Monday night football

[DonsATV]

Gonna miss ole Hank Williams Jr. opening to Monday Night football!!


"BOSTON (Reuters) - ESPN pulled Hank Williams Jr.'s theme song from its "Monday Night Football" broadcast in a rebuke to the country music star for comments earlier in the day comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler."

http://www.myvictoriaonline.com/page...tentId=9085417

[1320Fastback]

Hopefully they'll replace him with some soft core porn or something like that.
Really could care less about music before football.

[binaryterror]

His son's response is the best and likely best way to put it:

Hank Williams Jr.'s son -- Hank Williams III -- doesn't think his father should have opened his mouth about Obama yesterday ... telling TMZ most musicians are "not worthy" of a political discussion

Why do people listen to or care what entertainers say about politics? Like Bono, who the hell cares...hes not American and not in touch with reality anyhow.

[JeremyH]

"comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler"

If you read his actual comment, that is a bit of a stretch to make that statement.....

[C*H*U*D]

Originally Posted by JeremyH

"comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler"

If you read his actual comment, that is a bit of a stretch to make that statement.....

Agreed. A bit of over-zealous ass covering on ESPN's behalf if you ask me.

I do agree with Hank Jr. on this though:

"When both sides are high-fiving it on the ninth hole, when everybody else is without a job -- it just makes a whole lot of us angry."

Maybe Obama should invite Hank Jr. to the White House for a beer.

[salmonshark]

Went and saw Hank3 last night. Show was EPIC!

SS

[opek]

Originally Posted by JeremyH

"comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler"

If you read his actual comment, that is a bit of a stretch to make that statement.....

Comparing doesn't mean someone explicitly says, "I compare x to y for the purposes of this discussion." But in this case he did.

Originally Posted by http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/10/04/espn-drops-hank-williams-jr-s-monday-night-football-song-over-obama-remarks/

Williams told Fox News news anchors on Fox & Friends that this summer's golf summit between Obama and House Speaker John Boehner was like "Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu." When asked to elaborate on his analogy, Williams called Obama and Vice President Joe Biden the enemy.

Fox's Gretchen Carlson later pressed him and said, "You used the name of one of the most hated people in all of the world to describe, I think, the president." Willaims replied, "Well that's true. But I'm telling you like it is."

[C*H*U*D]

Gretchen Carlson is wrong.

He's not comparing Obama to Hitler, he's comparing a golf game of Republicans and Democrats with a game between Hitler and Netanyahu. A very extreme analogy, but he could have easily said "A game between Grant and Lee" and meant the same thing.

[opek]

Originally Posted by C*H*U*D

Gretchen Carlson is wrong.

He's not comparing Obama to Hitler, he's comparing a golf game of Republicans and Democrats with a game between Hitler and Netanyahu. A very extreme analogy, but he could have easily said "A game between Grant and Lee" and meant the same thing.

Those are his words, not hers. Sure she asked an evocative and leading question, like she is supposed to, but she did ask!

[ClassicGMJunkie]

but then it would have been "racist" since it was Civil War era.

media people are such spineless pussies, that none of them have the nuts to say what they feel deep inside them. at least Hank did...

[JeremyH]

Originally Posted by opek

But in this case he did.

He was comparing the situation, not the people.

[Mt.Dew]

Originally Posted by JeremyH

He was comparing the situation, not the people.

You took the correct word's out of my mouth.

[CmdrZod]

Watch the actual interview and come to your own conclusion, because after I watched it, it almost sounded like Gretchen was putting words into Hanks mouth and when he was saying that its "True" I don't think that Hank heard her ask if he was comparing the president to Hitler.

Pay close attention at the 10sec from 3:03 to 3:13 and you will see what I mean.


With all that said I still agree with HankIII.

Who cares what entertainers think when it comes to politics!

[C*H*U*D]

Originally Posted by opek

Those are his words, not hers.

"You used the name of one of the most hated people in all of the world to describe, I think, the president." Willaims replied, "Well that's true. But I'm telling you like it is."

Her words were wrong, and after watching the interview I believe it's because she didn't understand the analogy.

Originally Posted by CmdrZod

..when he was saying that its "True" I don't think that Hank heard her ask if he was comparing the president to Hitler.

I think the lag also had a lot to do with it as well. I think ESPN just heard the name Hitler and freaked out.

[Duuuuuuuude]

Eye-candy news anchors should keep their mouths shut IMO. They say a lot of dumb shit.

[lowridinjuggalo]

Originally Posted by C*H*U*D

"You used the name of one of the most hated people in all of the world to describe, I think, the president." Willaims replied, "Well that's true. But I'm telling you like it is."

Her words were wrong, and after watching the interview I believe it's because she didn't understand the analogy.



I think the lag also had a lot to do with it as well. I think ESPN just heard the name Hitler and freaked out.

in the vid he did say "that's true" he was refering to hittler being one of the most hated name in the world at lest that what i get out of it