In 2011, country music star Hank Williams Jr. related then President Barack Obama going golfing with then Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) to Hitler playing golf with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

After 22 years of being the musical voice behind Monday Night Football on ESPN, he had his song pulled.

He acknowledged that his “analogy was extreme,” reiterated his respect for the president, and as reported by CNN, issued an apology, that was in part, a bit prophetic:

My analogy was extreme — but it was to make a point ... 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.

Despite the apology, Williams and ESPN upheld their joint decision to keep his iconic song away from football ... until now.