Rush Limbaugh Eulogizes George Steinbrenner By Calling Him A ‘Cracker’

Rush Limbaugh‘s style is so often confrontational that it takes a few seconds to get used to him when he has nice things to say about the object of his commentary. Today, he had nothing but praise for the late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, a “cracker who made a lot of African-American millionaires.”

Limbaugh says it affectionately, apparently, though it’s unclear why this is the one thing Limbaugh chose to highlight in Steinbrenner’s career:

“That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires. George Steinbrenner: the classic capitalist. Everybody around him became wealthy. Like most successful capitalists, he made the people around him wealthy. And a lot of African-American millionaires away. And at the same time he fired a bunch of white guys, as managers, left and right. I tell you what, it’s… Steinbrenner hasn’t been himself for the past two or three years, but nevertheless, what a man he was, and what a feature and a character he was in Major League Baseball.”

There could have been a nice, albeit irrelevant, point about racial transcendence in there somewhere.

Audio from Limbaugh’s radio show below:

New: The Mediaite One-Sheet "Newsletter of Newsletters"
Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. Subscribe now!