The Corporate Class fits another Speaker with a GAG (Hank Williams Jr)

I'm not sure what you want here. It sounds like you want the government to intervene in a private contract between ESPN and Williams by stepping all over ESPN's rights to hire who they choose

It really looks like ESPN was already thinking that 20 years of Hank was enough, and this might be more of an excuse ("there we go, he said something stupid about Obama and Hitler, here's our chance to lower the boom") than an excess of PCness per se.

From a government standpoint, this is a private matter

In addition to being a private citizen, Mr. Williams is also a brand. He damaged his brand, and now he's paying the price.

In addition to being a private citizen, Mr. Williams is also a brand. He damaged his brand, and now he's paying the price.

Maybe he would if we were talking about his father's brand.
The younger Hank Williams, by contrast, has long branded himself as a professional redneck hillibilly.
To him, being fired by ESPN for saying rednecky things is probably a badge of honor. It props up his maverick cred.

Hank Williams Jr. has written a song criticizing Fox & Friends, but he's returning to the Fox Network on Tuesday (Oct. 11) for an appearance on Hannity in the aftermath of his split with ESPN's Monday Night Football. Williams will also appear Tuesday on ABC's The View. The controversy began last week during a satellite interview on Fox & Friends in which Williams called President Obama "the enemy" and compared the president and House Speaker John Boehner playing golf together to Adolf Hitler playing golf with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. ESPN responded by removing Williams' familiar "are you ready for some football" introduction to its Monday Night Football telecasts. According to The Associated Press, Williams has written and recorded "Keep the Change," whose lyrics suggest a boycott of Fox & Friends and ESPN. The lyrics include lines such as, "So Fox & Friends wanna put me down/Ask for my opinion/Twist it all around." He finishes the verse: "Well, two can play that gotcha game, you'll see." Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar of The View are among those who have defended Williams' right of freedom of speech. "Whoopi and Joy understood what I was saying," Williams said in a message on his website. "After watching the clip of their show, I knew I needed to talk to them first." He posted the audio track of "Keep the Change" on his website Monday afternoon and is offering it as a free download for 48 hours.

Wearing a New York Yankees/Mickey Mantle jersey and orange-colored sunglasses, Williams took several shots at Disney-owned ESPN, saying at one point, "Mickey is a mean mouse." Though he insisted he was misunderstood and was using an analogy between Hitler and Obama to make a political point, he declined to apologize or take back his earlier statements.

When co-host Joy Behar said that mentioning Hitler in his Obama statement was "treacherous" and that he could have mentioned Stalin or another controversial world figure, Williams replied, "I didn't go to Harvard. I'm not smart enough to know the difference."

Williams kept repeating that ESPN had violated his constitutional rights: "I guess it's called stepping on the toes of free speech." Noting that ABC, like ESPN, is owned by the Walt Disney Company, host Barbara Walters pointed out ESPN was making a point in showing Williams the potential consequences of free speech, Williams clapped his hands: "That's good. I applaud them. That's their freedom of speech."

"All My Rowdy Friends," the theme song sung by Williams, was pulled from the broadcast after the "Fox & Friends" segment.

One of the more bizarre moments in "The View" interview came after the panel pointed out a phrase from ESPN's statement cutting its ties with Williams: "The success of "Monday Night Football' has always been about the games, and that will continue."

Williams replied with a quote he said President Harry Truman made in the Rose Garden in 1948. "He was asked a political question and he said, 'Son, never kick a cow turd on a hot day.' The bottom line, folks, is, Mickey is a mean mouse. He stepped into this pile — ESPN, and how he is doing this." He stood and started shaking his arm as he were trying to get rid of something.

He then turned and pointed to Mickey Mantle's name on his jersey: "This is my Mickey, right here."

Near the end of the interview, Williams said he had recorded a new song about the furor, "Keep The Change," that had been downloaded 100,000 times since Monday afternoon. He then announced, "As of May 1 in 2012, ladies and gentlemen, me and my song will be free agents. America is a country of choice and options, and I have choice and options."

Williams gave his summary of the situation: "Disney, ABC, ESPN, me and the opening of 'Monday Night Football' are like the Spanish-American war. They're history.

Did he have much on his mind to say ?

Did he have much on his mind to say ?

He has certainly refused to skunk off with his tail between his legs as the script calls for....

Really? Then Y did he apologize ??

Really? Then Y did he apologize ??

"The thought of the leaders of both parties jukin and high fiven on a golf course, while so many families are struggling to get by simply made me boil over and make a dumb statement, and I am very sorry if it offended anyone," he wrote. (Emphasis added---T.)

After his "All My Rowdy Friends" song was yanked from the "Monday Night Football" opening by ESPN later that day, Williams issued a statement acknowledging that his "analogy was extreme" but insisting it was intended to illustrate how ludicrous he thought it was for Obama and Boehner to team up at golf. (Emphasis added---T.)

Did he have much on his mind to say ?

Really? Then Y did he apologize ??

it was not really an apology, it was " this is why I said it and I am sorry if you are offended".
He makes it clear now that he is not going to apologize, because he says that he was not the one wrong here.

I remain at a loss to understand Y anyone shoud apologize for saying that people of very different opinions,
are unlikely to play golf together. He did not allege that obama & hitler did anything similarly.