For the love of the Ceiling Cat, Michael Steele, really?
The long-in-the-planning beta launch of the new RNC website is being greeted with some predictable snark from liberal blogs — a lot of it directed at Chairman Michael Steele’s blog, “What Up?”
“What Up?” Really? Really‽ That’s like a 93-year-old white guy’s idea of how them colored kids speak.
I think it’s about time to dust this off.
I’m kind of puzzled by Steele’s inaugural post. He says,
Born in October 1958, Steele became eligible to vote as an 18-year-old in 1976. So you might think from his blog post that he was voting Republican.
Except according to a lengthy interview/ profile of Steele in his alma mater’s magazine, “He was a liberal back then, a big Carter guy” and “Steele’s move from Jimmy Carter’s camp to Ronald Reagan’s did not happen in a single magic instant. It involved an evolution.”
I guess for the modern GOP, history really did begin with Reagan.
“What Up?”
Really? Ouch. One of many reasons why I don’t describe myself as a Republican. Whose idea was THAT?
http://www.dailykostv.com/w/002253/
I don’t know if this comment is trolling or not, but from the GOP.com thread:
Mises TheMiser? Troll.
I think “Mises theMiser” is actually just a libertarian making fun of conservative hypocrites, not an actual conservative. Ludwig von Mises was a libertarian economist of the Austrian School.
But about the original post, I cringe whenever Republicans launch a new outreach campaign to some specific group – it always turns out horribly wrong. Their campaigns always remind me of the time when McDonald’s tried to be “hip” and “urban” by launching it’s “I’d hit that” advertising slogan. They were quickly informed of what “I’d hit that” really means in urban slang.
looks dope, yo.
Andrew, I thought you MUST be mistaken. So I went and looked. I wish I hadn’t.
CluelessMeter.Reading = MAX_CLUELESS
Their campaigns always remind me of the time when McDonald’s tried to be “hip” and “urban” by launching it’s “I’d hit that” advertising slogan. They were quickly informed of what “I’d hit that” really means in urban slang.
What, you don’t think McDonald’s was trying to win the hard-earned dollars of the urban food fetishists?
“Mommy, what is that man doing with his burger?”
“Never mind, Billy. Eat your fries.”