MC Steele Plays the Race Card

Michael Steele hates people who 'play the race card'. But if 'playing the race card' means deliberately exploiting racial sensitivities by making unjustified claims of racism against opponents, he just proved he can play it with alacrity.

On his recent Univision interview he claimed that he was "called an Uncle Tom by leading Democrats" and that Steny Hoyer called him a "slave."

As David Wiegel at The Washington Independent points out, you can't seriously accuse leading Democrats of calling you 'Uncle Tom' unless, by leading Democrats, you mean a few liberal bloggers with poor judgment.

Then there's the 'slave' accusation he threw at Hoyer. What Hoyer actually said was that Steele had made a "career of slavishly supporting the Republican Party." Maybe a tad inappropriate when 'servilely' would have sufficed, but it's in no way equivalent to actually calling him a slave.

Truly, Michael Steele is more full of s*** than a Taco Bell bathroom.