David Crosby has no time for Ted Nugent whining that he hasn’t been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of his conservative politics.
After the Trump-supporting rocker told a radio station that he thinks he’s been excluded from the Hall because of his outspoken support for the National Rifle Association, Crosby offered a different explanation, the Daily News reported.
“The a–hole just isn’t good enough,” Crosby responded to a fan on Twitter.
In a follow-up tweet, Crosby added that Nugent’s hit single, “Cat Scratch Fever,” didn’t qualify him for the honor.
Crosby, 76, has been inducted into the Hall twice for his contributions to the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash.
Nugent, 68, is one of the few openly conservative musicians. He visited President Trump at the White House in April, along with Kid Rock and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. He has also been known to employ vitriolic rhetoric over politicians he doesn’t agree with, as when he defended the Second Amendment by saying that Barack Obama, while running for president the first time in 2008, should “suck my machine gun.”
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When Obama was running for reelection in 2012, the rocker said during the National Rifle Association convention that, “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” The statement attracted the attention of the Secret Service.
Nugent vowed to be “more selective with my rants and in my words” after House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was critically injured by a gunman who targeted GOP lawmakers at a congressional baseball practice in June.
Last week, Nugent went off on Rolling Stone founder Jan Wenner during an interview with an Albany radio station. Wenner is also co-founder and vice chairman of the Hall of Fame.
Nugent said Wenner “hates freedom, he hates the Second Amendment, he hates me, because I’m on the board of directors — quite proudly — of the National Rifle Association for, like, 26 years.”
He said he’s as almost as popular among NRA members as the late Charlton Heston. “I couldn’t be more proud of that, ’cause the NRA is the ultimate family, grassroots organization that fights for the right to defend ourselves.”
“What kind of numbnut would be against that?” he continued. “And so I’m on the board of directors of the NRA, Jan Wenner hates the Second Amendment, so that’s the only reason I’m not in the Rock and Roll of Fame. And until they get their heads out of their ass, I’m more than happy to do what I do and do it with all the vim and vigor that I do it every night.”
