Steele Discusses Hard-Partying Past, Getting Kicked Out Of College (VIDEO)

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele treated CNN viewers on Sunday to another premeditated moment of candid weirdness.

Steele told CNN's Don Lemon that he was doing some serious partying when Johns Hopkins University gave him the boot his freshman year.

"I got kicked out of school when I was a freshman at Hopkins," Steele said. "They were like, 'I'm sorry, this isn't gonna work.'"

Steele said he was terrified of his mother's disapproval and that he pleaded every day with a dean to be let back in the school. Asked if he was partying, Steele answered with gusto.

"Was I partying? Absolutely! Absolutely!" Steele said. "I was like 'Look at her. Hey, what's up!' I was doing the whole thing."

Steele, who attended a monastery after college, told Lemon that he's a big believer in second chances.

"Everyone at some point has some thing or some circumstance in which they want to redeem themselves."

Drop us a note if you attended school with Steele, we'd love to hear some stories.

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Comments

[applescruff]

Does anyone actually wonder if the Republicans have anyone of any legitimate intelligence in thier party?

[rascalish]

"They were like,..."
"I was like..."
Does this qualify as functionally illiterate?

[Leiber1223]

mom's still stirring the grits... LOL!! really??? he remembers mom 'still stirring the grits' ??? wow...

[mesoholy]

Didn't he have a show called "Flavor of Love"?

[veisalgia]

What SIMPSONS character does Steele look like?

I am unfamiliar with the characters, but surely he looks like one of them.

[slj316]

A black bald Ned Flanders

[cloudmaker]

Since Steele insists he had a good reason to do everything he did, even when
it looked like a dumb mistake, I would love to know the incredibly clever motive
for being booted out of school.

[applescruff]

The story obviously continues on to the point where he couldn't cut it at the monastary either. Anyone for third chances?

[teddybobby]

Michael Steele & Michele Bachmann & Sean Hannity should all be locked away in a padded room for a very long time....

[fredisfred]

The problem with Steele is that he tries too hard to be cool. Dude, just calm down and be yourself.

[plooger]

Good lord this guy doesn't know when the hell to shut up. I can't imagine he can have too many more of these media appearances without being booted as RNC chair.

[grf67]

This is an example of why republicans do not succeed in science oor economics - the university courses are just too hard. Steele and bush - what a pair.

[MarionWatts]

Ditz.

[peachfuzz]

King of The Demented Geek Club

he's a gift that keeps on giving

[aquarius2001]

Another lame attempt by Steele to try to be relavent.

[Tugar]

MICHAEL STEELE IS EVEN MORE CONFUSED THAN I THOUGHT HE WAS....

Watching the interview w/Don Lemon when Steele said as a young college aged man, he called to the girls with a "Hey Baby What's Up all the time," then said he "gave serious thought to joining the Priesthood at one point" !


FOLKS, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANYONE ELSE, BUT MICHAEL STEELE'S DAILY COMMENTS REALLY BLOWS AND BAFFLES MY MIND ! HE CAN TURN ON A DIME TO TRY TO CLEAN UP A STATEMENT, OR WIPE IT OFF ANYWAY !

I'm an African-American person myself, and I really don't have anything personal against Michael Steele, but it is so obvious that he is jealous of Pres. Obama, and he's trying just a little too hard to show his own worth by giving these daily statements., ie his recent Limbaugh disagreement /apology was all "STAGED."

[Bilboo]

He's the perfect leader for a bunch of brain-damaged, uneducated clowns.