- MICHAEL STEELE RESPONDS TO RNC-REROUTING-PHONE-CALLS-TO-DNC-GATE: A kindly news-scribe at CBS credits your Wonkette for first “flagging” the bit about how the RNC has been redirecting DNC-instigated calls back to the DNC all day, and then, comically, asks Michael Steele about this: “Steele, sounding angry, then said, ‘don’t sit there and think that you’re going to direct a bunch of angry liberals’ to the RNC … ‘To sit back and say that this is some Republican cabal is a bunch of baloney,’ he said. ‘And you can substitute that B for something else if you want.’” A barrel of baloney? [CBS]
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You stay classy, Michael Steele
A bottle of baloney? A brick of baloney? A bassoon of baloney?
I don’t get it.
A bunch of maloney. a hunch of falony. a crunch of palony. Okay, I give up. This is harder than “nagger”.
A munch of Maloney?
Wonkette is a “satire site”–whu?
Here, CBS, let me explain it to you…
Satire: Gulliver’s Travels, 1984
Sarcasm: Wonkette
Hmmmm, let’s see.
1) Angry “mobs” of white people.
2) Most if not all the GOP leadership is dead set against “reform.”
3) GOP linked lobbyists/tea baggers leading the charge
4) GOP well known puppet for Insurance companies (so are Demrats, but more so GOP.)
5) Plan is obvious, stupid and poorly executed
Let’s call it political profiling. All that’s needed is an unfortunate boy being fondled by a creepy old man and we have a GOP inspired mess.
I used to play with phones too when I was 7 years old.
[re=379293]La Cieca[/re]: ewwwwwwww. Stop that! Although it does fit…
I called and went with option 9, more options, then 3 which is for the co-chairman. I asked for Co-Chairman Steele and was informed that it’s actally “Chairman Steele” at which point I gasped and hung up.
Maybe.. maybe it’s the second B he’s wanting us to substitute? Geez, I don’t know. That’s probably the most coherent sentence quoted in this article. The entire thing’s gibberish.
“Steele added that callers should “talk to your own party because they’re the ones that are ginning this nonsense up.”
He concluded his comments by saying, “and besides, I thought it was a good idea.”"
????
he probably meant salami, or gabba-gou (What tony soprano eats). Maybe corned beef, or bacon, or pastrami. Or turkey and mashed potatoes. I’m hungry.
Steele added that callers should “talk to your own party because they’re the ones that are ginning this nonsense up.”
He concluded his comments by saying, “and besides, I thought it was a good idea.”
Ah, the old “My client didn’t kill the victim — and besides, it was in self-defense” argument. Works every time.
The name Steele should be reserved for a man who doesn’t lose his cool.
[re=379294]V572625694[/re]:
Waaaaiiiit a second. 1984 is a satire? Of what? Animal Farm is satire. 1984 is dystopic sci-fi.
2 pedant posts in one day! Whoo-hoo! Brownie points! I get brownie points!
Proving once and for all that Wonkette is just a bunch of fliggers.
A runch of raloney? You’re speaking gibber Steele!
He meant to say baloney is my bitch.
WHY DO REPUBLICANS ALWAYS WANT US TO SWETCH THE LITTERS?
Actually, I have to give them props for this. I mean, as far as RNC tricks go, that was smart. Ish. Smartish.
Maybe we can get Barbara Billingsly to translate: “Excuse me, but I speak gibberish!”
[re=379304]misterfixit[/re]: It is what Stalin meant, in any case.
I work for a Democratic Congressman and take calls from angry conservatives all day — I’ll just say that Steele should shut up and answer his calls like a man. He’s acting like a bottom on C Street.
The DNC should be soliciting a small donation from every such call and make it public so that the RNC can see that they are raising money for the Democratic Party.
“If you are angry about being re-routed by a party that doesn’t want your opinion please consider a donation of $1 or more as a symbolic way of giving them a big FU. Press 1 to donate now using your credit card.”
Maybe “…Republican cabal is a bunch of bargain-basement bathroom butt-fucks.”
But really, I think the calls should be directed at the DNC so angry liberals can let them know that they shouldn’t make deals with the devil, but pass the fucking bill with your majorities rather than play into the “delay, then kill” strategy that they’ve identified.
[re=379294]V572625694[/re]: Actually, it’s “snarkasm.”
Maybe he meant a crunch of Odie Colonie?
I swear he becomes less coherent every time he opens his mouth.
My baloney has a first name; it’s R-E-P-U-B
My baloney has a second name; it’s L-I-C-A-N
Oh, I love to eat it every day, and if you ask me why, I’ll say
Cause the GOP has a way with fucking up the USA
Wait a sec, this means we have some sort of CBS journalist in our midst…
OK, who is it?
Don’t make me turn this internet around and go home!
[re=379316]KBuster[/re]: Blush
Here, let me help, I’ve got the power of Unix!
a brunch of baloney?
a bunch of baloney?
a cowpunch of baloney?
a crunch of baloney?
a haunch of baloney?
a hunch of baloney?
a keypunch of baloney?
a launch of baloney?
a lunch of baloney?
a munch of baloney?
a paunch of baloney?
a punch of baloney?
a staunch of baloney?
[re=379306]Tommmcatt[/re]:
I think the George W Bush Presidency was a satire of 1984.
Someone’s NAGGING. You know what that makes someone?
“…and besides, I thought it was a good idea.”
Yeah, you thought you were going to get elected to the U.S. Senate, too. That’s a Bunch of Barely Brain-functioning repuBlican Bureaucrats.
Did he mean the B carved on that Pittsburgh girl’s face?
[re=379326]Bill E Pilgrim[/re]:
I stand corrected.
Michael can suck a bushel of baloney.
Replace the B with bunches of dick.
[re=379320]My choice. My Wonkette.[/re]: V572625694: Actually, it’s “snarkasm.”
Wonketts = ansnarkists
Maybe substitute that B for a backwards B.
[re=379326]Bill E Pilgrim[/re]: American social and economic life is a satire of Das Kapital.
I think it’s the ‘b’ in ‘cabal’ he’s referring to — it should read Republican Canal, which we all know is Sanford-speak for something unspeakable.
a bunch of phoney?
maybe what he really had in mind was
a bunch of lying-in-your-face-socialist-kenyan-nagger-loving-gay-marrying-muslins-destroying-america-for-real-americans-in-the-pro-america-sections-aloney
Silly Bunt.
‘don’t sit there and think that you’re going to direct a bunch of angry liberals’ to the RNC … ‘To sit back and say that this is some Republican cabal is a bunch of baloney,’
Translation: “Ya need ta stop makin’ things up!”
Steele is one crazy bagger.
[re=379290]Tommmcatt[/re]: Butt full of baloney? He’s doing it alone?
[re=379303]SayItWithWookies[/re]: The charges are ridiculous, I’m a happily married family man, and those Young Republican interns shouldn’t've been all flaunting their firmly-muscled Speedo-clad buttocks in my face as they got into my hot tub anyway. And nobody swallowed. Much.
[re=379336]lee hussein oswald[/re]: Good anal-ysis, but I think you meant Craig or Vitter or somebody. Stanford shows signs of liking ladyparts.
Steele just gave an interview on CNN a few minutes ago. When asked how he would grade Obama’s performance thus far, he answered:
“You know, I could do the expected Republican partisan thing and say ‘Give the boy an F’, but I’d say the boy maybe gets a C minus.”
Boy.
[re=379306]Tommmcatt[/re]: You got me! I probably meant to say Animal Farm. But 1984 has been described as satire too: Eurasia = Communist World, Big Brother = Stalin, Goldstein = Trotsky, etc.
This is kinda funny, especially because HuffPo refers to Bolton as a “rage-walrus” :
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/05/bolton-decries-release-of_n_251697.html
[re=379335]My choice. My Wonkette.[/re]:
I think of all of the wars on this and wars on that, the Republican war on satire has been the most devastating in some ways. They’ve simply become so ridiculous that it’s impossible to keep up with. I mean, look at this place, despite our best efforts the funniest things by far are the ones that come out of the Republicans’ mouths, intended as serious statements.
Someone should do one of those “Descent of man” graphics labeled “Spiritual leaders of the Republican Party” with the walking figure starting with William F Buckley, going through Rush Limbaugh and ending with Orly Taitz.
You know who deserves some props? Kathleen Sebelius. She’s the one who has to sit there while these idiotic fucktards are yelling “Y’all are a bunch of SOCIALIST COMMIES who want to KILL the old people. And where’s the birf certificate, ya FASCIST?!?! Huh?!?”
Really, she should get a goddamn medal for not going apeshit and having security tase the fuck out of these dillweeds.
Dammit, posted on the wrong thread.
Is Steele still bringing the fried chicken and potato salad?
C’mon there Token, are you sure your wingnut teabagger buddies aren’t up to this, or are people at the DNC so Stoopid they mass message themselves. Who ate the strawberries ?, also.
The republican party offices can do whatever they like, but I hope that lots of these ‘angry liberals’ are calling and then simply hanging up if they try to transfer. One could use the time-tested talk radio troll technique of pretending to be Sarah Palin or a birth certificate or whatever it is that republicans like, so as to confound their call screeners.
[re=379346]My choice. My Wonkette.[/re]: Do ladies not have canals? What was all this “Appalachian Trail” nonsense, anyway?
[re=379348]V572625694[/re]:
And Ingsoc= “English Socialism”; I have read that, now that I think about it. Didn’t he write an essay along those lines? He was a fascinating guy.
I’m keeping the brownie points, though.
[re=379348]V572625694[/re]: For what it is worth, I took a college seminar at a fairly prestigious school called “Satire” and we read 1984 paired with Brave New World. We mostly worked with Utopian and Dystopian worlds, although we finished with Waiting for Godot.
[re=379325]snideinplainsight[/re]: Haw, my baloney.sh is longer!
grep ‘unch$’ /usr/share/dict/words | awk ‘{ print $1 ” of baloney?” }’ | wc -l
63
[re=379347]Extemporanus[/re]: I’m just…speechless.
[re=379350]Bill E Pilgrim[/re]: Yeah, maybe I should start a site like Wonkette now that there are so many comedians from heaven sent.
[re=379364]lee hussein oswald[/re]: Look, the only canal my boy Stanford likes is the vaginal kind. That’s why he’s been disgraced within his party.
From the article: “I asked RNC chairman Michael Steele, who held a conference call this afternoon, why the RNC is redirecting the callers, noting that Republicans believe Americans should have the right to complain to Democrats at town hall meetings and elsewhere. Steele responded that “we are not inciting anyone to go out and disrupt anything.”
JOURNALISM FAIL, CBS. Just one goddamn time, I would like to see a journalist call this clown (or any of the clowns, really) on the obvious lies.
In the interests of educating journalists, the proper response, Mr. Brian “Chip Reid’s Asscrack” Montopoli, is this: “Actually, Mr. Chairman, there are very specific directions on how exactly to disrupt the meetings that have been posted on right-wing websites and blessed by Republican Congressional leadership. So in fact, you are directly inciting supporters to disrupt meetings.”
And in my dreams, you then add: “So if Democrats can handle screaming wingnuts in person, and you can’t even handle them over the phone, doesn’t that make you, and by extension the entire Republican party, a ginormous bunch of pussies?”
[re=379347]Extemporanus[/re]: Michael Steele was a shitty leuitenant governor, failed senate candidate, and a rumored gubernatorial candidate. As RNC chair, he apologized for an innocent remark about a druggy radio host. I think he gets an F and he shouldn’t eligible to give ratings.
Hey wonkoffs, while you are having fun snarking at the birthers, it turns out Erik Prince was running a murder for hire / crusade operation. Search on Erik Prince.
I wonder if this was the work of Liz Becton?
“B”alls of Steele…what a bouche!
[re=379375]Paul Tardy[/re]: Time to give Erik Prince an NRA gun collecting award ASAP.
The Republican House Nagger seems pretty upset.
I had dystopia once. Something I read, they figured. The cure was to read lots of Quine.
[re=379347]Extemporanus[/re]: Um. Seriously? He called the President “boy”?
That, um, that’s not even appropriate between black people right? Unless it’s like “boy-eeee”.
[re=379347]Extemporanus[/re]: he’s become the REO Steelewagon. oh that boy.
[re=379355]widget09[/re]: as he nervously manipulates his steele balls.
[re=379316]KBuster[/re]: He’s acting like a bottom on C Street.
Acting?
Box of Bratwurst? Anyway, I thought it was funny.
[re=379384]assistant/atlas[/re]: Steele-y Steele!
He said “boy” at least once, in a sentence formulated pretty damn close to what I wrote. My transcript wasn’t exact, but nor was it embellished.
I realize that “give the boy a [grade]…” is a common figure of speech, but still. He’s the fucking president of fucking U.S. Americans. If you want to demean him, try using presidential figures of speech instead.
Like “nagger”.
Let’s hear it for the boy!
Let’s give the boy a hand!
“Steele went on to complain about the “arrogance” of an Obama administration that he said was looking down its nose at his mother, sister, family members and coworkers.
”
Typical Republican.
Pushing the family in front of the train
[re=379374]Alex Trebeks Girl[/re]: I’d probably give the boy a ‘B’.
[re=379414]Marlowe[/re]: Yeah, I thought that was a strange thing to say considering Steele’s arrogance in ignoring valid criticism of the tactics of the organisation he is supposedly in charge of.
[re=379347]Extemporanus[/re]: Can we refer to Steele as “boy” now, cause he certainly ain’t no MAN.
and assistant/atlas, I liked your dreamscape about what a real journalist would have responded, but, speaking for all people with pussies everywhere, I sure wish we could stop using that term as a pejorative. (I’m now running and hiding under a school desk).
Welcome to the jungle
We got fun ‘n’ games
We got everything you want
Honey we know the names
We are the people that can find
Whatever you may need
If you got the money honey
We got your disease ~
With Michael Steele, the only thing you know for dead certain that can’t be switched for that “B” is “brains.”
I don’t see how Steele can even look himself in the mirror. It’s one thing to be somebody’s assboy tool for shit tons o’ $$ (see Baucus, Max) quite another to be a human token for whatever chump change they throw at Steele every two weeks.
Well, the reporter’s name is Brian. Some I’m thinking it was intended as, “And you can substitute that, B., for something else if you want.” And the honky reporter transcribed it wrong. Because Michael Steele, you see, is from the street.
[re=379422]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Now he’s restricted to signing checks less than $100,000.
[re=379434]chascates[/re]: In any organization I cared about I’d set Steele’s limit at petty cash, say $10.00 per week, tops.
Steele Calls RNC Phone Prank “A Good Idea”
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/steele-calls-rnc-phone-prank-a-good-idea.php
[re=379434]chascates[/re]: William Jefferson has no problem with that.
[re=379368]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: You went to a fairly prestigious school called “Satire”? How was the football team? What fraternity did you pledge?
Just kidding, ha ha, don’t hate me. It’s grammar nerd day on Teh Wonkett.
“boy” huh….I think Mikey Steel is takin’ back the word ‘boy’..which almost got Jay’s ass kicked in Clerks II
[re=379322]Sussemilch[/re]: Beautiful!
[re=379347]Extemporanus[/re]: Stay classy CNN.
[re=379368]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: For what it is worth, I took a college seminar at a fairly prestigious school called “Satire” and we read 1984 paired with Brave New World.
God, I wish 1984 were satire, rather than the rightwing/bushwhack playbook we’re all living under.
[re=379325]snideinplainsight[/re]: Totes a lunch of baloney. Mmmmm, baloney.
Here’s the recipe, Yankees and other people who weren’t born in a trailer park. Take one hot cast-iron skillet, and two slices of cheap baloney (or Oscar Mayer if your lottery number just hit). Make 3-4 partial cuts from the center of the baloney out to the edge, leaving the center intact. Fry the baloney on both sides (the cuts keep the slice from turning into a baloney cup when it shrinks, and if you use four of them, you get a awesome German biker cross!). Place between white bread slices garnished with yellow mustard, Duke’s mayonnaise and sliced onions. MMMMmmmm, that’s a sammich.
[re=379339]Lionel Hutz Esq.[/re]: A cunning bunch of stunts!
[re=379348]V572625694[/re]: I’m starting to think that “Snow Crash” is a satire of contemporary American life. From Wikipedia:
“The story begins and ends in Los Angeles, which is no longer part of what is left of the United States, during the early 21st century. In this hypothetical future reality the federal government of the United States has ceded most of its power to private organizations and entrepreneurs.[3] Franchising, individual sovereignty and automobiles reign supreme (along with drug trafficking, violent crime, and traffic congestion). Mercenary armies compete for national defense contracts while private security guards preserve the peace in gated, sovereign housing developments. Highway companies compete to attract drivers to their roads rather than the competitors’, and all mail delivery is by hired courier. The remnants of government maintain authority only in isolated compounds where they transact tedious make-work that is, by and large, irrelevant to the booming, dynamic society around them.”
Man, it’s gotta be tough when your brain is replaced by a Boggle cube.
“What do you think this is, some Republican Cabal. This ain’t no Republican Cabal, this is….uh… uh…the Republican NATIONAL Cabal.”
[re=379447]V572625694[/re]: For what it is worth, the football team qualified as tragedy. No hate here.
[re=379535]Darkness[/re]: Luckily, Orwell’s conservatives were kind of intelligent.
As a Marylander who helped defeat Steele in his run against Ben Cardin, I accept all thanks for helping to provide the Michael Steele Comedy show to the nation at large.
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