{"id":31813,"date":"2009-03-02T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:40:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:40:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:40:29","slug":"a_few_words_for_michael_steele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/03\/02\/a_few_words_for_michael_steele\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Words for Michael Steele"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: I was not going to talk about Michael Steele. I have had e-mails from the Drive-By Media. I have had interview requests to be on television shows to talk about Michael Steele and what he said about my speech<\/a> Saturday night. He was on CNN and I was going to ignore it, but so many of you are e-mailing me asking me to respond to this that I have changed my mind and I\u2019m going to do so. Here is what has prompted all of the irritation at Michael Steele. He was on the D. L. Hughley show on CNN Saturday night, and the other voice you\u2019ll hear is the other guest, the rapper Chuck D. They had this exchange about me.<\/p>\n

HUGHLEY: Rush Limbaugh, who is the de facto leader of the Republican Party —<\/p>\n

STEELE: No, he\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

HUGHLEY: Well, I\u2019ll tell you what, I\u2019ve never —<\/p>\n

STEELE: I\u2019m the de facto leader of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

HUGHLEY: Then you know what? Then I can appreciate that, but no — no one will — will actually pry down some of the things he says, like when he comes out and says that he wants the president to fail, I understand he wants liberalism to fail.<\/p>\n

STEELE: How is that any different than what was said about George Bush during his presidency? Let\u2019s put it into context here. Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. Rush Limbaugh, the whole thing is entertainment. Yes, it\u2019s incendiary, yes, it\u2019s ugly —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so I am an entertainer, and I have 20 million listeners, 22 million listeners because of my great song-and-dance routines here. Yes, said Michael Steele, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, I\u2019m incendiary, and yes, it\u2019s ugly. Michael Steele, you are head of the RNC. You are not head of the Republican Party. Tens of millions of conservatives and Republicans have nothing to do with the RNC and right now they want nothing to do with it, and when you call them asking them for money, they hang up on you. I hope that changes. I hope the RNC will get its act together. I hope the RNC chairman will realize he\u2019s not a talking head pundit, that he is supposed to be working on the grassroots and rebuilding it, and maybe doing something about our open primary system and fixing it so that Democrats do not nominate our candidates. It\u2019s time, Mr. Steele, for you to go behind the scenes and start doing the work that you were elected to do instead of trying to be some talking head media star, which you\u2019re having a tough time pulling off. I hope you figure out how to run a primary system. But it seems to me that it\u2019s Michael Steele who is off to a shaky start. <\/p>\n

My parents taught me when I was growing up that you always stood behind people who defended you, you never abandoned people who stood up for you and who defended you against assault. Michael Steele was a candidate for the Senate in Maryland. Michael Steele was on this program, he got airtime on this program to attempt to refute the lies being told about him by Michael J. Fox in those famous ads way back when that were also run against Jim Talent in Missouri. I personally took time to defend Michael Steele and to rip the substance of those ads, had him on the show. I went after Chuck Schumer when Chuck Schumer\u2019s former employee stole Michael Steele\u2019s private credit record information and released it. When I went to Washington a couple years ago for a personal appearance from my station there, WMAL, WMAL arranged for a number of dignitaries to meet me backstage. One of them was Michael Steele, who thanked me very much for coming to his defense. Something\u2019s happened. Now I\u2019m just an entertainer and now I am ugly and my program is incendiary.<\/p>\n

Michael Steele has been around long enough to know that the liberal media will use him by twisting what I say or what others say. He took the bait, he bit down hard on the bait, he launched an attack on me even though the premise of what was said to him was false. He took the bait and he went for it. Now, Mr. Steele, if it is your position as the chairman of the Republican National Committee that you want a left wing Democrat president and a left wing Democrat Congress to succeed in advancing their agenda, if it\u2019s your position that you want President Obama and Speaker Pelosi and Senate Leader Harry Reid to succeed with their massive spending and taxing and nationalization plans, I think you have some explaining to do. Why are you running the Republican Party? Why do you claim you lead the Republican Party when you seem obsessed with seeing to it that President Obama succeeds? I frankly am stunned that the chairman of the Republican National Committee endorses such an agenda. I have to conclude that he does because he attacks me for wanting it to fail. <\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t complicated stuff here, folks. It\u2019s difficult to organize the defeat of Obama and the Democrat Congress in 2012, if we want to. It\u2019s going to be difficult enough, but on one hand it shouldn\u2019t be difficult at all. But it\u2019s going to be really hard, Mr. Steele, if you, as the chairman of the RNC, want Obama to succeed. Where does the Republican Party go if you, who are supposed to be redesigning our primary system and helping reestablish our grassroots movement, how are we going to retake elective office if you want this agenda of Obama\u2019s and Pelosi\u2019s and Reid\u2019s to succeed. My colleagues in talk radio can attest to this next point. We get press release after press release after press release from the Republican National Committee attacking the Democrat agenda. They send us points of refutation. I never use them \u2019cause I don\u2019t need them. But they send out all these points of refutation about how this part of what Dingy Harry wants or Pelosi wants is wrong, is wrong, is wrong. Why are you sending out these things, Mr. Steele? Why is your office sending out all these talking points to defeat the Democrat agenda in Congress if your position is you want it to succeed? And I don\u2019t understand why you\u2019re asking Republicans to donate to the Republican National Committee if their money is going to be spent furthering the agenda of Barack Obama. <\/p>\n

If we don\u2019t want Obama and Reid and Pelosi to fail, then why does the RNC exist, Mr. Steele? Why are you even raising money? What do you want from us? If I want Obama and Democrats to succeed, I suppose we should be sending the RNC donations? You know, these people, it\u2019s a bizarre discussion to have because there\u2019s a news story on this, on this feud now between me and Michael Steele. And listen to this. This is a quote from RNC spokesman, Alex Conant, I\u2019m not sure how he pronounces his last name. ‘The feud between radio host Rush and Rahm makes great political theater, but it is a sideshow to the important work going on in Washington. RNC Chairman Michael Steele and elected Republicans are focused on fighting for reform and winning elections. The Democrats\u2019 problem is that the American people are growing skeptical of the massive government spending being pushed by congressional leaders like [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi.\u2019<\/p>\n

Mr. Steele, your spokesman sounds like the RNC wants \u2019em to fail, to me. You\u2019re opposing \u2019em. You say the American people are growing weary of it, getting suspicious of it. But it\u2019s not just Pelosi\u2019s spending. It\u2019s Obama\u2019s. Where are your guts? Why can\u2019t you tie Obama to these policies? They\u2019re his! Where are your guts? (interruption) Snerdley, they don\u2019t want me doing the dirty work because when I go out there and, quote, unquote, do the dirty work, they try to cut me off at the knees for doing so. The point is, when you read that statement from Alex Conant, they\u2019re opposed to the Obama agenda, too, they\u2019re just too gutless to say so, and they get frightened when they hear the words, ‘I want Obama to fail.\u2019 ‘Oh, no, no, no, we can\u2019t be associated with that.\u2019 Yet you\u2019re sending out all these talking points designed to help people explain to other people why the Obama agenda is wrong. So I think it\u2019s bizarre. They put out statements and press releases damning Obama and Pelosi policies and they object when somebody like me says he doesn\u2019t want them to succeed. <\/p>\n

Now, if it\u2019s the purpose of the Republican National Committee to urge the success of the Obama and congressional agenda, then stop sending these press releases here. I don\u2019t want \u2019em anymore. Stop sending all these quotes and facts and figures to prove how the Obama and Pelosi agenda is full of lies. I don\u2019t want to see it anymore, because you don\u2019t believe it. Why are you even sending these things out, Mr. Steele? It\u2019s amazing how many Republican politicians contact this show wanting on it. It\u2019s amazing how many Republicans want to come on this show. It\u2019s amazing how many send this show an endless number of press releases, their PR flacks are constantly sending me press releases and points, Congressman X saying this, special interest group X saying that, hoping I will mention it, hoping I will promote their cause. Why do they work so hard to be on this show? Why are they so eager to get me to take up their cause? I\u2019m just an entertainer, ugly, incendiary, they say. We don\u2019t discuss current issues or policies or history or economics. So on the one hand, they had their PR flaks inundating me every day with this group or this congressman\u2019s doing that. I\u2019m supposed to take it and make this or that congressman look good or this or that RNC chairman look good. And then they do what they do. <\/p>\n

They chicken out when I happen to articulate exactly what their agenda really is. They don\u2019t have the guts to admit it, and I do. I\u2019m going further and telling you today it\u2019s not that I want Obama to fail; that\u2019s not it anymore. The president is presiding over economic failure. The president is watching it, doing nothing about it. He\u2019s watching unemployment grow; he\u2019s watching the stock market plummet; he is watching people sign up for unemployment. The president of the United States is doing nothing to stop the downward spiral of this economy. He has no economic recovery plan. The truth is, the president of the United States and Rahm Emanuel, who, remember, said, ‘Crisis is too great a thing to waste.\u2019 What does that mean? They want you suffering, they want you miserable, they want it worse, they want you rejecting conservatism. They want you rejecting capitalism. They want you turning to them in fear and desperation and angst for an immediate fix to the problem. They want you thinking you have no ability to fix your own problems. They think you have and they want you to have no ability to take care of yourself. So as the stock market now approaches minus 2,800 since Obama was elected, the statement today is to speed up the economic recovery, we\u2019re going to focus on health care. Ask yourself how that is going to get you your next job. <\/p>\n

One other thing. Mr. Steele, if you want to lead the Republican Party, as you say you do, then you need to run for and win the presidency. You are chairman of the Republican National Committee. That is your job. To run the Republican establishment bureaucracy and prove you can defeat Democrats and elect Republicans, to come up with a new primary system that eliminates Democrats participating in ours and choosing our candidates and getting the grassroots revved up again. This is how you\u2019re going to be measured, not by how entertaining or cute you are on talk shows. By the same token, I\u2019m not in charge of the Republican Party, and I don\u2019t want to be. I would be embarrassed to say that I\u2019m in charge of the Republican Party in the sad-sack state that it\u2019s in. If I were chairman of the Republican Party, given the state that it\u2019s in, I would quit. I might get out the hari-kari knife because I would have presided over a failure that is embarrassing to the Republicans and conservatives who have supported it and invested in it all these years. I certainly couldn\u2019t say I am proud of the Republican Party, as I am leading the Republican Party. Right now the Republican Party needs to be led, and it will be. The next Republican president is going to be the head of the party. Last time I checked, I don\u2019t think Mr. Steele is running. <\/p>\n

And finally, Mr. Steele, we do like to entertain people here. The audience is very smart, sir. They know the difference between entertainment, and they know the difference between deadly serious issues that affect their country. Don\u2019t underestimate the intelligence of this audience or Republicans and conservatives generally. The biggest problem with all of you who live inside the Beltway is you look out over America and you think you see idiocy and unsophisticated people, ignorant people, and when you\u2019re looking at liberal Democrats, largely you\u2019re correct, but your own voters are every bit as informed, involved, engaged, and caring, if not more so than you are. We don\u2019t care, first and foremost, about the success of the Republican Party. We care about the United States of America and its future, because we cherish it and love it, and we know what it is that made it the greatest nation on earth, and we don\u2019t hear you articulating that you understand that, not just you, Mr. Steele, but hardly anybody else in Washington, DC. So send those fundraising requests out, and, by the way, when you send those fundraising requests out, Mr. Steele, make sure you say, ‘We want Obama to succeed.\u2019 So people understand your compassion. Republicans, conservatives, are sick and tired of being talked down to, sick and tired of being lectured to, and until you show some understanding and respect for who they are, you\u2019re going to have a tough time rebuilding your party. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, psst, folks, just a little secret between us. Don\u2019t tell anybody, all right? This is just between us. Don\u2019t tell the Drive-Bys. The Drive-Bys were tuning in for that because they\u2019ve been asking me for quotes on this. So the way they\u2019re gonna interpret — and really don\u2019t tell anybody, this is between us, because I don\u2019t want this getting out beyond the show — the way they are going to interpret what I just did in response to Michael Steele is, ‘Oh, this is great, this is great! Emanuel\u2019s strategy is working great, the Republican Party and Limbaugh are splitting apart, there\u2019s a feud, there\u2019s infighting.\u2019 They will miss the whole point, and even if there are any Drive-Bys listening while I tell them the real point, they will reject it because it doesn\u2019t fit their template. What happened starting Saturday — actually, CPAC started on Thursday, but what culminated with my speech on Saturday at CPAC was the reawakening of a huge sleeping giant that is ready to rumble, and that is American conservatism, which is found in the Democrat Party, it\u2019s found among independents, and it\u2019s found in the Republican Party. <\/p>\n

More Americans live their lives as conservatives than you would believe. They don\u2019t get their paychecks and walk down the street and say, ‘Hi, you want some of this?\u2019 They\u2019ll vote for people who will do it for them, but they\u2019re trying to raise their kids right and make money, save money. They\u2019ve got morality and values, most of them, not all, but most, they may not vote that way, but they live that way. They\u2019re waiting to be awakened and that awakening has started. The pressure is on the Republican Party to be more Democrat Party-like, and too many Republicans in Washington want to make that happen. Well, just the opposite is going to happen. The sleeping conservative giant has been awakened here. It\u2019s a beautiful thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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