Michael Steele plays the race card
Michael Steele with an RNC intern. What up!
The RNC chair, who isn’t above trolling in racial stereotypes in order to be loved by his fellow Republicans (actually, they’re just laughing at you, bro — or cringing …) now wonders if the reactions to him (by the press? By his fellow GOPers???) might be racist. Per Greg Sargent:
In a new interview, Steele bluntly suggests criticism of his tenure — and all the media coverage it’s garnered — may be motivated by racism.
The story, called “Up in the Air,” is in the February issue of Washingtonian magazine, and it isn’t online yet, but here’s the key passage, buried way at the end of the piece, on page 96 of the mag:
Steele acknowledges that at times he has a tendency to take things too far. “And I get checked on that, just as when I was a young boy and I pushed the envelope too far and my Mama was there to check me.”
But there’s an edge to his voice when he talks about a double standard that he believes has been applied by his critics, and he posits racism as the cause: “I don’t see stories about the internal operations of the DNC that I see about this operation. Why? Is it because Michael Steele is the chairman, or is it because a black man is chairman?”
The larger context of the story is the tension created by the fact that Steele continues to take constant criticism, despite the GOP’s undeniable gains and the likelihood of more advances in the future.
So who is Steele faulting? The press or the GOP? He has in the past suggested that some Republicans are scared of him because he’s black, and he has threatened to quit over the blatant disrespect he’s faced at the hands of his party, including on budgetary matters. But while I could have told Mike that his party only picked him to counteract Barack Obama, and not because it had an ounce of respect or confidence in him, could the Steele man be waking up and smelling the teabags?
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I used to live in DC and he used to come on WTOP and really seemed like an intelligent and thoughtful person. He's a joke now but I'm starting to think Steele's been a joke all along.