ESPN Has Parted Ways with Hank Williams Jr. For His Obama-Hitler Comments
ESPN decided to part ways with Hank Williams Jr., the country music singer who had sang the intro to Monday Night Football since goal posts were invented. In an embarrassingly bad appearance on FOX & Friends earlier this week, Williams made the mistake of comparing President Obama to Hitler. I’d say the hat, shades and flak jacket were a mistake, too. Weren’t you expecting him to reach for a dip cup halfway through the interview? Here’s ESPN’s brief statement:
“We have decided to part ways with Hank Williams, Jr. We appreciate his contributions over the past years. The success of Monday Night Football has always been about the games and that will continue.”
Wise decision (one I predicted on the Jim Rome show earlier this week; you can listen to the podcast here).
It should be noted that Hank Williams Jr. writes on his website that it was his decision to part ways from ESPN. As if anyone believes that.
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October 6th, 2011 at 10:36 AM
I still don’t understand why he was even on this show in the first place.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:37 AM
Roll Tahde.
Still don’t understand how Hank Williams Jr’s perspective on politics is television worthy.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:37 AM
What’s going to get ignored in the whole “Freedom of speech” argument is that Hank gave ESPN the chance to dump his tired schtick and go with a younger artist that fits the demographic they want to target.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:37 AM
His analogy didn’t even make sense. Boehner would be Netanyahu? And Obama a time traveling Hitler?
Hank, we hardly knew ye.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:38 AM
NBC’s intro, while cheesy, is 1000x better than ESPN’s anyway. Love the Sunday night football music too.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:39 AM
This.
/And don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out…
October 6th, 2011 at 10:40 AM
Duh. Faith and Leather > Hank Jr.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:40 AM
After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment
Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It’s been a great run.” — Hank Williams Jr
I’d consider myself rowdy, though not a friend. I’ll still be ‘here on Monday night”
October 6th, 2011 at 10:41 AM
his eye got fucked up a long time ago so he wears the glasses all the time like Tony Sparano
October 6th, 2011 at 10:41 AM
The country this shape is in?
The Three Stooges.
Obama!
Dude is a quote machine.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:41 AM
NICE slip in!
October 6th, 2011 at 10:42 AM
Bwahahahahaha!
October 6th, 2011 at 10:42 AM
You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment
Freedom of Speech
I dislike people who don’t understand what this means. It sounds like he thinks he can say whatever the hell he wants without repercussions from his employer. If I told my boss to fuck off, I couldn’t say that they were infringing on my freedom of speech when they canned my ass.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:43 AM
I immediately regret sending out that email with a Hitler mustache drawn on my boss
October 6th, 2011 at 10:44 AM
So wait a second…I don’t mind you plugging the Rome spot, but are you trying to seem prophetic about ESPN firing Hank for the HItler comments? Not exactly Nostrodamus-worthy.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:44 AM
Just as ESPN decided that your free speech thoughts did not fit their advertisers or their thoughts.
/Don’t let the door hit you…
October 6th, 2011 at 10:46 AM
The problem with this whole stupid thing is that HANK WILLIAMS JUNIOR DID NOT COMPARE OBAMA TO HITLER!
/He made a stupid, insensitive analogy
//Hank Jr. sucks anyway
///doesn’t mean he should be fired for something he didn’t say
October 6th, 2011 at 10:47 AM
Haven’t they just been playing the same song for 20 years. It’s not like he was making a new song every week where he was actively working for espn.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:48 AM
NICE slip in!
–Karen Sypher, 15 seconds before she mumbled “that’s it?”
/obligatory
October 6th, 2011 at 10:48 AM
I kind of do believe him. After all, had ESPN/ABC fired him, what would stop him from suing Disney? The company doesn’t fire anyone from the view when they spout off the same stuff so you’d be setting yourself up for a lawsuit by firing Williams.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:48 AM
Unless I’m totally misinterpreting here, what I love is that we assume Obama would play the role of Hitler and we assume Boehner would play the role of Netanyahu. Hank was stupidly trying to make a simile about enemies (he could have used different players, of course) and it was turned into OBAMA IS HITLER immediately. And unfairly.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:48 AM
This. I’m proud of ya for being on with the clones, but I was cracking up when I read this…pretty sure every breathing human could have predicted this.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:48 AM
He called the President the “enemy.” That’s not something advertisers are going to support. Therefore, it is a firable offense.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:49 AM
So who replaces Hank Jr?
1. Toby Keith
2. Kenny Chesney
3. Keith Urban
4. Hank III
October 6th, 2011 at 10:49 AM
Haven’t they just been playing the same song for 20 years.
For a few years I think they had the custom song kinda like Big & Rich did on Gameday a few years back. Maybe a few lines atleast that were unique to that week.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:49 AM
Given that he is a country artist, how soon until he releases a single blasting the POTUS and ESPN? Something about how “us REAL ‘Mericans” are tired of the big boys holding us down?
October 6th, 2011 at 10:50 AM
The ESPN story said he compared Obama to Hitler. Which is false.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:50 AM
Yeah you guys are totally right, what Hank meant was to compare Boehner to Hitler. Definitely. He sees Netanyahu as the ENEMY.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:51 AM
So who replaces Hank Jr?
I don’t necessarily think they would stay in the same country-genre.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:51 AM
I think the biggest thing here was that he actually thought Herman Cain was a good candidate.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:51 AM
Coming from a redneck in a bammer hat, this just might be true.
/broad brush’d
October 6th, 2011 at 10:52 AM
Unless I’m totally misinterpreting here, what I love is that we assume Obama would play the role of Hitler and we assume Boehner would play the role of Netanyahu. Hank was stupidly trying to make a simile about enemies (he could have used different players, of course) and it was turned into OBAMA IS HITLER immediately. And unfairly.
The problem with that analogy is that the President and the Speaker of the House — even as political enemies — aren’t on the level of Netanyahu and Hitler. If Netan had the upper hand, he kills Hitler (and vice versa).
We’re not expecting Obama to kill Boehner out on the golf course, are we?
October 6th, 2011 at 10:52 AM
The ESPN story said he compared Obama to Hitler. Which is false.
Oh, who fucking cares? Some guy who is famous for writing one crappy song 20 years ago will no longer have his crappy song played before what is likely a crappy football game. Nary a tear I shall shed.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:52 AM
Hank will be fine, a country boy can survive.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:52 AM
And the second would be his lack of counting ability.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:53 AM
I tried to watch that video for the Hitler whatever, but I couldn’t get through the first 30 seconds of hilarity. He really sets the mood with his look, then…
“Hey how are yaa guyyyzzz”
“Oh I’m sitting here in Nasshhhvilllllle”
“Yeah, whatever, yeaaahh”
“I’d rather be there lookin at Gretchen”
And finally, “Hank, I’d like to pick your brain about politics”.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:53 AM
/gets into pickup truck
//drives into town
///to find the woman I LOOOOOOVEEEEE
October 6th, 2011 at 10:53 AM
The Jonas Brothers
/SYNERGY!
October 6th, 2011 at 10:54 AM
I’m not a country music guy by any stretch of the imagination, but wasn’t that song originally written by his father?
This guy is the Joe Buck of country music.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:55 AM
The ESPN story said he compared Obama to Hitler. Which is false.
you, specifically you, Jay from New Orleans, need to stop visiting ESPN. Or at a minimum, stop sharing your hate for ESPN on this website. It is a known known.
You need new material, besides that ESPN is something you find reprehensible.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:55 AM
All fair enough. It was a bad analogy and Hank is obviously way too hardline about his politics. But that’s not what the outrage is about and not what he was fired for.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:55 AM
I don’t care how good Faith Hill looks in leather, that song is an enormous piece of shit. They should change that one too.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:55 AM
NBC’s intro, while cheesy, is 1000x better than ESPN’s anyway. Love the Sunday night football music too.
every single thing sunday night football does is 1000x better than espn’s monday night broadcast.
i bet hank would like to spit some beechnut in that dude’s eye.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:55 AM
I care, not because I like Hank Jr., which I don’t, but because somebody got fired because his employer was too chickenshit to do it the right way and put words in his mouth instead.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:56 AM
1. please no.
2. for the love of all things holy, fuck no
3. Aussie rules football maybe
4. uh, not a chance
October 6th, 2011 at 10:56 AM
I don’t care how good Faith Hill looks in leather, that song is an enormous piece of shit
Faith’s song is terrible, but she’s much better to look at than Hank. I was referring to the generic SNF music they play when going to commercial or coming back from one. I think that’s good.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:56 AM
Tim McGraw
That family then owns the prime-time football theme song market.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:57 AM
You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment
Freedom of Speech
Great grasp of the Constitution,Jethro.
What opionion did you think a brain dead hillbilly would have?
It’s his opinion, which is fine, but the Mouse don’t take kindly to that kind of publicity.
Should hire Courtney Love to do MNF opening.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:57 AM
I don’t care how good Faith Hill looks in leather, that song is an enormous piece of shit. They should change that one too.
Watch it in mute.
All fair enough. It was a bad analogy and Hank is obviously way too hardline about his politics. But that’s not what the outrage is about and not what he was fired for.
He threw out the Hitler bomb into the conversation. I think mrjer said it on Twitter a few days ago, but he was right: NEVER compare anyone to Hitler.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:57 AM
Oh, FOR CHRIST’S SAKE. I don’t care if this was ESPN. I am not as hard-line as you think. Stop pigeonholing me for things I said five years ago.
Wrong is wrong.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:58 AM
Black Eyed Peas
/Let’s get it started…
October 6th, 2011 at 10:58 AM
don’t think that song was, although he did sing some of his dad’s songs. “There’s a tear in my beer” is the first that comes to mind.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:58 AM
a·nal·o·gy/əˈnaləjē/
Noun:
A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
A correspondence or partial similarity.
an analogy is a way to compare things.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:58 AM
I care
But really, why? There are bigger travesties in life man.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:59 AM
I don’t care if this was ESPN
you have your dick out for the bitch fest. You very obviously care that it’s ESPN.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:59 AM
Shania Twain.
October 6th, 2011 at 10:59 AM
/adds another tally to the list of “overrated singer/songwriters Courtney Love has done in”
October 6th, 2011 at 10:59 AM
I don’t think MNF wants some whiny ass song as their intro either.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:00 AM
I care
But really, why? There are bigger travesties in life man.
because it happened at ESPN. That guy lives and breathes to be pissed off by ESPN.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Hmmm. After a little digging, it appears that I’m wrong about this.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Stop pigeonholing me for things I said five years ago.
you should read what you wrote this past Sunday.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:00 AM
So, after the Steve Jobs candelight vigil, we are apparantly holding another vigil for Hank, who was done so, so wrong. Let’s all cry for Hank.
/you work for a very public company, people have been fired for saying a lot less
October 6th, 2011 at 11:00 AM
/Let’s just go ahead and stop it again
October 6th, 2011 at 11:01 AM
This sums up the whole thing-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg
October 6th, 2011 at 11:01 AM
Clearly these young guys like Hank have probably made it impossible to be hip. Too much of a risk to advertisers.
Someone see if the Velvet Fog is available.
/didn’t realize he was dead until I just did some googling
#RIP
October 6th, 2011 at 11:01 AM
Black Eyed Peas
/Let’s get it started…
Yeah…we need to talk…
Shania Twain.
Was there a man in 1998 who didn’t lust after her?
October 6th, 2011 at 11:02 AM
So who replaces Hank Jr?
kings of leon
October 6th, 2011 at 11:02 AM
Is Mel Tillis still alive?
/stuttering prick
October 6th, 2011 at 11:02 AM
/you work for a very public company, people have been fired for saying a lot less
I think ESPN firing Rush Limbaugh was more of an issue than firing Hank.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:02 AM
So, after the Steve Jobs candelight vigil, we are apparantly holding another vigil for Hank, who was done so, so wrong. Let’s all cry for Hank.
The slide show on the front page of the NYTimes is fantastic in it’s Applenerd-ness. Perhaps Hank will get one on the front page of foxnews.com?
October 6th, 2011 at 11:02 AM
Coop
October 6th, 2011 at 11:03 AM
Clearly these young guys like Hank have probably made it impossible to be hip. Too much of a risk to advertisers.
Tony Bennett?
/we had it coming
October 6th, 2011 at 11:03 AM
Hank Williams, Jr. may be a fool but he was only talking to bigger ones on Fox and Friends.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:04 AM
Typically, if youre on tv, and dont work for a news program, you should probably stay away from political/racial talk. Thats reality.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:05 AM
demand a repost of somebody’s updated lyrics from the MON night post, the one with blitzkreig, etc..
October 6th, 2011 at 11:05 AM
Hank Williams, Jr. may be a fool but he was only talking to bigger ones on Fox and Friends.
I can’t believe that crazy blonde lady went to Stanford and graduated near the top of her class and still comes off as dumb as she does.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:06 AM
yeah, but he isn’t leaving B-B-B-B-B-Branson for this.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:07 AM
Booksmart?
October 6th, 2011 at 11:08 AM
That cougar canuck can still get it.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:08 AM
um yeah, no, no he didn’t.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:08 AM
Booksmart?
No.. I think she’s just playing dumb for her audience. Stewart had a clip of her looking up the word “czar” because she claimed she didn’t know what it meant. I find it hard to believe if you went to stanford you don’t know what a czar was/is.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:08 AM
Tying it all together, Disney’s largest shareholder was Steve Jobs.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:09 AM
Typically, if youre on tv, and dont work for a news program, you should probably stay away from political/racial talk. Thats reality.
true for some, not for others.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:09 AM
A czar.. thats that thing Obama invented, right?
/Fox n Friends
October 6th, 2011 at 11:12 AM
he didn’t.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:13 AM
It was actually Richard Nixon, at least in the American sense of the term. The first Bulgarian Empire in the 10th century was the first kingdom to be ruled by a “czar.”
October 6th, 2011 at 11:13 AM
I’m amazed at how many people don’t understand that the 1st Amendment doesn’t mean you can’t get fired for saying dumb shit.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:14 AM
In the spirit of the Roundup discussion, I just found a message board posting from Coop, 10 years ago.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:14 AM
Have Joan Jett open MNF with an altered version of a Faith Hill song.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:14 AM
Jemele Hill survived somehow. Maybe a quick romp with the right person saved her.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:15 AM
A czar.. thats that thing Obama invented, right?
I hate it when a crossword puzzle screws you by making the answer TSAR instead of CSAR. Ruined many a good start to the crossword puzzle…
October 6th, 2011 at 11:16 AM
After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment
Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It’s been a great run.” — Hank Williams Jr
All the HWJ defending is fucking comical, can we at least agree that if you are too fucking stupid to know which ammendment covers Freedom of Speech you should stop talking about politics/making political analogies and STFU?
October 6th, 2011 at 11:17 AM
Just a good ol’ boy……
October 6th, 2011 at 11:18 AM
He used an analogy/simile to say that they were enemies (his word). That alone is something that ESPN will shit can you for. To steal a line from Jordan, “Democrats watch sports, too.”
October 6th, 2011 at 11:20 AM
All the HWJ defending is fucking comical
letting Vincent Vega comment on this website is like letting a baby rapist change your daughter’s diaper.
I didn’t just compare Vincent Vega to a baby raper. I said I didn’t like his comments.
Vincent Vega. I apologize that you took offense at this.
/hank williams junior’d
October 6th, 2011 at 11:21 AM
Bravo
October 6th, 2011 at 11:21 AM
Mike, there are some money quotes from that message board, my favorite is:
No ****** Way
All that hype for an MP3 player? Break-thru digital device? The Reality Distiortion Field™ is starting to warp Steve’s mind if he thinks for one second that this thing is gonna take off
October 6th, 2011 at 11:23 AM
Nine times out of ten it’s TSAR – just start with that everytime that clue pops in.
Besides, I don’t think CSAR is one of the acceptable versions. It’s either TSAR, TZAR or CZAR, right?
October 6th, 2011 at 11:24 AM
Let’s start thinking what song will be part of the new theme in 2012: Likely qualities: American Artist, probably southern, non-threatening, female interest beneficial, must be able to be condensed to 90 seconds, singalongability: let the brutality begin
Don’t Stop Believing
Beat it – sung by Country person
Old Time Rock and Roll, Seger duet with Brittnay Spears
September, EWF with the Black Eyed Peas, of COURSE!
Whatever it is, it will be terrible,,,
October 6th, 2011 at 11:25 AM
Hilarious.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:26 AM
Besides, I don’t think CSAR is one of the acceptable versions. It’s either TSAR, TZAR or CZAR, right?
CSAR isn’t even good in scrabble
October 6th, 2011 at 11:26 AM
wow clay. that hurt. anyway he was comparing situations, not person to person. what’s comical is the way people purposefully inflame and twist things for reactions, and then cry about how fucked up our country and politics are.
i could care less about him getting fired. saying he compared obama to hitler though is simply false.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:27 AM
How is there any argument that he meant Obama=Hitler
Gretchen: You used the name of one of the most hated people of all time to describe the President
Hank: That is true
October 6th, 2011 at 11:29 AM
How is there any argument that he meant Obama=Hitler
Gretchen: You used the name of one of the most hated people of all time to describe the President
Hank: That is true
stellar
October 6th, 2011 at 11:30 AM
Hank Williams Jr was fired because he looked and sounded as smart as a tree. Who wants that to represent them?
October 6th, 2011 at 11:30 AM
Because the Right will always defend their own just as the left will. It’s insane to say he wasn’t comparing them, but this is what happens with politics.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:31 AM
what’s comical is the way people purposefully inflame
like using Hitler on one side of an analogy and using Obama on another, and then trying to hide behind the first amendment to keep your job as the public face of something, after neither of your two insincere apologies makes the issue go away?
October 6th, 2011 at 11:33 AM
The best part of this whole thing is that an hour before Williams was on the blonde chick was bitching about why people interview celebrities regarding politics. I hope that morning show never changes.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:34 AM
easy, read what he said the next day where he clarifies what he meant:
“My analogy was extreme — but it was to make a point. I was simply trying to explain how stupid it seemed to me — how ludicrous that pairing was. They’re polar opposites and it made no sense. They don’t see eye-to-eye and never will.”
/not that hard
October 6th, 2011 at 11:34 AM
So what we’ve learned:
HWJ is an idiot.
Fox and Friends is a horrible show.
The First Amendment does not prevent you from being fired for saying stupid things that embarrass your employer.
So actually, we learned nothing because we already knew all this.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:36 AM
This.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:37 AM
Hank Williams Jr was fired because he looked and sounded as smart as a tree. Who wants that to represent them?
to be fair, he has looked as smart as a tree forever.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:37 AM
easy, read what he said the next day where he clarifies what he meant:
that’s actually him backpedalling off of what he said, not him clarifying what he meant. Either way, he only said that to try and save his monday night football money, because that’s part of apology #2, not the original apology deemed insincere.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:39 AM
It was a stupid analogy to make, and even a dumber one to defend. The job of the Executive and Legislative Branches is to work together. That’s how the Constitution set it up. So, for him to be incredulous at the fact that they were at the very least attempting to give the appearance of working together proves he isn’t only stupid, but ignorant as well, and who would want that to represent them?
October 6th, 2011 at 11:40 AM
easy, read what he said the next day where he clarifies what he meant:
“My analogy was extreme — but it was to make a point. I was simply trying to explain how stupid it seemed to me — how ludicrous that pairing was. They’re polar opposites and it made no sense. They don’t see eye-to-eye and never will.”
/not that hard
Dude, it was a fucking round of GOLF, how does any of the shit coming out of his mouth make the least bit of sense. It wasn’t like they were going to a speaking engagement about the economy together…
October 6th, 2011 at 11:40 AM
Really? Idiot. Were you thrown in jail by the government for your comments Hank? You could have a more intelligent conversation with a door.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:42 AM
how so? in listening to the interview (which is painful), i think it’s pretty clear this is exactly what he meant.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:42 AM
So who replaces Hank Jr?
1. Toby Keith
2. Kenny Chesney
3. Keith Urban
4. Hank III
My vote, if they are going the country route, would be Brad Paisley.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:43 AM
Marge Schott approves of HWJ.
/St. Bernards running and crapping on the turf.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:45 AM
I agree. Any mention of Hitler has long been a no-no. To be clear, I don’t think what he said was right or that he shouldn’t have been fired. My only issue is with the asinine headline on this post. It’s inaccurate and bush league.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:46 AM
Whoops. Not the headline, but the statement in the post itself.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:47 AM
Toby Keith
“A little less talk and a lot more action”, then immediately cut to ESPN’s 30 talking heads…
October 6th, 2011 at 11:49 AM
lol @ some of you defending that drunk redneck. Wow.
October 6th, 2011 at 11:56 AM
My vote, if they are going the country route, would be Brad Paisley.
David Allen Coe
October 6th, 2011 at 12:09 PM
My vote is they kill the country route all together.