Steele Agrees Obama "Is The Magic Negro"

While hosting Bill Bennett's radio show Friday morning, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele appeared to agree with a caller that President Obama is "the magic Negro."

CALLER: It's just like the LA Times said last year, or two years ago -- he is the magic Negro.

STEELE: Yeah he is -- [laughter]. You read that too, huh?

CALLER: Oh yeah. I read that too. And even when things go wrong, he still manages to come out smelling like a rose.

STEELE: Well, yeah. And it's because he's getting unprecedented coverage -- cover -- by the media.

Steele's amused reaction is somewhat surprising. When former RNC chairman Chip Saltsman released a CD including a parody song "Barack The Magic Negro" in January -- inspired by the same LA Times article -- Steele said it "doesn't help at all ... it reinforces a negative stereotype of the party." Saltsman withdrew from the race to remain chairman in the wake of the scandal.

Get HuffPost Politics On Facebook and Twitter!

Comments

[Malkin71]

You HAVE to love Michael Steele...if you are a Democrat.

[Farzan]

Oh we do. But THE leader of the GOP is Rush.

[harpen1]

Steele hadn't said anything stupid for a few days so I guess he was due.

[happy1234]

Keep it up Mr. Steele!! You, Palin and Limbaugh are the gift that keeps on giving!!!

[wappie]

Michael Steele will say or do anything to get any kind of publicity. He doesn't mind that they (the Republican party) put him in that position because of the position of President Obama. They played the same game with him the McCain played with Palin and it's going to backfire on them just as having Palin backfired.

[Biolante]

Why oh why would a black man not tell a caller who said that that it is OFFENSIVE. White or black, it's offensive to all human beings.

Barack Obama is the President of the United States. My god, he's the most powerful man on the planet.

I can't imagine being so asleep at the wheel.

[indy girl]

The GOP doesn't even have a car at this point.

[joceeco]

How can Steele, Jindal and any other "minority" remain in a party that insults people who looks like them on a daily basis? Republicans must be paying them a large sum of money to sell out or they just naturally hate themselves!

[Anthony Baldin]

Were you just born today, or a few days ago? Same differance, clueless!!!!

[mccallum]

Well, it's been obvious that Michael Steele has no magic, so can't chalk it up to race.

Talent, maybe? Intellect? Charm? Gravitas? Steele has none of those things, but President Obama has all of those in spades (pun intended).

[reggieb]

Obama - Magic Steele - Tragic

[Anthony Baldin]

You certainly got to hand it to him, he fooled you!!

[gurukalehuru]

Steele is the Bizarro World Obama.

[yellowdoggie]

You're right! I never thought of it that way.

[mainemomma]

what a nice doggie face!

[LarryinMiami]

FAAAABULOUS comment!

[DavidBlackburn]

Steele is a priceless asset to the Republican party.

[zanzig]

And an even better one to the Democratic Party.

[yellowdoggie]

Keep talking, Steele. You and Rush are just what we need.

[ReedYoung]

Michael Steele doesn't give himself enough credit; I think his ability to find a wrong thing to say, in absolutely any situation, is as close to magical as anything I've ever seen. :D

PS Liberals and Progressives, Michael Steele is not _trying_ to talk to us. He's trying to build a national political party that can compete with whoever the Democratic Party nominates at the end of Barack Obama's second term, and he's trying to build that on an illiterate base. We might as well ignore him -- or at least cut him some slack -- and focus on the traitors in both parties who vote banks' interests over citizens'.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/30/banks-beat-howeowners-for_n_193902.html

And we'd do well to think about how they got elected in the first place.

[lizt]

Sure, I can ignore Steele. I already ignore the Republican Party and Fox...lol.

[Anthony Baldin]

Does it bother you that only one TV media source isn't liberal? What are you affraid of?

[Phideaux]

Insensitivity seems to be their strong suit.... No, make that their only suit.

It's pretty sad really; most of us are pulling to keep our beloved country from going over the proverbial cliff.... and all we usually get from the party of "NO" is more duplicity and snide remarks.

[jcole]

That s all they have, know plan and know new things to put on the table but tax cuts, and tax cuts or nothing new.

[gerireig]

My personal favorite: They submitted a counter-budget with no numbers.

[Anthony Baldin]

Theres something to be said about intelligence. Don't try to understand.

[Anthony Baldin]

Thats really good, did you think that up all by your self? How's your music?

[ImaSpeakonit]

Putz!

[ShinjiIkari]

it "doesn't help at all ... it reinforces a negative stereotype of the party."

Remember saying that, Mikey? Of course not; you're just like the rest of us: worried about being thrown out of your phoney-baloney job, so you're trying to make your truths into lies and turn your gaffes into roses. You can't be trusted to lead a dog to the curb, but you don't want to find yourself unemployed with the rest of the country.

You are, in fact, the perfect person to run the Party of "Every Man For Himself".

[jcole]

He is the perfect token for the republican.

[jonnai]

Michael Steele The man behind a bunch of air heads. Is the investigation still going on for steele and his sister for those checks that were given to his sister by steele for the bussiness that she had even though there was no bussiness of his sister?

[ChiGuy]

Steele is the absolute personification of the deserved term, "sell-out".

[sfbbmom]

Can't agree more. He should resign, as he is now such a total laughing stock he cannot possibly recover. Nor can the Party.

[krifos]

o