I Like Hank Jr. Better When He Is Being Hank Jr.

[MikeBjerum]

Anyone that has followed the Hank Jr. vs ESPN mess has to be scratching their heads.  If you take the time to read the transcript or listen to the actual statement you will fully understand what Hank is saying.  And I must say that he is right on with his statement.  Next he issues a statement of apology to anyone he may have offended.

#1.  There was nothing racist or evil in his comparison!  Listen to it and you will hear him make a comparison showing that these two are polar opposites and it is hypocritical (sp?);
#2.  It just isn't Hank Jr. to make such a weak statement obviously trying to mend his way with the limp left.

To listen to and read his apology makes me wonder what Ted Nugent would pen if he was trying to write common sense gun control legislation to protect the children 

Hank, don't wimp out on us now!  We need more people in this nation that are willing to say it like it is!

[kmitch200]

I hadn't heard about the apology.  He had nothing to apologize for!!

[billt]

When you're in the limelight, and a entertainer, actor, politican, or some other well publicized individual, this type of thing is bound to happen sooner or later if you're not careful. Especially with so much portable recording technology surrounding us. You make a totally innocent remark, not meaning to offend anyone, and the media will run wild with it. Sarah Palin has been fighting this since day one, and it seems after the Tuscon / Giffords shooting she has learned to stop being so defensive.

I agree he had nothing to apologise for. But he was also wrong to utilize Hitler in making ANY analogy, regardless of how he meant it. Because it in itself is going to be taken wrong by many, and will come back to haunt you as this has with him. It's one thing for us guys to say this kind of $h!t around here, or at a bar. But it's quite another for a popular, public figure to do it with microphones and cameras turned on. There just was no other way for this to turn out except bad. Much like the Fuzzy Zoeller, "fried chicken" comment he made about Tiger Woods, this is going to wind up costing him a fortune, much like the "Jimmy The Greek" restaurant comment about blacks he made, cost him his job with CBS on "The NFL Today". He wound up losing millions over just one slip of the tongue after a few drinks. If you're white, and you make ANY comment about blacks in a negative light, it's going to turn out bad. Political correctness at it's finest.

[Hazcat]

I wonder if it would have been just as big of a flap if he would have said " It's like David Duke playing golf with Farrakhan"?

[tombogan03884]

He should have been more "bovine" about it.
Cows and buffalo both let the chips fall where they will.
America's gutless submission to political correctness is allowing the enemy to manipulate our very thinking.
Don't say nothing bad about the darky or you're a racist cracker bastard.
And God help you if you call a cheapskate niggardly, better to call him a Jew.

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[billt]

He should have been more "bovine" about it.
Cows and buffalo both let the chips fall where they will.
America's gutless submission to political correctness is allowing the enemy to manipulate our very thinking.
Don't say nothing bad about the darky or you're a racist cracker bastard.
And God help you if you call a cheapskate niggardly, better to call him a Jew.

I agree. When this kind of crap happens, the best reply is no reply at all. No gas, no fire. The more he comments, the longer they'll hold his ass to the flames.

[bluesman001]

I get so tired of hearing people apologize for things they say.  Either you meant to say it and have nothing to apologize for, or you should watch your mouth in the first place.

That being said, I think Denis Leary said it best when he said "We're all tuning into gerbils".  And George Carlin nailed it with "People want to hear soft language, cause they can't handle reality and the truth".

[Solus]

I get so tired of hearing people apologize for things they say.  Either you meant to say it and have nothing to apologize for, or you should watch your mouth in the first place.

That being said, I think Denis Leary said it best when he said "We're all tuning into gerbils".  And George Carlin nailed it with "People want to hear soft language, cause they can't handle reality and the truth".

I don't like PC at all....

But, if your objective is to affect the thinking of an audience, you will achieve more if you can present your views using a vocabulary that will be the least offensive or objectionable to your target group as possible without distorting the view you are promoting.

[tombogan03884]

A rose is a Rose by any other name.
The same holds true for co*ksuc*ers.

[Solus]

A rose is a Rose by any other name.
The same holds true for co*ksuc*ers.

That is true.   If you only objective is to be naming them, you chose the right terms