Steele Leaves Everyone Speechless (Again)

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/05/08/steele_leaves_everyone_speechless_again.html

Steele Leaves Everyone Speechless (Again)


RNC Chairman Michael Steele hosted a radio show this morning and discussed President Obama's forthcoming pick of a Supreme Court nominee:

"Good morning y'all, we're back in the house. We're talking a little bit of Constitution and a little bit Supreme Court. And a whole lot of saving America's judicial system and saving our rights as citizens and not having empathetic judges decide cases, but rather judges who are actually understanding the rule of law and what the Constitution and those laws are all about. And how to apply the facts to the law and the law to the facts. And adjudicate my case. I don't need some judge sitting up there feeling bad for my opponent because of their life circumstances or their condition. And short changing me and my opportunity to get fair treatment under the law. Crazy nonsense empathetic. I'll give you empathy. Empathize right on your behind. Craziness."

[NV Whino]

1. Is he related to Alan Keyes?

[spanone]

2. dumber than a fucking stump

[Arugula Latte]

3. Fo shizzle, bro!

Yo yo yo! I am ready to kick it with the GOP. They're all gangsta and cool these days, ya know what I'm sayin'? Empathy is wack, man.

[northofdenali]

38. DUzy!

:rofl:

On edit: A friend of mine from Southern California did a really funny Steele rap/hip-hop deal at a party last weekend - and he didn't even have this idiocy to base it on! Go, Tauern! Let's do another one!

[NashVegas]

4. Wow, He Must Have Been REALLY PISSED About Bush v Gore

And how the court threw the constitution aside so that Bush wouldn't be irreparably harmed.

[KamaAina]

5. You're sure that isn't The Onion?

:eyes:

[yellowcanine]

6. Obama might as well quit going up against wit like that: "Empathize right on your behind."

Ooh. Nice smackdown, bro.

[opihimoimoi]

7. I guess those GOP Fellas missed the Empathy 101, 202, 303 Courses in Lib Colleges

Watch what happens Michael...watch....cause without Empathy...you reveal yourself as a POS

[hatrack]

8. This can't be real. Please, tell me this is from a parody site.

Please.

[babylonsister]

9. Nope, this is from the esteemed co-leader of the GOP.

:evilgrin:

[JonLP24]

10. Several different sources mention this

I posted a link in LBN which includes a audo with that exact quote.

[Lena inRI]

11. GOOD GRIEF!

What an incoherent, agitated style this man speaks.

His language reflects profound inability to think and communicate clearly.

Steele is the perfectly appropriate spokesperson for the dying Republican Party.

Watch how he'll stick with radio and join the other rabble of right radio talk shows. . .because he's way out of his league trying to be RNC head.

:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[annabanana]

12. Aahhhhhh. . . the gift that keeps on giving

[Blackhatjack]

13. Give that Man a Microphone ... and step out of the way!!! LOL

The more the insane talk and people hear them, the less Dems will have to do to turn them out of positions of power.

You can't make this stuff up.... hope they saved the tapes!

[Warren DeMontague]

14. What?

...I'm sorry, what?

[wndycty]

15. No wonder the GOP hates Black folks. . .as a Black man I have been tempted to lob. . .

. . .any number of racial epitaphs at this dude.

[Cha]

28. How about just

"Fucking Idiot"?

[MadMaddie]

37. wndycty I am with you on this one

[Number23]

46. Okay??! You KNOW it's bad when you're black and you want to call another black person

a racist name!! :rofl:

[Botany]

16. so when scalia ruled to hear bush v Gore

was that empathy?

Steele is an idiot .... we have the votes .... it is over.

[riverdeep]

17. Wow, he's morphing into President Camacho from 'Idiocracy'.

"Hey, I know everybody's shit is a little e-mo-tion-al..."- Dwayne Camacho (Professional Wrestler, Porn Star, President of the USA) in the House of Representin'.


Also, do these people have trouble with basic concepts? They're confusing empathy with sympathy. Empathy is the ability to sense another entity's state, sympathy is feeling affection for that entity. Seems like being aware of the litigant's states of mind are relevant to all sorts of judgely things.

[Swamp Rat]

21. tatatatatatatat! .... "That's what I thought!"

:D

[hootinholler]

49. SWAMPY! Mon Ami!

Welcome home dude! (er, are you home or still on the road?)

Hope y'all had a great trip.

-Hoot

[WI_DEM]

18. the gift that keeps giving.

[Iris]

48. No kidding - the first comment at the link - "Michael Steele, please don't change. EVER."

with a little donkey next to the commenter's id!

[bunnies]

19. Palin / Steele '12!!!!

Say it with mah! :rofl:

[Are_grits_groceries]

20. Who is he talking to??

What demographic is this supposed to reach??

[babylonsister]

25. He was hosting a radio show, but don't know who or where. nt

[underpants]

34. More directly-what the hell does that even mean?

:shrug:

His statement made no sense of any kind

[riverdeep]

39. He was guest-hosting for Bill Bennett.

Think about that. Bill Bennett, the guy who wrote 'The Book of Virtues' and hectored others for years on their moral failings, and then it was later found out he had a massive gambling problem. One nut filling in for another. Although, Steele is a special one. Even among pubs, someone like him doesn't come along too often.

Few vices have escaped Bennett's withering scorn. He has opined on everything from drinking to "homosexual unions" to "The Ricki Lake Show" to wife-swapping. There is one, however, that has largely escaped Bennett's wrath: gambling.

...and sources and documents provided to The Washington Monthly put his total losses at more than $8 million.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0306.green.html



You can listen to the actual audio here:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/08/steele-empathize-behin/

[Samantha]

22. How does Steele feel about a party which used a law implemented

to prompt the earliest of American citizens to put their electoral college votes on the pony express in time to get to D.C. to be promptly counted? That would be the Safe Harbor law the Republicans used in the Information Age to steal an election in 2000, discounting the votes of 51 million Americans in the process.

Sam

[bridgit]

23. Throw in a bag of chips and Michael Steele is damn near like a paid vacation

[babylonsister]

29. Hahaha! nt

[lunatica]

24. Abysmal ignorance is the GOP quest with Steele fighting to take the lead

[Critters2]

26. Someone nominate this man to run for president!! Please!!

:rofl:

[DCKit]

50. Shaddup already!!!! He's still smarter then Dumbya.

It'll be 100 years before we can stand another 8 of "Republic Stoopid".

[pinto]

27. WTF?

:eyes:

[Qutzupalotl]

30. This guy?

[Marr]

31. Ah, yes-- another "strategic" piece of stupidity, no doubt.

What a buffoon.

[ControlledDemolition]

32. SImply put he wants a SCROTUS!

Supreme Court Republicans Of The United States!

[rustydog]

33. He Be Da Man! He Be Da Man!

[autorank]

35. What house?

:shrug:

[Lerkfish]

36. oh.my.god.

that's comedy gold right there.

[WestSeattle2]

40. Michael Steele is the poster child...

for what happens when mothers accidentally replace baby formula with lead paint. The effect lead paint has on the human brain is so clearly evident in Mr. Steele.

Please, for the sake of the children, clearly label your jars of lead paint and keep them in a locked cabinet.

[Patsy Stone]

41. This is, no doubt, all part of his cunning plan.

What a maroon. It's even funnier when you hear the inflections in his voice.

[Kablooie]

42. And this is what the GOP chose to represent them and their views. It's the NEW GOP! yo!

[burning rain]

43. This guy's hip and clued-in in a way Michele Bachmann can appreciate.

^

[vanlassie]

44. So-uh...all that bullshit about "compassionate conservatisim"

was just bullshit?????
Huh! How about that!

[defendandprotect]

45. Presume no one else wanted the job with the RNC . . . ????

[noamnety]

47. It's not fair to blame him - it's his speechwriter's fault.