ESPN Boots Hank

I'm a Hank Jr. fan.  Listened to him almost all my life.  I probably know almost every word to all his songs.  So it's with disgust that I watched him make a fool out of himself on Fox News by comparing the president to Hitler and calling Democrats enemies.

Hank would have been the first person to call someone a traitor for saying such stuff about Bush and the GOP.  He would have questioned anyone's patriotism for doing any such thing just two years ago.  And it's totally within ESPN's rights to pull him from their Monday Night Football intro.  They simply don't want to partake their programming with an idiot.  That's their decision to make.

Hank used to stand for a figment of country music known as an Outlaw because he bucked the establishment.  He blamed them for forcing his father into second-class status because he didn't always act the way the old white geezers running the program wanted him to act.  Now as he sits there on the most watched news organization in America, especially by old white geezers who don't want anything to change, Hank has become the embodiment of everything he claimed to reject.  He is officially a crusty old white man that yearns for the days when no one questioned old crusty white men.

To their credit, Fox News has disowned and disavowed every word Hank said.  Good for them.  Now quit portraying the president as a socialist enemy of America and maybe this country can advance past such idiotic rhetoric and the mindset that caused Hank to say what he said.