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Michael Steele Ain’t Got No Money For Moderates In the Hip-Hop GOP, Baby

Here’s magnificent clown Michael Steele on the Fox News, straight up talkin’ to that Neil Cavuto about the money, baby, the GOP purse. Cavuto asks him if he will withhold giving primary campaign funds to the three Republican Senators who voted for the stimulus, and Steele replies, “Perhaps.” Just kidding, Michael Steele would never give an un-jazzed response like that. He says, “Oh, yes, I’m always open to everything, baby, absolutely.” They call it a Big Tent, motherfucker. [Greg Sargent]


11:53 AM on Tue February 24 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. StephanieInCA says at 11:56 am, February 24th, 2009

    Please to have a Holla Fo Dollas fundraiser?!

  2. shanemacgowan says at 11:58 am, February 24th, 2009

    This clip does not include the part where Neil Cavuto talks about his bright blue scrotum.

  3. Delicious says at 11:58 am, February 24th, 2009

    Michael Steele is a nerd.

  4. I love how the video description doesn’t say “Moderate Senators”, it says “traitors.”

    Looking forward to Steele’s next Fox appearance in which, given the current trend, he will be wearing platform shoes, sporting an afro, and say “Yo Hannity, ya ready ta get FUNKY?”

  5. hockeymom says at 12:01 pm, February 24th, 2009

    I thought Rush was running the GOP. Now it looks like Cavuto is setting policy. Do the republicans take orders from anyone with a mic?

  6. WalnutsIsMyCo-Pilot says at 12:02 pm, February 24th, 2009

    If this is Steele’s idea of winning over the youth vote, then I’d like to see the non-cut-nutters out there who were actually moved enough by his “baby” speech to switch teams.

    Seriously, I want to know… so that maybe *just maybe* I’m not the only one. Steele is just sooo cool, you guys. So. Cool.

  7. Serolf Divad says at 12:03 pm, February 24th, 2009

    So have I got the score right?

    Fuck a Louisiana whore: no punishment
    Try to suck a stranger’s dick in a public restroom: no punishment.
    Vote to avert a Great Depression: no campaign funds for you.

  8. WagTehGod says at 12:06 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Serolf Divad: You forgot:

    Charge your state for meals and lodging while working from your home: no punishment

    Also.

  9. Texan Bulldoggette says at 12:08 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Where’s a package of Oreos to throw when you need it?

  10. Chickensmack says at 12:08 pm, February 24th, 2009

    no campaign funds for three Republicans, for one vote? AHAHAHAHA….

    I think I peed myself a little. To think that Steele will actually cut the schwing off any of his pitiful leftovers is a gross misjudgment. They have to cling desperately to every seat they have!

    I can hear it now… “Arlen, Arlen… I’m gonna give you this money just because I like you. But if you ever fuck up again…”

  11. HopeyDope says at 12:09 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Next interview, Steele should dress up like Bootsy Collins and dance around swinging a rubber chicken.

  12. So he’s going to withhold money for moderates, hope they get taken down in primaries by more ideologically pure Republicans, and ensure those seats get picked up by Democrats. Wouldn’t it just be easier to back Democrats? Hell, if they announce support for Democrats that just might be the kiss of death to turn people off of socialism and finally get some southern Republican idiots into some seats.

    http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

  13. NunnaTheSOBs says at 12:12 pm, February 24th, 2009

    At least Stepin’ Fetchit had a fuckin’
    excuse.

  14. Serolf Divad says at 12:14 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Miller:

    That sounds suspiciously like nuance… and Republicans don’t do nuance.

  15. Mr Blifil says at 12:15 pm, February 24th, 2009

    This is just a ploy to burnish his hardcore gangsta bona fides. I’m sure they’ll hug it out at a nearby Ruth’s Chris.

  16. Steele should be sending Truck Nutz to all Repug senators who voted for “the package”.

  17. The RNC funds are a valuable fucking thing. You don’t just give something like that away for nothing.

  18. proudcitizen says at 12:22 pm, February 24th, 2009

    OREOS! like WALNUTS! only less significant.

  19. Mr Blifil says at 12:23 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Serolf Divad: The day Republicans start doing nuance is the day Michael Steele starts doing Beyonce.

  20. AngryBlakGuy says at 12:24 pm, February 24th, 2009

    …I actually thought they were kidding when they said they weren’t conservative enough! Its kinda like a drug addict thinking his problem is not having enough crack and not the fact he is using crack. Well hopefully before the next election we’ll find the republican party in some alley dead on a dirty mattress in a puddle of of their own urine/vomit/blood from an apparent overdose.

  21. snideinplainsight says at 12:24 pm, February 24th, 2009

    He’s gonna tear the roof off this sucka!

    The Awesome Power Of A Fully Operational GOP.

  22. V572625694 says at 12:30 pm, February 24th, 2009

    AngryBlakGuy: We haven’t had a major party die in this country since A Lincoln took down the Whigs in, what, 1860? But these guys are on a path to oblivion for sure. What will the replacement organization be called — the Hedge Fund Traders and Trust Fund Babies Party? Hedge/Trust in 2012!

  23. Did Neil Cavuto mishear Steele (he responded as though Steele had said “I’m open to that baby” and not “I’m open to that, baby”) or was he trying to spare Steele embarassment by covering up his HUGE GAFFE?!?!?

  24. Susan Collins: 12 years in the Senate
    Arlen Specter: 22 years in the Senate
    Olympia Snowe: 6 years in the House, 14 in the Senate
    Micheal Steele: RNC Chairman 25 days

    Enough said.

  25. Miller: It’s part of the Bush Doctrine — failure is the new success. Or success through failure. Something like that.

  26. norbizness says at 12:33 pm, February 24th, 2009

    To quote a far more entertaining (albeit fictitious) Maryland politician: SHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEETT.

  27. Cape Clod says at 12:39 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Of course they will fund a senile, drooling embarassment from Kentucky, maybe.

  28. shortsshortsshorts says at 12:43 pm, February 24th, 2009

    THE GOP WILL SUCCEED WITH MORE COWBELL. There is nothing else. Also.

  29. GlennBecksFelch says at 12:44 pm, February 24th, 2009

    This is a wonderful PR message for their “Base”, a black man going after two white women for being uppity.

  30. Cavuto was unmoved by being referred to as “baby”

  31. I’m still pretty sure that “Michael Steele” is actually Larry David with some overdone self-tan, doing a gonzo bit of performance art.

  32. MarieDeGournay says at 1:05 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Delicious: win

  33. AngryBlakGuy says at 1:10 pm, February 24th, 2009

    V572625694: …nah, I think these would be better party names:

    1) Jesucrats

    -or-

    2) Reaganomicans

  34. ToeCramps says at 1:14 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Yo assclown, my name aint ‘baby’! It’s Janet ! Ms. Jackson if u nasty! Nasty, Nasty boy don’t mean a thing…

  35. SwanSwanH says at 1:17 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Michael Steele’s RNC wallet? It’s the one that says “Bad Mother Fucker” on it.

  36. Hooray For Anything says at 1:30 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Dave J.: I’m actually thinking he’s Kirk Lazarus

  37. The Rappers are falling in line to support da Steele Man. Foolishness abounds. The talking points come straight from Rush Limbaugh these days. Pathetic.

  38. BobLoblawLawBlog says at 2:00 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Jim, this post was perfectly written. Really. Flawless.

  39. It has to be a Big Tent to cover the Huge Package.

  40. BadDayInProgress says at 2:45 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Michael Steele who? Yawn…

  41. IceCreamEmpress says at 3:15 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Who’s the black right-wing dick
    That’s a Tom to all the hicks?
    STEELE!
    You damn right!

    Who is the man that would risk his neck
    For some rich white man
    STEELE!
    Can you dig it?

    Who’s the cat who’ll be a clown
    When there’s media around?
    STEELE!
    Right On!

    They say he’s a bad mother
    SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
    I’m just talkin’ ’bout Steele.
    THEN WE CAN DIG IT!

    He’s a complicated man
    And no one understands him but Rush Limbaugh
    MIKE STEELE!

  42. mintvagoo says at 3:19 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Steele looks like Shock G (Humpty Hump) of Digital Underground.

    “Just grab him in the biscuits.”

  43. nrkeyqueer says at 4:07 pm, February 24th, 2009

    “Im always open to anything baby, absolutely!”

    I thought the GOP was trying to LESS gay.

  44. Pragmatist says at 4:11 pm, February 24th, 2009

    God Bless Michael Steele!!!!
    When the Republicans eliminate their few remaining moderates and the Democrats pick up a dozen house seats and 3 Seante seats in 2010, guess who will replace him?????
    Alan Keyes.

  45. Uncle Bubba says at 4:24 pm, February 24th, 2009

    Does McSteele go down low?? George Bush did and lots of folk say he is the best ever. Is McSteele interested in a Mike Meyers film?? I’m sure there’s a character in the wait for him. Will he team up with McVick and open a football pro shop and dogstyle salon?? George Bush is looking for a job, he could be the greeter for the Down Low Dogstyle Pro Shop. Hey baby, that sounds groovy.

  46. Yes! Punish them, make them suffer & cry. I’ll bet Barry would be glad to provide $$$ if they come over to the other side. But, please we don’t want no Vitters or Saxby’s

  47. ucanthandlethetruth says at 2:43 pm, February 26th, 2009

    well since you mention it, Mr. Steele is a dead ringer for HUMPTY
    from Digital Underground’s 90’s hip hop hit, “THE HUMPTY DANCE”…
    go check it out on youtube….

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