Former Lawmaker Kicked Off The Air For Racial Slurs Used In Revenge For Redskins Ruling

By Karoli Kuns — June 20, 2014

According to his tweets, Rep. Joe Walsh was cut off by station management for his repeated use of racial epithets, which he was using to prove some kind of twisted point about political correctness, or free speech, or just because he could, I suppose.

Via RawStory:

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

And just been informed I am off the air until further notice

— 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

On it went, until this one:

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

Seriously? Maybe he should have tried using the term 'foreskins' to see how far he could push station management since he's being marketed to those clean-living, p0rn-eschewing religious rightie types.

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