Tea Party Nation Urges Monday Night Football Boycott, Backs Hank Williams For Senate

[meegbear]

After Hank Williams Jr. compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler and called him "the enemy" during a Fox News interview, ESPN dropped his theme song on Monday Night Football. Williams later acknowledged that his comments were “extreme” but didn’t back down from the analogy. Now, Tea Party Nation president Judson Phillips wants Williams Jr. to run for U.S. Senate in Tennessee and wants members to stop watching Monday Night Football "until Hank Williams is brought back to sing the intro to MNF":

No Hank, no Monday Night Football, ESPN, owned by far left leaning Disney struck back at Hank Williams today, taking his trademark, "Are you ready for some football?" song off fo (sic) the opening of Monday night football.

Why? Williams dared to insult Disney darling Obama.

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Earlier this year, ESPN reprimanded Golf commentator Paul Azinger for an anti-Obama tweet.

From USA Today in August:

UPDATE: ESPN is coming down on Paul Azinger for mocking President Obama on Twitter. The golf analyst tweeted Thursday the commander in chief plays more golf than he does -- and that Azinger has created more jobs this month than Obama has.

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As much as I love sports, I have just about had it with ESPN. Until Hank Williams is brought back to sing the intro to MNF, I won’t watch it and I encourage everyone else to turn off MNF.

Hank Williams, Jr. is rumored to be thinking about running for the US Senate in Tennessee. As a Tennessean, all I can say is, "Run Hank Run!"

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tea-party-nation-urges-monday-night-football-boycott-backs-hank-williams-senate

[Myrina]

1. Those people are such fucking brainless lemmings ...

OMG. D'oh!

[Pacifist Patriot]

12. I think you're giving them entirely too much credit.

[FSogol]

After Christie, the next GOP wishful thinking candidate: Hank Williams Jr.!

:facepalm:

[Raschel]

15. Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Michelle Bachmann. They'll take anyone.

[arcane1]

2. Yes, they are that stupid.

Setting aside the absurd demand that ESPN not only use his song again, but also have him at the game to sing it live... they want this jackass to be a senator???

They went from wanting politicians they can have a beer with to politicians they can do whiskey shots with.

[Raschel]

13. Judging from the clowns they have for candidates, it looks like they just want a circus.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. I've boycotted it for years

every since Dennis Miller was brought on board and Frank Gifford left because it sucked.

[tularetom]

7. I remember being happy because they hired Miller

Only because the other choice was Rush Limbaugh.

But Miller was soooooo bad I couldn't even watch anymore.

I don't think I've watched a MNF program since.

[City Lights]

4. All 12 of 'em are gunna boycott MNF?

:rofl: Have at it! :rofl:

[Safetykitten]

5. Boycott. Football. Oh yes, THAT will be a huge success!

[Bake]

29. Yeah, that ain't happening. The rednecks love their football!

They don't care if it's Hank Jr or Faith Hill ... they just want to get to the kickoff.

Bake

[dogknob]

6. Golldarn ding-doodle-dangit!

footbawl.

[Ichingcarpenter]

Bring Back Dennis Miller!!!!!

or Rush they were great on MNF!!!!!!!!

[madrchsod]

8. stephanie miller had a caller talk about williams shows...

the guy was at a hank jr`s casino show. the caller said jr would rant about obama for 5-10 minutes and after that some people got up and left. i guess his rants were worse than the bullshit he said on fox.

espn needs to dump that shithead and dump that stupid song.

[otohara]

9. Drink that fuckin alcohol

from the Hank Williams Jr. song, Drink It, Drug It

http://www.songlyrics.com/hank-williams-iii/drink-it-drug-it-lyrics/

Can't wait to hear his speech announcing his maybe "senate" run!!!!

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Is not watching MNF the same as boycotting?

Who cares about it anyway?

Not I.

[Deep13]

11. I'd call them Nazis except I don't think the real Nazis were this stupid.

I mean, they would have known that two people is one too few for the Three Stooges.

[KharmaTrain]

14. That'll Keep The Unhinged Busy...

...considering both of Tennessee's Senators are rushpublicans...so that means a fun primary challenge ahead. Go for it!

[mmonk]

16. Hypocrisy is thy middle name (says Natalie Maines)

[dtexdem]

17. Well now I HANKer to watch some more Monday Night Football.

;-)

[daa]

18. And what did they say about the Dixie Chicks????? We

should be burning Williams CDs except we can't afford to buy them.

[jmowreader]

30. Why in FUCK would we want to burn Hank Williams CDs?

That would mean I'd have to put money into Hank's pocket to get the CDs to burn.

We'd all be better off watching MNF on two TVs until they bow to the teabaggers and put Hank's lousy song back on.

[trumad]

19. Yeah---their the same douchebags

who stood in line to toss their Dixie Chick CD's in the fire.

[hifiguy]

20. Dumber than a sack of hammers,

these teatalitarians.

I always surfed away from MNF until Williams' bleatings were concluded and then came back for the game.

[B Calm]

21. All three hundred tea baggers boycotting and every news channel will cover it

[patrick t. cakes]

22. Disney is far left?

Woot!

[RockaFowler]

24. Yeah I was trying to figure that out

I guess if Dennis Miller, Rush Limballs are now considered leftys

And how many times does ABC have on Ann Coulter or SE Cupp or any other female Repuke

[Wait Wut]

23. o.O

:rofl:

Sorry, Jud ol' boy, I don't think you'll get your worshippers to stop watching football. Hell, it's one of the very few things we have in common.

[Rex]

25. Fuck the Tea Party, they are the party of the M$M and Big Biz

let them all rot imo.

[Initech]

26. People who are dumb enough to make that comparison deserve the consequences.

[Major Hogwash]

27. MNF isn't broadcast on free tv anymore and Bocephus is an over-the-hill 80s cowboy singer.

He would do better filling in at Shorty's Saloon or Haps' 121 club in Garden City on Saturday night than he would going on Faux and Friends.

[Dawson Leery]

28. The Tea Party will not watch Monday Night Football until Bull Connor is brought back on air!

[LLStarks]

31. Why do they keep propping up wingnuts for Senate seats? nt

[Hugabear]

32. Oh, but the teabaggers aren't racist!

My ass...

They just can't help themselves.

[Populist_Prole]

33. I hate football, but now I'll watch it just to spite those tea maggots

Really though, sounds like a wedge issue for the bread & circuses crowd the teabaggers try to woo. I'll bet those leaning bagger will watch anyway.