CAT SCRATCH(ED) FEVER: TED NUGENT BOOTED FROM FT. KNOX SUMMER CONCERT

Because why the hell would the Army host on its base a guy who keeps making thinly-veiled threats towards their Commander-in-Chief?

Courier-Journal

The artist lineup for the Fort Knox annual summer concert scheduled for June 23 no longer includes right-wing rocker Ted Nugent.

Co-headliners REO Speedwagon and Styx remain scheduled to perform. However, after learning of Nugent’s recent public comments about the president of the United States, Fort Knox leadership decided to cancel his performance on the installation.

Army Entertainment and the Fort Knox Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation remain committed to carrying out the June 23 concert, and the possibility exists that a replacement will be selected.

Nugent was scheduled to be the concert’s opening act.

Tasked with protecting the president, Secret Service personnel decided they needed to talk to Nugent, 63, after his remarks at last weekend’s NRA convention in St. Louis in which the longtime gun-rights and hunting activist and conservative said, “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”

In a statement on his website Thursday, Nugent said he met with “two fine, professional Secret Service agents” in Oklahoma — he’s playing Thursday in Ardmore — and called it a “good, solid, professional meeting concluding that I have never made any threats of violence towards anyone. The meeting could not have gone better.”