Ethics

Ladies and Gentlemen, Michael Steele

By Ed Brayton

Wow, this is getting almost difficult to watch. You know that feeling you get when you watch someone bomb on American Idol, that feeling we don't have a good word for that is really a kind of embarrassment for them? I'm starting to get that feeling for Michael Steele, who seems absolutely intent on making himself look like a buffoon on a daily basis.

It was bad enough when he made entirely true comments about Rush Limbaugh on CNN and than had to not only retract them and publicly genuflect before the King of All Republican Media, but then went on Fox News and flat out lied about what he had said even though everyone has seen the video of it and knows damn well what he said. But now he's really done it. He's touched the third rail of GOP politics, abortion, and now finds himself buried up to his neck in shit.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 17, 2009 (boomark / email).