[lbo-talk] RNC's Michael Steele: Jindal is the Slumdog Millionaire governor

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 26 17:08:25 PST 2009


[Curtis Sliwa has his own radio show on ABC!? Wikipedia says he is a "populist conservative radio host." Is there any other kind? Besides "independent conservative," that is...? - B.]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0209/Steele_offers_Jindal_slum_love.html

In an interview with Curtis Sliwa on ABC Radio last night, the host and RNC Chairman Michael Steele jokingly linked Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal to the film "Slumdog Millionaire." Steele offered Jindal "slum love."

Here's the transcript:

SLIWA: Now, using a little bit of that street terminology, are you giving him any Slum love, Michael?

STEELE: (laughter)

SLIWA: Because he is — when guys look at him and young women look at him — they say oh, that's the slumdog millionaire, governor. So, give me some slum love.

STEELE: I love it. (inaudible) ... some slum love out to my buddy. Gov. Bobby Jindal is doing a friggin' awesome job in his state. He's really turned around on some core principles — like hey, government ought not be corrupt. The good stuff ... the easy stuff.

On President Obama's stimulus package

CURTIS SLIWA: When you used the hip-hop vernacular, man, Barack Obama has bling bling in this stimulus package, you got people's attention.

MICHAEL STEELE: Absolutely. There's a lot of bling bling -- the bling bling's got bling bling in this package. That's how bad it is.

[...]

On hip-hop strategy: Curtis tries to get Michael Steele "in the mood"

CURTIS SLIWA: I gotta call for a little Jay-Z play to give you a little hand here -- so that you can go out with that (Jay-Z music playing). MICHAEL STEELE: There you go, playa.



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