CPAC, or the Conservative Political Action Conference, is where the most outlandish elements of the Republican Party — now known as the mainstream — congregate for four days every winter. (This year, fired-up crowds lustily booed such villains as Mexican immigrants and immigration naturalization ceremonies.) But even for this crowd, Friday night was extreme. At a dinner honoring Republican saint Ronald Reagan, CPAC Communications Director Ian Walters said that “we elected Mike Steele as chairman because he was a black guy, that was the wrong thing to do.” The Observer reported that guests at the dinner gasped in shock. Walters was referring to former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, who led the organization from 2009 to 2011, and was in the back of the room when Walters made his remark. Steele lost his bid for a second term to Reince Priebus, and since 2011 has been a mainstay on cable news. He has often been harshly critical of President Trump. The remark was unusual in its bluntness, but it does pretty well reflect the Republican Party’s trajectory from gesturing toward minority inclusion in the early part of this decade to full-on embracing its current status as a party for white people. Still, Steele was understandaly not pleased. “If he feels that way I’d like him to come say that to my face,” he said, according to the Observer. “And then I’d like him to look at my record and see what I did. I can’t believe an official of CPAC would go onstage in front of an audience and say something like that. I’ve been a strong supporter of CPAC for many years and I thought they raised them better than that here.” Nope, they didn’t. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...tor-rnc-wrong-to-elect-black-guy-as-head.html
To give him the benefit of the doubt, was he implying that giving the guy the job for being black as a PR stunt was the wrong thing to do, or was he just being racist? I'm hedging on racist given the track record of Republicans as of late, but the question remains. Was it filmed?
Indeed filmed, he is coloured himself.. not entirely sure what looking at him. Steele said somewhere else someone showed him the comment as a tweet or something while he was on a radio program. It is of course completely accurate, it was a publicity stunt. There was nothing genuine other than a reaction to Obama. Getting a bio on ACU Communications Director Ian Walters is tricky. I think stuff may be being deleted.. Half serious. The gasp was not did he just say that? It was I can't believe he said that out loud on camera.
Kudos man, when i read the headline i first expected it to be some hillbilly, nuance is something that is unnecessary in the day and age of fake outrage when you can chop a quote and act offended. Michael Steele is currently working for MSNBC shitting all over republicans so there is very little doubt he was a terrible hire, and i think anyone with a brain understands the reason the RNC tried to put him up as their front man, If Debbie Wasserman Schultz ended up with a job on fox news where she spent the whole day shitting all over democrats, i think people would have questions.