So Disrespectful: Rush Limbaugh Calls Just Deceased Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner A "Cracker" Who Fired A Bunch Of White Guys & "Made A Lot Of African Americans Millionaires" [Audio]
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(CNN) -- George Steinbrenner was a "cracker who made a lot of African-American millionaires," conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday of the New York Yankees owner who died earlier in the day from a heart attack
"He fired a bunch of white guys as managers left and right," Limbaugh said.
The comments prompted civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton to rebuke the radio talker, calling his comments "repugnant and offensive whether they were intended to be facetious or tongue and cheek."
"For the last 20 years I have known George Steinbrenner, and we have quarrelled over diversity and community programs, but I always found him fair, direct, and genuinely prone to do what he felt was right," Sharpton said, adding that Limbaugh owed the Steinbrenner family an apology "that the first day of their mourning to have to be subjected to this type of rhetoric."
Premiere Radio Networks, which broadcast Limbaugh's show, has not responded to requests for comment.
It's not the first time Limbaugh, sports and race have caused a stir. He resigned from ESPN in 2003 after saying on air that "the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well."
"They're interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well," he said during a discussion of Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb. "I think there's a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn't deserve."
That comment came back to haunt him last year when he joined a consortium that sought to buy the St. Louis Rams. He was ultimately dropped from the group after a firestorm of criticism swarmed around his presence.
Limbaugh has frequently lambasted celebratory dances performed by National Football League players after scoring touchdowns ("a cultural problem ... that has resulted in a total lack of class") and assailed the game itself for its aggressive nature.
"Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it," he said in 2007.
Limbaugh denies any of his comments are racist.
Source: CNN
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Comment by PZ (Plaiboi) on July 17, 2010 at 1:27am -
Phucc Rush Limbaugh!!! I Mean It in tha most shittiest way i can possibly mean it. This guy is a pure racist, i can't stand anything about him, his name, his wayz, phucc him dearly. And a fight come wit that!!!
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Comment by trevor romeo on July 15, 2010 at 11:36pm -
Excuse Rush, he speaks from his a**..........so it's nothing but s***!!!
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Comment by XxANG3LxX on July 15, 2010 at 6:52pm -
if a person dat died was a terrible person u cud tlk all da s*** u want but if disz dude wasnt bad or anything he was actually giving oppurtunities to minorities u gnna get mad? how u gnna tlk s*** bout him disz rush dude cud suk a dik wuldnt b suprised if he gets shot 1 day
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Comment by Al Cohol on July 15, 2010 at 5:24pm -
RIP George Steinbrenner. Thanx 4 making us blax millionaires so that not all of us have 2 rob ppl our sell dope. You will always be in our hearts. Now for this m*********** Limbaugh I'm poor and I'm black and I'm robbing every m************ racist
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Comment by Mag-negro on July 15, 2010 at 1:42pm -
I never wish harm upon someone, but Limbaugh is one person that ca die a horrible death and I wouldn't feel sorry for him.
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Comment by www.WeGeekedUp.com on July 15, 2010 at 1:24pm -
I really don't care. Wake up! Its a bigger picture, take off them blinders.
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Comment by kluemination on July 15, 2010 at 12:08pm
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wtf i didnt know George over there but who knows? maybe he was a huge f****** d*** head. what just because people die we arent suppose to say anything bad? what if they were bad people?
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Comment by BK SOULJAH on July 15, 2010 at 11:58am
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PAY THIS F****** DOPE FIEND NO MIND SOMEBODY GIVE THIS FAT B****** A BUMP SO HE CAN SHUT THE F*** UP F****** IDIOT .......TERRORIST YALL WANNA HURT AMERICA STRAP UP AND HUG THIS F****** B****** GO BOOM BOOM
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Comment by FADeD on July 15, 2010 at 11:52am -
its crazy that he tlks about a lack of class
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Comment by Macadosha1 on July 15, 2010 at 11:25am -
WHo care what he says.....hes a heroin addict...look it up
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