Hank Williams Jr. dropped from ESPN, Monday Night Football for comparing Obama to Hitler.

[Anti Federalist]

ESPN drops Hank Williams Jr. from 'Monday Night Football'

By Michael Hiestand, USA TODAY
3 Oct. 2011
Updated 1h 57m ago

After ESPN dropped Hank Williams Jr. from opening Monday Night Football tonight after Williams' controversial comments Monday about President Obama, the singer now says he was "misunderstood."

Says ESPN, in a statement: "While Hank Williams Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize he is closely linked to our company through the opening to Monday Night Football. We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result have decided to pull the open from tonight's telecast."

Williams, perhaps best known for his "are you ready for some football?" lead-in to ESPN's Monday Night Football, Monday compared this summer's so-called golf summit between Obama and House Speaker John Boehner as "one of the biggest political mistakes ever."

As Williams put it on Fox News' Fox & Friends: "It would be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli leader) Benjamin Netanyahu."

When asked on Fox to explain his analogy, Williams said Obama and Vice President Biden are "the enemy."

In a statement Monday night, Williams says that with his comment about Obama and Boehner playing golf this summer he was "simply trying to show how stupid it seemed to me -- how ludicrous that pairing was." Williams says Boehner and Obama "are polar opposites and it made no sense. They don't see eye-to-eye and never will."

(Of course it makes no sense Hank, if you think that either one of these men are sincere. But they are not. It's all a show, it's as fake as pro wrestling. They can act out a drama of how they are fighting for their political lives and ideals, take off the silly uniforms and costumes and go chase hookers and blow after getting in quick nine at the local [no mundanes allowed] golf course while agreeing on the real business these sluts are engaged in:selling our nation down the river.. My god man, if you are thinking of running for Senate, understand that reality first - AF)

Although ESPN has a policy about its on-air personalities getting involved in politics, Williams has said he's interested in running as a Republican in 2012 for a U.S. Senate seat in Tennessee. (To watch video of Williams' Fox appearance, click here).

[libertybrewcity]

in the fox interview he sounded like he was on drugs or something.

[Anti Federalist]

in the fox interview he sounded like he was on drugs or something.

Maybe he was:

[specsaregood]

(Of course it makes no sense Hank, if you think that either one of these men are sincere. But they are not. It's all a show, it's as fake as pro wrestling. They can act out a drama of how they are fighting for their political lives and ideals, take off the silly uniforms and costumes and go chase hookers and blow after getting in quick nine at the local [no mundanes allowed] golf course while agreeing on the real business these sluts are engaged in:selling our nation down the river.. My god man, if you are thinking of running for Senate, understand that reality first - AF)

My god man, he is well aware of that reality. He just wants to join the party.

[Anti Federalist]

My god man, he is well aware of that reality. He just wants to join the party.

What was I thinking?

[Rothbardian Girl]

Thank goodness they dropped him. That song is horrible.

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[Nate-ForLiberty]

I thought they dropped him for that whiny chick a few years back.

[brushfire]

Ahhh Nothing wrong with Hank Jr.

Here's to Monday Nigh Bocephus!
http://www.buzzhumor.com/videos/3055...ey_As_Bocephus

[flightlesskiwi]

football on monday night!!!???!!??!!









srsly. Hank Williams III for Senate maybe, but not Hank Williams, Jr.

[Anti Federalist]

football on monday night!!!???!!??!!









srsly. Hank Williams III for Senate maybe, but not Hank Williams, Jr.

LoL that.

Hank 3 is an AJ fan IIRC.

[flightlesskiwi]

LoL that.

Hank 3 is an AJ fan IIRC.

[Son of Detroit]

Come on Hank, couldn't you have waited a couple weeks? I was looking forward to hear you sing before I watch my Lions play in their first Monday Night Football game since I was a little tyke. I was 6 years old the last time the Lions played on MNF in 1999!

I'm counting down the days until next Monday. Absolutely cannot wait.

[pcosmar]

LOL

Honey just said, "What the hell is he supposed to do, Apologize to Hitler?"

[AGRP]

lol @ him supporting Cain.

Is October brainwash with Cain month?

[BamaAla]

in the fox interview he sounded like he was on drugs or something.

That's just his personality. I've known the guy all my life; he's a strange fellow, but what you get on camera is what you get in real life.

[sparebulb]

Good for ol' Bo Ceph(yll)us. It is unfortunate that he seems to be a Fox News type of republican.

[CaptainAmerica]

I love hank williams,williams jr ,and williams the 3rd.

[Anti Federalist]

Jones on this story now on his show.

[TonySutton]

He will probably sell a ton of records due to the publicity he is getting for this. He was speaking to his listeners.

[MelissaCato]

Let me guess, Garth will replace him cause he's an Obama fan.

" Mr. Lincoln can you believe, how our Republics changed alot in a hundred years " " I don't think it's workin out like we planned " " ohhh we could use a hand " I like that song. Now that Hank Jr is pissed off, maybe he'll update America can Survive with Kid Rock !!!! YeeeeeHawwww FOREVER !!!

[timosman]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/09/12/were-you-ready-for-some-football-like-it-or-not-hank-williams-jr-is-back-on-monday-night-football/
http://archive.is/QTDbL

By Cindy Boren, September 12


^{Yep. It’s Hank Williams Jr. again on “Monday Night Football.” (Scott Clarke/ESPN Images)}

Six years after he and ESPN parted over his comparison of then-president Barack Obama to Hitler, Hank Williams Jr. was back on “Monday Night Football.”

Ready or not, the network decided that it was time to resurrect the “All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night” tune that, at its core, has always been synonymous with the network’s prime-time NFL game.

“ ‘Monday Night Football’ has the most famous music video in sports television. It’s time to bring it back,” Stephanie Druley, the network’s senior vice president for events and studio production, said when Williams’s return was announced in June. “The combination of Hank Williams Jr. with Florida Georgia Line and Jason Derulo will get fans excited and ready for kickoff every Monday night on ESPN this fall.”

Williams’s iconic intro song, a staple of the broadcast for more than 20 years, was shelved in October 2011 after Williams called the “golf summit” that summer between Obama and then-House speaker John A. Boehner “one of the biggest political mistakes ever” in a “Fox and Friends” interview and added: “It would be like Hitler playing golf with Benjamin Netanyahu.” Pressed to explain what he meant, Williams added, “They’re the enemy. . . . Obama. And [vice president Joe] Biden. Are you kidding? The Three Stooges.” He went on to say, “We’re more polarized than we’ve ever been, guys, and you know it. I’m not gonna sugarcoat it. We’re polarized!”

In removing Williams and his song immediately from the broadcast, ESPN said in a statement at the time that it was “extremely disappointed” in his comments. But times change and, with apologies to Carrie Underwood and “Sunday Night Football,” no song since has been instantly identifiable for the NFL. Despite the lag time between the announcement and the “MNF” kickoff, not everyone was pleased with Williams’s return.

But it was peppy and danged if it doesn’t shout “football!” regardless of whether you turn over some furniture during the game or just doze quietly in a Barcalounger. As Deadspin’s Dan McQuade wrote: “I do like his ‘MNF’ theme. It reminds me of being a football-obsessed kid. It reminds me that I should invite my rowdy (or possibly my mild-mannered friends) over for football on Monday nights. And I enjoy how the opening is often completely [expletive] bonkers.

Williams recorded the tune over the summer in Nashville and told the Tennessean at the time: “I never said, ‘Are you ready for some football’ on stage one time the last five or six years, but I will now. I’m feeling at home and it’s a real good thing. . . . It’s kind of like the Nashville Predators playing for the Stanley Cup, it’s like ‘Wow.’”

Hmmmm. You make the call.

[Raginfridus]

I remember this. The only blacks who gave a damn were on tv. It was a nonissue, probably concocted to boost Hank Jr's concert and album sales.

[Madison320]

Maybe ESPN is trying to make things even for keeping Jemele Hill after she called Trump a white supremacist.

Complaints of racism really annoy me because I know it's all about trying to get free stuff. Get rid of discrimination laws (and other things that force political correctness at gunpoint) and I might listen.

[Schifference]

Do you think they would boot him again if he compared Trump to Hitler?

[oyarde]

Hitler never fined anyone for not being able to afford health insurance .

[oyarde]

Do you think they would boot him again if he compared Trump to Hitler?

NO

[timosman]

Do you think they would boot him again if he compared Trump to Hitler?

Seems like you are unaware about the changes. Comparing POTUS to Hitler is OK now.

[Madison320]

Do you think they would boot him again if he compared Trump to Hitler?

No and it was proven last week.

ESPN’s Jemele Hill stands by her statement that Trump is a white supremacist

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...=.920d058e2c45

[Raginfridus]

To be fair to Hitler, he wasn't a white supremacist, he was a nationalist. Its hard for racially charged Americans to comprehend, but the Germanic ethnos doesn't belong huwite people - only to Germans. In a word: Nationalism.

To be fair to Hill, she never tweeted that Trump's Hitler, that I saw, and the WH needs to $#@! off about asking for apologies. Who needs to give a $#@! what a sports commentator tweets or says? Out of all the outrageous $#@!, why make a scapegoat out of her? As seen with Hank Jr, firing somebody over their opinions always backfires.

[Anti Federalist]

In a statement Monday night, Williams says that with his comment about Obama and Boehner playing golf this summer he was "simply trying to show how stupid it seemed to me -- how ludicrous that pairing was." Williams says Boehner and Obama "are polar opposites and it made no sense. They don't see eye-to-eye and never will."

(Of course it makes no sense Hank, if you think that either one of these men are sincere. But they are not. It's all a show, it's as fake as pro wrestling. They can act out a drama of how they are fighting for their political lives and ideals, take off the silly uniforms and costumes and go chase hookers and blow after getting in a quick nine at the local [no mundanes allowed] golf course, while agreeing on the real business these sluts are engaged in: selling our nation down the river. My god man, if you are thinking of running for Senate, understand that reality first - AF)

Although ESPN has a policy about its on-air personalities getting involved in politics, Williams has said he's interested in running as a Republican in 2012 for a U.S. Senate seat in Tennessee. (To watch video of Williams' Fox appearance, click here).

If Bocephus had any sense, he'd tell everybody in the NFL to $#@! themselves sideways and walk off.