Ted Nugent Replies 'Eat Me' to Critics of 'Anti-Semitic' Gun Control Post

By Brad Devereaux
MLive
Feb. 12, 2016

A Feb. 8 Facebook post on the verified account for Michigan rocker and National Rifle Association Board of Directors member Ted Nugent. Ted Nugent's Facebook post features Israeli flags on a collage of the faces of 12 prominent Jewish Americans, and asks, "So who is really behind gun control?"

Thousands shared Nugent's Feb. 8 post that calls those pictured, former U.S. Senator Carl Levin among them, "punks" and says "they hate freedom."

In another post, Nugent described Jews killed by the Nazi regime as "soulless sheep to slaughter."

The controversial messages have drawn national news coverage and criticism of Wango Tango Nugent, an outspoken gun-right's supporter, hunter, and Michigander.

The graphic was shared with praise in some circles, but criticized by many others, sparking an online debate.

Ted Nugent's courageous statement about Jewish leadership being gun-grabbers, has now caused millions to research the issue themselves!Good!
— Western Triumph (@Western_Triumph) February 9, 2016

Jonathan A. Greenblatt of the civil rights organization, the Anti-Defamation League, called Nugent's latest rant "nothing short of conspiratorial anti-Semitism."

"Regardless of one's views on gun control, this kind of scapegoating of an entire religious group is completely unacceptable and completely divorced from reality," he wrote in a statement.

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