Video: Steele calls WaPo allegations “not credible”
posted at 11:54 am on February 8, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Michael Steele appeared on This Week with George Stephanopoulos to refute charges leveled yesterday by the Washington Post that he had misdirected campaign funds to his sister. The Post received the information through the mistaken release of sealed documents to their reporter, but Steele told the ABC audience that the allegations were unsubstantiated and intended to give prosecutors a reason to lower the sentence of a corrupt former aide:
The Post reported Steele’s 2006 Senate campaign finance chairman has told federal prosecutors that Steele arranged for his 2006 Senate campaign to pay a defunct company run by his sister for services that were never rendered.
“It’s not true,” Steele told me on “This Week” Sunday.
“Those allegations were leveled by a convicted felon who was trying to get a reduced sentence on his conviction,” Steele said. “The reality of it is that the US attorney, as well as the judge, looked at what he presented and it did not apply. He said there was no credibility to it.”
Steele said, “the Washington Post ought to be ashamed of itself for getting out in front of something without all of the facts.”
Steele said he gave the Washington Post documentation showing the receipts that were used and applied toward the $37,000 reimbursement.
“It was a legitimate reimbursement of expenses,” Steele said. “If my sister had not been reimbursed, I and she would have been in violation of McCain-Feingold finance law.”
He’s right about paying defunct companies, especially those that go bankrupt. Just because a company closes its doors does not mean that its assets and liabilities disappear. Anyone owing money to the business would still have to pay, and the money would get disbursed according to its dissolution plan. In a bankruptcy, that money would go to creditors, who would understandably demand to have all bills paid in full.
Steele makes another good point about McCain-Feingold. Had the campaign not reimbursed Monica Turner for her work, it would have become an illegal in-kind contribution. As long as the work his sister did was legitimate — and the Post noted the invoices supplied by Steele to them as comprising most of the money in question — then Steele had no choice but to reimburse Turner through either the defunct business or directly.
Did the Post ask whether the federal investigators have, as Steele claimed, determined that the allegations have no credibility? Or did they just run with the information leaked to them in that highly unusual manner? If they didn’t ask or got no answer, the Post should have held off putting the allegations on their front page, or on any page at all.
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William Amos on February 8, 2009 at 2:51 PM
I couldn’t be more happy that this is the first order of business. This is exactly what I want to hear from the RNC chair. The RNC needs to form and enact a proactive policy across the board to to protect our people from the msm smear machine. Go Mike Go!
sonnyspats1 on February 8, 2009 at 2:52 PM
This is all about getting the news hounds away from Obamas’ terrible appointees and their criminal pasts. T
Wade on February 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM
Making up phony charges and thus handcuffing Republican leadership is an essential part of the Dem Party’s M.O.
They want Steele to do exactly what you are demanding. If the head of the RNC was, say, Ken Blackwell, they’d be using their opposition research hacks and digging up phony charges about him too. It doesn’t matter who the person is, its the position of power that matters, and whoever is in that position will be targeted.
Buy Danish on February 8, 2009 at 2:59 PM
So very true..
doriangrey on February 8, 2009 at 3:01 PM
Georgie got instruction from the White House, I see.
ProfessorMiao on February 8, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Why don’t we let Chairman Steele make that determination, hmm?
jimmy the notable on February 8, 2009 at 3:11 PM
Really? How do you figure?
Sounds like he went out of his way to satisfy the campaign finance laws as they are written – so getaclue, OK?
uncivilized on February 8, 2009 at 3:15 PM
As a rule, he doesn’t.
Jim Treacher on February 8, 2009 at 3:20 PM
I would have preferred it if he had said the allegations were not true.
MB4 on February 8, 2009 at 3:21 PM
OK, that’s better.
MB4 on February 8, 2009 at 3:22 PM
Meanwhile, some douchebag tax evader blames Turbo Tax and becomes Secretary of the Treasury…
God Bless America.
D2Boston on February 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Verdict first, evidence afterwards. Off with his head!
Cheshire Cat on February 8, 2009 at 3:31 PM
What a difference an administration makes…
JetBoy on February 8, 2009 at 3:37 PM
In getalife’s world everything is goose-stepping lynch-mob propaganda. Nothing is what it is because everything is what it isn’t. And contrariwise; what it is, it isn’t, and what it isn’t, it is. You see?
Cheshire Cat on February 8, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Is this the same George Stapwhateverhisnameis, that briefs Rhammie every day via the telephony?
Hmmmmm, no they ain’t got no ulterior motive
Mercy4Me on February 8, 2009 at 3:50 PM
When are they going to start firing these people for “Accidental” leaking of documents?
I mean, of course, I believe if was done on purpose (Criminal), but even if it were an accident then it’s incompetence.
- The Cat
MirCat on February 8, 2009 at 3:51 PM
The only way you can’t shrug off charges made by your opponents and go about your job as RNC Chair is if you were embroiled in a federal investigation prior to taking the job. If this had happened after Steele was elected, you just say “typical Democrat politics of person destruction. I’m not gonna stoop to reply to this kind of garbage” and go about your business while your opponents look like petty fools.
Buddahpundit on February 8, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Could he for Chrissakes manage to get pissed about this? In public? It’s another screwjob, complete with “accidental release” of privileged documents to an unbiased media outlet.
I don’t expect objectivity from any of the MSM, not after the last 8 years, but this reporting bias is killing us and seriously damaging the nation.
To the Washington Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
Could you please look into any or all of the following:
The Obama campagn’s financing.
Chuckaquiddick?
Diane Feinstein’s mysterious non-conflict of uninterest?
Several recent Cabinet appointees tax habits?
Al Franken and the Air America debacle?
Harry Reid’s land deals in Nevada?
Chris Dodd’s loan history?
Barney Frank’s live-in Fanny Mae connection?
Barney Frank’s homebuilt CallBoy operation?
Franklin Raines?
That’s just what I can recall off the top of a very irritated head this morning. Republicans aren’t saints by any means, but the media “pass” democrats get is mind-boggling.
There’s enough smoke there to cover the entire Beltway, and somehow it’s getting ignored.
Dark Horse on February 8, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Is there anything more futile than trying to win while allowing Democrat attacks to go unanswered?
If he turns out to be guilty, let him step down. But accusations of wrongdoing from the left mean nothing unless substantiated. They tried to destroy Sarah Palin with a ginned-up scandal, just like they tried on multiple occasions to gin up scandal against W, and yep, against Joe the Plumber.
Is there anything more predictable than a left-wing smear against a conservative political threat?
ThereGoesTheNeighborhood on February 8, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Sunrises, by a whisker.
Cheshire Cat on February 8, 2009 at 4:00 PM
“that was…that’s….that I don’t know about…”
He’s got to do better than that. He should have had a clear answer to such an obvious question that he knew he’d be asked. Get your $hit together and be prepared!
He made himself look guilty of something. Perception is as important as the truth.
Everything I’ve seen of this guy is weak. I’m not sure what you all see in him (except for …ahem…)
nottakingsides on February 8, 2009 at 4:03 PM
I wanna see all of BHO’s tax-evading Cabinet members on TV with Stephanopolous.
jgapinoy on February 8, 2009 at 4:07 PM
They say that there are only two sure things in life: Death & Taxes.
With BHO’s Cabinet, it’s become Death OR Taxes.
jgapinoy on February 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Its about time someone in the RNC has a set! I love this man! He doesn’t take anything lying down! Good for him not letting his name be tarnished! Way to go Michael Steele! The new man of Steele!!!!!
Eyvonne on February 8, 2009 at 4:12 PM
I don’t think I could take seeing that much kissing and fondling.
Cheshire Cat on February 8, 2009 at 4:13 PM
And behold a pale horse and his name that sat upon him was Steele.
Tav on February 8, 2009 at 4:17 PM
YEA TAV!
Eyvonne on February 8, 2009 at 4:21 PM
Now what do you think? The left is scared to death about Steele and what he will be able to accomplish over the next two years as the Obama administration continues to implode under the weight of it’s arrogance and false assumptions about what it means when one wins an election.
The WP has been nothing but a propaganda branch of the DNC since Watergate when two journalistic hacks managed to drag a second-rate pater out of obscurity.
highhopes on February 8, 2009 at 4:24 PM
They’d have to rent out a stadium.
highhopes on February 8, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Exactly.
And I’ll add the stink of the bill that’s making its way through Congress. WaPo probably had this “story” sitting in the drawer for the first sign of trouble. The sooner that Steele yanks out his receipts and demonstrates that his sister’s company actually provided his campaign with a useful service, the better.
That said, I’ll echo what I said in yesterday’s Steele thread. Regardless of the double standard, regardless of “the way of the world,” and regardless of whatever other rationalization you may offer, the fact remains, using public money or, in the case of campaign funds, almost-public money to pay family members is always an invitation for scrutiny. Unless the family member has unique expertise, this kind of payment always look suspect.
Steele was always free to give his sister a helping hand with his own money–not the money of his campaign. I like Steele a lot, but this disappoints me because it’s a situation that he could have easily avoided by finding another service provider.
BuckeyeSam on February 8, 2009 at 4:29 PM
That’s because Steele has been through this with the WP before when they sought to discredit him during the US Senate race he lost. He already knows that the WP is the perfect smear merchant.
The irony, of course, is that the filthy bastard in the White House has a far more spotty record when it comes to ethics (the Rezko land deal Michelle Obama’s “job” as just two of many examples of the Obama’s corruption). Nevertheless, Steele is being attacked while the WP isn’t out there calling it a racist attack the way they did whenever anybody bothered to bring up the fact that the filthy bastard didn’t even bother to hide his corruption.
highhopes on February 8, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Am I the only one who thinks that Michael Steele bears more than a passing resemblance to Lee Van Cleef?
MB4 on February 8, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Lee Van Cleef turned into a bad guy, though. I admire Michael.
IlikedAUH2O on February 8, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Where I disagree with your general principle is that there IS scrutiny that comes when the campaign has to file its books. Ignoring the fact that there are more clever ways to funnel campaign money to family members than putting them on the payroll, nobody except the convicted felon and the WP seems to be making the charge that this couldn’t be a legitimate expense.
You make the case for not hiring family because of the perception that something untoward is going on. Allow me to suggest the opposite idea. If you are running for office and your campaign needs to hire a firm- do you hire outsiders if there is somebody from the family you can be reasonably assured has your best interests in mind? I would probably do the latter and document the hell out of whatever deal was made.
highhopes on February 8, 2009 at 4:42 PM
This investigation into campaicn finance is VERY IMPORTANT as it involves countless millions of dollars in anonymous contributions to a possible marxist who has shown friendships with terrorists and demonstrated attitudes consistent with a hatred of America and its white citizens.
The Washington Post wouldn’t cheapen itself with petty harrassment on the front page! I don’t know why those involved in Mr. Steele’s problem keep referring to one recipient and a smaller amount of money. The federal investigators were all over this.
Wait a minute, do I have this right???
IlikedAUH2O on February 8, 2009 at 4:43 PM
He was a good guy in, “For a few Dollars more”, but then played the bad guy in, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”. He also was a good guy in a short lived TV series.
After serving in the US Navy during World War II, Lee Van Cleef was trained as an accountant [probably not in the Tim Geithner school of accounting though]. He started acting in community theater while working as an office administrator, eventually landing a role in the touring company of “Mr. Roberts.” He was noticed by film director Stanley Kramer, who cast him in a nonspeaking role in “High Noon.” This led to a long string of supporting roles, usually playing menacing roles in westerns both in films and on television. He rose to star status Sergio Leone’s “spaghetti westerns,” playing enigmatic characters in “For a Few Dollars More” and “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” Van Cleef would make several more European-filmed westerns over the following decade, and would make a notable, atypical appearance in the science-fiction cult classic “Escape From New York.” His last role of note was playing a venerable ninja on the short-lived television series “The Master.”
- source
MB4 on February 8, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Why can’t Republicans say “it’s a damned lie!”? Or give ‘em a Dick Cheney blow off…
jsanderssr on February 8, 2009 at 4:44 PM
If the Washington Post cheapened itself any more, it would be turning tricks in the back alleys of K Street!
highhopes on February 8, 2009 at 5:06 PM
You are on fire. I needed the laughs.
Cindy Munford on February 8, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Ha!! I am waiting for Obama to appoint someone from the Mafia. Oh Wait!!
All of his people are the Mafia!!! What an insult to organized crime!!
At least they are organized!!!
izoneguy on February 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM
The Washington Post knowingly promoted inaccuracies leveled by Obama’s cult. Together, they meant to displace negative attention stuck to corrupt Democrats in Obama’s gang. Their wholecloth attempt to deflect corrupt Democrat blame onto their intended scapegoat, Steele, only makes the Democrat biased media look all the worse for wear.
It’s obvious that the “journalists” who wrote this tripe do not deserve respectable employment. Jobs are scarce and every paper is cutting its workforce.
It’s also obvious that publications running false anti-GOP propaganda in order to avoid reporting the many Obama fiascos taking place are not “news” papers and do not deserve to conserve respect formerly due. They want to be progressive; they’ve progressed beyond the credible.
There is a huge conservative population seeking and utilizing legitimate news sources. Supply the demand for factual reports or recycle into toilet paper.
maverick muse on February 8, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Did he really blame Turbo Tax? I’ve used Turbo Tax for years and you have to actively cheat to get past it. It asks you everything. You’d have to lie to it to get it to mess up and even then the IRS is gonna get you. It might take two years but they’ll get you.
Don’t ask me how I know that.
Jaynie59 on February 8, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Alla will be so disappointed.
Jim708 on February 8, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Why waste time on Steel when there is all this juicy stuff?
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/
davo on February 8, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Not unlike the way Hilter went out after the Jews. That’s right- a Nazi reference to explain what the filthy bastard’s minions are doing.
highhopes on February 8, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Yes, he really did. The “only one” who can serve as Secretary of the Treasury blamed Turbo Tax. The reality, of course, is that he is a tax cheat and Obama is the corrupt bastard who doesn’t seem interested in finding ethical people to surround himself with.
highhopes on February 8, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Keep right on blaming the media… been working like a charm for you people so far.
benny shakar on February 8, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Hmmm… Kind of like Jack Ryan’s divorce proceedings…
gridlock2 on February 8, 2009 at 6:44 PM
K Street doesn’t have “back alleys” – those are VIP executive entrances.
platypus on February 8, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Rahm Emmanuel’s second best talent, right after ballet. He is the prince of destroying people through their privacy. I can only hope that one day it all comes back to haunt him.
sherry on February 8, 2009 at 6:59 PM
FIFY.
platypus on February 8, 2009 at 7:21 PM
Trust me – there ARE pictures. Most likely under Blago’s back porch.
platypus on February 8, 2009 at 7:23 PM
You have got to be kidding me!
A African American,who is now at the Leadership role
for the Republican Party,is now going to go through
a witch hunt,kangeroo court!
Isn’t it priceless,Steele gets the third degree,and yet,
NO ONE,and I do mean NO ONE,has a clue,as to what Obama
believes and thinks!
Because not one News agency,or Journalist bothered to
ask,while they were mesmerized by his aura,and no one
on the LEFT,even bothered with the irregularities,in
Hopey/Changey’s Campaign Contributions and Campaign
Spending!
Its truly a stunning,neverending ordeal for the right,
that has to go through this kinda of crap!
And that crap,is when it comes to the Left,its their guy/
or/gal,the MSM,is a protection racket,that keeps their
political party protected at all costs!
But when it comes to the right,they seem to have a story or accusation for every member of the Republican Party or so
it always seems!
Day#20,and the Left are attacking the Leader of Republican
Party!
And the Socialist,’Search and Destroy Missions’and Political Marxist Socialist ‘Media Hit Pieces’continue
on the Right!
canopfor on February 8, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Yep SecTreas “Too stupid to use TurboTax”
I’m honestly starting to lose track of the corruption of the cabinet appointees. We are headed for a major Kleptocracy. I can hear Ben Franklin spinning at 85000RPMs in his grave right now.
bullseye on February 8, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Don’t fade (no pun intended), Chairman Steele; don’t fail. And definitely, don’t quit.
baldilocks on February 8, 2009 at 7:54 PM
Those states were quite Red but turned Blue in the 1980′s.
More a couple of decades of people wanting to force your region/state further to the Right will do things to you. They were looking for a time and place to correct a wrong, and now is that time.
Thanks goes to the GOP whom has supported the offshoring of labor in 2003 – you made a “union problem” an “American problem”. If this the direction that Steele wants to go, expect more blue Midwestern/Manufacturing states. We’re not talking “crazy West Coast environmentalist” states, but “Midwesterners fed up with a hostile GOP” Blue State.
You were warned, live with the consequences.
sethstorm on February 8, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Not blaming, just pointing out the truth that the fourth estate is really a fifth column.
Are you so delusional that you honestly believe that the lamestream media is fair and unbiased???
If a conservative so much as lets out a little fart, the media is all over it. When a liberal commits serious crimes such as tax evasion or the Rezko land for board stacking, they are also all over it….. to cover things up and bury it forever.
I just read something from some douchebag New York Slimes columnist about her dreaming of obama in her shower. I almost puked just skimming through it. It’s bad enough that you liberal nutcases are drooling all over obama, now we have liberal sheisskapfs writing erotic fantasies about them and the Obamaama.
Most disgusting Obmama Slobberfest yet WARNING – normal people should have a bucket nearby if they read that article
bullseye on February 8, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Quit serving up liberal moderates then. Change the menu.
Fletch54 on February 8, 2009 at 8:06 PM
NOPE – WRONGO BONZO.. I live in what was once a solidly Red county. It’s been going blue.. You know why?? Because we are right outside Philadelphia and less than 2 hours from NYC. What is happening is that the wealthy NYC people are disgusted with the mess created by a half century of liberal policies.. high taxes, crime.. decay, and they are moving near New Hope. OK. fine.. However, the dimwits keep pulling the Big D as they had always done..
At the lower end of the county, the blue collar people are fleeing the ineptitude, corruption, decay and high taxes of Philadelphia.. Another half century of liberal rule.. Yet these morons are coming up and pulling the big D.
Stupidity is repeating the same action that had a negative effect. We are paying the price for their idioc. They should have stayed in their liberal utopias…
bullseye on February 8, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Just the way in for a better paid class of whores.
highhopes on February 8, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Just ask Carlos Slim, parrot.
Jim Treacher on February 8, 2009 at 8:25 PM
oh it oesn’t even need to be valid for a Republican charge.
I say the FBI also name their source. The man has a right to face his accuser. Typicl Lib bullshit to throw a half-baked charge out there, a blind hit when the mans back is turned. Those bastards.
johnnyU on February 8, 2009 at 8:37 PM
I think at one point the republicans who get targeted consistently by the media should be honored. The bigger the threat to their prized possession, the more damage control they perform. So far we have Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber and now Michael Steele.
You know you are a strong republican presence when you can send every whimpering journalist into a panic.
sherry on February 8, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Excuse me? OMG! Look in the friggin mirror why don’t you. Hey thats ok. I’ll be watching the market when this bill goes down the tubes. Aint no way another friggin 900 bil. is going in he trash. This country should put up a ‘going out of business’ sign, because it truely is.
johnnyU on February 8, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Bullseye That article was a demonstration of the immaturity and impaired judgment of our “elite”. And those dips went to Columbia and Harvard. Hmmmm…who else went there? Why….the Pork Salesman in Chief, that’s who!
Anyway, they have been brainwashed so long on the innate goodness and coolness of black famlies and liberal social programs that the arrival of both at once turns them into Elvis fans or Beatle girls. These ‘first family fans’ are usually female (with the exception of characters like Chrissy Matthews) and they have suffered for decades when nobody’s family lived up to their expectation and one liberal program after another failed to cure all (any) of our ills. But now look at what they have. And doesn’t He make their men pathetic! Their careers wanting! Their needs….well, you get the idea.
But there was a beacon of hope in the article. Probably added by an editor who wanted some balance to the unstopped slobbering. It was:
“This is, perhaps, the price of faux-familiarity. If I were Barack Obama (or Michelle, for that matter), I’d be a little scared. After all, when people are wearing their egos on their sleeves, it’s so easy to bruise their feelings. What will happen if fantasy turns to contempt?”
I was ahead of that development a year ago!
IlikedAUH2O on February 8, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Fake News from BendOver Backwards News(BBN)
————–
News Flash
——-
Here at BBN,an operative from the DNC,has given BBN a
package,left at the news desk!
A hit piece List:
Top Republicans Hit List:
Michael Steele
Rush Limbaugh
Governor Sarah Palin
Hannity
Anne Coulter
and any other Republican
who gets in the way of the
Left,(Snark,and yet true!)Ahem.
canopfor on February 8, 2009 at 9:06 PM
BOBN seems to fit better.
thomasaur on February 8, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Well, getting a pass for being black only applies if you are the right kind of black.
“Post-racial” America is looking a lot like pre-racial America. As long as the “right people” are getting hurt, anything goes. And the “right people” get excused from any blame or fault, or their turds are buried.
Like Germany in 1944…the “right people” were getting put on trains for the camping trip of a lifetime.
Bigotry is bigotry. Hate is hate. Lies are lies.
It’s going to be a bumpy ride, but ride we must.
Every day there will come an opportunity of some sort to resist this bullshit, help someone see it for what it is. Being “popular” or “nice” in the eyes of others may be too little compensation. My ex-wife would cringe when I would disagree with a liberal idiot, full of pronoucement but empty of wisdom. Didn’t stop me much, just another straw in that story.
Die on your feet or live on your knees, Zapata said. I don’t think we are so bad off, but as Bama said, maybe it “is time to get in some peoples’ faces” and leave manners aside.
Harry Schell on February 8, 2009 at 9:26 PM
BOBN seems to fit better.
thomasaur on Feb 8,2009 at 9:21PM.
thomasaur:I agree,we could add a cable outlet,
Barack Obama Hope and Change BendOver
Backwards News(BOHCBBN)!Hehe Ahem:)
canopfor on February 8, 2009 at 10:11 PM
This appears to be nothing more than pure distraction from it’s inception…
Or at worst something more insidious…. ummm Nah, distraction…
Let’s get real, this is no brainer…
jerrytbg on February 8, 2009 at 10:24 PM
This is the type of Stalinism we have come to expect. Destroy your enemies, don’t ever engage in dialog with them.
I love the irony of have the first Black chair of the Republican party face off against the first half-black American president. Heh.
Mojave Mark on February 8, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Dare I say, the opposition can’t have a real black man running their show.
That was the insidious nature of my post…
Thank you for saying it also…They are without honor…
jerrytbg on February 8, 2009 at 10:57 PM
First. These allegations were first told to Federal Prosecutors by a former Steel campaign worker in an attempt at a plea bargain. This case was unrelated.
Second. The allegations were found to be either weak or unsubstantiated. The case went forward not having entered into a plea bargain . The worker was sentenced without benefit of plea bargain.
Third. By law the information was sealed
Fourth. By ‘mistake’ the information was given to WaPO.
sonnyspats1 on February 8, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Huh? I have no clue what your point is…
Ampersand on February 8, 2009 at 11:51 PM
The disclosure that Stephanopoulos ushered in the new administration with a tearfest and daily chats with some of the most odious Democrat political hacks makes me want to throw a shoe at the TV.
Brinkley must be turning over in his grave.
moxie_neanderthal on February 9, 2009 at 12:51 AM
i dunno, cronkite was a raging lib, was david much better?
/yes, i know they were all at least somewhat honest, but still …
Buckaroo on February 9, 2009 at 12:58 AM
None taken :)
mikeyboss on February 9, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Glittering jewel of ignorance
You have a prognosis. What is the course?
daesleeper on February 9, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Were you sticking your tongue out when you typed that?
No milk and cookies for you.
hillbillyjim on February 9, 2009 at 2:47 AM
When the liberals tell you to stop something or sarcastically tell you to keep it it, it must be golden.
And that “you people” addition sounded racist to me.
IlikedAUH2O on February 9, 2009 at 4:25 AM
The “Politics of Fear” apparently helped ‘W” free a nation of millions in the heart of the most unstable region on the planet and thwart a terrorist attack for years. The little TANG reservist took the ‘tech bubble’ on the chin while building up our military might. He was knocked out by a Trojan horse of toxic mortgages from the Democrats with no small help from carping, lying elites who nearly lost the second war for this noble nation in four decades.
“The Politics of Fear” is apparently helping The One sell the disassembling of the economic engine that powers the world in order to mortgage its parts for the adult versions of silly putty, experimental bikes and kid’s hamburger meal gifts. There is also a plan to dismantle a military intelligence appartus which has been, although imperfect, on the side of the angels for over a half century. In office just weeks, the little community organizer has ordered a prison closed with no idea where to put the inmates, met with hostile nations (and ossified their positions) and has created an entitlement mentality that may spread around the nation and the world like influenza.
IlikedAUH2O on February 9, 2009 at 5:55 AM
Taking a page right out of the Democrat Party’s radical, hate filled play book,
The attack against Michael Steele is a partisan hack job, and a clear, unmistakable case of racism perpetrated by a racist party, the Democrat Party, against a black man, Michael Steele, merely because he does not buy into their racist agenda, and because he is a Conservative Black Man.
It is more of the Politics of Fear that the Democrat Party is known for, and their current leader, Barrack Hussein Obama, President of the United States of America, is engaging in strong arm tactics, perpetrating the Democrat Party’s Politics of Fear in his, and the Democrat party’s bid to engage in a Socialist/Communist Government takeover of our economic system, plunging our nation into poverty, and into third world status, as quickly as it can do so.
In summation, the attack on Michael Steele can be summed up in one word – RACISM – and it stems from one tactic, the Democrat Party’s POLITICS OF FEAR, in a “Politics as Usual” partisan campaign of hate and intimidation against a Black Conservative.
William
William2006 on February 9, 2009 at 7:00 AM
It’s more like The Politics of Bullying, and I’m sure the Battering Rahm has a lot to do with it.
Regardless of that, I think Steele needs to lay off the “shaming,” bit. It sounds too much like Obama.
What WaPo did is more unethical than shameful, and the supposed “journalists” involved should be firmly called out on it accordingly.
misslizzi on February 9, 2009 at 7:10 AM
I put anything by the Washington Post, or by George Stephanopolis in the same category as anything reported on by the New York Times. You know, the paper that prints “All the News That’s Fit to Twist”………..
Stephanopolis is not a reporter, he’s a Democrat tool….
adamsmith on February 9, 2009 at 7:15 AM
Applying the “shame” tactic against liars for weaving, advertising and selling whole cloth is absolutely appropriate. Steele has every right and obligation to deflect the DNC “shame” back to its originators. Don’t assume that taking the high road does anyone any good when the ambush and sabotage are already spread to pollute the public image.
I would tend to allow Steele to determine his own response. “Shaming” is just one card in the deck, and he’s bound to know plenty of card games to have survived to date.
maverick muse on February 9, 2009 at 8:03 AM
Another thing about this story…who cares when the messiah is trying to spent my kid’s, kid’s, kid’s money??? Not saying we dont need other news than the porkfest, but dang are we just trying to give liberals some red meat here…
cappy718 on February 9, 2009 at 8:14 AM
I’m not disallowing any responses at all. Of course, Steel can do as he wishes. And I’m certainly not assuming that Steele doesn’t have any other cards in his desk. That’s the thing. I think he’s smarter than playing the “shaming” card.
As for the high road, taking it often involves not playing copycat with those who are trying to bring you down. Hence my advice that Steel not play Obama’s worn-out shaming schtick, regardless of whether it is warranted or not. To stick to what is and is not ethical in journalism would be the high road in this case.
misslizzi on February 9, 2009 at 8:38 AM
I think you meant that you get confused when false allegations are aimed at someone…you are being duped, but not surprising, so many like to be fooled.
right2bright on February 9, 2009 at 9:23 AM
I disagree, I think holding someone feet to the fire, making them responsible for their reporting, making sure the facts are accurate, is the high road.
However one corrects false facts, it is the high road, since the false facts is the low road.
Attacking an enemy, and defending your honor, is never a “low road”…and making the enemy feel the sting of their misplaced attack is never the low road…as long as Steele’s facts are accurate, and reflect the truth, it is the “high road”.
right2bright on February 9, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Ted Stevens did a lot of denying too. I forget, how did that work out for him?
Vernon Hardapple on February 9, 2009 at 11:14 AM
FTFY
Vic on February 9, 2009 at 11:38 AM
What a fool you are…Steele is denying it, after he has sent in all of the corroborating evidence to support him.
What information do you have that says he did wrong?
What evidence has failed to present? And what U.S. Attorney, after reviewing his documents, has said they did not absolve him of anything untoward?
The only accusation, has come from a writer of a paper who did not research the facts…unless you have more information, I say the U.S. Attorney who said that everything was in order, and no law broken, has more standing then a writer who never read Steele’s documents, or even noted that those documents were turned over.
You have your standards…gossip
Others have theirs, legal binding statements from a U.S. Attorney.
right2bright on February 9, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Got allot of hate coming out of your mouth – don’t like it one bit.
This thread is about Michael Steele – stop trying to blame Obama for everything like a looney KOS kid blames Bush for the fanbelt in their car breaking….jeez.
AprilOrit on February 9, 2009 at 1:04 PM
The allegation might be false, but it’s hanging over his head because he hired a swindler to be his senate campaign finance chairman. Was Steele “duped”?
Buddahpundit on February 9, 2009 at 1:08 PM
obama’s minion’s are trying to bury Steele (in case you were not able to connect the large dots )
runner on February 9, 2009 at 1:10 PM
R-i-g-h-t…you’re silly.
AprilOrit on February 9, 2009 at 1:13 PM
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