Maybe Mitt Romney can burn him his Baja Men album.

He also admitted to being pro-choice before realizing what he might have stepped in and trying to backtrack.

Three things...Grand Master Flash IS hip-hop...diddy is really NOT a rapper and Chuck D is Wayyyyyyyyyyy to conscious for Steele's little mind...trying to floss and don't even know how....

This guy is certifiable. I know its funny and entertaining, but it really is frightening. The leadership of the opposition is nuts. The bulk of the remaining gopers in congress are nuts. WTF. We are in the 21st century and we are supposedly one of the leading democracies in the world and the leadership and members of one of the parties that just might wind up ruling again are totally certifiable. Last time they ruled and had their hands on the nuke codes it was a catastrophe and we killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people. I really don't understand how this is possible. I just don't get it.

He does do a lot of tap dancing.

Eric:

Your post is funny, TPM and you have missed the real news story here.

This @$$hat in the same GQ interview admitted openly- for the first time at least in his capacity as an a RNC chair- that he's prochoice.

Its news because he just hit another nail on his own RNC coffin.

I gotta say, I kinda like him after this interview. I mean, does he really seem that far off from a conservative Dem? If he can move the party away from the racists and radicals and more towards himself, I think we have a better country with two reasonable parties.

Michael Steele's parents would not have listened to Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin or the other "pack rats." They were more likely to be listening to Johnny Hartman or Billy Eckstein. But who knows, his parents might have been Ozzie and Harriet. *SNORT!*

Lets not do a Stalinist revision of history here. As unbelievable as it appears to be Michael Steele is correct on one point. Early rap is NOT, i repeat NOT, hip hop. Hip hop wasnt even in the lexicon until the early 90s at which point Rap was already almost 20 years old. AS one who grew up at the epicenter of rap {NYC} the phrase "hip hop" was never mentioned or thought of. Hip hop, like some kind of Soviet annexation, absorbed raps glorious legacy to legitimize itself. Rap icons embrace this concept as a way to stay relevant and make money. A pox on Grandmaster Flash, Sugar Hill and the rest for musical and artistic prostitution at the highest level. Artists like Whodini, UTFO and other were NOT hip hop artists, they were rappers period. Moreover its a total stretch to call hip hop a music form Call it a movement, call it a culture, just dont call it music. Last point and I'm done. R&B is dead and hip hop holds the smoking murder weapon. What was once the staple of a entire civilizaton, R&B, has had the talent and life wrung out of it by hip hop. Michael Steele has been thus far in hos RNC chairmanship been 0 for forever. But he hit this one right on the head. Last gasp of a dying man.

Hip Hop is to Rap as New Wave was to Punk.