Hank Williams Jr. song removed from Monday night NFL game, Williams compared Obama to Hitler, Tea party demonized like Jews
Hank Williams Jr. song removed from Monday night NFL game, Williams compared Obama to Hitler, Tea party demonized like Jews
From the Chicago Tribune October 3, 2011.
“Hank Williams Jr. sacked for Obama-Hitler comparison”
“ESPN pulled Hank Williams Jr.’s intro song from its broadcast of Monday night’s NFL game after the country singer famous for the line “Are you ready for some football?” used an analogy to Adolf Hitler in discussing President Barack Obama.
In an interview Monday morning on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” Williams said of Obama’s outing on the links with House Speaker John Boehner: “It’d be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu.”
Asked to clarify, Williams said: “They’re the enemy,” adding that by “they” he meant Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.”
“”Every time the media brings up the tea party it’s painted as racist and extremists — but there’s never a backlash — no outrage to those comparisons,” Williams’ statement continued. “Working-class people are hurting — and it doesn’t seem like anybody cares. When both sides are high-fiving it on the ninth hole when everybody else is without a job — it makes a whole lot of us angry. Something has to change. The policies have to change.”
The song “All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night” is a remixed version of his 1984 hit “All My Rowdy Friends are Coming Over Tonight.” The version won Williams four Emmy Awards in the early 1990s as the opening theme to “Monday Night Football,” then on ABC.”
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Gee, why would Hank Williams Jr. compare Obama to Adolf Hitler?
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The Citizen Wells blog began reporting on the analogies between the Obama camp and Nazi Germany by mid 2008 when attacks on those questioning Obama and attempts to shut down opposing view sites were deja vu.
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