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To ESPN, Hank Jr.'s Bad Hitler Joke About Obama Worse Than Rapist Tyson's Crass Comment About Palin

By Ken Shepherd | October 06, 2011 | 17:15

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A bad joke about President Obama that involved Adolf Hitler is apparently unpardonable to ESPN, whereas a crass sexual reference about former Gov. Sarah Palin (R), well, that may actually be riotously funny to some at the network.

ESPN today announced that it will no longer use Hank Williams Junior's "Are You Ready for Some Football" to promote the network's "Monday Night Football" programming after Williams's comment on Monday's "Fox & Friends" comparing the famous Boehner/Obama golf outing to Adolf Hitler playing golf with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.


On Monday the network pulled Williams's promo for the October 3 game by saying in a statement, "We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight's telecast."

Yet to our knowledge, we at NewsBusters are unaware of any similar edict by ESPN to prevent former boxer and convicted rapist Mike Tyson from returning on the network's programming or of any disciplinary action against the radio hosts who allowed Tyson to Palin "met the wombshifter" when she allegedly had a fling with basketball player Glen Rice.

Indeed, as the Sister Toldjah blog noted on September 20, ESPN radio host Mitch Moss tweeted his approval of Tyson's crass humor:

WOW! @miketyson just made his most epic appearance ever with Gridlock! #wombshifter??! Are you serious?! My head hurts from laughing.

Mitch Moss is still co-hosting Gridlock on ESPN 1100 in Las Vegas and can be found on Twitter here. It appears he's since thought better of his Tyson tweet and deleted it.

You can find the screen capture on Sister Toldjah's blog, however.

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Boehner should be mad...

Submitted by Red Bill on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 5:33pm.

Hank should not have compared Boehner to Hitler! Obama's comparison to Netanyahu is a compliment to POTUS.

Red Bill
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What happened to freedom of speech and the right

Submitted by nonncom on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 11:14am.

to have an opinion about leadership, no matter how it comes across....Hank wasn't at work for ESPN when he said it....he never said it was the opinion of ESPN.....welcome, comrades.....say, isn't it about time to play cowboys and communists?....

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nope, no bias here.

Submitted by kata on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 5:37pm.

Not a bit. Nope.

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Still not considering the difference?

Submitted by Mister Orange on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 5:45pm.

Hank Jr., musician on the payroll of ESPN
Obama, President of the US

Mike Tyson, private citizen
Sarah Palin, private citizen

There is no comparison.

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You're right

Submitted by kata on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 5:48pm.

If Mike Tyson had been saying it about a gay activist female private citizen this would have been ignored completely.

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Kata

Submitted by Mister Orange on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:44pm.

Was Mike Tyson employed by ESPN? If so, he should be fired for such comments. As it were, ESPN has as much control over a guest as they do over an athlete flipping off the camera.

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Focus nitwit

Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:49pm.

Read the article, Then try again

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right again

Submitted by kata on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:50pm.

laughing hysterically was certainly err'ing on the better part of valor.

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Kata

Submitted by Mister Orange on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 8:18pm.

So one is a reaction to what someone else said, and the other is specifically what someone said. Sorry, I'm not buying into this faux-outrage.

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Apology accepted,

Submitted by kata on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 8:27pm.

Since there was no faux outrage on my part I take no offense at your remarks.

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um...

Submitted by retrocon on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 5:54pm.

I think they pay Tyson to appear, when he's providing sports commentary.

And actually, political speech of any kind, including comparisons of political leaders, is constitutionally protected speech, it is not protected speech to libel private citizens.

Now, there are plenty of arguments over her celebrity status, and that a private company can do what they want.

But you can not argue the hypocrisy and political bent of the producers of ESPN any longer.

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Come on now don't let facts get in the way of

Submitted by gmaniac1 on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 2:58pm.

Mister Orange's absurd argument to cover his liberal ilk's utter bullcrap. You mess his whole ridiculous argument up and it may keep him from occupying something that isn't his in the first place, like Wall Street or something;)

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Or

Submitted by Mister Orange on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 5:48pm.

Las Vegas ESPN affiliate versus National News Program.

Oh now I'm just talking to myself.

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Mister Orange is now on

Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 7:29pm.

Mister Orange is now on record as being okay with rape "jokes" as long as its not on a "national" show.

 

   /// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 ///    خال

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Technically, Free...

Submitted by Jer on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 8:01pm.

Kata

Submitted by Mister Orange on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:44pm.

Was Mike Tyson employed by ESPN? If so, he should be fired for such comments....

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2011/10/06/shorter-espn-hanks-...

...I think the above would put Mister Orange on record as being NOT okay with rape jokes.

Personally, if those idiots yukked it up with Tyson as reported, I think they should have at least been suspended for a few shows--although radio talk venues and shock jocks aren't exactly renowned formats for genteel repartee`. As far as Williams, probably a "distancing" statement from ESPN and a one week hiatus for his "ready for some football" opening would have been a more reasonable reaction.

Jer

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Huh?

Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 11:21am.

Since when do cable channels have affiliates? 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

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Hello! McFly? Anyone in there?

Submitted by Mister Orange on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 11:32am.

Radio show. Tyson was on a radio show. ESPN affiliate in Vegas, KWWN. You can find that on your AM dial, 1100.

You don't need a cable subscription to listen to free radio.

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Read your own writing very very carefully

Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 11:59am.

Do you work in Central Texas?  A friend of mine and I use the "McFly" line on each other all day at work.

Please note that when you said "Las Vegas ESPN affiliate", you DID NOT indicate radio or television. 

Being too hasty in a bid to make someone appear like an idiot only makes you look like a bigger idiot. 

 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

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Unsane

Submitted by Mister Orange on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 12:03pm.

I thought it was understood that Tyson's comments were made on a radio show, as it was included in the article's text. Did you not read the article?

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Threaten him Dead Angry Black and Orange Zippers.

Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 12:12pm.

Tell him you know where he keeps his gun. Anything to throw the relentless pounding you are getting. Does he have children? Tell him you know the route they walk home from school. That worked for you so well on your 7th, 8th, 18th and 20th accounts. Come on. It ain't too soon for your inner internet predator to show up.

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You've got a great sense of humor

Submitted by Mister Orange on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 12:34pm.

However, I think I know what you're referring to, but plausibly speaking it just ain't in the cards. For example, once the deterrent has become apparent, it reduces the number significantly, however somewhat artificially. Belief in this process requires belief in something far more superficial than what has previously worked... The process, which must exemplify excellence without negation of precluded sensibilities.

Agreed?

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Oh I get it now

Submitted by mandrake on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 12:53pm.

You're one of those experimental AI programs out of MIT. You sound like a robot. High marks to the student!

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Yes, I do have a great sense of humor. It comes from intellect.

Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 12:59pm.

You, quite stupid. It is why you get busted time and time again. Despite starting with complete anonymity. Not playing your game you predatory freakshow. Pack sand.

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"Oh now I'm just talking to myself."

Submitted by gmaniac1 on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 6:41pm.

They have therapy for that as, once again for the children in the back row, that liberal nonsense won't wash here. The only one who believes your assertion of anything other than liberal hypocrisy is you... and maybe a few choice other libs who have yet to smell what they're shoveling.

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Why wouldn't Mitch Moss still

Submitted by balboa on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 5:47pm.

Why wouldn't Mitch Moss still be hosting his show? Nobody fired Kukla, Fran, and Ollie from Fox & Friends because of Hank Williams Jrs.' comment.

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Do you think they should be?

Submitted by kata on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 5:53pm.

I think that a company should have a right to depict whatever image they deem necessary to continue to make money. ESPN should embrace it's bias and move forward without pretenses or walk back their comments to the typical "we cannot be held for the opinions.. blah blah legalspeak" which could be perfectly viable way of handling it.

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I don't think either should

Submitted by balboa on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:15pm.

I don't think either should be fired. Just wonder why the author brought it up.

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I can't say for certain but ...

Submitted by kata on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:28pm.

rather than choosing to use the same legal defense for both instances, ESPN chose to fire one and keep the other. "Why?" is a valid question.

retrocon also brings up another interesting point if it's indeed legally correct that the company is actually more on the hook for libel against a private citizen than they are for 1st amendment protected political speech.

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Political speech is more

Submitted by Jer on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:44pm.

Political speech is more broadly protected by First Amendment freedom of speech guarantees. Slander and libel are not protected but if the targeted person is deemed a public figure the legal hurdles are considerably higher for the plaintiff.

Jer

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ESPN wasn't involved in both

Submitted by balboa on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 11:09pm.

ESPN wasn't involved in both instances. One was on that radio show, the other was on Fox & Friends, right?

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Have Doocy, Kilmeade, and

Submitted by Jer on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:31pm.

Have Doocy, Kilmeade, and Carlson made any comment about Williams, Jr. and his interesting political observations conveyed during his guest appearance on F & F? They appeared a little discomfited as Williams forged ahead with his crude depiction and denouncement of Obama, but should the hosts have admonished him?...disassociated themselves from his characterizations? Did their failure to do so suggest they agreed with him? Should FOX embrace its bias and move forward without pretense, or what?

Jer

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Quite honestly he seemed drunk

Submitted by kata on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:44pm.

and they gave him the space and uncomfortable nods you usually give a drunk gentleman. There was no hysterical laughter. I assume you watched it.

There is no arguing that FOX's business model was working. I have never been a FOX watcher. I rather liked Neil Cavuto but the rest of the pundit lineup I found as tedious as anything on MSNBC.

But I've heard that they've been tweaking it a bit more for balance's sake. Does that count as moving forward?

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He appeared to me to be fighting a hangover.

Submitted by Jer on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:54pm.

I watched the video. About Fox News...Roger Ailes [President of FNC] has made some interesting [concerning balance] and some provocative [concerning several Fox personalities] comments in a Newsweek interview which I haven't read except for a few excerpts. Can't argue with his success, however.

Jer

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Nope.

Submitted by kata on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:11pm.

However, it remains to seen if ESPN can make their business work if they start alienating conservative sports watchers. "Why?" still remains a valid question.

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Bingo!

Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 9:29pm.

As others are finding out

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Good grief,

Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 9:33pm.

Are you so dense you dont float? Ya know, like a brick

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boycott

Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:31pm.

I never watch ESPN.  In fact I don't even know where it's located on my TV lineup.  So now instead of not watching because i just don't do sports programming I am not watching as protest to ESPN's politics.

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Hitler? what's the big deal?

Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:37pm.

obama and his news sycophants compared obama to Abraham Lincoln and that is the more offensive comparison.

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What's The Big Deal?

Submitted by Rikki_Doxx on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:07pm.

ESPN = private company. If they want to fire someone for whatever reason they can. OTOH they may regret the decision to do so.

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Who deserved the "attitude adjustment?"

Submitted by lrgon on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:29pm.

ESPN politically sensitive bosses are too concerned about hurting their viewers' feelings of things political (although the bloody game of football; bruised and bloody human bodies is totally ok with them) does not bother them. Oh, please don't hurt the viewers' sensitivities with politics! Hank that kind of talk has to go!

Hank was never the shy one. In the heyday of Hank's big hit days hotel managers would quake at the prospect of Hank Jr. staying in their hotel. The General Managers that operated Holiday Inn hotels,Red Roofs and Marriott hotels, etc. would scramble to get their maintenance crews to batten down the hatches:"Here comes Hank, look out!"

I don't know if this is Karma for all those wild and wooly touring days, but the Anti-Defamation League president, Abraham H. Foxman, was very hurt by Hank's Hitler and Netanyahu analogy. The ADL's Mr. Foxman wants Hank to apologize to everyone in the world that was alive during WWII! That's a lot of apologizing for an analogy about tweedle dee (Boehner) and tweedle dum (Obama) swinging golf clubs while the nation's unemployed have to dodge another hit from their anti-capitalist polices?

FORE!

Well, Hank does need to write a country hit about Abe sitting and watching the new Hitler the media created out of Iran president Mahmoud Ahmandinejad.

Here is irony for you: Ahmadinejad is invited to speak at the nation's premier left-wing "think tank" - the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Foxman of the ADL is a CFR member but does he resign or condemnn the CFR for inviting the new Hitler to speak at CFR central? Foxman manages to squeak out a protest that he won't eat his dinner, he'll only listen to Ahmadinejad speak at this CFR hosted dinner speech event!

It's ok for Foxman to dine or refuse to eat his potatoes in protest at CFR central with Hitler (Ahmandinejad) but it isn’t OK for a country singer to use Hitler in an analogy about two jokers that are ruining our economy!

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Actualy, Pro Football

Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:34pm.

Is kinda a sissy sport now, the NBA has harder fouls.

Seek Truth, Defend Liberty
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huh..

Submitted by kata on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:40pm.

well you certainly get points for strangest segue of the week.

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Everyone can ignore the lrgon conspirocrank loon.

Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 12:24am.

Mr. Foxman did refuse to attend Ahmadinejad having a meeting with the CFR. The conspirocrank loon lrgon LIES.

“The idea that, somehow, communication in this instance will make a difference has been proven false. The Europeans have had many meetings with him and all it does is provide the opportunity to lie.” Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League also denounced the forum and refused to participate, telling the Jewish Week it would be “the height of arrogance” to believe anything said to Ahmadinejad at the meeting would change his views.

This is what happens when you get all your conspirocrank loon information from conspirocrank loon websites.
 

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Monday Night Football

Submitted by HogTideRebelCats on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 8:40pm.

I love Football, but I went a few years and never watched one game on Sunday Night Football because Keith Olbermann opened his pie hole on the pre-game.

Now it is time to stop watching Monday Night Football.

I also went most of a season after Rush Limbaugh was insulted when he might have been a part owner of the Rams. I only returned to watching because Rush on his program said he continued to watch.

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Rush is afraid of the PC police too

Submitted by lrgon on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 9:17pm.

The fact is that Hank ain't a gonna open up the show due to political correctness gone wild.

One topic that Rush won't touch even with Hank's 50 foot long coach! That taboo topic is the CFR. Rush understands well that they run the news and he isn't about to broach that topic.

I'll give Glenn Beck credit that he would discuss the CFR with Lou Dobbs and other guests.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/behind-the-big-news-propaganda-and-the-cfr/
But we all know Glenn got cut for controversial discussions,some even on nibbling at the edges of conspiracy.

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CFR?

Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 9:25pm.

What the heck is that? Your article doesnt shed any light on CFR either

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Ignore the lrgon conspirocrank loon.

Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 12:12am.

CFR is the Council on Foreign Relations. An independent think tank. Oh my, that is scary, people that think. Well, to a conspirocrank loon, uh yeah, it is.

About CFR

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher

CFR members, including Brian Williams, Fareed Zakaria, Angelina Jolie, Chuck Hagel, and Erin Burnett, explain why the Council on Foreign Relations is an indispensable resource in a complex world.
 

Oh my, Angelina Jolie is gonna take over the planet! Run for the hills boys and girls! Run! Run! Run!

The CFR is publishing articles and stuff! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! Only conspirocrank loons are allowed to do that! Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

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Thanks Vet,

Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 7:51am.

For the enlightenment

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Hey. They run the news. Soon the world.

Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 8:51am.

From the conspiracrank loon's link --- “to create a world system of financial control, in private hands, able to dominate the political system of each country, and the economy of the world as a whole.” In short, they seek total and quiet control of the entire world...

Now you know, I know, and everyone reading this page knows. That means we must all be eliminated as we are a direct threat. If I were you, I would commit Seppuku now so as to relieve yourself of the certain torture they will inflict to find out what you know and who you told. This is my last post as I have already laid out my ritualistic Seppuku ritual thingee's and will commit to it right after I sign off.

Good Bye cruel world....

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I think I will wait

Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 9:09am.

Till the last minute. I am not convinced they have the numbers,

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For the Conspiro Irgon

Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 11:29am.

Oh, my little Conspiro, I understand you spend every waking moment of your life filled with FEAR and extreme, absolute terror at the prospect that the United States is just one of roughly 200 nation-states around the world.  You are a xenophobe of the highest order, and I get that, too. 

But all you need to do to resist this evil organization of pencil-necked GEEKS who couldn't take over a phone booth, much less anything else, is simply not buy Foreign Affairs.  (The title alone would probably give you a heart attack anyway.)

But if you WERE to read it, you would find that this organization has had about 90 or so years to take over the world, yet they haven't.  Why?  Because all these geeks talk about is "We need to TALK" and "We need to ENGAGE" ad nauseum.  It's all about diplomacy, and that's not how things get done in this world for the most part.  Diplomacy has a role but by and large it by itself does not solve various issues.  That is something few in the evil CFR have not kept in mind. 

You may crawl back under your bed, shivering in fear, now...

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

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There goes ESPN, defending

Submitted by redmike on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 9:35pm.

There goes ESPN, defending Hitler again.

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Kevin Blackistone and Anti-Semitism

Submitted by Gat New York on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 11:26pm.

Doesn't anyone remember ESPN columnist and TV reporter Kevin Blackistone anti-Semitic rant about boycotting Israel on his way to cover the South Africa World Cup?

The last I saw that piece of garbage is still on-air everyday and did not even get a slap on the wrist.

I find what Blackistone did far more offensive than what Hank Williams Jr. did particularly since it was done with malicious intent.

I guess it's not okay to slander someone who is Black, but it is okay to slander the Jewish people if you are Black.

ESPN has become typical far left organization.

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Hank Williams, Jr To Sing At, Chair, Republican Convention

Submitted by alvin on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 1:10am.

Hank Williams, Jr, who was booted from ESPN's Monday Night Football for calling the president "the enemy" and equating him to Hitler, will both sing the national anthem AND chair the proceedings of all convention main events
"Hank is a solid part of our Republican message and family," ... "Our Tea Party members of Congress and those people in our party who want our country to be what it once was--wink, wink--understand exactly what Hank meant.

This is from "another blog" so not original.. Not true, by the way.

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Hey, now that Hank Williams

Submitted by DaChew on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 6:18am.

Hey, now that Hank Williams Jr. is officially a victim of censorship for having made unflattering comments about the President, how many Grammys do you think he'll win?

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He's not a victim of

Submitted by balboa on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 7:54am.

He's not a victim of censorship.

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Sorry, I was using leftist

Submitted by DaChew on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 8:27am.

Sorry, I was using leftist Dixie Chick logic there.

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The heck he aint

Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 8:59am.

Bal, if you get fired for saying something, as benign as this was, it's censorship.

Making an a$$ out of yourself is getting to be a full time job these days, hope it pays well.

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Looks like the cop killer loving cryptotard strikes again.

Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 9:15am.

As per your link - Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.

Suppression of speech or other public communication by a MEDIA OUTLET.

balboa LIES again.

Or as he always informs us, hey, he din't lie, he is just stupid iz all. He don't love cop killers, he just tinks dey innocentz izzall.

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Censorship is stopping

Submitted by balboa on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 10:09am.

Censorship is stopping someone from expressing themselves. He expressed himself, and there were consequences. Free speech doesn't mean you're free from the consequences of your actions.

And if you're going to use the word "ass," go ahead and be a big person and spell it out.

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You go cop killer lover, beclown yourself again.

Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 11:08am.

Censorship is a word of many meanings. In its broadest sense it refers to suppression of information, ideas, or artistic expression by anyone, whether government officials, church authorities, private pressure groups, or speakers, writers, and artists themselves. It may take place at any point in time, whether before an utterance occurs, prior to its widespread circulation, or by punishment of communicators after dissemination of their messages...

 

What? BY PUNISHMENT AFTER DISSEMINATION.

 

You go little cop killer loving cryptotard. Wear that ass for a hat proudly.

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He was penalized

Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 8:07pm.

For saying something way more harmless then our POTUS, media, dimwit Reps, and a bunch of morons on wall street at this very moment.

For your sake, I hope your noggen is in the sand, instead of your a..

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Perhaps. But it's still not

Submitted by balboa on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 11:29pm.

Perhaps. But it's still not censorship.

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Power on like the cryptotard you are.

Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 11:48pm.


Censorship is a word of many meanings. In its broadest sense it refers to suppression of information, ideas, or artistic expression by anyone, whether government officials, church authorities, private pressure groups, or speakers, writers, and artists themselves. It may take place at any point in time, whether before an utterance occurs, prior to its widespread circulation, or by punishment of communicators after dissemination of their messages...

 

or by punishment of communicators after dissemination of their messages

or by punishment of communicators after dissemination of their messages

or by punishment of communicators after dissemination of their messages

or by punishment of communicators after dissemination of their messages

or by punishment of communicators after dissemination of their messages

or by PUNISHMENT of communicators AFTER dissemination of their messages

Power on like the lying retard you are. It is what you do best.

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You're right, bal. Hank Jr, is a victim of political correctness

Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 12:08am.

...and gubbermint ejumikashion - no, not his, but the government "educated" morons that run ESPN and couldn't define fascism and communism correctly at the point of a loaded gun.

-Dave

Vote for the American in November

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i have watched and enjoyed ESPN since day one

Submitted by JIMMY1660 on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 7:40am.

both radio and TV-
well it will be hard-however they are no longer "on".
Bye Bye had good run-i will no longer watch or buy from their sponsors.
Anyone join me?

Fast & Furious along with Solyndra are example of who BHO is BHO Policies have caused Failed Economy- Liberals = Wealth Re-distribution

 

 

 

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Hank Jr said it, a country

Submitted by ricklail on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 7:50am.

Hank Jr said it, a country boy can survive. ESPN needs him worst than he needs them.

A well regulated militia being necessary to a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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The CEOs at ESPN are cowards.

Submitted by jessieH on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 10:13am.

The CEOs at ESPN are cowards. One mention of Obama and they go crazy, firing anyone that says anything bad about the SOB in the White House. It's sickening to see just how cowardly they are.

                                                                                                                                                                    

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First if all

Submitted by boscokraft on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 12:52pm.

Everyone on the left called George Bush Hitler for 8 years. It was "it would be like hitler talking to the jews" They called him Hitler.
Second, I doubt that any regular viewer of Monday night football even knows who the hell Netanyahu is. (I know dont end a sentence with a preposition).
and third, that song has been on so long, that I doubt anyone younger than 45 even knows who the hell Hank Williams Jr is. (shoot another preposition)
Screw Monday night football.

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"Is" isn't a preposition,

Submitted by balboa on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 1:10pm.

"Is" isn't a preposition, FWIW.

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Hard not to agree with.

Submitted by Jack Bauer on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 1:12pm.

Hard not to agree with.


All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
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Grammar is tough to deal

Submitted by balboa on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 2:01pm.

Grammar is tough to deal with.

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So is your constant stupid.

Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 9:30pm.

And your love of cop killers, your constant disrespect for everyone here by forcing them to read your stupid twice, your cryptic dumminess, and your thick headed obtuse desire to correct other despite being wrong most of the time.

Why don't you tell everyone about censorship again. Can the guy end his sentence with that? Your stupid is on full display and there you go again cop killer lover, correctly others.

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Good eavening Bal

Submitted by cocodrie on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 1:26pm.

We were informed by Clinton, our first black president, that we don't know the meaning of is. Since we don't know what the meaning of is is how can we know what is isn't?

 

Jesus Loves You so much He died for you

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Wrong, Bal

Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 8:16pm.

According to testimony by President Clinton, "It depends on what your definition of "is" is "

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Two words for those liberal ninnies and their hypocrisy

Submitted by gmaniac1 on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 3:00pm.

at ABC/ESPN... Keith Olberdork... enough said!

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Hank

Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 11:34am.

ESPN should have pulled this song long ago.  ABC should have pulled this song long ago.  Why?  Because is was stale by Week 17 back in 1989! 

That being said, pulling this tired song for the reason they did is just weak. 

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

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Okay

Submitted by Mister Orange on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 11:43am.

I agree.

By the way, Al Davis died this morning. Love him or hate him, he'll be missed.

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NO!!!

Submitted by Unsane on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 12:01pm.

That means I have to retire all the "Grandma Alice" cracks I stockpiled from the Jim Rome radio show...

(I hate the Raiduhs, BTW...)

"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)

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Hank was incredible

Submitted by mandrake on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 11:57am.

Anyone who could hold their brain in their head with bare hands after a 500 foot fall is OK with me. Give the guy another chance.

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