Hank Jr. just couldn't contain the worst of his racist, bigoted, xenophobic self anymore

[bigtree]

Hank WIlliams Jr: 'We've got a Muslim president who ... hates the U.S.'

Hank Williams Jr. played to a crowd of nearly 8,500 night at the Iowa State Fair Grandstand Friday night. Following the song “We Don’t Apologize For America” a chant of “USA, USA” broke out amongst the crowd. Williams smiled, telling the crowd that he was their mouth piece, adding:

“We’ve got a Muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the U.S. and we hate him!”

The cheers that followed were loud and enthusiastic.

When reached for comment Saturday, Brad Anderson with the Obama campaign in Iowa said in an email, "That type of absurd nonsense doesn't really deserve a response."


read: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120818/NEWS/120818001/0/graduation/?odyssey=nav|head

[rrneck]

1. Just cashing in. Telling people what they want to hear pays. nt

[roguevalley]

21. sad talentless man existing in a shadow he can't fill

[H2O Man]

22. Exactly.

Recognizing that he is an inferior, mere shell of a man, he hates everything -- himself, his life, and every extension he projects.

[Paladin]

38. Well, Boo-Fucking-Hoo.

Hank Jr. Is a talent-free, racist, brain-dead piece of filth---and he's going to have plenty of money and supporters for the rest of his miserable life. The Dixie Chicks had their careers destroyed for speaking the truth a single time. They're the ones who deserve our support and patronage. Don't try to turn Hank Jr.'s life into some sort of Greek tragedy, because he is completely unworthy of it.

[H2O Man]

44. clown

[rrneck]

40. Actually he's an exceptional musician.

That doesn't keep him from being an opportunistic jerk.

[MattBaggins]

41. He is horrible

His father, his son and his sister are quite talented.

He sucks though.

[rrneck]

43. I'm not into country music myself,

but you don't get to be where he is without being pretty damn good. He's probably forgotten more about music than most of us will ever know. Deriding his skill is just sour grapes. If you want to claim he's a poor musician you'll have to produce more than undergraduate coffee house declarations of personal preference. Everybody's a critic, but while you're complaining about how much he sucks, he's playing to gigantic crowds of people. You can't do that without being good. Is he Beethoven? No. But neither is Jimmy Hendricks. And both will be forgotten long before we stop listening to Moonlight Sonata.

[Paladin]

50. Hank Jr. Is Easily One-Tenth As Talented As His Father Was.

Do you consider George W. Bush to be a really talented politician? I mean, by your standards, Dubya didn't get to the White House "....without being pretty damn good."

Thanks for listening to my undergraduate coffee house declaration of personal preference.......

[rrneck]

54. Have you ever met W?

I haven't, nor do I have any desire to. He was one of the worst presidents in history. We all, myself included, denounced him as an idiot. We will continue to suffer from his tomfoolery for a long time to come. He was a fountian of poor judgment and bad public policy. But he put on a helluva show. And he accomplished exactly what the 1% wanted. A bad president? Without a doubt. A bad politician? Hardly. Even with "gentleman's C's" a Harvard MBA is nothing to sneeze at. That whole Texas act was just that - an act. And it worked. And Hank is just as big a jerk. And he puts on just ad good a show.

Never underestimate them.

[Paladin]

55. Do I Have Your Permission To Hate Their Guts? (nt)

[rrneck]

58. Nice victim act. You should take it in the road. nt

[Paladin]

68. Ouch, that really hurt.....

....coming from somebody expressing grudging admiration for the non-existent prowess of a couple of right-wing fuckwits. Hank, Jr., a skilled musician? Dubya, an LBJ-level political strategist? Trust me: your act ain't ready to hit the road......

[rrneck]

70. Recognizing skill is not admiration.

You've just got your skivvies in a twist because I'm not dancing around your partisan bonfire. Do you need a harumph that badly? Here you go:

Harumph.

Feel better now?

[Paladin]

72. You're Recognizing Skills Which Don't Exist.

And if you want to take sides with Junior and Dubya, on a Democratic forum, guess which one of us has a problem. Have a nice remainder of the day.......

[rrneck]

75. Ah. I guess the harumph wasn't enough.

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AND HIS MOMMA WEARS ARMY SHOES!

How's that? Enough? Too much? Please guide me O exalted zampolit!



Listen. You don't get to judge me. Do you understand? I don't give a flying fuck what you think of my partisan zeal. I don't give a flying fuck about your partisan zeal. You are not an authority on the subject in any way, shape or form. In the unlikely event you produce something other than your personal preference something resembling a rational discussion might ensue.

Back to your bonfire.

[arely staircase]

52. there are and always habe been successful but crappy entertainers

A cording to you logic Dane Cook is a good comedian.

[rrneck]

56. Well, I don't know much about music really

so I could be full if shit. It wouldn't be the first time that happened. But I have heard he is a good blues guitarist. Maybe not.

I think its unwise to conflate his skill as a musician with his politics or his personality. Picasso was a mysogynistic jerk and one of the greatest artists that ever lived. And we remember him today not because he was a great artist so much as he was a great careerist.

The fact that Hank Williams Jr. is a dick doesn't keep him from being a good musician. If he were a bad musician and a dick he'd be a dick doing something else for a living. As it stands he's got a bunch of awards for doing music, which puts him ahead of about 99% of the rest of the country musicians in the world.

But I can't indulge in music criticism because I don't know enough about it.

[arely staircase]

66. he may be a decent guitarist but his songs are aweful

he could be the most liberal democrat on earth and it wouldn't change my opinion of his music. i like his father and his sons music and i have no idea what their politics were/are.

[rrneck]

69. I don't like it either.

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I think there's an old saw about acting. I think it goes something like:

"It takes a great actor to play a fool, but a fool can't be a great actor."

[Tom Ripley]

85. He is actually quite a good guitarist, but a terrible singer, songwriter, and human being

[rrneck]

92. I agree. nt

[meanit]

60. If he's so good

then why is he trying to appeal to the right wing lunatic crowd while alienating his regular fans?
Maybe because his regular fans thinks he sucks now and he needs somebody to buy his recordings?
The rabid right will support anybody who talks shit about Obama, and that's a potential goldmine for a has-been musician who just ain't selling like he used to.
If he was still such a good musician, he wouldn't need to be selling his ass to the rabid right.

[rrneck]

62. For the same reason

Robert Redford, Bruce Willis, Tom Selleck, Clint Eastwood and all the rest do the work they do. They're artists and they do what appeals to them. And they sell that work to people that like it. Some artists try to give a deeper insight into the human condition, others pander for a buck. And the truth is that they all do some of both.

[meanit]

65. Hank Williams Jr. talking outrageous shit about the president

during a public concert is not "working at his art". Maybe he should shut up and play some music. That would be "working at his art".

I haven't seen Bruce Willis interrupt one of his Die-Hard movie gunfights to tell me what an asshole he thinks Obama is.

[rrneck]

67. Uh, yeah. That's the pandering part.

And it's the blatant pandering that had everyone torqued.

[meanit]

79. Pandering to vicious, hateful people

to cover up that he's a has-been and that his "talent" is on hiatus.

Maybe he should go get a talk show contract from Clear Channel.

[rrneck]

80. Uh yeah. That's the being a dick part. nt

[Tom Ripley]

84. It's "Jimi Hendrix"...just as it's "Randall Williams"

[rrneck]

91. Ah. Right you are. Thanks. nt

[nanabugg]

61. We know what Hank Jr. is. It's people who cheered loudly and enthusiastically that sicken me. nt

[rrneck]

63. Yep.

I used to live in Nashville. I don't have any use for country music in general or him in particular. Hid fans are pretty tiresome too.

[roguevalley]

83. perhaps. but his dad is a giant to his pygmy. I loved his dad, grew up on him and agree

that he's one of the greatest most original artists this country ever produced. His son is a gluttonous dweeb. Sad

[rrneck]

90. True. That is often the case with the sond of great

talents I think.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

53. Well he's been doing that all his life so what's new?

After all, he's made a whole career out of cashing in on his late father's name and success

He's like the George W Bush of the music industry.

[russspeakeasy]

2. Livin off my daddy....

[Dawson Leery]

3. And the country music establishment gave this wizard a standing ovation.

[obamanut2012]

25. Link to where the country music establishment did that?

Because I haven't read anything at all about that.

[Dawson Leery]

37. Forgive the link to this horrible blog, but here it is:

http://radiopatriot.wordpress.com/tag/hank-williams-jr/

There is a reason why I do NOT listen to country music.
Compound this with the treatment of the Dixie Chicks for a similar act, it is telling as to what type of people make the country music genre.

Remember, we who opposed the war in Iraq said worse than Maines did.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

89. CMA awards back in November

"Country Music Awards crowd gives Hank Williams Jr. a standing ovation"
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/celebrities/index.ssf/2011/11/hank_williams_country_music_aw.html

Take it, Brad and Carrie: "People want to know, Hank, why do you drink (before an interview!)/Why do you smoke (before an interview!)/Football ain't the same/Without that song that you wrote/Stop and think it over/Let me help you get the picture/You can drunk and start carrying on/But you can't compare the president to Hitler."

As the crowd cheered, Williams walked out on stage behind the hosts, leading to a standing ovation. They asked him if he wanted to say anything -- he refrained -- and they launched in to a Country Music Awards show-appropriate version of "Are You Ready?"

Compare that to the treatment the Chicks got - banned by country radio and ganged up on by pricks like Toby Keith

and at the CMAs in 2003?:

At the Academy of Country Music awards on Tuesday night, the host, Reba McEntire, made an unfunny joke. "If the Dixie Chicks can sing with their foot in their mouths, surely I can host this sucker," she said. The setup was pretty awkward. And when you stopped to think about it, the punch line really wasn't one. But none of that mattered. The line earned one of the night's most enthusiastic ovations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/25/arts/music/25sann.html

[Whisp]

4. a repugnant little brainless man

the face of ugly.

really, he's got to be just putting on because I can't believe anyone is actually this stupid.

even tho he looks the part

[shanti]

5. hateful idiot, he is

[lunatica]

6. Well he got 4 out of 5 wrong

The only one that he got right was that people like him hate Obama. All the rest of his spew is totally made up and wrong.

Someone should gong him off the show.

[Hoyt]

7. He's a problem. But a much bigger problem are those who like that crap.

[Freddie]

8. Used to like his music

Can't listen to him anymore
His Daddy's in heaven saying, "that's not my kid!"

[TeamPooka]

9. Thanks for not being on my NFL games anymore Hank!

[Care Acutely]

10. Why so disgusting?

I mean really, why *does* this man feel the need to be so vile and hateful? Why so much ugliness? I don't get it, I really don't. It's just bizarre.

[global1]

31. What Troubles Me More Than This Man Is The Reaction Of His Audience....

They chanted USA, USA and they gave him a loud and enthusiastic ovation. Really?

[zbdent]

35. he dropped himself on his head ...

Now that I think about it ... it's the Krauthammer syndrome ...

[RagAss]

11. Assclown.

[panader0]

12. An asshole who could never get over living in his dad's shadow.

Maybe him and Nuge and Mustaine could go on a hate tour.

[Tom Ripley]

13. Redneck with money

[bluedeminredstate]

14. Really?

Which branch of the military did Hank Williams Jr. serve in? I'm sure he did his patriotic duty and enlisted as soon as he was legally able. Oh yeah, all his boozing and drugging got in the way of serving his country. Why does Hank Williams Jr. hate America?

[Raine]

15. His hate speak got him thrown off of ABC, I guess he's too stupid to have learned from that. nt

[Arugula Latte]

16. He and Nugent should be in a gun duel together.

[ThatsMyBarack]

17. He's still alive?

Loser.

[twins.fan]

18. Hank Jr. supported Michele Bachmann's 2012 presidential campaign

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams,_Jr.#Politics

Keep in mind that not all of these celebrity Republicans are that stupid. There is a good bit of money in it for them to tow the Republican line. It is just money. It's like a job.

[Ikonoklast]

19. I have shoes smarter than this assclown.

Another bit of proof that having money has nothing to do with intelligence.

[ithinkmyliverhurts]

20. This guy is BIG TIME! He's going to reach millions.

"Hank Williams Jr. played to a crowd of nearly 8,500 night at the Iowa State Fair Grandstand Friday night."

Did 38 Special open for him?

[sobenji]

29. Hold on loosely

To the racist hate

[blueamy66]

48. Yeah, I caught that too.

Iowa State Fair? Really?

Yep, he's big time. NOT anymore.

I am a huge country music fan, but do not embrace his views and never will.

Sad.....

[alphafemale]

23. Awww... It takes skill to break a fall off a mountain with your face.

That said I'd like to rip that Steeler hat off his head and beat him with it.

He has no earthly right to wear that.

[Efilroft Sul]

24. "Are you ready for some asshole?" – New "Rowdy Friends" lyric

[hlthe2b]

26. All he needs is the swastika on his cap...

What an ignorant, ugly moron.

[jsr]

27. No-talent trash

trying to make money off trash.

[sobenji]

28. Don't worry

The outrage from country radio when a country act disrespects a sitting president will be swift and strong.


Crickets...............

[randome]

30. Maybe Junior is a good barometer of how the majority of Conservatives feel about their chances.

The more it becomes obvious they will lose, they more vulgar and angry they become.

[brewens]

32. I once saw The Georgia Satellites open for Hank. They blew him away!

The Satellites were one kick ass band! I wondered why he would do that? This was about 1988. Maybe it was a bad night for Hank but I was not impressed. He didn't play all that long. It was at Washington State University and I felt like he just wanted to get the hell out of there and get drunk.

If you like souther rock you still can't beat those Georgia Satellite cd's. The first two are amazingly good. That big hit "Keep Your Hands To Yourself" isn't even among their best songs as far as I'm concerned. They do a version of "Whole Lotta Shakin'" that just burns!

[sobenji]

93. Satelites

Georgia Satelites rocked - "Can't stand the pain"

[brewens]

94. Dunk and Dine, Mon Cheri and a whole bunch more. Way underrated. I've heard people

just say the hated Keep Your Hands To Yourself and never heard anything else from them. I have to admit I sometimes skip that when I put in that CD.

[DinahMoeHum]

33. L-O-S-E-R

n/t

[RandiFan1290]

34. Clear Channel where are you?

Where are the nation wide bans? When is the CD burning party?

Why is Clear Channel so quiet about this?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

88. All the Chicks said is that they were embarrassed Dumbya was from texas

Nothing remotely comparable to the garbage that came out of Junior last night.
And I suppose that 'on foreign soil' outrage no longer matters with the wingnuts, either.
FOX has said zilch on the lunacy of Dave Mustaine, either, and gave the jerk a pass.

[treestar]

36. Good for Obama campaign

WTF do these troglodytes think President Obama hates the military? They have no grounds for it at all.

[lonestarnot]

39. One money boo boo talking to a bunch of other no money/no brained boo boos.

[senseandsensibility]

42. Not a Muslim, supports the farm bill, supports all veteran benefits,

got Bin Laden, shows he loves America everyday through his actions, so you only got one right, Hanky. The one about you hating him. But we knew that already, so you're boring us.

[hobbit709]

45. Love JuanitaJean's comments

http://juanitajean.com/2012/08/19/yeah-hank-and-the-last-time-you-had-a-hit-was-1989/

"An interesting aside: Mr. Williams has never attended church, had a farm, served in the military or liked much of anything, including his own mother. That is what alcohol does to you"

[OnionPatch]

46. Obama has done nothing to provide evidence that any of that is true.

But the teabaggers know that deep down in the secret recesses of his heart, Obama MUST hate America! Glenn Beck told them so!!!

[Initech]

47. Are you ready for some douchebaggery??????

[graywarrior]

49. I blame half of his dooshbaggery on his brain injury.

The other half on his assholeishness.

[senseandsensibility]

51. Didn't he have a serious car accident/injury many years ago?

I mean really serious, and he required facial reconstructive surgery?

[graywarrior]

64. Yeah, he fell off a mountain or some shit like that

His brains leaked out onto the rocks and he's damned lucky to be alive. I attribute a lot of his lunacy to that.

[VOX]

57. The Dixie Chicks received death threats...

... and were dropped from playlists in 2003, after lead singer Natalie Maines told a London audience, "Just so you know, we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas." Nearly every yahoo in the country went apeshit, screaming that the DC were unpatriotic, and that they disrespected the president " on foreign soil." What rubbish.

And now, knuckle-dragging, redneck doucherockets like Hank Williams, Jr. and Ted Nugent just spew their insane, illiterate, fictitious garbage with impunity. What happened to their deep concern about respecting the office of the presidency?

It's enough to send one's blood pressure into the danger zone.

[Initech]

59. Republicans can dish out all the criticism they want to - they just can't take it.

[Dawson Leery]

71. Indeed.

Remember the entire country music establishment turned their backs on the Dixie Chicks. This has much to do with why I do NOT listen to country "music". I was raised in a small conservative community and dealt with similar problems. I have no desire to go back.

[TNLib]

73. He's a piece of trash and so are most of his fans

But I don't think he has many of them anymore.

[IowaGuy]

74. Iowa State Fair - or otherwise known known as the "Inbred drunk redneck convention"

In other news...Iowa State Patrol reports arrests at the state fair peaked on Friday....
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/08/18/66-arrested-at-the-state-fair-friday/

On the other side of town in a little publicized event....7000 (sober) people gathered to welcome home Iowa Olympians Lisa Uhl, Lolo Jones, Jake Varner and adopted Iowa Olympian Gabby Douglas....just saying; we're not all retards...but we certainly had a critical mass gathered on the east side of DM on Friday night.

[pampango]

81. That should go to the Iowa GOP. Witness their platform:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120529/OPINION/305290021/-1/SPORTS12/Another-View-letter-good-people-Iowa-you-crazy-

• Require candidates for president to prove that they are “natural born citizens,” beginning with the 2012 election. After all, non-citizens serving as president have been a longstanding problem in American politics.

• Reject the “claims” of global warming, which are “based on fraudulent, inaccurate information” and pushed by people using “extremist scare tactics.” The Iowa GOP “recognizes” that policies and laws designed to combat global warming are really “a plan to take our freedoms and liberties away.”

• Oppose “the diabolical collusion of the United Nations” in promoting its Agenda 21, a non-binding global sustainability plan signed by President George H.W. Bush and the leaders of 177 other nations in 1992. Like the Republican National Committee, the Iowa GOP apparently believes Agenda 21 is part of an effort to impose global political control on the U.S.

• Allow Iowa to “nullify” any federal laws it doesn’t like. Nullification was a failed legal argument made by opponents of the civil rights movement.

• Eliminate the Federal Reserve Act and implement a “sound commodity-backed currency” with a gold or silver standard.

• Fight the North American Union, “which would do away with our borders and sovereignty, and … the Amero, which would do away with our currency.” Although there actually are no secret plans to merge Mexico, the United States and Canada into a single entity — and replace our dollars with “Ameros” — that hasn’t stopped the conspiracy theorists.

• In the same vein, “oppose so-called ‘One-World Government.’ ”

• Entirely eliminate the departments of Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Energy, Interior, Labor and Commerce, along with the Transportation Safety Administration, the Food and Drug Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Endowment for the Arts, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

• Likewise, abolish the Internal Revenue Service and repeal the 16th Amendment, which legalized the federal income tax.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

86. and most music acts at a fair require an additional ticket and $$$

So this crowd was comprised of the folks who would still pay specifically to see Junior in 2012.
Probably nothing but mouth-breathing, drunk rightwingers.

Hardly a cross-section of Iowa, which tends to be a Democratic-leaning state.

[TheMightyFavog]

76. Let's look at some of the lyrics, shall we?

No nation’s lost more men than Uncle Sam
From the fields of France to evil Afghanistan

About that... Britian, France Germany and Russia/Soviet Union lost WAY more than we ever did, you pigfucker.

[Lint Head]

77. I've worked shows for other acts which Hank Jr. was on. He is as ignorant as he sounds

and a big mouthed coward. The I.Q. of a pebble.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

87. My friends who work our local venue have said he's an asshole

One of the rudest people in the business and a pain to deal with.

[cr8tvlde]

78. Well, we certainly don't hear of any cease-and-desist orders

issued to Democrats for using his songs as background or entry music ... LOL

His, Kid Rock and Nugent's RWCrazies should demand the GOP use their crappy music and mindless lyrics? as backup music for the appropriate political events rather than "pandering" to the Left Wing musicians...and getting publicly rebuked.

Even the NFL got fed up with him...poor baby.

[Raffi Ella]

82. rofl.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAW y'all!

Ol' Hank lettin' it all hang out. I'll be thinking of these idiot assholes when they announce that President Barack Hussien Obama has been re-elected as President of The United States of America this November...