Hank Williams Jr. Firing: Censorship Trumps Ignorance
I can remember just a month ago walking through the Country Music Hall of Fame’s Family Tradition exhibit, an amazing and reverent tribute to the first family of country music, where you feel the ghosts of country music’s past bristling the hairs on the back of your neck with the sheer weight of historical significance . . . and then you walk around a corner, and there on a big screen is Bocephus, stealing a pair of pom-poms from a scantly-clad line dancer, pracing around like a jackass and screaming, “ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!” . . . reducing the whole experience to a popcorn fart.
So apparently he compared President Obama to Hitler. Or did he? It baffles me that in 2011, people honestly think that drawing Hitler mustaches on political adversaries is a form of punditry, or that it holds any bit of effectiveness, like someone sitting on the political fence will look at it and say, “Well hell, I certainly don’t want to vote for Hitler!” Nazifying your foes is anger venting, nothing more, and if anything, it is adversarial to one’s political will. It also baffles me that in 2011 there still folks that think that if we just elect one side instead of the other, all these problems, perceived or real, will go away. We’ve been trying that shit for over 250 years and it hasn’t worked yet. Maybe at some point folks should realize the quickest way to change their circumstances is by rolling up their sleeves and acting themselves to change their own lives.
And then ESPN, bowing to the pressure of their boner pill and high fructose corn syrup sponsors, illustrates a fast trigger finger on the censorship button that would have given Judge Roy Bean a hard on. Don’t they know that half their beer and hot wings audience has probably said that exact thing or worse around their kitchen tables? Firing someone for their political beliefs is by far a bigger crime that any politically-incorrect gaff, however ignorant the message behind it is.
And what the hell was Hank Jr. doing on a news show anyway? Was he breaking down the socioeconomic impact of the Greek default by ethnic region? And don’t give me that it was just Fox News, because every major news outlet whores themselves out by shoehorning celebrity appearances into the format. Hell, the Kardashian girls are all co-hosting The Today Show this week. The last time I watched one of those morning shows, it was like watching Martha Stewart fuck a football while the news desk lady whipped up a practical yet delicious and healthy 4-cheese lean chicken Quiche that reduced the family’s carbon footprint. Oh yeah, and there’s some wars going on and massive world economic calamities, or something.
And that’s the real problem, not Jr.’s statements or The World Wide Leader’s whiplash decision, it is the fact that mass pop media is perpetually letting us all down, and giving in to the least common denominator. Hank should be happy. His career had been reduced to a weekly punch line. And ESPN should be happy they’re lighter a 200-pound blowhard who hasn’t had anything substantive to offer for 20 years.
And while we’re shitcanning celebrity theme-song personalities, whose leg I gotta hump to get Faith Hill run out of there on Sunday nights? I’d rather shit a knife than listen to her shriek out one more of those canned openings.
In the end, we run to football and music for the same reasons: to forget all the political divisiveness, and to bridge differences.
October 3, 2011 @ 10:16 pm
he’s 265…easy
October 3, 2011 @ 10:16 pm
What exactly IS a popcorn fart??
October 3, 2011 @ 10:36 pm
All night long I’ve been seeing cries of censorship. How did ESPN censor Hank Jr.? ESPN in no way prevented or interfered with his comments. Hank’s freedom of speech was in no way inhibited. Now, if before his appearance on Fox ESPN had told Hank what he could and couldn’t say, THAT would be censorship.
Now, ESPN’s actions could have a CHILLING EFFECT on Hank’s future speech, but still that is not censorship. Hank is completely free to go on Fox tomorrow and say the exact same thing.
Freedom of Speech involves responsibility and consequences. If you speak irresponsibly it could result in negative consequences. It certainly did for the Dixie Chicks.
The other day my 13 year old son decided to gauge the size of his balls, saying “I don’t need to listen to you, old man,” which promptly got him grounded. He claimed he has the freedom to say what he wants, to which I replied “You’re right. You also need to learn that Freedom of Speech DOES NOT mean Freedom from the Consequences of Speech”
ESPN is a business. A business has every right to protect itself from loss of income as a result of the actions of people connected to it.
Hank Jr. is prime example of why it is wise to THINK before you SPEAK. And also why it not is a good idea to (allegedly) go on a TV show with a hefty buzz.
October 4, 2011 @ 5:55 am
Nice comments, Sean. I agree with you wholeheartedly. I spent a few hours with the principal and teachers trying to get the point across to my 10 year old son last week that there are a few rules adults make that may seem stupid, but are rules that must be followed nonetheless. My son works in profanity like it is a new haiku…and tried this out at school. At home, my attitude is that words are words and unless directed at someone with ill-will, no single word is stricken from his vocabulary.
I’m trying to teach him how to protect himself by exercising self control and learning boundaries and limits that exist around him. One of the greatest gifts we can offer our children is to teach them to question everything…all of the time…while simultaneously learning how to protect themselves by not acting in ways that can hurt themselves or others. My son has been learning the consequences of speech…just as yours has.
There is no censorship going on here with Hank Jr….but there should have been. Hank Jr. seems to have lost some sort of filter long ago. His antics and his choice in form of artistic expression have left a good deal to be desired. He needed someone to teach him how to protect himself by limiting his artistic involvements to something of higher quality. He needed to wake up and realize the complexity of the world around him.
Consumerism is as much of a drug as crack. The whole lot of country music has been all but eaten up by this drug. Maybe being cut off from this mainline will help Hank Jr. learn some new tricks. He is an old dog, but I say old dogs can still learn. Or let’s hope?
October 4, 2011 @ 8:09 am
Semantics.
The guy said something, and paid a price for it. To me, that’s censorship. But if you want, call it political discrimination, I don’t care. The fact that people get worked up about the definition of terms over the issues those terms are used to describe is yet another reason the political system is so scuttled.
“Gotcha! You said this, when you should have said that!”
This was a stupid article written in 20 minutes to make people laugh, and illustrate the absurdity of the situation. Do we want to get in a long-depth discussion of the definition of “popcorn fart”?
October 4, 2011 @ 11:02 am
I’m not attacking your post, Trig. I don’t require a definition of Popcorn Fart. Although I do think that you should trademark that term because someone is going to use it as a band name for certain.
I laugh at all of this because we aren’t talking about free speech here, we are talking about a paid representative of a business who did not promote the party line…or perhaps he did?…whose opportunity to present his message was eliminated by the business in charge. It’s a consequence of a capitalist economic system. When you can pay someone to represent you and their fame is what gets you noticed, then you can stop paying them when their fame gets you noticed for something you don’t like.
This man has become a caricature of himself. You are absolutely correct.
October 4, 2011 @ 11:31 am
Exactly. This couldn’t be farther from censorship. I think some perspective is needed on what is real censorship.
October 4, 2011 @ 11:42 am
Here’s an example of true censorship, Bunch: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/monsanto-forced-fox-tv-to_b_186428.html
Simply “letting someone go” because they misrepresent your company isn’t actual censorship.
October 4, 2011 @ 11:50 am
But on a more serious note here, Trig, what Hank Jr. has come to represent with all of his rowdy friends and all IS an interesting thing to consider. I just had a very interesting intellectual exchange with JB Beverly on Facebook today. I find it worth considering how the majority of well-known country musicians are politically conservative and somewhat “lowest common denomenator” in their approach to professing or sharing their political perspective. Why is this? Are the “folk” who listen to country music inherently stupid? Or do the corporations who represent these musicians and promote their public images like the idea of keeping things as dumbed down and simple minded as possible so as to continue to keep people drugged and adoring the crap they are feeding them? Do they tolerate Hank Jr. acting a fool on the Monday Night Football lead-in (or whatever it is called) with his jazz hands (above) until he stops making them money by proving his ignorance with politically incorrect remarks?
I think the idea that most country musicians are either conservative or politically neutral is a fascinating thing. Cash wasn’t neutral…and neither is Beverly from what I learned today. So the non-benign political musicians exist in this genre…why don’t they get to sing the football song?
October 4, 2011 @ 4:39 pm
KAK,
I think that is a much broader question for another time, but I will say the stereotype that all country listeners are conservative and all artists are conservative is a method Music Row is using to sell music, and certain elements are using music to sell politics and political identity. The Outlaws Willie & Waylon were both Democrats. Remember the Dixie Chicks? Remember Toby Keith, and how he was supposed to be a big arrogant red-blooded by God republican because of his “boot in your ass” song? Read these stores:
http://www.theboot.com/2011/10/03/toby-keith-dont-ask-dont-tell-gays-military/
https://savingcountrymusic.com/toby-keith-vs-keith-kristofferson-or-not
https://savingcountrymusic.com/why-toby-keith-i-dont-read-the-rolling-stone
October 4, 2011 @ 5:54 pm
There’s a good book on the topic of country music and politics. “Rednecks and Bluenecks (The Politics of Country Music)” by Chris Willman.
October 4, 2011 @ 6:51 pm
Interesting references and interesting blog posts. I will come back to them later and read them in full. Thanks for the good food for thought!
October 3, 2011 @ 10:37 pm
Really great post, Trig!
October 3, 2011 @ 10:51 pm
Trig I know I usually just stick to smartass comments or drunken late night ramblings but this time I’m making an exception.
I enjoyed the hell out of this post.
“Maybe at some point folks should realize the quickest way to change their circumstances is by rolling up their sleeves and acting themselves to change their own lives.”
That pretty much sums up one of the biggest reasons that I love this music and the community that surrounds it. From SCM to ORC, from Farmageddon, Cracker Swamp and HBE to DBF, Webers Deck and Muddy Roots. All of the countless independent podcasters, radio hosts, promoters, bookers, live concert audio and video bootleggers, fans who drive hours to show up and help make sure the artists at least get a handful of fans at their gigs, AND buy merch, the fans who give up their floors, couches and spare bedrooms.
I hope I’m at least somewhat accurate when I say it’s my belief that every one of these people is sick of the bullshit, mass-marketed entertainment and cheap art that is constantly thrust in our faces and we’ve all made a choice to roll up our sleeves and do our part to support something better. There may be drama, beef, feuds and other negativity but I feel the collective positive efforts of all outweigh any of the bullshit that occasionally rears its head.
October 3, 2011 @ 11:03 pm
(Now’s the part where we all hold hands around a bonfire and sing “We Shall Overcome”)
October 4, 2011 @ 5:43 am
I like beef now. I used to not eat anything with a face, but now, I realize that faces are meant for kissing, laughing AND eating…at least if they are raised humanely…
October 4, 2011 @ 5:24 am
Love the article. I too hate having to hear Faith Hill on Sunday Nights… ESPN certainly should not have fired him. Jr. certainly should not have said those ignorant things. But both he and ESPN have every right to do as they wish. Our freedom of speech allows us to bitch about it.
October 4, 2011 @ 5:24 am
ESPN is equivalent of a violent and boorish churl that commands from the throne of leftist and elitist power; a media tyrant holding sway in its kingdom. The firing of Williams is an attack on America and its freedoms, from my blog today…
http://www.thomas-purcell.com/2011/10/rowdy-letter-to-my-friend-hank.html
October 4, 2011 @ 5:41 am
popcorn fart
boner pill and high fructose corn syrup sponsors
it was like watching Martha Stewart fuck a football
Ah, we should have made out at Muddy Roots. You are a true American poet. Your prose sets my heart a-flutter…
I LOVE this article.
October 4, 2011 @ 5:54 am
You make good points early on, but the bottom line is, this is not censorship. He said his peace, his employer acted accordingly. Private contract trumps all in this situation. If I speak my mind to a customer at work, regardless of what I say or whether it is true, my boss can fire me. The end.
That said, this isn’t the first time Hank has been canned by MNF….and I would be surprised if it is the last.
October 4, 2011 @ 6:12 am
How did they fire him if he was not a employee ???
“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”
They may end up pulling it for the rest of the year but for right now it was just for last night telecast.
October 4, 2011 @ 7:57 am
SUB-CONTRACTOR. Its like firing your plumber.
October 4, 2011 @ 7:59 am
But they didn’t fire him…..they just decided to not play the theme song this week
October 4, 2011 @ 8:51 am
Again, semantics. You’re right, he didn’t get fired, but I think it is easy to assume what is meant by that term. “Terminated from a written agreement to broadcast intellectual property for the exchange of royalties and mechanicals” wouldn’t fit in the title line, sorry.
October 4, 2011 @ 8:58 am
So politics and semantics just don’t seem to mix with high dollar sporting conglomerates. Should be a lesson learned for Jr ?
October 4, 2011 @ 6:50 am
LOL That cropped picture of Hank and the Glee kids is just WRONG!!
And why isn’t anyone mad at him for comparing John Boehner to Netanyahu?
And lastly,people bashed Bush with worse comments than that and the media would promote them.Do it with Obama and get fired.It’s not really big news at this point.
October 4, 2011 @ 6:52 am
Ha i guess that’s a MNF promo and not Glee! Same diff I guess!
October 4, 2011 @ 11:50 am
E’ry body knows that booty shakin’ line dancin’ cheerleaders are the whole reason for a grid iron! Cmon!
October 4, 2011 @ 7:27 pm
Ha! Throw Faith Hill in there too.As the SNL skit goes,”Nothing says football like a woman singing in a field!”
October 4, 2011 @ 11:59 am
“…people bashed Bush with worse comments than that and the media would promote them.”
The Dixie Chicks would like to have a word with you.
October 4, 2011 @ 7:20 pm
Did the Dixie Chicks get fired from anything? No.Nobody stopped them from using their Freedom Of Speech.In fact they became the darlings of Liberal Hollywood and raised on their shoulders.They cleaned up at the Grammy awards over a song that wasn’t even played on the radio as if to say haha country rednecks.In the meantime,country music FANS stopped buying their concert tickets and cd’s.Fans have THAT right.Nobody FIRED or censored them from anything, fans simply made a choice..We’ll see what choice they make with Hank Jr. Something tells me he’s not going to have to go to Canada to sell tickets
October 4, 2011 @ 9:39 pm
Hank Jr. didn’t get his freedom of speech taken away. I think that both he AND Espn were displaying their rights to speech with this whole ordeal. Jr. said his piece. Espn responded. Simple as that. Freedom of speech just means that the government isn’t gonna throw you in jail (or worse) for saying what you feel. Freedom of speech isn’t a right to a job in the public eye. Far from it. I don’t think that Espn made the right move, but they have every right to let Jr. go if they think he’ll hurt their ratings or sponsors.
October 4, 2011 @ 11:19 pm
Freedom of speech is the best. I consider it right up at the top of the list along with freedom to breathe air and freedom to urinate.
October 4, 2011 @ 7:10 am
I heard that Jr. was going to try for a TN state senate seat. Maybe that’s why he was on Fox News. All of his rowdy friends must also be the 1%.
October 4, 2011 @ 7:39 am
“Firing someone for their political beliefs is by far a bigger crime that any politically-incorrect gaff, however ignorant the message behind it is.”
No it ain’t. Neither one is a crime. Certainly not in this situation. Hank Jr. and ESPN are in the public relations/ marketing business together. He is not an architect or a coal miner or a manufacturing plant manager. He is not living in a closed environment where his public actions are in no way connected to his job at ESPN. His usefullness for ESPN can be directly affected by what his public actions are. His “song” didn’t get pulled because of what he believes, it got pulled because he wanted to get on television and talk about it. He’s a dipshit, and it’s his right to be a dipshit in the privacy of his home, without consequence. But he wanted to come on tv and be a dipshit,….of course that’s gonna affect his job,…his job is on tv,…and his job at ESPN wasn’t to give his opinions, it was to be a happy singing clown. So now they don’t want him anymore, nothing wrong with that.
October 4, 2011 @ 7:50 am
Sky Sutton ain’t too happy.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Daddy-Moonshine-The-Story-of-Marvin-Popcorn-Sutton-by-Sky-Sutton/90517617189
October 4, 2011 @ 7:54 am
Hank Williams Jr.’s Son: My Dad SHOULD NOT Talk Politics
http://www.tmz.com/2011/10/04/hank-williams-jr-monday-night-football-son-politics-obama-hitler-fox-news-channel-jello-biafra-green-party-politics/#.ToscY7Ifjew
October 4, 2011 @ 8:15 am
Do you have a copy of that quiche recipe?
October 4, 2011 @ 8:26 am
“It’d be like . . .”
October 4, 2011 @ 10:05 am
Man I’m stickin by what I wrote last night.
“Just like Lady Gaga is responsible for my vegetarian lifestyle and Will Smith teaching me the importance of cultural acceptance and tolerance, Hank Jr. is responsible for all of my political beliefs.”
Comparing Obama to Hitler….OH NO YOU DI-INT! (finger snap). Yeah, cause uh, he didn’t. It’s Hank Jr. It was probably the quickest example he could come up with of two people that would never get along.
Fuck man, I agree he has pretty much been a joke the last twenty years. Yall remember that god-awful rendition of “McCain-Palin Tradition” right? Politics aside, that was just a stupid song.
But on the other hand, I don’t care if it’s Shia Labeouf saying we should annihilate North Korea immediately or Tom Selleck casually mentioning that he thinks Mexicans smell funny.
Who cares man, it’s all coming from entertainers. Why does their politics, beliefs or personal lives mean anything? Even when they’re doing something positive or at least pretending to, it doesn’t matter.
October 4, 2011 @ 10:17 am
Ok, I was on board with the whole “down with anything popular” when it pertained to Rascal Flatts and Jason Aldean…. And I’ll admit that Bocephus doesn’t make music like he used to…. Plus he seems to have gone a little cooky in his old age…but seriously, FUCK YOU for talkin shit about Hank Jr.
…Oh, and just cause I can: FUCK OBAMA.
I’m gonna go try to forget I read this and hopefully be able to enjoy your otherwise wonderful website again one day.
October 4, 2011 @ 10:52 am
Hey look, I am a HUGE fan of what Hank Jr. did up to “Born to Boogie”, and I’ll fight any man who says there’s no good music there. But after that, Jr. became a caricature of himself. I’m not saying there aren’t a few good songs here and there, but his Kid Rock dalliances, his stupid “McCain-Palin” mashup (not for the message necessarily, just for the song), and his Monday Night bit that went on for WAY too long, oh, and the fact that he’s been a bad father to his son, have put a sour taste in my mouth about the man. Having said that, I look forward to what he has coming up now that he’s free of Curb Records and this stupid Monday Night gig.
The point of this article was to laugh. I have a lot of respect for Jr., maybe not for what he’s doing right now, but for what he did, and a few snarky good-natured jabs don’t change that.
October 4, 2011 @ 11:48 am
Aw, Triggerman, you know I can’t stay mad at you. I guess I’m just sensitive cause I was pretty much raised on Hank jr. so to me it’s kind of like somebody bad mouthing Elvis or even(God forbid) Hank Sr. I’m aware that Hank jr. does occasionally make an ass out of himself like that drunk uncle you love that embarrasses you in front of your friends. They can’t all age as gracefully as Johnny Cash. That being said, I did get a chuckle out of the Martha Stewart football comment.
October 4, 2011 @ 10:25 am
RETRACTION:
I do actually care what Shia Lebeouf thinks because he was in Transformers 3 and the commercial on the tv said it was the greatest action movie of all time.
October 4, 2011 @ 11:45 am
Hey NLindsay
Take your retraction and shove it! I ain’t workin’ here no more . . .
October 4, 2011 @ 1:03 pm
😀
October 4, 2011 @ 12:06 pm
While very anti-political let me point out that:
A. No one would have cared if he’d called Bush, Hitler.
B. Obama HAS bombed a lot of babies.
C. Hank3 is correct, though not about Jello Biafra…
October 4, 2011 @ 1:24 pm
Really? All the Dixie Chicks said was that they were embarrassed that Bush was from Texas and that pretty much ended their mainstream country career.
October 4, 2011 @ 1:27 pm
They didn’t get fired, fans made a decision to stop supporting them, along with radio stations.
October 4, 2011 @ 5:17 pm
Distinction without a difference.
October 4, 2011 @ 12:35 pm
This is more about “PC” than censorship. One side can say whatever they want, while the other is not allowed to say anything.
October 4, 2011 @ 1:31 pm
Nah. It’s just business. I bet he could have gone on an anti-Muslim rant unrelated to Obama and survived. Not enough people would have been offended in order to affect the bottom line.
October 4, 2011 @ 2:42 pm
One thing to say:
http://www.cardboardconnection.com/football/out-of-left-field-video-of-the-day-chris-farley-as-monday-night-footballs-hank-williams-jr
October 4, 2011 @ 2:57 pm
Shooter just came in with guns blazing!
October 4, 2011 @ 4:55 pm
I have been waiting for that video clip to surface for years. Just added it up in the article, because it is that important. I remember watching this live when it was broadcast for the first time, and being floored. It was at the top of my mind when I was writing this article. I know it’s not Hank Jr., and it is a stupid SNL skit, but sometimes the best understanding can come from comedy.
“Listen man, I sing music for working people. I know it ain’t the most sophisticated stuff in the world, but it comes from the heart . . . We must seem pretty ridiculous to you folks. Truth is, people like us don’t have any role models. So my career’s important to many people.”
Before I heard Bocephus’ music, I thought I was alone in the world.”
“My teenage boy was getting into trouble. Bocephus’ music taught him to be a man.”
“That’s all I’m trying to do in my awkward way is to bring people together.”
October 4, 2011 @ 3:48 pm
Best publicity Junior has got since he introduced Kid Shlock as his Rebel Son…desperate moves by the desperate.
October 4, 2011 @ 5:01 pm
Looks like he was probably drunk…… Everyone has the right to say what they want, celebrity or some faceless asshole on a message board. So with that said, when someone says something that makes no sense or is completely stupid, it gets tons of attention and its normally the extreme ends of society, Hank is a washed up loser looking to jump on the Tea bag bandwagon and looking to make some waves and get himself elected. If he said something that was intelligent and well thought out, no one would be talking about him, its pretty easy, throw out a hitler here or there and boom you are all over the news.
Also since this is the land of the free….. i’m not surprised some dumb ass tea baggers are confusing this is censorship, they are confused by just about everything.
Tuesday Tiddy Bits…
October 4, 2011 @ 5:10 pm
[…] I don’t know what a popcorn fart is, but I like it.  […]
October 6, 2011 @ 12:59 pm
I don’t agree with what Hank Jr. said but I don’t think he should be fired by ESPN for what he said on Fox News. The interview was not to promote ESPN, & ESPN was not talked about in the interview. The only thing he said that I have a problem with is him apolagizing after ESPN fired him. To me that’s the problem if you’re going to make a statement like that stick by it.
October 7, 2011 @ 9:58 am
ESPN has a perfect right to choose whomever they want to represent their station. They don’t have to use Bocephus if they don’t think he fits the image they want to project. Is Ambercrombie and Fitch censoring expression because they have asked Jersey Shore people not to wear their clothes ? Is the state of New Jersey violating anyone’s rights because they decided not to provide any more incentives or tax breaks to the producers of that show because they feel it misrepresents their state and citizens? A business must choose its spokespersons carefully because consumers often associate the business with the person doing the advertising or the show teasers. Companies pull agreements all the time with folks like Tiger Woods or Roger Clemens or any celebrity whose conduct they do not like. It’s purely a business or public relations matter. It’s the old golden rule – the business has the gold, so they get to make the rules.
October 9, 2011 @ 11:35 am
Yeah, censorship. Not really. If you are employer doesn’t want you out making comments that don’t agree with their political stance, that is your employers right. It is not a violation of your freedom of speech, you have obligations to your employer, end of story. I am glad you admit this was a poorly written piece meant to make people laugh, because that is exactly what it was to me.
Hank Jr has been doing that song for years. Nothing wrong with it. Why does everything on this site have to be a war on anything that is not “underground”?
Sorry, just think your time would be better spent ranting about how some new pop country act is ruining “real” country music, vs attacking Hank Jr on his smart business decisions.
October 9, 2011 @ 2:33 pm
“Why does everything on this site have to be a war on anything that is not “underground”?”
Love when people deal in absolutes. How then do you explain my positive reviews for The Pistol Annies, Eric Church, and Nick 13?
October 11, 2011 @ 12:48 am
I don’t know what’s worse, Hank’s opinions or the “songs” he keep releasing…
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Hank-Williams-Jr-wrote-a-new-song-about-Fox-New?urn=nfl-wp9130
October 13, 2011 @ 6:08 am
Thank you hank #3!!! he seems to embody the real spirit of hank williams sr.
hank jr. is a washed up loser. who was a bad father, and an ego maniac.
where were all these freedom of speech lovers, when the dixie chicks spoke
out against bush, when they said they were ashamed to be from the same state?
these redneck ass holes were BURNING DIXIE CHICK CDS, and calling them,
anti-american. hank jr. did not call obama hitler, BUT mr. hank jr. did say obama,
and biden were the enemy… so were is the out rage? two wars were going on then? THREE WARS ARE GOING ON NOW!!! I guess if obama was white and a republican, then the out rage would be going on!!! and hank jr. is blaming FOX for
twisting his words around???
I am a liberal and I HATE fox news, but they just reported what he said, and that is twisting words around? no this is all about hank jr. trying to get 15 more minutes of fame of a dwindling career, that fizzled out years ago…I am a big fan of hank 3,
shooter jennings, the XXX movement, and this is one of my favorite websites, and I am a big fan of trigger man and agree with what he, hank 3, and shooter have said.
I have some advice for BOGUS-CEPHUS, words from some dumb red neck hillbillies from 2003. hank jr. listen to your son, do us all a favor. SHUT THE HELL
UP AND SING!!!!
October 15, 2011 @ 8:33 pm
Hank is a blow hard. There is a double standard out there. Hank associates President Obama as being Hitler and just has his hands slapped and released from ESPN and thats it. But when the Dixie Chicks said ‘We’re embarassed to be from the same State as George W. Bush’ they were crucified! I’d say there was one hell of a double standard there. For you assholes yelling what about the first ammendment rights, yeah, what happened to the Dixie Chicks rights? It’s like the whole music industry jumped on them after that. Fuck Hank Williams Jr and the horse the racist son of a bitch rode in on. He’s nothing but a washed up loudmouthed redneck un-American alcoholic. I kind of think he showed his intelligence when he was supporting Sarah Palin. Thats my story and I’m stickin to it and it’s my right! WC Edgar, the savior of Real Country Music.