This is the same type of person that will yell, “Support our President, right or wrong” when his guy is sitting in the Oval Office on his lazy ass trashing the country. Such a patriotic American young Hank is. I wonder if there is some inbreeding involved?
At least ESPN had enough decency to remove his stupid holler from the Monday Night Football lead-in.
I’m fairly sure he never actually recovered from his traumatic brain injury he got in the 70’s. It just turns out that brain damage isn’t much of a hinderance in his line of work.
More kneejerk nonsense. His comment was a ham-handed attempt to say that the two parties were enemies and shouldn’t get together to make nice (which in itself is dumb, I’d say), but he was not trying to say that either party was represented by either party he mentioned. He was just trying to say they were enemies. There is no reasoning, no matter how tortured that I’ve heard where anyone thinks Obama is Hitler-like.
The unfortunate part is this is the mentality of too many people on the right.
They’ve gone way too far in their hatred and anger of their political opponents. It isn’t rational anymore, it isn’t about reason and belief and discussion and compromise. It is “the left is EVIL and we must destroy them!” It is a culture where lies and slander (and third grade name calling) are the order of the day, celebrated behavior condoned, sanctioned and participated in by their leaders.
It scares the fuck out of me to watch a party I used to respect and most often vote for walk down the path that leads to mindless revolution and tyranny, stirring up the ignorant masses with lies, anger and hatred.
He was not trying to say “Obama is like Hitler.” He was making an (unbelievably idiotic) analogy intended to highlight how Obama and Boehner supposedly are enemies. Believe me, I like Obama and I hate the absurd rhetoric against him as much as anybody - but this is just not an example of it.
First of all, he is comparing Boehner and Obama to Netayahu and Hitler. The obvious implication is that he is comparing Boehner to Netayahu and Obama to Hitler. Second, yes, he says “they are enemies”, and then clarifies, “Obama! And Biden! Are you kidding? The Three Stooges.”. Clearly he means Obama and Biden are the enemies (to America), not your idea that Obama and Boehner are enemies to each other. This makes the Obama/Hitler comparison even more clear. Thirdly, he defends his analogy by referring to “the shape the country’s in”. That would make sense if he thought Obama was comparable to Hitler. It wouldn’t make sense if he thought that the debate in congress was too heated; in that case, it would make sense for him to say ‘the state the government’s in’.
Your spin is an admirable attempt to spin the unspinnable, though.
So where’s the outrage from the right wing and country radio here? They didn’t seem too happy the last time a country singer insulted the POTUS during time of war.
He was obviously throwing an insult at Obama. he’s a Republican among friends on Fox News.
I doubt he meant to make as direct a comparison as you guys are attributing to him, I think he was simply saying that Obama and Boehner are the two least-likely guys to be playing a friendly game of golf.
He obviously wanted to stop doing the MNF theme, because ESPN has long had a policy of their employees not airing political commentary. He’s not their employee, strictly speaking, but it’s not like they would let something like that go while spanking their own people for doing the same.
It was a stupid comment from a stupid person who makes horrible music. Then again, that covers all country musicians, so it’s not like he has that niche all to himself.
Yeah, I’m waiting for another Republican to be in power and the usual suspects to start all that “disrespecting the President is treason” crap again. Then I plan to ask them if they need to be put against the wall and shot for how well they respected Obama. And mentally marking those people as unworthy of my time or respect.
I’m beginning to suspect that having to sit around and listen to a political conversation among Chuck Norris, Hank Williams Jr. and Ted Nugent would get mighty tedious mighty fast.
He was ham-handed but I think his point was a bit more nuanced than you are thinking. I think he was trying to say that to the average american it looks like all politicians are hob nobbing on a golf course while discussing what the poor people are doing these days, then congratulating themselves for being superior.