Steele: 'I Wrote This Book Before I Became Chairman' (Um, Really?)
Eric Kleefeld
TPM
January 8, 2010
Appearing today on Laura Ingraham's radio show, RNC chairman Michael Steele said that he wrote his book Right Now before he became chairman. The problem is, the book itself doesn't read like it could have possibly been written before January 2009 -- it was clearly written in late 2009, either in November or December, and is based entirely on current events up to that point.
"I wrote this book before I became chairman. Because of the clock and the calendar, I wound up doing it now," said Steele. It's not clear whether this might have been intended to somehow deflect criticism from other Republicans over the book -- GOPers have said they didn't know Steele was writing a book until it was released -- or whether he might have been speaking figuratively that he decided to write the book earlier. It's hard to know exactly what he meant.
When we here at TPM heard that Michael Steele had a new book, we immediately bought a copy and I proceeded to read the whole thing cover to cover. Unless Steele is remarkably clairvoyant, it seems as though it could not have been written before he became chairman -- it is overwhelmingly a commentary on the political situation in America under President Barack Obama, as of late 2009.
(More here.)
TPM
January 8, 2010
Appearing today on Laura Ingraham's radio show, RNC chairman Michael Steele said that he wrote his book Right Now before he became chairman. The problem is, the book itself doesn't read like it could have possibly been written before January 2009 -- it was clearly written in late 2009, either in November or December, and is based entirely on current events up to that point.
"I wrote this book before I became chairman. Because of the clock and the calendar, I wound up doing it now," said Steele. It's not clear whether this might have been intended to somehow deflect criticism from other Republicans over the book -- GOPers have said they didn't know Steele was writing a book until it was released -- or whether he might have been speaking figuratively that he decided to write the book earlier. It's hard to know exactly what he meant.
When we here at TPM heard that Michael Steele had a new book, we immediately bought a copy and I proceeded to read the whole thing cover to cover. Unless Steele is remarkably clairvoyant, it seems as though it could not have been written before he became chairman -- it is overwhelmingly a commentary on the political situation in America under President Barack Obama, as of late 2009.
(More here.)
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