Hannity And Panel Gang Up On GOP State Senator For Denouncing Hank Williams, Jr.

Citizens listen:  They are the Great American Panel!

its funny how hannity associates roseanne barr with liberals and says hank is just “controversial”..just admit IT hannity, many teabggers and conservatives ACTUALLY THINK OBAMA IS HITLER OR ANTICHRIST

Wow, this is the first time I have had any respect for a Republican in a long time.

Sen. Ball my hat goes off to you sir.

Mike Tyson is crazy; everyone knows this. And the people who run ESPN Radio and the people who run Monday Night Football are not necessarily one and the same. Expecting the exact same treatment for two seemingly similar offenses is unrealistic.

GIVE ME A BREAK! Draw the line somewhere. Willams’ comment was incredibly stupid.

-  Not an Obama fan

In the conservative world all offenses are equal and everybody who says something stupid should be fired from ESPN – even if they never worked there.

Sean is asking why Nancy Pelosi was never fired from ESPN.

offense? he did not break the law…..in bad taste yes

The Dixie Chicks say hello… and thank Hannity and the country music family for their support in ’03!

Oh Ms. Imus… Mr. Tyson wasn’t talking about the rape of Sarah Heath. He was crudely discussing a consensual relationship between Ms. Heath and a black man called the “womb shifter”.

Can’t wait for this thread, having the Tea Party Brigade tell me how its a violation of the first amendment for a private corporation to make personnel decisions based on stipulations in their contract. 

Thankfully the Great American Panel has already told me why its okay to compare any elected US official to Hitler. 

But please, tell me how this is anything other than someone making a horrible, dumbass comparison.

But it’s ok for Sen. Ball to compare Mr. Williams to the Unabomber? Give me a break.  ESPN picks and choose who they want to ban based upon their Liberal views. Rapist, animal abusers or sex offender are ok as they are Democrats all other need not apply.

move on.org told me it was okay to compare any elected US official to hilter back in 2004

c’mon mediate…approve my comment…it was badass!!

Ha ha ha! No, it is a slight difference. He should have learned from Megan Fox that comparing someone to Hitler usually results in getting fired.

and its funny when ms imus criticizes gretchen..hannity signals “shutup”

here’s an oxymoron:  hannity panel

An offense = pertaining to something egregiously offensive.

I am aware that Williams broke no law. He just said something in terrible taste. Should he lose his place in Monday Night Football? That’s not for me to decide.

ESPN was within its rights to terminate Williams’ role with Monday Night Football because he was working for them. Was Tyson working for ESPN Radio when he made those offensive comments about Palin?

Another lively debate brought to you by the people of and for Personal Responsibility.

did moveon.org (and its millions of members) appear on espn?

hey josh i see your point, but just remember that your boss could also fire you for something he deems offensive, on or off the job

nope, just on their website

Susan, you’re right, Sen. Ball should be also fired from ESPN.

$100 says Hank is not replaced on espn by Ted Nugent… lol

I would remind you that bad taste in the defense of liberty is no vice!

Right…and your point pertains how exactly to Williams?

as free speech

Yes, he can. Which is exactly Josh’s point.

Hannity has a double standard if a liberal had said that he would want him fired.  

i said i see his point, i am just saying if you are at a pro-choice rally but your boss is pro-life, then firing you for not putting a good face on his business is kinda fucked up

 Me Too!

BRAVO

HILARIOUS

Jeez what a bunch of crap and the liberal media twists Hank’s comment into something it was not. I think the liberal media is pushing to split the American public into race, class and religious wars.  Move on and debate on something worthwhile like jobs and the economy.  This is just a bunch of propaganda….

At-will employment has always been a core conservative value hasn’t it? Anyway, ol’ Hank was not an ESPN employee. He was a contractor and contractors have even fewer protections than employees. ESPN could sever their relationship simply because he looked at them cross-eyed.

Um, I distinctly remember Moveon pulling that submission down, stating that it did not endorse it, and that it wouldn’t entertain the possibility of airing it.  But MOVEON member said HITLER IN 2004

And as pointed out in another thread(See: Bob Beckel) please link us to the offending material on MOVEON.org.  If it was on its website, its nothing more than a google archive search away from being found. 

/Go ahead, I’ll wait.
/From the actual website, not some Freedom Works off shoot hosting it to keep drama going
//i forgot if a conservative adds stipulations its citations, if a liberal does its red tape.

that is true also

yes they did eventually, which is fine

How’s he just gonna slide  that Mike Tyson advocating the rape of Sarah Palin lie in so casually.?!?!?

Noooo, the tea baggers would NEVER compare our president to hitler, who killed millions of Jews in gas chambers at death camps!

That’s absurd!

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/teapartyjacksonville.jpg

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http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1H-ny1S9pRs/TIMu6pJGtvI/AAAAAAAAAqE/26rTHZKFNtA/s400/Obama-Change-Heil-Hitler.jpg

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Leave it up to good ole Hannity to defend Williams, and yell at someone for condemning those remarks. He never fails me in his blind hatred for Obama.This guy is such a ideologue, and has so much hate for Obama, that he is willing to defend ANYBODY who insults Obama, no matter what they say. Two thumbs to Greg Ball. It just shows you there are republicans out there with actual sense. Its funny how you never see Hannity anywhere but on his FOX News show. I think he literally lives in a conservative bubble all day, and they let him out for an hour to spit out hateful partisan polarizing rhetoric.

its not on there now, which i agree with you below…….www.youtube.com.  (bush hitler) its about the sixth one down

Mentioning Hitler when talking about a US elected official is wrong….period. No matter what party you are in, its wrong.

Dont know This senator, but this guy is fair, honest and on point.  So not like a republican on fox.  Good for him.  (Oh and that woman, the imus woman is about as brigt as all the them on fox and friends.)

He broke an ESPN rule when he talked about politics.  I am glad he is gone and its fun watching people defend him.  I cant wait until a dem says something stupid and play back Hannity saying someone can make a mistake and not to “execute” them.

He is sickening and this was the longest I have heard his voice in a long long time. 

I caught that as well.  She is not to fox bright.  Never, ever criticize fox and friends…ever.

Oh and Kilmeade is perhaps the dumbest man on television.  He really is.  Stick to sports…hell, you even sucked at that.  Suddenly you know politics? 

If so, its going to be a very lonely monday night series in my house…that would suck..no more monday night football.  Nugent is so far worse than hank williams.  Ol hank would have to do some interesting things at a recruiters office to even come close.

I agree!! 

Hannity was all about the Dixie Chicks boycotts and promoted them endlessly in 2003. He’s such a partisan, hypocritical hack.

so-dixie chics can lose milliond of dollars, have 1000′s of redneck have a barn burn of their cd, and be blackballed from the radio for saying, “they were ashamed to be from the same state as Bush”?
but for this cowboy to actually call the president of the USA–’THE ENEMY”? and it is ok?

espn banned him–free market–
so what is it? cons do not believe in free market? freedom fries?
it really is am still amazed at the blantant hypocrisy..
and their only excuse is to find a few totally nonrelated examples of bad behavior to validate their worse behavion..
it is sick and pathetic for grown adults to get paid so much to be so rotten…

no they didn’t

This is the same Hannity who clutches his pearls every time a scary, black rapper says something out-of-line.

As long as Hanky doesn’t get invited to the White House I suppose… 

Of course, Hannity would stand up for Williams…any chance he gets…and OMG, is that Mrs Imus a horse face or what…Gotta give the republican congressman credit for having the guts to stand up to Hannity..

Yes Hannity is partisan and he doesn’t deny it.  Now how about Rachel?  Another partisan who denies it.  So, what is your point?

fail

I wish Fox would take page fron ESPN and fire Hannity.
No one really cares about song on MMF

Cuz Hannity is a giant headed moron, and Rachael is a Rhodes scholar.  See the difference?

Yes, they did.

Sad to see Imus’s wife whoring herself on the Fox Propaganda Network. I thought she had more class.

Sad to see Imus’s wife whoring herself on the Fox Propaganda Network. I thought she had more class.

Show me the example where Rachel denies her beliefs.

I’ve never seen my girl Rachel deny what she is.  If you have proof that she did, I’d like to see it

My take is this, although we do have freedom of speech here in Amerika, what we don’t have is freedom FROM speech.  Whatever comes flying out of your grits hole, your redneck ass had better be ready to own it.  Now, ESPN is private enterprise and they can do what the hell they want.  Hank is someone who did something that they’re not cool with and they can punish/restrict him in anyway they see fit. Personally, I don’t have with what he said, I just warrant the source and keep moving

Someone wasn’t paying attention at the door to Faux News. How did that reasonable sane GOP senator slip by and sneak onto the Hannity set?

Someone wasn’t paying attention at the door to Faux News. How did that reasonable sane GOP senator slip by and sneak onto the Hannity set?

I guess that explains the eye rolls and sneering face – you must learn to do that if you want to take full advantage of the brilliance required of a Rhodes Scholar.

“Hank never said Obama was Hitler, he simply said he was LIKE Hitler. Big difference.”

Really, really!!! You can’t be serious. You must be a troll.

Let’s follow your argument and draw an appropriate analogy: If I say you’re not mentally retarded, you only write something LIKE a mentally retarded person might write, would you readily agree that there is a big difference?   BTW, ESPN has corporate sponsors, just like that imbecile Beck did. Did they want to see the same exodus of money that happened to Beck following his half-psychotic ramblings, and mawkish display of tears? There is a commercial reason behind why Beck isn’t on Fox now. ESPN is at least a little more proactive and less forgiving than the people at FOX.  I hope they never bring that drunken hillbilly back to MNF. If they do, I’ll make it a point to not watch them.

In either event, saying Obama was like Hitler, not Hitler is itself deplorable.  Even Hannity and his crew of hacks seemed to acknowledge this point.

Oh yeah, you told me!  You win.  Hannity is the smartest.

guess howard stern was right..
these people could only dream to have the class and integrity of Howard Stern–and his wife has more class than every bleached blonde trailer trash pin up on fox–including lou dobbs with his new doo..
what a channel of fakes and phonies–omg..these people have to be miserable~
bababooie bababooie bababooie

and sean hannity has become so gay—he will have to fight Mr. Bachman for closet queen of the consertative hypocricy awards..
does anyone else think it odd that conservative ‘straight’ men–act so much more gay–THAN LIBERAL GAY MEN?
watch sean hannity and you tell me—how gay he is…
from a scale of 1-10–i would give him and angry elton john 10…

Tyson was being interviewed by ESPN Radio. He was not an employee.

Elected officials can say just about anything they want with impunity. Congressmen cannot be sued for anything they say in session. ESPN, the NFL, and the NBA are a Madison Avenue scripted bunch of sleaze balls.

Williams just provided more confirmation that the hardliner rightwing world has declared war on America. To wingnuts like Hank and most of the FOX nation Democrats are their declared enemy. These guy’s live in a state of war and hatred is the weapon of choice. They will never work with the rest of us for any compromise in their eye’s is akin to declare total defeat.

They see the world in terms of pure black and white and middle ground is nothing more to them then a black hole. His apology is worthless for any purpose but to protect his income because he like all the other right wing warriors value money above everything else.

OMG you people are illiterate. He was not comparing Osama to Hitler. He was comparing a   meeting  to an unlikely golf match.

OMG you people are illiterate. He was not comparing Osama to Hitler. He was comparing a   meeting  to an unlikely golf match.

Headline looks like a mediamatters caption. 

Hannity is right-on & Hank is my man!

And who is that stupid senator? What a moron. OH, he’s from New York. That explains it.

Your statement provided proof of why the right and left can’t work together.  Your preconceived notion about the right is in fact wrong, but it didn’t stop you from stating it.

Please, don’t attempt to analyze the right, analyze the left and you’re probably on safer ground.

Now, how do you feel about Harry’s DOA regarding Obama’s demands?  It really didn’t matter what the right thought about it, since the left had already spoken and dealt with it.

p.s. the right has always helped their fellow man more without laws demanding they do so.  This is a proven fact.  You are welcome to run it through your “fact check”. 

Have to agree with that!

What alternate universe is this? I’m agreeing with Ball and standing up for Gretchen! The woman on this panel thinks it’s GRETCHEN’S fault because she asked Hank to clarify what he meant by his analogy, and Hannity says that Ball is a bad guy for not giving Hank a break. Uh huh. Next!

We’re “illiterate” for taking issue for Hank’s ridiculous analogy? Perhaps you should look that word up. Dictionary.com is quite good.

I love how they don’t show the part where he calls Obama the enemy and he and Biden are the 3 Stooges. 

It was Carlson who linked Obama to Hitler, not Hank.  Hank said Boehner and Obama were enemies like Hitler and Netanyahu would be.  Then Hank said “they” meaning the Democrats, were the enemey, but he never said whether “they” were Hitler or Netanyahu. 

Hank reveals something very important about himself there.  He might compare Obama to Hitler, which really isn’t such a big deal (every president gets that), but he implicitly supports Israel.  Europe’s anti-Semitism isn’t found in Hank because American evangelicals are emphatic supporters of Israel.

Hank Williams did not compare obama to hitler, the story took on its own agenda from the robotonics. What was really disgusting is the way hannity, the little frog, completely shuts down anyone who disagrees with him in a rude, loud, aggressive, insulting manner.  he has got to be one of the most despicable human beings on the face of the earth.

Yup.  Them Rat-Wingers love them hillbillies!

Republican politicians are acting like they have been snake-bit. They don’t dare to address anything that is forbiden by political correctness. So much for dialog in this country.

Hank’s comment was a spontaneous response to a question. It wasn’t pre-tested by a focus group. I will give him a pass on this one.

ESPN will be making a big mistake if they don’t continue Hank on MNF. He is the personification of NFL/MNF whether they like it or not.

Hank does not need the protection of Big Brother. He got that job and kept it because he is good at it. The image he has created for MNF is of his making.

If ESPN wants to blow that value he has added, then that’s their option. I guarantee they will think long and hard about it. Then again, it’s their money.

The only protection any of us have with our jobs is to be good at them–THAT is the core conservative value.

Before too long it will be commercially viable to publish a dictionary for political correctness. They could also give us substitution words or comments that would be acceptable; that way we could know what people are talking about..

MNF is about the game……PERIOD…anything else is bull….thet should get rid of chucky too

please rewatch hanks interveiw again because you need to listen to his analogy he didnt liken obama to hitler. hank said John Boehner playing golf with Barack Obama: “That would be like Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu. Not hardly. In the shape this country is in?”,  he never said that obama was like hitler…. he just was making a point on how polar opposite people they are and how much work they need to do not play games.  but i do have this to say he could of used a better analogy.

its not just tea  baggers that pull stuff like that.  (btw that name is not politically correct term  and its a little derogatory)  every group has a crazy few that draw  connections against the other parties heads..   

Ignorant comment.

I can’t believe you would in any way defend the radio hosts of an ESPN sponsored radio station for laughing at Tyson’s comment that ‘Sarah should be fucked so hard her guts come out her mouth’.  And it only got worse.  Shame on you.

Very inflammatory commentary.

And, by the way, it’s hypocriSy, not hypocricy.  Thought you’d like to know.

I posted on ESPN’s Facebook page that I’d lend them my Bocelli CD.  Bocelli instead of Bocephus–I thought they would love the idea.  I enjoy Bocelli on occasion, hence the CD, however, I really thought Hank did a great job for 20 years and that a great many people would agree with me on that.  Of course the post never saw the light of the computer screen because apparently they have me on auto delete.  Football is a rough and tumble game and I assume they hired Hank because he has a bit of a rough and tumble reputation.  You got what you paid for, ESPN.  I never liked ESPN’s style anyway so it will be no problem at all to forget they exist.  I don’t agree with everything Hank does or even that my closest friends do or say or think or believe.  But I enjoy his music from time to time–and I believe many of the people  still watching Monday Night Football will miss his  intro.    And, one more thing, to make fun of Hank Williams, Jr. because he wears a baseball cap, sunglasses and a beard to cover the scars of splitting his face wide open in a mountain climbing accident makes me so sad.  Shame on you, Senator Ball.

get an education retard! and then reply

not so asshole, if you watched and know the story you would stop shootin off at the mouth!

OK you must be sick. think first then talk asshole! he has about  50 albums and several million dollars more than you do. can’t be too dumb hah!

must be this is a forrum full of DEM  assholes. Thanks for having me