Despite Call To ‘Move On’ From Personally Attacking Sotomayor, Steele Recently Attacked Her Personally
Despite Call To ‘Move On’ From Personally Attacking Sotomayor, Steele Recently Attacked Her Personally
Earlier today, The Plum Line’s Greg Sargent flagged RNC Chairman Michael Steele saying on Bill Bennett’s radio show this morning that conservatives should avoid making personal attacks on Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Rather than “slammin’ and rammin’” her, “move on to the substance of the conversation about what this woman believes, why she believes it,” said Steele. Listen here:
Despite Steele’s current attempt to focus the debate on Sotomayor’s judicial philosophy, just two weeks ago he had no problem engaging. While hosting Bennett’s radio show, Steele described Sotomayor as “not a bell ringer” and “rather abrasive”:
STEELE: But the next justice nominee will be a female and I bet you a donut and a dime it will be hispanic. But, which case, that would be Ms. Sotomayor. But the problem with someone like her is, you know, while her story is compelling and all of that. Moving from the projects and you know, going to some of the best schools in the country and then to the federal bench. She’s not, she’s not a bell ringer. She’s not one of these justices who’s really kind of distinguished herself and made a name for herself on the Appeals court. And I think that that, you know, is something worth noting and looking at since, you know, gee that was a standard they put up against those Republican nominees. So I figure the standard should apply here as well. But they also, you know, the word on the street is that she is rather abrasive. And that’s the one thing the Supreme Court is not. Is a place for abrasive personalities.
Listen here:
It’s ironic that during his May 8th appearance on Bennett’s show, Steele justified his personal attacks on Sotomayor by saying “that was a standard they put up against those Republican nominees. So I figure the standard should apply here as well.” As Sargent points out, Steele argued today that “we don’t need to play this the way the Democrats have played it in the past.”
Additionally, Steele claimed back then that Sotomayor had not “distinguished herself and made a name for herself on the Appeals court.” But conservative law professor Eric Posner examined the data of Sotomayor’s record and found that she “may well be one of the top appellate judges in the country.”
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This from a man whose only distinction is as a buffoon.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:06 pmNobody does hypocrisy better than the Fascist Rethuglic party.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:07 pmNobody does hypocrisy better than the Fascist Rethuglic party.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:07 pmooops, sorry about that.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:08 pm.
LIE-CHEAT-STEELE
The “NEW” G(no)P
… Of course it’s not a personal attack when the G(no)P does it, yes?
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May 29th, 2009 at 1:09 pm….
i wonder if mike knows
what a “gobblet” is…?
:)
May 29th, 2009 at 1:11 pmThe damage is already done GOPers. Do you honestly think the Latino population (and women for that matter) are going to forget the attacks on Stotomayor? All these rich old white guys, Buchanan, Limpballs, Tancredo, have been basically calling her a racist. Good job! You have alienated the fastest growing electorate in the U.S.!
May 29th, 2009 at 1:11 pmMaybe he changed his mind? Why not give Steele the benefit of the doubt, at least long enough for him to attack Sotomayor AFTER having called for an end to such comments. I’m sure he’ll be back on the attack in a matter of hours or days, but at least give him the opportunity to do so. Chastising him for something he said weeks ago is cheap.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:12 pmWord on the street, you know, the American streets. Where, you know, the cred is, is that Steele, you know, got his bell ring. From playing in, you know, one of those streets. And I think that that, you know, is something to, you know, look into, also, a bit, you know, so you know you know, you know what I mean.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:13 pmSteele: “Rather than “slammin’ and rammin’” her..”
– - Way to perpetuate a stereotype and up your street cred, Mike. That should serve you well in your current position.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:13 pmahhhhhhhhhhhhh….the chessboard master
we poor schlubs can only wonder what masterful moves this guy is making.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:14 pmKeep talking, Mikey. Each word is another nail in the GNOP coffin.
Tap, tap, tap.
PEACE
May 29th, 2009 at 1:16 pm“slammin’ and rammin’” her
He did NOT say THAT, did he? Good lord. Not just sexual overtones, but rape overtones in your euphamism? How … elegant…..
May 29th, 2009 at 1:17 pm…the word on the street is…
Who does he think he is, Huggy Bear?
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gummble-bee-itch Says:
Chastising him for something he said weeks ago is cheap.
I call it “having a memory.”
May 29th, 2009 at 1:18 pmrastaman Says:
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh….the chessboard master
we poor schlubs can only wonder what masterful moves this guy is making.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
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I think he’s trying to get his pawn to the other side so it’ll get crowned.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:19 pmrastaman Says:
we poor schlubs can only wonder what masterful moves this guy is making.
Queen to rook seven.
But be wary, one day he will “invoke king’s priveledge” and get “three moves to your one”.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:19 pmMaybe he should try this in a more hip-hop setting.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:20 pm“…the word on the street is that she is rather abrasive.”
Translation from Republic Speak – She is not submissive to men.
Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party
May 29th, 2009 at 1:23 pm“Steele described Sotomayor as “not a bell ringer”…”
Pot meet kettle.
Damn! This guy is a real buffoon!
May 29th, 2009 at 1:23 pmGuess I shouldn’t be surprised considering this is the party that introduced the world to Sarah Falin and Joe the Dumber.
Zooey Says:
This from a man whose only distinction is as a buffoon.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
That, and getting angry at Grover about the fly in his soup:
May 29th, 2009 at 1:23 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C8nl8eBoq0
And what is becoming evident as a part of this strategy is to demonize “how the dems did this in the past”. Anyone else hearing this repeatedly from different sources? I think there is a subtle strategy included in this (overall, they want to destroy the credibility of the Democrats in general — yes, standing orders and all, but at this time it seems to be being ramped up. I suppose the idea is that they can try to make themselves the “lesser of two evils” for future elections).
Or I’m dizzy with hunger. I don’t know. I should go eat.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:24 pmUm, does he know about Justice Scalia? Sure, he can be charming, but he can also be a real jerk (re: personality, not ideology).
May 29th, 2009 at 1:24 pmKeep it up, Mikey, and see how low the RNC can go.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:28 pmFor a person and a party who brought the nation Sarah Palin as candidate a heartbeat away from the presidency of an old man, these guys have no room to criticize anyone – particularly with the credentials of Judge Sotomayor, but regardless, there they go.
P.D. is right, the damage is done. The bigots aren’t changing any minds. Rational people would realize that those tactics lost the last couple elections, and it would be a good idea to change tactics. As it’s been pointed out, the worst ones are former reps and pundunces that are paid to make asinine statements.
Standing by an electric fence pissing in the wind won’t bring you any more friends.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:32 pmfirst rove, now steele. i guess someone tweeted the new talking points. of course, since it’s the republicans, it means they have something up their sleeves. i wonder who drew the short straw and gets to tell boss limbaugh?
May 29th, 2009 at 1:33 pm“Despite Call To ‘Move On’ From Personally Attacking Sotomayor, Steele Recently Attacked Her Personally”
Please.. Seriously, why is TP posting this clown’s comment? This is the same man that bowed down to da man Boss Limbaugh. For this nimrod who happens to be minority too {Steele seems to forget] to attack another minority who may be the first Latino woman judge to the Supreme Court, is beyond nauseating. Anything that Steele says, I basically tune him out.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:33 pmchiroptera toasterhead Says:
May 29th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
That is HILARIOUS!
May 29th, 2009 at 1:35 pmDoes Bill Bennett even have a radio show anymore? Mr. Steele seems to fill in for him quite a bit.
That being said, Mr. Steele should respectfully look into a better career if he were to find himself out of the political circuits. He really seems to put his foot in his mouth when he gets on the radio.
I’m not so sure that Steele’s comments were as spiteful as those from Gingrich, Rush, or Glenn Beck, but he has to now stick by his words now and not those that he said in the past. No attacks on Sotomayor as a person, as a member of her people, or as a woman; it’s been high time that her words be treated as the basis for her selection to the SCOTUS, not her ethnicity or gender.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:36 pmWhere’s our oily troll?
He’s usually pretty concerned about hypocrisy.
Not sure he understand what the word means, though.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:36 pmSP Biloxi Says:
Anything that Steele says, I basically tune him out.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
You’re missing some comedy gold. :-D
May 29th, 2009 at 1:37 pmSo Grover is our oily troll…?
May 29th, 2009 at 1:38 pmwell, Biloxi, I’ll admit it’s not the most scintillating news, but there is a “know your enemies” idea that is good to have. We should be watching and studying the GOP playbook, as pathetic as it is right now, if only for things like future political strategy and predictions. I think it bears mentioning the misogynist and racist undertones to all of these attacks.
and plus its Friday, and Mikey’s idiocy amuses me.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:38 pmHeh. “Not the place for abrasive personalities,” huh??
So, Mikey, what about that oily little Mafia thug Scalia? Or the nasty sexual harasser Clarence Thomas…?
STFU, you moronic babbling cretin!!!!
May 29th, 2009 at 1:40 pmNice, oily – tossing one of your own right under the bus.
Good job. Pretty soon, there won’t be a single wingnut left on the planet.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:41 pmmaybe they did do it wrong, oily.
let’s try again with you. let’s do this right!
May 29th, 2009 at 1:42 pmoilforillegals Says:
http://gawker.com/5272691/confirmed-mancows-waterboarding-was-completely-fake
May 29th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
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So a conservative lied about something. Why does that even deserve a headline?
It doesn’t change the fact that waterboarding is torture, if that’s what you’re trying to imply.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:49 pmZooey Says:
That is HILARIOUS!
May 29th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
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I can’t take credit – that’s been a running gag on The Daily Show for a few months now. But it somehow never gets old.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:50 pmI see our oily troll is dispensing with his usual on-topic brand of inanity for this glaring instance of Republican hypocrisy, and he’s going straight for the diversion. That must mean he’s got absolutely nothin’.
Can we get better trolls, please?
May 29th, 2009 at 1:51 pmThe Repugs are backtracking. Even Cornyn has said so much. How long before ‘Big, Bad John’ starts to grovel at Rush’s feet? I give him till Monday.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:52 pmLet’s indulge our sad little oily troll, who so desperately wants someone to play with him.
The article to which oily linked quotes the ManCow: “Of course it was simulated. To compare what I went through to what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed went through—of course it was not the same. I’m sure it was worse for them.”
Oops. oily shit on his lunch again.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:55 pmsteele may not be a “bell ringer”, but he sure is a “ding-dong”
May 29th, 2009 at 1:56 pmyeah, like one of the gawker comments stated, why would a conservative radio host do a high publicity stunt to prove that waterboarding is torture? why would he fake that? wouldn’t he fake that it wasn’t torture? This story has as many holes as oily’s brain.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:56 pmoilforillegals Says:
The funny part part is olby and all of his minions (all 6 of them) believed him! TDF!!
May 29th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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No, the funny part is that you think it matters.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:57 pmoilforillegals Says:
May 29th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
So why didn’t Mancow breeze through the waterboarding for 30 minutes and declare it “not torture?”
May 29th, 2009 at 1:57 pmoilforillegals Says:
http://gawker.com/5272691/confirmed-mancows-waterboarding-was-completely-fake
And the person they claimed stated that in an email, Linda Shafran, denied that Mancow’s waterboarding was a hoax in the following statement sent to Gawker:
“It was NOT a hoax. Early on when we were looking for someone to waterboard, an email was sent out looking for someone to do it and I mistakenly said it would be staged. That was my mistake and a misunderstanding.
But that was early and NOT TRUE AT ALL. It was not staged. NOT AT ALL. When it happened several days later, it was real, honest, actual, not staged.
Any info you have was my mistake. THE WATERBOARDING OF MANCOW WAS REAL!!!!!!”
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/gossip-blog-claims-mancow-waterboarding-may-be-a-hoax-2/
But oily likes to leave some things out. Or is just too dumb to read them LOL
May 29th, 2009 at 1:59 pmRealness Says:
yeah, like one of the gawker comments stated, why would a conservative radio host do a high publicity stunt to prove that waterboarding is torture?
May 29th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
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To trick Keith Olberman into donating a few thousand dollars to a veterans’ organization.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:00 pmralph the wonder locust Says:
I see our oily troll is dispensing with his usual on-topic brand of inanity for this glaring instance of Republican hypocrisy, and he’s going straight for the diversion. That must mean he’s got absolutely nothin’.
Can we get better trolls, please?
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ralph,
be nice.
his hair fell out this morning
and he’s feeling a bit depressed about it.
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poor “gobbet”.
:(
May 29th, 2009 at 2:00 pmRealness and Zooey:
Yeah, I hear you. It is TGIF or Freaky Friday. Although Steele is comedy gold, there is just so much garbage that I can take from my brain when it comes to “dat’s how we roll baby” Steele and the GOP from wingnut paradise.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:00 pm“We should be watching and studying the GOP playbook”
And that playbook has been watered down so much that the party now has a new leader: Boss Limbaugh, chief gas bag radio host. Even Nixon, the king of the Watergate scandal, would turn over in his grave to this 21st century GOP party minus a real leader of the party.
And that’s the one thing the Supreme Court is not. Is a place for abrasive personalities.
Oh no, not at all. You know, for any of these attacks to stick they’d have to impeach and remove their last three appointments. I hereby invite them to do so. I’ll be willing to give up Sotomayor in exchange for Thomas, Alito and Roberts
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oilforillegals Says:
http://gawker.com/5272691/confirmed-mancows-waterboarding-was-completely-fake
hehehehe
Um, all of the things they’re saying there are saying the opposite of the conclusion they and you are reaching. He was trying to make it a “hoax” as in pretending to be waterboarded without going through the actual procudure. But then he really got waterboarded, so had to admit it was torture.
I’m looking at the same quotes you’re looking at, and it’s clear that non only did he have to admit that what he underwent is torture, the procedure he went through barely even qualifies as waterboarding, despite his intent to make it appear more legit than it was.
Although he’s getting a lot of attention at the moment, this is probably going to hurt Mancow’s career quite a lot. Left-wingers don’t listen to talk radio, and right-wingers don’t like having their jocks disagree with what’s comfortable for them to believe.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:00 pmYou guys have got to check out this performance by oily and his rap partner C4P:
http://tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com/?id=2625093&ref=fpblg
May 29th, 2009 at 2:02 pmGee, oily, a noted right wing shock jock stages a waterboarding, films the whole thing, goes on national TV with a lefty program to say waterboarding is torture.
Wasn’t tied down, wasn’t inclined wasn’t a prisoner and in 6 seconds went berserk and changed his tune on torture.
Like the world needs new confirmation that a technique outlawed for over 100 years is torture.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:04 pmobamawipe$ Says:
olbermann and his minions…hoodwinked again!
May 29th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
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No, he wasn’t. Waterboarding is still torture, no matter what some shock jock says.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:05 pmLemme get this straight — Steele says the Republicans should refrain from “slammin’ and rammin’” her (and his very use of that phrase regarding a woman gets my hackles up), but he has the gall to use “the word on the street” as justification for some slammin’ of his own? Isn’t “the word on the street” about as authoritative as “they say”?
May 29th, 2009 at 2:06 pmright wingers don’t have to make sense
their gullible base will believe anything they say, as long as it disparages a perceived “librul”
right wingers are cowards and intellectually soft
they are afraid of ideas, fairness, equality, and a level playing field
they are ignorant, fearful, whiny babies
especially o$ and oilyface
May 29th, 2009 at 2:10 pmCan we just go back to his statement that we shouldn’t listen to anything he says?
May 29th, 2009 at 2:11 pm…
wipey,
you forgot your towel.
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May 29th, 2009 at 2:11 pmmisscoleopteramolly Says:
Isn’t “the word on the street” about as authoritative as “they say”?
Maybe he meant the word on “K” street. lol
May 29th, 2009 at 2:17 pmjoe cantwell Says:
wipey,
you forgot your towel.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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A hoopy frood he ain’t.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:17 pm“slammin’ and rammin’” her, ???WTF???
May 29th, 2009 at 2:17 pm“But they also, you know, the word on the street is that she is rather abrasive. And that’s the one thing the Supreme Court is not. Is a place for abrasive personalities.”
Riiiiight, and that is why Scalia is so warm and fuzzy and not abrasive in the least! Riiiiiight!
I love the fact that anytime a Republican opens his or her mouth in the media, their party invariably gets a little smaller! Carry on, increasingly insignificant GOPers, carry on!
May 29th, 2009 at 2:27 pmRNC tactic #52:
Of course the Dem socialist nominated for the bench is a piece of @$%@$% but I won’t say anything because I believe in looking forward.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:28 pmJust a question for the trolls. In the past few months, just how many statements have come from the left about anything or anyone in particular? Statements that were not in response to something from the right?
You claim we slavishly listen to KO and Rachel and others yet none of them have done anything but respond to the right. KO had Mancow on after his waterboarding. Granted KO had asked Sean to follow up on his statement of doing the same thing but again, Sean made the claim first.
Most of the posters here (and probably many Americans) do listen to the programs but they think about what they hear. It is information, not gospel.
Yet you trolls just keep repeating things long since debunked like they have relevance.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:33 pmobamawipe$ Says:
LOL! I just watched the video, what a freakin pansy mancow is!
Your turn next, o$.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:24 pmRantingTommy Says:
especially o$ and oilyface
They’re the same person. In fact, he ought to just give up and just post under one name. He’s not fooling me.
May 29th, 2009 at 5:51 pmIt is far too late for damage control Mr. Steele…Obama played the GOP like a cheap piano on this one, and you all sang exactly the tune he knew you would.
May 30th, 2009 at 10:15 amThe picture of Steele says it all, trying to keep a smile and his dignity while he shucks and jives for a bunch of weathy, old white Republican bosses.
May 30th, 2009 at 12:21 pmThank You
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