Posted: 4:47 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, 2013
Guaranteed split-screen: SOTU speech to feature Gabby Giffords, Ted Nugent as guests By Jim Galloway
Guns are certain to be a major topic of discussion at President Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday.
Gabby Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who was shot in the head during a 2011 mass shooting, will as a guest of U.S. Rep. Ron Barber, her former chief of staff.
In his address, Obama is all but certain mention the killing of 26 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and first lady Michelle Obama this weekend attended the Chicago funeral for a young girl felled by gunfire.
All of which has apparently led a Texas member of the U.S. House to offer up what he thinks may be a moral equivalent:
Musician and gun advocate Ted Nugent will be Congressman Steve Stockman’s guest at Tuesday evening’s State of the Union Address by President Barack Obama. Nugent will be available to speak to the media before and after the Address.
“I am excited to have a patriot like Ted Nugent joining me in the House Chamber to hear from President Obama,” said Stockman. “After the Address I’m sure Ted will have plenty to say.”
You can already see the split-screen featuring Giffords and Nugent. A reminder from 2012: Last April, the U.S. Secret Service reached out to the rocker after Nugent said this:
”If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will be either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”
What a strange place Washington has become.
Jim Galloway is a three-decade veteran of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who writes the Political Insider blog and column.
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