During a performance at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 17, Williams told the audience, “We’ve got a Muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the U.S., and we hate him!”

The throng of heartland Americans cheered enthusiastically.

Last fall, ESPN stopped using a Williams tune as the theme song for “Monday Night Football” after the singer made an analogy between Obama and Hitler during an interview on Fox News. In a subsequent Rolling Stone interview, Hank accused the president of making “a call to the Koran or Mecca or whatever” for political guidance...

...Williams long ago killed off thousands of brain cells with booze and a wide menu of drugs, so it may be that he actually believes Obama is a Muslim who despises America, the military, farmers and probably Mom and apple pie...

...But what about the people who cheer..? For those people, there seems to be a curious satisfaction derived from hating the president. Rationality and factuality have nothing to do with it.