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:”
The station keeps cutting me off. I don’t know why
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 19, 2014
And here comes to the General Manager. It appears I can say Redskins, which is supposedly offensive, but when I say other words, commercial
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 19, 2014
I’m trying to have an honest, adult conversations about words without resorting to alphabet soup phrases(C-word, N-word, etc)
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 19, 2014
If Redskins is just like the “n-word” why can I say Redskins on-air without being dumped out into a commercial?
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 19, 2014
Just got kicked off the air until further notice. Tried to have honest discussion about racist terms and management censored my language.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 20, 2014
Found out if I said Redskins or Cracker or Redneck Bible Thumper, I could stay on. But if I said Nigger or Spick, they cut me off.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 20, 2014
Tried to talk about racial slurs tonight. Radio station sent me home. Don’t know what’s going to happen next. We’ll find out Friday at 5pm.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 20, 2014
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.
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?
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.
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.
That’s some resume!