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.)

Iranian, ESPN, and Collegiate Fruitcakes

Iranian, ESPN, and Collegiate Fruitcakes

The humorist Will Rogers is famous for saying, among other things, ”I never met a man I didn’t like.”

I feel certain Rogers was speaking generally and wasn’t excluding the fair sex when he said that, just as sure as I am that he had never met certain Iranian Muslims, ESPN producers, and Goshen College President John Brenneman, all of whom are eminently dislikable for various reasons and all of whom are certifiable fruitcakes, dependent, of course, on one’s definition of a “fruitcake.”

I’m not attempting here to further demean almost universally-despised, Christmas fruitcakes. I’m referring to loonies, people who have earned universal disapprobation via violent hypocrisy, (Iranian Muslims), racial agitation, (ESPN), or downright stupidity, (Brenneman).

The Iranians sort of have an excuse for being fruitcakes, sort of, since their duly-elected leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, virtually defines the term. Nevertheless, Islamic Iranian clerics have now outdone themselves in outlandish fruitcakery by seizing and burning every bible in their sorry land or, at least, every bible they can get their grubby hands on.

Still not recovered from the Crusades, which ended 720 years ago, Iran’s Mohabut News is reporting that Iran’s Ayatollah Hadi Jahangosha is worried about “the spread of Christianity among our youth” as disseminated by Christian satellite television and books, principally that nastiest of all books, the Bible.

Ayatollah Jahangosha doesn’t seem concerned a whit over Iran’s nuke program or his nation’s rogue status in the world or supplying weapons to every Muslim nut in the Mideast or promoting worldwide war or eradicating Israel but Christians are a problem. Reflecting his paranoia, the Islamic Republic of Iran is seizing and burning every Bible they can. (http://bit.ly/nSJnZs)

Someone should remind the good cleric of how upset Muslims were over an American pastor burning a few holy Korans last year. Maybe Pastor Jones didn’t burn enough of them?

Quite a few people are upset over ESPN’s coloring NFL quarterback Michael Vick white.

Vick was convicted and jailed for staging and engaging in dog-fighting, a bloody “sport” in which man’s best friends were trained to maim and kill other best friend’s for man’s entertainment.

Whether to mitigate Vick’s offenses, to stir the racial pot, or just to get viewers to tune in, ESPN created a digital mock-up of the African-American Vick as a white man . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5301)