RNC Chair Says He Will Bring GOP Message To "Hip Hop Settings"

By: Brian Montopoli
Topics: Republicans

(AP)

In an interview with the Washington Times, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said he was planning a public relations effort to bring a message of conservative principles "to urban-surburban hip-hop settings."

Steele said his new public relations team will "come to table with things that will surprise everyone - off the hook."

Steele, who is the RNC's first black chair, told the newspaper that his party will use the Internet and advertising to reach out to young voters, blacks and Hispanics.

"We need messengers to really capture that region - young, Hispanic, black, a cross section," he said. "... We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings."

Steele said the party also needed to do a better job reaching "moms of all shapes."

The RNC chair said critics who question his experience level should "stuff it." He blamed the past national Republican leadership for hobbling the party by not casting a wider net while the party was in power.

Brian Montopoli
Brian Montopoli is the senior political reporter at CBSNews.com.
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by kansas1946 February 20, 2009 8:58 PM EST: What a riot. I am so sure that kid, especially black kids, are going to relate to a party of old ugly white men. Yeah, send Mitch McConnel to a hip-hop dance. Please.; Reply to this comment


by neonutty February 20, 2009 1:25 PM EST: CBS did not publish the complete statement....

He also wants to go after 'One-Armed Midgets'. I kid you not! Check it out.; Reply to this comment


by mattcat25 February 20, 2009 12:53 PM EST: The GOP has already "crushed" the Democratic Party%u2026and, had complete control of Washington to promote their Conservative Agenda.

Now, we're all living in the after math of the irresponsible $pending, Tax-cuts, WAR, and Corruption.

It isn't minority support that the GOP needs, its better policy.; Reply to this comment


by national4321 February 20, 2009 12:48 PM EST: %u201CMost white people I know have black friends,%u201D another complained. %u201CHow many white friends do black people you know have? That%u2019s the problem.%u201D

Point, set, match LOL; Reply to this comment


by national4321 February 20, 2009 12:44 PM EST: "Hip Hop settings?" What does that mean? Relating to the blacks more? Isn't that racism against whites?
The fact the GOP had serious problems doesn' t mean they won't come back bigger, better and stronger, in fact, they will crush this Democratic party some day- it will blow them away!; Reply to this comment


by jsilver2th February 20, 2009 3:23 AM EST: What ever happened to Anita Bryant and the Mike Curb Generation?

That old Ashcroft could lay down and tune and his back up singer Larry Craig always kept the beat...

I mean the GOP has always been hip hasn't it?; Reply to this comment


by toolmangler-2009 February 19, 2009 10:58 PM EST: The GOP is after people too young to remember their screw ups and warmongering. The group they are targeting is not old enough to vote till 2012. and haven't been following politics closely. (rob the cradle guys, everybody else knows what kind of mess you got us into and do not want any more of it).; Reply to this comment


by harbinger09 February 19, 2009 10:30 PM EST: FAKE, PROPOGANDA ESTABLISHMENT HIP HOP. Separate the Chaff from the Wheat. LMAO

GOP becomes the Hannah Montana of brainwashing faux rap. Good luck with that. (PS, your best bet is to market to GOP moms who will force their kids to listen to it, take them to fake hip hop concerts and have Nickalodeon and Disney tell them it is bona fide) Stay away from any kids over 15 as they will see right through you--just wait for the new brainwashed ones to grow up and hope they stay clear of the real hip hop lovers. ROTFLMAO; Reply to this comment


by harbinger09 February 19, 2009 10:26 PM EST: the same thing our forefathers fought against. Congress , wall st. and corporate America are engaged in TREASON.

Posted by tincup356 at 07:08 PM : Feb 19, 2009

Know your history? Then you know that the Boston Tea Party was one of the major incidents that precipitated the Rev. What you may not know is that Jefferson, Franklin et al was part of a consortium that decided to rebel due to British tea taxes. The taxes was not on British tea. Tea from England was higher quality and cheaper than American tea--but the colonies had been forbidden to grow or sell their own tea. When American businessmen found out that even taxed, the British tea was cheaper than their own and thus Americans would buy the English tea and not the local tea, they decided to dump the competition into the harbor.

The point? Even then, the idea of rebelling and having our own country was not about a lot of high ideas, it was about BUSINESS and keeping the money in the country with a few businessmen--the hype about Liberty and other stuff was to move the masses and get their help but just like now, the real impetus was to promote and protect business interests of a few companies in America. This is now a known and proven fact--you can google it or look it up on the history channel.

So much for the "high ideas" of our forefathers. The creed was always greed. And the means was ALWAYS manipulation of the masses.

(See Tammany hall, or the Tea Pot Dome Scandal, etc); Reply to this comment