You're allowed to have right of center views as a musician, just like you are allowed to have left of center views, not everyone needs to be Morrissey/Neil Young/Joan Baez. Musicians as diverse as Bryan Ferry (card-carrying Thatcherite), Alice Cooper, Ian Anderson (from left to right), Lynyrd Skynyrd/Herr Medlocke, Neil Peart (when he was still a card-carrying Ayn Rand'ist, that didn't make Rush a fascist outfit though) and Gene Simmons (who voted for Obama first time though, so there is still some good old Jewish East Coast liberalism in him) are/were right of center and that's fine. Not my political view, but it doesn't keep me from enjoying their music, I find none of them offensive.
Uncle Ted is different. He is not just right of center, he is an inane, offensive hate-language waffler. Way below the belt. What exactly is the political message of calling the current US President a "subhuman mongrel"? Ok, let's see, "subhumans" (Untermenschen) belong in the gas chamber, there is German expertise on that.
And a "mongrel" indicates that not being "racially" pure is somehow inferior, the KKK will be pleased, though they at least call Obama a "mulatto" which is probably above a "mongrel" in their and Ted's twisted worlds. So that is what he said (and later apologized for, but the issue is that he says shite like that all the time, his comments on a female Secretary of State were intolerable hate-language too).
Just goes to show what an idiot Ted has become. Further proof is his newest album - who except him would get Derek St. Holmes back on board, yet relegate the guy with the superior voice to just singing one song on the new album?