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Michael Steele on the Democratic Party and Being Black (video)
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from Black State of the Union. Edited, ending with his apt observation about the Republican party. During the 2006 election, Steele twice got homeless men to...
RNC Chairman Michael Steele Delivers Weekly Republican Address (video)
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youtube.com - 2/7/2009
RNC Chairman Michael Steele Delivers Weekly Republican Address (video)
— youtube.com — RNC Chairman Michael Steele Delivers Weekly Republican Address.Transcript:This is Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee.... Democrats h... (more) RNC Chairman Michael Steele Delivers Weekly Republican ...

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Michael Steele becomes first black RNC chairman - Yahoo! News
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Michael Steele becomes first black RNC chairman - Yahoo! News
— news.yahoo.com — WASHINGTON The Republican Party chose the first black national chairman in its history Friday, just shy of... three months after the nation elected a Democrat as the first African-American president. The choice marked no less than "the dawn of a new ... (more) Michael Steele becomes first black RNC chairman - Yahoo! ...

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ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com - 2/2/2009
Some thoughts on Michael Steele
— ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com — It's tempting to go all roflerz over the RNC's selection of Michael Steele as chairmen. But I... think the proper response is a salute. I have no idea whether Steele will be any good, but I think his selection marks the start of excising the Obama is a ... (more) Some thoughts on Michael Steele

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MoJo Blog Posts: mojo:  New RNC Chair Michael Steele's Hypocrisy on Barack Obama (Video)

David Corn:  Michael Steele's (Racial?) Hypocrisy

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New RNC Chair Michael Steele's Hypocrisy on Barack Obama (Video)
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — It turns out that Michael Steele — elected the first African American chair of the Republican National Committee earlier this afternoon — has a situational relationship with Barack Obama and what his accomplishments mean for race in America. How else to explain the fact that when Steele talks about Obama, his opinion changes depending on the audience? Here's Steele fielding a question about Obama from Tavis Smiley at the Black State of the Union conference, held in New Orleans in February 2008. Steele is speaking to a predominantly black audience. Video to your right. I'm very proud to see Barack Obama do what Barack Obama has done ...

Michael Steele's (Racial?) Hypocrisy
David Corn — Appearing on Fox News on Sunday, Michael Steele, who was elected chairman of the Republican Party last week, said of name-calling and the politics of obfuscation: "I don't have time for it." He's obviously not taking advice from Karl Rove. Steele was an interesting choice for the GOPers. The former lieutenant governor of Maryland and a onetime unsuccessful Senate candidate, he's something of a moderate--in both politics and style. (He supported stem cell research, for instance.) And he made history, becoming the party's first African American chief. But in pulling together some material on Steele, we at Mother Jones came across an interesting contradiction. ...

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