Who cares?
The comment he made was utterly insignificant. For anyone to get worked up over it they had to be as brittle as a freeze-dried rose petal. "Oh, but he said 'Hitler'!" Once again, if the analogy is true, it is true. If it is not, then it won't stand.
I have absolutely no use for football, or any other team sport. I can't boycott something I never cared about. But this whole thing is just so silly. The NFL's use of the TSA gate-rapists against their customers is a much bigger deal.
What I have seen here is two factions of the Authoritarians pointing fingers and calling names; trying to show the other faction is worse. Guess what: both are anti-liberty and that's all I care about.
Hank Jr. has an absolute right to say anything he wants to say (even to falsely yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater)- and accept any and all consequences.
ESPN (and any other business) has the right to fire, or stop using, any individual for any reason at all- or no reason. Freedom of association, and all that.
But to pretend that there is a penny's worth of difference between the statists of the "right" and the statists of the "left" is mind-bogglingly ignorant.
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i agree that this is a dumb controversy. over the years, the worldwide leader in sensationalized crap (espn) has taken itself WAY too seriously.
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to me, the bigger question is this: how is what hank williams jr says relevant to... well... anything anyway?
I do like some of Hank Jr's songs, but I don't expect entertainers to know anything about anything other than entertaining. Why people listen to their opinions on other issues is beyond me.
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