Broadcast Sports Declares Robust Debate Out Of Bounds

http://www.webcommentary.com/php/ShowArticle.php?id=meekinsf&date=111004 ^ | 10/5/2011 | Frederick Meekins

[Morgana]

It seems that the only stereotypical male behavior broadcast sports won't put up with is free thought and the speaking of one's mind.

For example, Hank Williams Jr. --- a number of whose own songs revel proudly in bawdy behavior such as boozing and smoking --- has been removed from the opening sequence of Monday Night Football for comparing Obama to Hitler.

This reprisal will certainly go a long way in laying to rest the old canard about Jews controlling the media.

In a number of ways, Obama is like Hitler.

Both men would have liked to have seen the nation of Israel removed from history and not above forming alliances with fanatic Muslims in order to do it.

Both men undermined the value of the individual in the name of the COMMUNITY.

Both of these men exerted the coercive power of government to curb free expression. Need one remind of the Administration's pressure applied against the Ford Motor Company to pull an ad referencing the auto bailout stimulus?

It's just that Hitler was more decisive in implementing his agenda.

Regarding his remarks, Williams assures he has always respected the office of the President.

And what if he didn't?

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"comparing Obama to Hitler"

Only he didn't compare Obama to Hitler.

He was merely making a hamfisted analogy: A is to B as C is to D.

He could just as easily have said expecting Obama and Boehner to come together is like expecting Netanyahu and Hitler to come together.

Besides Obama is much worse than Hitler. Obama is a liberal progressive socialistic communistic fascistic totalitarian gun-grabbing drug-taking pro-abortion homosexual islamic antisemitic pedophile.

Hitler was just a liberal progressive socialistic fascistic totalitarian gun-grabbing drug-taking pro-abortion homosexual islamic antisemitic pedophile.

/sarc

[Parley Baer]

“Only he didn’t compare Obama to Hitler.

He was merely making a hamfisted analogy: A is to B as C is to D.”

Right on, that is exactly what happend.

[Batrachian]

Although many athletes are the most foul mouthed and licentious of people, not to mention outright criminals, sports continues to be an incredibly politically correct institution. Any institution where so many blacks are represented would resent such comments about Obama. Look what happened about Limbaugh's very mild comments on Donovan McNabb. This is nothing new.

As an aside, the Obama/Hitler analogy is ridiculous, except that both are objects of intense hatred. I compare Obama more to Putin or Chavez than to any one else.