Hank Williams dropped from MNF. WTF?

[Trip McNeely]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2011/10/ready-for-some-controversy-hank-williams-compares-golf-with-obama-to-hitler/1

What about all those comparisons of Bush to Hitler, no one blinked. This is such a crock of bullshit.

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

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By Michael Hiestand, USA TODAY
Updated 16m ago

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By John Raoux, AP

ESPN has dropped Hank Williams Jr. from opening Monday Night Football tonight after Williams' controversial comments Monday about President Obama.

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."

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.

[Txstang1]

Weaksauce, its was so far from the original version from years ago that I
really didn't even like it anymore. Although I am a Hank fan for sure !

[2165 Turbo Rail]

"Williams, perhaps best known for his "are you ready for some football?" lead-in to ESPN's Monday Night Football,"

um I don't think that is what he is best known for, but good try ESPN

[Trip McNeely]

Weaksauce, its was so far from the original version from years ago that I
really didn't even like it anymore. Although I am a Hank fan for sure !

Yeah I agree. The new abortion remix they have been doing as of late sucks ass, but the principle of the matter is bullshit.

[JP135]

Although I agree with his opinion, when you get paid to sing... SHUT UP AND SING.

[krazy kris]

what bullshit wtf does monday night football have to do with obuma
not a fucking thing

Williams for president

[Woods Racing Transmission]

what bullshit wtf does monday night football have to do with obuma
not a fucking thing

Bocephus for president

Fixed

[krazy kris]

Fixed

sig check

[Sean88gt]

He sang in Spanish last week. That bugged me.

[Trip McNeely]

What irks me is how so many lefty celebs have compared Bush to Hitler, and of course nothing happens to them.

[Woods Racing Transmission]

Thing is he wasn't comparing Obama to Hitler he was comparing the golf game between Boehner and Obama being as RIDICULOUS as a golf game between Hitler and Netanyahu.

[Up0n0ne]

Truth hurts and the puppets are being controlled everywhere we turn. Better for him anyway, NFL has sold out, they grope and feel you up before you enter a stadium just like the TSA at the airport. America has become a socialist police state and if you don't agree or speak out against the establishment (which is supposed to be our right to) well then they will do what they can to silence you.
Hank didn't play their tune, God Bless Hank! His record sales will probably go up a bit cause of this, so good for him.
If they never showed another NFL game, that would be fine by me.

[pHILSANITY07]

Although I agree with his opinion, when you get paid to sing... SHUT UP AND SING.

freedom of speech, I dont think he said anything more than most of us would say about Obama.

[line-em-up]

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I heard him say he'd like to spit some Beachnut in his eye and shoot him with his old .45.

[Bad A$$ Coupe]

"Williams, perhaps best known for his "are you ready for some football?" lead-in to ESPN's Monday Night Football,"

um I don't think that is what he is best known for, but good try ESPN

uhm yes, not everyone is into country, and im glad they cut his ass! Not that I am big fan of Obama, just that your getting paid to sing, STFU and sing! When you believe in something you better be ready to back it up all the way and if that means getting cut from the biggest gig you ever had so be it....