Hank Williams Jr., the guy who does the opening song to Monday night football, exercised his right to speech to a weird extent on Monday. In an interview Monday morning on Fox's "Fox & Friends," Williams, unprompted, said of Obama's outing to golf with House Speaker John Boehner: "It'd be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu."
He was asked to clarify and he said, "they're the enemy" adding that by "they" he meant Obama and Biden. The anchor later said to him, "You used the name of one of the most hated people in all of the world to describe, I think, the president." Williams replied, "Well, that is true. But I'm telling you like it is." He also said that Obama and Biden were like the three stooges.
Here we see freedom of speech in action. In most countries being compared to Hitler is no small offense.
Williams released a statement through his publicist, saying: "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."
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