Joe Walsh: I Got Booted From My Radio Show Simply For Using The N-Word!

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, OCT. 14 AND THEREAFTER - In this Oct. 9, 2012 photo, incumbent Republican U.S. Rep Joe Walsh makes a point during a debate with his Democratic challenger Tammy Duckworth in Rolling Meadows, Il... ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, OCT. 14 AND THEREAFTER - In this Oct. 9, 2012 photo, incumbent Republican U.S. Rep Joe Walsh makes a point during a debate with his Democratic challenger Tammy Duckworth in Rolling Meadows, Ill. Walsh, a tea party favorite with a history of headline-grabbing comments, and Duckworth, an Iraq veteran and former helicopter pilot who lost both her legs in combat, have engaged in a series of contentious debates in their run in Illinois' 8th Congressional District. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, Patrick Kunzer) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, TV OUT MORE LESS
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Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) said he was kicked off his own radio show Thursday, apparently because he used racial slurs on-air while discussing the Washington Redskins’ name dispute.

Walsh, a Tea Party darling who was unseated by Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), hosts “The Joe Walsh Show” on Chicago’s WIND-AM. The former congressman live-tweeted his interactions with station management when they apparently began cutting to commercials each time he used a racial slur, including the n-word.

Later he tweeted that he was taken off the air “until further notice:”

h/t Raw Story

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  1. To paraphrase Frank Zappa, Joe Walsh wouldn’t know “an honest conversation” if it came up and bit him in the ass. The Redskins situation has become a cause celebre among RW talkers because it’s “more proof” Obama is “a dictator.”

    That said, WIND management should have known what they were going to get when they hired this assclown, and they got it in bucket loads yesterday. Speaking as someone who was in the life for 13 years, I have no sympathy for either party.

  2. Isn’t it great that when a moron gets cut off from one medium of communication, another is at the ready for him to continue to carry the banner of stupidity?

  3. Sounds like that medium may be ready to boot his ass. If Walsh has a meeting with management at 5 o’clock on a Friday, he needs to update his resume ASAP.

  4. Especially if there’s a box in the meeting room that contains the contents of his desk, and a large guy waiting to escort him out.

  5. That’s some resume!

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