Hank Williams Jr. and Polar Opposites

As country singer, Hank Williams, Jr. tries to get his spot back after his controversial remark, involving President Obama in connection with a Hitler analogy, the debate rages on as to whether he actually committed a mortal offense or not. Houston community activist Quanell X faced off with KTRH radio host and blogger, Matt Patrick on the evening news:

Quanell X:

“ABC did the right thing in yanking Hank Williams intro from Monday Night Football. A man who has a mindset like him should not be involved in Monday Night Football. In fact, what he said was an insult to all Jewish people and all Americans and people around the world. How can you compare President Obama to a mass killer, a mass murderer? — In fact, the world’s great mass killer, mass murderer — to compare President Obama and Biden to him is an absolute disgrace and a slap in the face to all God-fearing citizens and, in particular, Jewish people in this nation.”

Matt Patrick:

“You know, Quanell, what’s interesting is that he never compared Adolf Hitler to President Obama or President Obama to Adolf Hitler. What’s amazing to me is that it appears that nobody in the media has a sense of humor anymore. We don’t have any adults in the room anymore. Listen, this is Hank Williams, Jr., Quanell. What did they expect this guy to say? He was discussing polar opposites. This is a guy that fell off a mountain, split his head open, held his brains in and lived to tell about it. This is not a political pundit, for crying out loud. ABC did what ABC had to do. For crying out loud, it is Hank Williams Jr. Yeah, he could have probably chosen two different people that maybe would have made people feel a little bit better but, for crying out loud, can we just get past all this? The guy was talking about polar opposites. He was not comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler.”

In case you don’t give a rat’s butt about it and just want to know how Hank fell off the mountain and held his brains in, there’s some used VHS tapes available on Amazon of the 1983 TV movie, Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr Story. (Richard Thomas, best known for playing John-Boy Walton, played Hank, Jr.). Better yet, there’s Hank’s autobiography, Living Proof, that tells the full story of his accident and recovery.

Or you can compare Hank Williams, Jr.’s remarks to The Hitler Ramble that got Lars Van Trier in Dutch. (It’s still okay to say “in Dutch”, right?)

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