Hank Williams Jr. To Return Award From Institute for Football Preparedness
Unless you're dead in the back of a baby-blue Cadillac convertible, you've probably heard that country music singer Hank Williams Jr. has been canned as "the voice of Monday Night Football," where his genuinely awful song about "being ready for some football" has graced that already-downsized American institution for what seems like a longer time than the Detroit Lions' have labored under the curse of Bobby Layne.
The crime committed by the man known as Bocephus? Likening President Barack Obama to Hitler and, perhaps less awful (but who knows), Speaker of the House John Boehner to Israeli pol Benjamin Netanyahu. Specifically, Junior went full-frontal Godwin in describing the ballyhooed "golf summit" between Obama and Boehner as "like Hitler playing golf with Benjamin Netanyahu."
When asked to clarify just what the hell he meant on the avuncular morning show Fox & Friends, Williams explained that Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden are "the enemy."
The result: ESPN has yanked the use of Williams' best-known song as a promo.
So what do you think, fair readers? Is this a case of political correctness gone amok? Or of the market disciplining a chowderhead for straying from his core competency?
Here's the segment of Fox & Friends:
Reason.com's Bocephus mentions, all in a list.