From 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.
Williams compared Obama to Adolf Hitler on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" show Monday morning.
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."
Williams, whose song "All My Rowdy Friends" has been the Monday Night Football theme on both ABC and ESPN since 1991, told "Fox and Friends" that he thought Speaker of the House John Boehner playing golf with President Obama "would be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu ... In the shape this country is in?"
Told by anchor Brian Kilmeade that he didn't understand the analogy, Williams said: "I'm glad you don't, brother, because a lot of people do. They're the enemy." Asked who, Williams said: "Obama. And Biden. Are you kidding? The Three Stooges."
http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7056003/espn-pulls-hank-williams-jr-ready-opening-mnf
Are you fricking kidding me? Williams Jr. did not say Obama was Hitkler and olny an idiot would think that way. But apparently, the people at ESPN and those complaining are a bunch of idiots.
Williams did not say that Obama was Hitler, though he did say that Obama was an enemy to John Boehner and that part is true. And Williams makes a very valid point that Obama and Boehner should not have played golf together. a lot of conservatives were and still pissed at Boehner for doing this, including myself.
For those interested in politics, conservatives are at war with liberal and liberals are war with comservatives. It may not be the right thing to do, but it is reality.
So, to the idiots at ESPN who are politically correct, which is no surprise since they actually employed Keith Olbermann before he lost 96% of his brain cells and became a raving lefty lunatic:
This is the link for the last MNF game he did that would have aired on Nov. 28, 2011, New Orleans vs the NY Giants
http://youtu.be/JSh7V6CC_Hc
Roseanne Barr can call for concentration camps and beheadings of the rich and still keeps her TV show but Williams makes a legitimate comment that the PC crowd (liberal and RINO) don't understand and he gets canned.
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