ESPN Pulls Hank Williams Jr’s “Are You Ready For Some Football?” From MNF After Williams Compared Obama To Hitler
All your rowdy friends are going to be confused as to what to do tonight. Earlier today, Hank Williams Jr. appeared on FOX and Friends where he compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler. Surprisingly, ESPN wasn’t too excited to hear that. From the ESPN Media Zone:
“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.”
So, is this the end of an era? Will Hank Williams Jr go the way of Rush Limbaugh?
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October 3rd, 2011 at 6:11 PM
Worse “analogy” — Hank Williams, Jr., or the defense of this one?
It’s close.
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:13 PM
Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine
And a woman’s lie makes a life like mine
Oh, the day we met I went astray
I started rolling down that lost highway.
/Sr. > Jr.
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:13 PM
Why does HW Jr. have to go around disparaging Hitler?
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:14 PM
Hank Sr. > Hank III > Hank Jr.
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:15 PM
The facial expressions in the video still are quite fascinating.
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:16 PM
ARE YOU READY FOR THE LUFTWAFFE!? SOME MONDAY NIGHT BLITZKRIEG! THERE’S SOME HITLERS UP IN HERE, CAUSE OBAMA AINT RIGHT. TURN UP THE GAS CHAMBERS CAUSE IT’S MONDAY NIGHT!
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:16 PM
If there was ever a game to pull this from, it’s this one. I am not ready, and will not watch aminute of some football. All baseball tonight.
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:17 PM
Should have ended the interview with “Roll Damn Tide”
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:17 PM
/waves to CJ
//prepares SC voodoo doll for tonight’s Yankee game
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:18 PM
God I fucking hate that stupid channel. Seriously, they have Hank Williams Jr on to talk about the GOP candidates? Dear god that was hard to watch.
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:18 PM
+ 1,000
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:18 PM
About time-he is so 1980′s with that song!
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:20 PM
speaking of past MNF substitute openings, bring back Tony! Toni! Tone!
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:21 PM
Seems like a good dude.
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:21 PM
God I fucking hate that stupid channel. Seriously, they have Hank Williams Jr on to talk about the GOP candidates? Dear god that was hard to watch.
As opposed to Sean Penn on MSNBC?
I watch ZERO news channels – they all suck.
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:22 PM
and I thought I was crazy
/carl everett
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:22 PM
Boo on you youtube. I wanted to make a connection of Lou Holtz and his thoughts about Hitler, but alas.
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:23 PM
What the fuck qualifies redneck Hank Williams to appear on TV and talk politics?
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:23 PM
Fixed
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:25 PM
It’s just FOXNews, this holds no more value than asking celebrities who they think will win the Super Bowl (just that in those instances you don’t often hear Tom Brady compared with genocidal dictators)
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:25 PM
Seems like a good dude.
albeit dumb as a fucking rock.
fixed
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:25 PM
Now is this the guy that appeared on that Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Viriginia doc or was that his kid?
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:25 PM
Aaron Rodgers is a genocidal dictator who should be eliminated
/SouvenirCity
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:26 PM
What a whacked out movie.
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:28 PM
What Rodgers did to Denver yesterday could be viewed as a metaphor for genocide
/Belt
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:30 PM
What Rodgers will do to Atlanta on Sunday night will be genocide
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:31 PM
/miffed that the Philly @ Buffalo line opened at Eagles -3
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:31 PM
Movin’ on over (from another post):
And Hank Jr. does another faceplant …
“Why do you drink?
Why do you roll smoke?
Why must you go on Fox
And make yourself out to be a dope?”
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:33 PM
Eat your heart out Brokeback Mountain
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:35 PM
Now is this the guy that appeared on that Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Viriginia doc or was that his kid?
Is this a real thing?
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:37 PM
Yes, except they actually spell Virginia correctly.
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:41 PM
Mamie White – oldest daughter of D. Ray and Bertie; girlfriend of Billy Hastings; she introduces the family at the start of the film. Mamie tells the story of her brother Dorsey White, who was shot in the face during a dispute with neighbors and lost an eye. He later died of an unintentional self inflicted gunshot wound
This sounds like a good watch…
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:43 PM
Haha the Monday Night opener will be taken out tonight. The game might start at 8:40!
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:48 PM
****The Country This Shape is In**** Dude was drunk
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:54 PM
I’m confounded as well. Vegas must want a lot of money on Buffalo.
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:55 PM
That entire interview was like watching AM radio talking points being run through a retard-o-matic 9000.
And while MSNBC isn’t much better in its bias, at least its guests can form a coherent thought.
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:57 PM
/miffed that the Philly @ Buffalo line opened at Eagles -3
you were thinking the Bills would get more?
October 3rd, 2011 at 7:10 PM
nah Ty, I just thought it would be a pick ‘em
October 3rd, 2011 at 7:28 PM
The fact that you think you are funny is pretty pathetic.
October 3rd, 2011 at 7:33 PM
Bullshit. They screwed with the MNF song production this year like they
October 3rd, 2011 at 7:34 PM
did with In Your Citaaay. Fuck ESPN.
October 3rd, 2011 at 7:35 PM
I really can’t believe he didn’t back off after they tried to let him clarify.
October 3rd, 2011 at 7:41 PM
Just be thankful it wasn’t Faith Hill. If they ever take away her timeslot…….
October 3rd, 2011 at 7:44 PM
I’d be in front of the Comcast Tower protesting. Along with millions of others.
October 3rd, 2011 at 8:03 PM
Hard to believe anybody in the public eye is still dumb enough not to know that you can’t utter the words Adolph Hitler anymore. Doesn’t matter in what fashion,analogy,etc. Media will tear you to shreds. This time it’s well deserved.
October 3rd, 2011 at 8:04 PM
Almost forgot: Shatner gets post of the year. Fucking brilliant.
October 3rd, 2011 at 8:42 PM
they should have tossed him because the theme is GOD AWFUL this year anyways
October 3rd, 2011 at 8:43 PM
The Three Stooges. Obama and Biden
Hank Williams Jr. Political pundit and math major.
October 3rd, 2011 at 9:27 PM
And while MSNBC isn’t much better in its bias, at least its guests can form a
coherentthought.Fixed. And generously, I might add.
October 3rd, 2011 at 9:43 PM
Isn’t Obama Netanyahu in his analogy?
/calm the fuck down, people
//no fricking way he said Obama was Hitler
October 4th, 2011 at 7:25 AM
+1
October 4th, 2011 at 9:59 AM
Hank Williams Jr. thinks the President is the enemy. he compares Obama to Hitler. He’s a real American Patriot. Total jackass.
October 4th, 2011 at 3:19 PM
GOOD LORD PEOPLE! Hank did not compare Obama to Hitler. He made the analogy that Obama playing golf with Buehner was as bad an idea as Hitler playing golf with the leader of the jews. Fox News twisted that to make a story out of it. Disney-owned ESPN overreacted. Sheesh I hate this PC world we live in. Can someone hit the reset button?
October 6th, 2011 at 5:35 PM
Every anti Obama rally I see has Obama pictured at Hitler. HWJr knew what he was doing when he said Hitler. Plus when asked who the enemy was, he said Obama and Biden(after which he lost count). The man looked intoxicated during the interview, and even the Fox hosts who have shown Obama fear in the past were uncomfortable with that interview. they knew nothing good even for them was coming out of that chat.
October 6th, 2011 at 6:21 PM
I don’t know why ESPN pull Hank out I also compare Obama to Adolf Hitler