Presto Agitato: Are You Ready for Some Bullshit?

October 04, 2011

Are You Ready for Some Bullshit?

ESPN pulled Hank Williams Jr.'s classic 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, unprompted, 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.’…

‘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”’, the network said in a statement. ‘We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight's telecast.’

Do you suppose they would have pulled him if he'd said the same about George W. Bush? The question answers itself.

(But ‘disappointed’? ‘Extremely’, even? Try a mirror, jackasses, and do please stuff the PC bullshit.)

Update: The 2012 SuperBowl Half Time entertainment has used the Hitler analogy against GWB, but (unlike Hank Jr's comment) apparently seriously. (Well, she thought she was being serious.) No word of any demands for an apology….

Posted by Mike at 11:04 AM in Music, Politics & Courts | Permalink

Comments

Frankly, I was disappointed that he hauled out that over-used chestnut. Surely he could have come up with something both more creative AND more offensive?

Posted by: Omnibus Driver | October 05, 2011 at 07:32 AM

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