YOU'LL NEED IT
"Hank, why do you drink?
Hank, why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?" Song: Family Tradition, by Hank Williams, Jr
The singer songwriter Hank Williams Jr, wasn't just making that lyric up 35 years ago; he was being honest about his often turbulent life in the chemically enhanced fast lane living in the shadow of his legendary singer songwriter father Hank Williams Sr.
Due to his lifelong love of the high life, Williams Jr. may be one of the least qualified persons in the country to be trotted out to expound on politics; but there he was on Fox & Friends the other morning. The first glimpse of ol' Hank, casually dressed in baseball cap, sunglasses and arms folded, prompted Brian Kilmeade to remark, "Your body language says, 'Leave me alone'". When asked where he was, Hank replied he was in his little Nashville studio but added, "I'd rather be there looking at Gretchen".
That was the classy part. Williams proceeded to compare President Obama to Hitler, and called Obama and Vice President Joe Biden the "enemy" and the "Three Stooges", somehow being unable to comprehend the number three. The most charitable assessment of Williams appearance was that it was incoherent; but it's fair to say it was also hateful, disrespectful and utterly without redeeming content. Gretchen Carlson was even compelled to disavow Williams' Obama - Hitler comparison after the interview was mercifully ended.
Up in that Great Newsroom in the Sky, Edward R. Morrow, who brought unequaled decency and honesty and serious discourse to a news starved nation in the first decade of TV news, has modified his famous signoff thusly: "Good night and good luck....you'll need it."
Hank, why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?" Song: Family Tradition, by Hank Williams, Jr
The singer songwriter Hank Williams Jr, wasn't just making that lyric up 35 years ago; he was being honest about his often turbulent life in the chemically enhanced fast lane living in the shadow of his legendary singer songwriter father Hank Williams Sr.
Due to his lifelong love of the high life, Williams Jr. may be one of the least qualified persons in the country to be trotted out to expound on politics; but there he was on Fox & Friends the other morning. The first glimpse of ol' Hank, casually dressed in baseball cap, sunglasses and arms folded, prompted Brian Kilmeade to remark, "Your body language says, 'Leave me alone'". When asked where he was, Hank replied he was in his little Nashville studio but added, "I'd rather be there looking at Gretchen".
That was the classy part. Williams proceeded to compare President Obama to Hitler, and called Obama and Vice President Joe Biden the "enemy" and the "Three Stooges", somehow being unable to comprehend the number three. The most charitable assessment of Williams appearance was that it was incoherent; but it's fair to say it was also hateful, disrespectful and utterly without redeeming content. Gretchen Carlson was even compelled to disavow Williams' Obama - Hitler comparison after the interview was mercifully ended.
Up in that Great Newsroom in the Sky, Edward R. Morrow, who brought unequaled decency and honesty and serious discourse to a news starved nation in the first decade of TV news, has modified his famous signoff thusly: "Good night and good luck....you'll need it."
posted by Walt Zlotow at 4:58 PM
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