"My God, look how sensitive these people are! I didn't say a word bashing lesbians, gays, trans people, or people of color, and look how 'the media' reacts ... calling me all these names ... apparently everything a guy like me says is homophobic, racist, etc".
This is his game, and the game of many who think like him. He planned this out, and the author of the article did exactly what the asshole was fishing for.
IMHO it's better to ridicule these pathetic attempts to tweak our sensibilities with their 'straddling the line of offensive' bullshit, as he was clearly doing here.
That's what I'd call 'operating from a position of strength'.
Coming across like we're horrendously offended by everything some jackass like Nugent says? Not a position of strength.
S'what I'm getting at, perhaps clumsily 
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