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Vennously. it was one evil man he called, the president. this talk is so common among the right wing, chris, that hank williams jr. was probably a little surprised that he s gotten the criticism he s gotten. he wouldn t in his crowd probably. it s not just him. how many times did glenn beck compare obama to hitler? this is commonplace on the far right wing websites. we ve seen the signs at tea party rallies comparing obama to hitler. the little mustaches they like to put on there. yeah. so this is, unfortunately, very commonplace. this is what political discourse on the far right has come to. let me go to tpm, mr. marshall on that, and this question of it does seem like the demonization of the president by the right, the people who are wacky and are just stupid, who make stupid comments, and i m not going to single this guy out. i don t know hank williams jr. his father obviously was quite great, but what do you make of this? well, to your point, just ....
Because your cad is a genius doesn t mean you re not going to be a moron. you know, i think, as you said this, stuff happens all the time. it s been happening for three years. in a sense, it s dog bites man. it s nothing surprising. i think what s different in this case is hank williams jr. has this footprint in mainstream media, not just in the sort of the fox bubble where you can say obama is hitler, and he s stalin and he s, you know, doing all these terrible things. but i must say in fairness, just to be immediate on this, in fairness i m not a big fan of fox and friends in the morning, i watch morning joe. but they looked appalled. they looked like they couldn t believe what they were watching. in that particular case but people on the fox channel in general there s really wide sort of wide tolerance of this kind of stuff and the right wing media generally. the problem is, obviously, espn has fans of professional ....
Just when you thought the crazy talk from the right about president obama couldn t go any lower, there comes a new example. hank williams jr., the singer most famous for monday night football s opening theme was asked about presidential politics on fox and friends yesterday. he took the opportunity to make a ludicrous analogy about the president, who last month played a round of golf with speaker of the house john boehner. let s watch mr. williams jr.. you remember the golf game they had, ladies and gentlemen? yeah. remember the golf game? that was one of the biggest political mistakes ever. what did you not like about it? it seems to be a really pivotal moment for you. come on. come on. that would be like hitler playing golf with netanyahu, okay? okay. not hardly. and the country this shape is in the shape this country is in, i mean, no that s an analogy well, i m glad you don t, brother, because a lot of people do. they re the enemy. they re the enemy. who s ....