I know he radicalized a huge chunk of people rightward and was generally a racist pos
He celebrated the deaths of people who died from AIDS with cheerful sounds and airhorns and said that the NBA should be renamed to the TBA (T for thug) and that basketball teams should be called gangs.
He called Sandra Fluke a slut for lobbying to mandate that health insurance cover contraceptives. He called Chelsea Clinton the White House dog when she was like six years old. He said Iraq War veterans who were against the war were fake soldiers. He said that Michael J. Fox exaggerated his Parkinsons symptoms when he advocated for Stem-Cell treatment. He said that NBA games looked like fights between the Bloods and the Crips.
It shouldn't surprise me how some people are just okay with being just the biggest pieces of shit possible but it still does
back in the Clinton 90's he got some infamy points to repeatedly referring to Chelsea Clinton as "the White House dog"
He said a number of truly racist things (too many to numerate), like old timey racist uncle stuff. Like he said that basketball teams should really be called gangs, and that watching football was like watching the Crips v the Bloods, and once said that American Slavery was actually just an anomaly in our history, since it wasn't so bad, really, and we only had it for less than a hundred years after 1776, and that really America was so less racist than the rest of the world because we fought a war to end slavery.
He once said that while White settlers killed a lot of natives in colonizing North America, Native Americans probably killed way more white people globally by introducing us to tobacco nicotine, and therefore whites are the real victims of genocide. This is a view I believe he said out of pure sophistry, since he was also quite vocal for most of his career that tobacco didn't cause cancer, and that liberals who said it did were contributing to American pussification.
I read somewhere he would read the names of gay men that died of AIDS to the celebratory sound of air horns on his show
Possible sex tourism.
Definitely got himself hooked on prescription pain meds and continued to get them illegally after spending years pulling a Jordan Petersen (decades before JP was a thing) and saying that being addicted to drugs is a personal fault that should result in everything up to and including execution. And all of his fans just kinda.... looked away.
He was pretty much the first source where I heard (and for a while found myself emulating) a person loudly proclaim something that was not smart and just not care. But could keep people from questioning you through nothing more than sheer force of confidence.
Played king maker for awhile for the Republican party. (We're likely to see the same thing happen with Trump if he can stay focused on punishing Republicans who he feels slighted him during the 2021 presidential election in the USA.)
