* Former Congressman Joe Walsh tweeted last night that he’d been “kicked off the air until further notice”…

The Elk Grove Village-based station’s general manager didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Walsh was interrupted by commercials a few times in the 6 p.m. hour after saying racial and ethnic slurs on the air.

Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh says he was pulled off his 560-AM radio show Thursday evening for using racially charged language in a discussion about the controversial nickname of the Washington, D.C., NFL football team. […]

Reached by phone shortly after, Walsh said he wouldn’t direct offensive terms at people but said he was making a point that the NFL team name isn’t treated by the media as being as offensive as other offensive language.

In a podcast of a portion of the radio show, Walsh is heard questioning why a CNN anchor could use the team name but wouldn’t say an outdated term for black people.

Walsh said the word, and the station abruptly went to a commercial.

Walsh tweeted some of what he said. I’m not gonna quote that nonsense here, but if you truly want to you can click here and see what he wrote.

Keep in mind that WIND is not some liberal radio station, by any means. It’s about as conservative as you can get.

As far as I’m concerned, he has the constitutional right to say whatever he wants anywhere he wants. But with rights come responsibilities and consequences, so the station clearly has the righ