Hank Williams intro pulled from MNF because of Obama comments

[bittermann]

Who gives a f*ck about what that greasy, hairy ape alcoholic thinks? Singers/entertainers getting involved in politics are only good for a laughs anyway....

 

[UberNeuman]

If you ask a drunk Country & Western, good ole boy, a question about politics, expect him to tell you! If you dont want to hear it, dont ask! This is real America where we dont apolagized for being an American. If people cant handle the truth, they should crawl back into their communist hell hole.

It's free speech - only when you like it....

 

[NesuD]

Looks to me like he was just trying to illustrate the width of the divide between the President's and the Speaker's positions. That said I don't think he could have used a poorer analogy or fumbled that one any worse than he did. I mean really That is a Bidenesque faux paux of the first order. Watch out Joe Hank Jr is out to steal your thunder LOL! Seriouisly though I hope he doesn't embarass himself by actually running for that senate seat in Tenn.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Looks to me like he was just trying to illustrate the width of the divide between the President's and the Speaker's positions. That said I don't think he could have used a poorer analogy or fumbled that one any worse than he did. I mean really That is a Bidenesque faux paux of the first order. Watch out Joe Hank Jr is out to steal your thunder LOL! Seriouisly though I hope he doesn't embarass himself by actually running for that senate seat in Tenn.

This.

 

[TheSlamma]

Good 'ole Hank. Telling it like it is. Yes brother, all mah rowdy friends are standing right next to you in support.

Telling it like it is huh... do you know how idiotic republicans look to historians every day? It's amazing the way current figures are compared to people like Stalin and Hitler by people who have absolutely ZERO clue on who these people were. All you have to do is read some books and you might get the fact that Hitler had a complete hatred for democrats and communists. Why do you think the Social Democrat Party "SPD" was dissolved? Why do you think Hitler double crossed Stalin and invaded? Do you n00bs convince yourself it was for the oil in the Caucasus and that was it?

It's too bad your incredible knowledge of Cisco doesn't translate to history knowledge, this would be like comparing OSPF to BGP.. actually that isn't different enough, like comparing OSPF to load *.* ,8,1 they have NOTHING in common.

 

[CitizenKain]

If you ask a drunk Country & Western, good ole boy, a question about politics, expect him to tell you! If you dont want to hear it, dont ask! This is real America where we dont apolagized for being an American. If people cant handle the truth, they should crawl back into their communist hell hole.

I guess worthless white trash sticks together.

 

[Nintendesert]

Those comparisons were asinine! Hitler was a brilliant orator and a decorated combat veteran. Bush was neither.

Both started hugely expensive and unnecessary wars, though. But Hitler was far more honest about his motivations: Lebensraum! Deutschland Uber Alles!

And so you support Hank Williams Jr. since good ole Obama has expanded on Bushtler's wars right? Obitler!

 

[Thump553]

He must be following the Gilbert Godfrey career path of throwing away the single source of your money in one brainless stupid moment.

 

[werepossum]

He must be following the Gilbert Godfrey career path of throwing away the single source of your money in one brainless stupid moment.

LOL I don't think MNF is the "single source" of Williams' money. He's had a bazillion hits and his fan base isn't likely to have a problem with this analogy.

I understand the point he was trying to make, and I understand MNF dropping his song. You don't use Hitler as analogous to the President, no matter whom that might be at the moment and how you feel about him. Hell, even those on the left can't get away with that indefinitely. Even progressive darling Keith Olbermann has lost a couple of sports jobs for his toxicity.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Yep. Good luck getting any sanity going...

We won't mention all of the Bush/Hitler comparisons, since no one cared about them...

Bush who????????????????

 

[thegimp03]

I heard it on the radio this morning, he sounded drunk.

 

[HomerJS]

Dang it, Hank. Stop trying to fool all of us into thinking Obama is the modern day Hitler.



We already know he is in fact the Anti-Christ.

Priceless! You know all those morons can't decide.

 

[rudder]

Nothing like a good distraction to keep attention off obama's presidency.

 

[Mr. Lennon]

LOL you know when you've gone off the deep end when even fox interviewers think you are insane.

 

[rudder]

Looks to me like he was just trying to illustrate the width of the divide between the President's and the Speaker's positions. That said I don't think he could have used a poorer analogy or fumbled that one any worse than he did. I mean really That is a Bidenesque faux paux of the first order. Watch out Joe Hank Jr is out to steal your thunder LOL! Seriouisly though I hope he doesn't embarass himself by actually running for that senate seat in Tenn.

Boehner playing golf with obama is as likely as Netenyahu playing golf with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

crap sorry I just called obama a holocaust denier.

The hitler reference did not make much sense... but yeh he was not comparing obama to anyone. People do love to get their panties in a wad over the stupidest things.

 

[mizzou]

Is there a downfall edit of this yet?

 

[Ausm]

Its because of stuff like this, is the reason I am not a republican today.

Hopefully more will follow your lead

 

[HomerJS]

All the Faux News blowhards silent about this story. Predictable. Where's the BREAKING NEWS? Where's the 15 min segments? Where's the how dare entertainers talk politics?

 

[IGBT]

so who is surprised the obama cheer leaders are exercising censorship??

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

so who is surprised the obama cheer leaders are exercising censorship??

It's not censorship, it's something you no doubt love (at least in theory): free market capitalism. ABC isn't telling Hank Williams he can't have these opinions or voice them, it's saying it doesn't want to be burdened with the fallout associated with his controversial statements. It also wasn't censorship when the same network fired Bill Maher for his own controversial statements about 9/11 (a firing you probably applauded if you were even aware of it).

I am endlessly amused by the fact that so many conservative voices (a la Sarah Palin and her tweets about the Westboro Baptist Church and Dr. Laura) don't seem to understand the First Amendment or even what censorship means.

What is the source of the quote in your sig? Is this actually something the President said? I would think not, since I can't find it anywhere other than being used as a sig for conservative posters (mostly you) on forums, but one never knows.

 

[werepossum]

It's not censorship, it's something you no doubt love (at least in theory): free market capitalism. ABC isn't telling Hank Williams he can't have these opinions or voice them, it's saying it doesn't want to be burdened with the fallout associated with his controversial statements. It also wasn't censorship when the same network fired Bill Maher for his own controversial statements about 9/11 (a firing you probably applauded if you were even aware of it).

I am endlessly amused by the fact that so many conservative voices (a la Sarah Palin and her tweets about the Westboro Baptist Church and Dr. Laura) don't seem to understand the First Amendment or even what censorship means.

What is the source of the quote in your sig? Is this actually something the President said? I would think not, since I can't find it anywhere other than being used as a sig for conservative posters (mostly you) on forums, but one never knows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
Google's hard, let's bake cookies!

The full quote is "Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." This is the same cap and trade system Obama threatened to implement by executive order via the EPA, and in fact the EPA is even now implementing a much reduced version (and being sued from both sides, from the right for implementing it at all outside of Congressional authority and from the left for not immediately implementing its full, capitalism-crushing, America-destroying scope.)

And you guys don't understand why business fears this guy.

And again, I do agree this isn't censorship. It's consequences, same as the Dixie Chicks no longer being able to be played on country music stations after their little slur in Europe. Both Williams and the Dixie Twits are free to say whatever they choose, as long as they are prepared to take the consequences.

 

[Jaskalas]

Nothing like a good distraction to keep attention off obama's presidency.

He still has one of those? D:

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
Google's hard, let's bake cookies!

The full quote is "Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." This is the same cap and trade system Obama threatened to implement by executive order via the EPA, and in fact the EPA is even now implementing a much reduced version (and being sued from both sides, from the right for implementing it at all outside of Congressional authority and from the left for not immediately implementing its full, capitalism-crushing, America-destroying scope.)

And you guys don't understand why business fears this guy.

And again, I do agree this isn't censorship. It's consequences, same as the Dixie Chicks no longer being able to be played on country music stations after their little slur in Europe. Both Williams and the Dixie Twits are free to say whatever they choose, as long as they are prepared to take the consequences.

I did Google the quote, and the reason I didn't find anything is interesting in that the real quote is actually quite different from the one in LGBT's sig, as is the context. LGBT's sig implies the President was talking about the cost of petroleum, not electricity, when in fact he was talking about the fact that American households would pay more for electricity under cap and trade (a factoid that the GOP, in typically hysterical fashion, then wildly exaggerated - http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/cap-and-trade-cost-inflation/).

 

[werepossum]

I did Google the quote, and the reason I didn't find anything is interesting in that the real quote is actually quite different from the one in LGBT's sig, as is the context. LGBT's sig implies the President was talking about the cost of fossil fuels, not electricity, when in fact he was talking about the fact that American households would pay more for electricity under cap and trade (a factoid that the GOP, in typically hysterical fashion, then wildly exaggerated - http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/cap-and-trade-cost-inflation/).

Cap and trade would "skyrocket" the cost of electricity and any other use of fossil fuels or other carbon-producing energy generation. This includes gasoline, diesel, natural gas, propane, methane, waste burning . . . Factcheck's amusing little spin is that Obama will rebate the extra cost to consumers so that the cost of the taxes won't fall on consumers. Yet Obama's 2010 budget proposal used that money to fund energy investments (<cough> Solyndra) as well as "help consumers". Putting aside the insanity that government can drive up the cost of energy and then pay the consumer so he feels no pain, even by fuzzy liberal logic you can't do both with the same dollars. At best Obama could reimburse consumers for their direct energy costs while forcing them to pay for the increased costs of everything else they buy - and thereby increasing anger at the "greedy businesses" who jacked up their prices. In the end, the consumer pays for everything, including government.

It's impossible for Obama to use taxes to change policy without the consumer paying for it. The most he can hope to do is screw the consumer while making him think that it's someone else's dick making that burning pain, and even that only works on the uninformed and the weak-minded. Liberals need to man up and admit this policy will cause a great deal of pain (as it is designed to do; habits don't change without a carrot or a stick, and so far there's no carrot) while arguing that the result is worth the pain. I suspect that as American manufacturers flee for cheaper energy nations using even dirtier energy, this will be a very hard sell. But then, I could be wrong. Liberals might be lying out of pure force of habit.

In fairness to Obama I should point out that in this one instance, he did say that it would be his job to convince the public and Congress that the price (skyrocketing energy costs) would be worth it. And he is at least smart enough not to push the whole enchilada whilst our economy is teetering.

 

[Keeper]

I heard it on the radio this morning, he sounded drunk.

I saw it on TV. He was hammered or having a stroke.


Besides (Yeah I know DIFFERENT network) Faith HILL >>>>>>>> than Hank.....

WOWZA... I watched the intro to the Jets game Sunday (I know as well :'() MAN that was Niiiiiiice.

Lets hope Monday night FB goes the same route. :thumbsup: