Rachel Maddow Interviews Michael Steele And His Bad Record

[Grassy Knoll]

Run time: 13:35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZn1KV519QQ   Posted on YouTube: January 21, 2011 By YouTube Member: StartLoving4 Views on YouTube: 22   Posted on DU: January 21, 2011 By DU Member: Grassy Knoll Views on DU: 890

 

[elleng]

1. He EXPLAINS his record.

Interesting and informative.

[Merlot]

2. I'd never actually heard him talk before, only heard others talk about him.

Interesting indeed. why did the rnc vote him in and then immediately start undermining him? they certainly must have known what they were getting.

[elleng]

3. He discussed it but didn't really answer the question,

but said they knew what they were getting when they selected him.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. I enjoyed the interview

The more the man talks, the better we understand how the G.O.P. is F.U.C.T.¹

I'm not a fan of Steele's ideology, but still, the Republican Party just voted out their most human and least loathsome member.²

--d!
1: Effed Up Completely and Thoroughly.
2: Even beyond Meghan McCain. Sorry, babe.

[napi21]

5. Mike sounded like a rational guy with a good plan. Too bad for the Pubbies

that they fought him from day one! They never really gavehim a chance to do the job. I hope he realizes now that he doesn't belong in that Party at all.

[gadjitfreek]

6. It seems pretty clear to me.

They voted in Michael Steele as their straw (black) man as a virtual voodoo doll of President Obama and started attacking him to subliminally put the message into their supporters' heads that a black man can't be trusted to run things. I think that message is VERY clear. I saw it right from the start. It's all about depersonalizing and delegitimizing President Obama. Steele was their sacrificial lamb. Hey, if people say that the RNC was calling for the resignation of their own man, perhaps we should be calling for the resignation of President Obama. They thought it would be that easy. "You Lie!" was just another symptom of this. The "birther" movement was another. They were vicious and unrelenting when it came to Clinton, and the second they had the chance they started investigating him. Just like Darryl Issa has now made it the pinnacle of his existence to do to Obama. If the GOP had gotten control of the Senate as well, you would have seen the virtual lynch mobs forming. President Obama is a centrist president who has been painted as the "most liberal" president in recent memory. He has been painted as un-American, an outsider, a scary figure who wants to destroy this country. That was the narrative before he got into office and it has been doubled down on ever since. The elevation (and subsequent elimination) of Michael Steele was an incredibly predictable event, as was the elevation of Sarah Palin after Hilary Clinton's nearly successful bid for the Presidential nomination. Or...maybe Sarah Palin is the same thing as Michael Steele...the old white guys of the GOP trying to prove that a woman can't succeed running the show by putting up the most vacuous, narcissistic and ignorant example they could possibly find. Equating Sarah Palin to Hilary Clinton is to equate excrement with gold. I won't make the same comparison with Steele...he tried to do his job to the best of his ability and he was very successful in the end. Ever see "Trading Places"? The GOP took their one dollar and kicked the Negro back to the street. That's all this is. PERIOD.

[Merlot]

8. That's how I saw it as well - though you've spelled it out much clearer

than I could. The parallel between palin and Hillary Clinton also seems right on target.

The repubs want to prove that only an old white man can run things.

[jtrockville]

7. Kudos to Steele for appearing.

Though I sincerely hope he never returns to Maryland politics (didn't like him as a candidate/wouldn't like him as a politician), it takes a lot of courage for a conservate to appear on Maddow's show. It shouldn't though, since Rachel is so fair, but apparently it does.