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Hank Williams Jr. Pulled From ‘Monday Night Football’ After Comments Made on Fox News
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Posted on 10/03/2011 4:29:24 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: PalmettoMason

Thanks for your clarification - that makes sense. It would be interesting to hear the whole exchange in context. Apparently you cannot utter “Obama” and “Hitler” in the same sentence, lol...


41 posted on 10/03/2011 5:10:48 PM PDT by khnyny (Our government has become Hal in "2001 A Space Odyssey")
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To: Sub-Driver

I’ll side with Hank on this one.The hell with MNF.


42 posted on 10/03/2011 5:13:34 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: liberalh8ter

It’s not a Free Speech issue. They aren’t obligated to employ anyone.


43 posted on 10/03/2011 5:18:21 PM PDT by Borges
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To: khnyny

I have a Dish PVR and I set up FNF to record at 2am when its starts, an hour or two later when I get up I then rewind the show, skip the commercials and lame stuff and I get the gist of the news, at least some news instead of this moronic trio trying to herd political inputs into just awakening Americans.

Anyway I happened to be up earlier and watched this live, Hank Jr. I sincerely hope becomes Sarah Palins official song writer. I am tire of tippy toeing around this affirmative action piece of trash that is like a pustule I cannot reach on my behind.


44 posted on 10/03/2011 5:18:48 PM PDT by Eye of Unk (Sarah Palin and John Bolton--- 2012)
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To: harpu

I just say no to thugsport


45 posted on 10/03/2011 5:21:01 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: trumandogz

What an idiot!!


46 posted on 10/03/2011 5:22:17 PM PDT by DallasSun (Courage~Fear that has said its prayers.)
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To: shadeaud
So much for free speech. I guess if he said the tea party was just of bunch of Nazis, he’d be ok

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47 posted on 10/03/2011 5:22:55 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: sbMKE

Liberals say horrible things about us - and they NEVER lose their jobs...


48 posted on 10/03/2011 5:23:37 PM PDT by GOPJ (Bibi would go toe to toe with the devil if it was the only way to save his beloved Israel.)
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To: harpu

He had every right to say what he said. ABC had every right to fire him for saying it. There are consequences to that free speech thing


49 posted on 10/03/2011 5:24:23 PM PDT by DallasSun (Courage~Fear that has said its prayers.)
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To: Rome2000

NFL is skating on thin ice.

If the right is smart, it will destroy them.


Sorry, but too many morons on all sides put their circuses ahead of the strength of our nation.

The first thing is to stop CARING about what other guys playing games do.


50 posted on 10/03/2011 5:24:53 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Author of BullionBible.com - Makes You a Precious Metal Expert, Guaranteed.)
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To: trumandogz

Think what the world would feel like if someone said something bad about a Tea Party member - and lost their job for it. That’s the world liberals live in...


51 posted on 10/03/2011 5:25:30 PM PDT by GOPJ (Bibi would go toe to toe with the devil if it was the only way to save his beloved Israel.)
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To: harpu
Oops...looks like big girls and Disney/ABC/ESPN got their panties in a twist over HANK expressing his 1st Amendment right to what he believes!!

Brief moment of clarity here - the 1st Amendment protects you from governmental repercussions for exercising your freedom of speech. Nothing forces private enterprise to grant you the same immunity. Nor should it.

That said, come on, Nazi reference? Someone needs to cut back on their caffeine.

52 posted on 10/03/2011 5:26:16 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Wonder how many Super Bowl half time acts member made disparaging remarks regarding President Bush and still preformed? Unfortunately with the censorship they are proving Hank’s correct.


53 posted on 10/03/2011 5:32:25 PM PDT by Lockbox (`)
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To: Sub-Driver

Ah, yes, Disney the liberal media company. We’ll be keeping track of sponsors tonight and making our feelings known about their decision to advertise on MNF. A lot.


54 posted on 10/03/2011 5:33:02 PM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh no. GRETCHEN SAID THE ANALOGY WAS BETWEEN OBAMA AND THE PRESIDENT.

OBAMA COULD HAVE BEEN NETENYAHU UNDER THE ANALOGY.

What Hank meant was they were polar opposites. He could have said the lion and the lamb.

Gretchen set him up and he walked right into it. He should have been smarter than that, but she got what she wanted.


55 posted on 10/03/2011 5:33:47 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Borges
As I said, it's a respect of HW Jr's right to freedom of speech issue. Vick gets a pass for his horrific hobby, Rush gets turned down for a misconception and now, HW Jr gets punished for exercising a right. There's clearly two sets of rules in play.
56 posted on 10/03/2011 5:34:48 PM PDT by liberalh8ter
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To: GOPJ

No, we live in a world, or a least a country, where private organizations like ESPN-Disney and the NFL can choose who they wish to have a business relationship with and who they wish to no longer have a business relationship with.

If you wish to change that, you can buy a majority stake in Disney and purchase an NFL team and convince the other NFL owners that Hank should continue to work with MNF.


57 posted on 10/03/2011 5:43:47 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

,,,,,, you bring the marshmellows and Ted will roast em’ . Hank will bring the beer and chips and Eric Holder will bring the fast and furious guns . Now that’s a party !!!


58 posted on 10/03/2011 5:43:55 PM PDT by Lionheartusa1 (-: Socialism is the equal distribution of misery :-)
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To: kingu
That said, come on, Nazi reference? Someone needs to cut back on their caffeine.

Did you actually see the interview?

Williams appeared to be under the influence of alcohol, or at best half asleep during the interview.

As I said before, he was not comparing Obama to Hitler. He was making the point that Boehner had no business sucking up to Obama on the golf course.

Perhaps he could have said "Lee and Grant", or "Roadrunner and Wiley Coyote", or "Bristol and Levi", but he came up with the first example of opposites that came to mind.

Who knows? Maybe he was comparing BiBi to Hitler, because he certainly never said who was "who".

It all boils down to Gretchen Carlson seeing an opportunity to blow it out of proportion, and act all self righteously PC.

"FOX and Fiends".

59 posted on 10/03/2011 5:45:06 PM PDT by PalmettoMason ("The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.")
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To: Sub-Driver
I like football, I don't like this. Bush was a "nazi" hundreds, if not thousands of times over. Not a wink. The "won" gets called out for what he actually is and...

If this is the NFL's mindset on free speech then they are going to be in world of hurt in a few years. They seem to want to jump on the 'dictatorship' bandwagon. The results are historically proven.
60 posted on 10/03/2011 5:46:01 PM PDT by allmost
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