There are no depths to which Michael Steele will not sink:
CALLER: I wanted to bounce off to you my opinion of the press conference on Wednesday.
STEELE: Okay, go ahead.
CALLER: That was truly an enchanting evening, wasn't it?
STEELE: I was enchanted beyond words, to the point where I was enchanted.
CALLER: It's just like the LA Times said last year, or two years ago, he is the "magic negro."
STEELE: Yeah, he (laughs) ... you read that too, huh?
CALLER: Oh yeah, I read that too, and even when things go wrong, he still manages to come out smelling like a rose.
STEELE: Well, uh, yeah. And it's because he's getting unprecedented coverage and cover by the media that is of course, his creator.
Update: Thanks for the reminder, limpidglass (via Think Progress).
TP: A big theme on the panel today was how to get the GOP to embrace minority voters. Do you think that Mr. Saltsman’s CD that he released to the RNC members helps or hurts that effort?
STEELE: Oh it doesn’t help at all. Absolutely, it reinforces a negative stereotype of the party. [...] And so now we have a opportunity to step in the breach and clear that up and make sure that people appreciate and know that look, this is not representative of the party as a whole, this is not a direction that we want to go in or a system that we believe.