Conservative rock star Ted Nugent took a strong stand for Jason Aldean during a recent appearance on Fox News Channel, during which he spoke with FNC’s Jimmy Failla about what “Try That in a Small Town” is really about and the craziness of the woke left.
Beginning, Nugent said the important thing is learning to laugh at the left’s insanity rather than getting too angry about it, saying that there are a lot of crazy people out there but laughing is better than getting too upset about their insane views, such as their getting angry about an anti-violent crime song.
Making that point, Nugent told Failla, “I know there’s a bunch of idiots out there, but you need to learn to get a kick out of the idiots. The idiots hate this Jason Aldean song because they hate when we push back against violence.”
Continuing, Nugent said that the woke reaction against the song, such as claims that it is “pro-lynching,” are completely wrong and the song is anti-violence and about defending your loved ones and communities, not attacking others.
Making that point and hammering those who are attacking the song’s message, Nugent said, “They always get it 180 degrees wrong. This song is against violence. The song is about self-defense. The song is about protecting your loved ones in your neighborhood. If you find fault with a song that celebrates protecting your loved ones, your neighborhood, you might be going down to Target to the Satan display and get down on your knees.”
Returning to his point about laughing at the insanity and the importance of just dismissing them, he then said, “These are just weird people. We dismiss them because they’ve gotten out of hand because they’ve got no soul. I laugh in their face.”
Nugent then added that he has always stood up for what he thinks is important, particularly his faith, family, and country. He said: “I’ve always stood up radically – really extremist – for God, family, country, Constitution, Bill of Rights, Ten Commandments, golden rule, work ethic, law and order, all that really radical stuff, and that represents the heart and soul of the best, most passionate, most cocky, most fun people in the world.”
Nugent then added that social media has helped Aldean, as people can see what the song is really about and support it without having to worry about CMT’s woke decision to pull it or what the talking head critics on leftist TV stations are saying.
Speaking on that, Nugent said: “The reach of social media gets to good people all over the world, and all the good people in the world are saying what the Nugent family says: ‘Go, Jason, go… we salute you, and we stand with you.'”
Nugent, in standing up for Aldean, joins conservative figures like Trump in arguing that the song has a good message that Americans should agree with, rather than a terrible message that needs to be canceled, as CMT did.
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