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Hank Williams Jr. Explains Himself On The View And Television Magic Is Made

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Hank Williams Jr. has been at the center of a controversy after he likened a golf game between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner to a meeting between Adolph Hitler and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an appearance on Fox and Friends. Since then, he has been fired by ESPN as a pregame questioner of the nation’s readiness for football, and has released his own song which raises his middle fingers to to his foes (in particular Fox and Friends and ESPN.) Today he appeared on The View to explain himself in a roller coaster of a segment.


RELATED: Keep The Change: Hank Williams Jr.’s Releases Track Bashing Fox and Friends

To recap: no, Bocephus was not specifically comparing Obama to Hitler; he was simply drawing an analogy of opposites (and pulled out a dictionary for Sherri Shepherd to read aloud.) He also appears to hold most of his animus for the Disney corporation (who owns both ESPN and The View), to whom he appeared to blame for an infringement of his First Amendment rights (though its not clear how or why.)


RELATED: SNL Takes On Fox And Friends And Hank Williams Jr.’s Hitler-Obama Comparison

There are many reasons why Williams Jr. deserves credit for going on a Disney-owned television show to explain his side of the brouhaha, not least of which is his decision to wear a Mickey Mantle Yankees jersey. Mantle bridged the gap between Oklahoma and NYC, just as Bocephus himself was aiming to do as well.

The following segment turns out to be a delightful piece of television programming of disparate sensibilities combined to discuss hyperbole, responsibility and the very definition of “meaning” itself (Jacques Derrida would be so proud!) Watch for yourself, courtesy of ABC:

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  • Anonymous

    Which one is Hank ?

  • http://twitter.com/MilitantAgnosti MilitantAgnostic

    Hey Bocephus,
    All you had to do was say “sorry that went a little farther than i meant” but conservatives seem incapable of admitting even the faintest whiff of fault.   Instead you respond like a 13 year old. You’re just confirming that you’re still nothing but an ignorant shitkicker cashing in on daddy’s fame.  He worked for it, you might as well enjoy it you poser.

  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

    Hah !!

  • Anonymous

    On ‘The View’, BoSyphilis finds his proper milieu. He blends right in.

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    Hank Williams Jr sounds just as smart as a typical Conservative/Republican/Tea Bagger voter of this country.

  • Anonymous

    Being a redneck is a disadvantage, should be under protected specie. 

  • Anonymous

    Anyone who has taken an ACT or SAT should understand the comparison. This is to that as that is to this.  Much ado about nothing.  Funny how the left can say whatever outrageous stuff they wish and it’s all good. Funny how that hypocrisy works.

  • Anonymous

    Oh the “intelligence” condescension attempt. LOL. Like the Democrats who though Obama was going to pay their mortgages?  Yeah…so much smarter.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Skinner/100000598231323 Brian Skinner

    I have a feeling that Hank is going to cash in big time over this.

  • Anonymous

    Hank Williams Jr. is the new Sarah Palin, only smarter.

  • bhodie

    The more Hank Williams speaks, the more he shows how ignorant he is…He needs to stick to the music business and shut his piehole….He always looks dirty and in need of a good shower, and is he always high or drunk?

  • Anonymous

    ‘…I don’t know Joy, I’m not smart enough to know the difference!’ Hank Williams Jnr

    What a guy.

    When all else fails yodel…

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

  • Anonymous

    Cash in?  Hank’s got more money than he can ever spend already.  Hank was just being Hank . . . the same persona that he’s always had.  It’s just that now, you can’t say Hitler and Obama in the same sentence.  It’s OK to say Hitler and Bush, but not Hitler and Obama.
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lor-Mazz/1060895688 Lor Mazz

    I think Chaz can replace hank singing monday night football’s song. she sure as hell can’t dance!

  • Anonymous

    What?!

    Hank doesn’t deserve credit for going on Disney owned ABC, Colby.  Disney/ABC deserves credit for letting him speak.

  • Darladoon

    let’s bring the redneck racist right back on telelvision, so he can gain
    even more exposure, and make even more money, and make a total ass
    of himself…..

    btw, i’m still utterly baffled by the comparison of boehner to netanyahu

  • Lisasunshine1972

    Obviously you dont know what the hell you are talking about!

  • Darladoon

    “juking and jiving”??

  • Anonymous

    That’s quite a slam on Hank.  You really should apologize.

  • joe

    cons can never stand by their crap–they throw bombs and the spend the rest of the time blaming liberals for their mistakes..
    whatever..
    i like Hanks music–but be a man for god’s sake

    are there no men left in the republican party????

  • Darladoon

    “i told you i’m not smart enough”

    i like this guy!

  • Chris Strickland

    At first, I didn’t think his apology was sincere, but I realize now that it was.  Basically, he was sorry for choosing Hitler as part of the analogy.  I don’t believe he was calling anybody in the golf group Hitler.  He could of used black and white, up or down, or any number of combinations to highlight the opposites and polarization  between democrats and republicans.

    It was on the fly, early in the morning, and it was a on the cuff response to fox news and friends questioning.  His anger in the matter reflects that the supposed agenda for the interview was suppose to be about a cd release of some of his fathers songs.

    At first, I thought he should be canned.  Now, I think I judged too quickly.

  • Anonymous

    He certainly sounds smarter than you. Put down your banjo and put some socks on, libby boy!

  • Anonymous

    God, Hank is the right’s answer to Michael Moore- both are whack jobs but libs support and listen to  MM!

    LOL

  • Darladoon

    yeah, williams is a whack job, but you’re here supporting him…..

  • Anonymous

    cons can never stand by their crap–they throw bombs and the spend the rest of the time blaming liberals for their mistakes..”

    That’s so funny!

    Bombs?

    “The TP can go straight to hell.”

    “We got to wipe out these SOBs.”
    “They want us hanging from trees”

    Blame?

    “I inherited this.”

    hahaha

  • Norbit

    lol
    Yea, unlike a whole caucus of black democrats LYING about being spit on & called a pejoartive – when it never happened!

    Williams made a well-reasoned analogy, and he should have stuck by it.
    The only spineless gutter-scum in this whole incident were the lapdog biatches at ESPN! – and of course, the Democrats! lol

  • Anonymous

    What is funny is how Hank is trying to explain himself as he sits next to the lady who called Sharon Angle a bitch on camera and said she was going to hell.
    He is sitting next to the lady that laughed as Banana boat Belafonte said Herman Cain was not a real negro on her cable show as he spewed his contempt for white people.

    What a joke.

  • Ben Dover

    Over reaction in every direction.  Hank probably was too tired from rolling smoke all night to think straight.  I mean really, how much erudite cogitation can you expect from Bo at 9 o’clock in the morning, when he has been in the hot tub all night with Miss Alabama!

  • Anonymous

    That’s Ebonics for BSing.

  • Chris Strickland

    I don’t agree with his politics.  And it may well be that he got an opportunity because of his fathers legacy.  But he made the most of that legacy.  Hanks a great artist and you will never go to a better more entertaining concert.  There isn’t an instrument that guy can’t play and he’s a very accomplished song writer by any standard you want to measure from.  Whatever his politics, no one can say different.

  • Anonymous

    Prove it, dear.

    LOL

    You can’t but you tacitly agreed that you support that whack job MM.

    I knew it!

  • joe

    just as i said–BLAMES THE DEMS—
    can you people ever take responsibility for anything>
    OMG

  • JL

    Kind of sounds like Obama always blaming the previous administration for the mess they “inherited”, and not taking any blame for his own economic policies which do nothing to help.

  • joe

    like i said–BLAME THE DEMS—
    CAN YOU PEOPLE DO ANYTHING ON YOUR OWN?
    CAN YOU TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANYTHING???
    OMG~

  • Anonymous

    Both are Einsteins compared to you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Swom-Smith/100002004503875 Swom Smith

    Watch Hank Williams Jr The View Interview Full Video on October 11

    http://tinyurl.com/Hank-Williams-Jr-The-View

  • Anonymous

    “I inherited….”

    LOL

    Try again.

  • Chris Strickland

    You might be showing your age.  I have a BBA, and I have never taken an ACT or SAT.  Believe it or not, there was a time when there was no such requirement.

  • Anonymous

    As I said, child: Barry: “I inherited…..”

    LOL

  • S R Karenova

    You make a valid point here over conservatives not able to admit the faintest whiff of fault. George Bush bequeathed to America two of its three longest wars, and the worst decade for the middle class since the 1930′s. And yet, he left office not capable of admitting mistakes. This is indeed a cancer among conservatives.

  • JL

    And they’re both smarter than you, dumbass! :)

  • Redleaf

    Don’t worry. When the next Republican president gets elected, you’ll be blaming the last Democratic administration for the mess he inherited.

    “No, I won’t! I would never do that!”

    Yes, you will. 

  • Anonymous

    I’ve taken the ACT, SAT, GRE and LSAT.

    Either way, Williams comes out the winner on this issue.

  • Anonymous

    Good one.  You’re sure smart.

  • Anonymous

    I took the ACT.  I’m 44. My daughter is taking them all now actually.

  • Darladoon

    your quotes:

    “Both are Einsteins compared to you”

    “He certainly sounds smarter than you”

  • Anonymous

    Hank the Trucker should be looking for a job elsewhere, far away from the media.

  • Darladoon

    on another matter:

    “Republicans have been exploiting the ugly issue, with National Republican Congressional Committee Tuesday distributing a press release that left out the fact that the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program was launched by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, created under the auspices of Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas). And the Solyndra application was started by the Bush administration, which selected Solyndra as one of the 16 most promising green energy programs in the country”

  • caconservative

    Maybe you should investigate where the term “redneck” came from. While your at it, look up “Progressive Liberal”!

  • caconservative

    Hank stuck his foot in it, and now he’s acting like Obimbo, it everybody else’s fault!

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t matter what he meant. The remark was incredibly idiotic regardless. The head of the executive branch should not converse with the head of the legislature? What kind of democratic system does he think we live in if any?

  • Anonymous

    I have to admit, THAT was funny.

  • Anonymous

    submitted under the bush administration but not granted, obama administration approved it within 2 months

  • RacismPolice

    No, it’s racist for “I’m a racist.”

    You are welcome for the correction I just gave you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Kirkland/100000195274498 Brian Kirkland

    Belafonte said Cain was “a bad apple”. People like Harry Belafonte don’t use the term Negro. Only people like you do that.

    What he DID say was that the Repbulicans want Negros like Hermain Cain, Condolezza Rice and Colin Powell (personally, I don’t think bro. Powell belongs in that group). He used that term, Negro, derisively, in that context.

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    A lib racist weighs in!

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    What does that have to do with Hank? Answer- nothing!

    God, why are you such a loser!

  • Mencius

    Funny how the argument was that Stalin would’ve been a better comparison. 

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, it looks like you found another presidential candidate.

  • Mari2JJ

    Any TV show has the right to expect their guests to comply with their standards and if a guest does not, then they have a right to label such behavior as not in line with their standards.  This guy chose his racist comments and his whine now just shows how thin-skinned he really is.  Perhaps this firing will help him work towards acceptable comments on national TV, but one doubts it with his nasty attitude and lack of insight about his disgusting comment. 

  • RachelMaddow#1

    The guy that sounds like most of the people you know IRL.

  • Go Navy

    Pow, right in the kisser.  How do you libs come up with these brilliant one liners?  You forgot to mention racist.  LMFAO @ libtards.

  • Ralph

    Which one is Hank?

    The smart one.

  • Anonymous

    I’m so glad that Joy Behar educated Hank on why it is wrong to compare people to Hitler. Love how Joy said if he had used the name Stalin not too many would have been that mad.


    “Joy Behar Compares Rumsfeld to Hitler”

    http://polipundit.com/?p=4370

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    They didn’t approve it , dear. Any company could have submitted an application for funding.

    MG- get off the crack!

  • Darladoon

    dude, it was a republican idea!  bush “selected” solyndra as one of the “most promising”
    energy programs!  joe barton (the most ANTI-ENVIRONMENTAL MEMBER OF 
    CONGRESS) agreed!  yes, obama “approved” it.  so what?  

  • Anonymous

    BTW, isn’t Sec. Chu the Nobel Prize winner Barry boasted about?

    man is he dumb!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GHFA6ZIZJ7GWYTBGAWCOQNY36M Love

    Really??  I don’t think Hank has to be a trucker.. he has more money than you could even think about having.  Just because he’s country doesn’t mean he doesn’t deserve his say.  I applaud him for actually saying what so many other people in this country are feeling. Maybe it didn’t come out the way he meant it, but we all got the point.  He’s had HOW many downloads for his new song, which btw, is AWESOME, so apparently he’s reaching other people.  Thank GOD for freedom of speech.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GHFA6ZIZJ7GWYTBGAWCOQNY36M Love

    Really??  I don’t think Hank has to be a trucker.. he has more money than you could even think about having.  Just because he’s country doesn’t mean he doesn’t deserve his say.  I applaud him for actually saying what so many other people in this country are feeling. Maybe it didn’t come out the way he meant it, but we all got the point.  He’s had HOW many downloads for his new song, which btw, is AWESOME, so apparently he’s reaching other people.  Thank GOD for freedom of speech.

  • Anonymous

    It least our candidate  isn’t a Community Organizer!

  • TruDat

    More liberal hypocrisy on display.  It’s as simple as that, and they’re too dumb to see it in themselves.

  • Anonymous

    if its was so great why didnt the bush administration approve the loan?

  • TruDat

    He fast-track approved it after getting campaign donations.

  • Anonymous

    Will you take off your Obama knee pads when that happens?

  • Mari2JJ

    Hmm, I can never figure if comments like that are just pure racist or silly.  Then I realize they are both!

  • Mari2JJ

    Unfortunately as a life long Republican, I have had to admit that George Bush did leave a whopping mess with two wars, one of choice, plus debt as far as the eye can see.  But I never hear President Obama whine about that.  He simply states the facts.  And it is a fact that the US debt did hugely increase during the Bush administration. But those were the facts when Obama decided to run and it is his job to work through them.  But for our party to avoid the fact of the huge debt Obama inherited seems dishonest and disingenuous on a big scale.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, why would you want a community organizer to get involved in politics.  Good thinkin’.

  • Anonymous

    That’s what I ask myself everyday.

    And here is what happens when you elect such a person:

    First downgrade of USA debt in the history of the country

    9.1% unemployment
    Record monthly deficits
    Record debt
    Record # of foreclosures
    Record # on welfare
    Record # living in poverty
    US house price fall ‘beats Great Depression slide’

  • Roger_Fails

    Ladies and gentlemen, the conservative mind on display. Thank you, Hank, for demonstrating what the rest of here at mediaite have seen every day in the comments section from the right wing: incomprehensible wingnuttery.

  • Anonymous

    Says the lib whack job and follower of Bill Maher and Michael Moore.

  • Anonymous

    Get your facts straight Kirk.
    You contradict yourself.

    You say he didn’t use the word and then in the next sentence you say he did in another context.
    He most certainly did use the word.

    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/10/11/belafonte-attacks-cain-bad-apple-so-denied-intelligence-i-don-t-think
    He used it in the context that Herman Cain was the sort of negro that white people like and brother that wasn’t no compliment.

  • Anonymous

    I’m no Obama supporter, but all of the things you list are Republican accomplishments. When Bush left office and bailed out Wall Street, everybody anticipated that we would have to bear these financial burdens for the next ten or twenty years.

    And the Teabaggers downgraded the U.S. debt on purpose. That was their goal.

    You should ask somebody to explain this stuff to you in more detail.

  • Roger_Fails

    Actually, Bill Maher is totally comprehensible and incredibly smart. Nothing like this drunken wingnut. 

    And you don’t have as much intellectual wattage as Michael Moore’s pinky.

  • Darladoon

    “ The Solyndra project was shifted to the stimulus bill in 2009, along with the other Bush administration alternative energy projects, when the loan program was expanded. However, Solyndra’s original loan guarantees were in fact first offered by the Bush administration –and reported on – in 2008.”

    republicans are prancing around blaming ONLY democrats for this program, when it, in fact, has long received bi-partisan support.

    THAT is the point, my friends. 

    WE KNOW who “signed off” on this……the point is that republicans are hypocritical for pointing fingers only at obama and the democrats….if you fail to see the logic, then i simply cannot help you.

  • Darladoon

    oh shut up

    read the facts, check the articles……and then engage

  • Darladoon

    they have long supported such risky ventures into green technologies, stonepark…

    and this was one of their babies….

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    He admits he is a whack job follower of both!

    I’m so happy to know that psychosis still affects our lib friends.

  • Anonymous

    Wrong!  Try again!

  • Darladoon

    evidence that behar supported espn’s decision?

    otherwise, your point is irrelevant.  

  • Darladoon

    you were defending mr. williams

  • Anonymous

    Poor thing- you had to change the topic didn’t ya!

    LOL

    We are winning!

  • Anonymous

    No, it shows she is a hypocrite just like you, Darloon. And you proved that big time yesterday.

  • Darladoon

    btw, it appears you and trudat are opposed to venture-funding for american
    high tech start-ups….

    if you DO support venture-funding start-ups, then are you ignorant of
    the fact that this entails some risk?

    or are you in denial of that risk?

    you guys fail to grasp the point.  solyndra has been held by republicans as an albatross
    around mr. obama’s neck for weeks now, and yet they have long-supported risky
    venture capital investments in green technologies, and IN FACT, considered
    solyndra has a very “promising” investment.  whether they approved it is besides
    the point.  

    all investments, either public or private, entail serious risk.  

  • Roger_Fails

    I’ve never been a big fan of Moore’s, but the fact that an unhinged, garbage-spouting lunatic like you hates him certainly gives him a lot more credibility. 

  • Roger_Fails

    Don’t engage the animal, Darla. It only makes her chase her tail. 

  • Anonymous

    Oh, it’s the failure called Roger Fails- how appropriate!

  • Anonymous

    He has the credibility that you have- zero, none, nada, zip.

    But you are a whack job and it shows. 

  • Exgoper

    Don’t try to confuse these morons with uncomfortable facts. They hate the very words “green technology” because they think it’s elitist. Much better to keep burning fossil fuels till we’re all dead.

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    Nope! Try again- I was commenting on two lib dullards!

  • Anonymous

    Why don’t you state some facts, libby boy?

    Oh, you can’t? Didn’t think so!

  • Roger_Fails

    BTW, how much do you usually have to drink before you start posting? We can all smell the booze from your first insane words to your last.

  • Rio

    The comment wasn’t racist.  He compared Boehner and Obama golfing  TO Hitler golfing with Netanyahu, meaning enemies should not be associating.

    How do you see a racist comment in that?  Just knee jerk because Obama’s name was tossed out that automatically made it a racist comment?  Take a breath and think before you speak.  This nonsense got old a long time ago.

  • Darladoon

    stonepark3—

    time rich, cash poor, and completely bereft of even of a shred of intelligence

    he/she makes michelle-in-utah seem almost erudite

  • Roger_Fails

    “We are winning! ”

    Ha! I knew it — you ARE Charlie Sheen. Just as ugly, just as stupid and every bit as deluded!

    LOL!

  • Darladoon

    “More than two-thirds of Americans, including 53 percent of Republicans, want wealthier people to pay more in taxes to help pay down the deficit, according to a new Bloomberg-Washington Post poll. (The two news organizations are sponsoring tonight’s GOP debate.) “Even larger numbers think Medicare and Social Security benefits should be left alone.” As former Reagan official Bruce Bartlett has written, more than 20 recent polls show Americans favor raises taxes on the wealthy, despite conservative claims otherwise.”

  • Redleaf

    HAHAHAHAAHA!!!
    My point has been totally invalidated by your razor sharp wit!!
    Well played, Master of the Off-Topic Insult!

  • Miragerf

    This sounds like a “barroom political discussion.”   Incoherent.
    Hank seems like he’s killed more brain cells than he can spare.

  • Anonymous

    Are more people supporting Hank or throwing him under the bus? Just stop asking him questions. That will solve this whole issue. If you don’t like what he has to say, stop asking for more of it.
    http://elovehate.com/Topics/People/Musicians/Singers/CountrySingers/HankWilliamsJr

  • Rio

    Conservatives voted for Obama because they did not like the spending, others stayed home.  Same happened when the House and Senate changed over.  What did they get for being fools? the spending was quadrupled.  There has been much spoken as well as outrage due to the spending in the prior administration, other things wrought anger as well.  Dubai Port deal?  Harriet Meiers? Prescription drug benefits?  also the McCain/Kennedy immigration bill?  Ring a bell?  Conservatives were screaming their heads off about all that. 

    Bush didn’t admit to mistakes?  Read Decision Points, in that book he admitted to things he should not have.

    Bush left one war, Iraq was/is winding down due to SOFA which was negotiated between the Bush administration and Iraq through the United Nations.  As a candidate, Obama attempted to throw a monkey wrench into that by convincing the Iraqis not to sign on until he was elected, he was ignored.  Obama is likely to screw that up by yanking to many troops to soon. 

    The worst decade obvious included either part of the Clinton administration or part of the Obama administration.  Bush did get  the economy turned around after the Clinton recession and 911 then we had several years of low unemployment and growth…….the dems took the House and Senate, eventually the Oval Office and the rest is history. 

    You obviously are unfit to diagnose anything.

  • Rio

    “But I never hear President Obama whine about that.”

    Surely you jest.  And this comment right here is all that needs to be focused on, as the rest of it is as nonsensical.

  • Anonymous

    offered,meaning you submit a application, are you dense

  • Rio

    That’s because you can see racism in a tree, an embankment, a shelving unit, a thermometer.  Probably 1st grade readers, pretty much everything and anything.

    So what was it this time?  the word millieu or blends?  Sheesh!  get a grip.

  • Roger_Fails

    IN a word: NO.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Area 51 to Hank. Your rehab is ready..

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Thank you officer!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I can understand why hank would bash ESPN due to the fact they fired him, but not sure why Hank is attacking “Fox and Friends’??

    The gang over at Fox’s morning show didn’t bait or trick Hank into saying what he said!! It appears that Hank is mad at everyone, but is not taking responsibility for his own remarks!!

  • Roger_Fails

    You may not like hearing it, but it doesn’t change the facts: Obama inherited a $hit storm from your Dear Leader. Own it, child!

  • potvin

    Michael Moore’s pinky is about the size of my leg.

  • http://www.thepresidentialcandidates.us ThePresidentialCandidates.us

    It’s kind of interesting to hear what millions of idiots in this country actually believe. Sad as it is, Hank Williams Jr. does accurately reflect the views (and the mind boggling ignorance) of millions of our fellow Americans. I know many people who are a lot like Hank Jr.

  • crysis

    wtf! rednecks are stupid? since when.

  • Anonymous

    A hero to all the apple-knockers, woodchucks, and hay-shakers out there.  Leap aboard your SUVs, your PUs, fire off a few rounds – n have you a time!!!  Yup.

  • Ccrazyhorz

    Hank is a real douchebag/dandy.. He is using his true feelings with his mouth, and NOT his brain. OR, he is trying to GET OUT OF IT, but it was heard by MILLIONS. Now, he is using the Amendment of FREE SPEECH to cover his ASSININE remarks. We all know that he was comparing HITLER to Obama… who is he trying to camoflage now? We don’t NEED your *R U ready for some football slogn*… ZIP IT

  • Go Navy

    “You should ask somebody to explain this stuff to you in more detail. ”

    Obviously not you and your revisionism. Geez, get some details from someplace else but the Kos.

  • South Park Conservatives

    Hank rocks. Liberals….. Not so much.

  • Rio

    The results of a Congressional probe shared Tuesday with ABC News show that less than two weeks before President Bush left office, on January 9, 2009, the Energy Department’s credit committee made a unanimous decision mot to offer a loan commitment to Solyndra

    http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/emails-obama-white-house-monitored-huge-loan-connected/story?id=14508865&page=2

    Did you get that Darla?  it was rejected.  They go on to say that after Obama took office, the Dept of Energy and OMB repeatedly questioned the wisdom of the loan.

    Since then, the WaPo writes, tje Department of Energy officials were warned their plan to restructure the $535 million loan would violate the law, and should be cleared by the Justice Department according to newly obtained e-mails from within the Obama administration.

    Energy moved ahead anyway with a new deal that would repay investers before taxpayers and the Energy dept. continued to make loan payments after Solyndra defaulted on the terms of the loan.

    With the Friday document dump, Rhambo got snagged. >snicker<

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/solyndra-obama-and-rahm-emanuel-pushed-to-spotlight-energy-company/2011/10/07/gIQACDqSTL_story.html

    BTW, the Stimulus bill that Solyndra was shifted to was Obama's slush fund that was going to save us from an 8% unemployment rate.  Republicans refused to vote for it, that baby is all yours. 

    Solyndra may have been offered during the Bush ad, but Solyndra failed to qualify and was rejected.  Obama didn't care, he rather would have a $535 billion dollar photo op for him and good buddy Biden.

  • Go Navy

    You need to hang out with a different crowd. Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.

  • Go Navy

    What’s the over and under on how long it took you to find “erudite” and use it in a sentence? LMAO!

  • Laughing@libtards

    Wham, bam another strike delivered by loving lib.  How do you guys do it?

     

  • Go Navy

    “I’m no Obama supporter, but all of the things you list are Republican accomplishments.”

    I knew that was McKinney.

  • Go Navy

    “I’m no Obama supporter, but all of the things you list are Republican accomplishments.”

    I knew that was McKinney.

  • Bob

    as I opposed to conservatives, who want to blame events that happened on Bush’s watch on a guy who hadn’t been elected yet.

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    Is bocephus a racist?

    That depends on what the meaning of “is” is.

    And for those who think Clinton’s parsing of the Lewinsky question was ridiculous, you’ve obviously never looked up the word “is” in the dictionary.

  • Anonymous

    I was going to say the pretty one.

  • Anonymous

    I was going to say the pretty one.

  • Anonymous

    Following up the Hitler analogy with “HE’S THE ENEMY…OBAMA” is a pretty clear indication of his views.

  • Rio

    Gretchen got a bit frigid about it, bad habit of hers, never cared for her, FOX has others that would have been a better fit for her spot.

    He was given a couple of outs on F&F but blew it.  He should be a big boy and take his licks, definately let it go.

  • Rio

    Dukes of Hazard left quite a lasting impression on you?  That show wasn’t real, neither was Green Acres.  From my experience living in the south and having rural property, most of those people don’t waste their money like that.  If you’re shooting at something it better be something you need to get rid of or eat.

  • Anonymous

    His term the Three Stooges would be ever so apt for the Fox & Friends crew.  It has reached a point that I view Morning Joe  more than F&F.  (forgive me Lord)   As a conservative it galls me in this instance to speak the truth, but F&F has devolved into a bunch of stupid losers.  E. D. Hill was the only one worth watching before, and Fox kicked her under the bus.  Gretchen Carlson I cannot abide, IMO she is a untalented smug, bitter and vindictive person

  • Bob Uda

    Hank Williams, Jr., is GREAT!  Screw all of the lame-stream media–of which Fix News is now part of that shameful group.

  • Anonymous

    He’s straight so he’s not a tea bagger.  He is successful so he’s not the run of the mill leftist running around NYC shitting on cop cars and he must be smart because you are talking about him.  Next.

  • Anonymous

    Hasn’t joy Behar used the Hitler term a few times?  Seem to remember her calling Bush that many times.

  • Anonymous

    Ignorance, compounded by stupidity, perfectly describes the base crop down on the democrat inner city plantations.  Where said crop base is only recognized and harvested for votes by the democrats come election time.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Hank had it right without explanation.
    OBAMA IS OUR HITLER.

     

  • Rio

    That guy that hadn’t been elected yet signed the last Bush budget into law after the democrats increased spending across the board and larded it up.  Since then the only budget Reid was forced to submit was rejected in the Senate 95 to zip, zero, nada.  That included the majority in the Senate that happens to be democrats.  Since that last Bush budget that was signed by Obama we have existed on continuing resolutions that have an automatic increase built in while the finished House budget sits over in the Senate ignored.  So yeah, that guy that hadn’t been elected yet is responsible for a lot of the mess.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I would have to agree!! I remember the old days when ‘Fox and Friends” discussed actual news stories without injecting their political agenda every chance they get!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I saw the video and they did seem to be taken back, especially Kilmeade!! Though, they should all go because none of them live up to Fox News mantra… “Fair & Balanced!!”

  • Anonymous

    Leedog, for the first time ever I agree with you!

  • Francoisscar

    Why didn’t  nobody ask him why he labeled them the 3 stoogies and the enemy? He a Reddest neck!

  • Anonymous

    And it was the Bush administration that warned about going forward with the loan to Solyndra.

    Even Obama’s advisers warned him about the deal. Check your facts.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! Now that is scary!!  =)

  • Anonymous

    The drunk hillbilly.

  • Anonymous

    He’s not smart enough to know the difference that’s he’s lying now about not meaning to compare President Obama to Hitler.  He’s also lying about him being the one who wanted to separate from  football.  His ass got fired now he wants to say he quit.

  • Anonymous

    He’s not smart enough to know the difference that’s he’s lying now about not meaning to compare President Obama to Hitler.  He’s also lying about him being the one who wanted to separate from  football.  His ass got fired now he wants to say he quit.

  • http://twitter.com/MinneMike Michael Wiley

    Never followed Hank Jr before now but I will now. Talk about being authentic.

  • Anonymous

    Boehner and Netanyahu were irrelevant in Hanks mind, he just wanted to compare President Obama to Hitler.  Boehner and Netanyahu just happened to be the respective counterparts.

  • Anonymous

    The real 3 stooges on F&F gave Bocephus plenty of opportunity to clarify what he meant but he didn’t because he meant to compare President Obama to Hitler.  He just didn’t think he’d get fired for it.

  • Rio

    They are not the news, they are commentary.  What news they handle is written and produced and they read it.  Other than that, they are not a part of FOX’s fair and balanced news team.  It’s like the radio, the morning drive usually has a fast paced program that covers area events with guests and then break for the news and weather.  They may talk politics, but it is not associated with their news programming at all. 

  • George_goebel

    In the Special Olympics that you guys are turning politics into, aren’t we all “Winners”?

  • Nature Freak

    I will take George Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, or Alison Krauss over Hank Williams Jr. anyday anytime. Perhaps even Toby Keith.

    Hank Williams Jr.may have lived way longer than his father did, but he sure lacks Hank Williams Sr. talent.

    Jacques Derrida? Post Structuralism and Hank Williams Jr. LOL!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joey-Boots/690621350 Joey Boots

    This guy is so smarmy. 

  • Nature Freak

    Or more likely nose candy. Ganga may be to mellow for Hank Williams Jr.

  • http://twitter.com/ZackyBeatz %Zackyatz%Music

    I do not agree with him on his politics, at all.
    But he should not be fired poor guy was just making an analogy.

  • Nature Freak

    To me, being a community organizer is a good thing. I guess Tea baggars are against community involvement in politics.

    BTW, Robb Wells approves of your Shepard Fairey inspired avatar. I just watched Wells in “Hobo With a Shotgun’. What a movie. He sure lost his head!

  • Nature Freak

    Now that Sarah Palin is running for POTUS, perhaps she can abolish the ACT, SAT, GRE and LSAT.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll have to check it out. Thanks.

  • guest

    Was you there?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, good thinkin’.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    I like Hank Williams.. and I’m not joking. I LIKE HIM and what he illustrated in a moment of truck driver philosophy is yet another HUGE wedge that sits between people in this country.
    IF you watch his statement/miss-step, note: THE MEDIA decided WHO was Hitler and who wasnt. REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU THINK HE WAS THINKING, unless you have some mutant superpower, you can NOT watch the segment and decide who is WHO in his statement. PERIOD..anything else is personal.. You flip me the finger, I flip you the peace sign.. what you dont know is my peace sign to your flipped finger means something very special to ME.. His firing? An employer can do what they feel is right for the company should an employee step out of line. THAT is America and the honest to god JOKE is the number of good old GOP BASE-heads, who scream AMERICA AMERICA AMERICA, and then say “he should not have been fired”.. 

  • Tedderman

    His next CD includes a new song he’s written with the lyrics comprised of auto-tuned farts. 

  • Tedderman

    Republicans hate acronyms and wish to abolish them all.

  • Tedderman

    Hank called the President “the enemy” and then said Obama and Biden were “the three stooges.”  Apparently he was including himself otherwise the numbers don’t quite add up.

  • Tedderman

    I think Hank was doing one helluva dance with his answers, though he never did answer why he said the President was “the enemy.”

  • Tedderman

    I believe it’s orifice.

  • Renee B

    What’s really sad is that Hank doesn’t appear to be concerned about modeling rudeness.  He needs to set a better example (of respect) in order to honor his family’s good name.  I feel sorry for his children…..

  • Shiek Yerbouti

    My bad, I thought you were talking about Stoneyboy.

  • Anonymous

    WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?  Everything copacetic?

    Anyway, I’ve been a Jerry Jeff Walker fan since 77…

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    If a lefty, (all lefties have wisdom) says you are a “racist,” then you are a racist!  Lefties know these things?  Ouch!

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Guilt by omission!  I saw the show on the morning in question, ergo, FOX and Friends did little to moderate or modify their “friends” potential faux pas.  Rather, and seemingly out of character, FOX let Williams suffer whatever fate awaits.

    Had FOX and Friends said anything supportive, the rest of the Media would have attacked FOX along with Williams.  Doesn’t make it right, but FOX doesn’t live by the credo “Semper Fidelis,” either?

    Admittedly, I should watch the clip again, BUT, I do like the new song!  LOL

    Purveyor

  • AliveStillKickin

    At least he didn’t KILL his children in the womb you snarky little twit.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AJLPFX5VFSV26D5ORAE3XGPM5Q nomoregore

    If you weren’t so ignorant, you could see that he and his father are as alike as……oh, Hitler and Netanyahu.  OMG, I’m so sorry!  I called Hank Williams !!!!  Never mind it’s only an analogy.  You want to hear what you want to hear.  Jerk.

  • Anonymous

    Hank didn’t compare Obama to Hitler as many have pointed out.  How come Joy Behar can make a comparison of a politician to Hitler and get away with it, she did it herself and they played the tape of her doing it on KFI 640am radio, Los Angeles, and Tim Conway Jr. played it and showed that Joy compared a politician to Hitler. So who is she to talk and lecture Hank on what he said.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mitchell.s.gilbert Mitchell S. Gilbert

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: white trash is as white trash does.

  • koolmoedee

    Mickey is a mean mouse !!!

  • Anonymous

    MITCH,

    I suspect you throw a ball like a girl?  Meaning, I would never trust you to watch my back…

    Life has taught me to “judge people by the content of their character” not whether YOU think they are “white trash.”

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Not interested in the interview but I did think the headline about it on HuffPo was funny.

    Are you ready for some CRAZZYYY!!! 

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like a Progressive Puke has a problem with the truth, but that isn’t surprising.  Your kind of slime is protesting on Wall Street, why aren’t you with the rest of the Trash?

  • Anonymous

    In 2008, I was a lifelong Democrat, only voted for Reagan to get rid of worthless Jimah.  Never agreed with most of the stuff Bush did, but when Obama came on the scene, I saw right thru his BS and outright Lies.  I have always voted on a persons Acomplishments, Record, and how he has conducted himself in the past.  There was nothing to vote on for Obama, he had no Record, no Acomplishments, and his past, well, does he have a past?  I was for Hillary, but the Unknown Jackoff won the nomination and I could not bring myself to vote for Hot Air and Arrogance, so I voted McCain, hoping the Democratic Party would come to it’s senses, but, that did not happen.  Things got worse!  Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Waters, Jackson, and so many others, have turned the, once, Democratic Party into the Looney Tunes Legion of Demons, which is so sickening that I am now a committed Conservative and refuse to follow the Insanity of the Obama Administration!  The Most Sickening, Disgusting, UnAmerican, UnChristian person to ever sit int he Oval Office!

  • Anonymous

    Yea, Progressive are like that, they make up Race Cards and BS just for fun.  I had thought Racism was pretty much dead, back in 2008, but then Obama started throwing the Race Card into everything he did.  Sickening and Pathetic, but, that is Obama!

  • http://profiles.google.com/silverstein.larry03 larry silverstein

    In future Americans when you want to make a good analogy, use Lazar Kaganovich - Stalin’s Mass Murderer.

    Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (Kogan), of Jewish descent, was born in Kubany, near Kiev, Ukraine, in 1893. In 1911 he joined the Jewish-founded Communist Party and became involved with the Bolsheviks (Lower East Side New York Jews). Kaganovich took an active part in the 1917 takeover of Christian Russia by Communism and rose rapidly in the Party hierarchy. From 1925 to 1928, he was first secretary of the party organization in Ukraine and by 1930 was a full member of the Politburo. Kaganovich was one of a small group of Stalin’s top sadists pushing for very high rates of collectivization after 1929. He became Stalin’s butcher of Christian Russians during the late 1920s and early 1930s when the Kremlin launched its war against the kulaks (small landowners who were Christians) and implemented a ruthless policy of land collectivization. The resulting state-organized forced famine, was a planned genocide and killed 7,000,000 Ukrainians between 1932 and 1933, and inflicted enormous suffering on the Soviet Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan.

  • Anonymous

    Dude, you need to bone up on what young Hank Jr. went through before he caught the big ride. If you think Jr. was given a career because of what his daddy did, you are badly mistaken. The ONLY thing music biz people care about is MONEY. If Hank Jr. wasn’t making them money Hank Jr. would be anonymous. Col. Tom Parker has Elvis opening for a dancing chicken on the midway at the county fair before RCA finally bought his contract from Sam Phillips. Learn some history. You might be surprised.   

  • Anonymous

    COSMOS,

    Where have you been?  How are your imaginary friends?

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    “bereft”  good word!

  • Anonymous

    Gee ROGER, somehow I don’t think Bill Maher is having as much fun in life as ol’ Hank?  I see it as a choice between happy and wealthy, or, angry and smart!  LOL

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    STONEPARK,

    Well done, outstanding comment.  Touche’.

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    Maybe ESPN thinks football fans consider fellow Americans compatriots not ‘enemies’ of one another – I do. 

    Maybe ESPN didn’t want to have a hate-filled simpleton as their spokesperson…

  • HarryOrielly

    HITLER was more HONEST than Obama because he NEVER
    FORGED his birth certificate or use multiple SSN’s in real estate scams but
    both had die-hard supporters who didn’t care about their evil past- Hitler
    NEVER surrendered his law license in order to avoid an investgation of his past
    (criminal )history- both controll the newsmedia to grab their contry’s free thought-

  • Anonymous

    What person could undo 8 years of Bush turning a record surplus into a record deficit with the flourish of a near global financial meltdown in year 8?  You? Stating facts is hardly making excuses.

    The truth is it will take generations to repair the damage done by Clinton/Bush and the people will never see their money returned…

  • Anonymous

    Obama is Bush II

  • shonangreg

    Ghee, Hank should file as a Republican Presidential candidate. He’d fit right in with Perry, Bachmann, and Cain.

  • Anonymous

    You’re one of them. Don’t you know?

  • Anonymous

    Maybe that’s why I’ve been feeling so “iffy” lately!   LOL   (I think its funny?)  LOL

  • http://twitter.com/lorileeky Lori Lee

    I can’t believe all the crying over Hank’s words….What are we going to do?? Start putting muzzles on people like dogs ’cause we don’t like differences of opinion.  Just let it go.

  • justme

    Obama considers some fellow Americans to be enemies when addressing Hispanics.If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, “We’re going to punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,” if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s going to be harder, and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2.

  • PurEssence

    Not even close. Obama concerned for the people. Bush concerned for his friends($$)

  • Anonymous

    It’s been a looong time since The View had such ignorance before them. I mean, if that isn’t a BUFFOON of the highest order, I don’t know what is.

    And the palooka doesn’t even have enough sense to realize that nobody’s buying his lies about him walking away from ESPN.

    They kicked him out on his lard A$$ so fast he still doesn’t know what happened.

    lol!!!

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  • Ravenelvenlady

    It’s unfortunately that Hank Williams made a poor choice of words to express his point.  And because of this, it is completely missed, and he is in hot water as a result.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/William-Caldwell/1108520508 William Caldwell

     Is Barbara Walter REALLY SO STUPID as not to understand that there was NO COMPARISON OF OBAMA TO HITLER. None at all. Yes, to the left Stalin is an ally, but the left has compared Bush and almost every Republican to Hitler almost nonstop since Vietnam. Cheney to Darth Vader. Once again leftist comparisons rely on Hitler and fictional characters to make personal attacks on ANYONE they diosagree with.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Smith/100001741334953 Gregory Smith

    Well, I’m glad you respect his right to free speech.

    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/

  • Anonymous

    LOL! That is indeed a good one.

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