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Okay, I am not a big Saturday Night Live fan but this was funny!

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Wow, the brother has had the job for a month and there is already a call from a high-ranking Republican official that Michael Steele step down as chair of the Republican National Committee.

Granted, it’s been a rough month for Steele.  I don’t think his “hip hop makeover” strategy for the Republican party has been well-received by the establishment of the party.  To be fair, I clowned it too but, for different reasons, I suspect.

And, we saw how he got punked after crticizing Rush Limbaugh and felt compelled, for some reason, to apologize for not worshipping at the altar of Rush.

However, like I said, it’s only been a month, people.  Can the man get some time to find his footing?

Apparently not.

The Hill is reporting that North Carolina’s Republican national committeewoman, Dr. Ada Fisher, has sent out an email to fellow RNC members claiming that he is “eroding confidence”  in the GOP and asks that his transistion team encourage him to step down.  Fisher goes on to say:

“I don’t want to hear anymore [sic] language trying to be cool about the bling in the stimulus package or appealing to D.L. Hughley and blacks in a way that isn’t going to win us any votes and makes us frankly appear to many blacks as quite foolish.”

Even worse, the email includes Michael Steele’s personal email address.  I presume that this would allow those that co-sign to email him to directly to express their dissatisfaction.

The Republicans continue to eat their own.  I’ll guess I grab my bucket of popcorn and continue to watch this horror movie play out.

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Rush Limbaugh is the GOP’s version of Suge Knight (before he started getting knocked out).  Most Republican politicians or leaders are scared to death to say anything negative about him.  Those that do soon regret it because he quickly ends up taking their manhood from them.

It’s kind of like the saying I used to hear from older cats talking tough, “if you even dream about kickin’ my a$$, you’d better wake up and apologize.”

Well, the latest GOP leader to be turned out and put on the stroll is Michael Steele.  Steele had the audacity to believe that being elected the chair of the Republican National Committee put him in a position where he could actually say that Rush Limbaugh does not speak for the Republican Party and that he (Michael Steel) is actually the party’s head.

Well, that was Saturday.

By Monday, he was kissing the ring, handing over his manhood, putting on the high heels and hitting the “track”.

Yes, Michael Steele joined the growing list of GOP leaders who have to bow down to their real leader, Rush Limbaugh.

Of course, he’s getting clowned for it.

I share with you two videos.  One is from the show, The Young Turks. This show leans more to the liberal side.  So, of course he’s clowned there, right?  However, the second is more telling.  It’s from Morning Joe, an MSNBC show that leans more to the right side of the political aisle.  This morning, they clowned Steele mercilessly.

Videos below:

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Has Michael Steele bumped his head?  In a strategic move (insert sarcasm here) that is sure to elicit many an eye-roll from Black and Latino voters, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee is planning a “hip hop makeover” for the GOP.

This is part of the party’s effort to get young Blacks and Latinos to join the Republican ranks.  Steele says “There was underlying concerns we had become too regionalized and the party needed to reach beyond our comfort zones…We need messengers to really capture that region - young, Hispanic, black, a cross section … We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings.”

However, the problem, Chairman Steele, is not how the message is conveyed.  The problem is the message itself.  For too long, the Republican party, in playing to its base, has been too willing to throw black people, en masse, under the bus.  Whether they were accusing us of being  just welfare cases or assuming that any position of  importance we received was at the expense of a more qualifed white person, the GOP has played on racism for political gain. Chairman Steele, people are not that blind and their memories are not that short — your party has issues.

Having the right beat can get your song on the charts but, I doubt that a hot beat is going to be enough to salvage the party’s reputation with people of color.  Michael Steele, you have your work cut out for you.  If this is your best idea, I say go back to the lab and don’t come out until you get a better one or, since you’re so into hip hop, here’s a few bars from Eminem when he battled in 8 Mile:

Matter fact, dog, here’s a pencil /
Go home, write some s**t, make it suspenseful, /
And don’t come back until something don’t hits you/
f**k it! You can take the mike home with you!/

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