What does this mean, freedom of speech violation or enough is enough?
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/...ments-14661158

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.

Originally Posted by djplong

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.

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.

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".

Originally Posted by djplong

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?

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.

Originally Posted by buggyone

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?

Originally Posted by KatzPajamas

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".

Originally Posted by buggyone

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.

Originally Posted by DaleMN

Yes. I already did. I told them I never wanted to hear that damn song again.

It is a great song. Maybe they will play it at President Romney's Inauguration Party January 20, 2013.

Originally Posted by villagegolfer

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.