Ted Nugent defended comments that got his Northwest shows canceled

The Puyallup Indian tribe says it doesn’t want right-wing rocker Ted Nugent performing at the Emerald Queen Casino Aug. 2 and 3 after pressure from critics who blast the Motor City Madman for “racist and hate-filled remarks.”

Nugent has, in the past, referred to President Barack Obama as a “subhuman mongrel.”

The cancellation came three days after Idaho’s Coeur D’Alene Tribe canceled Nugent’s Aug. 4 show.

Nugent joined the Dori Monson Show on June 12, 2014 to apologize and then take it back, sort of.

“I apologized for getting down in the gutter and dirty like that,” Nugent said, who told Dori they changed the name of the band for their tour to Subhuman Mongrels. “It was a terrible mistake. I should not call anybody such names like that.”

Dori told the rocker that as soon as you begin name-calling, you become the news rather than your cause.

“I would never in a million years call anyone I disagree with, or not, that phrase,” said Dori. “I wouldn’t use that kind of language because aren’t you just as bad as the person you are attacking?”

“I respect your decision not to use that kind of street-fighting language,” Nugent told Dori, “but you’re a successful radio guy…I’m also civil and gentlemanly in that type of environment, but I get down and dirty with people who really bust their ass to be in the asset column of this country, particularly those warriors who sacrifice so dearly for the American Dream.”

The Nuge went on to explain that his comment came after sharing thoughts around the campfire with “heroes in the U.S. military with their legs and arms and eyeballs blown out, and who were absolutely shattered.”

“Out here on the streets of America, that kind of language is used,” Uncle Ted said before assuring Dori the Subhuman Mongrels would be in Tacoma in August.

Of course, Ted was wrong.