RNC Chair Steele: GOP needs to go "hip-hop," improve image with "one-armed midgets""

[radfringe]

New RNC Chair Steele: GOP needs to go "hip-hop," improve image with "one-armed midgets""

Steele is a joke, and this Washington Times article is chock full of punch lines.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/19/steele-gop-needs-hip-hop-makeover/

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”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.”

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The NOP - full of hip-hop hippo-crites?!?

[YOY]

1. I think they tried that one (according to Doonesbury)

[Blue_Tires]

8. wow...good work digging that up...

i know i was just a kid at the time and didn't know better, but Max Headroom-Reagan was instanly cool in my book...lolz

[Brewman_Jax]

2. Their level of cluelessness is astounding

they should just give up. :eyes:

[gratuitous]

3. Republicans reach beyond their comfort zone?

:rofl:

Their entire party is built on mistrust, suspicion, and outright hatred of anyone who doesn't hew to the party line. Steele should just as well tell these nasty little people to flap their arms and fly to the moon.

Or Mars, bitches!

[CJCRANE]

4. GOP can easily improve its image with

mental midgets.

[Uzybone]

5. My God

this guy is more Stepin Fetchit than I thought.

[Rashel]

18. Exactly. Ick.

[Johonny]

6. My god they are going to run Reagraham Lincool

[bdamomma]

7. one armed midgets??? well he has Rush.

[rolltideroll]

9. Hold on guys

They may be more Hip Hop than we thought. Check out this meeting of the GOP, complete with Fly Girls.

[Blue_Tires]

11. welcome to the site!

[rolltideroll]

14. Thanks

Even though I am a Braves fan, Good to meet you. Go mets! LOL I usually operate under the assumption that it is never a bad time for a Blazing Saddles pic.

[sufrommich]

10. They are steps away from inventing a cartoon mascot.

Comedy gold.

[rolltideroll]

12. Krusty the Clown

The party is made up of old white or conservatives who tend to be lax in personal grooming, thus the Krusty, and they are Clown's thus the clown part. He even did a promo for them.

And of course a gun show.Here he is shooting people who are trying to avoid foreclosure



Finally, the average Republican Voter reacts

[sufrommich]

13. lol. Welcome to DU. nt

[Are_grits_groceries]

15. He's gonna need a special Rosetta Stone

to talk to the rest of the GOP if he keeps up. I don't think they hip-hop except at Easter, and they don't do bling bling.

[Rashel]

16. This will be fun! Let the disaster begin.Steele could prove to be as idiotic as Palin.

Steele could prove to be as idiotic as Palin.

So now the same people who ridicule Black slang (then steal it), rage against hip-hop (while ignoring the violence of heavy metal or goth)
Rail non-stop against saggy pants or backwards caps (while accepting spike belts, chains and death symbols on tees...... now will embrace Black and Hispanic culture! Bwahahaa. I don't think the "real Americans" are ready for this embrace.

[BlooInBloo]

17. (facepalm)

[Ganja Ninja]

19. The best way to improve your image is to lose a few hundred pounds of ugly fat.

[rolltideroll]

20. Haha Best thing I have seen all day,Thanks for making my morning

[Rashel]

21. I went over to the dark side. Freepers aren't down with it. :O

But then, "real Americans" wouldn't be.

Hilarious.

[rolltideroll]

22. Here is the link

I do a daily Freeper Funnies post. Too bad this wasn't up when I posted. Anyway,Pleased to enjoy, the knee jerk racist reaction! I am from Alabama, my girl is a chinese national, so I get the sub context these people are throwing out.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2189116/posts

Check out the arrogant attitude of this political Wunderkind.

To: whattajoke

Instead of promoting the virtues of traditional American culture,

we’re supposed to LOWER (yes, I said LOWER) our message to the subculture?

17 posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:36:58 AM by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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I just noticed he called Obama an infant killer. Class all the way.

[Rashel]

32. I caught that also. To most of them, anyone not White is subculture.

They're such losers.

[Historic NY]

23. I found this especially comical white GOP can't dance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZre8kEsuw

[gkhouston]

24. Wanna improve your image? Try improving your substance.

Upgrading from week-old dog shit would make for a good start.

[Javaman]

25. Strikes me a Mr. Burns trying to get down with the youths of today.

so tiring, so out of touch.

This is the equivelent of nixon being on laugh-in and saying, "sock it to me".

[rolltideroll]

30. The RNC gets in touch with the kids

[radfringe]

26. How's this work for you?

[rolltideroll]

27. Steele

I read the article,I saw it somewhere else, I am sure he said it. I just still can't believe it. The African American caucus in the GOP is Steele and Alan Keyes. How can they possibly believe they understand minorities?

[bushmeister0]

28. Yeah! This is the same guy who hired homeless guys to hand out campaign

pamphlets in black areas of Maryland saying "Ehrlich-Steele Democrats," clearly trying to fool people living in those "urban-surburban hip-hop settings" into voting for him.

http://www.gazette.net/stories/110706/princou134628_31968.shtml

The cynicism is stunning!

Unbelievable.

[KamaAina]

29. One-armed midgets?

He better be talking about portable slot machines...

[Warren DeMontague]

31. We need to appeal to crazy, uptight fucking Jesus freaks of ALL persuasions!

Yes, all types of rigid, uptight, warmongering, rabidly anti-choice theocracy-supporters should feel welcome in our tent!

[EmilyAnne]

33. Yes! Please do this! Its the BEST IDEA EVER! Don't hold back, either. Go all the way, take it

from coast to coast, make sure every American sees this hip hop reinvention.

[ColbertWatcher]

34. I memorialized Steele's stupidity ...

... http://www.wikiality.com/Hip_Hop_Makeover

[malletgirl02]

35. Daily Show

I wonder if Samantha Bee of the Daily show is running the GOP behind the scenes.