Hank Williams Jr. compared the golf outing between Barack Obama and John Boehner as “Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu”. The remark on FoxNews caused ESPN to suspend his appearances on Monday Night Football.
Hitler’s genocide was responsible for the deaths of over 7 million Jews and gypsies. The analogy to Obama was unilaterally denounced by the media and Mr. Williams apologized. I agree that the analogy was inappropriate: the proper analogy should have been Mao Zedong and the Dalai Lama.
Mao was responsible for the deaths of at least 45 million people. Some estimates are as high as 70 million deaths. Obviously Mr. Obama is not a mass murderer but anyone who would put an ornament of Mao on the White House Christmas tree can be considered sympathetic to this man and his policies. In case we forgot White House Communications Director Anita Dunn’s comments concerning Mao Zedong:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2FVEe7wCzs
Mr. Williams made an observation and paid the price for free speech. Let’s hope that his point is not lost on America.
David DeGerolamo
