Posted on 10/03/2011 4:20:02 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
Hank Williams Jr. won't be ready for some football this Monday night.
ESPN bounced Williams' trademark opening "Are you ready for some football?" after the longtime voice of Monday Night Football's theme song, after he compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler.
"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," an ESPN spokesman wrote in an email to the Daily News.
"We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight's telecast."
The award-winning country singer made the controversial comparison in an interview on Fox and Friends Monday morning in a bizarre chat about politics.
Williams began his TV appearance by slamming the GOP presidential candidates and saying House Majority Leader John Boehner's golf game with Obama was a huge mistake.
"You remember the golf game they had? That was one of the biggest political mistakes ever. That turned a lot of people off. It just didn't go over," he said.
When asked what about the game he didn't like, Williams Jr. pointed to the participants.
"Come on, come on, that would be like Hitler playing golf with [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu," he said. "In the shape this country is in?"
When host Brian Kilmeade said he didn't understand the analogy, Williams Jr. replied "I'm glad you don't brother, because a lot of people do. They're the enemy... Obama! And Biden! Are you kidding? The Three Stooges."
It was not clear who the third stooge was in that analogy.
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But ABC owns ESPN, so he's still dealing with the Mickey Mouse network suits.
Are you ready for some Hitler?
Are you ready for some small mustache?
You got Goebbels, and Himmler, and Speer, running up a big ole bash!!
The whole house is rockin’, let’s get it kick started
Launch this thing, raise the roof, that’s right!!
All my antisemitic communist loving friends are here on Monday night!!!!
ESPN is okay with Tyson’s violent sex talk on its own radio network, but when Hank Jr. tells a joke about the Obamessiah on another network, they throw Bocephus under the bus.
Typical Disney crap. Walt must be turning 9,000 rpm in his grave about now.
Hank got it wrong; Obama ain’t a hitler. But his voters are just like hitler supporters. They’d be happy if he put conservatives in concentration camps and dealt out their assets.
I watched it on FNF this morning, he was making a comment about Obama golfing with Boener like Hitler playing with Netayahoo, yeah I know I am spelling his name wrong.
Basically the conversation was about supporting Cain of which hank said he did though they tried to paint him as a Palin supporter as well, Hank was a Palin supporter, still is but he decided to not to play their game.
This is indeed all about the truth being treasonous but more importantly its America turning into political prisoners because of the Obamination.
Hank Williams Jr. NEVER said Obama is Hitler, as usual the MSM and quite possibly a slew of trolls are making it up.
Break out the Geritol and All-Bran, the elderly Madonna will gracing the SB halftime stage this year.
Yawn. And Ewwww....
Football is under communist control.
Dammit, why don’t compare Obama to Joseph Stalin every once in a while?!
I wanted to throw up when I heard that song the first time. Joan Jett has more talent in her little finger than dopey-diva Faith has in her whole body.
“doubt he cares”
I agree. Little did they consider that their idea of punishing him just doubled his sales.
Every single member apparatchik in the communist in chiefs "Cabinet" will do.
In honor of this thread, I just purchased a couple of Hank Williams Jr. MP3s over on Amazon.
True, but they took it off the over-the-air channel so those of us who won’t pay for 200 channels of nothing to watch one channel on Monday night can’t watch. Maybe ESPN 3 will stream it. That’s what I watch college football on.
And yet the NFL is signing Madonna for this Super Bowls half-time show, a chick that bashed Bush and actually CALLED him Hitler directly.
Well, you have to remember we live in a country where you can not speak your mind and keep your job. Big brother will get you every time. Scary is it not!
Oh yea, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, two libs who love Obama. Screw em.
PennsylvainiaMom, I see your Ewwww, and raise you Madonna’s Bingo Wings!
Grandpa Simpson is going to soil hisself! EwwwX2!
I don’t usually watch the SuperBowl Half Time Show...has Brittany Spears done one yet, or is there a rule that says you’ve got to be 20 years removed from your heyday?
Not a fan of Ms Spears either...
Especially Stupid and Putrid Network
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”
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