No, I'm NOT Kidding, "Steele: GOP needs 'hip-hop' makeover."

[Clio the Leo]

Remember all those jokes we've been making for the last few weeks about Steele and his "funky fress ill" command of the English language? As if he'd been transported from the 1980s' set of "YO! MTV Raps!"

Well, turns out we weren't too far off...

Steele: GOP needs 'hip-hop' makeover
Ralph Z. Hallow

Newly elected Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele plans an “off the hook” public relations offensive to attract younger voters, especially blacks and Hispanics, by applying the party's principles to “urban-suburban hip-hop settings.”

The RNC's first black chairman will “surprise everyone” when updating the party's image using the Internet and advertisements on radio, on television and in print, he told The Washington Times.

Having been elected to the job that the Bush White House and its political guru, Karl Rove, once denied him, Mr. Steele is running the show his way. To those who claimed he can't make the trains run on time, he has this message: “Stuff it.”

He stiff-armed an attempt to get him to elaborate on his public relations effort, saying he would be an idiot .... <snip>

Hey, you said it Michael! :)

”There was underlying concerns we had become too regionalized and the party needed to reach beyond our comfort” zones, he said, citing defeats in such states as Virginia and North Carolina. “We need messengers to really capture that region - young, Hispanic, black, a cross section ... We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings.”

But, he elaborated with a laugh, “we need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.”

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/19/steele-gop-needs-hip-hop-makeover/

And to quote Shenaenae from the old "Martin" show.... OH NO HE DI'UN!!!!! :wtf:
(note to the mods, we need a "two snaps up in a circle with a half twist" smiley please.)



Great, now I suddenly have the image of fat, middle aged white women with helment hair dressed as the Fly Girls dancing at the next RNC convention to the tune of "Whoop there it is."

[rurallib]

1. Image - John McCain break dancing - ugh!

edit to add - how long before Steele realizes his image of the GOP and those with the money's image are quite different?

[Arugula Latte]

37. I can imagine him breaking a hip dancing.

x(

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. he'll be getting all folksie

[tekisui]

3. "One armed midgets"???

Does he realize that is considered a slur? Calling someone a midget is akin to using the n-word. He is painfully out of touch.

[Clio the Leo]

6. I know! I couldn't believe he said that!!!

A friend of mine who's a Republican is all excited about Steele ..... when I told her that all my Democratic buddies were too .... well, she didn't know what to say.

We need to put this man in prime time! Who do I call to get him on Larry King and the View! He'll do more for us than even Rush can! lol

[Wapsie B]

4. Steele is operating under the misguided notion

that you can turn the gop on a dime. Doesn't work like that. Things will have to get much worse for them before they even hope to get better, and that's only if they make some fundamental changes, one being to kick out the conservative fundies.

[lurky]

5. Well, they are pretty gangsta...

They're all about money, gats, and giant cars.

If only they could get some hos on board...





:hide:

[Clio the Leo]

7. lol @ gats

It's my understanding that the founding fathers actually wanted to use the term "gats" when they were writing the the 2nd Ammendment. :sarcasm:

[lurky]

17. "in the interest of maintaining a bad ass crew"

:P

[CJCRANE]

8. Stuff it. Stuff it real good nt

[Clio the Leo]

9. lol NT

[YOY]

10. Picture if you will Boner dressed like Chuck D and Huckabee dressed like Flava Fla

Totally minstrel style...

Boner: "Yibby yup yo-yo! You need to takes some personal responsibilitiez wit you baby momma! Y'all don't know waht dat Reagan did for yo ass and how you need t' worship his dead ass by knowin' yo rewritten histr'ry! Cuz we need to let you know that knowledge isn't power! Money is!"

Huckabee: "Yeah BOYEEEE! We doin' all up for Sup' side Jesus! We takin' trickle down to da down town!"

Boner: "You needs to know that lettin' the rich man have more money to invest will be good fo you!

Huckabee: "Hell...I mean HEAVEN YEAH! It'z da way Jeezus wants it! Ask my homeboys P Dob and Rush Limbizzy!"

[Barack_America]

29. That is a winning SNL skit in the making.

You should forward this idea to them.

A hip-hop GOP makeover, complete with dance lessons and rhyme battles.

Oh sweet Jesus.

:rofl:

[Clio the Leo]

30. Isn't it though?

That's what I felt like I was reading at first.

[AzDar]

11. Oh God, Oh God, Oh GOD...

Just when you think that Party cannot BE more screwn...

:rofl:

[Clio the Leo]

14. running off to Freeperland to see what they're saying about it..... NT

[Clio the Leo]

16. Nothing on this article, but I found this....

"Welcome to the combative leadership style of Urkel."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2187497/posts

[camera obscura]

64. LOL, even the Freepers are mocking him

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2189116/posts

[Clio the Leo]

12. He also added.....

"I don't do 'cutting-edge,' “ he said. “That's what Democrats are doing. We're going beyond cutting-edge.”

I dont even understand what that sentence means! BEYOND cutting edge? Huh?

I'm gonna have to listen to five of Barack's speeches just to purge the idiocy from my brain after reading this article.

[moggie]

19. Think of a knife

What's beyond the cutting egde? The stuff that's being cut! So, in a sense, he's right.

[woodsprite]

20. Well, in IT, beyond the 'cutting edge' is considered the 'bleeding edge'.

We use the term in technology all the time. I would consider that many Microsoft products have been released while on the 'bleeding edge'. ;)

[hileeopnyn8d]

28. "I dont even understand what that sentence means! BEYOND cutting edge? Huh?"

LOL - I think it's like turning it up to eleven.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

56. ROFLOL.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

57. ROFLOL.

[Hard_Work]

70. Well, you know

"beyond the cutting edge" is the stuff that gets cut. This is definitely where GOP'ers need to be...

[Occam Bandage]

13. Bring in Reagraham Lincool!

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=215929&title=reagraham-lincool

[leftist.]

50. lol That's the first thing I thought of as well.

The parallels are so striking as to make them seem almost on purpose, as if Steele is a Ron Paul-like candidate that's just trolling the republican party or something.

[Ed76638]

15. ......

[asphalt.jungle]

21. facepalm x 2

[Skidmore]

18. We need a crew dedicated to following this clown around and

laughing him off stage every time he opens his ridiculous mouth. He managed to insult whole groups of people in that one.

[Clio the Leo]

26. Someone needs to call Amy Roloff....

... she'd kick his ass!!!!

http://www.cba.cmich.edu/exchange/spring2007/Images/2007-265-49-Roloff,-Amy-Alu.jpg

And I'm NOT making fun of Amy! Anyone who's seen "Little People, Big World" KNOWS she would LITERALLY KICK HIS ASS!!!! lol

[ellie]

22. Yes, that and an exorcism.

[WinkyDink]

23. What offends ME is his using "uptick" as a verb (or, frankly, at all). This guy is demented.

[Hutzpa]

24. I don't find this funny but

cynical to the core, this is what the GOP is all about which is to
mislead people into thinking that they care when their apparent
motives are to enrich the rich.

The bottomline is...Republicans/Conservative can never become a
socialist and a Democrats cannot become Conservative despite what
narratives talking heads might try to use.

The internet was not form to make money, it was formed by folks who
wanted to find a quicker and faster way to get in touch with people
from other parts of the world (amazing how we quickly forget) until
the Republicans came on board and see it as a money making entity,
now some of them are even complaining about their right to a photo at
facebook when no one asked them to join in the first place.

It's the same here on DU, a Republican will become a member seeing it
as trying to understand our community and when their views are jumped
on they becomes pissy and asked for their money back, and will start
searching all the Law books for Laws that support their pissy behaviors.

So all this attempt by Steele is just a waste of time because he is trying
to do something these people never believe in, which is the COMMUNITY,
if he thinks that, by getting hip-hop heritage into the Republican movement
will help change their views toward communities(??) then he must not have been
paying attention and is even solidifying the knowledge that republicans are
completely out of touch with their own thinking (which is not unusual)by
buying black votes and pretending to care about blacks.....
THIS FROM THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE WHOM DOESN'T
SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THIS IMAGE AND ARE DEFENDING IT

he must be of the perception that AFRICAN AMERICANS are STUPID....



GOODLUCK!!!

[uponit7771]

25. wow...jus.....wow....Steele will be out in 5 4 3 2.....

[ej510]

27. It will be hard as hell to convince bruthas like Jack and Hus.......2 cats I grew up with

to vote repuke. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSx1m9UOiK0&feature=related

[traxster]

31. He's gonna ask MC Hammer to pen a rap album for him. "The GOP is the place to be!"

:fistbump:

[Arugula Latte]

40. It will be filled with badly outdated slang, like:

Word! The G-O-P is on the right
We be chillin' and we're out of sight!
As Jimmy Walker says, we're Dy-no-mite!

[traxster]

44. FO-SHIZZLE!!!

[traxster]

45. OMG! That was HILARIOUS! I'm gonna get fired...I'm not supposed to be laughing at work!

[MadHound]

32. Oh please do this Michael, please please pleasepleaseplease

You will lose your fundie, racist, uber conservative base so fast it will blow off your parachute pants faster than you could shout "Hammer Time"

Of course Karl Rove would be down with it <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo>

[margotb822]

33. Lipstick on a pig

No matter what they say about the GOP, we all know what it really is: a bunch of old white guys trying to hold everyone else down.

Going "street" for a year isn't going to make everyone forget the past 50 years.

[Clio the Leo]

34. You mean truck jewelry on a pig.....

[DemocracyInaction]

39. margot - exactly the thought that hit me when I read it

That's as bad as putting me in a teeny-bopper outfit and trying to sell me as a high school kid!!! They still don't get it. They still can't figure out that they are trying to deal with a new world with ideas that belong in the 1800's!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

35. I have a vision.

The vision involves congressional republicans performing in a Chicago Bears Super Bowl Shuffle style rap video. Complete with chee-wee hairstyles. Tout suite.

[radfringe]

36. hip-hop-mcconnell? ;wink:

[Zech Marquis The 2nd]

38. let him do it!

The GOP is already screwed for being the party of NO--once this knucklehead brings his hip hop into the mix, they'll look absolutely stupid :rofl:

[EraOfResponsibility]

41. Steele has no idea that the GOP has long forgotten about him

and made Joe the Plumber the head of their party. And Bobby Jindal is giving the response to President O's SOTU address...and NOT Michael Steele. tsk tsk tsk, oh well.

[WinkyDink]

42. Like this?

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/03/30/svROVE_narrowweb__300x353,0.jpg

[gauguin57]

47. Ugh! The fact that David Gregory participated in that "skit," with his "white guys can't dance"

moves ... ugh. Sad to be reminded of that sad chapter in government-media-comedy relations.

[JerseygirlCT]

43. Just please, please, no pictures of Rush in

baggy pants falling off his tremendous ass.

[traxster]

46. LOL! The Freepers are talking about it now...

To: robert561
This is not going to end well.



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[progressivebydesign]

48. Steele!! Are you out of your damn mind????? n/t

[Solomon]

63. LOL Chocolat News!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

49. His stage name is MC Hip-Flop.

[Cha]

51. I can just see their greedy, beady,

little eyes in a fly by night meeting.."hmmmm, where's a good place to start with the Black vote for repods?"

[alcibiades_mystery]

52. Advice from Ice Cube to Michael Steele

So now you put the Feds against me,
Cause I couldn't follow the plan of the presidency.
I'm never gettin' love again.
But blacks are too fucking broke to be Republican.

[4lbs]

53. Yes, because looking like a rapper is the only thing the GOP needs to do to attract minorities.

:eyes:

[Peacetrain]

54. That was the first thing that went through my mind too..

What idiots

[firedupdem]

58. That's all we understand.....rap, crime, and weed. That's it.

What an uncle tom.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

55. Well, as a Latina, I guess this means I have no choice but to become a Republican.

They may hate me, but as a minority I just can't help but vote against my interest in the face of hip hop.

[Aloha Spirit]

74. lol

[Clio the Leo]

75. And apparently, you also automatically enjoy hip-hop. NT

[asdjrocky]

59. Off the hook? Really?

[backscatter712]

60. He wants to go hip-hop? Bring Mitt Romney along!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXGMi7a53jA

[asdjrocky]

61. Word to your mother.

Do they still say that?

[AspenRose]

65. *rofl*

[camera obscura]

62. Fuck tha DNC, coming straight from the underground

From the only Republican who happens to be brown
Just cuz we're mostly old white men, the DNC think
they have the authority to help the minorities

fuck that shit, cuz Republicans are the one
preachers, mavericks, chickenhawks, and beauty queens with guns
cuz we're the party of Reagan, the party of Dan Quayle
we swear it's not our fault that Bush was epic fail

[Still Sensible]

66. Freeper heads are exploding all over the place

the last thing they want is a bigger tent. Heck, many of them are pissed off the party has a black man at the helm now and have said so in no uncertain terms. They just want to keep their current coalition of fundamentalists, supply siders and neocons. Expand the party, hell no, they just want to find the next issue that they can use to scare some of the moderates and independents to come back their way.

[ObamaKerryDem]

67. OMG..LOL! There are no words....

Wonder if Keith will do anything with this tonight? :evilgrin:

[Hellataz]

68. So Steele's thinking is that the GOP will get more vote by appealing to the urban culture? Pathetic.

How insulting that a party who made up of primarily of white christian old stick up their ass fogeys is going to suddenly embrace hip hop. We all know that the hip hop culture is not one that any of them can stomach, yet they are gonna try and fake their way through and once again hope we buy it and come running...i get so pissed at how stupid and gullible they constantly think we all are.

Why is it so DAMN hard for the GOP to just understand the simple F'in fact that their party doesn't need all that stupid window dressing, it doesn't need "token" minorities front and center and it doesn't need gimmicks to win an election. They want to change and actually get votes...then they need let go of the bibles, start telling the truth, stop discriminating against the gays and pro-choicer and run honest and clean campaigns.

These people are such idiots and they will never get it!!! I'm sure there are many people who are fiscally conservative but don't subscribe to all the rest of the social Bullshit that the GOP pulls. If they dropped the hate mongering and the insistence that we all be Christian soldiers and live like them, then i bet they would actually get a wider pool of votes, running on just their "small government, guns, Tax cuts, less spending and whatever else that doesn't have to do with religion. That would be real change, but they wont, they can't actually change, they will continue to keep putting lipstick on a pig and hoping america is stupid enough to kiss it.

I hope Steele continues on this path and gives people like John Stewart and Bill Maher some really great material.

[leftist.]

69. He has stapled himself to this "urban persona" and pushes it any chance he can.

Bill Bennett (the "abort black babies" one) has a morning talk radio show and Steele fills in for him quite a bit. Steele goes so far over the top with his "I'm from the younger generation and this aint your father's republican party" affections that it will make you cringe with embarrassment. I can't quote him exactly, but to paraphrase it goes like "Waddup waddup, this is Micheal Steele yo, in the house here filling in for Bill Bennett. I want to give a shout out to everyone listening this morning, it's time to get this party started right! You are in the place to be here on Bennett Mornings" - but he says it in his usual voice, enunciating each word to it's full extent e.g. not dropping g's from the ends of words. It's like he has a ROT13-style substitution list of "hip" phrases and "happening" one-liners that he thinks kids, specifically "black kids" I guess, use.

[LynnTheDem]

71. Let me know how that works out for ya.

:rofl:

[Phx_Dem]

72. Great idea! Maybe 50 Cent will write a campaign song for them

about sucking on "lollipops," lovin big booties or gangsta drive-bys. Works for me!!

[Arkana]

73. The party of old, aging white guys is going to suddenly become the big tent party

when the President is a Democrat and a young (relatively) black guy?

Excuse me, I think I'm going to go laugh my spleen out.

[JaneQPublic]

76. This from the black guy who lost the black vote in Maryland's senate race...

...to a little bald Jewish guy (Ben Carden), who doesn't exactly appear to have ever had a hip hop makeover.

[democracy1st]

77. that Negro is crazy!