After string of gaffes, Steele ‘has called a halt to his television appearances.’
After string of gaffes, Steele ‘has called a halt to his television appearances.’
The past few weeks have been tough for RNC chairman Michael Steele, who is facing conservative disappointment and outrage over comments criticizing Rush Limbaugh and saying that women have the right to choose abortion. (He has backed down from both statements.) According to the Washington Post, Steele is now taking some time off from the national spotlight to focus on “nuts and bolts“:
After two weeks of public drubbing over comments that included criticism of radio host Rush Limbaugh and a reference to abortion as a matter of “individual choice,” Steele is taking steps to address some of the concerns about his early gaffes. He has called a halt to his television appearances and curtailed national media interviews. [...]
Anderson said that while Steele “pulled himself back a little bit” from TV appearances after his gaffes, the chairman will remain accessible as a spokesman for the party.
“He’s going to be a communicator — that’s his nature,” Anderson said. “But you have to do it strategically.”
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If only the entire republican party would follow his lead, things could really get done.
March 15th, 2009 at 2:07 pmmike steele,
man of steele.
into the fortress of solitude.
#
March 15th, 2009 at 2:08 pm“But you have to do it strategically.” In other words, nowhere near any type of recording device. Not to mention the “out of sight, out of mind” advantage.
March 15th, 2009 at 2:10 pmto me what this says is that steele was never meant to be a leader of the gop, just a figurehead. a neutered, ineffectual figurehead. and he failed even at that.
“the man of steel, the man of power,
March 15th, 2009 at 2:10 pmwe’re losing control by the hour…”
–land of confusion (a propos?)
After string of gaffes, Steele ‘has called a halt to his television appearances.’
– - Ironically, Steele was picked for his deft communication skills. Wait, maybe that was deaf communcation skills.
I guess we won’t be seeing his hip-hop, “rap off” against Stephen Colbert after all, even though Steele said twice he would do that.
March 15th, 2009 at 2:11 pmFurther proof that Republicans can’t run an elevator, much less a country.
March 15th, 2009 at 2:11 pmLooks like he is taking Limbaugh’s advice.
I’m sure gonna’ miss those informative chats with Hannity…..not.
¶ AIO
March 15th, 2009 at 2:11 pmPoor Steele..the guy is actually fairly reasonable and thoughtful in his answers, and thats why the republicans want to shut him up…he apparently hasnt learn to parrot the generic right wing talking points, it seems like hes actually trying to engage in a thoughtful analysis of some of the issues he’s discussing..which is why the republicans need to shut him up!
March 15th, 2009 at 2:13 pmLadies and gentlemen, Mr. Steele has been forced to take some personal time off in order to focus on his nuts and bolts.
March 15th, 2009 at 2:17 pmSo, affectionately representing Mr. Steele, I am pleased to introduce to you, rush limbaugh.
mr. limbaugh has what doctors call, a bit of a drug problem.
With both Steele and the GOP the problem isn’t “communication.” The problem is that they have nothing for America and any amount of “communication” won’t change that fact.
March 15th, 2009 at 2:17 pmsteeletrap
March 15th, 2009 at 2:22 pmhe will mop his mighty pate
and think his mighty thoughts.
mike steele.
…
March 15th, 2009 at 2:30 pmIf Steele can’t handle a television camera, how’s he going to handle Al Qaeda?
(No, not the extremist movement, Al is a middle eastern interviewer for whom Steele already agreed to do an interview…)
March 15th, 2009 at 2:36 pmRINO
March 15th, 2009 at 2:38 pmMickey Steele strategically retreats from the media scene, back into his Repuglyrathole from whence he spawned.
March 15th, 2009 at 2:39 pmA simple man Says:
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU—-
March 15th, 2009 at 2:41 pmThe puppet – Steele
The puppeteer – Rush
The GOP – downhill spiral
Instead of caring for the plight of the American people, their main concern is the plight of their GOP party and getting them back into power.
Unbeknownest to the GOP party – if they helped and worked together to bring our country and it’s people back stable again, it would look like they are sincere, passionate, and a caring party. A party who’s first concern is for the American people. But, No, they rather be the party of No, and appear to be the party that does not care about anything but getting back in power.
Therefore, to the American public, each day, the GOP is the obstructionist party who doesn’t care about the plight of the American people.
Be it said, even though the Demorcratic party has always been colorful, at least they do care about the plight of the American people.
March 15th, 2009 at 2:41 pmIm not sure about bolts…..but he has plenty of nuts to deal with!
March 15th, 2009 at 2:42 pmJust think of the shoe endorsement deals these republicans could do!
Sarah Palin on which shoes tastes better.
Michael Steele on which shoes don’t catch on your teeth during a teevee appearance.
And george bush on which jackboots have the ’softest to the tongue’ feel….
March 15th, 2009 at 2:48 pmSteele is like New Coke, an instantly a bad idea, an attempt to copy the most popular brand. If republicans had any substance or convictions, or original, constructive ideas, they wouldn’t be trashing their national chairman.
March 15th, 2009 at 2:51 pmAt least the Repuglycans have closed ranks on something.
March 15th, 2009 at 2:54 pmThey just can’t decide whose hands need to be on the pillow over his face.
“He’s going to be a communicator — that’s his nature,” Anderson said. “But you have to do it strategically.”
So just who told him to shut up?
March 15th, 2009 at 2:54 pmMr. Tinfoil is going back to the place where the Rushpuppetcant’s say he belongs, to the back of the bus, the servant’s quarters, the kitchen, or the basement. He is getting the Ted Haggard treatment whereas he is being “re-programmed”. The next time we hear from Mr. Tinfoil he will sound like his mast.. I mean the Rushpuppetcant’s.
Poor fella, he thought they really liked him and that he could be a source of change.
RIP
March 15th, 2009 at 3:00 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
In order to gain the political control that they enjoyed over the last ten years, Republican moderates and Reagan conservatives made a pact with the devil (faux Christians, bigots and misanthropes) to achieve the numbers they needed to defeat Democrats. They made a strategic decision to manipulate and exploit the ignorance, fears and hatreds of dysfunctional and vulnerable voters in order to win elections rather than lose them by being intellectually and morally honest.
Today, those who conspired with the devil are caught between wanting to disassociate themselves with and or casting out the devil they empowered and the karmic reality that they don’t have the numbers to hold on to or regain power without continuing to accept and “advocate” the immoral values, hypocrisies and corruptions that are dividing and destroying their party. The survival of today’s shrinking Republican Party has become so dependent on extremism that they have no significant power left WITH or WITHOUT the support of America’s increasingly pernicious lunatic fringe.
The idiom about choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea is certainly appropriate as Republicans are facing the dilemma of choosing between two equally undesirable alternatives that both result in Republican impotence in mainstream American politics. They are suffering the consequences of their treachery. Their irresponsible propping up of George W. Bush cost them their credibility, and their disgraceful and shameless licking of Rush Limbaugh’s storm trooper boots is costing them their viability.
March 15th, 2009 at 3:00 pmThere were two FDA nominations over the weekend. When did TP quit reporting news? A lack of food & drug safety mean more “buyer beware”.
Baxter’s American supplier couldn’t control hundreds of mom & pop lab suppliers in China. They substituted dangerous inputs to maximize profits.
Updated laws? Not nearly enough. Producers must understand how to make quality medicines and safe food. That requires knowledge of more than how to drive ever increasing quarterly profits.
Poor quality can destroy markets, from raw spinach to peanut butter to ground beef to securitized debt obligations. How did our leaders respond?
Peanut butter-bankruptcy
March 15th, 2009 at 3:01 pmGround beef-bankruptcy
Securitization-taxpayer bailout & government sponsored restart.
“He’s going to be a communicator…”
“But you have to do it strategically.”
Odd that he said “you” and not “we” or “he”. I think Steele might be spending more time with his family soon. Or maybe it’s just that Grand Old Party habit of speech that makes responsibility a universal abstraction.
March 15th, 2009 at 3:02 pmArchie B Says:
March 15th, 2009 at 3:04 pmOops.
Archie B Says:
March 15th, 2009 at 3:04 pmMike Steele will stay away from public speaking?!? A politician trying to stay away from the media is like Rush trying to stay away from gay prostitutes and oxy. It just won’t happen. Pols shrivel up and blow away if they can’t get their mugs on the tube and gasbag for themselves and against their opponents. But, then again, maybe that’s the plan–for him to disappear from the scene. That’s too bad, because he has been such an effective spokesman–for the Democrats!
March 15th, 2009 at 3:09 pmand, when the ground hog
sees his shadow,
mike steele will return.
bigger.
stronger.
steelier.
::
March 15th, 2009 at 3:10 pmAwwwwwwwwww, does he have to…? ;)
March 15th, 2009 at 3:10 pmGoing Galt on gaffes. I like it.
http://www.pufferfishblog.com/
March 15th, 2009 at 3:14 pmZooey Says:
Awwwwwwwwww, does he have to…? ;)
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can you hold back the wind?!
…
March 15th, 2009 at 3:18 pmjoe, I’m going to assume you’re talking about our man of Steele. ;)
March 15th, 2009 at 3:25 pmKlatu, how’s it going? Might you be able to identify the leader of the GOP? I have been asking all around yet no one seems to know. A ship with no master is sure to founder…
March 15th, 2009 at 3:34 pmShorter GOP:
“Uncle Tom, back into your cabin boy, ya hear?!”
March 15th, 2009 at 3:44 pmYeh, who is the leader of the Wangers? Is it Bill ‘Falafel’ Oreilly, Sean ‘Vanity’ Hannity, Michelle ‘Malcontent’ Malkin, Anne ‘Poison Brulee’ Coulter, Michael ‘kill them all’ Savage, Michael ‘Hip-Hop Steele’, Newt ‘Ethicalapse’ Gingrich, Rush ‘Hillbilly Heroin’ Limbaugh, Glenn ‘Dr. Jack Daniels’ Beck, Grover ‘Big Goobermint’ Norquist?
March 15th, 2009 at 3:53 pmCommunicator (GOP) = Sock Puppet
March 15th, 2009 at 4:00 pmI think maybe the Republicans should ALL be VERY VERY quiet for the next 8 years and hope AMERICA forgets just how bad Republican Policies are . . . . then when things are better, they can come BACK and claim to have a “secret way” to make it BETTER . . . seemed to work in the past . . . .
March 15th, 2009 at 4:01 pmMichael Steele doesn’t have enough hatred in his heart to lead the Republican Party. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Bill O’Reilly can spew hatred 24/7 and never bat an eye. The GOP should just give the job to Limbaugh.
March 15th, 2009 at 4:41 pm#39 – Xisithrus
Don’t forget Ann ‘The Man’ Coulter. He/she is doing an excellent job driving young people away from the Republican Party.
March 15th, 2009 at 4:47 pm“He’s going to be a communicator — that’s his nature,” Anderson said. “But you have to do it strategically.”
Translation: too much crazy all at once makes contributors nervous.
Let him do his communicatin’ with the mike turned off, in the conference hall at the Duluth Sheraton Express.
March 15th, 2009 at 4:55 pmI guess when a racist organization like the Repugs pick a ‘token minority’ to be its head, things don’t always work out as they would hope, huh?
And they wonder why they can’t get the minority votes in the elections!
March 15th, 2009 at 5:22 pmZooey Says:
joe, I’m going to assume you’re talking about our man of Steele. ;)
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oh god yeah.
;)
March 15th, 2009 at 6:03 pmThe only votes the RepubliCons get will be the votes of the maggots, the ghouls of new-made graves, the buzzards, the rats and roaches.
March 15th, 2009 at 6:32 pmWhat’s awesome about this is that when they dump Steele, which will be soon, it will be perceived as a blatant act of racism on the part of the goper establishment.
Especially since they’ll replace him with a rabid spittle-flinger from a blood-red state.
This is better than Bugs vs. Elmer ever was.
Archie – do make yourself useful, and pop me some more corn.
March 15th, 2009 at 6:33 pmThe Olden Polynice of message discipline has taken himself out of the game. And it looks like coach Limbaugh is going to bring Mark “Grand Wizard” Sandford off the bench.
March 15th, 2009 at 6:36 pmI think in a few weeks or less we will all learn that Mr Steele will have decided that he needs to spend more time with his family.
My guess for the next head of the RNC will be J C Watts. Mr Watts followed the script much better than Mr Steele.
Good Luck Mr Watts.
March 15th, 2009 at 6:52 pmThe Steele Token has gone south.
March 15th, 2009 at 9:35 pmjoe cantwell Says:
oh god yeah.
;)
March 15th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Good answer! :-D
March 15th, 2009 at 10:06 pmZooey Says:
joe cantwell Says:
oh god yeah.
;)
March 15th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Good answer! :-D
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i’d like a vowel, zoo.
:)
good night!
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March 15th, 2009 at 11:30 pmEven this loser is too thoughtful and even-handed for the Rushpublicans. Perhaps he will be coached by Clarence (Uncle) Thomas.
March 16th, 2009 at 12:17 amSeems the name Michael Aluminum would be a better name for someone who folds like a can before thrice divorced, cripple mocking, pill popping, bloated, blowhard, wingnut.
March 16th, 2009 at 12:42 am.
O.K.
Let me see if I understand this here…
… The chairman of the political party is going quiet because he can’t keep his message straight, so that a radio comedian/agitator can explain the Party’s line five days a week?
Welcome to…
… The (R)uspublickin’ Party!
.
March 16th, 2009 at 12:51 amThat’s the sort of Republican Chairman _I_ want to see. One who keeps himself off TV.
March 16th, 2009 at 8:04 amsmchris Says:
That’s the sort of Republican Chairman _I_ want to see. One who keeps himself off TV.
True.
March 16th, 2009 at 8:33 amNow we must encourage ALL Rushpuppetcants to follow their leader as they are so want to do.
A simple man Says:
MORON
March 16th, 2009 at 8:33 amMaybe Steele should do radio instead.
March 16th, 2009 at 8:55 amLive radio from some obscure college campus in North Dakota.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:02 am50 watts max.
March 16th, 2009 at 9:02 amMaybe Steele should use a teleprompter like Oboma.
March 16th, 2009 at 11:21 amPaging Winston Smith . . . Winston Smith to the white courtesy phone.
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