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)
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.com ...
“He should have played to the audience, and not to you and me.”
It seemed to me that you and me were the same as the Audience.
I much rather you be correct....
As long as we keep installing Conservative wanna-be’s this is what we’re going to get!
You know who doesn’t speak for Conservatives?
Michael Steel!!!
I’m so tired of this crap. Somebody better grow some soon or we’re up the creek.
What a dissapointment!
The Republicans have now become the Detroit Lions of politics.......
Yep, your right spell check and grammar checker would help but I think you received the message. I’m glad we are past the English examine maybe I’ll try Spanish next time.
The real question now is there a way to put enough pressure on Mr Steel and the GOP to get it back inline with the base or where do conservatives go in mass to support their philosophy?
I was taken aback by the number of anti-Rush comments I heard from otherwise friendly mouths on the Sunday shows this morning. They weren’t just dumping on Rush, I think they were dumping Rush.
What if there is a negative story about to be sprung about Rush? What if there is a “fallen off the wagon” story or a tipsy video of Rush at a Golf Tournament using poltically incorrect slurs that will be broadcast over and over. Even something stupid taken out of context will suffice.
I’m not saying that there is anything-but that is just the way too many people are acting.
There is a danger in having a high profile, charismatic leader. If they can’t defeat the message, they will try to take out the messenger. If they are able to take him down a peg, they will have room to maneuver unopposed.
BS n00b. Total BS.
Bravo, time to man the battle stations and take them on!
woo hoo!
I think it’s more like Jealousy, Power hungry, and Pride which are the determining factors here. Rush and the other major talk show host’s speak for many of the base and frankly the Washington elite think they should be to spokesman for the base. I also believe in the old phrase “Power Corrupts” even the best-intentioned people have a hard time with power after a while. They loose touch with the original goals they set out for and slowly go off in other directions.
I’m right. And I don’t allow others’ editing and agendas to cause me to react incorrectly.
All it took was a little research.
Who decided - and why did they decide - to post just this portion of the interview - what about the rest?
Watch the entire segment: Hughley is the first to use the word “incendiary.”
And that’s after Hughley said the Republican National Convention was “literally look like Nazi Germany,” and called Steele a “plastic” reaction to Obama by “them” (the Nazi Republicans who don’t care or know what Blacks are all about, or where they live).
Steele pointed out that the Republicans aren’t in control of the places like Baltimore Maryland where the “Black people live” and find life so bad. And denied that he is a reaction to Obama. Hughley said, “Not to you, but to them.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSuawzkKpuM
Will that be before or after you do your homework?
Hmmm. One man totally energizes thousands of conservatives to the point of action, tears, laughter, and blessing the Almighty yesterday.
And another man winces and scolds.
And it’s the SECOND man who is supposed to motivate us to action and donation to the cause?
What is wrong with this picture, people?
Watch the whole segment - not just the part someone else wanted to show you - before you go off half cocked.
No wonder the media won the election.
What is Steele thinking being on D. L. Hughley? It is not like he can make friends there.
This is well said and bears repeating.
FUBØ
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