After saying 'I don't play the race card,' Michael Steele blames his political problems on race

From Media Matters for America:

In the past year, RNC Chairman Michael Steele has criticized Democrats for playing the "race card" on several occasions. For instance, after former President Jimmy Carter suggested that much of the right-wing anger toward President Obama "is based on the fact that he's a black man," Steele professed outrage. "Blind charges of racism, where none exist," said Steele, "are an affront to those who have suffered the effects of racism."

Steele more recently targeted the entire "left" when Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) invoked slavery in the debate over health care reform:

STEELE: I'm kinda sick and tired of the left and Democrats in this country when they get in trouble and don't get their way and their backs are up against the wall on legislation or whatever it is their trying to do, they go to that card, they play that race card, that slavery card, that civil rights card.

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