ESPN pulls Williams from MNF opening

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The Hank Williams Jr. song that has opened Monday Night Football for 20 years was not 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?”
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Video of his remarks:
**Hank Williams Jr. Compares Obama to Hitler.- Fox & Friends - 10/3/11 **

Say what you will about President Obama, comparing him to Hitler is beyond the pale.
OTOH, why do we solicit musicians’ opinions at all?
 
didymus said:
ESPN:

Video of his remarks:
**Hank Williams Jr. Compares Obama to Hitler.- Fox & Friends - 10/3/11 **

Say what you will about President Obama, comparing him to Hitler is beyond the pale.
OTOH, why do we solicit musicians’ opinions at all?
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He didn’t compare Obama to Hitler. He compared the situation of Obama and Beohner golfing to Hitler and Netanyahu golfing. I guess Beohner should be offended at being compared to Netanyahu? He said the two are ideologically apart and incapable of compromising on fundamental issues and that a golf outing wouldn’t solve anything.
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
He didn’t compare Obama to Hitler. He compared the situation of Obama and Beohner golfing to Hitler and Netanyahu golfing. I guess Beohner should be offended at being compared to Netanyahu? He said the two are ideologically apart and incapable of compromising on fundamental issues and that a golf outing wouldn’t solve anything.
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Right on! Seems like only SOME want to make BO the “Hitler” of the remark. There were some on the Democrat side who said some nasty things about Boehner…maybe they think he is the “Hitler” of the comparison. Ah, …well,…no. We KNOW BO would NEVER allow himself to be compared to Netanyahu!
 
Hate to break it to ESPN but you can’t replace Hank in the MNF opening. It’s been tried and nobody knows how to rock it like he does. They will eventually put him back on.

I did watch his segment and agree with what Scott and Sam said.

BTW, are we so timid and afraid that we can’t even state our own opinion on how we feel about our government without fear of retribution?
 
Sabda said:
BTW, are we so timid and afraid that we can’t even state our own opinion on how we feel about our government without fear of retribution?
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Ford Motor Company can’t even run ads where people state why they bought a Ford car without getting phone calls from the Whitehouse.

communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/prudent-man/2011/oct/2/obama-administration-censors-ford-ad/
The ad under discussion features featured Chris, a Ford customer who states that one of the reasons he purchased a Ford was that Ford—unlike GM and Chrysler—hadn’t been bailed out by the Feds.
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Have you driven a Ford lately?
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The ad had already generated some minor carping. Ford, after all, while it wasn’t exactly bailed out by the Feds, did accept advantageous Federal loans to help it over its own liquidity issues. Pointing this out, Jonathan Oosting at mlive.com notes:
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“The ad came under fire earlier this month when various media outlets began to point out Ford’s apparent hypocrisy, noting that while the automaker did not receive a government bailout, CEO Alan Mulally urged Congress to aid the industry and accepted various federal loans.”
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But Ford kept running the commercial.
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Until that call from the White House. Not long after, Ford precipitously yanked the commercial. The company went further, pulling the ad from a number of web sites where it was posted, creating the Soviet-style impression that the ad had never existed.
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Sabda said:
I did watch his segment and agree with what Scott and Sam said.

BTW, are we so timid and afraid that we can’t even state our own opinion on how we feel about our government without fear of retribution?
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Agreed.
I also watched it.

And cringed with every word.
He seemed a good example of someone that should stick with what he is good at and leave the realm of politics to others.
 
Sabda said:
Hate to break it to ESPN but you can’t replace Hank in the MNF opening. It’s been tried and nobody knows how to rock it like he does. They will eventually put him back on.

I did watch his segment and agree with what Scott and Sam said.

BTW, are we so timid and afraid that we can’t even state our own opinion on how we feel about our government without fear of retribution?
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BINGO about your ‘BTW’! This is political correctness at its worst.

Another reason that BO needs to get ‘the boot’ next year!
 
vz71 said:
Agreed.
I also watched it.

And cringed with every word.
He seemed a good example of someone that should stick with what he is good at and leave the realm of politics to others.
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I guess the key here is if you don’t want to know what Hank William Jr is thinking don’t ask him.
 
SamH said:
I guess the key here is if you don’t want to know what Hank William Jr is thinking don’t ask him.
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Lucky for them Whoppi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell never say anything controversial. Their careers in all the unbiased media outlets would be over.😃
 
Given what the Republican party is often compared too wouldn’t Obama be the Jew in this odd couple of golf?
 
Comparing someone to Hitler really isn’t a good thing. Good on MNF

And now for controversy; country music? I think I prefer the rock music at hockey games
 
Gift_from_God said:
Comparing someone to Hitler really isn’t a good thing. Good on MNF

And now for controversy; country music? I think I prefer the rock music at hockey games
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He didn’t “compare” anyone to Hitler. Read the thread. As President Obama would say, Monday Night Football acted stupidly.
 
It was pretty obvious to most people with any common sense at all what Williams was saying.
But common sense is pretty rare in our Age of Stupidity, so that is why Williams was pulled.
 
Ok, you know why he got canned, back when Bush was in office, everyone compared him to Hitler, and it was praised, and approved. Now that its Obama in, everyone gets canned and could be arrested. It’s the times. they shut you up whenever Obama is bad mouthed, and yet it is still encouraged to blame Bush. I don’t necessarily agree with what Williams said, but c’mon man! Not cool America!
 
schrale13 said:
Ok, you know why he got canned, back when Bush was in office, everyone compared him to Hitler, and it was praised, and approved. Now that its Obama in, everyone gets canned and could be arrested. It’s the times. they shut you up whenever Obama is bad mouthed, and yet it is still encouraged to blame Bush. I don’t necessarily agree with what Williams said, but c’mon man! Not cool America!
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youtube.com/watch?v=u19KHbTJEOk

“Mr. Bush, you are a liar and a fascist! And your minions like John Boehner, your Republican congressional crash dummies…”
 
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