• May 27, 2012

Michael Steele Totally Meant To Do That

by Sara K. Smith  10:41 am March 26, 2009

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]

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Munson Thurd March 26, 2009 at 10:46 am

Mike Steele: stupid like a fox

Texan Bulldoggette March 26, 2009 at 10:47 am

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.’)

Red Zeppelin March 26, 2009 at 10:48 am

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

mjwilstein March 26, 2009 at 10:49 am

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

Serolf Divad March 26, 2009 at 10:49 am

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.

WadISay March 26, 2009 at 10:49 am

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.

Serolf Divad March 26, 2009 at 10:50 am

[re=273760]mjwilstein[/re]:

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

Clancy_Pants March 26, 2009 at 10:51 am

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.

Bowdoin March 26, 2009 at 10:54 am

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.

Bowdoin March 26, 2009 at 10:56 am

[re=273763]Serolf Divad[/re]: Or, as old baseball writers would say about a struggling pitcher: “He might win ten games this season if God drops everything else.”

shortsshortsshorts March 26, 2009 at 10:56 am

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

Internally valid March 26, 2009 at 10:56 am

[re=273761]Serolf Divad[/re]:

6.) Profit!

Mr Blifil March 26, 2009 at 10:58 am

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

Noodle Salad March 26, 2009 at 10:59 am

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.

Zadig March 26, 2009 at 11:00 am

[re=273762]WadISay[/re]: 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!”

DoctorCulturae March 26, 2009 at 11:02 am

Mr. Steele is merely exhibiting Groucho-think:

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

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

Last great strategic thinker of this magnitude–Bill Kristol.

2druk2phluq March 26, 2009 at 11:03 am

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.

Canuckledragger March 26, 2009 at 11:04 am

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!!!

danadevin85 March 26, 2009 at 11:04 am

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

MarieDeGournay March 26, 2009 at 11:05 am

[re=273761]Serolf Divad[/re]: He couldn’t ‘rule’ a patch of lawn occupied only by a crippled chipmunk.

Roger3815 March 26, 2009 at 11:07 am

My god he’s insane.

DoctorCulturae March 26, 2009 at 11:10 am

[re=273779]DoctorCulturae[/re]: Meh. Get thee to an editor:

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

Botswana Meat Commission FC March 26, 2009 at 11:12 am

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.

TGY March 26, 2009 at 11:13 am

[re=273786]Roger3815[/re]: He’s just right as RNC chairman, then. Stupid *and* crazy. A double victory!

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

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.

WadISay March 26, 2009 at 11:15 am

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

bitchincamaro March 26, 2009 at 11:18 am

[re=273794]Come here a minute[/re]: Yeah, I love the, “You wanna’ share with us?” line, usually reserved for scolding small children and mental cases.

Oh, wait…

Miller March 26, 2009 at 11:19 am

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/

Hostile Michigander March 26, 2009 at 11:21 am

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!

Carrie_Okie March 26, 2009 at 11:22 am

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.

queeraselvis v 2.0 March 26, 2009 at 11:24 am

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

IceCreamEmpress March 26, 2009 at 11:26 am

[re=273779]DoctorCulturae[/re]: Mr. Steele is merely exhibiting Groucho-think

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

shanemacgowan March 26, 2009 at 11:27 am

[re=273794]Come here a minute[/re]: “paralyzes her opponents with the crazy.”

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

snideinplainsight March 26, 2009 at 11:29 am

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

Lascauxcaveman March 26, 2009 at 11:29 am

[re=273764]Clancy_Pants[/re]: 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.

ForTheTurnstiles March 26, 2009 at 11:32 am

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

Custerwolf March 26, 2009 at 11:34 am

Michael Steele – it’s OKAY to cry…..

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

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

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 …

Capricatony March 26, 2009 at 11:41 am

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

momus March 26, 2009 at 11:42 am

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

Malachite Kingfisher March 26, 2009 at 11:48 am

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

DC Hates Me March 26, 2009 at 11:49 am

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

Tra March 26, 2009 at 11:52 am

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

BigDupa March 26, 2009 at 12:00 pm

His position on the chess board? Black pawn

thank you very much

Mr Blifil March 26, 2009 at 12:11 pm

[re=273834]BigDupa[/re]: Alright, alright…win…

Hound March 26, 2009 at 12:19 pm

Capricatony: No, he was the blackest.

El Pinche March 26, 2009 at 12:27 pm

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

That is all.

Hooray For Anything March 26, 2009 at 12:30 pm

[re=273813]Custerwolf[/re]: Don’t forget this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHrwcQrY-JM

Czn939 March 26, 2009 at 12:31 pm

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!

teebob2000 March 26, 2009 at 12:37 pm

[re=273781]2druk2phluq[/re]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJXU7EVXs2A

teebob2000 March 26, 2009 at 12:40 pm

I, uh… he… seriously, WTF?

sanantonerose March 26, 2009 at 12:42 pm

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

Custerwolf March 26, 2009 at 12:51 pm

[re=273880]Hooray For Anything[/re]: You are precious.

NotthatLC March 26, 2009 at 12:52 pm

I swear to God this man is a DNC plant.

norbizness March 26, 2009 at 12:56 pm

“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.’”

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

[re=273762]WadISay[/re]: George Armstrong Custer used that same strategy at Little Big Horn. Worked perfectly.

AKAM80TheWolf March 26, 2009 at 2:13 pm

[re=273834]BigDupa[/re]:

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

Several Intarwebz and 2 dozen Kiddie Whore Diamonds for you!

One Yield Regular March 26, 2009 at 2:18 pm

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.

skantea March 26, 2009 at 3:31 pm

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.”

skantea March 26, 2009 at 3:34 pm

[re=273924]NotthatLC[/re]:

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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