Maddowphilia

  1. Michael Steele (RNC chair) says: “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-suburban hip-hop settings…. [The makeover] will be avant garde*, technically… it will come to [the] table with things that will surprise everyone—off the hook.”

    *Ok, what? How is this “avant-garde”, exactly?**

    Rachel citing her guest (Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Princeton professor) on her last appearance on the show: “The Republicans electing him chairman of the party showed, quote, ‘They’re thinking Barack Obama is Superman, so what they needed to do was get Kryptonite. Kryptonite comes from Superman’s own planet, so they went to Planet Black Guy.’”

    When asked if she still believed that, Harris-Lacewell replied, “Not only do I think they went to Planet Black Guy, I think they went to like, Planet Old Black Guy.”

    **Ok, he might have just made it “technically” avant-garde. He said after: “We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.”

    Rachel Maddow video: GOP getting hip?

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