Hank Williams, Jr. appeared on Fox and Friends this morning and seemed a bit off. When asked who Williams likes in the GOP field, Williams said “None of them.” He then went on to bring up the golf match between Speaker Boehner and President Obama. When asked to elaborate he said it would be like Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu. The entire segment can be seen here, but here’s the relevant part.
His comments didn’t go over well with ESPN.
The Hank Williams Jr. song that has opened Monday Night Football for 20 years will not be part of the opening of this week’s Indianapolis-Tampa Bay game after Williams made controversial comments about President Barack Obama.
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ESPN, in a statement, said: “While Hank Williams, Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize that he is closely linked to our company through the open to Monday Night Football. We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight’s telecast.”
Williams issued a statement through his publicist, saying: “Some of us have strong opinions and are often misunderstood. My analogy was extreme — but it was to make a point. I was simply trying to explain how stupid it seemed to me — how ludicrous that pairing was. They’re polar opposites and it made no sense. They don’t see eye-to-eye and never will. I have always respected the office of the president.” ….
ESPN is free to do as they please, but it’s interesting that they didn’t do anything about the ESPN affiliate that broadcast vile and offensive comments about Sarah Palin. I guess they find rape fantasies of Republican women more acceptable than Williams’s poorly-articulated comments.
Update: The Other McCain and Scared Monkeys linked – thanks!
Like he said dont ask the question if your not sure you will get the answer you want espesally form someone like HANK JR
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With Hank you never know what you are going to get!
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[...] stated by the Lonely Conservative, ESPN is certainly free to do what ever they wish; however, having one standard fit all might be a [...]
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While you may find it interesting “that they didn’t do anything about the ESPN affiliate that broadcast vile and offensive comments about Sarah Palin”, one should understand that Palin is not and never has been the people’s choice as President of the United States. And while you may not like it or may not understand it, Obama is OUR President and he was the people’s choice for the highest office in the country.
Obviously, ESPN’s mission statement is not endorsing or discouraging political figures. While they may on occasion, have issues with certain policies that effects them, sports in general, or the sports industries, they don’t serve as a political hack for any party. Granted, Williams isn’t a spokesman for ESPN but with his history of opening Monday Night Football, many viewers may construe him as such.
From an aside, I’ve never understood why Williams, known for encouraging violence, drug abuse and generally immoral behavior in his music, was embraced by the Palin campaign. That’s a double standard in itself. This is a guy that when not whiskey bent and hell bound, likes having women he never had.
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The difference is that Hank merely broke Godwin’s rule and that the ESPN hosts in question were advocating violent sex with women.
There was NO media outcry about the hosts comments, but I saw or heard at least a dozen clips on the news this morning about how Hank (IMO) made a bad analogy. He SHOULD have used Mahmoud Ahmadinejad instead of Hitler.
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If he had called for the execution of Bush and Cheney there would have been no problem. Azinger? Who is Paul Azinger? Anybody remember him? Oh he’s the guy who was shut up by ESPN for saying (probably truthfully) that he had played less golf and created more jobs than the Chosen One (Beloved Leader, Presidentisimo) Same-o, same-o.
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