The Persecution of Hank Williams Jr.

The Persecution of Hank Williams Jr.

He’s a Nazi! He hates white people and wants them dead! He’s a chimp!

Chill. Those repugnant charges haven’t been hurled against President Barack Hussein Obama over the past three years but they were repeatedly used to describe President George W. Bush for eight years by his virulent critics who substituted “black” for “white” and without the slightest objection from the mainstream media.

As Kathleen Parker pointed out on WashingtonPost.com, Google “George W. Bush, Hitler” and you get almost 14 million links.

“Nazi” and “chimp” were the preferred Bush pejoratives on the blogosphere and elsewhere and the drug-addled Kanye West outrageously accused Bush of hating blacks because West, son of racist Black Panther, Ray West, thought Bush didn’t do enough for Hurricane Katrina victims. He and the MSM were strangely silent when President Obama ignored mostly white people suffering in the Midwest following the horrendous spring 2009 floods.

Then, again, I guess it’s not so strange. It all depends on whose ox is being gored and who’s doing the goring.

Virtually no one was silent, however, after Hank Williams, Jr. ventured into politics during an appearance on “Fox and Friends” Monday morning and undiplomatically voiced his opinions on the oddity of a Democrat president and vice president enjoying a golf outing with Republicans John Boehner and John Kasich last summer.

The fact Congress and Obama were embroiled in the critical national debt limit debate as they teed up struck Williams–and a number of other people–as weirdly anachronistic and he said so, though his choice of words was unfortunate for him.

Hank Jr.’s song “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight,” which has opened ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” for 20 years, will be heard no more after the singer blurted out on Fox that the Republicans and the Democrats shooting a round of golf at that time was ”like Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu.”

Williams might have escaped opprobium had he stopped there but the obviously-dense “Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade said he didn’t understand what Williams meant. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5659.)