Rush Limbaugh calls Steinbrenner a "cracker"

By Craig Calcaterra

Note: when you and Al Sharpton are both quoted in a news article, and Sharpton comes off 100 times more reasonable than you do, you probably need to be confined someplace where you can't do harm to yourself or others. Or at the very least, be fitted with a special helmet. Rush Limbaugh's comments on the passing of George Steinbrenner, ladies and gentlemen:

"That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires . . . He fired a bunch of white guys as managers left and right."

I try not to get too political around here, but let me say this much: if your first thought about George Steinbrenner's legacy was the race of some of the players who played for him and the managers he fired, what don't you see in primarily racial terms?  And if you see every issue that crosses your radar screen in primarily racial terms, what good are you as a political pundit?