Are You Ready For Some Stupidity

So long, fucktard.  Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.

For the past twenty some odd years, Monday Night Football has started out with various versions of Hank Williams Jr.'s "All My Rowdy Friends Are Comin' Over Tonight."  ESPN has, at least temporarily, decided to end that tradition.  I don't have a problem with that.  Hell, I think Hank sucks out loud.  It's the reason that has me shaking my head.

Hank Jr. was being interviewed on Fox News (Faux News) - Fox and Friends to be precise.  The fact that this minimally talented, redneck alcoholic was providing political commentary is laughable.  Hank made a comment that Obama and Boehner playing a round of golf was like Hitler and Netanyahu playing a round of golf.  He then went on to call Obama and Biden the "enemy." ESPN subsequently canned Hank.  Apparently, that Hitler comparison didn't go over too well with the heads at ESPN.

I get what Hank was trying to say, however unfortunate his choice of words.  The point is that Obama and Boehner are at such polar opposite ends of the universe that trying to work it out over a round of golf is pointless.  For as many brain cells as Hank has drowned, I'll have to agree with the gist of the message.  Obama and Boehner trying to work it out over a round of golf was at best pointless; and more to the point, it was nothing but an opportunity for each of them to posture a bit for the press.  Now, back to that unfortunate choice of words - right-wingers have been comparing Obama to Hitler ever since he secured the nomination in 2008.  Hank's commentary isn't exactly something new.  It is a demonstration of the right wingnuts' lack of knowledge of world history.  Without searching through the archives of every knuckle-dragger who ever commented on Faux, I'm reasonable sure Hank isn't the only one who ever made the comparison on the air.  While I strongly disagree with him and I'm sure not sad to see him go, I'm just not diggin' the reason.  Sure, this isn't the type of censorship that the First Amendment protects against.  There is no government entity calling for Hank to be silenced.  This was wholly the decision of a private corporation.  It just seems, well, wrong to dump Hank for this reason. 

But for his father's fame, Hank Williams, Jr. would not even be a topic of conversation.  He would be another hairy redneck stumbling around the trailer park shirtless, his pregnant gut hanging over his oversized belt buckle, beating his wife and drinking up the rent.  He sucks ass.  Granted, I like the catch-phrase "are you ready for some football," but Hank sucks.  If ESPN had punted his ass for sucking, cool.  If they punted his ass for being a washed up, no talent, drunken redneck, cool.  Punting for expressing his opinion about a political matter, not so cool.  I understand why they did it.  They're a corporation and they make their money in part on their ratings.  If one of their on-air personalities alienates a large portion of their audience, he has to go.  It's nothing personal.  It's a financial decision.  

I guess I'm looking a gift horse in the mouth.  I'm glad the knuckle-dragger is gone.  I would have just preferred it would have been for some reason other than shooting off his mouth.

This is from the refined end of Bocephus's gene pool.