Michael Steele: Harsh Criticism Is Based on Race
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, April 5, 2010, 11:27 AM
The Democrats just gobbled up one-sixth of the economy and two major industries in one bill but that won’t detract the democratic-media complex from reporting on what’s really important.
…Republicans went to a strip club!
Of course, RNC Chairman Michael Steele is doing his best to keep this story on the front page.
Michael Steele– Throws gasoline on the fire.
Today Steels said criticism of his leadership is motivated by race.
The Hill reported:
RNC Chairman Michael Steele on Monday said harsh criticism from his opponents is motivated by race.
Steele brushed aside calls for him to resign in his first interview since news broke that the Republican National Committee (RNC) reimbursed young donors for a nearly $2,000 party at a bondage-themed nightclub in Los Angeles.
In the interview, Steele said that black political leaders, such as President Barack Obama and him, are held to an unfair higher standard.
“The honest answer is, yes,” he said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “Barack Obama has a slimmer margin. A lot of folks do.
“It’s a different role for me to play and others to play and that’s just the reality of it. But you just take that as a part of the nature of it.
“My view on politics is much more grass roots-oriented … so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise. That’s rubbed some feathers the wrong way.”
UPDATE: Ann Coulter defended Michael Steele today. “DNC ‘In No Position’ to Complain…With Dems’ Past Playboy Parties and All.”
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Jayne on the left coast commented:
The race card. He has no real defense for his failure to lead. We don’t need a whiner to head the RNC.
bill-tb commented:
His failure to lead is do to race? That’s a really weird way to look at your inadequacies.
BigJ commented:
I wish Republicans would stop stooping to the level of the Democrats, playing the race card and what not. It’s just going to make the GOP look as bad as the Dems, in the eyes of the “swing voters”.
cheeflo commented:
For that remark alone he should step down. Did Steele land his present position because of race? Or would that be okay?
He doesn’t seem to be meeting standards, let alone higher standards. If anything, blacks are held to a lower standard — it’s called affirmative action.
Playing the race card is a scoundrel’s gambit.
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Old One commented:
Steele abnd B+ Odumber like all gifts of affirmative action will never quit playing the race card.
Taqiyy. commented:
“Dear Race Baiters,
Please be advised that your Race Card account has been closed. This decision was based on your account history of excessive over-limit spending. Please destroy your card immediately as it will no longer be honored.
Sincerely,
The American People”
(Pilfered from JOYTIZ.com)
http://joytiz.com/2010/race-card-overuse-syndrome/
Taqiyy. commented:
OT: from Ace of AoSHQ
“Scores of gangbangers marauded through Times Square and nearby streets last night, storming businesses and harrassing pedestrians as three people were shot in possibly related violence.
Hundreds of cops struggled to disperse the youths. Police made 54 arrests on a variety of charges, including disorderly conduct.
One man was shot in the ankle on West 41st Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues.
Early this morning two people were shot at 34th Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues. Their conditions were not immediately known. Twenty young men were seen fleeing the scene. ”
Ace:”Despite this riot occurring right outside the NYT’s offices, they did not report the story.
A story which does not advance The Narrative is not a story at all.”
http://minx.cc/?post=300233
Taqiyy. commented:
Re: my last comment:
It has begun?
Elly commented:
erm no Michael Steele – if you were translucent I’d still have an issue with your judgment and leadership abilities.
Since when is someone’s melanin an excuse for bad decision making?
From now on when a person accuses their critics of being racist my response will be “Quit blaming your poor judgment and lack of ethics on your skin. What color you were born with is irrelevant and does not exept you from being held accountable.”
Not Intimidated commented:
Obama and Steele are ensuring that–outside of areas heavily populated by blacks–there will be fewer black politicians in our country’s future. If you aren’t allowed to hold a class of politician responsible for his or her own actions, then you won’t elect that class of politician anymore.
What a terrible disappointment Steel has been. I knew Obama would stink, but I had high hopes for Steele.
No Man commented:
I have no dog in this fight.
I left the GOP during Bush I and never looked back.
No man is an independent.
But . . . the lying liberal MSM spills an ocean of ink on a $2,000 private GOP strip club expense voucher while the government drops over $600 billion of my taxes into GM, Chrysler, Ally Bank, ACORN, FNM and FRE. And, will waste another $1 trillion this year to keep the unemployment rate at a pristine rate of 9.7%.
Go figger.
No Man commented:
I forgot . . . oh, yeah!
This is 100% typical, lying liberal journalism. The practice of personal destruction of the NARRATIVE’S opponents using detractions, distortions, exaggerations, gossip, omissions, and plain old lies.
Flipping them ‘the bird’ would have been a more effcetive response.
SM-Illinois commented:
Real elephants wouldn’t take this Saul Alinsky bait. Instead, they would circle to defend their own, and stay focused on those braying jackasses!
wow commented:
He has been such a disappointment.
Andrew commented:
It’s people like Michael Steele that cause Glen Beck and others see no real difference between Democrats and Republicans. He comes across as a squishy RINO; nothing to do with race. BTW, Obama’s votes against Roberts and Alito were enough for me to see he’s no good; nothing to do with race.
dallasdan commented:
MS can take walk. He has been a disappointment since day one. Just another token.
wildwood commented:
Mmmm….bad sign he’s comparing himself to fellow prejudice fighter Barack Obama. Means he’s laying the foundation for claiming he’s being discriminated against. Watch the squealing when he’s booted. Racism. Here it comes.
JR commented:
He’s dead wrong. I had much hope for the guy. I feel I would accept some amount of a learning curve. I don’t like that I am still, at this late date, waiting for him to create a strong strategic plan for the party. I wonder how Mitt Romney would do in the position? Mitt’s been a very strong manager/leader of several major activities.
Anita commented:
I left the GOP during Bush I and never looked back.
Amazing. So, now you must be happy that O is president.
bg commented:
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harsh criticism from his opponents
i not only pray for the day when blacks realize the Democrats are the RACISTS, including many blacks who toe the party/race line, but the roots of Slavery are embedded in Islam, which exists to this very day..
Taqiyy. @ 11:49 am #8
re: [It has begun?]
no, it has been going on in RACIST churches for many decades..
which is why i believe Obama has been setting “white” America
up for a “bloodbath” along with his Islamist cohorts of all stripes,
including Democrats, Republicans & many others as well..
but things like this, & this, these are okay, not to mention this..
perhaps Steele is not very happy having been caught with his, lets say, fingers in the cookie jar, ergo, it’s time to distract via playing the “race victim” card..
flashback (just a sample):
It’s not racism, it’s being an American
[Charges of racism are among the most serious that can be made in America because of our nation’s history on race relations. There is no doubt America has come a long way in healing past wounds, but there is certainly more to be done. That is why I am outraged that Democrats today, including former president Jimmy Carter, are injecting race into the debate over President Obama’s policies.
Voicing opposition to the president’s policy proposals is not being a racist. It is being an American. Such assertions by leaders of the Democratic Party are a pathetic attempt to shift attention away from the president’s wildly unpopular government-run health care plan that the American people simply oppose. Injecting race into the debate over critical issues facing American families does not create jobs, reform our health care system or reduce the growing deficit. It only divides Americans rather than uniting us to find solutions to challenges facing our nation.
As an African American, I know what racism is and that is not racism. Just like the millions of African Americans in this country who have fought and overcome on their way to the American dream, I have experienced racism firsthand. It is something you never forget. The civil rights movement helped to elevate the nation’s conscience on matters of race. Proud Americans, black and white, fought for too long and too hard to have the claim of racism be used in such a cavalier fashion. Blind charges of racism, where none exist, not only are an affront to those who have suffered the effects of racism, but it weakens our efforts to address true acts of racism and makes them more difficult to overcome.]
LIAR!! HYPOCRITE!!
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Zipity commented:
Why can’t a black man be as free to fail as anyone else? Why must it always be “racism”? I cannot believe the duplicitous hyprocricy anyone who subscribes to that theory indulges themselves in….
bcvbc commented:
The Media’s failure to ask hard questions of Obama is because he is Black? So the Media is Racist and they are coddling the little kid because he cant handle it.
jonyjoe101 commented:
Race only comes into play when the leaders are incompetent. Then people wonder if the only reason a minority got into such a high position was through affirmative action.
Smooth talking will only get you so far in life, one day you will need to back up what you are. Also always blaming someone else for your failures is a way to distract from there incompetence.
Obama definitely didn’t get to his position without “help” from the groups of people he hates the most.
TaSS commented:
…yawn…
I’d like to start holding all our elected officials to a higher standard.
It ain’t looking good so far.
Canthisbe commented:
If Barack Obama and Steele were even held to the same standards as non-blacks, neither of them would be were they are. Obama wouldn’t be president or even the Democratic nominee if he was white. He probably wouldn’t have even been a senator for Illinois and there is no public proof that he would have even been admitted to Harvard Law School if he was white. Steele doesn’t even have the brains of Obama. Obama at least knew enough bs his constituents. Steele repeatedly comes out and says things detrimental to the Republican Party. Both are compelling arguments against “affirmative action”.
Militant Conservative commented:
Man Up Steele, your a real wuss, nothing to do with your skin pigment. You just suck at leadership. I am in the publican party, you stink at getting a game plan together to defeat the opposition. WE (TPM) had to take control and do it for you. Follow us and succeed, ignore us and politically perish. Gutless wonder. powder is dry.
Opus #6 commented:
Oh Gosh. Do we really need to go here? I doubt if a military man, whatever skin color, would WHINE SO LOUDLY about race as our current leaders.
MAN UP! I’M SICK OF IT! Do your frigging job or get OUT! And stop with the RINOs! DO YOU HEAR ME? CAN YOU HEAR US NOW??????
Sorry for the caps.
bg commented:
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Opus #6 @ 3:26 pm #28
re: [Sorry for the caps.]
no problemo.. just wish they could be amplified throughout the country
5X a day aka: the call to prayer, perhaps then they would pay attention
to US as much as they do Islamists..
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Ed Schuster commented:
What a total waste of skin.
Rosey commented:
Are you freakin’ kiddin’ me? That was the beauty of Steele and why I cheered when he was selected as RNC chairman. He took the whole “race” card away from POTUS and left it up to the merit (or de-merit as is the case w/POTUS) of the arguments. Steele playin’ the race card is what the DEMS do. It’s the argument that we have no logical argument to counter argue so we’ll just call the other side racist so we can hit the bar and call it a victory. It’s what the DEMS have always done, and now apparently the R’S too. It’s disgusting when either side does it but it does go to show (sadly once again) that there is no difference between the two parties. Micheal Steele=epic FAIL!!!!
bg commented:
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re: bg #21
just in case..
that piece i linked was written By MICHAEL STEELE | 9/17/09
of which, here is another excerpt:
[It is becoming increasingly clear that some in the Democratic Party need a serious history lesson. Slavery was racist, Jim Crow laws were racist, segregation was racist – opposing a radical political agenda is not. Americans of all races and political mindsets applauded the election of America’s first African American president; it was a proud moment for every American. But our pride in electing an African-American president does not override our right to disagree with President Obama’s policies. It is obvious certain politicians are attempting to exploit racial anger to make up for their own policy failings.
Americans have an obligation to stand up for what they believe in and that is exactly what they are doing. As a whole, Americans are exercising their First Amendment rights and are rejecting President Obama’s massive government-run experiments. They want common sense reforms and economic security. These principles are not found in the Democrats’ health care plans. The Democrats’ health care plan is the antithesis of these ideals.
President Obama’s campaign promised to move America beyond the bitter divides of yesterday. But for leaders of the Democrat Party to characterize Americans' disapproval of the president’s policies as being based on race is an outrage and troubling sign about the lengths Democrats will go to disparage all who disagree with them. Playing the race card shows that Democrats are willing to deal from the bottom of the deck. Our political system has no place for this. President Obama should join me in calling for an end to these attacks by members of his party and
a renewal of honest debate.]
of course that was written BEFORE he was caught with his fingers in the cookie jar, and as we all know Republicans lose their jobs over things like that while Democrats go up a rung on the ladder.. hence, i wouldn’t doubt it if he switched parties in order to avoid the possible loss of his political career (which anyone who has a brain has had to notice has nothing to do with serving “we the people”, as with manypoliticians, most significantly Democrats & RINO’s, it’s all about “him”)..
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anon commented:
I don’t give to the RNC for precisely these reasons. If I want to support a candidate, I’ll donate directly to their campaign. Remember Scott Brown? Or Dede (remember how Hoffman would have won if the RNC supported him)?
Lame for Michael Steele for stooping to Obama’s “It’s all because everyone is racist” level. Come on GP, stop defending this guy already.
Sandy from Chesterfield commented:
I think the time for Steele to step down is long overdue. We need someone with a positive fighting spirit for the GOP. What about Sarah Palin?
MVH commented:
What a cry-baby.
Why doesn’t this guy simply man-up and admit that he’s lost control of the RNC [as if he ever had it].
It looks like he wanted the RNC chair so he could collect honoraria whenever he opens is yap. And now he wants a jet?
Mmmm-ka-ay.
Marsh commented:
Oh, yeah. Obama was just hammered by the media during the presidential election wasn’t he. If anything his race helped him get elected thanks to racist blacks. When Obama got elected blacks at my school were screaming crap like “HAHA my president is black you crackas”.
MVH commented:
P.S. Incompetence, stupidity, irresponsibility, are all COLOR BLIND, Mr.
StealSteele!Big L commented:
get out, Steele. wasting money, being a squish, and yes, the strip club…strike 3.
We have work to do to save the country.
joseph commented:
Michael Steele is a jackass. As a mxed race person from the Caribbean all I can say is that if Steele were a white man he would have been out on his backside months ago. He is a glib talking smaller version of Obama with no solid credentials to back all his talking.
Unfortunately you Americans are so caught up with political correctness and the faux racism of your country that you are too afraid to call a spade a spade.
The black community is not being calld up for its faults and everything is blamed on the white man.
donh commented:
Steele is getting flack because he is turning the party away from Bush / McCain people toward traditional Reagan conservatives. There may be some racial component to the knife in his back, but it comes from the RINO crowd . In the case of Obama, he is judged by leftist affirmative action grading curves. Liberals see no wrong in anything he does and turn Obama’s Fs into As because of his race. Its been that way his whole life .
jim m commented:
Steele still does not get it. he will not get it. It is long past time for him to go. He is just like the dems. He throws out the race card rather than deal directly with criticism. As long as he leads the GOP they are in grave danger of blowing the opportunity they have to retake the House and Senate. He might as well be a dem. He isn’t all that much different in his politics.
Tim H commented:
what has happened to Steele? He was great when he was just a commentator on Fox News. I thought he would be a great leader of the RNC, but since he has taken charge, he has just gone whacky-stupid on things. And it all has nothing to do with race.
Betsy Ross commented:
Apparently it’s lost on Mr. Steele that Mr. obama has been elected POTUS fairly and that he, himself, has been chosen to lead the Republican Party. After that they need to be produtive in their positions, otherwise, someone else will take their place. Duh…what a schmuck.
Valerie commented:
Of course he feels this way. He was Lt. Gov. of MD.
Michael Steele has been subjected to, among many other things, black-face photos, and calls for his resignation — by black Democrats. Compared to the Democrats in Maryland, the Republicans in the rest of the country are wonderful. That’s why he’s a Republican.
He is surely including the Democrats among the ones who hold him to a narrower standard. I suspect they are the most of it. Think of what Maxine Waters had to say about him in the last few days.
AND THEN there is the Ivy-League crowd, who think they are entitled to run the country. Not only do those folks think that any graduate of a school not on a certain short list (think: Harriet Miers) is not fit for high public office, they don’t think too highly of wimmin or blacks.
Michelle Obama noticed this.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8642.html
“I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second.”
Michelle Obama was raised in Chicago, where the grownups mostly know how to work together. Her thesis says she was shocked when she went to Princeton and found herself … tolerated.
It’s no surprise to me. I moved from Texas to DC at about the same time she moved to Princeton, and I encountered this peculiar mindset, where people were elaborately polite about what they might say in order to cover up their prejudices. Eventually that kind of thing became called being “politically correct” and, to my mind, being politically correct goes hand in hand with being, at bottom, hypocritical.
Michael Steele deals with this kind of person on a daily basis. As far as I am concerned, he’s honest about what he encounters, and he’s got a good attitude about it.
Too bad he was raised in Maryland. He could easily have been governor of Texas.
bg commented:
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Valerie @ 7:35 pm #45
i respect your opinions, and i do understand what you’re saying (at least
, but may i ask how you square the following with what he wrote in here??
i think i do, if not, i’m sure you’ll let me know
[In the interview, Steele said that black political leaders, such as President Barack Obama and him, are held to an unfair higher standard.
“It’s a different role for me to play and others to play and that’s just
the reality of it. But you just take that as a part of the nature of it.]
btw, i believe prejudices have evolved
into a two way street (so to speak)..
thanks in advance..
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