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Blog: Ted Nugent claims to be more Indian than American Indians






Ted Nugent on stage in a headdress. Photo from Facebook

Rocker Ted Nugent again blames the media for claiming he made negative comments about Native Americans as he lists all of his "friends" in Indian Country:
Ted Nugent called in to Glenn Beck’s program on Friday to defend himself after a number of his shows have been cancelled by Indian tribes because of his long history of racist remarks.

Nugent told Beck that in fact “my lifestyle as a white guy — though I’m hard to accept that designation — is more in the Indian tradition than many of the Indians themselves.”

In response to reports that he called protesters at one of his recent shows "unclean vermin,” Nugent told Beck, “I have a spiritual blood-brother relationship with these Indians and then the left literally creates the nastiest, hateful lie they can, put quotes around words attributed to me, Glenn, claiming that I called my red brothers ‘unclean vermin,’ which I never said in my life. They created that out of whole cloth.”


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Ted Nugent: 'My Lifestyle…Is More In The Indian Tradition Than Many Of The Indians Themselves' (Right Wing Watch 8/4)

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