Let this be a lesson to everyone.  If you dare criticize The One, there will be severe consequences.  Dissent of any kind will not be tolerated.

Good for you ESPN! Kick a teabagger (TM) to the curb!

Hank has the first amendment confused.  So do most conservatives when someone criticizes them for their hateful, racist remarks.  You are free to say whatever you want.  But ESPN is free to hire or fire you.  If they do not want to be ASSOCIATED with your racism and hate, they don’t HAVE to be.  Your first amendment rights remain protected.  You can stand on a street corner and call Obama whatever you want, Bocephus.  If ESPN doesn’t want to be linked to your backwards, brain-damaged, drunken rants, where in the first amendment does it say they HAVE to?

What is he talking about 1st Amendment rights? Did the government fire him? His main problem is that he went on TV drunk or stoned. The decision to let him go was strictly business.

Hank, The Dixie Chicks thank you for you support of their “free speech” in 2003…………

Is that you Bachmann?  Did Marcus say it was OK for you to say that?

Correct. All he proved is that’s he’s far too stupid to realize what the First Amendment actually protects. But hey … I no longer have to listen to that annoying redneck song before Monday Night games, so that’s a plus!

No doubt, Michelle….look at the Dixie Chicks, they criticized him and his war on Iraq when they were performing in London that one time…pretty much got ostracized by every country radio station in the US. 

This is a lesson to the kids (red neck or not) to think before speaking. There are consequences to silly actions. 

I thought you were for private enterprise. The private company (ESPN) decided they don’t want to be associated with an individual because it might be bad for business. Economy 101, dump what is bad for business asap, if you know anything about making money you’d know this.

All she said was that she was embarrassed that ‘W’ came from Texas. What came after that was madness, yet he invoked Hitler and the response is non-existing. 

Let this be a lesson to hateful conservative hilbilly morons-if you insist on saying stupid crap you will get you dumb ass handed to you courtesy of free market.

What does the free market hate most? 

IDIOTS.

I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again, these TP guys do not know the differences between the constitution and the declaration. He is very supportive and patriotic of the constitution that he doesn’t understand the 1st part of it. Ahhhhh

GOOD JOB HANK !!!!   90% of FOOTBALL FANS ARE BEHIND YOU..THIS GOOFY POLICITACLY CORRECT COUNTRY IS EMBARASSING AND ANY SANE PERSON KNEW WHO WERENT COMPARING ANYBODY TO HITLER…. YOU WILL GAIN MORE FANS FOR THIS AND ESSPN WILL LOSE MORE FANS….

I just saw P-Diddy doing a Macys commercial.
Didn’t he call someone a fagg*t and n*gga just the other day??

After their audience turned away from the Dixie Chicks, do you remeber what happened?  The left couldn’t understand the backlash.  Do you rememebr the Barbara Walters interview.  Boo hoo – they were the VICTIMS.  Who on the left is saying Hank is the victim? 

Both were free to say what they wanted.   In one case the audience came down on the Dixie Chicks.  In the other, the White House came down on Hank Williams jr. 

While I actually agree with the libtards on this particular thread and subject (ie the business side of letting him go not equalling the stifling of free speech), I think the jist of Michelle’s comment was, “hey conservatives, if you say something provocative, prepare to lose your job.”  It’s duly noted that someone else could say something equally provocative but be of liberal stripe and said individual would probably still be employed.

Kenny Mayne of ESPN (same network) tweeted how he wanted to crash a car with a Palin sticker but refrained because the car might have contained children.  Still gainfully employed.  He didn’t equate Sister Sarah to Hitler, he only expressed desire to inflict bodily harm on someone who didn’t share his bullshit liberal worldview. 

Again, still gainfully employed by ESPN, the network that fired Williams, Jr.

http://mobile.twitter.com/Kenny_Mayne/status/79576974363852800

I know what the 1st Amendment is and I don’t claim his 1st Amendment rights were violated.  ESPN is a liberal organization.  If you criticize Barry, you’re canned, if you call those who didn’t vote for him racist, you are ok.  Just be consistent, that’s all I ask. 

Williams is a crappy singer, and ESPN is a wussy network. A pox on both their out-houses.

That was a consumer decision, this wasn’t. 

Michelle will never admit any wrong doing by any of her “rowdy friends”, so all of her posts need to be taken in that context…She believes in people like Palin, Beck, Williams, Limbaugh…So your not going to change that closed mind…..

Long live the first amendment rights of the Dixie Chicks!

Sweetie, you calling anyone hateful is humorous. 

ps, this wasn’t free market.  This was a liberal organization canning someone who would’ve kiss the Ones behind.  Do they have the right, sure, but don’t pretend it’s something that it isn’t. 

He’s liberal, totally different.

Exactly.

Since 1989? Time for a new song anyway. Change is good.

So, when Rick Sanchez made his comments about his employer and Jon Stewart…Sanchez was wronged?

Radio station executives banned the Dixie Chicks from their airways like EPSN executives banned Hank  Williams from theirs. Both responded to public outcry. 

How is ESPN a liberal organization? Just because they disassociate with someone who says something controversial doesn’t make them a liberal organization. I don’t see anyone on that network cheering for liberals or anybody else for that matter. Hank is yesterdays news anyhow. Just give me the ba ba ba bum, ba na ba na MNF theme music as always without any other bad song (see the sunday night game song) and I’m fine.

When you are a paid corporate spokesperson, for a corporation which seeks to avoid political controversy, it is generally not a good thing to compare the POTUS to Hitler. OK?

Even Fox and friends distanced themselves from Hank Jr.’s statements.

ESPN is liberal? I thought they were another corporate entity interested in profits. Did that somehow changed after Bush left office?

Now he can come up with a new song – ‘Are you ready for some Bingo’     

notice how Michelle never criticizes Williams’ insinuation that his 1st Amendment rights were infringed.

I’m just laughing at you. I hope you weren’t typing this as you were driving.

Everyone knows that if you dare say anything negative or even truthful about Obama you will never get a job in media or Hollywood.  Those are the orders given by Immelt, Sulzberger, Westin, Spielberg etc.

Are you saying corporate entity = conservative? Do you even know who owns ESPN? Disney, that’s who.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Disney#Political_Contributions

“Who on the left is saying Hank is the victim?”  Do you feel like Hank was a victim?  What exactly is the level of right wing outrage over what Hank said?  I know the talking heads were playing apologetic angle with his comments…but what of the Joe Plumbers?

You seem to think I’m saying that Dixie Chicks were victims but Hank wasn’t.  Let me clarify: Hank is not a victim nor were the Dixie Chicks.  Dixie Chicks got in front of their audience and said what they wanted and paid the price for it.  So did Hank.  The fact that either failed to consider the backlash of their words kind of eliminates their victim-status eligibility.

We’re not talking about a government attempt to silence one lone freedom fighter…we’re talking about a PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANY whom had a contract with an artist…a contract that more than likely has it’s loopholes regarding severing business relationships over conduct that would reflect poorly on the employer.  That’s not a political thing.  It’s just business. 

He’s free to say whatever the hell he wants and anyone is free to speak out against him…but when you engage in a business agreement as an artist, and your music or likeness is being used, you’re essentially  a representative of that company to a certain extent, therefore if you get out there and do something awesome like single-handedly save a busload of orphaned kids with cancer from a 200 ft marshmallow beast, you’ll be praised and touted by that company as a true representative of the way they do things…or, if you say something stupid without running it through the ‘internal committee”, you’re likely to get dropped.

ESPN fires Hank Williams and the NFL hires Madonna for superbowl 2012 halftime… I will not watch ESPN again, start the boycott now…Madonna Tour Juxtaposes Bush With Hitler, Features Her “Crucifixion”…http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/05/22/madonna-tour-juxtaposes-b_n_21436.html 

only if are a conservative…ESPN fires Hank Williams and the NFL hires Madonna for superbowl 2012 halftime… I will not watch ESPN again, start the boycott now…Madonna Tour Juxtaposes Bush With Hitler, Features Her “Crucifixion”…http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/05...

Last year’s Super Bowl was the most watched sporting event of all time (and always commands the highest dollar for their advertising air time) … you will not be missed so buh bye!!!

wheres the free market????ESPN fires Hank Williams and the NFL hires Madonna for superbowl 2012 halftime… I will not watch ESPN again, start the boycott now…Madonna Tour Juxtaposes Bush With Hitler, Features Her “Crucifixion”…http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/05...

Ha!  You got that … what goes around should come around.

ESPN is neither liberal nor conservative. It has an apolitical agenda. It just wants to make money.

There are two answers to your question.

First, it was Perry who has a thing for the “n” word.

Second, it was Santorum who has a problem with the “f” word … your know, fr0thy Santorum.

I was more worried that Dakota was typing that as they were drinking.

Ok, but do you think most corporations are inherently conservative?

You really think that ESPN is apolitical? http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/08/26/espn-moves-to-silence-golf-analyst-who-criticized-obama/

Bye bye douchebag!

How would YOU know what Sean Combs’ political stance is? You a diddy fan?

He’s not a spokesperson. Anyone that would hire Hank as a spokesperson would be an idiot. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Didn’t Williams state that he left after getting 100′s of emails? Why do you people keep saying he was fired? Sure, he might have been reprimanded behind closed doors, but he wasn’t fired. “It was my decision” were his own words at the top of the page. I’m just saying that because half of the rants in this thread are incorrect and a waste of time.

Someone needs to tell Junior that the Constitution doesn’t guarantee you the right to sing a crap song on Monday Night Football.
And does anyone really buy Junior’s claim that he walked away? He was fired. 

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAHHA!!!!!!

This TeaBagger Death Cult member got his ASS kicked out the door by ESPN!

As usual you mental midgets relate to what he says so you take it personal and agree that he left on his own decision……AHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHH!!!

Get used to it TeaBagger Death Cult! This is what America is going to do to you in 2012!!!!

I think you missed the part where he said he is the one who walked away….

…Poor Old Hank!!

Just a man on Fox & Friends struggling to make sense and making none whatsoever in response to intense gotcha questions.

A sandwich short of the picnic…

Chin up and when all else fails…yodel!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JczEyQHBLEw&feature=related

If you work for a company that says you will not say anything political and you do, you should be fired.  Oh and comparing anyone to Hitler is bad, I dont care what party you belong to. 

Sometimes your Conservative Victimization Syndrome becomes so acute it completely shuts down your power to think. ESPN is a sports organization, Michelle-in-Utah. It is neither liberal nor conservative. It is not partisan. ESPN didn’t keep your Lard Limbaugh from owning a football team. The NFL did.

ESPN called those to didnt vote for him racist?  If so, I agree with you.  If not, you are a hack.  Which is it?

ESPN is a bunch of candy asses.  Why do you think top talent like Dan Patrick and Rich Eisen went elsewhere?  Because management had no back bone.  Liberals can call Herman Cain Uncle Tom and that’s okay with everyoen even though Herman Cain’s heritage is more African than Obama’s ever will be.  But Hank can’t express his opinion on Fox

He signed a contract for ESPN.  In it, it says to not say anything political.  Its a sports network and if you go down the poitical road, you will lose half your audiance.  Williams knew this and he did it anyway.  He deserved to be fired.  Those on the right can say anything they want, he was wrong.  Especially what he said.  Boo bye Williams and if the baggers dont want to watch monday night football now, so what.

This was more likely advertiser-driven, like the successful boycott which led to O’Beckerhead’s firing at FOX “News”. Pure, undiluted capitalism, in other words.

By the way: Any word on when O’Beckerhead will begin work on one of his “special projects” at FOX “News”.

The white house came down on Williams?  Are you serious?  What the hell does the white house have to do with this.  This was between Williams, espn and a contract.  Period.

What does this have to do with Williams, espn and a contract?

ESPN is a big business who is all about profits…but suddenly they are liberal now?  Really?  Isn’t it all about private business and profit making righty’s?

In light of Williams’ unquestioned integrity, that changes everything. I’m sure he wants to hoist his derriere into a 20 year old bus with broken-down air conditioning and perform to “crowds” of 38 people in ramshackle honky-tonks and to curious on-lookers at bait shops and demolition derbies in medium sized cities throughout the mid South.

So you agree with the hitler/Obama comparison?  OSux, USux.

Achtung! The NEW POLITICAL ORDER IS HERE!

Anyone who criticizes TheOne, our beloved Messiah, OR ANY OF HIS ACTIONS, DECREES, POLICIES OR PALS will be condemned.  They will be ostracized from society, they will be labeled a threat to national security, they will be called “unpatriotic”, “un-American”, “a terrorist”,”destructive” and “a racist”, they will have to actually pay taxes (unlike lunatic-left socialist tax-cheats rangel, geithner, caroline “you know” kennedy, olbermann, mccaskill, holder, kerry, daschle, killifer, buffett, solis, kirk, sebelius and millions of others) and they will be vilified until they succumb to the ONLY ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL VIEW – that of the lunatic-left socialists.

All hail TheOne!  Resistance is futile.

Bullsh-t
The audience didn’t have time to turn away or register its opinion. The Dixie Chicks were yanked off the air by the rightwing radio chains like Cumulus and Clear Channel.
And a good chunk of the supposed outrage came from wingnut radio and an organized call-in campaign from rightwing websites like Free Republic.
Typical of conservatives: 
Republican in power – “How dare you criticize the commander-in-chief in a time of war?!?!?”
Democrat in power: “Secession!! Commie-Nazi-Muslim!! He’s not a citizen!!!”

Yup and Glenn Beck “quit” as well.  Are you serious?  Because williams said”It was my decision” makes it true?  Are you that gullible? 

Apparently, you haven’t read the Bill of Rights.
The first amendment clearly states “The right of drunken sons of country singers to perform on a national television channel with dancing cheerleaders and fireworks shall not be infringed, no matter what, especially if the president is not a Republican.”

Oh, cry me a river.  Play me a violin.

The article says that Williams himself claimed it was his own decision.

You might want to talk to Junior. He’s whining about the first amendment and claiming they took his freedom away.

He only sings the them song and appears in their promos. Where would people get this nutty idea that he represents MNF in any way?

He only sings the them song and appears in their promos. Where would people get this nutty idea that he represents MNF in any way?

He signed a contract for ESPN.  In it, it says to not say anything political.

You’ve seen his contract? Got a link?

He signed a contract for ESPN.  In it, it says to not say anything political.

You’ve seen his contract? Got a link?

You mean where he yelled “you can’t fire me, I quit!” LOL
Junior wanted to stay. That’s why he had his publicist issue his half-assed apologies. Now he’s trying to save face and still pretend he’s some redneck rebel.

Really. Junior hasn’t had a hit since the late ’80s and his music has always sucked.

Really?  I would guess ESPN did this at the direction of the WH.  There is no excuse for letting Hank go; they only did it because he criticized Obama.  Just think of all those who criticized Bush and/or Cheney and/or Palin and/or any other republican – there was NO retribution for their foul commentary.  But this is he himeslf, the big Zero, so thou shalt not speak ill of him.

I just heard he was hired to sing the intro to Fox & Friends….

“ARE TOY READY FOR SOME RETARDS?!?!
GET YER MORNING KICK-STARTED?!
WE’VE GOT STEVE AND GRETCH AND BRIAN…
THEY’VE ALL JUST BRAIN-FARTED!!”

good riddance, u never could hold a candle to a true american, your father. so eff u, now go away

Hank Williams Jr. is a complete idiot.  No sense of when to shut the hell up.  Anyone with a 6th grade education (and I’m not sure Williams has that but I don’t care) knows that once you say something like even using the word Hitler in a comparison to anything is a huge mistake in judgment. 

Historically every moron that says or does something stupid ends up losing support from their partners. He may not be employed by ABC/ESPN but his connection to them requires that you act appropriately in public.  What you say, what you do comes under fire when you get a check from anyone.  You are a representative of the company you work for no matter what the connection. Period.  Ask Tiger Woods.  Ask that idiot comedian that lost his voiceover gig with Aflac.  Ask Don Imus.  The list of people who say or do dumb things is long and obviously ongoing. 
 
He should have been fired the day after he said it. 

When you work for these companies at any level, you represent them in public.  Williams, as well as others on the list are just too damn stupid to understand that.   

Maybe you could enlighten me regarding what my 1st amendment rights are what does it protect?  You see,  the SCOUS continuously keeps changing that to include trash thats hard to understand, but speaking the truth against a tyrant is not.  Hank Jr has the same rights as all those Hollywood elitists to speak out against the sitting pres,  but since its a Liberal pres you people change the rules.  How nice huh.   but in keeping with Liberal elitist and hypocritical twofaced ways. 

Who did you want him to use for comparison?   Hitler was the worst he could find and yes we all know that came up short, but look at it this way.   From now on the world can use Obama as the comparison for all the bad in the world.

Oh stop your whining. It’s a private company that made a decision. that is what you right-wing idiots have been screaming for. When it actually happens and you don’t agree with the reasoning you cry like little babies.

Yes the white house controls the decision making of a private sports network. Just shut the F up already. Whiny bitches.

Fact: You and the freak stink at singing post!

Fact: Sounds like what that loser of Austin area Willy Nelson does between bong hits!

It’s understandable that it went right over your head.

Your Village Idiot moniker continues aptly.

I am sure ESPN is quaking about your boycott…

Hank, you have the right to say whatever you want about whomever you like.  But your corporate employer has the right to assess consequences such as kicking your redneck ass to the curb.

Listen to this person, he knows what he’s talking about…

Wanna bet?

Anyone who thinks ESPN and MNF will lose viewers because Rowdy Hank is gone is delusional.  It is about the football, not the song!

If he had compared Bush to Hitler, they would have hoisted him up as a 1st amendment hero. 

Why do you use racial slurs to attack him? 

What color is the sky in your world?

ESPN is known for its left wing commentators injecting their politics in to the sports casting. They regularly took shots at Bush, promote Democrat policies and attack critics of Obama. 

This is the only thing Hank has done in years that has even been relevant to pop culture.

If you believe that…

I’m confused.
Like Hank, I thought that everyone was looking to him for guidance in all matters political.
His wisdom, his insight, but most of all, his keen intelligence, were a vital component of the national dialogue.
His voice will surely be missed.

OK. The 1st Amendment protects you and against the GOVERNMENT censoring what you say, watch, read, etc. ESPN can exclude anyone they want. ESPN is not the government. They may side with the government, but that’s their prerogative, under the 1st Amendment. Get it?

All speech, including hate speech, is protected by the 1st Amendment and Mr. Williams has not been stopped from speaking. I think the Court has said, consistently, that you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater or incite to violence, though you may advocate violence.

Williams can speak to anyone willing to listen to him or pay him to speak. ESPN demures from continuing to pay him to speak or sing.

He was fired by his employer for speech his employer thinks is not in keeping with what it wants people to think about its respect for government. Apparently, ESPN thinks that to suggest that the President of the United States is comparable to a genocidal dictator is not in keeping with their corporate image. Such ideas are best left to Tea Party rallies.

The 1st Amendment lives!

Actually, they cry like hypocrites.
Which is what they are.

Isn’t he a little on the effeminate side for you righties anyway?

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/367957/thumbs/s-HANK-WILLIAMS-JR-APOLOGIZES-large300.jpg

Needless to say, you were equally outraged and unhinged when The Dixie Chicks were booted from the airwaves by Clear Channel after saying they were ashamed of Bush in 2003….

Junior does need a good talking to.  Michelle claims that she knows what “Freedom of Speech” really means, and I’m sure that she does.  But, apparently, Junior does not know what it means.  By claiming that ESPN stepped on the toes of the First Amendment, he is A)proving that he does not know what “Freedom of Speech” really means; B)playing the part of “victim”…..and isn’t that what conservatives often do, claim that liberals play the part of “victim” and not taking personal responsibility and C)proving his ignorance and arrogance…..if he thinks his “Freedom of Speech” has been violated, what about ESPN’s “Freedom of Speech and Expression”?  They had every right to fire him, probably for almost any reason.  Every company I have ever worked for has been one with “at-will employment” practices, meaning that the company could discharge me for “good cause, bad cause, or no cause at all.”

Junior is playing the victim again.  Stop!  Isn’t that what you conservatives gripe about all the time, the thing that liberals do?

Ms. Tina also appears to be playing the victim herself.

Well, in answer to your question, Hank himself is claiming victimhood!  And so are you!  Boo Hoo.

Oh, and do you remember what the Dixie Chicks said?  It’s a huge difference from saying that you are embarrassed from being the same state as Bush and comparing Obama to Hitler.

*drink*

Michelle assumes everyone who’s black is a liberal by default. She’s from Utah, after all.

You’re the one that voted for “Change!” Gullible?

Uhh, yes it was a consumer decision.  ESPN doesn’t like politics coming out of the mouths of their employees, especially such as came from the mouth of Junior.  They felt it would hurt their brand and their business.

So does ESPN have a virtual gag order in place on everything he says even off their network? The comments they fired him for were not on ESPN, and his contract only applies to the song for MNF. Where do the limits of his contract apply? I think this was a knee jerk reaction by politically correct executives at ESPN.

Since the offending remark wasn’t uttered on their network, and Hank Jr. doesn’t appear on ESPN other than in that theme for MNF, this could be a wrongful dismissal case.

Looks to me like ESPN tripped over their umm, process, on this deal.

He didn’t compare obama to hitler.

Good point.  Junior not only is playing the victim; he appears to be thinking that he is “entitled” to his stint at ESPN.

Bill Maher was fired from ABC after he made his 9-11 remarks.

It was time for a new song in 1990.

“Bullsh-t
The audience didn’t have time to turn away or register its opinion.”

Really? Can you prove that?

NO! Obama personally fired him! Don’t you read Michelle’s posts?

You realize that the expression is actually “Just the Facts” not “Just for the Facts” don’t you?.

ESPN are a bunch of limp wrists, who’s favorite thing is hanging round Mens locker rooms.

He would have done well to have kept his mouth shut and not used anyone or anything for comparison.  That would have been the smart thing, but then this guy isn’t a smart guy. Even the Fox & Friends commentors were a bit shocked over the hateful tone and content of his remarks.

Just what kind of democrat policies have they supported and can you provide any instance in which the commentators injected their politics into their sports casting?  Put it up or shut it up.

This story worries me, because it makes me think Hank Williams, Jr. is going to have to choke a bitch. or another one, anyway.

http://www.hecklerspray.com/hank-williams-jr-charged-with-waitress-assault/20062621.php

That Twitter feed of yours is pure poetry there, Dakota.   A rich combo of hate, attempted financial elitism and the N word.   Good stuff.

I don’t know which is the more pathetic consideration regarding your life.

The fact that your song writing sucks major or the fact that you would spend valuable grey matter writing a song that sucks.  Either way, I think you’ve got a problem. 

Can you provide any instance in which the ESPN crews criticized Bush, Cheney or Palin or, any other Republican???  Of course you can’t, because no such occurrence on ESPN. 

No, it had nothing to do with his intelligence. He was drunk. Runs in the family. In fact at least half the tea partiers walk around drunk.

Now Natalie Maines sure didn’t call the President Bush “Hitler”, now did she?  If the Dixie Chicks were called “traitors” by the rednecks and tea party republicans, don’t you think what Hank JR called the president was worse and all his CD’s should be burned?
By the way, the Dixie Chicks are having a big benefit for Flood victims coming up in a couple weeks.

Since it needs to be repeated endlessly to the Tea Party types here:  Nothing in this situation had a thing to do with the First Amendment.   A company ending a financial relationship with a performer due to perceived damage their political speech could do to their product is totally unrelated to the Government stifling an individual’s right to speak. 

Also, before you start to assume that Disney is a big old liberal company as the right occasionally tries to assert. lets recall that they fired Bill Maher for his anti-conservative remarks after 9-11, and tried to integrate Rush Limbaugh and Dennis Miller into their ESPN and ABC football broadcast teams respectively…

Zona-
I’m sure the white house would say they have been called every name in the book and coming from Hank Jr does not make his hateful remarks any different than any other racist republican out there.  Yes, it is between Williams and ESPN and their contract.  Period.

ESPN’s loss.

Again a reminder that this “liberal organization” is the same one that fired Bill Maher for saying things that were construed to be anti-conservative after 9-11, and tried to integrate Rush Limbaugh into their ESPN broadcasts and Dennis Miller into their ABC Monday Night broadcasts.   

Disney is all about maximizing their profits.  When it calls for pandering to the right wing, they do it, when it calls for damage control to the left wing and moderates, they do it.  When it leads them to donate more heavily to the front runner in national elections (Obama in 2008, Bush in 2004) they do that.

So, when the Maxine “This Socialist”  Waters says that teapartiers should go to hell, you will hope that her voters fire her.  When Bill Maher begs for Darth Chennys time of death, HBO should fire him.  When some clown congressmen says that all teabaggers want all black people hanging off of trees, he should be run out on a rail.  We can keep this up all day long.  Oh, wait, when it is someone you like it’s “excercising your right to free speech”, otherwise you say they should be fired, no wait, set them on fire is what you really want. 

I am happy to see the the thought police are well on their way to absolute control.  Go Obama, go progressives, lets warm up those re-education camps just like Rosanne wants and hey sharpen the blades, its time for some beheading to begin.

Not sure how Clear Channel execs taking the Dixie Chicks off the air in anticipation of negative listener reaction is at all different from ESPN doing the same with Hank Jr. in anticipation of negative viewer reaction….

Actually, Clear Channel came down on the Dixie Chicks (admittedly in anticipation of what they thought would be negative fallout from listeners) while ESPN did exactly the same thing with Hank Williams Jr. 

Not sure how you somehow see the White House involved in this.  Did you also suspect the White House canned the Dixie Chicks airplay?

Where were you that you didn’t witness the burning of the Dixie Chick CD’s ?????? 

Again, suggest you Google Bill Maher (Fired by the same company for supposed anti-conservative comments following 9-11  Also see Dixie Chicks, Clear Channel)  

Just because something failed to get you angry at the time, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

Country stations across the United States have pulled the Chicks from playlists following reports that lead singer Natalie Maines said in a concert in London earlier this week that she was “ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.”
Station managers said their decisions were prompted by calls from irate listeners who thought criticism of the president was unpatriotic.
The group, which got its start in Texas, was one of the darlings of this year’s Grammy Awards. The three-woman band that blends blue grass and pop hooks has spawned legions of fans who embrace the ideals of strong women celebrated in some of the trio’s songs.
One station in Kansas City, Missouri held a Dixie “chicken toss” party Friday morning, where Chick critics were encouraged to dump the group’s tapes, CDs and concert tickets into trash cans.
Houston country station KILT pulled the band’s records from its playlist — at least temporarily — after 77 percent of people polled on its Web site said they supported the move.

You don’t have a clue about racism do you?

Tell me oh intelligent one, does it protect reporters locked in closets by the Vice President?

You mean left wing commentators like those two former Disney employed  sportscasters Rush Limbaugh (ESPN) and Dennis Miller (ABC) or do you mean Al Michaels (ABC) who during the 2004 Presidential Race commented during a Monday Night Game that the Patriots were flip flopping more than John Kerry?   

In the other direction, I only find an anti-Palin tweet from Kenny Mayne

90%????  Did you take a scientific poll?  Can you provide more information about it and did you take a poll in 2003 when Natalie Maines simply said she was “ashamed to be from the same state as President Bush” but was ostracized by all the republicans and their records banned by radio stations?

I hope that you and the gang who added “like” to his post carefully read Brian Kirkland’s post in response.  Sadly, none of you supposedly Constitution worshiping Tea Party types seem to have the first notion about what it says.   

Also, just for chuckles, any time you’d like to show me where the (Conservatively tipping) Supreme Court has changed the 1st Amendment, I’d love to see it.   But failing that, please don’t think twice about continuing to see your world as impacted by those oh so powerful “Liberal Elitists.”   (I’d especially keep an eye on that sneaky Ashton Kutcher – I think he’s a real threat to gut EPA clean air standards and end SCHIP matching funds for health insurance to low income kids…)

Sure has there’s a Sunday coming, someone at ESPN will compare Bush or some other Republican to Hitler.

They won’t be suspended or fired.

Just watch……………….

Obama didn’t murder millions of Jews, homosexuals and gypsies. He just wishes he had thought of it first.

If I still lived in Kansas City I would have raised Hell with these idiots with a counter protest.  I bet I know the scum bag station that did it. Neo Con Central.

you’re an idiot.

and you’re an illiterate moron. 

I think he was drunk or high. And whoever thought it was a good idea to let him on like that is a jackass. But he said was far right and redneck. When Fox news is backing away from him. Then he really did it.

Im a conservative, but Im definitely with ESPN here.
 
ESPN can fire him if they feel it may alienate the 40% of the country that approves of Obama.
 
What he said was sloppy and stupid. Hitler references are as lowest-common-denominator as they come.
 
Plus, keeping politics out of football is a must- I wouldnt want to hear some america-bashing rhetoric from a liberal on or associated with a football broadcast, so its only right that a conservatives be held to the same standard, if not a HIGHER standard.

There are two pieces of crap in the past new world order.  That everyone wanted dead and we all hope stay dead with no re-incarnation.  One is Hitler.  The other is Osama Bin Laden.  This is not “exercising um, spelled correctly) your right to free speech.”  This is an example of a stupid hillbilly that has every right to act like a stupid hillbilly yet not express those feelings on national television comparing anyone, anyone to the two aforementioned people we in this world completely revile.

If Hank Williams Jr. had any sense of judgment, he would have said to himself “Hey hillbilly.  I’m collecting a paycheck from ESPN for singing a song.  Maybe I should take the check and shut up.”

No, no. Not Hank Williams, Jr. 

Bottom line.  You don’t compare this President or any President to Hitler.  You don’t put any President’s name in the same sentence.  Especially when you get an ongoing check from a big corporation in the name of Disney/ABC, owners of ESPN.  You just have to think, which is tough for some people, before you revert to being a hillbilly and go on national television.  If you want to call a President stupid, a moron, I hate him, a loser, the worst President ever.  But don’t compare any President to Hitler.

Not only did bringing the name of Hitler in to the conversation piss off a lot of black people (um, what? 70% of NFL players are black people) Hank Williams Jr. pissed off a lot of Jewish people.  Two groups a hillbilly doesn’t want to piss off.  I got two words on the latter group…Mel Gibson.  Case closed.  

So now you have a hillbilly, stick with me now, on FOX News, stay with me, pissing off blacks (Group 1) and Jews (Group 2). 

Do you hear the words coming out of my mouth?

Final thought.  If I were FOX News, with all of the crap that Rupert Murdoch is going through with the phone hacking scandal in Great Britain, I might think twice about pissing off anybody in the administration that has the power to put together a Senate Sub Committee to subpoena everyone in America that keeps saying they had nothing to do or had no knowledge of the practice here in the States.    

suck it up chump.

You notice the so called “the one”  has said not one word about Williams shameful statement.  Now that is class on ESPN’s part and it does shows Williams to be the juvenile in this instance. Great to observe integrity before profits.  And Williams is the one who shot off his racist remarks.  He is the one accountable and no matter how he tried to dodge getting fired, that is exactly what happened to him.  I have never been all that interested in football but I am organizing a “Support ESPN’s Moral Decision” to respond to the Racist comment by Hank Williams.  ESPN sounds just fine on this one and acted very morally and very grown up.  Good for them, I say!

Whether it’s from the left or the right, someone has to always invoke Hitler into the conversation. This idiot called Obama and Biden, The Three Stooges. Does he know what 1 + 1 equals. I was getting tired of his Monday Night Football piece anyway. The Sunday Night Football pre-game piece with Faith Hill is so much better. She’s hot!!!.

Actually I just reread the Constitution and there is a right to free speech but it also gives employers the right to set standards of values that reflect their ideals.  Wonderful to see such integrity in this modern time.  Just remember, Williams could have even posted his hate comments right here and the owner of this site is free to take it down if the comment does not comply with their standards and values.  I am giggling away here at the thought that anyone thinks the owner of a broaddcast does not have the right to set standards of speech allowed on THEIR own purchased broadcast time. 

Entirely too rational ya know!   I am chuckling after your great comments.  But the comment is probably far to rational for many and for this guy.  It is such a leap of objectivity between his comment and yours.  but all in all, the entire discussion has been great and the issue is a very important one.  Thanks for the great comment!

Say goodbye to that primetime publishing money! Hahahahahaha

Back to the State Fair circuit!

BaaaahahahHahahahaha

Gotta admit that interview was HILARIOUS though

LOL

“sure has a Sunday coming…”

HUH! What does that even mean? Do you reread your stuff before you hit post?

Hardly. The stupid “song” will not be missed.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have a BIGOT here!!!

They don’t want to be associated with an anti-American idiot.

It’s as simple as that. I’m sure their contract says they can terminate the relationship at their own will. Most contracts like this do.

You’re a name caller, SHAME on you,Moose…Nuts?

You do realize they don’t show the Super Bowl on ESPN, right?

….wait, are YOU Hitler…? Or are you just propagating anti-Jewish nonsense?

Can you say Dixie Chicks?

And ESPN doesn’t run the Super Bowl, genius n

Hold on Michelle

I respect your opinion but your waaaay off on this.  ESPN has no liberal bias. Just tune in to watch Skip Bayless sometime, if that guy isn’t the sports version of Rush Limbaugh i don’t know who is. I think you need to just accept that Williams got let go because he said something really stupid on a national stage.  His intro songs are tired and ESPN was probably looking for a good reason to let him go.  I think this has less to do about his political views and more to do with the fact he just sucks as a musician.

Redneck is a racial term now? UGH. Too. Many. Idiots.

And Kenny Mayne is a satirist.

I want to be able to see the future.. what is the secret? I guess you believe Hanks First Amendment Rights were stepped on as well.. LOL.. back to high school for you.

and you watch.. ewwwwwww

For the folks who only remember what has happened since they woke up this morning; HANK was rightfully fired by his employer. HANK can and should sue and he WILL win payment for the rest of his contract ONLY if there is nothing in the contract relating to his behavior while employed by ESPN.
HE WILL sue, he will get the money owed on his contract and he will protest paying taxes on the millions he recieves.
IF this doesn’t sound familiar, you obviously WATCHED Charlie Sheen’s madness just a few months ago, but didnt LISTEN to anything. Just like you probably WATCHED millions of people lose their jobs over the last decade, and just recently decided HEY ITS ALL THAT OBAMA BOYS FAULT. go have a Pabst.

lolololol

Whatever that means o_O

why was he so outraged over golf LOL

Apparently his heartfelt apology failed

Not much of a loss for NFL football.  Anyway, who cares about Hank Williams, Jr.? 

  I once had a boss who said you have the right to your opinion regardless of how worthless it is. 

The best take on this is right here:

http://www.canyon-news.com/artman2/publish/National_News_1182/ESPN_Cuts_All_Ties_With_Hank_Williams_Jr.php

Using commentary from a right wing attack dog does absolutely nothing to help you prove your point.

I think ESPN’s main concern was too much controversy and losing sponsors.   To me, it wasn’t so much what Hank Williams Jr. said regarding comparing Hitler and Obama.   It wasn’t like they were censoring him, preventing him from saying what the son of the great Country singer said.  ESPN didn’t and can’t stop HWJr from speaking his mind other places.  They do possess the right not to use his theme song.  Plain and simple its a business decision.  The network wants to protect themselves.

Are you Johnnie Cochran or what

You baggers should learn to laugh alittle, song was not bad

Only powder puffs named Ricci, like to watch!

What makes you think he’s anti-American? Being anti-Obama does not make him anti-American.

Nope. Are You?

Too bad they settled their strike….bunch a whiny men on ESPN..and on the field 

ESPN might as well break it’s ties with NASCAR in addition to HWJr….because most of those boys hate Hitl…..er……… Obama too.
What’s to like?

Hitler must be rolling over in his grave after being compared with a Negro.

Attention folks: the First Amendment does not protect YOU from what you say.  Only your right to say it.  In addition, hate speech is NOT protected.  However, what Hank Williams said is NOT classified, under the law as hate speech.  Though invoking Godwin’s Law on television, or publicly at all, is a really stupid thing to do.

ESPN did NOT “cut the ties” with Hank Williams, it was the other way around. Make your headline reflect the reality.

Large amounts of stimulas money was given to ESPN, CBS, GE, CSNBC, banks in Europe etc. They are just liberals paying back their president for all of our Social Security yearly cost of living raises of money they received and we did not get over the four years Obuma is president. Oh that’s right we received $250 wich we would have gotten in six months anyway.

Hank is wrong ESPN didn’t step on his first amendment rights. And as I keep saying it’s getting old with hitler & nazi analogy from both the far left & far right Hank can only blame himself for the reason why the theme is no more on Monday Night. I like who is replacing Hank this Monday Barry Sanders can’t wait to the package ESPN will be showing on MNF. Go Lions.

F#@% ESPN a proven NorthEast den of Liberal A$$holes.

Must be nice to fire someone because you don’t like their take on a situation. I’m a Democrat but not proud of it now. Hank Williams Jr presented an opinion widely shared around this country. More people need to say it. This president has devided this country and basically bankrupted the economy. Save the banks screw the middle class. Maybe hank should run for President.

Everyone should write ESPN and demand that Madonna’s Superbowl half-time show not be covered at all by their station. After all, she went on a world-wide tour displaying a slide show that compared George W. Bush to Hitler in  2008. Fair is fair…if Hank goes, so does Madonna!

So, I take it you complained about all those on the left who compared George W. Bush to Hitler including Madonna, Janeane Garofalo, David Clennon, Linda Ronstadt, Tony Bennett, Black Sabbath, MoveOn.org, and numberous columnists, political commentators, cartoonists, and activists…correct? If not, then your bias and double standard show your true motivations.

He should have been fired. The office of President deserves respect no matter who is President. Same thing happened with the Dixie Chicks and President Bush. While no one fired them their careers went right down the toilet and rightly should have. The people we elect to run the government are elected in and if you don’t like who is in there next vote differently and try to convenience everyone to see it your way, other wise you can leave. Maybe you can find a nice place in Russia with good heat. With all it’s bad, the US of A is still the best place on Earth by a large margin.

DC 

What ever happened to free speech? The man made a comparison PERIOD. It was an opinion and everyone is entitled to one. BY the way I was brought up to believe that RESPECT IS EARNED NOT GIVEN!!! What has Obama done to earn any respect. He is an arrogant, egomanic that is destroying this country. That’s my opinion.