Michael Steele: How Real is Too Real?
Michael Steele, the RNC chairman notorious for his proverbial rhetoric and oft-controversial statements, is the focus of a new website that has surfaced called "Keeping It Real With Michael Steele". Users have the opportunity to "pose for the ultimate profile picture" by amalgamating their own photos with a likeness of the Republican leader.All one must do is upload a photo, select the Steele delineation of choice, and post the pièce de résistance for public commentary.
Steele has purported to want to focus Republican Party efforts on "emerging as the party of new ideas" by putting "energy, the focus, and the determination to turn our timeless principles into new solutions for the future". The "hipster" feel of the website certainly suggests the concept of new ideas, but does not claim to be affiliated with Steele. In fact, it bears a disclaimer that says: "Keeping It Real With Michael Steele is an independent project and not associated with any political party, organization, or company".
How, then, will this lone website affect Michael Steele as it makes its viral rounds on email, social media and the internet as a pass-along link and in blogs like ours, giving it more exposure? On one hand, the site may create public noise because of its cutesy creativity and as a result boost Steele's image and further his platform of new solutions. But because users can post almost any photograph, the website has risky potential to feature depictions that may or may not be favorable to the chairman.
View the website and let us know your thoughts.
As a side note, Steele's mother Maebelle Turner, was born into an African-American sharecropping family in our state -- South Carolina.
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1 comments:
oy.. i think that went over your head. my friends set that up to make fun of steele and the pictures with the RNC interns. you might want to take a closer look at the pictures on the site.
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