Ted Nugent in Hot Water Over Anti-Semitic Comments

Ted Nugent is no stranger to controversy, but this time it is members of the NRA and other gun-rights advocates taking him to task for a recent controversial Facebook post targeting Jewish people.

The Chicago Tribune and others reported the right-wing classic rock singer posted a photo on Facebook this week calling Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., “Jew York City Mayor Mikey Bloomberg,” former senator Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and others “punks” who would “deny us the basic human right to self defense and to keep and bear arms while many of them have paid hired armed security.” He said it is Jews who are “really behind gun control.”

The photo showed photos of the above mentioned politicians with an Israeli flag pasted on them.

Another photo was posted later depicting some Nazis rounding up Jews during the Holocaust, describing gun control advocated as “soulless sheep to slaughter.”

“What sort of racist prejudiced POS could possibly not know that Jews for gun control are Nazis in disguise?”

Now, some are calling Nugent too extreme to even serve on the board for the NRA, which has has done since 1995.

Bob Owens, editor for BearingArms.com, said many are calling for his resignation from the board and to have his membership stripped as well.

“They’re tired of feeling that they have to defend his half-baked rhetoric and simple-minded outbursts,” Owens wrote.

Facebook fans of Nugent were even more direct.

“I call total (expletive) b----- here,” one wrote. “I am a Jewish conservative gun owner. This is just (expletive) hate. I’ve always supported you, but (expletive) you Ted.”

more via the Chicago Tribune