ESPN drops Hank Williams Jr. from 'Monday Night Football'

[cal04]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2011/10/ready-for-some-controversy-hank-williams-compares-golf-with-obama-to-hitler/1

ESPN has dropped Hank Williams Jr. from opening Monday Night Football tonight after Williams controversial comments today about President Obama.

Says ESPN, in a statement: "While Hank Williams Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize he is closely to our company through the opening to Monday Night Football. We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result have decided to pull the open from tonight's telecast."

Williams, perhaps best known for his "are you ready for some football?" lead-in to ESPN's Monday Night Football, Monday compared this summer's so-called golf summit between Obama and House Speaker John Boehner as "one of the biggest political mistakes ever."

As Williams put it on Fox News' Fox & Friends: "It would be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli leader) Benjamin Netanyahu."



ESPN pulls Hank Williams Jr. for Obama-Hitler comparison
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/03/espn-yanks-hank-williams-jr-off-mnf-for-obama-hitler-comparison/

[tblue]

1. Maybe he meant Boner = Hitler.

I'd like to ask old Hanky, "Which one's Netanyahu?' because it makes no sense, what he said.

[lunatica]

2. Good. If he apologized let him return

Or he can opt for being a teabaggeratti knuckle dragging hero and just take his brain out of his skull and give it to them.

[kwolf68]

3. So what is it Laura Ingaram says???

Shut up and sing?

[hlthe2b]

4. Slime ball...

:puke:

[MineralMan]

5. And in the meantime, they keep playing Freddy Mercury.

You've gotta love it!