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Harry Reid appears not to be backing down in the face of fake Republican outrage over his comparison of conservatives' behavior 150 years ago to that of today. Good on him.

This, of course, has RNC chairman Michael Steele, who denounced the remarks initially, in quite a tizzy now. He went on Morning Joe this morning and slagged Reid viciously:

Steele: I still say Harry Reid is out of touch, he's clueless. And he can't help himself. I don't think he should be in the leadership, responsible role right now. I don't think if you're going into something as important as the debate on health care, that you have to reach back into one of the darkest parts of our nation's history and to belittle that time and that experience for generations of African Americans, uh, to put it in comparison to a political dispute on health care. To me, it's just plain ignorant.

But then Donny Deutsch chimed in and pointed out that, historically speaking, there's nothing at all inapt about the analogy:

Deutsch: Yeah, I'm still trying to understand why the analogies he's made are wrong. Obviously the issue here is that any great change throughout history, has the naysayers saying, 'It's not time, it's not time.' So why was that an irrelevant analogy?

Steele: I won't even dignify that with a response. This is -- next question. Next question.

Deutsch: What do you mean dignify? It's a genuine question. It's a genuine question.

Steele: I'm sorry, sir, I'm not going to sit here and say that it's an appropriate comparison to slavery.

Deutsch: He's not -- he's comparing it to dramatic change, and the naysayers to change.

Steele: OK, whatever. Whatever. Next question.

Deutsch: That's a great response. That's a very, very intelligent and brave response.

Steele: It is, as was your question.

As if this weren't enough buffoonery, Steele then had an exchange with Mike Barnicle in which Steele became upset when Barnicle asked him: "What are you people for?"

Steele: You people? Who are you people?

Barnicle: The Republicans, what are you for?

Steele: Mike, I just wanted to you define the pronoun, baby, that’s all.

Barnicle: Oh, come on.

As if Barnicle could have been asking anything else. Because Michael Steele is all about racial sensitivity, you see.

Isn't this the very kind of self-martyrdom that right-wingers always accuse liberal minorities of indulging?

(h/t Think Progress for the video)

Tuesday morning on Morning Joe, CNBC host Donny Deutsch had a few choice words to describe Rush Limbaugh, including "megalomaniac" and a "scary, distasteful human being." He didn't stop there, though. He had another word in mind and let's just say, it wasn't pretty:

Then, a few minutes later, Scarborough and Deutsch discussed Limbaugh's potential part-ownership an NFL team and the comments that led to his departure from ESPN. During the conversation, the audio cut out while Deutsch was talking and Scarborough said, semi-laughing, "...bleeped that out again. Why did you have to do that? Why?" Donny later explained, "I called Rush Limbaugh a feminine hygiene product that starts with a D and sounds like my last name. It was bleeped you can't say that on TV." At the end of the program Mika Brzezinski claimed, "I learned that you can't do a show with Donny without him saying something perverted." Read on...

John Amato has forbidden me from using the "D word" to describe the likes of Limbaugh and Beck for years -- all for the better, no doubt. Should Deutsch have used the word on air? Probably not. Was he right? We report, you decide...

Donny Deutsch was on Hardball this afternoon to give his views on the presidential candidates Christmas ads and he summer Huckabee's ad up simply as:

"I'm Donny Deutsch and I'm getting frightened over here."

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That's pretty strong criticism coming from one of the top advertising minds in the country. Deutsch also goes on to say that there are no mistakes in advertising and that floating cross falls within that golden rule.

I'm sure a lot of Huckabee supporters out there will give Deutsch a big "bahhuckbug!" over his assessment.

Bernie was on Donnie Deutsch's show yesterday and displayed the type of moral character that good young conservatives should emulate. His premise is that Barbra Walters or Streisand are somehow destroying our culture is in itself an imbecilic argument to make, but that hasn't stopped Bernie before.

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Bernie completely flipped his wig as the first guest Linda Stasi ( NY Post ) asked him a rather long question to which he responded by giving her an "O'Reilly." (no not a falafel) He told her to "shut up." I have to say when he tells her to shut up a second time I did start laughing. Linda tells him that he's the culture elite.

There was no reason for Goldberg to lose it with her, but fools are hard to figure out sometimes. He's usually on FNC and treated like royalty so it must have really burned him up that Donny would line up some guests to make him explain his dumb-ass self. Bernie of course went running around crying like a washed up vaudevillian act to the moonie times(reg.req)

Jeff Jarvis slapped him around as well and has this full report on the show: Bizarro Bernie: Yesterday, I taped Donny Deutsch's show with Bernie Goldberg about his book, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (earlier post here). It's going to be on CNBC tonight at 10:30p and you have to watch, for you will see a bizarre performance that continued after the cameras went off...read on

Here's my take. If I write a book attacking 97% liberals, I should expect serious grilling about the content by liberals. Message to Bernie: " Your book is an attack!" Like a publicity hound or just the "king-baby" complex, Goldberg runs back to O'Reilly to whine about the viciousness that is directed towards him. Poor Bernie, why would anyone do that to you? He's been so insulated that as far as I can tell only Jon Stewart had the chance to debate him. To be fair, Donny could have had someone on to help defend Bernie, but Sean Hannity was already working.

Poor Bernie, Donny Deutsch's appearance has left him so unhappy. Those angry liberal elites. How long did it take him to run to FOX and cry out? He was on O'Reilly last night and sang his song of woe. He made various charges and said they edited him. When O'Reilly asked " They edited you?" Bernie followed that up with "nobody on the panel read my book."

So I guess they didn't edit you. Bernie said they edited Donny Deutsch's time down so he didn't look foolish. He would have had a valid claim against the show if they edited Bernie's dialogue in the segment to make him look foolish. (He does a good job all by himself) Goldberg didn't make that claim. Then poor, sad Bernie compared his appearance to Judge Bork. Ego much? I wouldn't waste any bandwidth on the segment.

Newshounds has some more from the O'Reilly segment: "Maybe it's Goldberg's unbelievable gall and total inability to put himself in someone else's place. Does he even realize that 100 people have been brutally insulted by his book. He had no right to humiliate these people and then parade around Fox collecting kudos. This book was nasty and cruel and yet he accuses the "liberal elite" of being mean."

James Wolcott has a few choice words for Bernie: And if I may venture a modest editorial opinion of Goldberg and his pseudo-book, his inclusion of former CBS colleague Dan Rather on the list--at #12, no less--shows what a backstabbing little careerist fuckrat he is.