On the Black State of the Union on C-Span: Michael Steele equates himself to Pres. Obama!

[FrenchieCat]

Says..."who would have known that today we would have two Black men at the pinnacle of power in the United States." :wtf:

[FrenchieCat]

1. There's an Exon-Mobile sign behind him as he speaks....

LOL!

[firedupdem]

21. And at the very beginning he gave a shout out to wells fargo. n/t

[Olney Blue]

2. Steele is a failed Maryland politician and now leader of an inept party.

what power?

[FrenchieCat]

3. He is a legend in his own mind!

And it shows.

I can't stand him, the more he talks.

[Cha]

4. So another failure of michael steele..

he has delusions of grandeur..wonder who wrote that for him?

And, did it fool anyone there?

[FrenchieCat]

6. Hard to tell...

Folks don't want to appear disrespectful.

I'm sure that Brother Cornell West who is on the same panel will deconstruct anything that Steele has to say. Hope he calls Steele out on his ass-kissing of the racist GOP.

[Cha]

22. That would be a

stellar point of the day:fistbump:

[mucifer]

5. He speaks in "ebonics" so he has to be as powerful as President Obama

:rofl:

[FrenchieCat]

7. More powerful.....

Since President Obama doesn't speak in "ebonics".

[firedupdem]

8. That mofo is at the pinnacle of nothing! OMG!!

I actually hate that guy! They would toss me out of their for heckling his ass!

[FrenchieCat]

10. Hell, There are like a whole bunch of more powerful folks before

we get to him.....folks like Holder, kirk and many others.

Steele ain't shit.

Julianne Malveaux is getting him straight right now.

[RepublicanElephant]

9. julianne malveaux schooling him now... and the audience is loving it! nt

[Fire1]

11. Oh, hell naw. n/t

[silverweb]

12. Self delete.

The man is still delusional.

[FrenchieCat]

14. I made that mistake.

Will correct it.

He's at the Black State of the Union, so his audience are not those GOP nitwits.

[silverweb]

17. Oh, I'm sorry!

I'll delete my post.

[FrenchieCat]

13. Here comes Tavis with his Obama hate.....

Saying that some are saying that Obama is the Messiah.....

Asks theologian Emilie Townes if this is true.

In otherwords, Tavis wants to talk about Obama not being perfect,
like we didn't already know that.

Thank you Tavis! We couldn't have done it without you.

[firedupdem]

15. See, I tried to watch for a minute and that ass got on my nerves...

he's a fucking hater...can't do it.

[goclark]

33. Tavis is still mad that Obama didn't come to his show last year

He is still smoking about that issue.

Tavis is now saying that the Black Media didn't say enough about other views of Obama.

Tavis is still hot with Obama.

[FrenchieCat]

37. Yep. Like Obama didn't get enough Media Beatdown as it was....

needed the Black media to pile on in.....

[goclark]

74. The program is a must see ~ rush to record it if you can

Tavis is still trying to pick in the name of "helping our new President."

The other panel members are outstanding ( didn't hear Steele) the young voters and the Green Project Rep were outstanding!

[politicasista]

44. Yep.

I noticed that too.

[Top Cat]

97. Tavis makes me sick he is so jealous of our President

He would gladly team with Steele

[FrenchieCat]

16. Al Sharpton keeping it real! It took a Bush to elect Obama!

true.

[politicasista]

42. He had me clapping and rolling

:applause:

[Still Sensible]

18. Laugh a minute that mindless tool Steele is

somehow he just doesn't get it that he's the token the bigoted right wing has selected to carry their water and kiss their ass.

Somehow I think the turd meant to say pinnacle because "pentacle" is just a synonym for the geometric/mathematical pentagram.

From the Encarta Dictionary:

pen·ta·cle < péntək'l > (plural pen·ta·cles)
noun
Definition: mathematics, Same as pentagram

Anyway, this moron is about as close to power as Joe the Plumber... and he's just too stupid to realize it.

[FrenchieCat]

19. Sharpton is straightening him out now....

Said, Black folks don't just vote Democratic just cause; they vote Democratic, because that's where their interest are represented. Said when Lincoln Freed the Slaves, African-Americans became Republicans. They know who they need to support.

[Cha]

56. Right..michael steele thinks

he's going to hypnotize everybody..thank goodness for Sharpton being there to counteract the twisted brainwashing.

[goclark]

82. Al Sharpton slapped Tavis in such a smooth way~

[RepublicanElephant]

20. sharpton: we need to not only deal with racist cartoons, but the media

conglomerates that allow this to happen.

[FrenchieCat]

23. Yep!

Deal with the media Cartel, not just the media Cartoon!

[firedupdem]

24. I didn't accept Roland either...I didn't give a damn what color he was. n/t

[FrenchieCat]

25. Tavis back to his Obama Hate.....

saying that somehow Roland Burris is getting a raw deal. Oye! :eyes:

Saying that Black Folks need to learn to criticize Barack Obama.
Yeah...let's concentrate on that Mr. Smiley! :eyes:

[RepublicanElephant]

26. the obama dance... was that the inaugural balls or soul train? nt

[firedupdem]

27. What stupidity....he's a fucking hater and he can't hide it...

What "dance", I'm black and don't get what the hell he is talking about.

[FrenchieCat]

28. In essense, Tavis is stressing criticizing our President and not

considering him a messiah....as though that is what folks have in mind.

In otherwords, Tavis is steering the conversation to be how to deal with Barack Obama,
as opposed to how to deal with the policies that have been proposed.

He's keeping it personal, instead of dealing with the new policies proposed,
and what those are, and how to best support these policies in order to get them through.

[RepublicanElephant]

29. he's as bad as chris matthews... style over substance. nt

[FrenchieCat]

32. He can't hide his distain......

which is why he has made this entire State of the Black Union about President Obama,
and not about the policies.

Now he is asking the Black media if they are going to be "critical" of the President.

[firedupdem]

30. He needs to deal with the inequalities in education, crime, keeping

our young men in school etc. The president is doing just fine being the President of all people.

[RepublicanElephant]

31. huh? the black media was soft? what about the ones saying is obama wasn't "black enough"?

that certainly wasn't a concern in the white community.

[FrenchieCat]

34. He is full of shit.

Tavis has his own agenda, and it is showing.

Thank goodness his guests aren't taking too much of a bait.

[firedupdem]

35. I'm watching this through the comments here because I can't see it..

but from what I'm reading it sounds as if his whole thing is geared toward some kind of push to hold the President's feet to the fire? Am I reading this right?

[FrenchieCat]

36. That's Tavis' agenda.

He has a book to sell called Accountable.

Danny Bakewell just set Tavis straight.....The Black Media need to Hold up Barack Obama as the Political Genius that he is. Let the other media tear him down.

Far as holding folks accountable, we need not only to hold Barack Obama accountable, but many many others accountable.

Then Tavis sells his book...."Accountable"...holds it up, so folks don't get confused as to what this forum is about. Sad.

[firedupdem]

38. Good Mr. Bakewell! Tavis is full of shit. n/t

[politicasista]

47. Yep

He is been pimping his book like it's the greatest thing on the earth.

[RepublicanElephant]

39. you can watch it live online at:

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx

[FrenchieCat]

40. Oh ho! Cornel West going off on Reagan!

Says we have to look at where we've been.

need to look at 1980 to 2008, had a nation of Greed. A Nation full of inhumanity.

Steele, sitting here, he says, means that the GOP Southern Strategy didn't work! (he's sitting next to Steele! LOL!)

[FrenchieCat]

41. The age of Obama begins with multiple catastrophies......

Then Cornell West names those catastrophies.....

As far as Wall Street, Greed ran amok.

[FrenchieCat]

43. Tavis is striking out.

Randall Robinson just said that Obama is brilliant, because one doesn't become the President of the Harvard Review without being Brilliant. Talking about A+ grades and then some.

Now he is talking about American's global ignorance.

[RepublicanElephant]

45. randall robinson: more important -- how we have NOT been dancing...

citizens must be informed. our ignorance makes us obstructionists in world human rights.

we reject all kinds of human rights treaties.

and the us media bears a great amount of blame for our international ignorance.

[FrenchieCat]

46. Loved how he set Tavis straight, in how we didn't hold Bill Clinton

accountable....so let's put things in perspective!

Tavis = Clinton Booster.

Randall is right!

[firedupdem]

48. Tavis is trying to cut this guy off...he doesn't like the praise. n/t

[FrenchieCat]

50. He's gonna drag the conversation back to Criticizing Barack Obama.....

Watch!

[Cha]

58. Isn't Tavis over

the primaries yet? Or Obama not going last year to his conference?

I had hoped he'd gotten over that.

[FrenchieCat]

62. He's taken the tack of "we need to hold the President Accountable".....

as we have seen here at DU.

Good excuse to bash Pres. Obama for what he doesn't do as opposed to what he does do.

He's not slick!

Not saying that he doesn't have a point, but the problem is that is the only point he seems to have.

[Cha]

70. Thanks, F..I'm disappointed..I

really can't stand that kind of disingenuousness when they don't have the job that Obama has but they can sit back and carp on how they'd do it..I guess it puffs himself up.

[Cha]

57. The US media bears all

the responsibility for bringing us 8 years of bush and the War on Iraq.

[RepublicanElephant]

49. ha! randall quoting beyonce... our criticisms must be in context...

consider what we had before obama. obama makes me want to be smarter.

[FrenchieCat]

52. Tavis....."what is it beyond Obama's Brilliance that you see...?"

Randall, takes it back with Clinton.
Says Clinton had 8 years,
and we need to give Obama a grace period after 40 days! :rofl:

Poor Tavis is becoming transparent to everyone. He's gonna need to stop for a while!
He's getting Pwned by his own panel.

[Cha]

60. Good..Pwn

him, Panel..'cause he's wrong.

[goclark]

77. Tavis is getting owned yet he has a history with this excellent

Program.

It is outstanding for all to watch.

[FrenchieCat]

79. I agree.

If Tavis could just let go of the Green Monster, he'd do much better
in the good that these Annual meetings make.

[goclark]

84. Tavis is jealous of Obama

and can't hide it.

[TTUBatfan2008]

94. He's also a hypocrite...

He complains about hero worship of Obama but he's a hero worshiper of Clinton. I wonder what he thought when one of his panelists brought up the fact that under Clinton the number of prisons built went up by a larger amount than under Reagan and H.W. Bush combined, and that of course the number of minorities being locked up in those prisons compared to whites is laughable...a modern version of slavery as the panelist called it.

[goclark]

98. Tavis was quiet on that one ~

I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt but he really steamed me last year.

[firedupdem]

51. He just told him he's had less than 40 days. Grace period don't

you think? Ha!

[RepublicanElephant]

53. do you think ANY of this is getting through to michael steele?

...or will he be back to his gop bs talking points by tomorrow?

[firedupdem]

54. He's a lost brother. He'll be back to the GOP points as soon as

he leaves because they are going to punish his ass for even attending this function.

[RepublicanElephant]

55. i just realized that later tonight, he'll be sitting there applauding

that racist rush limbaugh at cpac.

[Cha]

63. There's no way he could not

attend after that big grandstanding of HipHopGoping.

[FrenchieCat]

59. Van Jones, founder of Green for All is speaking now.....

He was also at the Green Summit held a few days ago.

Strong young brother involved deeply in environmental issues!

[Cha]

64. Cool~ that ought to

get steele's blood boiling.

[BlooInBloo]

61. (facepalm)

[firedupdem]

65. I like this Van Jones.....

This is my husband's new industry. Let's go! Be a part of the solution! Earth loving discourse with young people.

[FrenchieCat]

67. Give Pookie a Green Job!

Cause that is where the polution issues are found the most!

LOL! Tavis defending his book! Trying to justify that it isn't just encouraging criticism against the President!

Guess if figured out that he was being called out! :rofl:

[firedupdem]

66. Here he goes with this damn book. n/t

[FrenchieCat]

68. Has to justify himself.....

Cause it has become apparent where he wanted to lead the discussion,
and thus far, the panel ain't having none of it, and are calling him out.

[RepublicanElephant]

71. maybe he's reading du. nt

;)

[FrenchieCat]

69. Now, he's saying that the only Black folks getting jobs in the Admin

are those who went to school at Harvard.

Whatever that is supposed to mean. Guess Tavis wants President Obama to hire Black people that went to other schools, or didn't go to school at all? :wtf:

[RepublicanElephant]

73. that was just plain silly. even the audience thought so.

obama's budget proves he's ALREADY on this case of helping everyday, ordinary americans, black and white (and brown and red and yellow)!

[firedupdem]

75. He's a fucking crab down in the barrel. Instead of celebrating and

trying to work with the President he's too jealous to handle it. Did he think Hillary was going to give his jumble mouthed ass a job somewhere?

[Cha]

78. Too bad..it could

have totally been the other way around if he could only get over himself.

[firedupdem]

80. yepper....and holding that book up at every turn reminds me of a

slimy pimp preacher.

[Cha]

86. I'm not watching..what

book is that? I saw it years ago during the bush reign and really liked it..there was this young Black comic strip political writer but I can't think of his name right now but he was there and made us all feel good.

[firedupdem]

89. Tavis has written some book called "accountability" or something

with Barack Obama's face on it. I guess the book talks about all the things the President should do or promised to do. He's selling the shit out of his book.

[Cha]

91. O.M.G..."sputter sputter"

That makes it WORSE.

[Tarheel_Dem]

99. Aaron McGruder is the author of "The Boondocks" comic strip. (nt)

[Cha]

76. Not a good day

for Tavis.

[ClarkUSA]

72. I can't stand Tavis Smiley so I didn't watch. Steele will be one more death knell for the RNC.

[RepublicanElephant]

81. calif. assembly speaker karen bass challenging steele to clamp-down on

right-wingnut radio and their obstructioninst talk.

good luck.

[firedupdem]

83. She's impressive! n/t

[firedupdem]

85. Would he sit this fucking book down. n/t

[Hellataz]

87. The Position of RNC is not a pinnacle of Power, it's more like being the driver of a short bus.

But what more can we expect from the GOPD. The grand OLD party of Delusion.

[KittyWampus]

88. maybe Steele was referring to Obama and Burris

:D

[firedupdem]

90. damn skippy? n/t

[FrenchieCat]

That's the best to expect from Mr. Steele I guess........

He believes talk like that will get him into the Black Neighborhoods, cause that's all we need! Oh Brother! :eyes:

[FrenchieCat]

92. Tavis Smiley is gonna have to chill out a bit.....

or folks are not going to buy that book! :rofl:

[Samantha]

93. Michael Steele is the anointed Republican who will lure the

African-American vote away from Obama and to the Republican party. I know this because I heard it said at the time the announcement came of his election to the RNC chairmanship.

If those words don't break you up laughing, nothing will!

What the Republican party doesn't get -- and never will -- is that many who voted for Barack Obama did so because he was the intelligent choice. Steele cannot compete with Obama in any sense of the word. Never.

Sam

[BlooInBloo]

95. BlooInBloo to Steele: You're black. The resemblance ends there, dumbass.

[Unsane]

96. he also said "democrat party" and no one called him on it

[EraOfResponsibility]

100. yep he sure did

[angee_is_mad]

101. rush is SO going after his black azz

on Monday. Everybody knows that rush is the leader of the rethug party. If you don't know you better ask somebody.

[Imagevision]

102. Michael Steele and Burris went to different schools together...

[marshall]

103. Many African Americans will compare themselves to Obama

They finally have someone in the White House who looks like them.

[Honeycombe8]

104. HA! Obama EARNED and WON his position. Steele was APPOINTED to his much lower position...

by a few old rich white men, who want to give the appearance of having a wide tent.

Bwahahahahahahaha! That's too funny!

[mwei924]

105. 95% of Americans have no clue who Michael Steele is.

And I'd say almost 100% of the rest of the world doesn't know who Michale Steele is.