Beaversmom,
“Steele said. “Number two, there are those out there who want to look at what he’s saying as incendiary and divisive and ugly. That’s what I was trying to say. It didn’t come out that way. … He does what he does best, which is provoke: He provokes thought, he provokes the left.”
Steele explained this after the fact, and it was how I first received it although it was clumsy. But if you look at the video, I think that one can read it the way I first saw it live - iow, yes, liberals think it’s incindieary and ugly, of course they would. And the way the anchor then cuts off at that point, he knew he got what he wanted. Steele should know better but no matter what one says they’re going to spin it.
Beaversmom,
I should add that we should now expect Rahm E. to say ‘see I was right. When a Republican disagrees with Rush, they have to end up apologizing’ - like Phil Gingrey did, and to whom Emanuel was referring on Face the Nation.