After calling Rush Limbaugh an entertainer whose form of entertainment is “ugly”. RNC chairman Michael Steele nearly broke the sound barrier while backpedaling to calm his whack-a-doodle fringe:
“I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said weren’t what I was thinking,” Steele said. “It was one of those things where I thinking I was saying one thing, and it came out differently. What I was trying to say was a lot of people … want to make Rush the scapegoat, the bogeyman, and he’s not.”
On the one hand, it sucks to have to run around apologizing for every frakkin’ word out of your mouth, so Steele has my sympathy. (It’s that incredibly shitty, depressing part of a politician’s job that explains why even the best of ‘em are at least a little sleazy.) On the other hand, sheesh Michael… grovelling before Rush? Don’t demean youself like that, dude.