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Guest
10-04-2011, 05:07 AM
What does this mean, freedom of speech violation or enough is enough?
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/espn-pulls-intro-williams-obama-comments-14661158
Guest
10-04-2011, 06:32 AM
Freedom of speech doesn't apply.

ESPN can pull anyone they want for any reason.

"Freedom of speech" would apply if the GOVERNMENT was silencing him.
Guest
10-04-2011, 06:34 AM
Freedom of speech doesn't apply.

ESPN can pull anyone they want for any reason.

"Freedom of speech" would apply if the GOVERNMENT was silencing him.

I'm old, but learn something most every day. Thanks.
Guest
10-04-2011, 07:38 PM
So Hank Williams Jr makes an analogy about Boehner and Obama golfing and yucking it up together being like "It'd be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu." Obama was not called Hitler, he made an analogy to show how bizarred this comaradarie on the golf course was. He didn't actually say that Obama like was Hitler, or the other guy for that matter. If you ask me it is far more benign than what the liberals routinely call me as a Tea Partyer...a Nazi! a racist!...
Furthermore, the response of ESPN shows a blatant lack of...hmmm... a certain type sporting equipment.
Guest
10-04-2011, 08:11 PM
I think what got him pulled was what he said AFTER the Hitler remark.. When questioned about it, he said (paraphrasing), "Yeah, him and Biden, they're the enemy".
Guest
10-04-2011, 08:30 PM
I think what got him pulled was what he said AFTER the Hitler remark.. When questioned about it, he said (paraphrasing), "Yeah, him and Biden, they're the enemy".

OK...wouldn't that mean that Obama and Biden are enemies? kind of like Hitler and Netanyah being enemies? like on opposite sides of vey important issues?
Guest
10-04-2011, 09:26 PM
If you do not like ESPN's action about Hank Jr., you have the right to write them letters, emails, phone calls, not watch their network, organize boycotts of their sponsors, or do nothing at all.

The choice is yours.
Guest
10-05-2011, 05:32 AM
If you do not like ESPN's action about Hank Jr., you have the right to write them letters, emails, phone calls, not watch their network, organize boycotts of their sponsors, or do nothing at all.

The choice is yours.

Already don't watch ESPN and probably will do nothing at all, Hank Jr didn't seem upset by it so why should I be?
Guest
10-05-2011, 09:34 AM
OK...wouldn't that mean that Obama and Biden are enemies? kind of like Hitler and Netanyah being enemies? like on opposite sides of vey important issues?

He was asked by the interviewer if he realized that he wsa comparing Obama to Hitler - that's when he (Williams) said "Yeah, him and Biden", meaning Obama and Biden - they, collectively, were "the enemy".
Guest
10-05-2011, 10:45 AM
If you do not like ESPN's action about Hank Jr., you have the right to write them letters, emails, phone calls, not watch their network, organize boycotts of their sponsors, or do nothing at all.

The choice is yours.

Yes. I already did. I told them I never wanted to hear that damn song again. :cus:
Guest
10-05-2011, 11:19 AM
Yes. I already did. I told them I never wanted to hear that damn song again. :cus:

It is a great song. Maybe they will play it at President Romney's Inauguration Party January 20, 2013.
Guest
10-05-2011, 12:19 PM
It is a great song. Maybe they will play it at President Romney's Inauguration Party January 20, 2013.

Now thats funny right there, I don't care who ya are.