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Michael Steele Agrees With Bill Maher: “The Knives Are Out For Sarah Palin”

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It was clear that recently-deposed former RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s appearance on Bill Maher’s Real Time would yield a colorful conversation, and looking back, it probably should have been obvious who would be a main focus of that discussion: Sarah Palin. Maher brought her up quickly, reminding Steele of an appearance on Maher’s show over two years ago when Steele predicted Palin-bashers would one day eat their words. Maher did not eat his words on this night.

“She does get a little harder to defend, does she not?” Maher asked Steele, following up with, “Between her and Michele Bachmann, I don’t know who knows history less.” Then, in a notable display of violent imagery (a week after staunchly advocating for gun control, if not for civility in political discourse), Maher said that “the knives are out for her,” as Republicans who once defended her can’t anymore,” because “she’s too stupid even for them.”

Steele tried to respond to that (and concurred with the “knives are out” sentiment), saying he could identify with being in a situation where saying one wrong thing (or being taken out of context) gets blown out of proportion, but Maher shot back that Palin “wasn’t asked a trick question, like ‘What do you read?‘” (They both had a good laugh at that one, for the record.) And both did seem to enjoy themselves – good news for Steele, since he’ll likely be making a lot of appearances like this one in the near future. Video of their exchange, via HBO, below.

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  • TangledThorns

    Oh Maher you snarky little boy. When will you ever read? No maetr how much you trash Palin, she gets stronger and will be your next president by 2013.

  • roxsteady

    Seriously? That’s what you got from that? Steele was unable to defend Palin or Bachmann as Maher correctely noted just how stupid and ignorant both were. I’ll await the unhinged comments from dopes who visit this site claiming that we Liberals are afraid of Palin and ask, why would that be? She doesn’t know her ass from a whole in the ground.

  • WCinWI

    roxsteady said:
    Seriously? That’s what you got from that? Steele was unable to defend Palin or Bachmann as Maher correctely noted just how stupid and ignorant both were. I’ll await the unhinged comments from dopes who visit this site claiming that we Liberals are afraid of Palin and ask, why would that be? She doesn’t know her ass from a whole in the ground.

    You’ll be afraid because apparently Obama just had his Jimmy Carter moment.

    My heart goes out to the people of Egypt.

  • roxsteady

    Apparently, someone hasn’t seen the latest polling on Palin. Her negatives are way too high. Besides, Liberals and minorities wouldn’t vote for her and neither would independents. She can’t win with just the baggers or she’d already be a VP!

  • roxsteady

    WCinWI said:
    You’ll be afraid because apparently Obama just had his Jimmy Carter moment. My heart goes out to the people of Egypt.

    And your head should go out from your ass! Again, check the polls. Obama would beat all of the GOP dolts!

  • the real john t

    TangledThorns said:
    No maetr how much you trash Palin, she gets stronger and will be your next president by 2013.

    Anybody that believes that is a total joke.

  • WCinWI

    roxsteady said:
    Apparently, someone hasn’t seen the latest polling on Palin. Her negatives are way too high. Besides, Liberals and minorities wouldn’t vote for her and neither would independents. She can’t win with just the baggers or she’d already be a VP!

    Employment is going to be high, gas prices may be high, health care is going to be on the table, so will immigration……the Midwest went hardcore Red and some of us can’t wait to vote out other Dems in 2012.

    Now go practice your civility.

  • Arkansas Steve

    As the saying goes: With friends like Michael, you don’t need enemies. Now I understand better why the Republican party thought it best he retire gracefully.

    Speaking of the mess in the middle east, the worst of the terrorists would FEAR Sarah Palin more than President Obama or any other recent president. And as everybody agrees, the one thing they understand is POWER.

  • Arkansas Steve

    roxsteady said:
    And your head should go out from your ass! Again, check the polls. Obama would beat all of the GOP dolts!

    Gee Roxie. I guess we’ll just cancel the 2012 election. And while we’re at it, let’s just cancel that pesky super bowl too. No sense any of the players risking injury if you already know how it’s going to turn out.

  • CosmosDan

    TangledThorns said:
    Oh Maher you snarky little boy. When will you ever read? No maetr how much you trash Palin, she gets stronger and will be your next president by 2013.

    Don’t bogart that joint man, because it muist be some Gooood shit.

  • Pablo

    roxsteady said:
    Seriously? That’s what you got from that? Steele was unable to defend Palin or Bachmann as Maher correctely noted just how stupid and ignorant both were.

    Yes, he heard the TRVTH from Chris Matthews. All is well in ignorant proggyland.

  • Pablo

    roxsteady said:
    And your head should go out from your ass!

    Well, that’s certainly hard to argue with.

  • The Tea Weasel

    TangledThorns said:
    Oh Maher you snarky little boy. When will you ever read? No maetr how much you trash Palin, she gets stronger and will be your next president by 2013.

    It appears Tangled is a founding member of the Spudnuts party.

    Say Tangled, you gonna put your money where your mouth is and place a few bets on Falin? I’d like to get some of that action. Not often I get to bet on a sure thing…..

  • Nacho

    I recommend watching this video again. It is flippin’ hilarious.

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/sarah-palin-calls-obamas-sputnik-mention-a-wtf-moment/

  • NeoKong

    Oh yeah. Bill Maher is certain he is smarter than Palin because he has …his own show or something.
    Let him do his show without a laugh track.

  • jjay7381

    I like Michael Steel so much more now that he’s not part of the RNC. He’s freaking hilarious!

  • Color Me Badd

    She’s just too stupid even for them and that is really really really stupid.

    Michael Steele rules, if he got a show on Fox I would totally watch it.

  • Color Me Badd

    TangledThorns said:
    Oh Maher you snarky little boy. When will you ever read? No maetr how much you trash Palin, she gets stronger and will be your next president by 2013.

    Wassup Spudnut!

  • Alz

    It’s just amazing at how much Palin and Bachmann scare the Liberals. Maher and the other screwball liberals spend a huge amount of their waking hours worrying about Palin and Bachmann.

  • Alz

    NeoKong said:
    Oh yeah. Bill Maher is certain he is smarter than Palin because he has …his own show or something.
    Let him do his show without a laugh track.

    Maher isn’t that smart. Like most Modern Liberals/Progressives, he is unable to use reason as a way to advance. Sure he has lots and lots of facts, but the facts are for tearing things down rather than any ideas that have to be debated.

  • the real john t

    Alz said:
    Maher and the other screwball liberals spend a huge amount of their waking hours worrying about Palin and Bachmann.

    No, the reason so much time goes into mocking them is to show their ignorance. If they don’t like people talking about them they should stay out of the spotlight and quit showing how ignorant they are.

    Please oh Please let them both run for President in 2012. It would be the biggest comedy you could ever imagine.

  • Color Me Badd

    Alz said:
    Maher isn’t that smart. Like most Modern Liberals/Progressives, he is unable to use reason as a way to advance. Sure he has lots and lots of facts, but the facts are for tearing things down rather than any ideas that have to be debated.

    Wassup Spudnut!

  • Alz

    the real john t said:
    No, the reason so much time goes into mocking them is to show their ignorance. If they don’t like people talking about them they should stay out of the spotlight and quit showing how ignorant they are.

    Please oh Please let them both run for President in 2012. It would be the biggest comedy you could ever imagine.

    That’s not it. It’s a genuine fear. Remember, we’re talking about the liberal mindset – these are the people who invented Political Correctness and speech codes. These types of liberals (like Maher) can’t stand threats – and Palin and Bachmann ARE threats.

    The liberals can’t afford for people to be exposed to them You saw what happened in November, didn’t you: the liberals lost something like 400 years of Congressional experience and over 700 seats in the State houses. And all of this happened with ideas that are similar to Palin’s anb Bachmann’s!

    See, you liberals think Palin and Bachmann are ignorant, but the American people don’t. What’s worse, it’s the swing voters who are embracing Conservative ideas.

    It’s just as I said: the Left FEARS Palin and Bachmann.

  • the real john t

    Alz said:
    It’s just as I said: the Left FEARS Palin and Bachmann.

    And you are a braindead idiot if you believe that.

  • Alz

    the real john t said:
    And you are a braindead idiot if you believe that.

    The Left ONLY goes after real threats. If Palin and Bachmann were as dumb as liberals say/think, then they wouldn’t bother with them.

    What’s happening is you can’t process what I’m saying because according to the Modern Liberal/Progressive belief system, Palin and Bachmann ARE evil and stupid and there can’t e anything about them that is of value. That’s why you have to call me braindead rather than debate the issues that they raise.

    You can namecall all you want, but the People like what Palin abd Bachmann stand for.

  • the real john t

    Alz said:
    The Left ONLY goes after real threats.

    So in your mindset, when you go after Democrats or liberals you are threaten by them. Do I have that right?

  • Alz

    the real john t said:
    So in your mindset, when you go after Democrats or liberals you are threaten by them. Do I have that right?

    Of course. But I have the purpose of making things better as a goal and the Right works to seek the truth.

    You guys work to force everything to be “equal” and the truth gets in the way of making things “equal.”

    In other words, my side is right and your side is wrong. I don’t like “wrong” so it is threatening.

  • the real john t

    Alz said:
    In other words, my side is right and your side is wrong. I don’t like “wrong” so it is threatening.

    That is the most ignorant thing I have read in a long time.

  • the real john t

    Alz said:
    Of course. But I have the purpose of making things better as a goal and the Right works to seek the truth.
    You guys work to force everything to be “equal” and the truth gets in the way of making things “equal.”

    OH! Do you mean like Civil Rights, Womens Rights etc, etc? What’s the “truth” that got in the way of them?

  • WCinWI

    the real john t said:
    OH! Do you mean like Civil Rights, Womens Rights etc, etc? What’s the “truth” that got in the way of them?

    Last I checked, the Left didn’t care about women’s rights or civil rights. And as a female, I can attest to the first point.

  • the real john t

    WCinWI said:
    Last I checked, the Left didn’t care about women’s rights or civil rights. And as a female, I can attest to the first point.

    Who signed the Civil Rights bill? Who signed the Lilly Ledbetter act when the Republicans got it selved in 2007?

  • Yoda002

    TangledThorns said:
    Oh Maher you snarky little boy. When will you ever read? No maetr how much you trash Palin, she gets stronger and will be your next president by 2013.

    I’m sorry you are so wrong even the Republican are distancing themselves from her. Every time she speaks her poll numbers drop,

  • BatBoy

    roxsteady said:
    Apparently, someone hasn’t seen the latest polling on Palin.

    Color Me Badd said:
    She’s just too stupid even for them and that is really really really stupid.

    Lets see how “Stupid” Sarah Palin is when gas prices reach $4.50 – $5.00 a gallon as predicted. Mys sense is that the real “Stupid” people are the ones who like to call people “Stupid!” That would be _________________ (you can fill in the blank!)

  • The Lantern of Truth

    RRKING in the am. Mahi – Maher came into our salon one day last week but we were unable to meet his hair-styling demands . In Austin , we use lard for COOKING only , never as hair gel , Sir !

  • Probably NOT wrong

    roxsteady said:
    Seriously? That’s what you got from that? Steele was unable to defend Palin or Bachmann as Maher correctely noted just how stupid and ignorant both were. I’ll await the unhinged comments from dopes who visit this site claiming that we Liberals are afraid of Palin and ask, why would that be? She doesn’t know her ass from a whole in the ground.

    And you don’t know whole from hole!
    Don’t you just hate it when that happens?
    Makes the insultee look a hell of a lot smarter
    than the insulter,who is attempting to call the insultee
    dumb!
    Happens a lot on this comment board, do not it???
    UMM!

  • Probably NOT wrong

    BatBoy said:
    Lets see how “Stupid” Sarah Palin is when gas prices reach $4.50 – $5.00 a gallon as predicted. Mys sense is that the real “Stupid” people are the ones who like to call people “Stupid!” That would be _________________ (you can fill in the blank!)

    Wee, ROCKSHEAD could fit into the blank!
    See above!!
    I love it when these dopes come on here and try to pretend
    they are intelligent!
    Have a hell of a time pulling it off most times :-)

  • The Tea Weasel

    Alzhimeranian said:

    You can namecall all you want, but the People like what Palin abd Bachmann stand for.

    Please please please please run either one of them in ’12. Oh please please please. Pretty please.

  • The Tea Weasel

    The Lampoon of Truth said:
    RRKING in the am. Mahi – Maher came into our salon one day last week but we were unable to meet his hair-styling demands . In Austin , we use lard for COOKING only , never as hair gel , Sir !

    So Bill is equal opportunity and went to a gay hair salon? Interesting…..

  • twin1616

    Sarah Palin is a lightning rod with a promising future in Reality TV , not politics. And she’ll be laughing all the way to the bank. Hope she has a good accountant.

  • Steely Steel

    I always believed when the republicans took the house that Sara Palin would be ..going going gone! They are probably now whispering behind closed doors…”how do we get the genie back in the bottle”…..to borrow a Washington Post writers phrase.

    They stop defending or some merely not commenting. Then Barbra Bush comes along and of course is being typical Barbra says Sara likes Alaska should stay in Alaska or something like that.
    Maybe I like to compare that statement like a gunshot for a race that says go! Political figures are their own reality show!

  • Steely Steel

    twin–hate to tell you this,no happy to tell you this, but Sara has been dropped and her daughters speaking engagement cancelled.

  • A man without a Country

    Alz said:
    Of course. But I have the purpose of making things better as a goal and the Right works to seek the truth.

    You guys work to force everything to be “equal” and the truth gets in the way of making things “equal.”

    In other words, my side is right and your side is wrong. I don’t like “wrong” so it is threatening.

    Really?
    Equality is evil?
    To quote Sara Palin, “WTF!”

  • Alz

    the real john t said:
    OH! Do you mean like Civil Rights, Womens Rights etc, etc? What’s the “truth” that got in the way of them?

    You’re funny.

    - The Democrats were the slave party.
    - Read about the 1924 Democratic Convention
    - The Progressives were about Eugenics – read up on Margaret Sanger
    - The Liberals have just about enslaved the people in the inner cities since the early 60′s with their policies and programs that are designed to keep them in line
    - And what did uber-Liberal Ruth Bader Ginsberg say TWO years ago about Roe v Wade: Answer: “Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”? Exactly which populations was she talking about????

    Racism is from the Left. Look at how the liberals have treated the American Indians, too. It’s the Liberals who dreamed up turning them into dependents. The biggest racists ARE liberals.

  • writer

    The King has a knife out for Palin, but it’s an electric one with a two-foot cord. He keeps motioning for her to come near, but she won’t do it.

  • Alz

    A man without a Country said:
    Really?
    Equality is evil?
    To quote Sara Palin, “WTF!”

    When the overriding imperative is to force everything to be “equal”, yes, it is evil. See, we all want things fair and we want justice, but it’s under the law, not imposed by elites.

  • possumdearie

    Steely Steel said:
    I always believed when the republicans took the house that Sara Palin would be ..going going gone! They are probably now whispering behind closed doors…”how do we get the genie back in the bottle”…..to borrow a Washington Post writers phrase.

    Sarah Palin is something of a loose cannon, and while it would have been nice to have her help in the midterms, she seemed more intent on running roughshod over the “establishment” and whipping up insurrection against the RNC. At some point, she came to Michael Steele’s defense, but then she also cost him his job in the end. It’s a bit surprising seeing him share jokes with Bill Maher at her expense, but she reaped the whirlwind. Had she cooperated more with Steele, she could have made a truce with the Republican party, as tea party ambassador, and maybe taken a logical leadership role chairing the RNC herself. But she would rather run for POTUS, what will be a likely disastrous move since she was barely qualified to be the veep in 2008 and has since resigned as the Governor of Alaska. It will be an entertaining primary.

    Steely Steel said:
    They stop defending or some merely not commenting. Then Barbra Bush comes along and of course is being typical Barbra says Sara likes Alaska should stay in Alaska or something like that.

    That comment from the Former First Lady deserved a response. I never heard Sarah Palin say anything bad about the Bushes, and even her reply, calling them blue bloods, was pretty mild stuff. It was a graceless dig from the old harridan, but you’re right that it’s political oxygen for Sarahcuda. She thrives on attacks, and this is why she is culturally relevant and ultimately good for the GOP. People who are typically marginalized by government, those people in “flyover land” so crucial to winning elections, identify with Palin’s biography. She could be great, if she would just put in the work.

  • potvin

    Steele shows us why he was removed as head of the RNC, he’s got a big mouth and isn’t very intelligent when he uses it. Maher is just an asshat who thinks he should be taken seriously but is laughed at for all the wrong reasons.

  • Old Duffer

    Thats OK, in the words of the “WON.” They bring knives, we bring guns.

  • RowdyHoward

    the real john t said:
    Who signed the Civil Rights bill? Who signed the Lilly Ledbetter act when the Republicans got it selved in 2007?

    WCinWI said:
    Last I checked, the Left didn’t care about women’s rights or civil rights. And as a female, I can attest to the first point.

    John T- she has a point… WCinWI- Republicans also used to end wars not start them.

    One thing we can all hopefully agree on is that both parties (as a whole) tend to make decisions that benefit their cause, rather than choosing what is right.

    As much as I want to believe in our system…I have to remember that the system only works if “we the people” get more involved. The system would have us divided, but the more common ground we find amongst ourselves..the better chance we have at becoming a driving force against total control. Keep posting, just remember it’s “the Man” we should all be fighting against. Not ourselves. High five for good debate everyone! Keep those brains thinking.

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    Sarah Palin, who has received nothing but hysterical, foaming-at-the-mouth, vicious, mean-spirited, false, mis-leading and totally biased slime attacks from Ruling Class Repugs, the lunatic-left and their “Corrupt B-tard” puppets in the lamestream media, is now indisputably the MOST POWERFUL, MOST INFLUENTIAL, MOST EFFECTIVE woman politician in America today (special thanks to the Trifecta of Scum, aka the official “You Lie!” hussein cheerleading squad, nbc, snl and tina fey. And ,of course, couric deserves a special place in hell for her unrestrained bias against Palin and all that is American.). So, to the lunatic-left d-crat socialists and especially their stooges in the lamestream media, I say: keep it up until President Palin – and the overwhelming majority of the American people – have the last laugh at you.

    Because of her massive influence, Palin has literally change the language Americans use. Examples of her power over our language include:

    “How’s that [substitute ANY idiotic lunatic-left atrocity here] working out for you?”
    “refudiate”
    “hopey-changey”
    “lamestream”
    “Corrupt B-tards (of the lunatic-left media)”
    “blood libel”
    …..more to come !

  • Morgan

    The Left still fears her. She will be a viable candidate and make the debates interesting.

    What I regret is that all the other GOP candidates are not coming to her defense, allowing the Left to continue their attacks–I’m sure for the benefit of improving their chances on winning it all. They have to realize they must stand for what is right! She has been withstanding all these attacks, and in the process she is getting tougher in what she lacked in the last campaign.

    If the Left is not able to knock her off before the debates, they will have proven they (the Left) are the “Weak Horse.”

  • Sue

    There is something sad and a bit unbalanced about the vitriolic, screeching, nonsensical trash thrown out at Sarah Palin. The progressive left is deathly scared of her. In fact, I would have to say that if Sarah Palin didn’t exist, the left would invent her. She is antithesis of what the Left’s expectation of of a female is all about. The Left female will bend to fit herself into the narrative of someones daughter, wife, aunt, mother…but, never, under no circumstance is she to have a identity based on her self. When you see the “Women of …(name your state) you can begin to understand the difference. No amount of schooling can surmount that negative…they are viewed and treated as whores, even with everything that has been learned in the past forty years. Sarah isn’t one of them and they cannot stomach that she has bested them in the game they have pretended to play since the 60′s.

  • Pablo

    “Between her and Michele Bachmann, I don’t know who knows history less.”

    Bill Maher. Duh.

  • Pablo

    the real john t said:
    Who signed the Lilly Ledbetter act when the Republicans got it selved in 2007?

    What did the Ledbetter Act do, exactly? And don’t just drop a link to Wikipedia, tell me how it made women’s lives better.

  • msblkwidow

    Sorry. Darn it! I can’t comment because this article is about YOU KNOW WHO…and i took the pledge to not mention the EX-Govenor of Alaska’s name. You know. The one who quite her governorship early. Yeeeah! “That one”.

  • Truth

    Is it because you folks on the right just like a good argument that you continue to defend Palin and Bachmann? It can’t truely be that you think these two ladies have enough snap to be presidential contenders. I have seen nothing from either of them that showed they have what it takes to win. Bachmann is coming from a state that elected an x-wrestler as its governor and not to mention electing Al Franken. Palin with 2 years in a governor’s chair from of state 700,000 people before she resigned.
    If you want to put your future in their hands good luck. If they were elect I personally would take every dollar I have and bury it in the backyard, because either would truely bring this country to its knees.

  • Paladin

    @ morgan..You said, “The Left still fears her. She will be a viable candidate and make the debates interesting.” This is hilarious. She would’t even show up for the debates. She can’t even do an interview with anyone other than
    FoxPac or Hannity to throw her marshmallow pitches. Forget softballs. She can’t handle the real deal. She hides behind her Facebook, Twitter and home studio for Fox walls lobbing verbal mortar rounds at the opposition and won’t come out from behind her defensive position. She talks about the figurative “cojones” of certain people while all along having no figurative ‘cojones’, ‘huevos’, or ‘stones’ of her own. She is a media coward. How could someone as ignorant of basic facts and so full of moral cowardice possibly be considered by any rational thinking human being as a viable candidate for anything? She could quite easily get into an imagined predidency and decide half way through to quit. She’s done it before.

  • Alz

    Sue said:
    There is something sad and a bit unbalanced about the vitriolic, screeching, nonsensical trash thrown out at Sarah Palin. The progressive left is deathly scared of her. In fact, I would have to say that if Sarah Palin didn’t exist, the left would invent her. She is antithesis of what the Left’s expectation of of a female is all about. The Left female will bend to fit herself into the narrative of someones daughter, wife, aunt, mother…but, never, under no circumstance is she to have a identity based on her self. When you see the “Women of …(name your state) you can begin to understand the difference. No amount of schooling can surmount that negative…they are viewed and treated as whores, even with everything that has been learned in the past forty years. Sarah isn’t one of them and they cannot stomach that she has bested them in the game they have pretended to play since the 60’s.

    Exactly.

  • 73aaodkt23

    all you screeching whining mud throwing insulting narrow minded non thinking nuts on the left thrive on hate and revel in your jealous visceral bigoted mud slinging.

    You really come across as very vile and stupid.

    Such a pity; but somebody had to tell ya.

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