Black Politics: Michael Steele vs. Rush Limbaugh
Over the weekend, Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele called Rush Limbaugh’s rhetoric "incendiary" and "ugly" and insisted that he, not Limbaugh, is in charge of the GOP.
"Rush will say what Rush has to say; we’ll do what we have to do," RNC Chairman Michael Steele has said.
But that was two days ago. Monday, after a blistering response from the conservative talk-radio kingpin, Steele told the online journal Politico that he "was maybe a little bit inarticulate."
"There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership," Steele said. He added, "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."
Steele’s original remarks came from an interview on CNN’s "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News," which aired Saturday. They came as Democrats, including White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, have tried to paint Limbaugh — who has said he wants to see the Obama administration "fail" — as the effective head of the opposition party.
Steele rejected the idea, saying, "I’m the de facto leader of the Republican Party."
"Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh’s whole thing is entertainment," Steele told CNN. "Yes, it is incendiary. Yes, it is ugly." iReport.com: Limbaugh and Steele show divisions in GOP
Limbaugh fired back on his radio show Monday, saying the Republican chairman appears to be supporting President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He said Steele appears "obsessed with seeing to it President Obama succeeds."
"I frankly am stunned that the chairman of the Republican National Committee endorses such an agenda," Limbaugh said. "I have to conclude that he does, because he attacks me for wanting it to fail."
rush appears to me to be a clown without a clown outfit and makeup. He is a small person with a small mind appearing to sound big.He seems to be trying to cover up his true ignorance with a lot of noise. I kind of compare him to the character of the wizard in the Wizard of Oz. He fools himself and the other small minds who take him serious.
God bless Rush Limbaugh, because fools need blessings more than the rest of us.
dam!!!!!!!!!!! Michael. Your not the head, your the tail. I think we all could have guess that, the mintue your name came up. don’t get mad at Rush but at Michael for being their boy toy clown. A party that’s 99.9% whites. What hell, did we really think, they would roll out of bed; showing there undeading love for the black world ,get real.they have a history of not liking blacks, wake up. We knew michael was the clown the mintue we heard his name.Lincoln free the slave yeah right, please. blacks free blacks. get it right stop giving those people power by removing yours like jesus is out there. this time we are not going for it. Hope they stop with all the tricks.lies are senseless
The minute I saw Michael Steele, I knew why he was picked — his race — and the only reason he was picked, as if because there’s now a black president, the GOP has to pretend blacks have a place of power in their organization. Sure, they do.
They clean up powerfully behind all those rich whites that precede him in the parade.
Michael Steele is a coon and Rush has proven it. Instead of the hip hop flavor he wanted to add to the G.O.P.’s message, he should go back to blackface cooning. That’s what they like over there.