Posted on 03/03/2009 9:41:56 AM PST by goldstategop
Kathryn, in all the Rush-bashing, I was more disturbed by Michael Steele's wretched performance. His initial reaction — that Rush's show is "incendiary" and "ugly" — revealed:
a) that he never listens to it;
b) that he takes his cues from the mainstream media, for whom Rush is invariably "angry". They don't listen either. Rush is a lot of things, but "angry" isn't one of them. If you catch him for 20 minutes, you know he's full of fun, laughing it up, having a grand old time. There are a lot of angry talkshow hosts out there bellowing at the world for three hours a day, but Rush isn't one of them. (Full disclosure: I guesthost for Rush once in a while, and regard it as a signal honor for a sinister foreigner such as myself.)
This first reaction is disturbing for two reasons: first, given the size of Rush's audience, it's something an RNC chairman should not be so obviously foreign to; second, it's not encouraging when the de facto face of the party accepts so unthinkingly the liberal/media framing of the issue.
Then we come to Mr. Steele's second response - his reaction to the reaction to his original reaction: By apologizing for his first remarks, he opened the door for his DNC opposite number to make sport of the way he was kowtowing to the "ugly" Limbaugh. So a man who apparently shares the elite's disdain for Rush and his audience nevertheless feeds the impression that the Republican leadership is prostrate at his feet: the worst of both worlds.
In two brief soundbites, Mr. Steele has managed to suggest to his own party base that he has a lazy disposition that reflexively shares the liberal biases, and to allow the wider world to portray him as a craven squish. This is not encouraging. At the very minimum, he does not appear ready for primetime.
even the 14 year old boy provided better answers about Rush than Steele
Well put, Mr. Steyn.
It also pegs the present mainstream GOP, IMHO.
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You could always post it on his blog.
Like this woman I know who put on her facebook page that she had been listening to Rush and he said... and immediately 5-10 of her friends chimed in with “What were you doing anywhere NEAR where you could hear Rush?”
Or, he’s too lazy to read his email.
Did it! Check the BLOG page...
Mark is at least angry at the correct people...
Althought Steele has appologized, that’s too little too late for the RINO who panders to the same black racists who call him an “Uncle Tom”, “house n****r” and throw oreo cookies at him, yet he doesn’t have the backbone to stand up to their slander of the GOP as “Nazis’s”.
Tavis Smiley “State of the Black Union Conference.”
http://c-span.org/Watch/watch.aspx?ProgramId=HP-A-40849
http://michellemalkin.com/2005/11/02/the-vile-bile-we-have-to-put-up-with/
http://freedomeden.blogspot.com/2005/11/oreos-for-uncle-tom.html
bookmark
Craven Squish’s e-mail quota was exceeded, eh?
Steele has now placed us in an unenviable position. If we boot Steele, then it reinforces the Lefty view that Rush is the “brains and intellect” of the GOP.
Steele’s apology is too little too late. I am so disappointed in him.
The only lever we have is our money or lack of it.
Uh huh. But see post #28. I at least got it posted on the blog...
Steele is an anti-gun RINO who allows the left to frame the debate
Or to donate to SarahPAC.
That is laugh-out-loud funny.
I really, really wonder if Steele is asking himself, "What happened?" Plus he is asking himself the corollary question, "Am I really this stupid?"
I read once that the Pope in those days thought Thomas Acquinas was such a volcano if Theology that he suggested a bevy of secretaries follow Thomas about so they could record his every thought. Some of us of a more secular persuasion think the same of Mark Steyn.
Unlike Michael Weiner, Mark Levin is angry at the appropriate times to the appropriate people! Plus, often his anger is part schtick and part anger! The Great One is not an “angry man” by any means!
Your letter was so well done!! I hope you continue to try to send it!
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