My twelve year old son just asked a very insightful question

[jorno67]

"Who's Ted Nugent?"
That folks, gives me hope for the future.

[narnian60]

1. Know where you're coming from, but

when I used to play trivia with my 6th graders, they didn't know who Mick Jagger or the Rolling Stones were-ouch!

[left on green only]

2. Me thinks that the news media, in their attempt to create the public hysteria......

......upon which their success depends, will often dwell on irrelevant individuals and trolls who they are hoping will make them wealthy. Perhaps then, Ned Tugent is but a Sarah Palin without lipstick.

[freshwest]

3. +1

[panader0]

18. I like this. Here.

[wandy]

24. I've herd of putting lipstick on a pig but........

Are you suggesting that Ted Nugent would somehow make more sense if Wayne LaPierre put lipstick on him ?

[Robb]

4. Heh. Nice.

Not really related, but my 3-year-old asked me last night, "Do mermaids have two knees, or just one?"

[randome]

11. Also an excellent question!

[Robb]

14. I went with one.

[mimi85]

15. Well now I have soup all over my keyboard!

That is truly priceless!

[Blanks]

5. Did you tell him...

He's Oliver North's cousin; just to see if he knows who Ollie North was/is?

[Tien1985]

7. As far as I can tell,

Ted Nugent is in an old band and did something with a golf cart? And I have no idea who North is. Like "North" the movie?

No one here (at work) knows him either, except the boss, who snorted??

Is it worth googling?

[Blanks]

8. You've got to be kidding.

If you seriously don't know who Oliver North is; you should google it.

[Tien1985]

19. Holy crap,

No, I really didn't know, and neither did at least 5 others. There is apparently a lot more to the Iran Contra issue than I knew. When we were taught this, they mostly focused on hostages and how it caused problems for Pres. Carter. Not meaning to look stupid--but this just wasn't taught. I did well in high school (AP US History) and didn't take history in college. I often wish now that I had, they left out too much.

[Blanks]

23. Don't beat yourself up. I only knew because I'm old.

I didn't read a lot on him, but he also ran for congress. After all that the republicans still love him.

[Politicalboi]

26. He even has or had

A rightwing radio show too.

[Bluenorthwest]

27. What shocks me is that anyone, of any age remembers the movie 'North'

20 year old bupke. I thought even Reiner had forgotten it.

[southernyankeebelle]

6. Well I bet your relieved.

[TxDemChem]

9. Me too

Give your boy a hug for me

[Johnboi70]

10. He was the general who won the Vietnam War!!!

Or was that Vo Nguyen Giap?? I keep forgetting.

[Mira]

12. ...

I hang my head as I admit I had to google him to find out who he is.

[mimi85]

13. Good for your son! And good for you for playing good music!

Yes, I feel some hope as well.

My pre-teen granddaughter is not a Beiber fan, which I find very encouraging. She's into some boy band called One Direction, so there is that. I seem to remember her grandmother (aka Mimi) being into a couple boy bands called the Beatles and The Rolling Stones. My dad seemed to blame the state of the world on them until the day he died. Of course, when he picked my friend and me up in Long Beach after seeing them on their first tour, he took one look at my shredded stockings and torn mini-skirt and said I'd never go to a concert again. He was a moderate Republican and was wrong about the concert and the GOP.

I'm still proud that when my best friend and I went to Woolworth's with our $3.33 to buy a record, I picked the Stones first album, she wanted Herman's Hermits. Fortunately, I "won" in two ways. We got "The Rolling Stones" and she's still my bestest friend. It's our 50th friend anniversary year and I feel so fortunate.

I was SO glad that Nugent wasn't shown during the SOTU. At least on MSNBC and I think (though don't know for sure) that there was one feed and not every network had cameras. Please correct me if I'm mistaken. Happy Heart's Day to all!

[ISW]

16. Nugent is a fool and a liar!

[alp227]

17. Hope? Oh NOW I get it.

If your son asked that question 35 years ago you'd be worried that he was missing out on the latest rock-n-roll fad. But now that he's come out as a psycho gun nut, his music has become more worthless now than it was back then.

[okwmember]

20. My 14 year old daughter asked the same question yesterday.

Its a hopeful sign.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Even better:

Nugent was shepherded over to a standing MSNBC camera. Two police officers looked on, confused by the mobile media herd.

“Who’s that?” asked one cop.

“It’s Ted Nugent,” said the other cop. “He’s a rock star, he talks about guns.”

“Really? Never heard of him.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/02/barack_obama_s_state_of_the_union_address_like_ted_nugent_republican_lawmakers.html

[LWolf]

22. My middle school students

also routinely ask me who any music performer playing more than a decade before they were born is.

There are exceptions, of course, but generally speaking, young people don't listen to older performers. That's why I usually end each period with some song they've never heard before.

Not Ted Nugent, though, lol.

[Spider Jerusalem]

25. I'd be surprised if anyone under 20 knows who he is or cares