oh snap, the Michael Steele & The Grand Old B-Boys thread

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/19/rnc-chair-plans-off-the-hook-campaign-tells-critics-to-%e2%80%98stuff-it%e2%80%99/

RNC chair plans 'off the hook' campaign, tells critics to ‘stuff it’
Posted: 12:26 PM ET

From CNN Associate Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand

Steele plans an agressive PR push for his party.
(CNN) — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says his party is going to launch an "off the hook" public relations campaign that will update the GOP’s image by translating it to "urban-suburban hip-hop settings."

I could only read this far. I'm about to choke. And that's without the picture.

ice cr?m bloggd abt this hours ago OLD NEWS

He added, jokingly, that “we need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.”

O_O

xpost - this needs its own thread. I know I'm slow and old.

And I posted it here -- NOT AS OLD NEWS.

It's just too perfect, though.

USE BETTER KEYWORDS, NED

heh heh, yeah, ok lock thread, redirect, etc.

Let a thousand threads bloom. Besides, Steele really should get a running thread of his own.

When Palin/Steele '12 arrives, especially.

I agree. My guess is this is only the first few drops of a deep deep well of hilarity.

xp

"stuff it"

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh9/MISSINGEAGLE/fonzie_add.jpg

http://oliverwillis.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/tysonsteele.jpg

When Palin/Steele '12 arrives, especially.

holy shit

Steele and his staff are on C-SPAN right now re-enacting all the skits from De La Soul Is Dead.

When is Steele gonna appear on LASM? (Ladeez Against Sexist Muthfuckaz)

You guys may think this is the stupidest the GOP has been all week. But no.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/17/gop-jumps-on-tech-bandwagon-to-rival-obama/

OH NOES THEY'RE OUTTWITTERING US!

haha

"Every time I send out a tweet, I'm throwing another shovel of dirt to help bury the old media," said Rep. John Culberson of Texas, a 52-year-old Republican who became one of the most quoted speakers at the Republican National Committee tech summit Friday.

"Representative Culberson, I served with THE_REAL_SHAQ, THE_REAL_SHAQ was a friend of mine, you, sir, are no THE_REAL_SHAQ"

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3507/3293929998_8735251c8a_o.jpg

Run-GOP

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/steeles-new-gop-message-my-bad-bachmann-to-steele-you-be-da-man.php

"Tonight, we tell America: we know the past, we know we did wrong. My bad," said Steele. "But we go forward in appreciation of the values that brought us to this point."

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And check out this latest development in Steele's campaign to create a hip-hop image for the GOP. Michele Bachmann praised Steele's speech: "Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man."

ybdm.com

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-28/meet-the-republican-rapper

Now if we can just get the 13 year old conservative (Robin, boy wonder) Joe the Plumber (Martian Manhunter) and of course Sarah Palin (Wonder Woman) together we'll have sort of a retarded Justice League

shouldn't mark foley be the martian manhunter

re: gop rapper

he attacks Nancy Pelosi as "phony baloney"

woah now

asher roth vs. hi-caliber

countdown til he has to bow & scrape in apology

Limbaugh's latest attacker: RNC's Steele

Jonathan Martin – 2 hrs 12 mins ago

On the same night he was offering the keynote address to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Rush Limbaugh drew criticism from an unlikely source: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.

In a little-noticed interview Saturday night, Steele dismissed Limbaugh as an “entertainer” whose show is “incendiary” and “ugly.”

Steele’s criticism makes him the highest-ranking Republican to pick a fight with the popular and polarizing conservative talk show host.

But the new RNC chairman’s extraordinary comments won’t sit well with the millions of conservative listeners Limbaugh draws each week, and Steele aides scrambled to limit the damage Monday morning by trying to change the subject.

“Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats know they lose an argument with the Republican Party on substance so they are building straw men to attack and distract,” said RNC spokesman Alex Conant...

can't wait!

this is like the best tv show ever

what the Obama administration has been doing with Limbaugh = the most politically astute thing they've done since getting elected

I met the world's first self-proclaimed "Republican rapper"

There was a guy at the 1992 Republican convention calling himself TRQ, the Republican Rapper. Not being able to find video of this is one of my biggest internet failures.

t/s: black steele in the hour of chaos vs michael steele in the hour of chaos

oh no! michael steele and rush limbaugh FITE!! OH NO!!!

Bowing and scraping.

“I was maybe a little bit inarticulate."

“He brings a very important message to the American people to wake up and pay attention to what the administration is doing," Steele said. "Number two, there are those out there who want to look at what he’s saying as incendiary and divisive and ugly. That’s what I was trying to say. It didn’t come out that way. … He does what he does best, which is provoke: He provokes thought, he provokes the left. And they’re clearly the ones who are most excited about him.”

Asked if he planned to apologize, Steele said: “I wasn’t trying to offend anybody. So, yeah, if he’s offended, I’d say: Look, I’m not in the business of hurting people’s feelings here. … My job is to try to bring us all together.”

It says so much.

Teh wisdom:

"We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? No very long."

haha, what a clown

man wth

was Black Steele in the Hour of Chaos known for lolzy gaffes prior to his current appointment?

Pretty much known for being a lolzy gaffe in general.

http://www.slate.com/id/2146621/

apparently

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/222214/march-19-2009/michael-steele-s-rap-battle-response

starting to like this guy
"A February RNC trip to California, for example, included a $9,099 stop at the Beverly Hills Hotel, $6,596 dropped at the nearby Four Seasons, and $1,620.71 spent [update: the amount is actually about $1,946.25] at Voyeur West Hollywood, a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex."
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/03/michael_steeles_flights_of_fan.html

"what does $2,424 even get you from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation Museum Store?"
http://gawker.com/5504729/rnc-spent-thousands-on-office-supplies-at-ronald-reagan-gift-shop-liquor-store?skyline=true&s=i
maybe he's been a dnc double agent this whole time

I tend to come at it a little bit stronger, a little more streetwise if you will. That rubs some feathers the wrong way.

WHAT UP

WHAT UP