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O SWEET CLOWN OF LIES

Michael Steele Totally Meant To Do That

Oh yeah here is that clip you have already seen a million times, probably. It features RNC death-bomb Michael Steele talking about how Rush Limbaugh fell for Steele’s cagey ploy of saying retardimanated things to expose who his real friends are (hint: not Rush Limbaugh). [via TPM]


10:41 AM on Thu March 26 2009
By Sara K. Smith
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  1. Munson Thurd says at 10:46 am, March 26th, 2009

    Mike Steele: stupid like a fox

  2. Texan Bulldoggette says at 10:47 am, March 26th, 2009

    Michael Steele: single handedly making W. seem like a strategic wunderkind. (W: ‘I meant to go into a war with no plan just to see what countries were with me.’)

  3. Red Zeppelin says at 10:48 am, March 26th, 2009

    Well, one thing we know, Steele doesn’t know the meaning of the word “introspective.”

  4. mjwilstein says at 10:49 am, March 26th, 2009

    Another great clip from this interview was when Steele talked about the possibility of running for President. Like many great Republicans before him, he’s sticking to the “only God can make that decision for me” answer. You can watch that clip here:
    http://gotchamedia.blogspot.com/2009/03/god-may-or-may-not-want-michael-steele.html

  5. Serolf Divad says at 10:49 am, March 26th, 2009

    So if I follow this correctly, Steele’s grand strategy was:

    1) Figure out who’s with me and who’s against me.
    2) Go apologize to those who are against me.
    3) Figure out that no one is actually for me.
    4) Leverage this knowledge to eventually rule the world.

  6. WadISay says at 10:49 am, March 26th, 2009

    I too am introspective, a strategic thinker and a cause-and-effect kind of guy. As a result, during my lunch hour I plan to stand in the middle of the freeway and find out who my real friends are.

  7. Serolf Divad says at 10:50 am, March 26th, 2009

    mjwilstein:

    I think what he meant to say was: “Only direct intervention by the Almighty could make that possible.”

  8. Clancy_Pants says at 10:51 am, March 26th, 2009

    I left my fly open, put a piece of spinach between my 2 front teeth and glued some toilet paper to my shoe so I would see who my friends really were.

  9. Bowdoin says at 10:54 am, March 26th, 2009

    It’s a strategy, you see. Like everything else, it comes from old western B-movies with such as Rocky “Allen” Lane and Whip Wilson. Anytime the hero is up in the rocks in enemy territory, which is once per movie, he needed to see were there owlhoots about, so he’d prize off his prize Stetson, place it on a stick he carried just for the occasion, and gingerly raise it on high. The bad guys would immediately proclaim, “Hey, there’s a hat on a stick!” and blast away, thus giving away their position.

    It’s a firm and fixed rule, however, that said hero must always and forever remove his head from the decoy.

  10. Bowdoin says at 10:56 am, March 26th, 2009

    Serolf Divad: Or, as old baseball writers would say about a struggling pitcher: “He might win ten games this season if God drops everything else.”

  11. shortsshortsshorts says at 10:56 am, March 26th, 2009

    This is all for his Presidential run, obviously. Thank you Mr. Steele AKA FUTURE PREZDINT.

  12. Internally valid says at 10:56 am, March 26th, 2009

    Serolf Divad:

    6.) Profit!

  13. Mr Blifil says at 10:58 am, March 26th, 2009

    Steele, mah niggah! He’s an Olympian. A very special Olympian.

  14. Noodle Salad says at 10:59 am, March 26th, 2009

    Mr. Steele, trying the classic “Whoever smelt it, dealt it” defense against Rush Limbaugh’s “He who denied it, supplied it” attack.

    Neither man, in any case, is SBD.

  15. WadISay: SPOILER: there aren’t many of them. Your best friends are the ones that honk and scream “Get out of the road, you crazy fuck!”

  16. DoctorCulturae says at 11:02 am, March 26th, 2009

    Mr. Steele is merely exhibiting Groucho-think:

    “If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce it tastes much more prunes than rhubarb does.”

  17. bfstevie@yahoo.com says at 11:02 am, March 26th, 2009

    Last great strategic thinker of this magnitude–Bill Kristol.

  18. 2druk2phluq says at 11:03 am, March 26th, 2009

    Having received instructions on stealth campaigning from Paul Reubens, who perfected the tactic by accident during the Pee-wee bicycle incident, Michael Steele is ready to take on the world.

  19. Canuckledragger says at 11:04 am, March 26th, 2009

    Yeah, when I knocked up my first wife - which is why we got married - I also told my friends “I totally meant to do that.”

    I was as credible as this Humpty Dancer.

    F for FAIL!!!

  20. danadevin85 says at 11:04 am, March 26th, 2009

    so getting his balls handed to him on a platter was all part of his diabolical plan?
    LOL

  21. MarieDeGournay says at 11:05 am, March 26th, 2009

    Serolf Divad: He couldn’t ‘rule’ a patch of lawn occupied only by a crippled chipmunk.

  22. Roger3815 says at 11:07 am, March 26th, 2009

    My god he’s insane.

  23. DoctorCulturae says at 11:10 am, March 26th, 2009

    DoctorCulturae: Meh. Get thee to an editor:

    “If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.”

  24. Botswana Meat Commission FC says at 11:12 am, March 26th, 2009

    I don’t pay my bills for the same reason. I want to know who’s with and who’s against me.

    So far everyone I owe money to has been against me.

  25. Roger3815: He’s just right as RNC chairman, then. Stupid *and* crazy. A double victory!

  26. Come here a minute says at 11:14 am, March 26th, 2009

    The look on the face of the interviewer is priceless. “I want to know who says their with me but really isn’t.” [puzzled expression] “How does that help you?”

    It’s almost as good as the way Crazy Michelle Bachmann paralyzes her opponents with the crazy.

  27. WadISay says at 11:15 am, March 26th, 2009

    Oh and Mickey, I got a piece of your mail, misdelivered. Here it is:

    Chosen One:

    I don’t say this to just anyone. I annoint you! Run! For My sake! Run! Let your marching song be “What Up Gangsta?”. And Myspeed.

    Tha Big Guy

  28. bitchincamaro says at 11:18 am, March 26th, 2009

    Come here a minute: Yeah, I love the, “You wanna’ share with us?” line, usually reserved for scolding small children and mental cases.

    Oh, wait…

  29. I bet he’s the kind of guy to stand there and pretend he spilled water on his crotch after he pisses his pants. You know, instead of changing. I just want to know if any of the guys he beat for the RNC chair are on suicide watch. It must be emotionally crippling to be judged to have less competence, strategic thinking, and leadership ability than Steele.

    http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

  30. Hostile Michigander says at 11:21 am, March 26th, 2009

    Don’t you see, people? WE all fell for his plot, too, and exposed the Wonketeering hordes at “not friends of Michael Steele.” HE’S OUTSMARTED US ALL. We’ll never beat him now! The Republicans are going to rule the world for a thousand years, and it’s all our fault for not seeing through his dastardly plan!

  31. Carrie_Okie says at 11:22 am, March 26th, 2009

    Last time this “worked” the yellow peril tricked us into A Bombing Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Also: Dresden was a trap for the allies. Also the French TWICE proved with the Maginot Line who was with them and who was against. Also.

  32. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 11:24 am, March 26th, 2009

    Michael Steele: living proof that Forrest Gump was right. Indeed, stupid is as stupid does.

  33. IceCreamEmpress says at 11:26 am, March 26th, 2009

    DoctorCulturae: Mr. Steele is merely exhibiting Groucho-think

    WHAT IS THIS FAD FOR ACCUSING BLACK MEN OF BEING MARXISTS?

  34. shanemacgowan says at 11:27 am, March 26th, 2009

    Come here a minute: “paralyzes her opponents with the crazy.”

    Nice turn of phrase. I’d like to plagerize that sometime.

  35. snideinplainsight says at 11:29 am, March 26th, 2009

    Michael Steele : proving there’s a Moore’s Law for the stupid.

  36. Lascauxcaveman says at 11:29 am, March 26th, 2009

    Clancy_Pants: Heck, that’s nothing. I cut three fingers off my right hand because I was mildly interested in finding out the efficacy of my local emergency room.

  37. ForTheTurnstiles says at 11:32 am, March 26th, 2009

    Michael Steele is a wizard (technical term) of Integral Politics.

  38. Custerwolf says at 11:34 am, March 26th, 2009

    Michael Steele - it’s OKAY to cry…..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64a_1fWTsls

  39. Snarxon's Holler says at 11:39 am, March 26th, 2009

    Ahhh yesss … the old double secret reverse! Very clever, Mr. Steele … if that really is your name …

    Wait a minute - my shoe-phone is ringing …

  40. Capricatony says at 11:41 am, March 26th, 2009

    And this guy was the sanest of the RNC chair nominees.

  41. Is this the “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” strategy or the “rope-a-dope” strategy?

  42. Malachite Kingfisher says at 11:48 am, March 26th, 2009

    Steele/Bachmann 2012
    Yo! Because reality is whack, you feel me?

  43. DC Hates Me says at 11:49 am, March 26th, 2009

    Enemy camps? Tents? Chessboard? The GOP are helplessly lost in the woods of their mind.

  44. The part of Michael Steele is being played by Tobias from Arrested Development.

  45. BigDupa says at 12:00 pm, March 26th, 2009

    His position on the chess board? Black pawn

    thank you very much

  46. Mr Blifil says at 12:11 pm, March 26th, 2009

    BigDupa: Alright, alright…win…

  47. Capricatony: No, he was the blackest.

  48. El Pinche says at 12:27 pm, March 26th, 2009

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    That is all.

  49. Hooray For Anything says at 12:30 pm, March 26th, 2009

  50. No, everyone’s got it backwards. This was really all instigated by Rushthulu to weed out those who support Steele and mark them for purging once the Great Old Ones’ Party reclaims the throne.

    Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Rushthulu AM Radio wgah’nagl fhtagn!

  51. teebob2000 says at 12:37 pm, March 26th, 2009
  52. teebob2000 says at 12:40 pm, March 26th, 2009

    I, uh… he… seriously, WTF?

  53. sanantonerose says at 12:42 pm, March 26th, 2009

    Way to catapult the propaganda, Steele. Stupid like a fox, indeed.

  54. Custerwolf says at 12:51 pm, March 26th, 2009

    Hooray For Anything: You are precious.

  55. NotthatLC says at 12:52 pm, March 26th, 2009

    I swear to God this man is a DNC plant.

  56. norbizness says at 12:56 pm, March 26th, 2009

    “Notice that I am pronouncing ’strategy’ correctly, instead of ’stragety.’ In addition, I am no longer saying ‘li-barry’ instead of ‘library’ and ‘tomorree’ instead of ‘tomorrow.’”

  57. S.Luggo says at 1:20 pm, March 26th, 2009

    WadISay: George Armstrong Custer used that same strategy at Little Big Horn. Worked perfectly.

  58. AKAM80TheWolf says at 2:13 pm, March 26th, 2009

    BigDupa:

    Is there a point in even going on after that one?

    Several Intarwebz and 2 dozen Kiddie Whore Diamonds for you!

  59. One Yield Regular says at 2:18 pm, March 26th, 2009

    My new strategy is to take everyone’s word at face value. Clearly, then, sending Eric Cantor to a Britney Spears concert during Obama’s press conference was also part of Michael “Cause-and-Effect-Kind-of-Guy” Steele’s brilliant strategy.

  60. skantea says at 3:31 pm, March 26th, 2009

    I think what this country needs is a little bit more complicated than a chess game between the R’s and D’s.

    Next he’ll be using Texas Hold’em analogies:

    “Never fold before you check, the river is fickled mistress.”

  61. skantea says at 3:34 pm, March 26th, 2009

    NotthatLC:

    I’ve been saying that since they first brought him out.
    I checked his wiki page and smelled a lib, I think it’s been re-edited since.

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