Monday, September 04, 2006
Ok. So someone posted this article at a forum sighting the same mistake I am pointing out. I'll highlight it. A nice piece of an article about everyone's favorite crazy gun nut, Ted Nugent.
Ted Nugent: Off his rocker?
He owns 350 guns, wants to nuke Iraq and makes his friend George W look like a liberal. Now 1970s heavy metal star Ted Nugent has his sights set on a new target: entering US politics
During the private inaugural party at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, in 2000, President George W Bush glanced across the room and recognised a man who - by his own account - has urinated on a nun, soiled his trousers for a week in order to avoid the draft, and been detained on a charge of indecent exposure, after experiencing difficulties with his loincloth in Little Rock, Arkansas. The President confronted him as a matter of urgency.
"When he noticed me," Ted Nugent recalls, "he was surrounded by these huge bankrollers from his campaign. He literally swept past all of them and said: 'Laura! Look who's here! It's Ted!' Then he hugged me and took me by the shoulders. He said: 'Just keep doing what you're doing. Don't think that we don't know what you're up to out here. Stay on course. You're doing great.'"
Like Jesus, Gandhi or Hitler, Nugent tends to inspire this kind of extreme reaction. He rarely gives interviews to the British press; the last time he did, some years ago, he managed what is possibly the most extraordinary achievement of his remarkable career - proving too right-wing for the Daily Telegraph.
Ted Nugent, 57, best known for his 1977 hit "Cat Scratch Fever", has sold 40 million records over four decades. The Detroit-born guitarist, once described as the missing link between Iggy Pop and the White House, used to perform dressed as a Neanderthal - a prophetic gesture, some would argue, given his emergence, in middle age, as an arch-conservative National Rifle Association board member, and obsessive hunter. Nugent, who has personally slaughtered all the meat he's eaten since 1971, hosts two reality shows from the 300-acre ranch - just up the road from Bush's compound in Crawford - where he lives with his second wife Shemane and son Rocco, 15. In 2004, while filming Surviving Ted, in which city dwellers strive to replicate his uncompromising lifestyle, he almost severed his (omega) leg with a chainsaw. The musician, who owns seven other properties in the US, arranged to meet me at a truck-stop café in the centre of this one-street Texan town. Famous for songs such as "My Baby Likes My Butter on Her Grits", "Pussywhipped" and "My Love is Like a Tire Iron", Nugent is not known for his intuitive connection to his feminine side; he arrives wearing a camouflage cowboy hat, his shorts supported by a belt housing a Glock revolver.
So... the last time I checked - and I could be wrong here - Glock doesn't make a revolver. For my non-gun fan readers here, Glock makes a very boxy looking semi-auto pistol. A very recognizable gun. See the monkey above for a look.
I believe one of the things they stressed to us when I was in college for journalism was that you check everything, don't guess at all. So if this guy wanted to mention the gun good old Ted was packin', he should have said, "Hey, Ted. What kind of gun do you have there?" Easy as that!
I'll tell you, when it comes to journalists, especially little known guys, they are either too observant or not observant enough. I can show you an article that was written about me when I was 19 that proves that, too. Any other person would not have the little errors he did. The article written about me was because of the bookstore I owned when I was 19. We sold lots of stuff, and he was trying to include that in his article. One of the things we sold was elemental body and room spray, with names such as Air, Fire, Water, Earth, and Spirit. As usual, stores selling things like this will have testers, and normally there is a label on the bottles that says, "Tester" so people don't open up the good stuff. Our bottles had stick on gold labels that said tester on them, and everyone but this guy understood the meaning. He wrote in his article that the sprays were named, "Air Tester, Fire Tester..." etc. He also gave the wrong address in the article, which didn't help, either. If he'd gotten the address right, we would have had more business, since the article was on the second page of the Jersey Journal and was well done (long, too, and with a big nasty picture of me. LOL!) but he directed people two blocks away from where we actually were. Yay. Bonehead.
Anyway, there's my gripe for the night!
Suck Lead did something BAAAAD at 9/04/2006 12:55:00 AM
