{"id":72618,"date":"2017-06-08T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72618"},"modified":"2017-06-08T07:14:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T11:14:06","slug":"all-my-rowdy-friends-are-coming-back-monday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72618","title":{"rendered":"All my rowdy friends are coming back Monday Night!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In what is surely to be seen on the right as a victory over political correctness, ESPN, the ever more left leaning sports network, has announced that country boy, Hank Williams, Jr., and his rowdy, booming country rock anthem<\/a> that welcomed viewers to Monday Night Football for more than two decades, will be returning this season. ESPN fired Williams six years ago for his sin of failing to worship at the altar of Obamanism. For a single on-air comparison of Obama to Hitler, an offense that would go largely unremarked in this time of vile, scatological profanities aimed at our president by even anchor personalities, Hank\u2019s longtime association was ended with a terse announcement of termination. That may not have signaled the beginning of ESPN\u2019s decline into political correctness but it surely marked a waypoint on the leftward course that has continued, losing them millions of subscribers year after year.<\/p>\n

ESPN reverted back to their previous musical intro for MNF but it failed to welcome you into the game with the boisterous enthusiasm of good ol\u2019 Bocephus<\/a> and his driving anthem to you, everyman, who, blue or white collar, loved feeling for that short while, like one of his rowdy friends as you sat back and cracked open a cold one, waiting for that opening kickoff. That Williams off-air is a solid Republican and 2d Amendment supporter provided a small bit of additional comfort when you knew that some smarmy ESPN talking head might berate you with some leftist agitprop before the game ended.<\/p>\n

So is this return to the country meme acknowledgment by ESPN suits that their preferred, chardonnay sipping, enlightened liberal audiences simply aren\u2019t sufficient to pay the bills much less to generate a profit? Are they finally recognizing what all those departing subscribers have been telling them loudly by the tens of thousands, \u201cKeep your damned politics outta my sports!\u201d Could it be that some common sense has soaked through those skulls marinated in urban elite political correctness? The decision makers at ESPN, from executive suites and corporate board rooms down through every production facility would do themselves well to listen to Hank\u2019s militant ode to conservative independence, \u201cA Country Boy Can Survive\u201d where Williams lays out a defiant code of self-reliance that, while most Americans can no longer live up to, they still firmly embrace the sentiment. <\/p>\n

I live back in the woods, you see
\nMy woman and the kids, and the dogs, and me
\nI got a shotgun, a rifle, and a 4-wheel drive
\nAnd a country boy can survive
\nCountry folks can survive<\/p>\n

I can plow a field all day long
\nI can catch catfish from dusk ’til dawn
\nWe make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too
\nAin’t too many things these old boys can’t do
\nWe grow good old tomatoes and homemade wine
\nAnd a country boy can survive
\nCountry folks can survive<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

It would appear to this ol\u2019 small town boy that country boy, Hank Williams, Jr., most assuredly has.<\/p>\n

Crossposted at American Thinker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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