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Perhaps the least hilarious of the hilarious things Michael Steele said in his interview with Univision was that the American health care system doesn’t need comprehensive reform — just a little “elbow grease.” Yes! Save the corrupt Medicare by passing a bill that bans prevents any aspect of Medicare from ever changing. These things, and more. But what did he have to say about the race card?
Jorge Ramos - For instance, when you hear commentators like Glenn Beck saying that for him President Barack Obama is a racist, with a deep seeded hatred for white people, how do you react?
Michael Steele - That’s one man’s opinion.
Jorge Ramos - Yes, but…
Michael Steele - That’s one man’s opinion.
Jorge Ramos - but should you defend Barack Obama against these types of comments? I don’t know, it’s just a question.
Michael Steele - No, no, look the reality of it is when I ran for the United States’ Senate and I was called an Uncle Tom by leading Democrats in the country, when I was called a slave by Steny Hoyer who is now the majority leader in the House no one came running to my defense and no one seemed to think that that was racists at the time. I don’t play the race card, I don’t play the race game, the way some tend to want to do.
Ha! UNCLE TOM THING: That was one blogger, and Michael Steele jumped all over it. SLAVE THING: Oh man, “when I was called a slave by Steny Hoyer.” Here’s a good recap of what happened, when Hoyer (with poor word choice, to be sure) “characterized Steele’s record as ‘a career of slavishly supporting the Republican Party.’” To which Steele responded, “It goes to just the sheer craziness of some in the Democratic Party who think they can use racist terms and infer things about me just because I’m an African American Republican.” And then everyone wrote about this and it was a big story and Michael Steele campaigned on it.
Michael Steele doesn’t even have to play the race card, in one sense, because he is a human race card. Bobby Ehrlich picked Steele to be his lieutenant governor in Maryland to trick black people into voting for Republicans! Immediately after this selection, too, Michael Steele, the human race card, began playing the race card! This is a technique Michael Steele trademarked, called “squaring the race card.”
Oreo cookie incident
After a September 26, 2002 gubernatorial debate, which had occurred without reported incident, Paul Schurick, Ehrlich’s communications manager, claimed that the Townsend campaign handed out Oreo cookies to the audience. Five days after the debate, Steele said that one or more Oreo cookies had rolled to his feet during the debate suggesting a racist statement against him. “Maybe it was just someone having their snack, but it was there,” Steele said. “If it happened, shame on them if they are that immature and that threatened by me.” At the time of the debate, Schurick had not mentioned any such incident, but in November 2005 he claimed “It was raining Oreos… They were thick in the air like locusts. I was there. It was very real. It wasn’t subtle.” In a November 2005 Hannity and Colmes appearance, Steele agreed with Hannity that cookies were thrown at him. Neil Duke of the Baltimore NAACP, who moderated the debate, praised the “passionate audience” and noted their “derisive behavior” but did not see such behavior. “Were there some goofballs sitting in [the] right-hand corner section tossing cookies amongst themselves and acting like sophomores, as the legend has it?” Duke said. “I have no reason to doubt those sources; I just didn’t see it.” The operations manager of the building where the debate was held, interviewed three years after the event by the Baltimore Sun, disputed Steele’s claim and said “I was in on the cleanup, and we found no cookies or anything else abnormal. There were no Oreo cookies thrown.” Some eyewitnesses including AP reporter Tom Stuckey who was at the event have said cookies were handed out. Other eyewitnesses could not corroborate Steele and Schurick’s claim.
Lastly, here’s a funny thing Michael Steele said about immigration in this Mexican interview
I can sum it up for you this way, the party as I said is always the party, its been the party of assimilation and that is something that we believe in very firmly and basically what we should be saying is that there are rules that you need to get into the country, go the right door, fill out the right form, have some apple pie, hum a few bars of the star spangle banner and get to work, God bless you, and I think that that begins to set us on the right road to dealing with this issue.
Special Sunday Post: RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s bizarre interview with Univision’s Jorge Ramos [Latina Lista]
Michael Steele Doesn’t Race-Bait, Except When He Does [Washington Independent]
Uppity Negro says What?
Today we are all Oreos!
See, this is how Republicans try to make their nativism seem reasonable. They just want immigrants to fill out the right form, that’s all. And meanwhile they make sure that ethnic quotas are set up for who can fill out the forms, that the forms take 20 years to process and cost thousands of dollars. Oh, did we neglect to mention that? Oh well, we actually love immigrants and want lots of them to come on in!
Ah elbow grease! I saw a video the other day where the dude needed elbow grease, also he should have taken off his watch. Because he was fisting a loved one.
Dear Mike:
What up! Lube might work on your starfish, but this is healthcare.
Peace out!
Nbawriter
Whenever the race card is played and I don’t have any of that race in my hand, I totally whip out a Wild Draw Four and I’m like, “BAM! Suck on that! Draw four AND lose a turn, race baiter!”
Say what now? Steele wants me to grease my elbow? Well, OK, if you insist. Now just bend over and breathe deeply, Michael….
Rather than slavishly following the GOP’s orders, he should have been more niggardly with the taxpayers’ money.
Weird. I named my genitals ‘Oreo cookie incident’.
I think that race card is marked.
Michael “Husband of Bessie” Steele does not play the race card, baby. He plays race pinochle!
Guess what? It’s Michael Stale’s birthday today (for realz, bro). Let’s send him a poison rat dick cake. Anyone have the recipe?
Michael Steele make Fredrick Douglass cry :’(
Steele obviously hasn’t talked to any actual immigrants; it’s not filling out the right form, it’s filling out the right six or more forms, along with fees that add up to over $2000. And that’s just the beginning, and for a basic family-based case; employment-based immigration involves a hell of a lot more forms and fees.
Then, of course, they have to hope the petition isn’t rejected for some minor mistake (which is very easy unless the immigrant hires a private attorney), or because the USCIS screws up, since a good portion of their staff are total idiots.
And the great American race debate continues:
“You’re playing the race card.”
“No, you’re playing the race card.”
“Nuh-uh, YOU are.”
“NO, YOU ARE.”
“I’M RUBBER, YOU’RE GLUE.”
“NEENER NEENER NEENER.”
“I hate you.”
“I hate you more.”
“Racist.”
I’m going to the store tonight and I’m buying Oreos and I don’t care if that makes me a racist. Those cookies are just darn good.
He’s steele got it.
“The party of assimilation?!” Wow — there is no question for which Michael Steele doesn’t have a completely ass-backwards, ridiculous answer. They have Michael Steele, Clarence Thomas, Alan Keys and Alberto Gonzalez, and that makes them diverse? And Michael, please don’t bogart the whippets — or whatever drug it is that gives you this perspective — it sounds like too much fun.
I hear that train a comin’
It’s rollin’ ’round the bend
Isn’t throwing Oreo cookies at Michael Steele rather like sending rock salt to Olympia Snowe?
“I am the cow on the tracks” has to be the best political quote of the year so far. I love this guy. Moo baby moo!
I don’t even see him as black. I agree with Jon Stewart that he looks like the blue guy who found a fly in his soup on Sesame Street.
http://img.youtube.com/vi/1C8nl8eBoq0/0.jpg
And it’s fried chicken, not pollo!
Welll, the ‘Thuglicans have been the party of ass- something, but it’s not -imilation.
Feel free to throw Oreo cookies at me, anytime! No milk, though.
nbawriter: I’m hooked on his chocolate star, I got the munchies for his love.
go the right door, fill out the right form, have some apple pie,
Uhhhhh . . . me no likee apple. Tell you what, you got any Oreo pie?
” I don’t think we need a comprehensive overhaul of our healthcare system because our healthcare system, while it remains the best in the country and while it provides largely the services that people need and the quality of those services are very, very good, there are costs associated with this system that needs to be address more directly.”
Uncle Tom, no. Captain Facepalm, yes.
gurukalehuru: Except that, even assuming that “rock salt” is some sort of obscure racial slur (can’t rule it out), I’m pretty sure that Olympia Snowe isn’t actually a “rock salt”.
Also, the Oreos were (allegedly) rolled across the floor, so ew. I’d eat them, but still.
He really wants Latinas to just give birth in the fields so they can go back to picking vegetables.
The Oreo cookies were dripping out of him.
gurukalehuru: Rock salt melts snow. THEY WERE TRYING TO KILL HER???
Wait, is Steele allergic to chocolate or cow lard?
Gopherit: “Our healthcare system…remains the best in the country.”
Well, can’t argue with that.
user-of-owls: He play the race domino.
I don’t know about Mssr. Steele, but over at gop.com, I see now that they’re “putting the Act! in Action!”. Also, the Republican Faces Project appears to be broken - there are no longer any answers to “I’m a Republican because…” (much as I’d suspected all along, actually.)
Gopherit: yea, Sarah Palin writes shit like that too.
I always want to say, ‘go on. tell me how you are going to make health care affordable and universal,
and dont say we need more of the same shitty policies…..
just fuckin’ explain how you are gonna do that, OK?’
He does have that “cow in the locomotive headlights” look.
Pulling the race card? That’s old hat. I like the pull the stealth religion card. I bat my blues and play with my blonde hair and pull my Star of David necklace out only when they start bashing the liberal Jewish media and grumbling about Zionist conspiracies. Inevitably, wealthy south western Virginians with paunches turn purple around this time. Their wives turn white and flip on the charm. “Oh, my friend Susan’s dermatologist in Richmond is a Jew, do you know him? Jonathan Goldman?”
Potater: Hooray! We’re number one, we da best at being best.
Styrofoam Boots: I’m sadly addicted to the Oreo Cakesters. Sometimes I eat the Vanilla Oreo cakesters. Does that mean I’m a racist?
They are so the party of assimilation. Did you see the Republican convention, all white people? Well, before they were assimilated, half of them were black!
Gopherit: Right….and how can we not have the best healthcare system in our country? WE ONLY HAVE THE ONE, STEELE, YOU FUCKING MORON!!!! /facepalm
Potater: Seriously. He and Palin are proof positive that the neo-con movement makes you stupider than sniffing paint.
In that last interview, it sounds like he’s trying to be a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. you can’t be all candies to all people, or you wind up sounding like Sherbert Hoover.
CaiteeCruelle: no. it means you are addicted to corn syrup.
go cold turkey, it is the only way to become normal again.
CaiteeCruelle: Without a doubt. Even I wouldn’t do that. You should be ashamed.
Bad_Squishy: I used to wear a six-pointer when answering the door, because the only people that came by were Jehovah’s Witnesses. Oddly enough, they would just ask for directions. Like, it was fine to preach to someone who WASN’T Jewish, but leave the Jews alone?
SayItWithWookies: Thank you. There are “tin-ears” and then there is whatever the fuck Michael Steel has. Next this guy will be on Telemundo encouraging immigrants to Anglicized their surnames.
CaiteeCruelle: 2009 and you still eatin’ Mononitrates? This is the year of the Polynitrates, my sad racist friend.
Waz up?
I prefer Newman-Os.
Isn’t calling someone an oreo / tossing cookies deNIGration by your own race, Michael Steele? Yanno, like black on the outside, WASP on the inside?
Republicans work?
CaiteeCruelle: The Vanilla Oreo cakesters only see other Oreo cakesters. You’re the only one who insists on seeing everything through the lens of flavor.
For any tailor, the cut is shit, but that hemming satisfies for ‘actual malice’.
problemwithcaring and Dicentra: I have no problem with those different nitrates. I just don’t think they should mix, is all. I’m just thinking of the filling.
To avoid the corn syrup, I went to Wegman’s for dinner. They promiscuously mix different berries in their pies, but the Ultimate Cakes come in chocolate and WHITE.
Ahem … I think the Republicans used enough “elbow grease” on the American public for eight years, thank you very much..
Fuck, I want so bad for the face of Republican ridiculousness to say something intelligent just ONCE! Is that so much to ask?
idiot son of an asshole: Well let’s see..I read all the posts to this site and I don’t think it will be all that hard to at least seem intelligent! We could start by mentioning your name….nah, let’s not start with the obvious. All the “brilliant”the remarks concerning Oreos…the gross language used throughout….and virtually nothing is said to refute Steele….put him down, yes, ridicule him, yes, exaggerate what he said, yes, misrepresent what he said, yes, belittle black conservatives, yes. Your race has been in the pockets of the Democrats for almost 50 years and that amazes me..You see, when the party in question can count on your complete and unquestioned loyalty….they no longer have to do anything to get your vote (and they don’t).If you will recall the days of real segregation in this country, you will remember that every state with blacks only facility was a democrat state. It was Republican Eisenhower who sent troops to the south to enable black children to go to integrated schools. There were more Republican than Democrat votes for the civil rights bill passage. The Democrats say you are too stupid to exist on your own, you need government to do it for you (affirmative action anyone??)The Republicans say that we will help you become self sufficient, but you must work at it yourself. We will pick you up in a big yellow school bus, haul you to school, pay property taxes so you can have a nice building and educated teachers, in most part pay for your books and supplies. We will give you opportunities in sports, music, art, literature, all at no great cost to you. If you educate yourself, there are job opportunities, sports opportunities, wonderful futures for you. However, you, in great numbers, drop out of school early, become pregnant or get someone pregnant, fall into criminal behavior, use illegal drugs, use language that is barely recognizeable as English, lead violent lifestyles, mistreat and demean women, fail to raise your children in a normal manner…..and then you love to blame it all on whitey. Everything in this world is not racist, but if you have no pride, no self esteem, no ambition then perhaps everything seems that way…..just saying
terycarl: How nice. A white conservative bitching about how those lazy drug-using black folk just don’t appreciate all that white conservatives like him do for the Negroes.
Do you even listen to yourself, you tone-deaf moron? Do you even live or work around black people? I’ll let you in on a little secret: most black people (just like most white people) work for a living, pay taxes, want their kids to do well.
Yes there are drug problems in the black community. There are also drug problems in the white community. Have you heard of the meth epidemic? Guess who uses meth the most? Yup, white people.
And you don’t like how uncouth people here are? Here’s a suggestion: eat a bag of dicks.
Cicada: Hey, class response…see what I mean. I did not infer that most black people ….nope, I won’t say most . Too many black people, more than 50%, drop out of school early. The successful blacks are, of course, fine people (yes I do have black friends and members in our club) That having been said, the takers in this society are just as much a burden on other blacks as they are on whites. I pointed out some failures in the black community which are often blamed on raciam when, in fact, they are more often the result of the persons own actions. When I was young 1950’s, the black families in our city (Milwaukee) were every bit as stable as any others. We went to school together, worked together, were friends with and shared neighborhoods with each other. I’ve been there and done that and I’ve also watched, with dismay , the demise of the black community. It is very sad to return to my old neighborhood in Milwaukee (34th and Mount Vernon) and see the condition of the area now. It is not the educated, employed black person who is at fault here. It is the drop out, unwed parent, unemployed, ex-con, etc. etc who causes these things.Why is that not apparent to you and why do you try to deny it…..everyone knows it’s true but noone knows what to do about it.
terycarl: Yup. You really don’t get it. At all. And this is why the Republican party does not have support from most of the black community.
Have fun in that bubble!
Also, I am being relatively kind to you by Wonkette standards. Your long-windedness and complete lack of humor pretty much paints a huge target on your back.
Really, eat a bag of dicks. Lightly salted and sprinkled with arsenic.
terycarl: This is so patronizing and mad…where to begin.
(In coincidence, I am a drop-out and I am a multiple millionaire…this by studying formal language—mathematics and logic—and offering myself as a tool [a trustee tool] to operations managers manufacturing. In a past life, I’ve not only hired the drop-out, the unwed parent, and the [black] ex-convict, but they continue to obsolete themselves in every role and, so, are always employed at a premium. That is the type: not “drop out, unwed parent, unemployed, ex-con”.
Now, I can read comedy sites all night long. This is a comedy site.
Do you listen to yourself: the “black community”?!)
Bad_Squishy: Wealthy southwestern Virginians? Hahahahahaha! Seriously, Shorts, is that you?
Hey, I like the Baltimore Oreos. They had some really good teams once.
terycarl, were you ozzie or harriet?
I love it when Republicans complain, “The Democrats do NOTHING to earn your votes, black folks! You’re just too lazy and stupid and violent and drug-addicted to notice it!”
I mean, the professing to know what’s in the best interest of the black community better than the vast majority of that community itself does, that’s funny enough, in the obnoxiously, bigoted paternalism kind of way. But adding in that extra insult, well, that’s what really gives it that fine Mahogany finish of credibility.
terycarl: Sincere troll seeks sincerity.
terycarl:
Hey, class response…see what I mean. I did not infer that most black people ….nope, I won’t say most . Too many black people, more than 50%, drop out of school early…”
uhh carl? More than 50% is most…I guess they didn’t teach you hard-working cheeseheads fractions in MIlwaukee. You go on back to your “club” with your nice colored friends now, and be sure to tell them they’re the good kind of coloreds. idiot.
terycarl: Also I love it when you guys pull out the whole “Democrats were the racist party all those years!” When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act in ‘65 he said he’d just cost his party the South for a generation. Why do you think that is? Do a little reading on Dixiecrats and Nixon’s Southern Strategy. Hell, do a little reading, period.
terycarl: Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Hey Teryfuck, who asked you?
And why is you post addressed to me as if I’m a person of color?
I’m white, and a liberal, although I prefer the term progressive…
I’m also a veteran.
Also, I can’t wait until your generation gets to the death panels. Did you know that the only requirement to survive the panels of death, is to have joined the thought processes of the 21st century? Yep! you. are. FUCKED. Also, too.
just sayin’!
imissopus: And along with the fact that Democrats actively worked for civil rights because it was the right thing to do, the Republicans actively cultivated the support of racists and segregationists. Of course, Rush Limbaugh is doing his utmost to convince black Americans that they’ve changed all that.
terycarl: “Well let’s see..I read all the posts to this site and I don’t think it will be all that hard to at least seem intelligent!”
It’s not that hard. Yet you still fell so short…
But seriously, all the Republican talk about how they’re going to respect and empower black people, make them self-sufficient…wouldn’t it be a little more credible if it acknowledged that black people are ALREADY empowered and self-sufficient, or at least treated them like rational voters instead of the Democratic Party’s rubes?
Anybody out there still down with Hydrox?
Pat Pending: Oh, hell yes!
terycarl: “When I was young 1950’s, the black families in our city (Milwaukee) were every bit as stable as any others. We went to school together, worked together, were friends with and shared neighborhoods with each other.”
Oh boy, the glories racial harmony of the 1950’s. This revisionist history is why the Republicans are so absolutely fucked forever with minorities. It’s why white Detroiters couldn’t seem to figure out why the 1967’s happened. They are certain that their city was a racial utopia, even as they supported politicians they maligned and oppressed blacks and talked about them behind their backs. Northern de facto segregation was quite possibly the ugliest kind of segregations, because entire white populations were under complete illusions about the health of their communities. This argument always eeriely sounds like Apartheid South Africa’s “Our blacks (oye vey, forever someone’s property, we are) are treated better than any in Africa” argument you used to hear, back then.
Dude, the 1950’s called; they want their fucking rhetoric back, you clueless cad.
AnnieGetYourFun: For some reason, that’s how it works. Every time Jehovah’s Witness[es] have come to my door, I would simply say, “I’m Jewish,” and they would politely say, “Have a nice day,” and immediately leave and never come back. I guess they’ve never successfully converted a Jew.
OTOH, some JW wouldn’t stop approaching my mother-in-law, who is Catholic and timid, until I told them pointedly they were upsetting her and asked them to leave her alone.
LowerdPeninsula: I hereby declare my undying love for you. For this brief but eloquent illustration of the function of white privilege, I will prepare gigantic bags of spicy rat dicks and mail them to your enemies. With bibs and sporks.
memzilla: Ass immolation?
Whatever happened to the Michael Steele who played bass for the
Bangles? I liked her much better.
For whom do the Oreo cookies Toll House?
frumious_bandersnatch: Yes! Yes! I accept the offer.
I like Oreos with white or chocolate milk. But not both- that would be wrong.
LowerdPeninsula: Just post the mailing addresses of your enemies. ::spit::
Well I guess what goes around comes around little girl. You see, when someones opposes the great Messiah, they are called racist. But when Michael Steele says something, racist terms are thrown with as little abandon as you did with your sexuality during your college and high school years
I always wondered where the term wonkette came from….
CommonSense0920: Like what, oreo? Steele lied about oreos being thrown at him during a debate, he brought that on himself. if sense is so common, why don’t you have any?