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Chuck Todd SMACKS DOWN Michael Steele Who SMACKS DOWN Democrats

by Jim Newell  4:15 pm February 25, 2010

Michael Steele: They should have had a summit a year ago.

Chuck Todd: They did.

Michael Steele: Well it didn’t work, because we don’t have health care.

SMACKDOWN! [YouTube]

{ 57 comments }

megs February 25, 2010 at 4:17 pm

Well, maybe HE has health care…

Clancy_Pants February 25, 2010 at 4:20 pm

Both sides speaking out of the same mouth? Did you mean ass?

comicbookguy February 25, 2010 at 4:21 pm

Obviously Obama reneged on his pledge of bipartisanship because conservatives are still calling him a communist.

mollymcguire February 25, 2010 at 4:23 pm

Does Steele even listen to himself?

mirrorball February 25, 2010 at 4:24 pm

RNC benefits must suck these days. Steele should have seen a doctor when he was in Hawaii.

Snarkalicious February 25, 2010 at 4:24 pm

I would have mailed Chuck Todd a dollar if he’d played the race card right there.

NotthatLC February 25, 2010 at 4:24 pm

Good God, It’s like a bad SNL skit. Which these days is redundant.

Red Zeppelin February 25, 2010 at 4:25 pm

What’s that Bojangles?

donner_froh February 25, 2010 at 4:26 pm

He needs to wave his hands around and move his head more while on TV.

Lawndarts February 25, 2010 at 4:26 pm

Steele is smart and handsome and would make a fine addition to our list or regional Hooters managers. …I started drinking early today.

Oldskool February 25, 2010 at 4:27 pm

Sometmes a newsguy or girl will ask the right question… and then nod back off.

Extemporanus February 25, 2010 at 4:27 pm

NEGRO: “This whole dog and cow show that we’re about to witness today is something that should’ve been killed a year ago when the administration first tried to get it on track.”

SlouchingTowardsWasilla February 25, 2010 at 4:27 pm

“You have both sides speaking out of the same mouth here.” Hard to argue with that one.

Fox n Fiends February 25, 2010 at 4:28 pm

Blue Steele.

ForTheTurnstiles February 25, 2010 at 4:29 pm

I love the way this guy is still employed.

Sweet Baby Cheeses February 25, 2010 at 4:29 pm

[re=520165]Extemporanus[/re]: cow and train show?

widestanceromancer February 25, 2010 at 4:31 pm

He’s getting better. A few months ago, he would have just said, “I’m rubber, you’re glue. . .”

JMP February 25, 2010 at 4:32 pm

It’s all Obama’s fault; the Republicans have been so nice and willing to work with him but he just flatly refuses to listen, and lies about their health care proposals.

ttommyunger February 25, 2010 at 4:34 pm

Unfazed by facts, unembarrassed by willful ignorance, unmoved by logic; the Right marches on….

Extemporanus February 25, 2010 at 4:36 pm

[re=520174]Sweet Baby Cheeses[/re]: I pulled a cow train back in college, and twenty years later I’m still queefing milk bubbles.

Moo moo, baby! MOO MOO!

Pithaughn February 25, 2010 at 4:39 pm

Because I’m old, fat and Caucasian (and I registered R once so I could vote against RayGuhn in a primary), Chairman Steele sends me mail all the time, more than a credit card company even. The latest barrage is a Census of a select few, so that they will know which lies to tell in my district next time around. But, of course I saw right through this, a census is a tally of everyone not a select few. I fill them out anyways and send ‘em back, now they have at least one outlier to throw out.

germansteel February 25, 2010 at 4:41 pm

If I had anything to say about it, I’d damn near give in on the whole idea of universal coverage if it would guarantee that Steele would have to go without health care. If anyone deserves his fate to be in the hands of a death panel, it’s that douchenozzle.

Come here a minute February 25, 2010 at 4:44 pm

[re=520186]Extemporanus[/re]: ALL DIE

Hooray For Anything February 25, 2010 at 4:44 pm

Since Steele saying something idiotic isn’t shocking, the more shocking part of the clip is that Chuck Todd actually pushed back on something.

madtowngooner February 25, 2010 at 4:48 pm

Now I know why the GOP chose Steele to chairman. He can say all sorts of ridiculous things and no one can see him blush when people call bullshit on him

bitchincamaro February 25, 2010 at 4:49 pm

That Chuck Todd is all “white man gettin’ all ghetto-handsie” with his protestation. Chairman is not swayed by this ploy.

Also, would really prefer to see the Chairman wearing a real sharkskin suit, if you know what I mean.

GOPCrusher February 25, 2010 at 4:49 pm

Is Michael Steele and Montel Williams the same person? Has anyone seen them in the same room together?

queeraselvis v 2.0 February 25, 2010 at 4:58 pm

Shorter Michael Steele: Yea, well, YO MAMA.

boyhowdy February 25, 2010 at 4:58 pm

[re=520161]donner_froh[/re]: He needs to be in the same room with Bobby Jindal, and they can sway around in sync. (Or out of.) Must be something that makes those guys nervous?

imissopus February 25, 2010 at 5:10 pm

Perhaps if last year’s summit had been in that hip-hop speech Steele wants to bring to suburbia, he’d remember it better.

Obama: Fo shizzle, my homies the Americans needs them some medicine, bitches!

Boehner: We feel ya, blood, but whatcha gonna do?

Obama: I’m gonna get all up in yo bidness, Creamsicle! Score me a healthcare bill and shit!

Steele: Oh snap! You did not just bring that shit all up in here Mr. President, yo!

SayItWithWookies February 25, 2010 at 5:13 pm

I’m surprised Steele didn’t remember the previous healthcare summit — because I remember his comprehensive solution from back then: “Fix it.” If only we had listened.

BarackMyWorld February 25, 2010 at 5:15 pm

Wait…did he just completely reverse the point of his criticism within the span of one answer? I can’t rationally accept that this is really happening.

Ducksworthy February 25, 2010 at 5:20 pm

I get it now. Steele is the AntiObama, similarly pigmented but stupid. Just in case people were to get the wrong idea about Negros from listening to Barry.

gurukalehuru February 25, 2010 at 5:20 pm

Wouldn’t “both sides speaking out of the same mouth” be the definition of bipartisanship?

Sleeves February 25, 2010 at 5:34 pm

[re=520215]bitchincamaro[/re]: If the GOP finds a Chairman Koji character from ninkyō eiga then we are in serious trouble. Junichirō Koizumi could make this comedy script sound cynical.

( http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=humor )

The Lucky Wife February 25, 2010 at 5:36 pm

Steele must have forgotten that the Reps don’t want Americans to have health care. Deminted made it quite clear that for the Dems to fail on this, it would be Obama’s Waterloo. Maybe Steele just isn’t an ABBA fan…

bitchincamaro February 25, 2010 at 5:41 pm

[re=520279]Sleeves[/re]: OMG. Best, least guilt-inducing, greatest time-consuming online dictionary. Ever. Thx.

geminisunmars February 25, 2010 at 5:42 pm

[re=520193]Pithaughn[/re]: Somehow I got on their list and when I get stuff I always return their postage paid return envelopes stuffed to capacity with scrap paper and/or porn. There is something so satisfying about doing that.

Lionel Hutz Esq. February 25, 2010 at 5:42 pm

Michael Steele: Great GOP Chair, or Greatest GOP Chair?

Snarkalicious February 25, 2010 at 6:00 pm

[re=520262]Ducksworthy[/re]: I never really stopped to consider the relative brilliance of that as a tool in motivating the Republican base.

S.Luggo February 25, 2010 at 6:25 pm

“Right Now: An 11-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda” (Rev. Ed.)

*****
[re=520262]Ducksworthy[/re]: Round these parts, we don’t judge people by the color of their skin. Just ask John Boehner.

******
[re=520287]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: And Mikey has how many years left as chairman? When he leaves, the RNC might have to retire his clown shoes.

Red Zeppelin February 25, 2010 at 6:28 pm

[re=520216]GOPCrusher[/re]: I thought he was the same person as Lexington Steele.

ForTheTurnstiles February 25, 2010 at 6:41 pm

[re=520322]Red Zeppelin[/re]: “We remain deeply disappointed with the knowledge that Michael Steele and Lex Steele are in fact different persons. We remain optimistic that our Mr. Steele can rise to the occasion and grow into the role.”

–Mitch McConnell

Jukesgrrl February 25, 2010 at 6:53 pm

Who is this Chuck Todd? Every time I turn on MS/NBC I only see people running around in snow.

Godot February 25, 2010 at 6:54 pm

He’s a disgrace to his father, George The Animal Steele.

nappyduggs February 25, 2010 at 7:25 pm

{chortle, chortle} Dance, Sambo, Dance! {snort}

Berkeley Bear February 25, 2010 at 8:51 pm

[re=520262]Ducksworthy[/re]: I prefer to think of him as BizarrObama. Like Bizarro Superman, only without the crazy strength.

Mr Blifil February 25, 2010 at 10:25 pm

I’m reminded of when Bob Dole simultaneously griped that “there’s no crisis in healthcare” as he whined “where’s the outrage?” People were not sufficiently disgusted upon reading detailed descriptions of the curvature of Bill Clinton’s Mr. Happy, according to Bob.

Minnie Mean February 25, 2010 at 10:31 pm

needs more cowbell, baby

CaliforniaMike February 25, 2010 at 11:29 pm

The only reason Steele has a job is that the GOP said, “Hey, the Democrats have a black man. We need one. Call J.C. Watts.”

Well, Watts was tired of being their black man, so they had to do a nationwide search. The three finalists were Steele, the famous recluse Sammy Davis III and Sean Hannity, who said, “Hey, I’m black Irish.”

SD3 turned them down and Hannity refused to wear blackface, so Steele got the job.

new complexnegro February 26, 2010 at 12:49 am

Nigga please!

disgustedcitizen February 26, 2010 at 9:12 am

How come no matter what Steele has to say, all I hear is “Br’er Rabbit and the Tarbaby”?

disgustedcitizen February 26, 2010 at 9:17 am

[re=520193]Pithaughn[/re]: Make that two outliers. I’m a Maryland Democrat and the silly bastard sent me a questionair. I am still working on suitable snarky answers before sending it back.

PlanetWingnuta February 26, 2010 at 9:19 am

[re=520186]Extemporanus[/re]: lol what frat.

PlanetWingnuta February 26, 2010 at 9:20 am

[re=520204]Hooray For Anything[/re]: push back? and not on a penis…shocking indeed!

PlanetWingnuta February 26, 2010 at 9:22 am

[re=520262]Ducksworthy[/re]: Bizarobama would fit better.

Sparky McGruff February 28, 2010 at 6:52 am

[re=520215]bitchincamaro[/re]: Sharkskin suit? I think a chicken costume with the big foam head would be more appropriate.

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