Mike Royko said it best: "No self-respecting fish would want to be wrapped in a Murdoch paper"

[Hassin Bin Sober]

16. I do remember the kerfuffle over his DUI arrest when he pulled a Mel Gibson.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/whos-destroying-roykos-rep/Content?oid=887669

The blotto, belligerent Royko of last December 17, immortalized in a Winnetka police report that mysteriously burst into the public eye last week, was a gay's worst nightmare--and certainly his own. This is the Royko who, according to the report, pushed one cop in the chest and shouted, "Fuck you, fag. Get your fucking hands off me. Jag off, queer," and yelled at ambulance attendants trying to examine his bleeding head, "Get away from me! What are you--fags? Why are you wearing those fag gloves for?"

From the same article:

My own ears tell me that gays and lesbians are not genetically incapable of laughing at heteros' humor, yet Royko's often rubs them the wrong way. "Gay and lesbian groups have long accused Royko of homophobia," wrote Windy City Times reporter David Olson. "For example, in 1990, while ridiculing gay and lesbian pride parades, Royko wrote, "After all, the rest of the nation doesn't hold parades and cry: "Impotent pride" or "Premature ejaculation power."'

"In 1991, Royko discussed how gay men contract HIV, writing, "Love isn't an issue at all, unless you define love as having anal sex with a stranger in a bathhouse, which would be kind of stretching love's definition."'

Here are some other columns at which, perhaps, few gays guffawed.

In '92 Royko weighed in on the Saint Patrick's Day parade in Boston. "I suspect that the parade leaders are right: The gay marchers are more interested in advertising their gayness, and irritating devout straights, than they are in showing their love for the old sod. Other groups don't wave signs that say they are proud to be Irish and heterosexual, or Irish and impotent, or Irish and subject to premature ejaculation."