“Some of us have strong opinions and are often misunderstood,” singer Hank Williams Jr. said in a statement issued this evening.
Williams was responding to ESPN pulling his song “All My Rowdy Friends,” from tonight’s Monday Night Football broadcast, featuring the Indianapolis Colts facing off against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in response to some rather pointed language about President Obama — Hitler was invoked — that Williams used earlier in the day.
On Fox & Friends Williams expressed chagrin that Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, played golf with President Obama, which he compared to “Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu … In
the shape this country is in?”
the shape this country is in?”
One of the anchors, Brian Kilmeade, responded that he didn’t understand the analogy.
“I’m glad you don’t, brother, because a lot of people do,” Williams said. “They’re the enemy.”
Who’s the enemy?
“Obama,” Williams said. “And Biden. Are you kidding? The Three Stooges.”
Williams went on to bemoan how “polarized” the country is. On that note, anchor Gretchen Carlson pointed out that he had just compared the president to Hitler.
“Well that’s true. But I’m telling you like it is,” Williams said.
In a statement ESPN — a sister organization of ABC’s — said: “While Hank Williams, Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize that he is closely linked to our company through the open to Monday Night Football. We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight’s telecast.”
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