Blue Steele

Michael Steele, new chairman of the RNC, is taking flak for both talking and not talking on two occasions in the past week. First, he made an unnecessary verbal attack on Rush Limbaugh, America's leading conservative radio talk show personality. Second, in the same interview, he failed to respond to CNN host D.L. Hunley"s ludicrous remark that last year's Republican convention "literally looked like Nazi Germany." Regarding the first issue, Steele should know better than to attack such a media presence as Limbaugh. After all, El Rushbo usually walks in Republican traces and has recently been targeted by the White House in an attempt to identify him as the face of the Republican Party. Totally uncalled for.

The incident with Hunley was equally embarrassing. Raising the term "Nazi" anywhere these days generally means the conversation has deteriorated into the realm of extreme moonbattery and deserves to end. Steele should have called him on that. He didn't, and should explain to his friends why he didn't. All very unfortunate.

The good side of this experience is that Steele is a fast learner, and he'll come away stronger. Byron York has more on the unhappiness in his column at The Examiner. Here's the video with Hunley's remark:



Anybody think Hunley's wardrobe may be a bit edgy?