  Next?
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:22pm
  now….eat it.
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:39pm
  MAXIPAD JONES . . . Your’e a man of strange tastes.
  
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- Glennda
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:59am
  DAMOCKED . . . So, now you support people getting paid for doing nothing. Unlike last week when you were all against anything to do with a union or a pension. That’s the problem with ex-people like you – no principles. Pity your poor children to have grown up with such a vain and arbitrary “role model.”
  
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mhojai
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:42pm
Put me under strongly disagree.
Free Speech, for some…is the lesson of today boys & girls. Only those who tow the liberal propaganda line will be tolerated in our “tolerant and inclusive” culture. Diversity does not include opposing thoughts, only a variety of skin color and other perversions which follow the “oh-so-progressive” mantra.
I can’t say I’m surprised that Discovery would have a typical, thoughtless liberal knee-jerk reaction. I was more surprised they carried his show in the first place. “Uncle Ted” doesn’t take any prisoners! Well’ he’s still got his “Spirit of the Wild” show on the Outdoor channel.

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progressiveslayers
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:40pm
It’s just another PC move by the discovery channel,they probably don’t want to upset the the POS king and the first cow. Just think if the generation that defeated Germany and Japan were as candyassed as these clowns are the outcome of WW II would’ve been quite different.

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1TrueOne55
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:38pm
Apparently the Second Amendment freedoms mean more in the former Confederacy than it does in the Union North. Although I see no need for civilians to own functioning M-2 Automatic Weapons, the second Amendment gives them the freedom to do so and if they can afford the high cost of ownership then let them spend it, it’s their money. I just want to be able to buy a semi auto .22 plinker to keep my shooting skills up. Because if there is a ban on ALL “Semi-Auto” fire arms then the lowly .22 rimfire will be gone also.
This is the Democrats taking us back to the 18th Century on firearms owner ship since then only bolt/lever action rifles will be available to civilian shooters. And then politicians will have the power of the gun to keep them in office just look at how Russia, China and other nations treat civilians when they have no guns to defend themselves. It is either the Gov’t or Mercenary Rebels that steal from the citizens to control them with the fear of death because they are the only ones with guns. If the people have guns then this does not happen look at Switzerland where all adults of military age are trained in the military and issued a military firearm to defend the country from invasion and how many gun deaths and violence is there there?

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- Redhawke
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:53pm
  “Although I see no need for civilians to own functioning M-2 Automatic Weapons”
  
  So that we can repel and replace a tyrannical government. That is what the Second Amendment is for.
  
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The Woot
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:37pm
Lets play Liberal and do a call in to all Discovery’s advertisers.

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- targetshooter71
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:59pm
  It’s funny that they will air a show like moonshiners breaking the law but will not air shows about firearms that are legal
  
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Nicholson William R
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:35pm
I am sure Ted can and will find a network that will air his productions. I wouldn’t be surprised to find his efforts highlighted at another network soon. The loony leftists that can’t make a buck are just following the gov’t lead. If not for gov’t backing the vast majority of networks would go the way of ” Air America ” they’re losers whom can’t compete without a rigged game.

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- Winedude
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:26pm
  “If not for gov’t backing the vast majority of networks would go the way of ” Air America ” they’re losers whom can’t compete without a rigged game.”
  Cite your sources for this statement. You are correct in your statement that there is much less of a demand for liberal talk-radio. Rush and the other crazies certainly do dominate the airwaves on AM radio. Perhaps the left-wing stations don’t fare as well because liberals have much better things to do than listen to AM radio and the brainwashing that goes with it. That’s brainwashing from both sides…neither side is immune…
  
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- MisterSarcastic
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:45pm
  Winedude,
  Did you type that with your pinky finger sticking out?
  
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skimmer57
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:28pm
I can’t believe they would cancel old Pooh Pants Ted’s show! He’s a real live war hero!

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- Dustoff
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 7:18pm
  John Kerry, is that you?
  
  (skimmer57)
  
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grimmster
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:27pm
Who watchs discovery anyway besides bleeding heart commies?.You’re better off without them Ted.

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- gyro
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:49pm
  good channel making stupid choices to silent the screemers who know little of what they screem about
  
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kickagrandma
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:27pm
The liberal, GODless morons need information. Maybe not. It would undoubtedly confuse them. They are absolute and total believers of the lie. How very, very sad for us all.

I have an idea. Why don’t the non- and un- AMERICANS move to europe and leave us alone? All the unhappy “Afro- AMERICANS” could retake Africa and be happy. I believe this will work.

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- Glennda
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 10:39am
  Names. We need names. On second thought, we don’t need names. They’ll self deport.
  
  Hey! We should use that next election. I bet that would get some conservatives elected.
  
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aproudinfidel
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:25pm
And yet another knee jerk liberal reaction to a tragedy. Move over Dick’s sporting goods and cheaper than dirt, you have cowardly company.

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- Leveraction3030
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 2:31pm
  Agreed. I have already contacted Dick(s) and Cheaper Than “Obama” Dirt and cancelled my Login’s, and cut up my memberships to their clubs. I also sent them both emails notifying them I will no longer do business with them. Not much for a single person to do and probably not cost them their bottom line but I feel better about myself.
  
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Skeeterhawk
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:23pm
More knee jerk reaction that will do nothing. Absolutely nothing.

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- 1TrueOne55
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 6:39pm
  It “jerked” a knee of the Progressive Left wing of the Idiot Party.
  
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