Only in the mind of a right-wing fanatic can a man shouting sexual expletives at a female reporter be considered a “winning” argument. Of course Laura Ingraham was referring to Ted Nugent’s exchange with a CBS reporter when she commented on this last night on the O’reilly Factor. Media Matters provided the transcript of the comments of Nugent and Ingraham.
NUGENT: Call me, when you meet someone who does that more than I do. Because that’s really moderate. In fact, you know what that is? That’s extreme. I’m an extremely loving, passionate man, and people who investigate me honestly, without the baggage of political correctness, ascertain the conclusion that I’m a damned nice guy. And if you can find a screening process more powerful than that, I’ll suck your d–k.
After playing Nugent’s comments, with the inflammatory parts beeped out, Ingraham stated: “Winning” — a reference to a quote by actor Charlie Sheen. Vulture, the New York magazine blog, defined the term this way:
Winning
verb (frequently used)
1. the act of triumphing over studio executives, famous fathers, and jerky show-runners, who then have no choice but to “lay down with their ugly wives and their ugly children and just look at their loser lives”
Ingraham went on to say: “Well, Nugent apologized off camera and he said after the interview that he was rushed to the emergency room and had a kidney stone removed.” She added: “You can decide if the rocker’s a pinhead or a patriot for those remarks.”
In the past weeks, pinheads have included NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell, whom O’Reilly accused on May 2 of “slanting” the news by seeming to be “crossing over into the liberal precincts lately.” Her crime? From Nexis: