ESPN has taken action following Hank Williams Jr.'s statement that compares President Obama to Adolf Hitler. After the country music singer criticized the president's recent "golf summit" with Republican House Speaker John Boehner, the network decided to pull his intro song from October 3's broadcast of "Monday Night Football".
"While Hank Williams, Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize that he is closely linked to our company through the open to Monday Night Football," ESPN said in a statement. "We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight's telecast."
Williams Jr. landed on hot water after saying on "Fox & Friends" that Obama and Boehner's meeting "would be like Hitler playing golf with [Israeli leader] Benjamin Netanyahu." When asked to explain his analogy on the Fox News telecast, he said that Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are "the enemy."
After ESPN dropped Hank Williams Jr. from opening Monday Night Football tonight after Williams' controversial comments Monday about President Obama, the singer now says he was "misunderstood."
Says ESPN, in a statement: "While Hank Williams Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize he is closely linked to our company through the opening to Monday Night Football. We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result have decided to pull the open from tonight's telecast."
Williams, perhaps best known for his "are you ready for some football?" lead-in to ESPN's Monday Night Football, Monday compared this summer's so-called golf summit between Obama and House Speaker John Boehner as "one of the biggest political mistakes ever."
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