Michael Steele Agrees With Bill Maher: “The Knives Are Out For Sarah Palin”

Mediaite ^ | January 28, 2011 | Glenn Davis

[2ndDivisionVet]

It was clear that recently-deposed former RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s appearance on Bill Maher’s Real Time would yield a colorful conversation, and looking back, it probably should have been obvious who would be a main focus of that discussion: Sarah Palin. Maher brought her up quickly, reminding Steele of an appearance on Maher’s show over two years ago when Steele predicted Palin-bashers would one day eat their words. Maher did not eat his words on this night.

“She does get a little harder to defend, does she not?” Maher asked Steele, following up with, “Between her and Michele Bachmann, I don’t know who knows history less.” Then, in a notable display of violent imagery (a week after staunchly advocating for gun control, if not for civility in political discourse), Maher said that “the knives are out for her,” as Republicans who once defended her can’t anymore,” because “she’s too stupid even for them.”

Steele tried to respond to that (and concurred with the “knives are out” sentiment), saying he could identify with being in a situation where saying one wrong thing (or being taken out of context) gets blown out of proportion, but Maher shot back that Palin “wasn’t asked a trick question, like ‘What do you read?‘” (They both had a good laugh at that one, for the record.) And both did seem to enjoy themselves – good news for Steele, since he’ll likely be making a lot of appearances like this one in the near future. Video of their exchange, via HBO, below.

(VIDEO AT LINK)

[2ndDivisionVet]

They deserve each other.

[Candor7]

Governor Palin has what it takes.

You can be sure of that.

Its up to her to decide whether she should alter her colloquial methods and go over to statesman speak.

You gotta remember , she is sittin' there in Beck's studio bein' just who she is, a self made American, born without a silver spoon in her mouth, just like we need.This is no time to have insecure penchants because of elitists who sound good and say only what everyone wants to hear. We are far too used to that.

Could she stare down the North Koreans?

" You Betcha!"

Not only that, she would lay a hurtin' on 'em if they pushed like they just have. She would not call the UN. Thats good enough for me. " Stand with our Allies!"( But Obama , you see wants to redefine and revise history, milions will die as a result, Sarah will not allow it in her goodness.)

I think what she says is great, and I love the way she says it.I certainly won't become an apologist for her quality of speech.LOL. But then, I came up through an environment just like hers, with deer and moose hangin' in the wood shed every fall, pickin' fiddle heads , strawberries, blue berries, raspberries and cranberries, fishing for salmon.That's another world from what most Americans know. And it is a good world. That's what her speech quality reminds me about.Sophisticated America has lost touch with the strength of our land, that good earth beneath our feet.That's part of sophisticated America's burgeoning malaise. It is that strength that makes Sarah Palin almost invulnerable.

She is exactly what priggish, overly sophisticated America needs.And that is why the liberal fascists are scared to death of her. Sarah Palin is just not sophisticated enough for them to destroy her. Sophistication equals attack-ability. They can't get a handle on her and so resort to desperate measures of lying, misquoting, scurrilous attacks on her children. She just breezes right through them.Do you get that part? I think its a riot of mal-attempted defamation.No conservative should fall for it.

This attempted defamatory process is also highly entertaining and most Americans actually have evolved to really love her after being entertained.The more she is attacked, the more her support grows.

The enemies of America have a tremendously skilled and effective adversary in Sarah Palin. If she aces liberal fascists like she has shown us , can you imagine how she would handle bad boys like Kim Jong Un? I would pay to see that. As a matter of fact, I WILL PAY to see that, as much as I can afford to, right into Governor Palin's campaign fund.(I may work for her campaign directly, the resume is in.)

BTW, other rustic figures of America where denigrated in the same way as Sarah is today.. There were several, but Congressman David Crockett comes to mind. How many of us think he would NOT have made a good president? Its really laughable. He would have made a fine president.So will Governor Palin.

[Candor7]

Governor Sarah Palin’s Record:
1) 2010 Record:
http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/master-list-of-governor-palins-2010-accomplishments/
2)2009 Record:
http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/master-list-of-governor-palins-2009-accomplishments/
3)Gubernatorial Accomplishments 2006 – 2008:
http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/gubernatorial-accomplishments-2006-2008/
4)Oil and Gas Conservation Commission 2003 – 2004:
http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/oil-and-gas-conservation-commission-accomplishments-2003-2004/
5)City of Wasilla, Mayor 1996 – 2002
http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/wasilla-mayor-1996-2002-2/
6) Wasilla City Council 1992 – 1996:
http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/wasilla-city-council-1992-1996-2/
7)KTUU Sportscasting 1987 – 1992
http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/ktuu-sportscasting/
8)Commercial Fishing Accomplishments:
http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/commercial-fishing-accomplishments/
9)Athletic Accomplishments:
http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/athletic-accomplishments
10) Hunting and Subsistence Fishing
http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/hunting-and-subsistence-fishing-accomplishments/
11) Marriage and Family
http://us4palin.com/accomplishments/marriage-family-parental-accomplishments/
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You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
-Ronald Reagan 1911 – 2004

[trisham]

Both are detestable.

[Allthegoodusernamesaregone]

So now that he's not the RNC chairman anymore, he is going to attack Sarah more. He is so despicable!

I am glad he was replaced but I am even happier, as a Floridian, that Sharon Day is the new RNC Co-Chair. She's a lean, mean, conservative machine from South Florida.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Presidents Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan come to mind.

[goseminoles]

You’re smoking crack. She won’t even be on the ballot.

[prisoner6]

Sooo..if they bring a knife Sarah will bring a gun broadsword.

[Cicero]

Well, to be fair to Steele, he agreed that the knives are out for Palin. I think we all can agree to that.

Steele has not been among those who have attacked and belittled her.

Should he have laughed when he did? I don’t know, it could be taken the wrong way. I don’t think I could stand watching another stupid video. But unlike Rove and other insiders, Steele did willingly meet and consult with Sarah while he was RNC chair, and refrained from attacking Tea Party candidates last fall.

[lonestar]

Wouldn’t surprise me if STeele switches parties and makes his next failure of a “career” talking about how the “racist GOP” used him as a Black.

[cubreporter]

Always said maher was a pitiful little creature in turmoil within his own self and therefore hateful to anyone he doesn’t like even though he knows she is brilliant. Sad for him actually...needs help.

[prisoner6]

She won’t even be on the ballot.

She may not, but let that be her decision to run or not, and the voter's decision if she gets the nomination.

[onyx]

Soviet Space Expert James Oberg Writes that “Palin was Right” About Sputnik

[vekzen]

“She does get a little harder to defend, does she not?” Maher asked Steele, following up with, “Between her and Michele Bachmann, I don’t know who knows history less.”

Why don’t conservatives fire right back with answers like this,

“Actually I think she knows a lot more about history than BO. He thinks socialism and nationalized healthcare works — despite the fact every time they’ve been tried in the past — they fail miserably.”

[9YearLurker]

Bill Maher makes John Stewart look like a giant of fairness, depth and humanity.

[onyx]

You’re rude. So different from your home page.

[goseminoles]

” She may not, but let that be her decision to run or not, and the voter’s decision if she gets the nomination”

I agree. She will know whether or not to run. She is serving her purpose for the time being.

[RichInOC]

Because when I think about learned scholars in history, the first name that comes to mind, the very first, is Bill Maher.

Mm, no. More likely Charlie Sheen’s wingman and receiver of his sloppy seconds.

[goseminoles]

“You?re rude.”

Pound sand. You don’t even know me.

[Candor7]

Yep , me and 170 million others are smokin’ crack? LOL.
Good luck with the paradigm shift.