Boy, that'll be the bee's knees! Maybe he can get M.C. Hammer to do some commercials for them.

Any day now, Steele will be announcing his resignation in order to "spend more time with my family." What a disastrous choice, a joke, this clown is. But, hey -- if you wanna keep him, Repugs, we libs will back you to the hilt! In fact, on second choice, he's an EXCELLENT choice!

This is far too funny for words.

But it is indicative of the GOP methodology: just rebrand and put a new facade on the same old worn-out policies.

They pulled the wool over the eyes of the evangelicals. So who's next? Do they really think this will work on hip younger people??

Good grief ...

I am reminded of a chapter in Al Franken's Lying Liars book, "Abstinence Heroes," and the key line (paraphrasing):

"Kids can spot a phony a mile away."

:)

I mean no disrespect to the Republican Party; they can be whoever the hell they think they wanna be in their own minds. But I know them for who they are. And they are not me.

Michael Steel has the toughest job in America. Working for the Republican Party as a Black Man.

Can’t wait for the Republican Hip Hop.

What the hell is a urban-suburban hip-hop setting? Steele might be more idiotic than Rush.

I'd like someone to ask Mr Steele about the New York Post cartoon that depicts drafters of the stimulus legislation as a gun-downed chimpanzee. Bet you would hear real, "shuck and jive."

Or he can take lessons from MC Rove, the original beatmeister:
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MC Steele is the name and I'm funky like a tax cut

'Crats are to blame and you know it in your fuckin' gut

They hate the troops

They hate the flag

They even hate the baby Jesus cause they're mother fuckin' fags

I'm gonna get up in the face of Washington town

Now watch me as I trickle down

Yo, peace out

Yo yo. Why don't they use the vid of Rove gettin' funky on stage with an American flag blue screened behind him. That ought to bring the urban folks rushing to the party. Maybe Steele doesn't remember what a great image that was and that they've already gone beyond cutting edge.

Sorry buddy, but kids just aren't this stupid. You're an empty vessel with empty ideas.

This is probably going to sound strange coming from a white guy, but if there's one thing possibly MORE odd than a white person co-opting black lingo, it's the whitest black guy in the world trying to co-opt black lingo.

I don't know which is going to be less successful- the GOP trying to get black people to vote for them using this transparent and pathetic language or Steele's tenure once the GOP realizes they ain't so crazy about the reality of a black guy running what is essentially a party for white males.

I've watched Steele since his days as Lt. Governor, and his failed run against Ben Cardin.

His ascent (?) to RNC chair, with its attendant increase in profile, only serves to further highlight his comic role as a right-wing tool, stuck between two cultures to which he will never really belong.

Ok, this is hilarious. The question is what next fool move will republicans make? Talk about flailing about. First it was aerosmith, now it's hip hop. They are scaring off their base at this point. Don't hear much hip hop in nursing homes. Now, if he would have said elevator music, that makes sense. But hip hop? Give me a break.

Actually, maybe he got the idea from that daily show skit of the new republican party make over when they were doing rap in a board room with samantha bee. Or maybe the idea came from that snl skit of the rap song serenede to rambo of the north. Too funny.

Now, if he would have said elevator music, that makes sense.

Yes, it really would have. Given that Muzak is just filed for bankruptcy, it would be the perfect choice: a bankrupt company whose product was a bastardization of music.

Republican - the straight dope.

Calling M.C. Rove!

"It will come to the table with things that will surprise everyone - off the hook."

I'm a white guy from the suburbs, but I thought "off the hook" meant "really good," not "surprising," as Steele seems to think.

Can someone please clarify for me?

I cannot wait for SNL, Bill Maher, Stewart and Colbert to start cracking on the New & Improved GOP - it's going to be hilarious.

(Someone should remind Michael Steele that the term "avant garde" is...

French!)

You people have all the power (and the responsibility) in the country right now and still you hate on others. How about following our President's example? But that's not what's going on here. This is about your issues and your feelings of inadequacy. Hell, it probably WAS your fault that your parents divorced. Your posts tell me a lot more about you then about the state of politics or the country. You're wasting time. Get to work. We elected you guys. I voted for your guy. You were the ones who said if only you'd listened to us, we'd have utopia. Get to work. You're wasting time.

I think I'm sensing a daddy Yankee appearance somewhere in the near future. That's about as "hip-hop" as Steele and the Republican party are willing to go, I'm guessing...unless they sucker Kid Rock into doing a few ads. The problem with the Republican party right now is that brand recognition is high, they're a known commodity, and so far, no one likes what they're selling.

Typical Republican....

Thinking that solving a problem is just a matter of new PR and better BS.

"Oh stewardess! I speak jive."

I'm just tired of them thinking everybody is dumb. Their stunts only work with future Darwin Award winners so this act has gotten really stale.

They ruined the economy but somehow it is wrong to do anything to try and fix it that involves actually spending money. Now they think they can attract people of color by hiring a marketing firm? Really? So no rethinking of the hardline anti-immigration stance? No apology for the southern strategy? But saying "bling bling" is supposed to be appealing? What are they smoking at GOP headquarters because it must be choice.

maybe he's just taking a page from Kwame's playbook, and wants to be "The RNC Chairman of Bling." that'd work for me. since we all got punk'd in dey-twa for giving our "hip-hop mayor" a second chance, maybe the "hip-hop RNC chairman" can do the same for the Republicans that Kwame did for Detroit. that'd be swell. now all all we need is a powerlusting vixen to start texting him...
"...busted is what you see"
-famous unconsciously prophetic kwame text

Funny, I just overheard this afternoon:

"But I'm telling you, hip hop is dead!"

yelled forcefully several times, on the #1 downtown subway in the north Bronx, by a 20-something black dude wearing Gucci sneakers and a sleak leather jacket, in an animated conservation on his cell with someone about their upcoming music business meeting in midtown.

Um....

I guess Steele doesn't get it. The GOP is and has not really regarded the black population one of them. He is not but a token for the GOP. He really doesn't stand for anything that the average person represents. The few blacks that belong in the GOP has no idea what the average black person does or faces daily.