Country music superstar Hank Williams Jr. has gotten into hot water over his recent comment comparing the Barack Obama-John Boehner golf game to friendly game between Adolf Hitler and Benjamin Netanyahu. Last night, ESPN pulled his introductory song from its football broadcast, a staple of the program for 20 years. The entertainer is not exactly backing down, but the website TMZ.com quotes Hank as 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.
Every time the media brings up the tea party it’s painted as racist and extremists – but there’s never a backlash – no outrage to those comparisons…Working class people are hurting – and it doesn’t seem like anybody cares. When both sides are high-fiving it on the ninth hole when everybody else is without a job – it makes a whole lot of us angry. Something has to change. The policies have to change.
Good for Hank for pointing out the double standard. The day a Hollywood actress, stuffed-shirt academic, or NPR chatterer loses a job for demeaning the 90 percent of Americans who do not share their views, ESPN’s actions may seem a bit less asymmetrical.
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Your analogy was no more extreme than that used by the democrats. Please no apology needed. You said what you felt and that is, I hope, still one of our freedoms in this country.
Actually I think he said it best!!! I am so sick and tired of politically "correct" – believe it is and was intended to curb free speech, which Hank Williams had a right to say.
It's only "Politically Correct" if you are in the Federal Govt. Anyone else doesn't count…or haven't you noticed?
Liberals are misunderstood all the time
A) The Gov. of N.C. with her suggestion to suspend elections.
B) Eric Holder misunderstood the question on "Fast and Furious"
etc. etc. etc.
There's a difference between being misunderstood and bald faced lies like obama, holder and many of the socialist who now control what was once the democratic party
Yeah, that's why Holder is in HOT doo doo, because he misunderstood what he was doing…duh. Now people are going after him because they need someone to blame it on — can't blame it on bho, right? Wrong! Let's get rid of ALL the dishonest, lying S.O.B.s in this govt., starting at the top and working on down. Then, and only then, this country will have a chance. Dishonest people are crawling out from under rocks everywhere. If you see one, feel free to step on it before it breeds with another one!!
I'm with Hank, we need more honest communicators like Hank Williams. We are in the trouble we are in because of DISHONESTY. We need more passion rather than mambee pambee politics. Call it as you see it, we are suppose to be a country of free speech.
If you study Hitler, you will see that Hank was not off base.
Hey sweetheart, don't know what country you are talking about, but the only "Politics" going on here are definitely NOT "mambee pambee" but instead FULL BLOWN CORRUPTION FROM A LEAGUE OF THUGS WITH BHO AT THE LEAD. What they are doing to our Nation is inexcusable…they need to be brought to trial, prosecuted, and jailed on an island in the Bermuda Triangle. These are nasty, narcisstic criminals only bent to get your money and every other American's money and spread it all around to their thug gang of supporters. Nothing so innocent as mambee pambee…try malevolent racketeering criminals — but, of course, they would prefer your definition because they want Americans to think they are non-threatening while they reach into your savings and steal that last $100.00 you worked hard to save. Get educated. Get Smart! Know who bho is and Impeach him NOW, along with Holder, etc. and all bho's thugs!!
Dear W.W.. When I refer to Mambee Pambee, I am speaking to the fact that we talk politically correct, rather than calling it for what it is. I think you misunderstood me. I agree with what you are saying. I am not the enemy, we are from the same camp. And, by the way WW, I am educated in what is going on…I know who this guy is, who put him in, why, and what is coming next. Sweetheart with a brain
Bara'ck Hussein Obama golfing with Boehner is akin
to Hitler and Bibi Netanyahu on an odd beer summit..
Should I be fired for using that analogy? ESPN must
be made to pay for their political correct persecution..
The leftist dem cult of lib/soc/commie fruitcakes are
in dire need of " Wall to wall counseling."
Politically Correct speech is always a LIE!
So called Progressives want to change everything about America including what Americans think and say. They LIE~all of the time and want you to "watch what you say" because it may expose their terrorist tactic to destroy the freedom of Americas first amendment, and 2nd, and 3rd, and 4th, etc,etc,etc!
UP is still UP, Down is still DOWN no matter what the left want Americans to believe.
Time to give up PC pandering because it's nothing more than submitting to the control tactics of the Demons in the Democrat party…..Leave PC to the democrats and the daily news, they are the masters of it.
Hank you need make NO APOLOGY to REAL AMERICANS! GO HANK, we LOVE YOU! YOU MAKE YOUR DADDY PROUD TOO, I BET!
this is not the first time the nfl has done this to a conservative, they also did it to Rush Limbaugh a few years back when he made a statement about a black quarterback & you can bet your last dollar that the white house is behind this.
No apology necessary Hank!!!!! I understood exactly what you meant. Liberals always use the tactic of acting "horrified" and "offended" by anything a conservative says to mischaracterize them.
It figures that ESPN would pull Hank from the show… The liberal media is protecting and supporting the Dems constantly pushing the Commie Political Correct theme. Give Em Hell Hank!
Not a darn thing wrong with Hanks statement. Democrats can dish it out, but they can't take it, so they have to lie about everything, & play the blame game.
I just wrote ESPN a comment about Commie Political Correctness.
Ole Hank can also lie with the best of 'em. I watched the video and it didn't appear to me that he was making the point that the comparison was stupid. I don't know why he should apologize or attempt to gloss over his comment – I'm sure he doesn't really need the Monday Night Football gig. In my opinion, he didn't go far enough. Many others could have been included in the comparison such as Nero, Caligula, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez and on and on and on.
It's alright Hank, at least you didn't have to clean up the hairballs they spit up on FOX…..and you get to go back to ESPN, thanks to your fans.
I see no reason for excuses and the explanation holds water but I disagree with Hank’s thought. Obama and Boehner are two of a kind. In DC the peasants must remain peasants after all none of us are qualified to fill their shoes we have “nowhere else to go” and should be thankful for their presents.
The real idiots are you and me, joe public.
Ten million, 20 million, 30 million, 40 million… Hello Sharia flag, for English please press 2!
http://www.reformdc.com
P.S. Did you vote this week at “you cut”? http://majorityleader.gov/YouCut/
Your comments were not misunderstood, they were right on target. Nobody of any intelligence read anything into your statement but how absurd that golf outing truly was. But in case ya'll haven't noticed – no one, but no one is allowed to say anything against this Dictator or his establishment without repercussions, meaning it will cost you your job or livelyhood, your freedom, or your life! These olgliarch's in the whitehouse have ressurected Joseph Stalin and he's now leading afternoon prayer in the Oval Office. Welcome to Orwell's1984 and Fritz Lang's Metropolis! God help us, as it seems our congress won't!
To Hank, turn this crap around on em, sue the panties off em for finanical damages and criminal conspiricy to deprive you of your civil rights! Your right to free speech and to critisize the government without fear of intimidation or reprisal. Get them fockers! I for one am putting an antenna back on the house. Screw ESPN and all those other commie network sympathizers.
I believe Hank is innocent of the charge of calling Obama "Hitler". He didn't say that. He just compared the ridiculousness of the 2 "politicians" playing golf together when their political ideas are so far apart. In fact, Hank was mistaken. Obama isn't Hitler Jr. He is more like Musalini (sp?)…..he is a fascist. Hard to tell what Boehner really is.
“PC” run a muck again. Only the emotional damaged or diversity coordinators thought the analogy was inappropriate. Heaven help us all. http://www.thedailyaccount.com
Shame on ESPN for trying to stop Freedom of Speech! I do not like what the women on the View say, but I will fight to the death for their right to say it and ESPN should feel the same way about what Hank
Williams, Jr.
Thank you Hank for having the guts to say it when so many people are thinking it, but are too afraid to say it. Although, I call him 'fuhrer', every chance I get, since he was elected. The liberal/regressives don't like it but who cares. I don't think it's nearly as bad as calling black conservatives men 'uncle tom' or calling tea partiers 'terrorist' and 'barbarians'.