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  • LOL: 'MSNBC Republican' Michael Steele Chides NY Dems For Not Gerrymandering Hard Enough!

    03/03/2024 5:26:09 AM PST · by governsleastgovernsbest · 16 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    At NewsBusters, we use the term "MSNBC Republican" to describe people who were once actual Republicans but can now be reliably counted on to criticize their supposed party and generally toe the liberal line o' the day. Michael Steele, the former RNC chairman turned member of the disgraced Lincoln Project, is the epitome of the kind of Biden-voter Republican MSNBC uses. Even so, his performance as co-host on the network's show The Weekend on Saturday morning could have constituted a first: an 'MSNBC Republican' rapping the Dems . . . for not being partisan enough!Get the rest of the story...
  • Michael Steele Makes Like Biden, Half-Crosses Himself Over Black Republican

    02/26/2024 5:48:57 AM PST · by governsleastgovernsbest · 12 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    Joe Biden has the odd and at times inappropriate habit of crossing himself in public, political situations. Thus the self-described devout Catholic crossed himself while mentioning Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert -- then proceeded to attack her at length. On two occasions, Biden even crossed himself while interacting with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, including once while Netanyahu was making a speech to Congress. Oy vey! On the Sunday edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-anchor Michael Steele, the former RNC Chairman turned member of the disgraced Lincoln Project, made like Biden. Steele sort of half-crossed himself in a discussion of North...
  • EXCLUSIVE: RNC Spent $1.5 Million on Floral Arrangements, Limos, Management/Media Consultants

    02/01/2024 7:40:19 AM PST · by bitt · 47 replies
    redstate ^ | 1/31/2024 | Jennifer Van Laar
    A little over a year ago, a RedState exclusive investigation into spending at the Republican National Committee revealed that millions of donor dollars were spent on things like floral arrangements, private jets, limousines, tickets to Broadway shows, high-end retail stores, and more. As I wrote then, frugality has long been a conservative principle, even at the RNC. Back in 2010, RNC Chair Michael Steele was heavily criticized and eventually lost his position because donors were angry about what they believed was luxurious spending on private jets, floral arrangements, chauffeur services, and member meetings in expensive tropical locales. Donors were used...
  • Michael Steele: Fani Willis Affair With Prosecutor A 'Little Thing'

    01/29/2024 5:44:21 AM PST · by governsleastgovernsbest · 80 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    As a lead prosecutor in her Georgia state case against Donald Trump, Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis hired Nathan Wade, a married man with whom, despite being given every opportunity to do so, she has not denied having an affair. He is unqualified, apparently never having handled a major felony case. She claims to have paid Wade at the same rate she paid the other lead prosecutors. In fact, she paid one of the other prosecutors $100 per hour less than Wade, despite the other prosecutor's incomparably better credentials. She paid her apparent paramour in excess of $650,000 of...
  • Michael Steele Threatens Exposure Of GOP Children With Hunter Biden-like Issues

    01/13/2024 1:01:30 PM PST · by governsleastgovernsbest · 60 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    Ya know, Republicans, you keep going after Hunter Biden, and it'd be a shame to see your kids' similar dirt being dragged into public. That seemed to be what Michael Steele was implying on MSNBC this morning. The screencap shows former RNC Chairman Steele pointing his finger and staring directly into the camera, as if talking to his former Republican brethren, as he says: "I'm telling you, they got their own children and relatives who have those same issues. Now, how would you like that to be splayed across the front page of the New York Times or the Washington...
  • Steele Scaremongers: If Elected in '24, Trump Might Declare Himself President for Life!

    08/25/2023 11:42:54 AM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 58 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    And liberals accuse conservatives of cooking up outrageous conspiracy theories? On Friday's Morning Joe, Michael Steele, the former RNC Chairman turned MSNBC analyst, floated the latest authoritarian American-Mussolini theory. He suggested that if Donald Trump won the 2024, he would refuse to leave office at the end of that term: STEELE: Donald Trump, a year before all of this began, was telling us, if I lose this election, it was rigged. Because I own this election. This is mine. I'm going to be president for as long as I want to be president.""America, can I say to you, if you...
  • Mary Trump Blasts GOP, White People, ‘Even Allies’ Over Sins Of Racism And Genocide

    05/06/2023 7:29:42 PM PDT · by Fiji Hill · 60 replies
    Mediaite ^ | May 6, 2023 | Tommy Christopher
    Ex-presidential niece Mary Trump told MSNBC host Michael Steele that Republicans, White people — “even allies” — haven’t properly dealt with the “original sins” of racism and genocide. Mary Trump — host of The Mary Trump Show podcast and a strident Trump critic — was a guest on this week’s edition of the Michael Steele Podcast for an hour of psychoanalyzing America. MARY TRUMP: Right? And it’s you know, white people don’t want to hear this. And even even allies don’t like facing this stuff. And I get it. But it’s it’s time to own up to the fact that...
  • Macho Joe Scarborough Could Teach Tucker 'How White Men Fight!'

    05/04/2023 3:48:48 AM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 26 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    During a Morning Joe segment focusing on an exposed Tucker Carlson text message to a colleague that the way some January 6th rioters were beating up an Antifa guy isn't "how white men fight," Michael Steele commented: The fact that something like that could be sent to a colleague and it sort of sits there, and nothing happens or comes from it, and it's not until you get into this sort of adversarial, prosecutorial setting in which it becomes public or potentially becomes public that they see some reaction. So it really speaks to the culture inside the building in...
  • Former RNC Chair calls MAGA Republicans "lice, fleas, and blood-sucking ticks"

    10/20/2022 1:08:51 PM PDT · by libstripper · 92 replies
    Hot Air ^ | Oct. 29, 2022 | David Strom
    Michael Steele, tell us what you really think. Steele, Chair of the Republican National Committee from 2009 to 2011 has made no secret of his disdain for Donald Trump and anybody who supports him, has become increasingly strident in his condemnations of Republicans. Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele warned his party against legitimizing some Trump-aligned figures as political leaders, calling them “fleas” and “blood-sucking ticks” whom potential House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., would have to “lay down with.”
  • MSNBC Republican Backs Dem Meddling in GOP Primaries

    08/08/2022 3:25:36 AM PDT · by governsleastgovernsbest · 29 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    On Ali Velshi's MSNBC show on Saturday, former RNC chairman Michael Steele, turned virulent anti-Trumper, defended Democrat meddling in GOP primaries, describing the meddling as a tool “to try to get to a position where you have the best competitive advantage going into a general election...of trying to put the best players in front of you that you’re going to go up against.” And when Steele described the meddling as an attempt to to get "the best players" as opponents for the Dems, he, of course, actually meant the ostensibly worst, most unelectable, players. Get the rest of the story...
  • Could Liz Cheney End Up As The GOP's Obi-Wan Kenobi? | The 11th Hour | MSNBC

    08/07/2022 5:48:02 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 82 replies
    MSNBC ^ | May 4, 2021 | Brian Williams
    'Star Wars' character Obi-Wan Kenobi only became more powerful after he was defeated. So if Rep. Liz Cheney is ousted from her leadership role by House Republicans, could she actually become a bigger foil for the party's Trump loyalists backing 'the big lie'? We discuss that with Cornell Belcher and Michael Steele.
  • Michael Steele: It ‘doesn’t matter’ if Trump-endorsed candidates lose. ‘Even a loss is a win.’

    05/11/2022 7:44:28 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 40 replies
    msnbc.com ^ | 5/10/22
    With Republican primaries in West Virginia and Nebraska underway, Michael Steele, Chuck Todd, Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Mark Murray, and Vaughn Hillyard join Andrea Mitchell to discuss this latest test of Trump’s influence over the Republican Party through his endorsements. “It doesn't matter whether they win or lose. He doesn't like the stain of a loss, but even a loss is a win for him,” says Steele. “He's got these candidates groveling to him. You know, Mooney crosses state lines just to be on the stage with Donald Trump in Pennsylvania,” Steele explains. “The establishment still has no clue what to...
  • Black Privilege at the Oscars

    03/28/2022 6:07:56 AM PDT · by NOBO2012 · 86 replies
    MOTUS A.D. ^ | 3-28-22 | MOTUS
    I understand Will Smith smacked Chris Rock live onstage at the Oscars last night because Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife’s (Jada Pinket-Smith) hair.I guess without President Donald Trump to curse at and kick around it was inevitable that they turn on each other. Maybe we should just cancel the Academy Awards until we elect someone they all hate again.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
  • Trump tirade on ‘racist’ DAs echoes other racist tropes

    02/06/2022 7:50:54 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 38 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | February 6, 2022 | By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN (D-AP)
    WARNING: THIS IS NOT AN EDITORIAL NEW YORK (AP) — Looking out at a sea of faces at a Texas fairground, most of them white, former President Donald Trump seethed about his legal troubles and blamed them on malicious prosecutors. “These prosecutors are vicious, horrible people. They’re racists and they’re very sick, they’re mentally sick,” Trump said, before warning his audience: “In reality. They’re not after me, they’re after you.” He repeated his charge of racism, but skipped over an obvious detail: Those prosecutors are Black. His diatribe left the clear impression that Trump, who rode the politics of white...
  • 'MSNBC Republican' Michael Steele: Give Me Angry Dem Judges Over 'Stupid' GOP Ones

    12/04/2021 4:29:10 AM PST · by governsleastgovernsbest · 46 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein
    How total is Michael Steele's transformation from RNC chairman to Democrat sycophant? On today's Morning Joe, Steele, an MSNBC analyst and member of the disgraced Lincoln Project, slurred Republican judicial appointees while expressing his preference for Democrat nominees. Steele was commenting on Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana telling Biden judicial nominee Dale Ho that he found him, based on his social media attacks on Republicans and conservatives, to be an "angry" man. Said Steele: "Did Senator Kennedy take a look at some of the nominations that Donald Trump put before? There were people he voted for who never appeared...
  • The Rittenhouse-Trial Judge Isn’t a Trumpist

    11/12/2021 11:27:45 PM PST · by Jacob Kell · 24 replies
    National Review ^ | November 12, 2021 | Charles C. W. Cooke
    As the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse has progressed, Americans who hope for a successful conviction have begun to focus their attentions on the true villain of the piece: the 75-year-old presiding judge, Bruce Schroeder. Among the many accusations that have been leveled at Schroeder this week are that he is “biased,” that he is “prejudiced,” that he is a secret “conservative,” “right-winger,” or “Trumpist,” that he is a “a gun nut,” that he is a “a racist” or wannabe member of the Klan, that he is the “worst judge in town,” and that he is attempting to parlay this trial...
  • Former RNC chair [Steele] to Jim Jordan on Jan. 6: 'You know, b****, what time you called the president'

    08/01/2021 7:55:48 AM PDT · by MarvinStinson · 72 replies
    msn ^ | Jeremy Beaman
    Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele called Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan a "son of a b****" for his recent remarks that he wasn't certain whether he spoke to former President Donald Trump on Jan. 6. Steele , a frequent critic of Trump , expressed disbelief that Jordan would be uncertain of the details of his conversation with Trump surrounding Jan. 6. "I can tell you the time, the place, the date of every conversation I've had with every president of this country, period," Steele said during a Thursday livestream for the Lincoln Project. "Going back to Bill Clinton, I...
  • Former RNC chair [Michael Steele] to Jim Jordan on Jan. 6: "You know, b****, what time you called the president"

    07/31/2021 5:42:52 PM PDT · by zeestephen · 39 replies
    MSN.com ^ | 31 July 2021 | Jeremy Beaman
    "I can tell you the time, the place, the date of every conversation I've had with every president of this country, period," Steele said, during a Thursday livestream for the Lincoln Project..."
  • What’s Next for Larry Hogan? Donors want him for Senate. Dreamers want him as President. Here's what we know about his next move.

    07/26/2021 8:48:21 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 48 replies
    Washingtonian ^ | PUBLISHED ON JUNE 25, 2021 | LUKE MULLINS
    Hogan says he won’t enter the race if he doesn’t see a credible path to victory: “I’m not going to go on some suicide mission.” He felt the same way while deciding whether to run for governor. “When we were having our discussions in 2010, we had a list of 15 different things, that ‘if this happened, this happened, this, this, we could be governor,’ ” one of his advisers says. “I think it’s the same thing [now].” In this case, Republican voters would have to reprioritize conservative principles over MAGA personalities. The field would need to shape up in...
  • Michael Steele creates exploratory committee for possible gubernatorial run

    07/26/2021 8:56:24 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 36 replies
    msn.com ^ | 7/22/21 | Mikenzie Frost
    BALTIMORE (WBFF) – Moving one step closer to confirming rumors running through the state of Maryland, former lieutenant governor and Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele formed an exploratory committee ahead of a possible run for governor. The GOP field for the 2022 governor’s race would get a little more crowded if Steele jumped in, with current Maryland Secretary of Commerce Kelly Schulz already in the ring, Del. Dan Cox campaigning and Robin Ficker in the race as well. Following Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford’s announcement not to run, Schulz emerged as the GOP favorite thus far. Steele has been a...