{"id":1517,"date":"2010-01-10T14:41:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T22:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2010-01-11T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T18:00:00","slug":"michael-injun-steele-calls-for-harry-negro-reid-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"Michael (Injun) Steele Calls For Harry (Negro) Reid To Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The press is going bonkers over the latest pseudo-scandal it is attempting to whip up. The headlines are popping up everywhere and with ever greater sensationalism. The chairman of the Republican Party wants the leader of the Democrats in the Senate to resign for using inappropriate language.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Steele calls on Reid to resign, <em>Washington Post<\/em><\/li>\n<li>GOP Chairman Pressures Reid on Obama Remarks, <em>New York Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Republican Steele Says Reid Should Step Down From Leader Post, <em>BusinessWeek<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Senate leader must go following &#8216;Negro&#8217; remark: Republicans, <em>AFP<\/em><\/li>\n<li>GOP chair: Reid should step down following race remark, <em>CNN <\/em><\/li>\n<li>Steele tells Reid to step down, <em>Politico<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Steele: Reid should resign Senate post, <em>UPI<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Republicans call on Senator Reid to quit post, <em>Reuters<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Steele: Reid Should Quit Leadership Post, <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Michael Steele Shocks the World by Calling for Harry Reid to Step Down, <em>New York Magazine<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And on it goes. Personally, I wouldn&#8217;t mind in the least if Reid surrendered the Majority Leader post. I&#8217;ve been advocating a change in leadership for almost two years. This may not be the way I would have chosen for him to go, but I believe the Democratic Party would be better served by a more aggressive and tactically savvy leader. Reid is responsible for some of the most infuriating capitulations in recent memory. From FISA to Iraq\/Afghanistan to health care, he seems determined to begin every negotiation from a disadvantaged position.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it is utterly absurd for Michael Steele to be taking the lead in calling for Reid to step down due to Reid&#8217;s use of the word <em>&#8220;negro.&#8221;<\/em> While Reid&#8217;s comment was certainly inappropriate, the word in itself is not pejorative, it was said in private, and in context it was complimentary to Obama. However, just a few days ago Steele publicly used an unambiguously insulting term for Native Americans: <em>&#8220;Injun.&#8221;<\/em> Yet Steele defends his criticism of Reid and dismisses his own intolerance. When asked if he should resign himself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/01\/10\/michael-steele-harry-reid_n_417661.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steele told Chris Wallace<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Steele:<\/strong> No, absolutely not. Why should I Chris? I&#8217;m pushing the ball. I&#8217;m raising the money. I&#8217;m winning elections. I have got the base fired up. [&#8230;] I wasn&#8217;t intending to say a racial slur at all. The reality is that&#8217;s not the same as what we were talking about before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course it&#8217;s not the same if it refers to himself. And since he didn&#8217;t intend to say a racial slur we should all just drop the subject &#8211; except Reid should still resign. This couldn&#8217;t be more hypocritical if Steele had insisted that <em>&#8220;That cracker should resign for saying negro.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Republicans might want to see if they can find another spokesperson on this issue. Steele doesn&#8217;t exactly hold the moral high ground. What&#8217;s more, his pompous self-glorification regarding his fundraising and electoral prowess is mightily overblown considering that Republicans have lost more races than not during his tenure (especially the NY-23 embarrassment), and he is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0110\/31269.html\" target=\"_blank\">bankrupting the party<\/a> while stuffing his own pockets. The only people he is firing up are tea party activists who are after his hide, and deep-pocketed donors whom he has motivated to cease all contributions as long as he is chairman.<\/p>\n<p>The substance of these events are decidedly negative for Steele and his party, yet somehow the media is still spinning it as a problem for Reid and the Democrats. Can someone please remind why we are supposed to believe that the media is liberal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The press is going bonkers over the latest pseudo-scandal it is attempting to whip up. The headlines are popping up everywhere and with ever greater sensationalism. The chairman of the Republican Party wants the leader of the Democrats in the Senate to resign for using inappropriate language. Steele calls on Reid to resign, Washington Post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684],"tags":[442,514,301],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","tag-harry-reid","tag-michael-steele","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ot","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7723,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7723","url_meta":{"origin":1517,"position":0},"title":"GOP Panicked By Romney&#8217;s Tax Dodge, Flummoxed By Harry Reid","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/6\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In a show of profound desperation, Republicans have taken to smearing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. 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