Posted on 10/03/2011 6:51:51 PM PDT by Justaham
Hank Williams Jr., the singer whose various videos for the hit song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Monday Night" has served as the intro to "Monday Night Football" for 23 seasons, compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler during a Monday morning appearance on "Fox and Friends." The statement led to ESPN pulling his popular intro segment, best known to fans for its "Are you ready for some football?" ending, for Monday night's game between the Indianapolis Colts and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
During a discussion on the 2012 presidential race, Williams began discussing Obama's golf outing with Speaker of the House John Boehner. He said it was a political mistake, on par with "Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu."
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You sir, like former Gov McGreevy are obviously a gay American! I could give a damn about Hank or Obama on this Monday night in America. Must we inject politics into everything? Go Tampa!
they can probably make a spur decision which will be reviewed by all concerned....if they are smart, and they are, they will reinterpret the entire conversation and reinstate Hank.
With’ya on this one. Da Bears and the Lions next Monday should be a real Roman circus!
I like the Monday Night Football song but who gives a damn who sings it!
I have Hank Jr CD’s and will continue to buy them.
Hank’s a goode olde boy and spoke from the heart on what he believes. BUT could have thought just a little bit before he spoke.
I say fire the bleached blond airhead.
OK. As his nation collapsed around him, Hitler made sure trains for military supplies and the evacuation of wounded had a lower priority than trains for the camps where he was slaughtering Jews and others who opposed him. As his nation collapses around him, Barry makes damn sure that abortion clinic funding have the highest priority and will not have their funding interrupted no matter what.
Sounds like the same guy in a different skin suit to me, he always puts the murder of millions ahead of everything else.
A restructured chorus for the song in question:
Are you ready for some FUBO
A political party
We’re all surfin’ with Freepers
Makin’ fun of the Kenyan
When the PrompTer’s broken
He never talks right
And all my rowdy Freepers
Kick a$$ Election Night!
We’re about to watch the federal government let old people die with Obamacareless.
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Kenyan.
“they can probably make a spur decision which will be reviewed by all concerned....if they are smart, and they are, they will reinterpret the entire conversation and reinstate Hank.”
That depends. If they find that Hank Jr adds value to the MNF NFL product they might bring him back.
If they find that Hank Jr. does not add value to the NFL product, they will not bring him back.
My guess is that he brings no added value to the NFL product and he is gone for good.
Williams did NOT compare Obama to Hitler. He used extreme hyperbole to illustrate the extreme polar opposites of Obama and Boehner.
Now we’ll be hearing from Geico...
Truth hurts, doesn’t it, Bammy??
Given the purported White House pressure on Ford to pull it’s anti-bailout commerial, it’s worth pondering whether there was any pressure put on the NFL and/or ESPN to fire Williams.
Hank Jr. has also stated he may run for US Senate in 2012.I’m tempted to vote for him just to help insure no more of these recycled POS’s in Tn. get reelected.
What if Williams had really gone wild and called Obama overrated?
Agreed. I liked E.D. much better!
...and the press wanted him to succeed because he was a black president?
If he said Bush was like Hitler, ESPN would’ve given him a raise in salary instead.
It was supposed to be STALIN.
("Uncle Joe" killed many, many more, and was a Red to boot).
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