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GOP Chairman Michael Steele Calls Limbaugh Comments "Incendiary and Ugly" - Video 2/28/09
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | March 1, 2009 | BrianinMO

Posted on 03/01/2009 6:10:49 AM PST by Federalist Patriot

Here is video of Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele talking with CNN's D.L. Hughley last night, and calling comments made by Rush Limbaugh during his speech to CPAC "incendiary and ugly." Steele said Limbaugh is not the de facto leader of the Republican Party, and that he is an "entertainter."

This is exactly the point Rush Limbaugh was trying to make in his speech. Republicans need to stop worrying about what the D.L. Hughley's think! They will never like conservatives or Republicans, because they are liberals! Steele should not have disavowed, in effect, what Rush said. He should have hammered home the core principles set forth by Limbaugh in his speech. . . . . (Watch Video)

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: conservatism; cpac; gop; limbaugh; rinopurge; rnc; rncchairman; steele
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To: DManA
Can’t get over the race thing Mikey?

What "race thing"? In his speech Rush made it clear that he views humans as unique individuals and not as members of races or other groups.

201 posted on 03/01/2009 7:30:46 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Federalist Patriot

I could have given Steele a pass for saying Rush is not the leader of the Repubs.
I could have given him a pass for saying he’s only an entertainer.

But for him to call Rush’s words incidienary and ugly?
Nope. Bye-bye. Not a dime to the RNC..only to individual candidates and that starts with Tedisco for Gillibrand’s open seat in NY.

Farewell, Mike, we hardly knew ye


202 posted on 03/01/2009 7:30:55 AM PST by LeavingNewYork
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To: Federalist Patriot

Okay, Mike...let’s hear your big ideas.


203 posted on 03/01/2009 7:31:34 AM PST by Miss Didi ( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Renegade
I’m not giving the RNC another penny till they cleanse the party of these imposters .

Now there's a campaign...send the RNC a penny with a brief note..."Here's change you can believe in...."

204 posted on 03/01/2009 7:31:59 AM PST by A_Tradition_Continues (formerly known as Politicalwit ...05/28/98...Ain't no Newbie!)
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To: lonestar

I agree....it didn’t come off that bad to me. I wish he didn’t use those words, but the first time I watched it really didn’t even register as much of a criticism of Rush to me.


205 posted on 03/01/2009 7:32:18 AM PST by teg_76
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To: Federalist Patriot

Yes indeed. Hey, all you guys who think Steele is the conservative leader we have been waiting for wake up! The GOP is dead, we need a new party.


206 posted on 03/01/2009 7:33:04 AM PST by calex59
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To: omega4179

Here I am. I wish he hadn’t said incendiary and ugly because the speech was just the opposite. But the other things he said in his comments to the show host were correct.


207 posted on 03/01/2009 7:33:26 AM PST by rabidralph
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To: Loyal Buckeye
What angers the RINO Republicans like Steele is, Rush voices it best for the Conservative base. He says what most of us think so eloquently.

The RINO establishment in the RNC have no intention of listening to the base. They are still taking the position that the party needs to go even further to the Left, even past the middle like McCain has.

Rush pointed out that there is NO compromise from abandoning our principles and that sticking to our core beliefs is precisely what will get us back in the majority.

This goes completely against what Steele and his minions have secretly decided on what direction to take the GOP.

208 posted on 03/01/2009 7:33:35 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (WHAT? Where did my tag line go? (ACORN))
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To: devane617
Rush was speaking ex temp and from the heart. No teleprompter, only minimal notes. Wisdom jam-packed in a long, but too short hour and a half.

A certain amount of disjointedness will be noticeable in unscripted speeches. But Rush is witty and riveting even in disjointedness.

Obama reads his speeches from teleprompters. The words are not from his brain, they're from his shadowy marxist writers and advisors. They're not from his soul because his soul was sold years ago, Mephistophically-speaking.

Leni

209 posted on 03/01/2009 7:33:39 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: devane617
I'm not sure about leaving the left a ton of ammo, but I was a bit disappointed with his ADS delivery. I felt the same way about his TV show. Rush is great on the radio and his shows format is entertaining as well as educational and he is an asset to our side.
210 posted on 03/01/2009 7:35:15 AM PST by mimaw
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To: fhayek
I heard Steele speak at a Conservative function in Harrisburg PA last year...My opinion...He does well with a script....Not so well "off the cuff".

Sound familiar?

211 posted on 03/01/2009 7:35:43 AM PST by codder too
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To: Federalist Patriot

I’m not sure if Limbaugh is distancing himself from the GOP or vice versa.


212 posted on 03/01/2009 7:35:52 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: jafojeffsurf

Jeez dude. I suggest everyone else run their letters through a spell and grammar checker.


213 posted on 03/01/2009 7:36:32 AM PST by Doohickey (The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.)
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To: Federalist Patriot

What was ugly or incendiary about Rush’s comments? I watched his speech. Yes, he’s an entertainer. Too bad a politician doesn’t have the balls to say the same things that Rush says. Instead, we have the “mouthpiece” of the RNC bowing and scraping to a 3rd rate comic on CNN.


214 posted on 03/01/2009 7:36:54 AM PST by csvset
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To: TomGuy

Rush has said many times he’s not a Republican.


215 posted on 03/01/2009 7:37:08 AM PST by mimaw
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To: hinckley buzzard

BS!!!!!!!


216 posted on 03/01/2009 7:37:49 AM PST by Airwinger (Semper Fi, Time to use that motto for our Constitution.)
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217 posted on 03/01/2009 7:37:56 AM PST by potlatch
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To: GoCards

info@steeleforchairman.com

Found Full very often. Imagine that!


218 posted on 03/01/2009 7:40:55 AM PST by jafojeffsurf (Get a message, Unify, Teach the Public)
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To: Doohickey
grammar checker.

LOL

219 posted on 03/01/2009 7:41:42 AM PST by Utah Binger (Southern Utah, where the world comes find the best rocks)
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To: fhayek

Cue Jack Nicholson

Mr. Steele YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH


220 posted on 03/01/2009 7:42:35 AM PST by lakeman
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