President Barack Obama is in full swing campaigning for re-election. At a fundraiser event on Tuesday in Dallas, the president predicted he’d win again although an ABC/Washington Post poll suggests the majority thinks he’ll be a one-term president.
Whatever the case may be, it should come as no surprise that opponents, critics and the like will continue taking even more jabs at him. The most notably recent one comes from country singer Hank Williams Jr., who compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler on Monday morning’s Fox and Friends, calling the president and Vice President Joe Biden “the enemy” and commenting that House Speaker John Boehner and the president’s golf game was like “Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu”.
As a result of his comments, however, ESPN pulled his track, “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight”, which was recreated and served as the opening to Monday Night Football since 1991, from Monday’s game. The network issued the following in a statement:
“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, in turn, issued a statement of his own:
“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.”
Yeah Hank, sure….
I know HMMMM because his statement is what he should have said in the first place. ” He also went on to say after comparing the president to Hitler that they were “The Three Stooges” and backed it up with more trash. Now all of sudden he wants to apologize and try and change his words to reedem his ESPN check. Naw, “Junior” that ain’t gonna work. Keep it Real you showed the country your true feelings on that network Monday night.
dont get mad hank because you dont want to pay taxes!
Obama is a good man, I just hate how white people and wannabe whites try to bash him.
Hitler was a murderer, a criminal, how is the a comparison between the two?
Aren’t you the same idiot that rants about how you only date white men? Now when the topic switches to Obama, you’re speaking about white people “bashing hin” lol? Does that include the white men that you’ve dealt with? The vast majority of Germans thought that Hitler was a “good man” as well” during the 1930′s and 1940′s. Obama has killed millions more people in the Middle East than the amount of white jews that Hitler is alleged to have killed. All American presidents are warmongers and murderers.
Really Hank, really? You need more people!!!! Racist ass, redneck. These people are the ones who are the most annoying and then they try to justify their damn statements.
is it hateful to say that i can’t wait until these kind of people…regardless of skin tone…need to hurry up and be extinct from the world…he is clearly a racist with no knowledge of anything that doesn’t look or sound like him.
Most people should just stick to what they know best; Hank you sounded like an ignorant ass. I’m glad they yank you from Monday Night Football; you are an embarrassment.
fox news never ceases to amaze me…they knew this man’s thought and they let him on anyway. Fox news is the most racist network there is.
I agree they are, but in all fairness to the hosts of the show, they were just as disturbed when he said. I mean their faces (especially the two men) just showed utter disgust and embarrassment.
That dude was so coked up during that interview. High as a kite.
I’m sick of people saying any disrespectful thing they want to say and then issuing a half-ass apology. I’m starting to think freedom of speech is overrated and should be a privilege only to those who have something intelligent to say. I’m not saying I only want to hear good things about the president, but if I hear another comparison to a murderer, terrorist, or monkey, I’m going to lose it!! Treat interviews like the Superbowl after the Janet Jackson titty event.We need a 1 minute pause on every interview and if anything disrespectful is said, they should pull the plug on the interview!!
Are we really surprised that this happened on Fox News. They are racist as hell and so is America. Its funny how whites look at the president like he’s the worst thing that ever happened in this country when they enslaved HUMAN BEINGS right on U.S. soil. Slavery was the biggest crime ever commited in U.S. history. Not President Obama.
In America people are allegedly allowed to say how they feel. Contrary to what most misinformed, uninformed, and overly emotional black people may think, the vast majority of white people feel this way about Obama….and so do the so-called black people who understand how being “president” works. He was put in office to be the face of the sinking ship called America in the first place. I have no problem with a man that speaks his piece. I’d rather know how and where a person stands than have it be like most of these regular white people who smile and claim to not be racist but refer to black people as “n*ggers” at the dinner table. Those are the ones with the shotguns in their basement for when all hell breaks loose out here. The fact that this devil lost his football song over stating his opinion is only indicative of how fascist America truly is.
I don’t know Judah its not just him because freedom of speech does not really mean freedom of speech. A freind of mine lost his job for telling his boss how much he hated him. Was it right? Should he have gotten fired? Did he express himself with “freedom of speech”? So should junior have lost his slot on Monday night foootball? I loved that intro too (Are your ready for some football), to bad I’m going to miss it. lol
What is that guy even doing on television? Is that even journalism? Asking countrysingers questions about politics? Who is he by the way?
PREACH!!!!!!!
It was a metaphor, but since you failed 2nd grade English, you would not know about it.
Where was all this wonderful concern after eight years of direct comparisons – the thousands of “Bush=Hitler” ads and “Kill Bush” posters all from folks just like you.
Even MoveOn had one!
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=612
http://semiskimmed.net/bushhitler.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107426,00.html
morons.