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By KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press Writer

 ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Republican Senate candidate Michael Steele on Wednesday called President Bush his “homeboy,” reversed course on having the president campaign for him and said he was joking when he described his Republican affiliation as a scarlet letter.
The Maryland lieutenant governor, under fire for his comments, told WBAL radio that his remarks were supposed to be off the record with a handful of reporters. Instead, Steele’s campaign confirmed Tuesday that he was the unnamed Senate candidate who had assailed the Bush administration and Republican-controlled Congress in a story in The Washington Post.
“I’ve been quoted as calling the president my homeboy, you know. And that’s how I feel. … It’s a term of affection and respect for his leadership of our country in a difficult time,” Steele, who is black, said in the radio interview. FULL STORY

“Karl, you get that black motherfucker on the phone and tell him what be better do to get another fucking dime from us. Fuck him. What does he know, he’s a fucking Lt. Gov.”

Ok people, I have changed course. I’m done with supporting this guy. He clearly is an idiot. When The News Blog ran the sambo shit, I was outraged. As dude was attacked by what was clearly a racist liberal Democrat establishment, I supported dude. But I’m like fuck it, Republicans should just say, screw Maryland.
I wouldn’t vote for this dude for dog catcher. Forget him being Republican, he is just stupid. He claims that he made some remarks “off the record” who is he fucken kidding.
The man is embarrassing and what make all of this more irritating to me is that it’s already hard enough for niggas to make inroads into becoming legitimate political candidates in either party. And here he is fucking shit up! 
And this wavering back and fourth between ghetto talk and normal talk is getting real old. He clearly is confused.
Advice for Steele; just shut the fuck up, keep your damm mouth shut for a few weeks, stay out of the news, don’t give interviews, and stay off TV. Do your stump speeches; give that big wide negro grin and no more negro slang in news articles.
(The News Blog) called a spade a spade from the beginning, looks like dude was right.  

More - Despite ground rules, Steele protests publication of criticism

and this… 

Senate Candidate Steele Caught in New Bush Fib
By Paul Kiel

What a pathetic climax to the days-long controversy following Dana Milbank’s column about the “Scarlet Letter” Republican.

As everyone now knows, Milbank wrote a column Tuesday, relating the comments of an anonymous Republican carping about the burden of being a GOPer during Bush’s second term. All day Tuesday, bloggers and pundits took turns guessing at the mystery Republican’s identity. Finally, on Tuesday afternoon, Michael Steele admitted to ABC News that it was him.

And now, he takes it all back. Bush is his “homeboy,” he said during a radio interview this morning. Whereas before (when he was under the guise of an anonymous “GOP Senate candidate”) he said that “to be honest,” he probably wouldn’t want Bush campaigning with him, now he says that “If the president wanted to come and help me in Maryland, he is more than welcome, because I’m not going to turn my back on a friend.”

But it gets even better.

Backpedaling furiously, Steele also said this morning that the interview with Milbank and other reporters was supposed to be off the record. That would mean that Milbank wasn’t supposed to quote his remarks, anonymously or otherwise.

But it turns out that’s just not true. Steele appears to be lying through his teeth. As Milbank clearly stated in his piece, Steele spoke to reporters “under the condition that he be identified only as a GOP Senate candidate.”

This afternoon I contacted Milbank to find out what happened and he confirmed that the meeting, done over lunch, was not off the record. “The luncheon was one in a regular series, and they are all on background. It was announced at the start of the lunch that this one, too, was on background,” he said.

As proof, Milbank forwarded me an email from Steele’s flak Doug Heye, who in response to an email from Milbank checking whether he could run certain quotes from Steele in his story, responded, “since it was a backgrounder, if there are specific quotes you’d like to use, can you email them to me so I could sign off?”

So case closed.

Late Update: Here’s the email as forwarded to me by Milbank (I’ve redacted their email addresses):

From: “Doug Heye” To: “Dana Milbank” cc: Subject: RE: Reconsider? 07/24/2006 03:38 PMWon’t waste your time, and know deadlines are tight.

I’d probably be fine with those you sent, but since it was a
backgrounder, if there are specific quotes you’d like to use, can you
email them to me so I could sign off?

I can hold off on signing off for other press for the time being, as
well.

 

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