Rahm Emmanuel observed on Sunday that one measure of Rush Limbaugh’s hold over the Republican Party is that “whenever a Republican criticizes him, they have to run back and apologize to him, and say they were misunderstood.” Today’s RNC Chair Michael Steele becomes the latest to cross Rush, get slammed by Rush, and then need to issue a groveling apology explaining that he was misunderstood:
“I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said weren’t what I was thinking,” Steele said. “It was one of those things where I thinking I was saying one thing, and it came out differently. What I was trying to say was a lot of people … want to make Rush the scapegoat, the bogeyman, and he’s not.”
Satyam Khanna observes that he’s merely following in the footsteps of Governor Mark Sanford and Rep. Phil Gingrey.
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