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In denton, texas, to introduce the next governor that will make sure america knows what freedom looks like and it looks like greg abbott. my friend, greg abbott. >> my friend. ted nugent may be proud two sharing the stage with his friend, greg abbott. abbott's campaign isn't so sure. with local news leading with abbott's decision to campaign with nugent, abbott told reporters he was unaware of new gent's past comments and the abbott campaign said in a statement that "while nugent may sometimes say things or use language that greg abbott would not endorse or agree with, we appreciate the suppor...

And then the suspension was then whittled down to about zero days. >> so did a&e bow to pressure? >> i don't think there's any question about it. i mean, a&e didn't have to suspend phil robertson, some people agreed with what he said. certainly the show's fans thinking that he's expressing his religious views and basing on the bible. a lot of other people were offended by the language he used. but a&e could have put out a statement distancing itself saying we've talked to phil robertson, he regrets what he said but phil didn't want to go along. but then to do a 180 because this is the most luc...

Still, he maintained the comment had no racial undertones. >> no, not at all. it wasn't meant that way. like i said before, i was caught off guard and what seemed to be a funny question and trying to give a funny answer that came out totally wrong and, you know, i want to make sure that, you know, everybody knows i'm very, very sorry. i can't apologize enough times. >> reporter: the incident is reminiscent of 1997 comments made by two-time major winner fuzzy zoeller who referred to then 21-year-old woods as a little boy, then asked that at the champions dinner after woods' first masters victor...

He repudiates that line of attack. the super pac in question released a statement distancing itself from any such strategy saying the man who allegedly authored it and oversay the, joe rickets did nothing of the sort and didn't plan on accepting it. so is this a strategy or isn't it and is it a wise one. joining me now fox news contributor jason riley. the "new york times" talks about -- it would be a huge ad buy, the proposal talks about a five-minute film talking about president obama's relationship to reverand wright. now that it's been out the group is saying no, no, no, no, no. but a lot ...

>> they are. we have known this, tea party patriots have none about this since september of last year putting out a statement distancing ourselves from that entire organization because they would not distance themselves from him. and just last week, amy said she would not throw a fellow conservative under the bus talking about mark williams. if that happened in our organization with one of our national coordinators, they would be out and it would be on public record, that we would not tolerate that. we're in the going to do that. >> does your organization condemn that organization? >> we do. t...