ESPN permanetly dumps Hank Williams, Jr.

[TeamJordan23]

Hank Williams Jr. Ditched By ESPN Over Obama Hitler

Having pulled his iconic Monday Night Football introduction song following his comments on Fox News comparing President Obama to Hitler on Monday, ESPN has announced that they are terminating their relationship with the country star permanently.

"We have decided to part ways with Hank Williams, Jr. We appreciate his contributions over the past years," the company said in a statement. "The success of Monday Night Football has always been about the games and that will continue."

Williams, however, claims it was his choice to leave, writing on his website:

"After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It’s been a great run."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/hank-williams-jr-ditched-espn-monday-night-football_n_998033.html

[fishwax]

1. good call, ESPN

:kick:

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. Ditto!

:kick:

[Pisces]

3. Great!! That was the right call.

[Ian David]

4. I hope The Dixie Chicks have a football song. n/t

[qanda]

5. Will.i.am would be a nice replacement

I'm sure he can come up with something good for MNF and he's quite Liberal. :)

[Botany]

6. I guess if you were offended then I am sorry bit didn't .....

.... fly.


In the words of Bocephus ...... OH Come on!

BTW Williams showed pictures of Obama w/ a Hitler mustache @ his concerts.

[MADem]

7. Yee HAW!!! If the AFLAC DUCK can take it, so can you, Hank!!

You know the guy is a fucking blowhard when he tries to pretend it was "his idea" to give up that fat residual check! Nitwit!

[Ruby the Liberal]

41. Game. Set. Match.

Residual is the hilarious part of this. Isn't like the redneck was having to actually show up and play live every week...

[Hosnon]

8. He's complaining ESPN violated his First Amendment rights? What an idiot. nt.

[Botany]

14. You have freedom of speech but not a freedom of ...

... consequences from what you say. Nobody is going to arrest him from what he said but ESPN has
the right to fire his ass.

"I am very sorry if it offended anyone." Hank Williams Jr.

[Hosnon]

17. No government was involved in this. Therefore, not a 1st Amendment issue.

And I agree completely: say stupid shit all day long, but expect a backlash.

[Botany]

21. The NFL is a multi billion $ business and if you are ....

.... somehow part of it (the biz of the NFL) comparing and African American President to Hitler
you can expect to be fired. Almost 70% of the players in the NFL are black and it took ABC
half a second to fire Rush from Monday Night Football when he went and made up a racist lie
about an African American player.

Funny the same people who talk about "the free market" now will see the firing of Williams
as stopping free speech.

[MADem]

51. I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the E S P N....?

Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new...E S P N....???

The idiot is confusing ESPN with the Gubmint of the Yooo Nattid States! USA has no problem with him shooting his mouth off all the live-long day, but the people who contracted to use his lousy song do not have to listen to his shit--either his opinions, OR his lousy music.

[FourScore]

9. You have freedom of speech, dumb ass. No one's arrested you, have they? It's just this -- words

have consequences. If my teenager mouths off at me, there are consequences. If you scream "fire" in a crowded theater, there are consequences. If you go into a bank and say, "This is a stick up" as joke, you'll still get arrested. You compare the POTUS to Hitler on TV, you will probably get FIRED from you TV job. Dumb ass. BUT...the good news is that you can compare Obama to the devil himself if you want to...all day long...to ALL your "Rowdy Friends". I'm sure their happy to listen to your uneducated crap. But we don't have to listen to it on TV anymore, and that's a good thing. What a stupid, stupid man you are!!!!

[Zambero]

10. Watch him use this as political fodder

Williams is rumored to be considering tossing his bombastic hat into the ring for U.S. Senator from Tennessee. If so, look for him to use this incident to score points, deriding the "establishment media" for quashing the free expression of a "good ole down home red, white & blue country boy patriot". Get ready for stuff like -- "they pushed me too far this time", so "y'all vote for me and I'll go kick some butt in DC". In truth, he would be doing more in the way of kissing butt by doing the bidding of Wall St and mega billionaires (he won't include that part). What's a washed up has-been singer to do? One thing's certain -- Williams is a disgrace to his father's name.

[Blue Owl]

11. Don't forget to flush. Twice.

There will be a lingering stench.

[bigwillq]

12. I think that was the right thing to do (nt)

[Cigar11]

13. It’s amazing how important the First Amendment becomes …

to Cons and TeaNutJobs when they feel "their rights" has been stepped on.

Hay moron, ESPN is a Private, for Profit Business Entity … you don’t take a Crap in your Employers Office and expect to get a Congratulations Nice Job response. It's just like Herman Cain calling Black Democrats Brainwashed ... but wonders why Blacks don't Vote Republican in droves.


“Fat, drunk & stupid is no way to go through life son!”
~ Dean Vernon Wormer,

[EffieBlack]

15. Funny how people who think the free enterprise system is the end-all-and-be-all

and that industry should operate unfettered in just about every respect suddenly want to clamp down on a business' ability to make its own business decisions when it means not doing business with people like Hank Williams, Jr.

Go figure.

[Hosnon]

18. +1. In my fantasy alternate universe, holding grossly contradictory positions

simultaneously literally makes your head explode.

[EffieBlack]

29. And isn't also head explosion inducing how the "personal responsibility" advocates never want to

take any personal responsibility for anything THEY say or do?

[hlthe2b]

16. Good.. they tossed Limbutt & so too should they ditch Hank the lesser.

Go puke with your "rowdy" friends elsewhere.

[jenmito]

19. K&R! I thought it might have just been for one game. n/t

[themaguffin]

20. typical wingnut, he absolutely does NOT understand what the 1st Amendment is.

dumb fuck redneck.

[JoePhilly]

22. "Help, I'm being repressed!!"

:rofl:

[cleanhippie]

23. Why is this in GD:P?

:shrug:

[BumRushDaShow]

28. Because of his rant on faux snooze

comparing the President and Speaker of the House's golf game as being like having Hitler playing golf with Netanyhu...

And the irony of that nonsensical garbage is that Boehner is of German descent... :crazy:

[Whisp]

24. good!

what a sorry human being, right up there with Nugent.
dumb as 9 bags of hammers.

[Hawaii Hiker]

25. Good job ESPN

Get rid of that asshole, :woohoo:

[otohara]

26. So He's Not Sorry

never was.

[BumRushDaShow]

27. K&R

Time to take out the trash... :applause:

[progressoid]

30. Awwww.

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[Cigar11]

31. I think Mr. Williams learned a valuable business lesion when you’re the employee! /n

[COLGATE4]

32. Fuck Hank and the horse he rode in on...

[COLGATE4]

33. Fuck Hank and the horse he rode in on...

[southernyankeebelle]

34. Good for ESPN. To bad he really never apologized right.

[Blue Owl]

35. Hank Williams Jr., UNION MEMBER

If it weren't for the musician's union, Hank Jr. wouldn't be worth the shit on his heel.

So go ahead, Hank -- shoot yourself in the foot on national TV!

[Life Long Dem]

36. One also has the "right to remain silent".

He stepped on the toes of some people while exercising his freedom of speech. Maybe someone else will not like what he has to say. I'd suggest he do just that and use the "right to remain silent".

[slay]

37. I bet teabaggers will play a pre-recorded version before each game

seriously - this will happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8LLKO0-PAE&feature=related <-- there is even a clip of it on youtube.. heh

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1OMiSrEJXnY/RulSoTFnofI/AAAAAAAADzc/WYwmo7bqnEY/s400/espn+mnf.jpg

[Glimmer of Hope]

38. Good ridance!

[MrSlayer]

39. Should never have been started to begin with.

I have always hated that opening. Just go back to the classic music.

[msu2ba]

40. Mr. Hanky gets flushed by ESPN n/t

[Lost-in-FL]

42. 1st Ammendment? Lol!!

Dumb ass republicans don't realize that any private company can fire you on the spot for making a statement that can damage the reputation of that company.

What's with this assholes carying about the 1st ammendment only when it is convenient??

[hay rick]

43. Hank Williams son is the victim here.

Asshole.

[47of74]

44. Up yours, Mr. Williams

And good call, ESPN!

[Generic Brad]

45. Are you ready for some unemployment?

You go, Hank, Jr.

I mean it. Go away.

[Blacksheep214]

46. I am Powerful

I wrote ESPN telling them it was time for a change and they then sacked the jerk!

Damn I'm good! :applause:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

47. All your rowdy friends have been kicked out of town.

Oh and how much you pay for that wig Hank?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caq_fnNlrqQ

[the_chinuk]

48. Yet another person who misunderstands what the First Amendment Protects You From

It protects you from the government abridging your freedom of speech … not from ESPN calling you for being a rude, stupid, obnoxious, tasteless, crass dick.

Who really needs Hank Williams Jr anyway?

[BlueStater]

49. Not that I watch ESPN anyway but good riddance. N/T

[PatrynXX]

50. Keith el have a field day with that one...

no free speech.... your working for ESPN. and as the supreme court said. corporations are people. do'h. paybacks a bitch

[Awsi Dooger]

52. Obama had a more productive round of golf than anything Tiger's managed lately

A roundabout way to get rid of Hank Williams Jr. was the equivalent of a 64

[spicegal]

53. Kudos to ESPN for doing the right thing. See, that's what

happens when you go on Fox. Unrestrained crazy talk comes out of your mouth.

[ProfessorGAC]

54. What A Dolt!

There is no freedom of speech issue here, Hank, you idiot. The ammendment prevents the government from imposing restrictions. ESPN is free to STOP PAYING YOU FOR USING THE SONG!

Besides, it was a stupid song anyway.
GAC

[dddem]

55. Good for ESPN, but I'm not satisfied yet.

Everybody is upset that williams compared Obama to Hitler, but I was personally more bothered by the statement he made about the President and Vice President being the "enemy". Some nut is going to hear a comment like that and start listening to those voices in his or her head. I think the Secret Service needs to pay a visit to Mr. Williams and find out exactly who he believes President Obama and Vice President Biden are the enemy of. Those can be very harmful words that spilled out of the cesspool Mr. Williams calls his mouth. As I've explained to my children, and someone should explain to Mr. Williams, with freedom comes responsibility - you can't say crap like that on national television. It's way more that disrespectful, it's potentially dangerous.

[Cigar11]

58. Exactly !

[occupy_wall_street]

56. INVITATION TO WALL STREET -- for Saturday at 11 AM at Liberty Park @ Red Cube corner

Please assemble peacefully at 140 Broadway.

A company such as Apple or General Motors or the old Ben & Jerrys has a responsibility to act in a responsible manner. Profit is not bad, but adding social justice makes these organizations much better.

The companies of Financial Capitalism are different. The crimes of their employees are what produced the Great Recession of 2008 and massive unemployment. They also took trillions of dollars from retirement funds and from other small investors.

Prosecute Wall Street's criminals. Fraud is still fraud. Banking regulations cannot to cited to usurp the general protections of the Common Law.

No one ever thought of prosecuting Steve Job for anything. He was not a criminal. He was a good man. Steve Jobs would not have been a success on today's Wall Street. "We Are The 1%" was not his motto.

"Think different" about sums it up.

-- DU members are all invited to come to the Occupy Wall Street site on Saturday, October 8th at 11 AM

-- Please assemble peacefully at the Red Cube at 140 Broadway, at the corner of Broadway and Liberty Street

-- A speaker from OWS will greet everyone from DU. A statement of purpose and an invitation to support OWS will be presented.

That site can accommodate 250 DU members and their friends easily. As many as 1,000 extra people connected to DU can be accommodated directly with OWS plans for Saturday afternoon.



Freely exercise your freedom of speech and of the press; and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Please, feel free to do all of this with Occupy Wall Street.

[snort]

57. Want to try having your

first amendment rights stepped on for reals? Head to OWS. Fuckhead.

[catbyte]

59. He's trying to tell everybody it was HIS idea his song was pulled. Fucking loser.