House Dem: Hank Williams Jr. comments show ‘racist hatred’

{mosads}In reaction to the controversy, ESPN pulled Williams’s usual opening sequence from their Monday Night Football (#MNF) telecast.

In a statement Tuesday, Williams acknowledged that the comparison was “extreme” but did not apologize. “It was to make a point,” he said. “I was simply trying to explain how stupid it seemed to me — how ludicrous that pairing was.”

Williams also suggested that there was some hypocrisy demonstrated by the controversy.

“Every time the media brings up the Tea Party, it’s painted as racist and extremists — but there’s never a backlash — no outrage to those comparisons,” he said. “Working-class people are hurting — and it doesn’t seem like anybody cares. When both sides are high-fiving it on the ninth hole when everybody else is without a job — it makes a whole lot of us angry. Something has to change. The policies have to change.”