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I agree with that Psalm 144.
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Posted on 10/04/2011 5:12:03 PM PDT by South40
Sounds like Hank Williams Jr. is ready for some apologizing. Wait, make that a lot of apologizing.
The clearly chastened country singer has offered yet another mea culpa, after a comment he made comparing Pres. Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler prompted ESPN to pull his intro from "Monday Night Football."
Also read: ESPN Pulls Hank Williams Jr. Intro From "Monday Night Football"
In the apology, published on the singer's web site, Williams admitted that his comment was "dumb," adding, "Sorry if it offended anyone."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Since conservatives are too stupid to know what to say when falsely accused by some RAT scumb@g, here is a clue. Tell them that anyone with a brain can see that he didnt compare Obama to Hitler, that he won’t apoloize, and that if they dont like it they can go straight to He||.
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I agree with that Psalm 144.
| Countdown until Zer0 leaves Office: 472 days as of October 5, 2011.
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Now Hank will need to get back in the good graces of those on the left by changing his song to “Are you Ready for Some Communism?”
I like Hank, and I like what he said while on TV with the faux three stooges....
What I do not understand is...why do so many of these people make admirable and bold statements and then apologize?????
Is there a trend here?
Are they being systematically threatened somehow? Do they all lack the courage of their convictions? If so, are they too disappointed and surprised (at themselves).
Smell something “fishy” in all of this, folks?????
Semper Watching!
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Apologize to who? Anyone who was offended by his comments is not going to believe for a moment that his apology is sincere. Anyone not offended by the remarks may well be offended by the apology. Lose/lose all around.
Apologize to who? Anyone who was offended by his comments is not going to believe for a moment that his apology is sincere. Anyone not offended by the remarks may well be offended by the apology. Lose/lose all around.
I wonder how many lefty entertainers lost their gigs because they equated Bush with Hitler.
Hypocrites.
Nice catch. I listened to the clip again and you're right. He never said Obama was Hitler in that analogy.
I guess the important thing is everyone, including the media (and myself), just naturally assumed he was.
That says something in itself
Evil is greatest when it takes on the most banal of appearances. That is what Hank meant, so I interpret his remark and follow-up.
Hannah Arendt coined the phrase "banality of evil" when reaching for a way to describe Hitler's minister Adolf Eichmann during his trial for war crimes.
Obama is the enemy, and he could easily be a Hitler-type. That was a Gothic backdrop of a Roman Temple he used when accepting the nomination, and Obama made a extra effort to speak at the same place in Germany Hitler did. Obama rose and rules through Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels-like mass propaganda, imaging, big lies. Yes Obama is not Hitler, not a leader able to marshal his nation into a genocidal frenzy and fortunately there remains strong forces opposing Obama's gathering of yet more power.
Hitler was not the biggest mass murderer, that would be Mao, via starvation, and Stalin too killed more than Hitler.
NO example in History is "unspeakable".
I believe that it is very important to use Hitler and the Nazis in thoughtful examples, as a way remembering that great evil can arise in the highest of cultures, in a modern western nation.
In my younger days, I always wondered how a technologically advanced educated society like 1930s Germany could fall for a Hitler.
Now I know how it could happen. It is happening before our very eyes.
ESPN will be cancelling my contract shortly.
How did that happen? It was an exactly Fasicst takeover of GM, the Obama-Democratic machine, elected into highest office in our national government, combined with equally corrupt unions to boldly loot every penny from bondholders and to disenfranchise every dealer who was not a party loyalist. That's pure Fascism.
As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer.Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically.
Under fascism, the state, through official cartels, controlled all aspects of manufacturing, commerce, finance, and agriculture. Planning boards set product lines, production levels, prices, wages, working conditions, and the size of firms. Licensing was ubiquitous; no economic activity could be undertaken without government permission.
-- excerpted from Fascism , The Library of Economics and Liberty
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