No but he has a firm grasp on the Rap culture.
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.
See post #28. I posted it on his BLOG under “You Blew It!”.
I listened to 'Savage Nation' for one entire show and part of another. I had to stop. In that period of time I had to conclude that he was neither pleased nor angry. He is simply a nut.
Don’t overlook Roger Hedgecock...
He has business experience along with his political experience.
I would love to see a Republican government with Tom Sullivan as Sec Treasury, also.
I listed last fall to JC Watts on Hannity give his opinion that it would be so great to see a black man make it as president.
JC has fallen in heights I did not foresee as he is another black and white politician who grades people by the color of their skin.
Steele’s penance should be to spend three hours a day listening to the Rush Limbaugh show so he can get a clue. His sucking up to Democrats got him nowhere in his run for the Senate in Maryland and he apparently didn’t learn his lesson.
No but he has a firm grasp on the Rap culture.
Oh man...when the Great One is on a rant....I have to turn my iPod down on BART because people can actually hear every word he’s saying....
Maybe the Bay Area folks should listen to “The Great One” and learn. It’s their fault that we have Nasty Pelosi!
Rush is conservative, not Republican, except by coincidence.
Savage works radio, which is a “hot” medium. Rush is often agitated, as are Beck, Levin, etc.
When Michael Savage gets angry it’s usually because he sees justice being destroyed or some group hurting an innocent person or when political correctness is wounding a worthy institution.
There is such a thing as righteous anger.
I'm OK with giving MS the benefit of a doubt, that he was playing "good cop" and trying to get some sympathy going and he ended up screwing the pooch.
So, I'm till with ya, Mike. Watch out for the next pooch.
I believe he’s winning his time slot in the Bay Area.
stear = steer.
/sigh
I have seen Steele be good like at the GOP convention last year. So I will give him the benefit of the doubt for now. But as Steyn says, this smack of Steele buying into the DC view of the world. That is not good in the leader of the RNC.
the solution here is a no-brainer. Rush should do a live 30 minute on-air interview with Steele.
An idea: forward it to Michelle Malkin -- maybe she'll post it on her website.
Did Mr. Watts ever decide who he was going to vote for in the last pres election?
Who did Watts decide to vote for in the last pres election?
ML/NJ
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