Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has resigned from ESPN three days after stating racist comments on air about an African-American football player, Donavan McNabb, quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Limbaugh issued a state saying he did not mean the statement to be racist but he has not retracted his comment. On his national radio program Limbaugh said, “All this has become the tempest that it is because I must have been right about something. If I wasn’t right, there wouldn’t be this cacophony of outrage that has sprung up in the sports writer community.”