# Rocker Ted Nugent threatens to assassinate President Obama

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**Created:** [April 17, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocker-ted-nugent-threatens-to-assassinate-president-obama/619089 "2012-04-17T22:36:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocker-ted-nugent-threatens-to-assassinate-president-obama/619089/128 "2012-04-18T18:38:41Z")

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> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> Hint: it’s what mob extortionists rely on when they say “nice house… be a real shame if something happened to it” instead of “nice house… if you don’t pay me I’m going to come back and commit arson!”

We interrupt this thread to bring you one of my favorite stories on the Dope.

> [@Things that are funny to absolutely no one on this planet besides you](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-funny-to-absolutely-no-one-on-this-planet-besides-you/343242/36):
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> “That’s a really nice shirt . . . it’d be a shame if something happened to it.”
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> (Long, slow beat while my husband, who just got home in his nice shirt and is about to _cook something,_ processes what I just said, and comes up with:)
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> “Are you threatening my shirt?”

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