A CTE teacher's blog about teaching, sports & entertainment marketing, life, and other assorted topics. A long, circuitous career path has now found me teaching Sports & Entertainment Marketing in North Carolina. I was in the Marines and the TV business prior to teaching--told ya it was circuitous! And yes, I do ramble!
Monday, October 3, 2011
Are You Ready For Some Fuhrer-ball?
ESPN pulled Hank Williams Jr.'s long-running song "Are You Ready For Some Football" off Monday's telecast of the Bucs-Colts game. Why? Because he compared President Obama to Hitler. This is nothing new of course. Two years ago, Megan Fox was fired from the "Transformers" movie series after comparing Michael Bay to the Fuhrer.
In this day and age, I don't understand how anyone in the public eye can compare anyone to Hitler. The simile is obviously radioactive, and there's no way to explain it away. It's just one of those things that can't be said in this day and age. That being said, is this the last incident like this? I doubt it...
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