Steele: Leaked RNC presentation 'unfortunate'

[DearAbby]

Washington (CNN) – Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Thursday condemned a now-public internal party document that mocks GOP donors, but he would not say if disciplinary action is being taken against the official who created the presentation.

The powerpoint presentation, leaked to Politico on Wednesday, described high-level Republican donors as "ego-driven" and claimed they could be enticed with "tchochkes." The document included a slide - titled "The Evil Empire" - with cartoonish images depicting President Obama as the Joker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as Cruella DeVille and Harry Reid as Scooby Doo. Steele called the pictures "unfortunate."

"Those are images that were pulled off the internet, they've been out in the public domain for a while, and you know, a staffer was putting together a presentation for a small group of about nine or ten folks and thought that they would intersperse the presentation with humorous shots," Steele explained in an appearance on Fox News. "They are inappropriate shots."



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[livetohike]

1. Immature idiots. Michael Steele is a joke. The whole RNC

is made up of people who haven't advanced intellectually or emotionally since 6th grade. Very funny stuff there :sarcasm:.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Steele AND the person who wanted to"intersperse the presentation with humorous shots" are both

nitwits.

[FSogol]

3. Yup, Steele don't focus on the fact that the presentation shows that the GOP

hates and ridicules their own rubes donors.

[gratuitous]

4. Yes, "unfortunate"

Because now your donors know what you really think of them, and what you say about them to each other. Steele will be happy to make this all about Cruella DeVille* and Scooby Doo, but the real embarrassment of the presentation is how the RNC leadership views their own donors as marks to be gulled or sheep to be fleeced.

*By the by, Michael, Cruella is a Disney character, and if you think anything Disney is in the public domain, the lawyers of the Holy Rodent Empire will be glad to set you straight and relieve you of more than a few simoleons for their trouble.

[Botany]

5. "They are inappropriate shots."

So it was the staffer, the internets, and the public domain's fault?

Fuck you Steele

[Marr]

6. Steele may be the biggest buffoon in politics.

He makes GW Bush look like James Bond.

[DearAbby]

7. What the hell is a "tchochkes."

:shrug: But yeah he is deflecting away from the real story...How the GOP feels about their donors/supporters...I wonder whould they have some cartoon named "Harry Sachs" to represent the Teabags?

[tanyev]

9. Well, they must have consulted Glenn Beck on how to spell it.

Tchotchke: A small piece of worthless crap, a decorative knick knack with little or no purpose.

[WhiteTara]

8. these guys are keystone cops

and they still control the country!

[Blue Owl]

10. If I had more advanced web coding/editing skills

I would copy and paste that animated video of him walking onto his own PowerPoint presentation and apologizing in advance for it.