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Hank Williams Jr. calls Obama ‘Muslim president’ at festival

By  Sun-Times Wire
   
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Hank Williams Jr. performs in support of Sarah Palin in Iowa in 2008. Mark Hirsch/Getty Getty Images file

Hank Williams Jr. loves to bash President Obama. The fiery, conservative country music icon lost his “Monday Night Football” paycheck last October when ESPN yanked “All My Rowdy Friends” after he compared Obama to Adolph Hitler on “Fox & Friends.”

And he’s at it again.

We’ve got a Muslim for a President who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays, and we hate him!

That was Williams’ message at the Stockyards Music Fest in Fort Worth, TX, reports Thor Christensen on the Dallas Morning News. The line met with a not-overwheliming response according to the report, though there was plenty of applause.

Obama has been the subject of sporadic, and untrue, accusations of being a Muslim throughout his national political career.

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