MNF: Are You Ready For Some Bias??!!

Are you ready for some fooooootball?!! For twenty- three years, Hank Williams Jr. has opened Monday Night Football with his song about his rowdy friends coming together for Monday night. Not last night. Last night, ESPN, an affiliate of ABC Network, yanked the song because Hank dared to speak ill of Obama and offended the powers that be at ABC.

What did Hank say? If you read the headlines, Hank “compared Obama to Hitler.” The horror! And what was the basis of this forbidden comparison? Did he mention that Obama demonizes the rich like Hitler demonized the Jews? Nope. Did he complain how Obama tried to take away the basic human rights of Gitmo detainees so they would become unpeople? Did he mention Obama chumming around with dictators? How about his selling out democracies like Taiwan and Israel? His unprovoked invasion of Libya? Nope.

Here’s what he dared to say. He was asked whether John Boehner made a mistake from a political perspective being seen playing golf with Obama. And Hank said it was a mistake akin to “Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu.”

Uh. . . what’s the big deal?

For starters, that’s not really comparing Obama to Hitler as ABC claims. Yes, it's a “comparison” in a technical sense, but it’s not in a real sense. This is just an analogy to explain that Boehner playing golf with Obama was like one person playing golf with their sworn enemy. He could just as easily have said “the Pope playing with Satan” or “Tom playing with Jerry.” Williams did not say “Obama is like Hitler,” which would have been a real attempt at comparison. So attacking him for “comparing Obama to Hitler” is ridiculous.

Secondly, when has ABC ever punished a leftist for anything similar (or even anything worse). People like Sean Penn, Matt Damon and Janeane Garafolo routinely say much worse. They actually compared Bush to Hitler. They say vile things against Palin and now Herman Cain. Their reporters and anchors routinely slander everyone on the right. Rosanne Barr just spoke about putting rich people in camps. . . now who's being Hitlerian? Yet, ABC has never refused to show their films or canceled their shows. Why not?

Why is it that Williams gets punished for not even actually saying anything negative about Obama, yet these vile creatures can say whatever they want and ABC doesn’t care? Why is it leftists can call conservatives stupid, racists, Bushitler, bitches, and Uncle Toms, and can suggest conservatives should be put in camps, should be raped, should be killed and their kids should be killed. . . but conservatives can’t even offer something that is barely a suggestion of criticism?

I find this disgusting. And I honestly think it’s time conservatives fought back. It’s time for whoever wins the White House to take a long hard look at the networks through the Federal Election Commission and the FCC. It strikes me they’ve become partisans and should lose their licenses or be forced off the air during elections. And yes, I’m serious. If leftists want to run the networks as bastions of leftist propaganda, then it’s time we treated them as such.

In any event, Williams has now issued an explanation (fortunately not an apology) which says this:

"Some of us have strong opinions and are often misunderstood. My analogy was extreme — but it was to make a point. I was simply trying to explain how stupid it seemed to me - how ludicrous that pairing was. They're polar opposites and it made no sense. They don't see eye-to-eye and never will. I have always respected the office of the President."

The left is of course not satisfied. But that’s tough. Stick to your guns Hank. The only thing you did wrong was use the wrong dictator: Obama’s not really competent enough to be in Hitler's league, next time compare him to someone more Banana Republic-ish.