Hank Williams Jr. Spouts Anti-Obama Rhetoric, Misconceptions in New Interview
Hank Williams, Jr. is no fan of the president, and in addition to ragging on Barack Obama on his new album, the country star has also slammed the Commander-in-Chief in a Rolling Stone interview.
One need only look at Hank Williams, Jr., however, if seeking an easy to attack critique of the president in popular culture and indeed, a hole in the argument of opponents of the President across the country. While Obama has his flaws and is certainly not perfect (Wall Street prosecutions, for instance, have been sorely lacking from this administration), Williams — like many other detractors of Obama — is unable to articulate a single true, accurate criticism of the man he hates so intensely.
Obama-haters like Hank Williams, Jr. often say George Bush was subject to even crueler attacks by liberals, and Bush was indeed the target of significant vitriol during his two disastrous administrations. Critics of the former president frequently pointed to his many deadly screw-ups, including two still-raging wars, a stagnant economy, the destruction of New Orleans compounded by an impotent federal response… damnit, I’m getting mad all over again.
Whereas people like Hank Williams, Jr. basically can’t stand the President for a number of tenuous and not-definable reasons that many believe boil down to “because he’s black.” It’s nearly comical if it wasn’t so tragic, to hear where Williams’ hate-on stems from, as the singer explains when asked:
“The guy is the worst. Giveaway programs, hates America in the first place, forget about the flag.”
Asked to elaborate, Hank Williams, Jr. is forced to refer to imaginary events that conservatives have “re-created inside the bubble,” as Bill Maher so helpfully described, to find a reason to despise him:
“It’s kind of obvious. I guess when you take a tour, a world tour, to apologize for America. He did that…You know, ‘We’re sorry.’ Going on a world tour saying, ‘We’re going to be even with everyone else, we only have 6 percent of the population.’”
One Twitter user helpfully clarifies the issue for Williams:
Hank Williams Jr is slamming Obama 4 apologizing 4 America. When in reality Obama is just apologizing 4 people like Hank Williams Jr.
— Gideon Klein (@GideonKlein) July 12, 2012
(For the record, the lie about President Obama’s “World Apology Tour” has been debunked time and again, a perfect example of Fox and the GOP inventing a claim about something that provably never happened.)
You know, Hank Williams, Jr.? It’s totally okay to practice dissent. It’s okay to hate the President. But hate him on his actual policies, his actual actions and his actual beliefs, not some wishy-washy assumption that because he wanted everyone to see the doctor, he’s got some unspoken vendetta against the flag.
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Posted: July 12, 2012
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Jul 12, 2012
This is about a bullshit one sided story as I've ever read. Let's throw out the race card AGAIN. I can't wait till he is gone, obama as done more to ruin this country than any other president in history. I agree how dare he apologize to the world for us. And it's still free speech so I say let hank say what he wants. He just Gert's say out loud what we ALL want to say.
Jul 13, 2012
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Jul 13, 2012
Maybe Hank Jr should stop living off his daddy's name and worry about actually putting out a good album from time to time. It amazes me how anyone who now wavers at all from the right-wing agenda "hates America."
Jul 13, 2012
Don't think he actually hates America…he is just so damn disappointed in the way we are headed…as am I. More controls…more government…less jobs than ever…a wasted land.
Jul 14, 2012
The good music has skipped to the 3rd generation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpEDvVnlGsM
Jul 14, 2012
Hey, I am for all that. Split this country right down the middle. You can have the south central and pacific northwest, and we will take the west. But I don't know how you are going to eat cuz you would refuse to pay anyone wages and its NOT like you are going to get off of your fat, bigoted, lazy conservative asses to do for yourself.
See, it WILL become difficult as you realize that you cant get everything you want just by demanding it because it will be ALL of the demanding assholes demanding from each other.. but no one will be BOTHERED to do for themselves. And maybe then you will realize that everyone deserves the same rights as you and you certainly don't have ANY right to any of my RIGHTS and privileges.
You conservatives are full of blow-hard hypocrites. But imagine a world of just conservatives… LOL Sure you think that would be AWESOME for now… LOL until you realize that you are a bunch of assholes. Good luck with no insurance, no education for your children, no civil services for you cuz you cant be bothered to pay for any of it.. cuz you are too damn greedy and want to keep every last penny to yourselves. So for now, thank those police and fire trucks and teachers and SSI workers… then again, you probably going to cut off your parents too.
Jul 14, 2012
Yeah….um…do we really want to separate, then find ourselves bordering a religious extremist nation with low education levels and nukes….?
Jul 15, 2012
I am not a fan of over-regulation either but I think Obama is often simply a convenient target. I just listened to an NPR program on more coal mining lay-offs and all of the "rank and file" were quick to blame Obama and the EPA. Turns out that most of the issues involved the simple truth that natural gas is a much cheaper alternative for big power companies.
Jul 15, 2012
Nice post Scott. The talent seems to have skipped a generation. That dude is kinda cool!
Jul 15, 2012
I have a friend out here who plays in a band called SOUR DIESEL TRAINWRECK (yeah… that IS how they got the name). Check them out they have kind of a similar sound.
Jul 17, 2012
There are plenty of good reasons to not like Obama, such as his background of belonging to racist, black Klan-like organizations.
Obama and the Black Nazi Movement.
http://stop-obama-now.net/obama-black-nazi-movement/
Obama's Church Preaches White Genocide.
http://stop-obama-now.net/white-genocide/
Aug 27, 2012
WHY IS OBAMA BLACK WHEN HIS MOTHER WAS WHITE, WAS RAISED BY HIS WHITE GRANDMOTHER. AND SUDDENBLY HE BECOMES BLACK, BEST I CAN COME UP WITH IS AN INGRATE, BASTARD.